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More of British. Love it or hate it. Yum. Pork pies.
Nostalgic Brits reminiscing. Picture, As we were not so long ago. some of the comments; “Powell tried to warn us,…
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Ben Garrison.
That’s good news Bruce.
I can’t imagine how good you feel.
Bruce in WA says:
March 20, 2022 at 2:17 am
Splendid results and Good luck.
Did any of the freedom Parties make a dent in SA?
“To make sure they were being thorough, the researchers analyzed the data in three different ways. They looked at data from all patients; then analyzed data from patients who received ivermectin or a placebo 24 hours before they were hospitalized; and in a third review, looked at data from patients who said they had adhered strictly to their dosing schedule. In each scenario, they found ivermectin didn’t improve patient outcomes”
ivermectin didn’t reduce covid 19 hospitalisations largest trial to date
Yes good news Bruce.
I follow Ron Dunn on twitter, was him that put up the ivermectin trial link.
Peter Van Onselen seems pretty convinced Kitching called them ‘mean girls’ getting impression his knowledge is personal
the consistency of a Zali
Week In Pictures.
Laptop from Hell: Hunter Biden, Big Tech, and the Dirty Secrets the President Tried to Hide
by
Miranda Devine
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/57902342-laptop-from-hell
As seen on Tucker Carlson Tonight!
The inside story of the laptop that exposed the president’s dirtiest secret.
When a drug-addled Hunter Biden abandoned his waterlogged computer at a Mac repair shop in Delaware in the spring of 2019, just six days before his father announced his candidacy for the United States presidency, it became the ticking time bomb in the shadows of Joe Biden’s campaign.
The dirty secrets contained in Hunter’s laptop almost derailed his father’s presidential campaign and ignited one of the greatest media coverups in American history.
This is the unvarnished story of what’s really inside the laptop and what China knows about the Bidens, by the New York Post journalist who brought it into the open.
It exposes the coordinated censorship operation by Big Tech, the media establishment, and former intelligence operatives to stifle the New York Post’s coverage, in a chilling exercise of raw political power three weeks before the 2020 election.
A treasure trove of corporate documents, emails, text messages, photographs, and voice recordings, spanning a decade, the laptop provided the first evidence that President Joe Biden was involved in his son’s ventures in China, Ukraine, and beyond, despite his repeated denials.
This intimate insight into Hunter’s dissolute lifestyle shows he was incapable of holding down a job, let alone being paid tens of millions of dollars in high-powered international business deals by foreign interests, unless he had something else of value to sell—which of course he did. He was the son of the vice president who would go on to become the leader of the free world. (less)
I listened to this last night.
Zuckerberg lies for 2 hours straight.
I used to hate the Lex interview style.
Now I get it.
Give them the rope to hang themselves.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zOHSysMmH0
Thought I’d better let people know I’m still alive and kicking.
Excellent news, Bruce. Do not be too hard on your GP though. Better to have you checked out if he has the slightest concern, than go “meh, she’ll be right mate”. Too many people have fallen through the cracks medically, during the two years long pox fest.
Again, great news Bruce.
How Deep Is The Rot?
How far will Dems go to repeat The Steal?
Tuscon Arizona to demand vaccination for all election workers in 2022.
Gateway Pundit
Ivermection bad, experimental rna gene therapies good!
Right, got it.
For those in need of some Sunday morning giggles, I commend this fine piece of writing about Hair Injustice and the priorities of the loopy US legislature:
🙂
Wonderful news, Bruce. You weren’t forgotten.
Re elections these two sites are pretty good, the commenters seem to be mainly lefties but you don’t have to read them.
https://www.pollbludger.net/
https://www.tallyroom.com.au/
And Aussie coal
Memories of Old Cat
You have to be a fan to get it
Thanks Tom. Another good lot, too many to choose from.
Regarding the SA Legislative Council:
The bad news is so far 80.5 % of votes in SA went to the uniparty.
The good news is the minor parties picked up 19.5 % of votes.
PHON on 4.3 %
LDP on 3.5 %
48.4 % of votes counted.
Albanese belches that he won’t be holding an inquiry into the Kitching complaint because “his door is always open” and all she had to do was complain to him.
We all know what that “open door” stuff means. Had Kitching walked through it, she’d be straight into the oven.
The creature is going to tough it out.
There’s a reason why Kitching went to workplace tribunals and not Albanese.
It isn’t that difficult to work out.
politics really does attract psychopaths
calli
The LNP are ALP are busy destroying themselves right now.
There’s a chance we could get our civil liberties back, fiscal consolidation band government by adults soon enough.
“PHON on 4.3 %
LDP on 3.5 %”
Not bad considering it’s SA. The problem is that the minor parties are fractured…..that combined percentage above is almost 8%…which is getting into Greens territory.
I reckon that PHON and LDP votes at the federal election will be a lot higher.
It’s not like Kitching was a young checkout chick with limited alternatives. It should be more concerning that she didn’t have the strength or chose to keep silent for the party.
I reckon that PHON and LDP votes at the federal election will be a lot higher.
hope so. I also hope PHON and LDP weren’t eating each other’s lunch
“hope so. I also hope PHON and LDP weren’t eating each other’s lunch”
That’s just inevitable with right of centre minor parties. As I wrote above, they’re fractured.
The LNP are ALP are busy destroying themselves right now.
There’s a chance we could get our civil liberties back, fiscal consolidation band government by adults soon enough.
Hope you are right- I think it’s critical that UAP, PHON and LDP work together
Marshall is struggling to hold onto his seat. A one term Liberal government annihilated.
Pathetic.
I think differently. Just making a complaint against those gangsters would have been tough.
When The Beloved read out that bit from Albanese, my immediate mental picture was Al Capone sitting behind his desk, cheroot in hand, saying, “Gotta complaint? What complaint?”.
They were pathetic and also went on a power kick with the China bug. A proper power station is what SA really needs.
So!
She could have walked away or gone independent, calli.
Sure. I probably would have walked too. She decided to fight.
My point is that Albanese is a liar – pretending to be approachable. No “wymmyn problem” there, no sir-ee!
How does ScoMo’s wymmyn issues (a la Brittnee) compare with Albo’s? It isn’t quite line ball, given one is a media confection and the other is a demonstrated reality.
From the “things that can surprise” file .. Yesterday, I watched something on the TV that I never expected to see or even thought about , for that matter! .. A 1st grade sporting event played without the “almighty” dollar as the 1st consideration .. LOL!
The A League “fitba” match between Central Coast Mariners v MacArthur FC in Mudgee was played in a public park! .. Yes, the ground has a grandstand but what it doesn’t have is security fencing so was open to anyone who wanted to watch whilst their were joggers & dog-walkers, strollers ect passing, unhindered, just metres away on surrounding paths …
Quite refreshing to realise it ain’t always about the money and over-the-top security .. LOL!
“We all know what that “open door” stuff means. Had Kitching walked through it, she’d be straight into the oven.”
Correct Calli.
Why have a weak LNP government that behaved like Labor and the Greens? The big tell from outside SA was how hysterically Marshall behaved on Kung Flu. It was embarrassing if you were an SA LNP voter.
Good riddance. Marshall got what he deserved.
Unfortunately, South Australians are the losers as Labor turns up the mad, anti-business socialist ideology to eleventy now that the Libs have spent four years cleaning up the budget for a return to Labor rule. Sounds familiar.
The ALP is, after all , the parliamentary wing of the trade union movement. That’s why the ALP was invented, only now it doesn’t need members for cashflow as it’s funded by the superannuation industry.
We’ve all been there Cassie.
You can’t “complain” to someone you believe is sympathetic to your abusers.
Bespoke is right. Walking is the best option, often the only option. Been there too. Some fights just aren’t worth it.
For Zulu:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jccnkfGSjm0
Copperhead Road with the extra verse.
In her position walking away and being upfront about it, I’d class it as fighting.
Read this carefully if you are thinking of getting jabbed:
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1504637092319854596.html
This!!
I have no sympathy for Marshall since he put seat worming dolly’s in charge of portfolios. And did nothing to dismantle the bureaucracy. Still nothing to celebrate about.
“Tomsays:
March 20, 2022 at 8:25 am
Why have a weak LNP government that behaved like Labor and the Greens? The big tell from outside SA was how hysterically Marshall behaved on Kung Flu. It was embarrassing if you were an SA LNP voter.”
This is my take. I sound like a broken record but I find myself always saying the following….why vote Labor lite, you may as well vote Labor. It’s no different here in NSW, Parrothead, who could have made a difference, is just hostage to far-left bureaucrats determined to rule the roost.
Ya reckon Groundhog Guy and the Victorian Liberals will take anything away from this result….you know, like try and differentiate themselves on some policies?
I won’t hold my breath and I suggest others don’t either.
How far will Dems go to repeat The Steal?
Tuscon Arizona to demand vaccination for all election workers in 2022.
Anchor What, the biggest problem in AZ isn’t the Dems.
It’s a key group of GOP’ers.
The biggest one is the current A-G, Brnovich, who’s putting the hand brake on at every turn of the 2020 election investigations (yes, this more than one).
Also there’s a group in the GOP controlled state house, not content with passing a range of measures during 2020 that enabled the steal, they passed emergency legislation two weeks ago to allow it to happen again.
And now they are doing everything possible to delay it’s repeal.
The mid terms isn’t about DC (although having control of committees & roasting Fauci would be nice).
It’s about the elections at the state & local level at the same time that are needed to stop a replay of 2020 in 2024.
I don’t have a Webley, but can roundup a similar era Broomhandle Mauser, which should do in an emergency?
More Bob — all’s fair and all. The Guardian did knife him when he was cutting too close to the bone.
https://twitter.com/bobscartoons/status/1505133677050748930?cxt=HHwWhICzgdrGp-MpAAAA
This is a frame from one of his other recent cartoons,
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No Australian government, federal or state, has had any interest in ‘cleaning up the budget’ for some time now. The proles have been infantilised and demand their freestuff and their nanny state. It all has to come crashing down before anything changes.
wrong fred… oops
I dunno much about SA politics, but browsing through the independent wins, many of them seem to be ex-libs who left or were turfed for various reasons.
Is this a correct assessment? If so – seems there’s desire for conservatives, but not the SA libs.
Will be interesting to see the informal count.
Surely Mr Dick N. Balls will outpoll the LDP?
I can’t believe ALL the Liberal votes will transfer seamlessly to the ALP.
Meta to ‘train’ Australian politicians for election
So!
She could have walked away or gone independent, calli.
No chance! .. both options would have cost her place at the trough .. you only stop slurping in 2 ways .. die or dragged away .. never, ever by choice ..!
Flyingduk:
Correct – I’ve been harping endlessly on this point for years.
Will I repeat my point about alcoholics? No. I’d say most are bored with it and repetition just annoys.
So, the Bosi Cossack turned to be “not the Messiah, just a naughty boy” too?
I wonder if his M.O. was also something like, “Get elected to the Senate, then we can use the electoral staff and allowances for The Cause”.
Here’s an amusing one, from Jo Dyer. You know, the one who pushed the Porter story, despite the tragic suicide of the accussor.
Can’t have too much Moran.
Duncanm:
It appears the Uniparty have a clean sweep of all the States and Territories, as well as Federal.
Huzzah!
Bring on the purges and Gulags.
johannasays:
March 20, 2022 at 6:57 am
For those in need of some Sunday morning giggles, I commend this fine piece of writing about Hair Injustice and the priorities of the loopy US legislature:
Well found, johanna, that was better than the toons this morning .. luvved it .. 11/10 .. LOL!
Any Labor politician who dares to go rogue is treated as a pariah and generally subjected to vicious abuse, look no further than Mark Latham as a recent example. Kimberley and her hubby were very entangled in Victorian Labor right politics.
“Jo Dyer – an independent voice for Boothby
@instanterudite Tactics by the Government, @australian and @SkyNewsAust to use the untimely death of Kimberley Kitching as a political weapon against @AustralianLabor is one of the more despicable things I’ve seen in politics. #auspol”
Faaaaark…….Dyer is a disgusting hypocrite. Absolutely disgusting.
Magnificent, Dunc. I was on the other thread and went onto Moran’s site. That cartoon really does tell it as it is.
JC reckons that people want Labor and leftism and that’s why the Libs fail, sorry JC you were wrong and still are. In SA the successful independents were Libs who left in disgust, the Libs preference Labor and the Greens, not the conservative minors, the minors have done relatively well considering the majors put them last on the ballot. The few Lib voters left had their preferences go to Labor or the Greens, unless they were smart and energetic enough to vote their own minds. No wonder Labor got up.
On SA – so good to see a preposterous fascist bat flu hysteric get consigned to electoral oblivion.
However, losing an election and getting punted from parliament is not any kind of punishment given what that imbecile foisted on the poor long suffering residents of that state.
As I said last night- people vote against shit like ‘climate action’ and they get it anyway.
People voted for Tony Abbott and got Michael Trumble. Democracy is broken- the canbra cockroaches are the real power behind the punch and judy show. They need to be put in their place. Just google cretins like Tony Cole.
I keep saying this. The left thrive on virtue signalling today. 40 years ago leftists could tell poor people that voting in a right leaning government was an existential threat because they would take away their welfare. So poor people voted left. Today, lower income earners don’t vote left, rich people do because nobody is worried that they won’t be able to afford to put food on the table.
Without social media and complete control of the press, the left wouldn’t stand a chance but with those two things in their favour they can use lofty causes to attract higher earners.
So 40 years ago, right leaning governments could actually help their cause by leaning a little left as it would ameliorate the fears of the poor. Today, leaning left is useless for right leaning governments because they’re not ameliorating existential fears they’re trying to compete on virtue signalling. It doesn’t matter how much they promise to cut electricity use, the left will always promise to cut it by more so everybody interested in virtue signalling will just vote with the party that signals it best. The people who hate virtue signalling might still vote Liberal because they scare them the least, but the people in the middle just take it as confirmation that all this virtue signalling probably has some merit after all.
So in the end, all the Libs have done is allowed the Overton window to be continuously shifted further and further to abject lunacy. And in the process they’ve captured exactly zero votes.
There’s two and only two solutions.
Be a DeSantis: be absolutely brutal to your opponents and continuously implement anti-woke policies.
This is good. Very good in fact, but it’s very slow acting and left wing people unfortunately still exist and will cause trouble.
Use my idea: give leftists whatever they say they want – at an individual level. Take their electricity, inject them with hundreds of vaccines each day, stop policing in left wing electorates, lock them down in their homes every time a few people get the sniffles, don’t allow them outside without 15 masks, fill their homes with illegal immigrants.
This fixes the problem 100 per cent for the rest of time.
Spitting the dummy for not getting enough pork is seen as principled conservative?
In 1995, Cole was honoured as an Officer of the Order of Australia, in recognition of service to the development of public sector policy
must have done it pro bono? Like Hockey saying how great it was to serve the country as ambassador in DC!
So provide evidence of your assertion instead of telling people they’re wrong.
I’ll wait, sfw.
Bruce – good news.
I’m with Pogria. I have a very good GP who seems excellent at finding things that others have missed, and sends me to the appropriate experts to have assessed.
If it turns out to be a big nothing burger, then all the better.
JC it’s an opinion, not an assertion, I thought you would now the difference. Anyway it’s how I think it is.
So long as they preference each other, what should it matter? Each party has their differences, but whichever one you put in, they would all be a trillion times better than the uniparty.
Hey stoker, you brainless bimbo – care to explain reynold’s behaviour?
No, I didn’t think so. Softballs all round.
The “proles” I know are working hard and even managing to start their own businesses despite the punitive tax and red tape regime that all levels of government impose upon the productive.
It’s the salaried middle class who are demanding that the proletariat subsidise their lifestyles.
Case in point: last week QLD Labor announced their EV policy, which features a subsidy for vehicles and public/private funding for a massive network of charging stations, which is a case of the costs and risk being socialised while the profits will be privatised.
There was criticism because the vehicle subsidy cuts off at a price point that does not allow the purchase of a Tesla!
A few pointed out that if you can afford a Tesla you don’t need a subsidy, but there was no discussion at all of the rationale for the subsidy in the first place.
This is the solar panels rort all over again.
I bet there will be a huge upset in the most trusted professions survey this year.
This from last year 2021.
There doesn’t appear to be a column for “Wouldn’t trust any of them as far as I could spit a dead rat.”
Most of the professions in the top 10 have their interactions governed not by the individuals conscience/experience, but by back office bureaucrats.
Hallward
Stop pretending you know any of that sciency jargon in your link. Just stick to linking to Karl Denninger- that mountain of knowledge.
Indeed. I now trust them so much I’ve been avoiding them like the plague for the last few decades.
Worse than economists and that’s saying something.
SFW.
An assertion is a strong confident belief, which is a more upgraded version of an opinion. That’s exactly how I would describe your unproven statement. Try and be a smart arse only when you’re wearing the combat uniform acting tough by handing out a parking infringement.
As I said, prove your assertion or look to bother someone else.
The “proles” I know are working hard and even managing to start their own businesses despite the punitive tax and red tape regime that all levels of government impose upon the productive.
me too- like I say I travel to work in the morning with an army of tradies for a 6 or 7 o’clock start. Just a shame it’s D maxes and Rangers instead of Commodores and Falcons. This slagging off about regular Australians by some here is snobbish and ignorant.
“NSW Transport Minister David Elliott has blasted the South Australian Liberal Party in a social media post after the incumbent government was defeated by the Labor Party in the state election.
In a post, Mr Elliott said: “The result of tonight’s South Australian election is an example of what happens when a Centre Right Party moves away from the Centre – Right. Ignore the base and the base ignores you.”
Hmm, you don’t say Mr Elliott. However I must ask Mr Elliott a simple question…..what exactly are you and the NSW Liberals doing here in NSW to combat this move away from the “centre-right”? Only last week, Mr Elliott, your own party refused to support Mark Latham’s very sensible bill to “ban discussion of gender diversity in classrooms”, stating that the bill would cause “targeted discrimination against trans students”. And then your cretinous and useless NSW Minister for Education, Sarah Mitchell, said the following “Mark Latham’s ‘Parental Rights’ bill could ‘lead to targeted discrimination against a marginalised community’.
LOL….yeah that’s what I call “centre-right”. Here’s a thought Mr Elliott, spare me your drivel, you sanctimonious hypocritical lying bullshit artist.
Oh and by the way…for those of you who don’t live in NSW, this is the same David Elliott who didn’t want to deal with the BLM protests back in June 2020 (he was police minister at the time) because it was oh so hard but who last year smeared ordinary Sydneysiders protesting because they weren’t allowed to go to work because of a fucking useless lockdown “very selfish boofheads”.
Message to Mr Elliott and the NSW Liberals….you’re next on the electoral funeral pyre. I have my match ready.
Winston, this is so laughable you’d barely know where to start – funnily enough economists don’t even make it onto the list:
Australia’s most trusted professions
Doctors
Nurses
Paramedics
Firefighters
Scientists
Police officers
Teachers
Pharmacists
Pilots
Vets
Members of armed forces
Social workers
Judges
Dentists
Religious ministers and priests
Psychologists/counsellors
Accountants
Financial planners
Post office workers
Childcare workers
Lawyers
Retail workers
Builders
Aged care workers
CEOs
Social media producers
Security guards
Delivery drivers
Journalists
Politicians
No comment.
On the list.
Huh!
I’m guessing we’ve got Ruth all wrong.
Yep, you can always trust them to “go postal”.
Rabz:
I know – it’s bloody pathetic.
There is not one on that list that shouldn’t be downgraded.
When I was looking for the list there was one from 2019 that also showed the untrusted replies.
There will be a lot more red ink this year.
Surprised to see ‘influencers’ isn’t on the list. Is that the same as ‘social media producers’?
Just wondering where Nadia Bartel fits in. She’s in the paper more often than Morrison, and is equally pleasing to the eye.
Regarding the SA Legislative Council:
The bad news is so far 80.5 % of votes in SA went to the uniparty.
The good news is the minor parties picked up 19.5 % of votes.
PHON on 4.3 %
LDP on 3.5 %
48.4 % of votes counted.
And the filth is ahead of both PHON and LDP combined. The Australian voter is a lost cause.
A young bloke I know has been rising up the soccer ladder and in this game he played his first grade debut.
Got injured and taken off after 15 minutes. Bugger.
Ah sport – the drama, the tension, the stories!
Cassie of Sydneysays:
March 20, 2022 at 9:38 am
Yep, the LNP has moved left in a major fashion.
I think that was, in fact, a comment.
Subliminal, but a comment nonetheless.
I wonder if Springsteen’s “Glory Days” is on the playlist.
Probably not.
Not bad considering it’s SA.
I might be wrong but I would consider SA’s COVID response to be amongst the less psychopathic, if I recall the Police commissioner put his foot down on the idea of enforcing a number of completely stupid ideas.
Now that puts it in a whole new light!
Probably not the best way to behave as a new state especially given your recent history.
engineers, food technologists, etc don’t make the list – but everyone (and I mean *everyone*) trusts them with their lives implicitly, daily.
Calm down.
They are wedged between “security guards” and … gasp! … “Journalists”.
Wow – Daisy is as pale as I’ve ever seen her.
At death’s door, obviously, according to that most trusted personage, Dr Eddles.
Igor Chudov:
https://igorchudov.substack.com/p/uk-elderly-double-vaccination-kills?s=r
Some are just sooo good they need to be shared .. Andy Capp .. Enjoy!
https://ibb.co/7nYXR08
Wardrobe by the Blind Sewing Institute still?
Don’t touch the footy?
Auditioning for a role in “Gone with the wind”, evidently.
Ya reckon Groundhog Guy and the Victorian Liberals will take anything away from this result
Of course they’ll heed the SA message …. and resolve to double down — nay, triple down — on renewables, penis-tucking, arts grants for cultural enemies, masking….
After all, that’s easier than cleaning Labor dirt off the bench, demanding a royal commission into VicPol’s debasement, opening gas exploration, firing public servants and declaring the CBD a tax-free zone to revive what is now a commercial ghost town.
Matthew Guy could have attended any of the freedom rallies. But he didn’t want to be seen with the sort of people who would like to vote for him.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has potested the proposed transfer of Slovakia’s Soviet era air missile defence system to Ukraine, calling it illegal and citing intergovernmental agreements that preclude the transfer of Soviet or Russian-made systems to third countries.
You don’t miss your rules based international order until you’ve trashed it, eh, Sergei?
I will assert here that this is not too soon.
Massive, massive faux pas by Liz Hurley. Here she is in The Hun this morning, paying tribute to former fiance Shane Warne:
Well said re David Elliott Cassie.
NSW Libs’ lack of self-awareness is gobsmacking.
These are ‘conservatives’?
This is because their media advisors are 22 year old edgy Op Shop duffle coat wearers with sleeve tatts (in the style of most baristas) who base their reporting up on various ‘what’s trending now’ indices on Instagram.
Because a) they have no point of reference and b) they are insular – ie, they are still in a bubble and know only what they think they know, they hold to the tenet that loud = numbers and base their reporting accordingly.
The decision-makers, being equally clueless as they’ve never had an actual job, take their respective words as gospel and here we are.
Have there ever been a more pathetic bunch of one dimensional lily livered invertebrates in human history than gliberal politicians?
The WA and SA electoral debacles would you’d think, provide some sort of salutary lesson on the idiocy of trying to outflank labore and the greenfilth from the left.
But no, they’ll repeat the same action while expecting a different outcome. They just can’t help themselves.
here we are.
For the moment. But overseas flights are starting up again. As the lady at Flight Center told me last week, return to LA is down to $1200.
No need nor desire to use the return leg.
Kimberley’s letter of complaint would have been brushed off, dismissed as just more whinging from someone who didn’t toe the Party line or give way to the bruiser girlzz. Even now we see Trioli on Twitter saying Kimberley was just experiencing the ‘rough and tumble’ of politics and by implication unable to hack it. When you are immersed in a toxic culture no letter or detailing of hurts is going to change it. It makes you just seem weak and pernicketty to even raise a challenge and useless to do it alone.
I got out of my toxic Faculty for two years before I retired by taking on a Deputy Director position of a Dot-Com type of money-making start-up elsewhere within the university. On arrival, I found that the Director was lazy and had been over-selling himself so I had a lot to do to turn that place around by a lot of cold-calling (one of the reasons I got the job, I guessed after I found this out). After that, due to another Faculty restructure, it was time to spend a year in the Faculty tying up some loose ends of an earlier money-making project I had initiated, which was by this time going gangbusters bringing in the funds. However, continuing to work within the Faculty culture was unappealing. I decided that some games weren’t worth the candle. As I’ve said re Kimberley, it is pushing the proverbial uphill. Moving right out of that world made me happier than other university rewards could ever have done.
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Bruce of WA, wonderful news about your cardiology report. Now go and book your and your wife on some fabulous cruises. I am due for my three-yearly cardiology check soon (reminder text arrived yesterday), which when I was in Emergency recently the discharging doctor said I should pursue even though severe gastritis turned out to be the issue. I am trusting all will still be well, which seems to be the case, because we have so many travels booked, including old paid up ones lost in 2020 to resume.
“Matthew Guy could have attended any of the freedom rallies. But he didn’t want to be seen with the sort of people who would like to vote for him.”
Yep, I remember when Groundhog Guy was reelected leader at about the same time as those huge protests were happening last October. Because of a noose seen in one of the protests, the protesters were smeared by the progressives and MSM as far-right Nazis, blah blah blah, the usual smears designed to delegitimise and silence anyone who dares to go against the leftist narrative. Groundhog Guy, if he had any balls* should have insisted that every sitting Liberal member in both houses attend the next protest.
* He doesn’t, of course, have any balls.
miltonfsays:
March 20, 2022 at 9:21 am
In 1995, Cole was honoured as an Officer of the Order of Australia, in recognition of service to the development of public sector policy
must have done it pro bono? Like Hockey saying how great it was to serve the country as ambassador in DC!
Paid to do a job, then want a pretty bauble to wear in public, so those who don’t know whom they are will still see how wonderful they are (in their bathroom mirrors).
Roger
Case in point: last week QLD Labor announced their EV policy, which features a subsidy for vehicles and public/private funding for a massive network of charging stations, which is a case of the costs and risk being socialised while the profits will be privatised.
Wasn’t “Socialise the costs and privatise the profits” the slogan that the Liars and the Imperial Media (BIRM) used to deploy against the country Party before it went wet?
This is because their media advisors are 22 year old edgy Op Shop duffle coat wearers with sleeve tatts (in the style of most baristas) who base their reporting up on various ‘what’s trending now’ indices on Instagram.
And mostly employ Nathan Winn types (the office furniture decorator) who are very in touch with what their tribe thinks but are tone deaf to the Libs traditional base
This is because their media advisors are 22 year old edgy Op Shop duffle coat wearers with sleeve tatts (in the style of most baristas) who base their reporting up on various ‘what’s trending now’ indices on Instagram.
And mostly employ Nathan Winn types (the office furniture decorator) who are very in touch with what their tribe thinks but are tone deaf to the Libs traditional base.
Forgot italics in previous post.
He doesn’t, of course, have any balls.
Not true. They are pea-sized and hollow, barely larger than the ledger of principles he holds dear.
Definitely has to be fake news.
Right?
Hope you aren’t intending to stay permanently in Los Angeles, areff.
Unless family is calling.
I see nothing honourable in not taking a stand for fear of not being in the cool kids clubs social events.
It’s nothing like some school kid who has no choice. Or a secretary back in the day who needed to put food on the plate of her kids.
The Marxist Faculty, naturally, were very happy to accept the substantial amounts of ongoing money I made for them by setting up various external programs, although they would never have sullied their own hands by actually working out a way to make any extra funds, legally and innovatively, for themselves as I had done. They just expected the manna to come from more government funding.
Well it looks like covid is over for me with a negative RAT after six days.
I’ve basically spent a week feeling about 90% with a stuffy slightly hot feeling. It was consistent without any peaks or troughs and now it’s drifted off.
Having now been to 3 freedom movement events in Perth it’s pretty clear that the LNP have a complete disregard for us.
Never showed up once. Others have rallied on the steps of Parliament, not a peep from the Libs.
An excuse to watch MAFS, Gem?
I see The Shop’s taken offence at some gentle observations on the behaviour, and perhaps the ultimate motives of Mr Cossack that were made here overnight.
By ‘taken offence’, I mean the construction of another equator-circumnavigating poorly-spelled wordwall that mixes three different posters’ comments into one, with standard ‘none so blind’ commentary at the end.
There’s also the usual ‘I am but one man’ stuff shot through it, which is mildly amusing. Perhaps the author could return. I’m sure* people miss being referred to as shallow cock smokers.
I don’t know this, as I’ve never visited Mr Cossack’s site – is it a subscription YouTubey thing where he derives income from subscribers? If it is, it’s even more disappointing because he’s in it for the cash.
*Individual results may vary.
Bespoke, one can take a stand and shrug off the exclusionary tactics and unpleasantness, as Kimberley tried to do, not afraid to speak out or act as you see fit, but that always comes at a personal cost in a toxic culture. As Calli and others have said as well as I have, the sensible thing is to fight the fight to the extent that you can, not be a wimp, but to give it away when it is patently unwinable and unbearable. When it is your job it often becomes difficult to leave, for many reasons. Kimberley saw herself as a fighter, reclaiming Labor and promoting consensual politics; probably unwise.
She should have quit, left the Party, and turned Independent.
I’ve basically spent a week feeling about 90% with a stuffy slightly hot feeling.
Gez… you’re womenopausal.
So you agree with me, good.
A very apt desription of how I experienced it too. If for most older people this is what happens then what the hell is all the fuss about now? It is just another of those things that go around as part of life.
It’s too tempting for any politician if they think they can get away with it.
Be that as it may, Queenslanders will be slugged twice for this generous piece of infratsructure – once by the state and again by their local council. I hope councils are at least honest enough to have a separate line entry on their rates notices, “EV Charging Station Levy”. That’s go down a treat if people are still paying around $2.00/l for fuel.
Glenn Greenwald debunked the cosmonaut story overnight.
It was from 2015 or 2016.
Australian media is still pushing it hard though.
It’s pretty amusing to see the gutless sotto voce sniping directed at this forum from various other locations.
I’d be more than happy if the various snipers stayed away but they won’t because all they have elsewhere are almost empty echo chamber
No one has been actually smote have they?
When it is your job it often becomes difficult to leave, for many reasons. Kimberley saw herself as a fighter,
Lotza selective memory around! .. she only got the position at the trough cos she held the party (union) line at an RC .. the slurping was the reward .. she should/probably would have gone to gaol if she hadn’t been a loyal “bruvva” …
Russel Brand is growing on me as a shit stirrer.
Quite effective in using mainstream reports to show up how things than got you banned for saying 2 months ago are now presented blandly as factually correct and ignored.
His latest has the head of Pfizer pushing for a 4th jab.
Thats Pfizer who booked a 37 Billion dollar profit from the jabs.
WIP, a 16 year old Tucker Carlson photographed with the Grateful Dead’s Jerry Garcia has made my day.
Had Kimberley turned Independent though she may not have had much, if any, chance of re-election as a Senator. Surely she could have taken the benefits of her term with her into some other role but she was fighting hard to remain a LaborSenator; she obviously liked the gig. More difficult to get comparable work though one she’d left than if she had a support base behind her to make the contacts to put out extra-parliamentary feelers. And fewer suckers like Tony Abbott around to offer a spare female a plumb job, as he did with Natasha The Despoiler. We don’t hear much from Ross Cameron these days, who left the Libs and was very unfairly kicked off Outsiders by management. Don’t know what he is doing jobs-wise these days and I hope he’s OK. Saw him via video (he had Covid) at the LDP Wentworth Campaign launch recently where he was clearly among friends.
Areff
You realise that with social sec, you’re automatically enrolled in US Medicare so I don’t reckon there’s any need to buy med insurance for the US. I don’t think it covers Doc visits though.
Travel insurance must be very expensive now, no?
I don’t know this, as I’ve never visited Mr Cossack’s site – is it a subscription YouTubey thing where he derives income from subscribers? If it is, it’s even more disappointing because he’s in it for the cash.
His subscription site is how he earns a crust tho most of his stuff is freely available via other posters on various blogs daily ….
As for ivermectin, I’ve said, several times to be more than happy if it were proved to be effective in double blind trials but so far no good.
If people don’t like factual information that’s their problem.
And ‘experimental gene therapy’ which could only really be argued in relation to pzifer and moderna, much less so astrazeneca is wearing a little thin now that novavax is becoming the vaccine of preference in Australia.
Still waiting for people’s immune systems to start collapsing en masse, so many promises of that being imminent, lucky no-one held their breath.
The Ch7 B Ark list definitively settles a major Cat Controversy. Train drivers lie somewhere below Trusted Bloggers and Politicians in the public’s esteem.
We never need speak of them again.
Yep, and to me this is yet another indication that Australia’s Electoral System has long been more corrupt than the ‘Fortified’ Election that Installed Biden.
Think, joke, say whatever you want about South Australians but they were not cut off from being aware of the tyrannies the rest of our Country & the world suffered, and they did enjoy the many advantages of their greater freedoms; to even begin to believe they could have just asked for a Daniel Andrews-esque Govt instead, simply doesn’t wash.
Whereas Cory Bernardi has moved successfully into a media role, where he is better than he was as head of the Australian Conservatives. Mark Latham too has fought his way back up to political employ via his jump to speaking up on Rebel Media once he got kicked off Outsiders.
Who’da thunk Tucker was a deadhead, eh Rog?
He’ll be outed as a fan of Vogon Poetry at this rate.
I just used the free travel insurance attached to my cba credit card. It covers getting sick from covid as do most travel insurance policies afaik but not covid related cancellations, Qantas however were offering fee free rebooking though you had to pay for any difference in fare prices.
So why is Zelensky doing green screen videos now?
Reading an entertaining biography on an incredibly formidable lady, Empress Cixi.
By the lady who wrote ‘Wild Swans”.
Describes how Cixi went from mere courtesan to running the joint after deposing her own son then a second male heir later on.
Led the first modernization of China from feudal level backwater to at least some level of industry and self sufficiency.
Has a few great little details and this one is a favorite.
https://nationalpurebreddogday.com/englands-first-pekin/
Among the “loot” were five dogs known as the time as “Chinese Pugs, Pekins, or Chinese Spaniels, and one of them, the dog that would be presented to Queen Victorian as a political gift and named, “Looty,” was the first Pekingese in Britain.
Looty the dog…
Well worth a read.
USSR
Yep , let’s now accuse the Australian electoral system as being even more corrupt that the American one. It’s the lightening bolt thing.
Speaking of untrustworthy people, I note Chairman Rudd is in the news again.
Apparently he has a book coming out on how the US can avoid war with China over the next decade.
No doubt President Joe will get a signed advance copy in the mail.
My heart aches that I can’t be in Australia for Shane’s funeral.
Bit like my youngest daughter .. asked me last week .. “Dad why aren’t you going to Mum’s 1st hubby’s funeral .. you knew him too!” ..
took some doing not too burst out laffin’ .. LOL!
He’s probably in Hawaii.
Really?
Garcia was a lifelong FBI Informant [Spook] and Tucker Carlson’s pappy was CIA.
The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree, eh?
Ivermectin has to be proved in double-blind triple therapy trial during the early stages of infection; I think it would prove to be quite useful then – not a complete solution, but still quite useful. No decent blind triple-therapy studies were set up during the high epidemic period, which is when they could have been succesfully completed in large numbers. As I understand it, which is imperfectly, Pfizer’s new preventative oral treatment works on a similar structural attack basis to Ivermectin, but with a different chemical set.
For Omicron, plenty of sleep and a bit of Panadol works fine for most people.
You wouldn’t know whether Ivermectin was helping or not with symptoms this mild.
Whenever anything I don’t like happens there’s clearly a conspiracy of the ‘they’ to explain it.
Guy and the rest of the Libs in VIC are beyond understanding. What on earth do they think they are doing ?
One can only surmise they think the way to play it is to avoid all extremes and that beige and bland are what Australian voters want. Definitely no protests. Remember when Guy was tagged as breakfasting with a Mafia figure last time ? Has that had an effect ?
Andrews turns up to pressers and responds with’Im not here to answer those kinds of questions’ and gets away with it. Utterly pissweak.
Small children these days are fed nowhere near enough milk.
Gee, I’ve got one of those, Platinum Visa. I didn’t realise it came with free travel insurance.
Will put it on my list of things to check for Britain, as we don’t intend to take our usual insurance for that trip; NHS will do for emergencies there, then we’ll fly home if necessary, and self-insure for anything else. We don’t intend to leave Britain during our May trip. US is the main place where we take out insurance without fail.
Don’t know if i would trust credit card insurance for America or the forthcoming Panama cruise.
Don’t know either if credit card insurance would satisfy the usual cruise requirements for all travellers to be covered by a nominated insurance policy. Damn to-do list keeps growing.
Their ABC, breathless in antici —pation:
Grid-scale battery ‘really exciting’ option as AGL Liddell power station site winds down — analysts
The really excited analysts are from the Grattan Institute and Beyond Zero Emissions.
How very Global Times.
An authoritarian-curious proposes to overcome the Left’s autoritarian tendencies by imposing authoritarianism (and his own nuffishness regarding the alleged lethality of vaccines) on his chosen Class Enemies instead. What would this policy direction practically achieve, Chad Thunderbrain?
Can anyone show me how employing the violent, totalitarian power-grabbing tactics of the Left to defeat the Left, does not turn you into the very same power-hungry and murderous anti-human monsters the Left always become?
The It’s okay, because I’m a good person and I’m doing it for their own good, as well as mine argument has been allegorised and warned against in every culture for thousands of years, Chad Thunderbrain.
Pfizer’s new preventative oral treatment works on a similar structural attack basis to Ivermectin, but with a different chemical set.
its an odd one.
its given to people with low to moderate symptoms at risk of developing more serious symptoms.
(elderly, immune compromised etc).
https://www.tga.gov.au/sites/default/files/paxlovid-pi.pdf
Now?
Real Deal at 10:26.
Nathan Winn.
Good get!
The name rang a bell but I had to Google him.
The thing is, people see these hangers-on and look at the likes of Entsch and think, “Fuck me. You are running the country and you employ fuckwits like that?”
As does Palaszczuk; these days she just laughs dismissively at questions she doesn’t want to answer.
Funerals are more about disingenuous displays and empty promises.
I’d rather close friends and family have a quiet drink or two then move on.
http://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2022/03/why-europe-is-done.html
Neil Oliver, Government Creating Another Brick for Us To Place in the Walls Around Us
March 19, 2022 | Sundance
Includes Transcript
Talking around and hearing the general level of political ignorance in some very nice ordinary people, I’m not needing to turn my mind to conspiracy theories to explain the SA election. I’m going to let the other side have a go this time, said a friend who is my go-to girl for a take on the pulse of the average middle-class Liberal-voting female electorate. She had no real reasons as to why ‘a change’ would be good.
On the contrary, with Entsch that’s exactly what I’d expect.
His two great causes were/are same sex marriage and the impact of climate change on the GBR.
The faith is strong.
What the battery does is store electricity very effectively and then can release it when it is needed.
“What it does is it helps balance the system. The battery will then be able to get the electricity from the grid and put it back into the grid when we need it.”
On those calm cloudy days and nights in winter this excess power for storage is a given it seems.
Like a maths teacher, I’d like to see the workings on this not just the answer.
Knuckle Dragger
You appear to be good at this – certainly more so than me. I thought of a marvel action movie centered on an action hero truckdriver who goes around saving the world using lightening bolts. Are you able to put some meat to such a storyline?
Worked for me.
Symptoms gone in a couple of days, clear RAT test inside a week.
Whenever gross corruption is exposed as fact, e.g. –
Hunter Biden’s Laptop’s contents,
Aust. Govt/s paying Hillary’s Fake charity near the largest of fortunes they got from corrupt States such as the Ukraine,
etc.,
propagandists simply ramp up their insane demands that everyone believe there is no corruption.
Figures:
There are a lot of people who are worried, not so much about food (free food is fairly easy to get if you are poor) but about having a roof over their heads. The property market went bananas in the last couple of years, especially on the east coast. Then, just as it began to show signs of settling a bit, the floods have left thousands of people either homeless or with homes they cannot live in for the forseeable. Meanwhile, there are still people who lost their homes in the bushfires long ago living in caravans or with relatives because COVID hit the building supply chains and availability of workers big time.
The cost of housing is no longer just an issue for the smashed avo crowd. It is biting deep into the heartland, where ordinary people with jobs and families to support are facing homelessness because of circumstances beyond their control.
Not surprisingly, the political class is much more concerned with in-group issues like ‘political bullying’ and ‘sexism’ and the like. Once the photo ops surrounding floods or bushfires have receded, they are nowhere to be seen.
There is a severe housing shortage in this country, and all they can talk about is the desirability of increasing immigration.
Bastards.
Yet so many still fall for it becouse feels good.
I think she had no reasons because she saw the two parties as basically the same, and would never vote for any minor Party outside that frame. If the Libs could catch her attention with good base-load power (no blackouts) and security against China, plus their economic management mantra, then they might get her vote. Given their current similarities to Labor she quite reasonably can’t see why Labor would be any different, so the ‘give them a go’ view prevails.
Adequate housing is the first pre-requisite of any individual or family for a decent life.
Menzies knew this but the Libs seem to have lost that insight.
Self-provided housing is infinitely preferable to being lumped into public housing dumps.
Most people know that, and will vote in favour of home purchase if it is made accessible.
Why do people here think the Libs lost the SA election? I’m not buying the bullshit that the libs weren’t rightwing enough because SA has been a prissy little leftwing state since Dunstan and the right- at least a decent rightwing party- would be anathema to people in that hopeless joint.
Whenever anything I don’t like happens there’s clearly a conspiracy of the ‘they’ to explain it.
Conspiracy to circumvent the normal laws of Australia by invoking emergency powers (still not repealed anywhere) to make submission to a medical procedure of (at best after a few months) 30% efficacy effectively mandatory?
While the government orders enough of the shots in its first order (remember, no boosters talked about at this time) and then continues to roll out the rivers of gold for numbers massively above Australias population.
https://www.health.gov.au/initiatives-and-programs/covid-19-vaccines/about-rollout/vaccine-agreements
In November 2020, the Australian Government agreed to buy 10 million doses of the Pfizer vaccine.
In February 2021, Australia ordered an extra 10 million doses of the Pfizer vaccine.
In July 2021, the Australian Government announced the purchase of 85 million more doses.
In August 2021, the Australian Government bought 1 million doses from the Republic of Poland.
In August 2021, the Australian Government announced a dose swap deal with Singapore. Australia gained access to 500,000 Singaporean doses to boost the vaccine program in September 2021, and returned 500,000 Pfizer doses to Singapore in November 2021.
In September 2021, the Australian Government announced a dose sharing partnership with the UK. Under this agreement Australia receives 4 million Pfizer doses from the UK in September 2021. We will send 4 million doses back to the UK in late 2021.
But dont worry, they have top…men… making sure its all above board and no you cant see any of the paperwork you plebs..
The Australian Government has invested over $8 billion in the national COVID-19 vaccine rollout.
…
We have supply agreements in place for the following vaccines. The contract documents/supply agreements themselves are not appropriate for release as they contain confidential and commercially sensitive information.
But hey, cant be a conspiracy, because no government or company has ever sought to capitalize on a confected emergency before.
Well, a lot of thought would have to go into it. You only get once chance at this.
The result would have to be – dare I say it – iconic.
People don’t like hard truths being spoken to this blog.
Truths like “Stop means STOP!”
And “Your 1800kg car can stop in 120 metres from 80kph. My 1800t train needs 1.2 kilometres. And I cannot swerve to avoid you, either.”*
And the hardest truth of all:
“Yes, I have to use my shouty and extremely loud horns at all hours of the day and night because the LAW requires me to. I don’t do it because I like you…”
* Actually the hardest of hard truths, is that a high visibility jacket will do nothing to stop your car getting wrecked by a train. So don’t wear them, Cats! It’s just not worth it.
USSR
You weren’t specifically talking about corruption in US politics. You suggested that the SA election was more corrupt than what has been going on in the US.
Again, either show some evidence, or fuck off.
GO!
I am still unaware of the field of endeavour whatsername professes to be iconic in.
Working title – SuperSomething.
We’d have to think of a name for the action hero. I’m thinking of Ken Worth- Highwayman.
Yes? No?
There is a severe housing shortage in this country, and all they can talk about is the desirability of increasing immigration.
Yes they are hateful people, our miserable, effete, deeply unimpressive political class.
The Black Pants Legion of Youtube have got you sorted out, my good man!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=19CD5bToH9o
43 minutes of glorious struggle, inanity and triumph over mud, gravity and über-villainous Mother Nature herself.
(Also, gratuitous abuse of towchains, and at least one Ukranian tractor meme. And watch for the cameo from Murdertruck around 5:30…)
“Music” of the Grateful Dead=Unlistenable crap
Wankers who claim to be DeadsHeads=Still Wankers
“Eating less meat would be a contribution against Putin,” says Cem Özdemir.
I think we’ll have steaks tonight, then.
High ED
Daily Mail
More private & public housing has been the mantra for decades from all sides of politics.
Policies to positively discriminate in favour of house ownership and building have been in place for just as long, yet here we are.
It’s almost as if creating demand whilst restricting supply leads to shortage, who knew?
https://amidwesterndoctor.substack.com/p/the-real-story-on-hot-covid-19-lots?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo0MzYyNTc1OSwicG9zdF9pZCI6NTA2NjE3OTUsIl8iOiJOaGdnZiIsImlhdCI6MTY0NzczNzY1MiwiZXhwIjoxNjQ3NzQxMjUyLCJpc3MiOiJwdWItNzQ4ODA2Iiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.8WPgGyR7rSmoWYuFbycB-xVxVVcgtfpyvdyLMwfuvbY&s=r
I’d love to know what the survey instrument looked like and how it was administered and analysed. Looks like a complete crock to me.
And Rabz – I doubt if ‘economists’ were on the list of options. Most people have no idea what economists do, and there is a good reason for that. 🙂
1. Opening of Postal Votes isn’t open to scrutiny.
2. Huge number of Postal Votes
3. No requirement for Voter I.D.
4. Liberal Party practise a No Sore Losers Policy.
Perhaps Trump oughta get on board with [4].
Western propaganda is off the charts. When they say ‘Russian disinformation’ they are accusing others of what they are doing themselves.
Funerals are more about disingenuous displays and empty promises.
I’d rather close friends and family have a quiet drink or two then move on.
I’v e told the kids .. “Dig a hole in the garden & have a p*** up with the insurance* I’m wasted my money on” .. LOL!
* as a single Dad I took out Funeral insurance when they were still at school thinking it might be needed .. they’ve all kicked on (money-wize) since then so wouldn’t have needed my help to deep dive me .. LOL! .. but you can’t get a refund so I keep paying .. gonna be quite a tidy sum when I do throw in the towel .. LOL!
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Bearesays:
March 20, 2022 at 11:33 am
I just used the free travel insurance attached to my cba credit card.
Gee, I’ve got one of those, Platinum Visa.
Don’t you have enough financial clout for the Titanium?
Rogersays:
March 20, 2022 at 11:21 am
Speaking of untrustworthy people, I note Chairman Rudd is in the news again.
Apparently he has a book coming out on how the US can avoid war with China over the next decade.
Whatever KRudd says, do the opposite, and there might be some hope of avoiding such a war.
First step, avoid referring to Chairman PoohXi as a “ratfvcker”.
Dick Ed
Garcia was a lifelong FBI Informant [Spook] and Tucker Carlson’s pappy was CIA.
Is there anyone with a public profile whom you haven’t tagged as a spook?
Policies to positively discriminate in favour of house ownership and building have been in place for just as long, yet here we are.
It’s almost as if creating demand whilst restricting supply leads to shortage, who knew?
Dont forget its the last “safe” refuge for money in Austfailure.
The sheer size and number of oxes gored if any government makes big changes to housing rules means its semi-immune from radical “its only 1000 small business owners who will be bankrupted by this change, who cares” legislation/idiocy.
The Byron Bay Bluesfest seems to have wandered away from its roots, and turned into a refuge for superannuated rockers and their fans:
Midnight Oil were a blues band? Who knew?
johanna
There is a severe housing shortage in this country, and all they can talk about is the desirability of increasing immigration.
Bastards.
You are far too kind to them.
Apparently they’re very popular in regional Quenthland.
Sexual intercourse began
In nineteen sixty-three
(which was rather late for me) –
Between the end of the “Chatterley” ban
And the Beatles’ first LP.
Delving into the 1963 memory pond (I wuz 15) and methinx the missing ingredient here is the main one .. the PILL .. gotta luv being a teen in the 60’s .. LOL!