Open Thread – Wednesday 23 Mar 2022


Ophelia, John Everett Millais, 1851/52

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JD
JD
March 23, 2022 1:33 am

Hello..Bran Nu Day..
Welcome
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGhGdsK83LQ

Jannie
Jannie
March 23, 2022 1:49 am

second wow

pete of perth
pete of perth
March 23, 2022 3:33 am

The calm before the storm.

Mak Siccar
Mak Siccar
March 23, 2022 3:42 am

Curses! Just missed out on the podium!

rosie
rosie
March 23, 2022 3:51 am
rosie
rosie
March 23, 2022 3:54 am

” The neoconservative grandee William Kristol, who once served on the executive committee of the anti-abortion Susan B. Anthony List, recently warned his followers that the GOP harbors such radical beliefs as that “unborn babies are babies” and “abortion takes a human life.””
Great read

the rights foreign policy crack up

Tom
Tom
March 23, 2022 4:00 am
Tom
Tom
March 23, 2022 4:01 am
Tom
Tom
March 23, 2022 4:03 am
Tom
Tom
March 23, 2022 4:04 am
Tom
Tom
March 23, 2022 4:05 am
Tom
Tom
March 23, 2022 4:06 am
Tom
Tom
March 23, 2022 4:07 am
Tom
Tom
March 23, 2022 4:08 am
Tom
Tom
March 23, 2022 4:09 am
Tom
Tom
March 23, 2022 4:10 am
Tom
Tom
March 23, 2022 4:11 am
Tom
Tom
March 23, 2022 4:12 am
Tom
Tom
March 23, 2022 4:13 am
rosie
rosie
March 23, 2022 4:54 am
johanna
johanna
March 23, 2022 4:55 am

zipster – thanks for links to the hearings on Joe’s pick for the Supreme Court.

I always enjoy Kennedy – he’s a rogue and probably a crook – we’re talking Louisiana here – but when it comes to the Gift of the Gab – oh boy.

He always starts by congratulating his victims in polite Southern language – how proud their parents must be and so on. Then he slaughters them like pigs in an abbatoir.

Saw a clip where he asked a hapless public servant just how much the global temperature would be reduced by the US putting itself trillions in debt. No answer, of course.

I wouldn’t trust him as far as anyone trusts BloJo, but hey – it’s an imperfect world.

Here’s the clip in question.

Two parts – 9ish mins Kennedy on the role of SCOTUS (and she looks very uncomfortable as he speaks) but the best part is the last 5 minutes, where he cannot get an answer on what spending trllions of borrowed money on ‘climate change’ will achieve.

Louisiana has a long tradition of producing politicians who do the right thing for the wrong reasons (see Huey Long and black nurses.)

I don’t suppose we have much hope in that department, with only six States.

rosie
rosie
March 23, 2022 4:59 am
rosie
rosie
March 23, 2022 5:11 am

Was talking to fam about Russian invasion, they being pro Ukraine which is perfectly rational because it is a sovereign country but we can’t change what happened.
Best thing now is for the west to myob so this conflict can end as quickly as possible and yes Russia can ‘win’ via negotiation, I don’t care.
This is not Sunni versus Shia Yadizi etc implacable hatred, Ukraine and Russia are majority Orthodox and have much more in common, there can be a workable outcome and the west can sate its self-righteousness outrage with thoughts and candles and aid to rebuild Ukraine.
Syrian conflict is now eleven years in.
Who wants that in Ukraine?
The energy crisis playing out in Western Europe as a consequence should be a sharp lesson as well.

rosie
rosie
March 23, 2022 5:13 am
rosie
rosie
March 23, 2022 5:14 am

“Police said that “civilians who were at the scene fired (at the suspect) and neutralised him”, without specifying his condition.”

johanna
johanna
March 23, 2022 5:51 am

For no particular reason, a clip which shows what life was like in northern England in the 1960s. Salvation Army bands, chilly cobblestones, great song:

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

Anchor What
Anchor What
March 23, 2022 6:15 am

Project Veritas has been so effective at uncovering the lies told by all the usual suspects (Big Everyone) that Biden’s DoJ have been engaged in dodgy proceedings to try and nail them.
Gateway Pundit

srr
srr
March 23, 2022 6:19 am

JACK_MAXEY
@JACK_MAXEY
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3h
Wonder if the prosecutors in the DE tax case against Hunter know about this? I promise all you devils, the army of decent Americans are coming for you like a prairie fire. I always keep my oaths. #DOJ #FBI #IRS #bidencrimefamily #hunter #NYT #WaPo #WSJ

https://gettr.com/post/p11bkv024db

srr
srr
March 23, 2022 6:35 am

More on those dogs that don’t bark; why so many PRO-Jabbers are also so PRO-‘Ukraine’ & so disinterested in delving into the Hunter BIDEN Laptops –

JACK_MAXEY @JACK_MAXEY
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2h
Demand hearings. This is just a fraction of several hundred about Metabiota we have. Working for you the American people and every other citizen of planet earth. Time to end the global grift. Certainly WWIII should not happen to keep it hidden. JMHO (all should be available in a few days. ) Note the 5X return. Can’t fail when your partners have an unlimited budget, I guess. Not trying to drip this, but want you to know we are in the fight. #metabiota

Same plan: WE win, they lose.

https://gettr.com/post/p11c5gj96ce

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feelthebern
feelthebern
March 23, 2022 6:46 am

6:45am in the Sydney CBD.
22 degrees.
88 per cent humidity.
Just awful.

Pogria
Pogria
March 23, 2022 6:51 am

ftb, rain’s a’comin’.

feelthebern
feelthebern
March 23, 2022 6:55 am

Some dipshit company I’ve invested in sent me a cheque for some unknown reason.
I gave it to one of my team to bank yesterday.
“What’s this?”.
I shit you not.
Early 20’s.
They had never seen a physical cheque before.

feelthebern
feelthebern
March 23, 2022 6:56 am

According to my cheque book, the last time I wrote one was June 2017.
Do cheque books die?

rosie
rosie
March 23, 2022 7:09 am

“Family representative calls out publication Crikey over ‘ghoulish’ article which claims Kimberley Kitching was a ‘strategic liar’”
well done Crikey for keeping the flames burning brightly

Winston Smith
March 23, 2022 7:27 am

From Law of Markets – why is this picture so familiar? Is it from a movie or something?
The faces keep trying to trigger a memory…

calli
calli
March 23, 2022 7:33 am

Poor Ophelia! There’s a story behind that painting. Lizzie Siddal was a startling redhead and an artist in her own right, but is better known as a model for the Brotherhood.

Millais had her lie in a bath so he could get the drowning pose just right. Poor girl caught a chill and was never the same after.

I think it was Millais who ran off with Ruskin’s missus, causing great scandal. Despite all the “nice” painting, they were a rowdy lot. Morris was probably the most level headed but even he had “wymmyn problems”.

Ahhh…artists.

lotocoti
lotocoti
March 23, 2022 7:35 am
Mother Lode
Mother Lode
March 23, 2022 7:42 am

Forty First!

Just imagine stacking podia on top of each other – I could still be on one of them!

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
March 23, 2022 7:45 am

I was saddened to hear the news about Rowe this morning.

He is still employed as a cartoonist.

will
will
March 23, 2022 7:47 am
feelthebern
feelthebern
March 23, 2022 7:51 am

The Jackson question is missing the her biggest weakness.
That she has always ruled in favour of corporations.
Just like Breyer did.
The social issues stance is all theatre.

feelthebern
feelthebern
March 23, 2022 7:53 am

If the Jackson ruling on Malaysian Airlines MH370 is upheld by SCOTUS it will mean that you can not sue a company in the US for what they may or may not have done overseas.

Crossie
Crossie
March 23, 2022 7:53 am

All of you advocating for a Russian win just be aware that no consequences for Russia this time will result in another war in a couple of years, definitely before Biden’s term ends. And there are no consequences apart from bad publicity, Russian gas is still flowing into Western Europe and oil is still flowing. Inflated oil prices are making up for the loss of some contracts.

My guess is that Belarus and Poland are next in Putin’s sights. Belarus will be absorbed with a minimum of fuss.

Then be prepared for a puffed-up China to try to swallow Taiwan. The only way to stop them is to make it known that Taiwan has nukes.

Judge Dredd
Judge Dredd
March 23, 2022 7:56 am
min
min
March 23, 2022 7:56 am

Did a pre raphaelite ever paint Lynnette and Galahad or Gareth?

Eyrie
Eyrie
March 23, 2022 7:56 am

My guess is that Belarus and Poland are next in Putin’s sights. Belarus will be absorbed with a minimum of fuss.
Belarus, who cares? Poland is a Nato member. That won’t happen.

feelthebern
feelthebern
March 23, 2022 7:57 am

If Jackson is confirmed, it is likely she will have to recuse herself when the MH370 case goes before SCOTUS.
Not the first time it’s happened.
But it’s pretty rare.
This will be the most pro corporation, pro Wall Street ruling in the life of the court.
But of course, let’s talk about Roe v Wade.

feelthebern
feelthebern
March 23, 2022 8:01 am

PS. If Roe v Wade is overturned, it immediately triggers legislation in over a dozen states that will do the same thing.
It is theatre that results in fund raising at both ends of the spectrum.
Feeding the beast.

duncanm
duncanm
March 23, 2022 8:03 am

David Rowe.

Honestly.. is there a more singe-minded cartoonist alive in Australia today?

He needs therapy.

JC
JC
March 23, 2022 8:06 am

feelthebern says:
March 23, 2022 at 7:53 am
If the Jackson ruling on Malaysian Airlines MH370 is upheld by SCOTUS it will mean that you can not sue a company in the US for what they may or may not have done overseas.

How do you about this, Bern.

I’m mostly okay with it.

calli
calli
March 23, 2022 8:07 am

Off the top of my head, Byrne-Jones did a lot of depictions of the Arthurian cycle. But then most of them had a go – it was a popular subject in mid-Victorian times. Knights and damsels and all.

calli
calli
March 23, 2022 8:12 am

I don’t recall a “Lynette” in the cycle. Elaines and Ygraines and Morgians but no Lynettes. 😀

Indolent
Indolent
March 23, 2022 8:12 am

Scott Morrison is STILL LYING that Covid Vaccines are “Voluntary”

Morrison is actually still saying –

My view is that everyone needs to be vaccinated, regardless of what job you do. Your health is up to you, but being vaccinated protects you, your family and your community.

Since it is now patently clear that the “vaccinations” don’t actually protect you and are a serious health risk in themselves, what else can you conclude but that he is outright lying.

I still can’t play Bridge in person and, at this rate, I never will again because they seem to be following the aged care sector.

JC
JC
March 23, 2022 8:13 am

Feel

feelthebern
feelthebern
March 23, 2022 8:13 am

JC, it would be good if it only applied to MH370 (sue in Malaysia).
But it’s going to mean that multi nationals will not be able to be sued again in the US.

rosie
rosie
March 23, 2022 8:13 am

I’m not convinced about the slippery slope argument.
What are the alternatives, World War Three now or a long protracted conflict?
Zelensky is encouraged by Western support not to come to the negotiation table and Putin isn’t going to walk away empty handed.
Not advocating for a Russian ‘win’ just a swift resolution.
Maybe Russia will withdraw shortly with tail between legs.
In the meantime people continue to die.

rosie
rosie
March 23, 2022 8:15 am

Forbid anyone could sincerely believe vaccines provide some protection against serious illness and death for the old and frail.

feelthebern
feelthebern
March 23, 2022 8:16 am

Then multi-nationals will spend decades mucking around over jurisdiction.
It’s a dud ruling that shouldn’t be needed, ie legislation is the right way to do this.
But here we are.

min
min
March 23, 2022 8:17 am

Albanese wants to put up wages and bring down cost of living am I missing something
Elbow has now said no complaint was made in relation to Kimberley How about the 9 page letter Marles did nothing with . Liar

srr
srr
March 23, 2022 8:17 am

Nukes aren’t even in the consciousness of the under 60’s, but threaten them with bioweapons, with slow, painful, incurable death and, well, you’ve seen the last two years of insane desperation to betray loved ones just from the vague threat of a bad cold.

How easy has it been to turn every potential hero to zero by simply asking them if they want to be responsible for this Drug F’ed creep and his evil deranged father, taking the whole world down with them –

JACK_MAXEY @JACK_MAXEY
·
Mar 17
Pretty sure this is the video Slow Joe referenced today. Hunter took it like all the rest. The conversation begins when the trafficked heroin addicted victim asks him if he is afraid of blackmail because he films himself smoking crack. . . . .

https://gettr.com/post/p10d11da3ce

JACK_MAXEY @JACK_MAXEY
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Mar 11
Keep watching this video made by US State Deptartment #Ukraine on 1/14/20. Watch it as many times as it takes. Send to everyone you know, because it was not made by #Putin. You think that guy at open will not break? Get angry people.

https://gettr.com/post/pz8o4ua23f

PS: Your government never lies to you. /s

duncanm
duncanm
March 23, 2022 8:17 am

lotocotisays:
March 23, 2022 at 7:35 am
Shut up and shave.

the best thing about this (apart from the Ad) is the actual story behind it, which is real.

Jeremy is one of the owners of the Daily Wire; Harry’s razors pulled their ads from them in a woke-spurt, then progressed to trashing them on social media.

So Jeremy made his own razor company.

Go woke, go broke.

calli
calli
March 23, 2022 8:18 am

Here’s a Burne-Jones tapestry of Galahad and the Grail.

Made by Morris and Co.

I’ve seen another massive one but different subject matter in a church attached to an Oxford college. Just stunning.

Indolent
Indolent
March 23, 2022 8:23 am

The energy crisis playing out in Western Europe as a consequence should be a sharp lesson as well.

A feature, not a bug. All they have to do in the U.S. is turn on the taps. Here and in other places start drilling. What are the chances.

calli
calli
March 23, 2022 8:30 am

Found the Oxford one. Exeter college, Adoration of the Magi by Burne-Jones, woven by Morris and Co.

Here’s a bit of its story for those who are interested. It’s breathtakingly beautiful.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
March 23, 2022 8:32 am

In Shirley Some Mistake news:

Former MP Craig Thomson facing new charges

NSW Police will allege in court he made fraudulent applications for the Small Business COVID-19 Support grant and the COVID-19 Small Business Hardship grant – totalling $25,000 – using false information and documents.

He also allegedly submitted a fraudulent application for JobSaver payments of $3000 a fortnight, which was not approved or paid.

Hopefully he doesn’t become potentially suicidal again.

feelthebern
feelthebern
March 23, 2022 8:34 am

The Breyer confirmation was a dirty deal between Gingrich & Clinton to get the most anti anti-trust justice on the bench in a 100 years.
He had a nutty 6 step process when it came to competition.
His liberal stance on social issues were cover.
The same as Jackson.

Gingrich wasn’t House leader until the following year but lobbied hard for the Senate Republicans to vote in favour of Breyer.

feelthebern
feelthebern
March 23, 2022 8:36 am

Gingrich making calls for Breyer is similar to GWB making calls to get Kav across the line.
Filthy swampies looking after each other.

Roger
Roger
March 23, 2022 8:37 am

Noted yesterday, but…

‘Labor under fire for plan to parachute “white millionaire man” into seat of Parramatta’

…reports the ABC, quoting one of the pre-selection hopefuls.

Very revealing.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
March 23, 2022 8:39 am

All they have to do in the U.S. is turn on the taps. Here and in other places start drilling. What are the chances.

Here?
Not good.

Gas industry peak body tells Beetaloo Basin Senate inquiry fracking cannot happen without consent from traditional owners

[Technical Note: Shaun Drabsch – who has fallen upwards to become CEO of the Northern Territory’s Department of Industry, Tourism and Trade – was Palacechook’s former squeeze.]

Roger
Roger
March 23, 2022 8:41 am

Evidently “whiteness” is now seen as a disqualifier for representing some seats in parliament.

Roger
Roger
March 23, 2022 8:44 am

Speaking of Palaszczuk…

‘Queensland’s taxpayer-owned ­renewable energy company is paying one of Annastacia ­Palaszczuk’s former top staffers to give advice on how to ‘engage’ with the government.’

The Australian

duncanm
duncanm
March 23, 2022 8:45 am

it was mentioned yesterday that Craig Thompson was back on DV charges.

Well.. he’s had his fingers in the pudding again

Former federal MP Craig Thomson has been charged by police after allegedly using fraudulent documents to receive $25,000 from the state government’s COVID-19 small business grants.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
March 23, 2022 8:46 am

White guys should take their bat, ball and go home.

srr
srr
March 23, 2022 8:46 am

As to Roe V Wade, don’t worry, they’re onto saving it.

They’re right onto keeping the baby butchery & supplies of baby parts for big pharma going.

It’s simple.
All they have to do is remind people that all those ‘evil’ Eastern European Countries & others hanging onto stupid ‘Spaghetti Monster’ fantasies, have gone “too moral” with all their Anti-Abortion & Anti-Sexualising Toddlers & Babies stuff, so The West, really should back off from all it’s silly old backward ‘moralising’.

It’s no longer good enough to have simply shed the name of “Christendom”, it’s time to Proudly Fly The Full Anti-Christ Colours!

If you’re going to keep your war machine going, and keep butchering your babies, the only answer is make Christianity Officially “Evil”.

” Leading interventionists denounce the socially conservative causes they once supported. Social conservatives, in turn, offer stinging critiques of interventionist foreign policy.”

Posted earlier, they’re trying not to scare the horses so everything is open ended but the whole thing is a devil’s slaughterhouse corral –

https://compactmag.com/article/the-rights-foreign-policy-crack-up

duncanm
duncanm
March 23, 2022 8:46 am

snap – Faustus above.

Indolent
Indolent
March 23, 2022 8:47 am

Can Dems Stop Hating White People Long Enough to Win Hispanics?

All pretty pointless if the elections are fixed.

Indolent
Indolent
March 23, 2022 8:48 am
Top Ender
Top Ender
March 23, 2022 8:50 am

Walgett – not the place to be:

Walgett Community College, the only high school in the northern NSW town of 2,145, has seen 20 principals come and go over the past 15 years.

and

NSW Department of Education data shows 149 students were enrolled at the high school in 2021.
Only two attended the school for 90 per cent or more of the year.

ABC

Indolent
Indolent
March 23, 2022 8:51 am

I don’t even like repeating such things. We are seriously reaching the stage where respect for human life will be criminalised.

Newsom opens the door to infanticides

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
March 23, 2022 8:55 am

‘Labor under fire for plan to parachute “white millionaire man” into seat of Parramatta’

Interestingly, one of the complaints against him reported by their ABC is that:

although Mr Charlton appeared to be an intelligent man, a private-sector career “is very different from being a backbench MP in the marginal seat”.

Career experience in trough warfare is everything. (Leaving aside the question of whether Accenture actually qualifies as “private sector”)

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
March 23, 2022 8:55 am

why is this picture so familiar?

Game of Thrones.

The littlest Stark at the temple-thing with the bully girl making her look at stuff.

Marvelous writing.

Roger
Roger
March 23, 2022 9:01 am

Career experience in trough warfare is everything. (Leaving aside the question of whether Accenture actually qualifies as “private sector”)

Indeed.

The woman complaining about his whiteness is a union lawyer.

Not sure what diversity of opinion she would bring to an ALP government.

Boambee John
Boambee John
March 23, 2022 9:03 am

Indolentsays:
March 23, 2022 at 8:51 am
I don’t even like repeating such things. We are seriously reaching the stage where respect for human life will be criminalised.

Newsom opens the door to infanticides

Peter Singer, Australia’s contribution to “ethics” strikes again.

calli
calli
March 23, 2022 9:08 am

When will we go back to the ancient world and leave the unwanted exposed on hillsides?

We have just about devolved to the baby farm, so not much further to slide.

lotocoti
lotocoti
March 23, 2022 9:09 am

Probably not a hot take for some one parachuted into a safe seat because daddy is the president of the Trades Union Congress.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

…although Mr Charlton appeared to be an intelligent man, a private-sector career “is very different from being a backbench MP in the marginal seat”.

So they’ve forgotten it is supposed to be about…. y’know… representing the interests of the constituents.

It’s all about how well you’ll fit in amongst the other swamp creatures.

Dot’s list of 303 points covered this, somewhere.

calli
calli
March 23, 2022 9:11 am

I presume Charley Nichols is a man too? What are its pronouns?

Judge Dredd
Judge Dredd
March 23, 2022 9:12 am

I pray Gonzalo Lira is well. He hasn’t posted for 18 hours, and this video is a warning that he may be disappeared by Ukie forces.
If you don’t know who Gonzalo Lira is, he is independently reporting from Kharkiv, Ukraine.
https://youtu.be/e-GHmbAGh2E

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 23, 2022 9:19 am

Looks like Mrs Upticks slept in this morning.

JC
JC
March 23, 2022 9:20 am

Mike cernovich is reporting that CDC has corrected the stat for children dying from covid by 25%. He also says all stat errors always seem to go the same way.

The most important stat bucket for the past 2 years was wrong.

Incredible.

It’s getting to the stage that nothing coming from the gov can be believed anymore.

calli
calli
March 23, 2022 9:22 am

I confess to giving some upticks. Only a few, mind. I like to keep some in reserve for emergencies.

feelthebern
feelthebern
March 23, 2022 9:25 am

The AFR has a decent column up on the insurers & COVID related claims making it’s way to the High Court.
To long to cut & paste.
Paywalled.

https://www.afr.com/companies/financial-services/controversial-high-court-cases-loom-over-pandemic-business-insurance-20220322-p5a6vi

Indolent
Indolent
March 23, 2022 9:31 am

Forbid anyone could sincerely believe vaccines provide some protection against serious illness and death for the old and frail.

You are perfectly entitled to believe anything you wish. However, the fact of the matter is that the injections don’t stop you getting or spreading Covid but can cause injury and even death, all of which has been clearly demonstrated.

What, then, does this say about a Prime Minister who is still using all means at his disposal to push it onto everyone? And I do still remember him saying at the beginning of the rollout that everyone would have to have it, before recanting somewhat, probably after someone pointed out to him that this was still beyond his authority.

If the jabs had been rolled out purely to the most at risk on a voluntary basis I would have had no objection at all. But they are trying to push it onto everyone while denying them other, less controversial treatments. This was what hardened my view against it in the first place. There is clearly an agenda, unrelated to our health, and it is abundantly clear that our Prime Minister is fully on board with it.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
March 23, 2022 9:43 am

The most important stat bucket for the past 2 years was wrong.

It’s not often the case that humble statisticians are front and centre of fuckups – usually it’s the users and abusers of the statistical product who do the damage.

But poor statistical control has plagued the global Covid response like never before.

JC
JC
March 23, 2022 9:44 am

What’s also incredible is let’s say the CDC made an honest mistake. I know the likelihood is about -10 out of 10, but stay with this.

One of the most important stats that determines all sorts of policy like a school attendance and who should be vaxed etc. is meaningfully incorrect.
No one checked it?

No one is fired or demoted?

Just fucking unreal.

Boambee John
Boambee John
March 23, 2022 9:44 am

JC

I thought that you might be interested in this quote from Homer P, from the Infuriating and Ridiculous thread at CL’s blog.

I am interested why there are so many people who swallow Russian propaganda and then repeat here even though it has already been discredited as Steve from Brisbane has shown.

Steve from Brisbane as an authority? ROFLMAO!

JC
JC
March 23, 2022 9:48 am

B John

Hahahahahhahaahahha

Homer has to be an NPC from the Simulation. It’s just the dude managing the simulation software having a lend.

🙂

Franx
Franx
March 23, 2022 9:56 am

While not being it’s corollary, the murder of the innocents nevertheless has its concomitant in the refined sensibilities of veganism. A world possessed of madness.

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 23, 2022 10:00 am

Looks like Mrs Upticks slept in this morning.

Nah. Just missed the new thread by a few hours. She wasn’t the only one. I must ask a young person what a cache is.

rosie
rosie
March 23, 2022 10:02 am

Indolent
Is this an admission that the vaccines do in fact provide a level of protection for the old and frail and therefore the Prime Minister is not lying?
I always said vaccines should be voluntary and yes a mild virus in a healthy adult can be treated, as always, with fluids, bed test and panadol.

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 23, 2022 10:05 am

Steve from Brisbane

The late and unlamented.

rosie
rosie
March 23, 2022 10:06 am

Mrs Upticks?
Is that Bourne1789?

local oaf
March 23, 2022 10:08 am

I think it was Millais who ran off with Ruskin’s missus, causing great scandal.

I read yonks ago, that Ruskin failed as an ideal husband due to his distaste for the actual reality of the female body, as opposed to the idealised form encountered in art.

What might his pronouns be today? We can only wonder.

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
March 23, 2022 10:10 am

Courier Mail has an Editorial on Covid today which can be summed up by

“It also means getting that third booster and ensuring your kids have their jabs to stop the spread at school”.

My comment below was rejected. A few minutes ago only one comment was showing which suggests many have been rejected. Facts no longer matter and as Indolent’s link above shows all our leaders are full on for the next jab. Qld not yet mandated 3rd but obviously coming.

“If it is ok with the Editor I would like to present an alternate view.

It is now well established and been reported in this paper that the first two jabs wane and this is why the booster was brought forward. At the same time CEO Pfizer as reported in this paper said the first two jabs were not effective against Omicron. Head of CDC said same recently as did CHO Canada. Since the booster is exactly the same vaccine it will be ineffective and also wane. These are verifiable facts.

I won’t be getting 3rd jab for the simple reason I know if I do it will lead to a fourth. Time to let the people decide without coercion.

As regards children I encourage the media and others to look up the results of the recently released study of 800,000 kids done by NY regarding efficiency of their Vax”.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
March 23, 2022 10:13 am

OK. Who spoke his name and summoned him up?

rosie
rosie
March 23, 2022 10:14 am

Lots of people mix and matching boosters.
Know someone getting novavax this week after moderna late last year.
Astrazeneca is generally no longer an option for boosters.

rosie
rosie
March 23, 2022 10:16 am

I can’t see no Steve of Brisbane.

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
March 23, 2022 10:18 am

If it is ok with the Editor I would like to present an alternate view.

That’s so 20th century.

lotocoti
lotocoti
March 23, 2022 10:19 am

The late and unlamented.

Look at how things have gone without the Pole Star of that
Only One True Conservative to guide us.
Unlamented?
I think not.

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 23, 2022 10:19 am

The pre Raphaelites were a bunch of poofta pansies.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
March 23, 2022 10:22 am

I read yonks ago, that Ruskin failed as an ideal husband due to his distaste for the actual reality of the female body, as opposed to the idealised form encountered in art.

I read yonks ago that it was the sight of his wife, naked on their wedding night, that caused him to fail as an ideal husband.

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 23, 2022 10:23 am

Look at how things have gone without the Pole Star of that
Only One True Conservative to guide us.

iampeter might have something to say about that. Mere coincidence?

srr
srr
March 23, 2022 10:23 am

Indolent says:
March 23, 2022 at 8:51 am

I don’t even like repeating such things. We are seriously reaching the stage where respect for human life will be criminalised.

Newsom opens the door to infanticides
https://presscalifornia.com/2022/03/22/newsom-opens-the-door-to-infanticide/
____________________

This is why I understood that The Pill to be the top of the slippery slope to legalising all ‘murder for convenience’, young, old & simply ‘in my way’.

Jordan Peterson, last I heard him, still sold The Pill as a great thing for humanity but he is very wrong on that.

Messing with those hormones that make you physically & emotionally fit for motherhood, broke people & society in countless other ways.

A great proportion of the horror shows we see daily as the ‘new normal’, have roots planted in the normalisation of The Pill.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 23, 2022 10:24 am

rosiesays:

March 23, 2022 at 10:06 am

Mrs Upticks?
Is that Bourne1789?

No, that looks like a resurrection of BrettW.
Mrs Upticks may or may not be related to another poster here, who seems very coy about it.

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
March 23, 2022 10:24 am

Tim,
Lets just say I have a lot of rejected posts so trying to be polite and sarcastic at the same time.

Timothy Neilsonsays:
March 23, 2022 at 10:18 am
If it is ok with the Editor I would like to present an alternate view.

That’s so 20th century.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 23, 2022 10:26 am

Hi Bretty boy!

rosie
rosie
March 23, 2022 10:26 am

“Health inspectors accused of ‘maliciously’ meddling in independent audit of I Cook Foods”

“Documents submitted in a multi-million dollar civil action against the state government and Greater Dandenong Council show officials discussing the review with the auditor hired by I Cook Foods, and hatching a plan to “protect” him.”

ABC’s online newspaper running an Icook story

Arky
March 23, 2022 10:26 am

You’ll need to parse this type of information if you want to get a rough handle on the progress of the Ukraine war:
https://www.oryxspioenkop.com/2022/02/attack-on-europe-documenting-equipment.html

rosie
rosie
March 23, 2022 10:29 am

I though it was BrettWhine.
Memory must be getting Faulty.
I’m still confused about Mrs Upticks.

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 23, 2022 10:44 am

Health inspectors accused of ‘maliciously’ meddling in independent audit of I Cook Foods”

aka get a slug up ya

Tom
Tom
March 23, 2022 10:46 am

Humphrey, the blog troll we used to call shitferbrains is definitely unlamented, but surely not “late”. Don’t tell me he caught something from one of his beloved buttblugs.

calli
calli
March 23, 2022 10:49 am

Mrs Upticks may or may not be related to another poster here, who seems very coy about it.

Lol. Well, it isn’t me. I tried to do a couple as a test, but I could only achieve one. But another experiment showed that you can “like” your own comments. A bit narcissistic, but there it is.

If no one like what you say, you might be on the right track, just the wrong forum.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 23, 2022 10:49 am

rosiesays:

March 23, 2022 at 10:26 am

“Health inspectors accused of ‘maliciously’ meddling in independent audit of I Cook Foods”

Could this be why Perfesser Bretty Boy Sutton has dropped off the radar?
Incidentally, the auditor’s name is Bucket. I wonder how he pronounces that.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 23, 2022 10:51 am

the state government and Greater Dandenong Council

It’s sort of prophetic. Lefty pollies want us to eat bugs, so why not slugs?

Hopefully Slater & Gordon get involved in this scandal, then we could have some fine Slugs and Grubs bugs and slugs headlines.

Zipster
Zipster
March 23, 2022 10:57 am

I read yonks ago that it was the sight of his wife, naked on their wedding night, that caused him to fail as an ideal husband.

shoulda tested the goods long before that

calli
calli
March 23, 2022 10:59 am

shoulda tested the goods long before that

His or his wife’s?

dopey
dopey
March 23, 2022 11:08 am

SMH ad about assisted death,with pictures. ‘They Died Waiting.’
They died waiting to die.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
March 23, 2022 11:08 am

Beautiful pic for a brand new thread, Dover. Gotta love those Victorian Pre-Raphaelites. They are particularky good on the Idylls of the King as well. Arthur’s spiriting away seaborne to the further west by his Queens after his last ‘dim weird battle in the west’, as Tennyson terms it, is one of my facorite romantic reconstructions. A sun and sea god on his way home until, like the new day itself, he would return.

Those who fail to connect the Arthurian legends with the spiritual life of the sun worship expressed in the architecture of Stonehenge and other Neolithic sites simply lack a religious imagination. The time depth is awe-inspiring, but real.

Franx
Franx
March 23, 2022 11:09 am

Tried parsing the warfare damage in the Ukraine, but need help.

calli
calli
March 23, 2022 11:10 am

I’ve always been highly suspicious about the Ruskin story. These guys had seen a lot of naked women – models in their life drawing classes as students and afterwards in their own studios. They weren’t drawing exclusively from Greek and Roman statues.

There was a lot of rivalry, and from reports Ruskin was a pompous prat.

Sounds more like an elaborate and malicious joke, and a plausible cover story concocted for the Millais affair.

srr
srr
March 23, 2022 11:12 am

Indolent says:
March 23, 2022 at 10:53 am

Mary Talley Bowden MD @MdBreathe
Funny, I’ve treated over 2200 patients with this medication and never seen these side effects…. and all of them stayed out of the hospital.

Quote Tweet
CDC @CDCgov
· 22 Mar
The anti-parasite drug ivermectin is not authorized or approved by FDA for treating or preventing #COVID19. Large doses can cause symptoms like nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, & seizures.
Learn more: https://bit.ly/3kNRkvH. #PoisonPreventionWeek

Miguel Proulx @miguelproulx
· 14h
Replying to @MdBreathe
100x the regular dose isn’t even lethal!

Try 100x the regular dose of ibuprofen.

This is pure propaganda
____________________

Yep, pure Pro-Jab Propaganda, just as we get here daily, as if it isn’t already shoved down our throats everywhere else so we need to keep getting it here.

We know now that ivermectin is safe, cheap & works so why do some simply have to keep shoving the Anti-ivermectin BS at us?

It’s as if not delivering the daily BS would have a negative effect on the deliverers bank balance.

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 23, 2022 11:13 am

The SMH is hardly one to speak on behalf of assisted dying. Fauxfacts should have been put out of its (our) misery around the time of Young Warwick.

srr
srr
March 23, 2022 11:17 am

JACK_MAXEY
@JACK_MAXEY
·
Mar 7
Straight up, #MarcoRubio when everyone finds out you knew about Hunter years ago, it is over. You are a fraud. You were Chair of Intel Committee – you did nothing. I have the receipts.
__________
Marco Rubio

Like I said a week ago, #Russia has been planning a CBW and/or nuclear false flag in #Ukraine Well now #Putin govt is falsely reporting that Ukraine has rigged a reactor in #Kharkov ANY NUKE,CHEMICAL OR BIOLOGICAL INCIDENT IN UKRAINE IS A RUSSIA…

twitter.com
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https://gettr.com/post/pylpuv19ed
Posted on 2:08 PM · Mar 7th, 2022

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
March 23, 2022 11:27 am

Election 2022: Porn pics major has a passion for politics

Ben Packham
FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND DEFENCE CORRESPONDENT
@bennpackham
11:00PM March 22, 2022

Retired special forces major Heston Russell has confirmed he will stand for the Senate in Queensland for his own Australian Values Party, putting his time as a pay-per-image pornographic model behind him.

The former 2nd Commando Regiment officer, who com­pleted four deployments in ­Afghanistan, said he would stand on a platform of “accountability, excellence, teamwork and ­responsible leadership”.

Mr Russell fell out in 2020 with his veterans’ charity employer, Swiss 8, over his sharing of images on the OnlyFans website, which is used by sex workers and porn stars to sell ­explicit content. His page on the website stated he was fundraising for Swiss 8.

The ABC reported Mr Russell told his employer he would share “risque” content on the site but no “nudity of any kind”.

But photos obtained by the broadcaster revealed he charged OnlyFans users $US60 an image for a picture of himself on Anzac Day holding his erect penis. Swiss 8 chief executive Adrian Sutter told the ABC that Mr Russell’s sale of pornagraphic images did not align with the charity’s values.

Roger
Roger
March 23, 2022 11:28 am

Tried parsing the warfare damage in the Ukraine, but need help.

If those numbers are substantially correct…

It’s a good illustration of defender’s advantage in modern warfare.

The Russians will be concerned about attrition and morale.

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 23, 2022 11:29 am

I am going to put an erect penis on my HTV cards.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 23, 2022 11:31 am

Lefties wouldn’t know what humour was even if it hit them in their lady-penises.

Babylon Bee Suspended from Twitter for Mentioning Richard Levine. (21 Mar)

That’s right: A humor website just got suspended from Twitter for stating a fact about the genetic makeup of a transgender person. Remembering biology class is “hateful conduct” that “promotes violence.”

Meanwhile, at America’s Newspaper of Record itself: Taliban Spokesman Finally Banned From Twitter After Sharing Babylon Bee Headline. (22 Mar)

Perfect reposte!

srr
srr
March 23, 2022 11:31 am

DamDatta @DamDatta
·22m
Replying to @JACK_MAXEY

Mentally, physically, and spiritually prepared.

https://gettr.com/comment/cu4fqgca2d

[chilling]

Boambee John
Boambee John
March 23, 2022 11:36 am

rosiesays:
March 23, 2022 at 10:16 am
I can’t see no Steve of Brisbane.

See my comment at 0944, a cross reference from CL’s blog.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 23, 2022 11:36 am

H B Bearsays:

March 23, 2022 at 11:13 am

The SMH is hardly one to speak on behalf of assisted dying. Fauxfacts should have been put out of its (our) misery around the time of Young Warwick.

Now there’s a blast from the past.
The classic third-generation chinless wonder blowing up the family fortune.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 23, 2022 11:38 am

H B Bearsays:

March 23, 2022 at 11:29 am

I am going to put an erect penis on my HTV cards.

I think I’ll do flaccid.
Seems more appropriate somehow.

srr
srr
March 23, 2022 11:43 am

Considering what else is on Hunter Biden’s Laptops, it isn’t surprising that this would be his Daddy’s top pick –

Hawley Lists Seven Times Ketanji Brown Jackson Issued Soft Sentences in Child-Porn Cases

[link & video] https://cnsnews.com/blog/craig-bannister/hawley-lists-seven-times-ketanji-brown-jackson-issued-soft-sentences-child

At Monday’s Supreme Court confirmation hearing, Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) listed seven child pornography cases in which President Joe Biden’s Supreme Court nominee, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, sentenced the convicted defendant to a lesser sentence than federal guidelines recommended and prosecution requested.

Sen. Hawley summarized the findings of the seven cases regarding child pornography charges presided over by Jackson during her district court tenure, in which she had discretion in her sentencing.

In two cases, Judge Jackson gave the lowest sentence permitted by law:

1. Defendant distributed multiple images of child porn, possessed dozens more, including videos:

Federal sentencing guidelines: 97-121 months in prison.
Prosecutors recommended 24 months in prison.
Judge Jackson gave the defendant three months in prison.

2. Defendant possessed 48 files of child pornography:

Federal guidelines: 78-97 months in prison.
Prosecutor recommended the same (78-97 months).
Judge Jackson sentenced him to 28 months.

3. Defendant distributed dozens of images of child pornography, possessed over six hundred:

Federal guidelines: 151-188 months in prison.
Prosecutor recommended 72 months.
Judge Jackson gave the defendant the lowest sentence permitted by law (60 months).

4. Defendant distributed 33 graphic images and videos of child sexual assault on anonymous messaging app:

Federal guidelines: 70-87 months in prison.
Prosecutor recommended 70 months in prison.
Judge Jackson sentenced to the lowest sentence permitted by law (60 months).

5. Defendant distributed scores of images and children suffering sexual abuse:

Federal guidelines: 97-121 months in prison.
Prosecutor recommended 97 months in prison.
Judge Jackson gave him 57 months

6. Defendant distributed over a hundred videos of child pornography:

Guidelines: 97-121 months in prison.
Prosecution recommended 97 months.
Judge Jackson gave 71 months.

7. Defendant was convicted of traveling across state lines to engage in sexual intercourse with a child and also possessed six separate thumb drives of child pornography:

Guidelines: 46-57 months in prison.
Prosecutor recommended 49 months.
Judge Jackson sentenced to 37 months.

Sen. Hawley said that he was troubled by the sentences doled out by Judge Jackson in these cases, and that he hoped to discuss them with her as the hearings continued.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
March 23, 2022 11:44 am

Just read backthread.

There is a Linette in the ‘Arthurian cycle’, Calli. Later Vulgate I think but I don’t have my books with me to look it up. Sometimes she is called Lunette (a moon goddess reference) and I think I have also seen Lunet and Linnet in some variations. There is no one cycle, just an additive range of them, sometimes in ‘Continuations’. It is a life’s work to get on top of it all and the early sources are my main interest anyway. Many commentaries exist on the Arthurian females. Not all trace pagan origins which is my interest. Modern work is often feminist in orientation, seeking female archetypes, as in the book called ‘King Arthur’s Enchantresses’. Not really my cup of tea but there can be crossover with religious symbolism.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
March 23, 2022 11:45 am

I read yonks ago that it was the sight of his wife, naked on their wedding night, that caused him to fail as an ideal husband.

To be fair to the chap, he came in to find her doing the squashed wombat on the glass coffee table top.

Dramatized footage here.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 23, 2022 11:46 am

Google tells me Young Warwick has moved to the USA and is a – wait for it – “business consultant and executive coach”.
Also looks to have joined a Happy Clapper church.

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 23, 2022 11:46 am

I think I’ll do flaccid.
Seems more appropriate somehow.

Tell me about it. The extra printing costs are killing me.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 23, 2022 11:47 am

My flaccid will be bigger than your erect.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 23, 2022 11:47 am

I’d need two NSW Senate papers.

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 23, 2022 11:49 am

Also looks to have joined a Happy Clapper church.

He could have stayed home and become PM.

feelthebern
feelthebern
March 23, 2022 11:51 am

Michael Tracey is embedding with Polish forces.
I would be taking his reporting as more truthful than most.

calli
calli
March 23, 2022 11:51 am

On Linnet, I was just going from memory. Upon Googling…there she is!

I want a Shazza too. She can belong to Aggravaine.

Boambee John
Boambee John
March 23, 2022 11:52 am

Sancho Panzersays:
March 23, 2022 at 11:36 am
H B Bearsays:

March 23, 2022 at 11:13 am

The SMH is hardly one to speak on behalf of assisted dying. Fauxfacts should have been put out of its (our) misery around the time of Young Warwick.

Now there’s a blast from the past.
The classic third-generation chinless wonder blowing up the family fortune.

Question of the day: Can the junior Murdochs destroy value faster than Young Warwick Fairfax did?

feelthebern
feelthebern
March 23, 2022 11:53 am

“business consultant and executive coach”.

Sounds like a Bosi move.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 23, 2022 11:55 am

feelthebernsays:

March 23, 2022 at 11:53 am

“business consultant and executive coach”.

Sounds like a Bosi move.

Burning through OPM whilst generating no income?

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
March 23, 2022 11:56 am

Now there’s a blast from the past.
The classic third-generation chinless wonder blowing up the family fortune.

My ouija board has just come to life with an advisory from Laurie Connell:

W A R W I C K ?
G R A T E B L O K E

Top Ender
Top Ender
March 23, 2022 11:56 am

In airline news:

The former pilot accused of murdering missing Victorian campers Carol Clay and Russell Hill has withdrawn his unfair dismissal claim against Jetstar, The Age reports.

Gregg Lynn, 55, was officially terminated from his position with Jetstar following his arrest over the alleged murders of the two campers in the Wonnangatta Valley.

Following his dismissal the Transport Workers Union of Australia (TWU) issued a letter to Jetstar on January 22 on Lynn’s behalf, alleging he was denied procedural fairness. The Union claimed Lynn had organised an arrangement for leave from Jetstar while he was on remand.

At the time, TWU branch secretary John Berger told news.com.au “Lynn’s dismissal from employment should be considered a disproportionate response.”

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 23, 2022 11:57 am

Those who fail to connect the Arthurian legends with the spiritual life of the sun worship expressed in the architecture of Stonehenge and other Neolithic sites simply lack a religious imagination. The time depth is awe-inspiring, but real.

Lizzie, seconded. Similar elsewhere. Last Sunday I was reading a bit about Gobekli Tepe and also a Natufian village in Israel c. 11,500 BC. The latter was interesting since it was before agriculture was invented, although there was so much natural grain and game in the area they could sustain permanent settlements. Gobekli Tepe is especially interesting as a very very early religious site. It wasn’t a settlement, but was a centralized religious site. The iconography is fascinating. I’ve seen suggestions that it may’ve been related to the obsidian trade in that area – which would’ve been a very mystical substance, if you were a local in those times.

Bruce
Bruce
March 23, 2022 12:00 pm
Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 23, 2022 12:02 pm

At the time, TWU branch secretary John Berger told news.com.au “Lynn’s dismissal from employment should be considered a disproportionate response.”

What a crock.
Under employment law, if you don’t show up for work for a period without advising of leave you can be considered as having ‘abandoned employment’ and terminated.
Given he wasn’t getting bail anytime soon, they were within their rights to terminate him.

Cassie of Sydney
March 23, 2022 12:10 pm

I have received an email, addressed to all Liberal Democrat members, with the Liberal Democrat logo etc….called “Leaving the Party” by Kirsty O’Sullivan, ex member. It is very strange….it trashes the party and administration using the party’s logo etc. It seems very deliberate, designed to malign and destroy the party. If there are other members here, have you also received the email?

Cassie of Sydney
March 23, 2022 12:17 pm

I worked at Fairfax at the time. On more than one occasion I shared a lift with young Warwick. He was a very nice and polite young geek but completely beholden to his mother, Mary. It was she who pushed him.

Dot
Dot
March 23, 2022 12:21 pm

Dot’s list of 303 points covered this, somewhere.

‘zounds!

Haha, many points were suggested by the dear readers!

Helen
Helen
March 23, 2022 12:21 pm

Arky

First I am glad you survived your toe cutting incident, I believe some have died from this procedure, so good to know you are alive.

Second thank you fort hat David Starkey link – absolutely insightful, so much so I will listen to it again.

Biden has much to be reviled by in future conservative histories.

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 23, 2022 12:22 pm

Question of the day: Can the junior Murdochs destroy value faster than Young Warwick Fairfax did?

I expect Christmas Day is very interesting around the Fairfaxes. Plenty of evaporated wealth to reminisce over. I wonder if they still have any Rural Press stubby holders?

Dot
Dot
March 23, 2022 12:22 pm

Yes Cassie.

Lysander
Lysander
March 23, 2022 12:23 pm

It was a good pickup by Quadrant…

When their ABC* broke the story on Houston sex charges and crossed to a live journo to provide “comment” they interlaced the story with archived footage of Houston meeting Morrison on two occasions.

Why would they do this? What has Houston charges got to do with Scomo? (You know why)

*Tasmanian ABC news only.

Tom
Tom
March 23, 2022 12:24 pm

I have received an email, addressed to all Liberal Democrat members, with the Liberal Democrat logo etc….called “Leaving the Party” by Kirsty O’Sullivan, ex member. It is very strange….it trashes the party and administration using the party’s logo etc. It seems very deliberate, designed to malign and destroy the party. If there are other members here, have you also received the email?

Cassie, splinter parties like the LDP are full of idealists who tend to fight like cats and dogs. Libertarians, in particular, are not only idealists, but believe in liberty only as an abstract concept and are terrified of actually being in government and having to make the hard day-to-day, pragmatic decisions. Much easier having continual splits and schisms among the hyper-idealists in their midst.

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 23, 2022 12:24 pm

I expect some gauche American will step in before the Murdoch kiddies can do too much damage.

Helen
Helen
March 23, 2022 12:25 pm

PS Bruce told me (after I asked him) how to do the up-tick thing, but to be sure, I cant be fagged. (not phrasing)

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 23, 2022 12:26 pm

The Peoples Front of Judea ride again.

Cassie of Sydney
March 23, 2022 12:27 pm

“Dotsays:
March 23, 2022 at 12:22 pm
Yes Cassie.”

Has she done this illegally?

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 23, 2022 12:29 pm

Why would they do this? What has Houston charges got to do with Scomo?

Probably for the LOLs around the water cooler. Won’t hurt at annual review time either.

shatterzzz
March 23, 2022 12:31 pm

…although Mr Charlton appeared to be an intelligent man, a private-sector career “is very different from being a backbench MP in the marginal seat”.

Fact check: TRUE .. in the private sector you, actually, have to work and show results to be successful ..
As a backbencher you only have to turn up & be counted, occasionally, to qualify for your $200k + freebies, ability/qualifications are optional …

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
March 23, 2022 12:33 pm

My ouija board has just come to life with an advisory from Laurie Connell:

He and Alan Bond should have been locked up for life “never to be released.”

shatterzzz
March 23, 2022 12:33 pm

Sooo, what’s with this reference to Mr. Charlton being “WHITE”? .. Imagine the outcry if he was a “person of colour” and that descriptor had been used …!

Lysander
Lysander
March 23, 2022 12:34 pm

Interesting read from an Indian academic at a university in Germany. The “highlight” being…

For all the talk of a rules-based order, the world’s rule-makers have reverted unhesitatingly to unilateralism. The risks are legion. The flood of weapons that the West is sending to Ukraine—a country with a long history of weak governance and widespread corruption—could eventually flow westward, fuelling organised crime, narcotics trafficking and terrorist violence across Europe.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 23, 2022 12:34 pm

On more than one occasion I shared a lift with young Warwick. He was a very nice and polite young geek but completely beholden to his mother, Mary. It was she who pushed him.

Cassie – The best thing about young Warwick and the Fairfax re-takeover was he used to drive an ancient car to work, despite being CEO. An old Datsun or something. I can’t find any articles though, it’s just a mk 1 ancient Bruce-memory.

Cassie of Sydney
March 23, 2022 12:36 pm

Not a good look for the party. The MSM will latch onto it.

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 23, 2022 12:49 pm

He and Alan Bond should have been locked up for life “never to be released.”

A mate from law school married Laurie Connell’s daughter. She is lovely – something you could never say about the old man.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
March 23, 2022 12:50 pm

In Big Barrel Hat Country news:

PM pledges to build dam four time size of Sydney Harbour

Queenslanders are being promised a body of water four times the size of the Sydney Harbour, but it will come at an eye-watering cost.

Mr Morrison was in Townsville on Wednesday to spruik his $5.4 billion commitment to get the Hells Gate Dam project off the ground.

Speaking to reporters on Wednesday, Mr Morrison said the federal government would fully fund the project.

Well, he’s won my vote.
Eat nutritious newspaper soup, rest of Australia – we’re fuk’n in.

He also denied the project was an election sweetener for Mr Katter.

“I love Bob, but it’s not about Bob. And Bob would agree it’s not about Bob,” Mr Morrison said.

“What it is about is jobs. It’s about the agriculture that can be created and the wealth that is created.”

A final business case into the proposal is expected to be completed in June.

Oh. June?
But, but – it’s going to go ahead?Right?

Speedbox
March 23, 2022 12:52 pm

Lysander says:
March 23, 2022 at 12:34 pm

Great read. Thanks. This was also highly relevant.

China is set to emerge as the real winner of the NATO–Russia conflict. An overstretched America’s renewed preoccupation with European security will create strategic space for China to press its strategic objectives—its leaders have been as clear about absorbing Taiwan as Putin was about claiming Ukraine—and bolster its global influence, at the expense of the US.

Chinese global dominance would amount to the final nail in the coffin of the rules-based order. Since its establishment in 1949, the People’s Republic has displayed blatant contempt for international law, more than doubling its land mass by annexing Xinjiang and Tibet and currently detaining over a million Muslims. Yet China has paid no tangible price. The Kremlin, for its part, probably didn’t think twice about rejecting the International Court of Justice order to suspend its military operations in Ukraine.

International law may be powerful against the powerless, but it is powerless against the powerful.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 23, 2022 12:54 pm

It’s the vibe of the day.

Hells Gate Dam: ‘Money on the table’ says Barnaby (23 Mar)

Ok, great. But why didn’t you do it three years ago, hmm?

(Maybe override those trad owners stopping da gas fracking while you’re at it. It’s an Emergency after all.)

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 23, 2022 12:55 pm

SloMo is in the final Gillardian phase where he will say and do anything he thinks will get him elected. The only difference is the Liars won’t implement them.

rosie
rosie
March 23, 2022 12:56 pm

I’m hoping you meant you would do a nice drawing on your ballot paper Mr Bear.

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  1. I think the punters are stirring, getting ansty. Normally letting politics of either persuasion slide by as we just get…

  2. Great stuff from the past. Visuals and audio are great. —— F r. David – Words Don’t Come Easy

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