Open Thread – Easter Weekend 2022


Agnus Dei, Zurbarán, 1635-40

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DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
April 17, 2022 9:46 pm

That is also my experience. The same with indigenous people.

What happened to Blackball? He was a good bloke, and aboriginal. He doesn’t seem to have visited newÇat.

John H.
John H.
April 17, 2022 9:48 pm
bespoke
bespoke
April 17, 2022 9:50 pm

Blackball visits Adam’s cat,Drbg

Boambee John
Boambee John
April 17, 2022 9:51 pm

The senator said Australia should also butt out of the affairs of Pacific states, arguing they should be free to “defend their territorial boundaries and build relationships” as they saw fit.

The Greens support Ukraine joining NATO! (“defend[ing] their territorial boundaries and build[ing] relationships” as they [see] fit.)

Rabz
April 17, 2022 9:51 pm

Denunciated, Cats – denunciated I was … by a female personage whose o’pinion I value:

“So you’re going to plonk yourself on your posterior and whinge about everything until labore and the greenfilth are running this country?”

So shocked by the impertinence I was, that the Kimbra videos needed to be wheeled out … 😕

Boambee John
Boambee John
April 17, 2022 9:53 pm

If that’s true, it’s dishonest and deserves to fail.

Dickless again demonstrates that he is a US (small “l” liberal, not part of a genuine non-leftist movement. He is horrified at the prospect of the Lieborals becoming attractive to social conservatives.

Boambee John
Boambee John
April 17, 2022 9:55 pm

DrBeauGansays:
April 17, 2022 at 9:46 pm
That is also my experience. The same with indigenous people.

What happened to Blackball? He was a good bloke, and aboriginal. He doesn’t seem to have visited newÇat.

He is not too far away, where must not be mentioned.

Boambee John
Boambee John
April 17, 2022 9:57 pm

Close brackets after “l”)

Rabz
April 17, 2022 10:04 pm

He is horrified at the prospect of the Lieborals becoming attractive to social conservatives

He’s not the only one.

Non collectivist politics in this country is, to paraphrase, “dead, buried and cremated”.

There are two collectivist parties in this country (well, three, if you include the most successful of them, being the gliberals).

There’s only about 10 non collectivist ones. Squabbling, squabbling and even more squabbling.

When too many popular peoples’ judean frontages are barely enough.

Hopeless.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
April 17, 2022 10:05 pm

It’s so obvious. And nobody’s mentioned it.

Or wants to mention it. It’s right there, in plain sight. Clear-thinking people will have seen it a mile away, and there are millions of us.

And it’s a warning. That’s what it is. I’ll say it. I’ll bring the Truth, even though you don’t want to hear it.

It is very clear that in the banner at the top of the page, Peter is experiencing the beginnings of myocarditisomething after being vaxxed. Now, because he did what he did he ruined my life, and it’s his fault.

My only joy is that he’s only got 12 months to go. 42 months, max.

Stupid apostle, not holding the line.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
April 17, 2022 10:07 pm

Blackball visits Adam’s cat,Drbg

Thanks bespoke. Let him know we exist and would like to see him.

Dot
Dot
April 17, 2022 10:08 pm

Ed Casesays:
April 17, 2022 at 9:20 pm
Transitioning anyone under 18 is child abuse pure & simple. Leave it there.

Y E S

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
April 17, 2022 10:11 pm

Let him know we exist and would like to see him.

He struck me as a common sense person, and the more of that we get the better.

Dot
Dot
April 17, 2022 10:11 pm

Considering the high rate of post operative suicides for trans people, allowing children to transmute is whack..

Let’s face it. Trans are only left because they want taxpayers to fund their expensive sex reassignment surgeries.

They haven’t really embraced live and let live at all.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
April 17, 2022 10:13 pm

Chalk another one up for Albanese’s 22 year old advisors (the NT News):

Anthony Albanese was greeted by deafening boos and jeers as he took to the stage at Bluesfest in Byron Bay on Sunday night.

The Labor leader briefly faced the crowds ahead of a performance by rock icon Jimmy Barnes, but did not receive the rock star welcome he was no doubt hoping for.

Photos and video from the scene show a line of audience members giving Albo the thumbs down as he delivered his hasty speech.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
April 17, 2022 10:14 pm

He struck me as a common sense person, and the more of that we get the better.

I do remember him reading Numbers his horoscope over a certain issue..

rosie
rosie
April 17, 2022 10:15 pm

“Ukraine is perhaps the most Christian country in Europe. And in the resistance of the Ukrainians we are witnessing what strong families, communities and nations are capable”
unherd via Twitter

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
April 17, 2022 10:17 pm

Albanese pays a price for bad week as voters swing back to government

Sure Albo’s a dud, but that’s not news. Fundamentally nothing much has changed.

Up and down like a whore’s drawers.

But the central trend is still pointing at a slim Labor majority courtesy of Green preferences – and a parliament with a record number of indies and minor parties.

Frank
Frank
April 17, 2022 10:17 pm

Timothy Neilson says:
April 17, 2022 at 9:28 pm

I tend to agree with you on that one too.
As to the relative sizes of the lunatic fringes of various minorities, that would be an interesting question to have answered.

Rabz
April 17, 2022 10:23 pm

Albanese was greeted by deafening boos and jeers as he took to the stage at Bluesfest in Byron Bay

A figurative GST Cake moment? Hell no, he’s got many, many more in store …

Redefining, peoples, redefining

Zipster
Zipster
April 17, 2022 10:24 pm

Chalk another one up for Albanese’s 22 year old advisors (the NT News):

Maybe a song and dance with some of his rub and tug skimpies

Winston Smith
April 17, 2022 10:30 pm

Timothy Neilson:

Most gays and lesbians I know don’t actually do that. It seems to be just the “activists” i.e. the perpetually aggrieved (whether about LGBTQWERTY or “climate” or anything else). We’re having the whole of our society hijacked by a minority within a minority.

Nearly every gay I had the misfortune to work with had, as a default switch, the sexual habits and stories. No matter what the discussion was about it would nearly always turn into something about themselves.
Now I’m retired, I don’t have to mix with, work beside, or tolerate their obsessions – and thank Christ for that.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
April 17, 2022 10:41 pm

Nearly every gay I had the misfortune to work with had, as a default switch, the sexual habits and stories

Memsahib always said there was one advantage about working with gay men – she never had to worry about getting her bottom pinched in the tea room…

Thefrollickingmole
Thefrollickingmole
April 17, 2022 10:42 pm

Grigglebot reaches desperately for the .5% intersex to try and bolster the case for those Born with normal sexual characteristics to be surgically mutilated or chemically castrated/ suppressed.

Ok groomer

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
April 17, 2022 10:50 pm

Grigglebot reaches desperately for the .5% intersex

It’s much less than that. Around 0.02% iirc.

MatrixTransform
April 17, 2022 10:55 pm

Grigglebot reaches desperately for the .5% intersex

and divide that number by 50

that being said, there is a young child in the greater family born like that only a couple of years ago.

Thefrollickingmole
Thefrollickingmole
April 17, 2022 11:03 pm

I’m splitting the difference between 2 extremes of reported figures.

One is as low as 1 in 5000 while the other ( by including a heap of syndromes) says as high as 1.7%

But yes I’d be putting it at the low end of range, under 1% for sure.

duncanm
duncanm
April 17, 2022 11:04 pm

John H.says:
April 17, 2022 at 9:48 pm
The genetic history of Aboriginal Australians

fascinating stuff.

50k years of faffing about in isolated tribes, then a wave of stone tools and language about 4-5k years ago starting northern Australia (Papua?).

duncanm
duncanm
April 17, 2022 11:07 pm

Doesn’t matter if the ferals and doctors wives’ in the Byron region diss rub-n-tug. They’re yelling at him from the left (as Gerard is wont to say), so their green preferences will flow to the ALP anyway.

H B Bear
H B Bear
April 17, 2022 11:12 pm

The funny thing is that I think Deves could be a spook. And SloMo has fallen for the happyclapper flamer honey pot.

MatrixTransform
April 17, 2022 11:20 pm

I’ll let youse in on a secret … MT’s dry rub

rosemary sprigs, same as the five fingers on yr hand (use the leaves, not the stalks. der!)
2 teaspoons of Maldon salt
2 teaspoons of black pepper
2 teaspoons of coffee beans
2 teaspoons of granulated onion
blitz it in the coffee grinder until fine

500g eye filet
let the the joint come up to room temp (30 to 60 minutes)
roll it in good olive oil
then get that powdery shit all over it

pan fry on all sides for 2 minutes per side
use cast iron you mongs

finish in the oven at 200C until the internal temp hits about 59C … maybe 15 or 20 minutes

thank me later

PS even bespoke could manage this

John H.
John H.
April 17, 2022 11:30 pm

I don’t have a mechanical bone in my body but for those here who do Scotty Kilmer is worth a look.

Mazda’s New Engine is the Smallest and Most Powerful Engine Ever Made

John H.
John H.
April 17, 2022 11:36 pm

duncanmsays:
April 17, 2022 at 11:04 pm
John H.says:
April 17, 2022 at 9:48 pm
The genetic history of Aboriginal Australians

fascinating stuff.

50k years of faffing about in isolated tribes, then a wave of stone tools and language about 4-5k years ago starting northern Australia (Papua?).

Duncan what I find odd is a founding population disseminate into a new land and the various groups undergo their own genetic drift without interbreeding then along comes new stone tools and language that rapidly spreads across the whole continent but that the genetic signature is very small which indicates it wasn’t population replacement. That’s incongruous though, a new language and tools does suggest a replacement population.

BTW that big shift 4-5k years ago strongly suggests that the “oldest living culture” is bunkum. Something extraordinary happened.

Rabz
April 17, 2022 11:43 pm

Peter the denunciator …

during Jesus’ Last Supper with his disciples, he predicted that Peter would deny knowledge of him, stating that Peter would disown him before the rooster crowed the next morning. Following the arrest of Jesus, Peter denied knowing him three times, but after the third denial, he heard the rooster crow and recalled the prediction as Jesus turned to look at him. Peter then began to cry bitterly.

Bit late by then eh, Squire.

Epic tales.

Rabz
April 17, 2022 11:52 pm

The original twelve Apostles had Paul added later

The latter being an allegedly controversial character, from what I can gather.

“Saul of Tarsus” (as he may or may not have been known), marching on a road between two cities when a certain biblical awakening occurred.

Epic tales. 🙂

John H.
John H.
April 17, 2022 11:55 pm

C.L.says:
April 17, 2022 at 11:45 pm
Is the Daily Mail hinting this is Albanese?

Famous Aussie is ‘trying to bury story they had gastric band surgery’ after insiders said it was ‘impossible’ they lost so much weight through diet and exercise alone.

Rebel Wilson

Rabz
April 18, 2022 12:00 am

Famous Aussie is ‘trying to bury story they had gastric band surgery’ after insiders said it was ‘impossible’ they lost so much weight through diet and exercise alone

Oh, bollocks. I have no great truck with the Albanzleasey, but losing significant amounts of weight is by no means impossible, or even necessarily difficult.

In 2002 (because I was hopelessly besotted with a goil) I lost a fifth of my body weight over six weeks.

Having to replace my entire wardrobe was not something that had entered into the equation.

Many thousands of dollars later and she still wouldn’t acknowledge my existence 😕

That’s life.

Arky
April 18, 2022 12:02 am

first European to bring tobacco seeds to the Old World in 1559 following orders of King Philip II of Spain.

..

Coffee became more widely accepted after it was deemed a Christian beverage by Pope Clement VIII in 1600

..

The first record of tea in English came from a letter written by Richard Wickham, who ran an East India Company office in Japan, writing to a merchant in Macao requesting “the best sort of chaw” in 1615.

..

In 1651, John French published The Art of Distillation,[23] the first major English compendium on the practice

..
Imagine how shit the world was before hard liquor, smokes, tea and coffee. All relatively recent. All people had before 1500 was rooting.

Rabz
April 18, 2022 12:06 am

All people had before 1500 was rooting

And battling the Vogons in epic sieges, Squire.

Bruce in WA
April 18, 2022 12:06 am

One of the prettiest, feminine actresses I had seen.

Now mutilated into this.

Bruce in WA
April 18, 2022 12:09 am

In 2002 (because I was hopelessly besotted with a goil) I lost a fifth of my body weight over six weeks.

PLEASE, Rabz … how?

Disclaimer: If it involves eschewing alcohol I don’t really want to know.

Rabz
April 18, 2022 12:14 am

Bruce – you’re not going to like this – massively cutting back on alcohol, completely changing my diet and lengthy amounts of exercise. No booze during the week. Still do that nowadays, which is why weekends are a free for all. 🙂

I simply lack that kind of discipline nowadays, although the waste size is only one inch larger than it was back then.

Rabz
April 18, 2022 12:14 am

waist size, FFS …

Rabz
April 18, 2022 12:16 am

Oh – and when you lose that sort of weight, get comfortable with your convenience.

You’ll be communing with it seemingly endlessly.

Bruce in WA
April 18, 2022 12:18 am

Rabz

Thanks, mate.

Yeah, sorta knew that would be your answer.

Sigh …

Here we go … again!

John H.
John H.
April 18, 2022 12:22 am

Arkysays:
April 18, 2022 at 12:02 am
first European to bring tobacco seeds to the Old World in 1559 following orders of King Philip II of Spain.

..

Coffee became more widely accepted after it was deemed a Christian beverage by Pope Clement VIII in 1600

..

The first record of tea in English came from a letter written by Richard Wickham, who ran an East India Company office in Japan, writing to a merchant in Macao requesting “the best sort of chaw” in 1615.

..

In 1651, John French published The Art of Distillation,[23] the first major English compendium on the practice

..
Imagine how shit the world was before hard liquor, smokes, tea and coffee. All relatively recent. All people had before 1500 was rooting.

Arky beer is at least 6,000 years old and there is even a debate in anthropology that agriculture came after the trick of fermentation. A recent find even suggests humans were fermenting grains 13,000 years ago, that’s thousands of years before the earliest records of agriculture. There is hardly a tribe that didn’t use some form of drug.

MatrixTransform
April 18, 2022 12:24 am

All people had before 1500 was rooting.

prolly dead from tooth abyss by 30 anyways

John H.
John H.
April 18, 2022 12:25 am

Rabzsays:
April 18, 2022 at 12:14 am
Bruce – you’re not going to like this – massively cutting back on alcohol, completely changing my diet and lengthy amounts of exercise. No booze during the week. Still do that nowadays, which is why weekends are a free for all. ?

I simply lack that kind of discipline nowadays, although the waste size is only one inch larger than it was back then.

I know that feeling. When I was younger I could train very hard and kept my weight in a good range. Trained tonight but only lightly. Had last week off as a deload and put on 2 kilos. Unfortunately I’m one of those types whose body rebels against fat loss. I can put on muscle but not lose weight. Losing the blubber is much more important than putting on the muscle. Very frustrating.

John H.
John H.
April 18, 2022 12:28 am

MatrixTransformsays:
April 18, 2022 at 12:24 am
All people had before 1500 was rooting.

prolly dead from tooth abyss by 30 anyways

Nope. The low life expectancy had more to do with infant mortality than adult lifespan. Plenty of records to indicate that if born into the right circumstances living to 60 was possible. Part of the trick of surviving long enough was to develop adaptive immunity to the bugs in your locate.

Rabz
April 18, 2022 12:33 am

Another way to lose weight …

Dancing with Miss Planet. 🙂

Arky
April 18, 2022 12:36 am

prolly dead from tooth abyss by 30 anyways

..
No bloody sugar either:
..

There was a drastic change in the mid-15th century, when São Tomé, Madeira, and the Canary Islands were settled from Europe, and sugar grown there.[22][23] After this an “all-consuming passion for sugar … swept through society” as it became far more easily available, though initially still very expensive.

John H.
John H.
April 18, 2022 12:38 am
MatrixTransform
April 18, 2022 12:44 am

Plenty of records to indicate that if born into the right circumstances living to 60 was possible.

you go right ahead and collect those records … make sure you get the dental records too

MatrixTransform
April 18, 2022 12:47 am

low life expectancy had more to do with infant mortality than adult lifespan

too many bongs John

… just sayin’

John H.
John H.
April 18, 2022 12:54 am

MatrixTransformsays:
April 18, 2022 at 12:44 am
Plenty of records to indicate that if born into the right circumstances living to 60 was possible.

you go right ahead and collect those records … make sure you get the dental records too

The problem of teeth is directly related to the availability of sugar and high carb loading; both of which are relatively late in human history. It might have something to do with oral flora because different bugs impact on tooth decay in different ways. Last time I saw a dentist they wanted to extract a molar because they said the x ray indicated an abscess underneath it. So I mouth washed with a lipophilic(fat soluble) antibacterial(Dental Pro 7, rave reviews in the thousands, not formally tested, but worked for me), a chemokine agonist(don’t ask), and a fibrinogen inhibitor(don’t ask). That was 7 years ago, still waiting for that abscess to kill me. Of course it could also mean dentists are lousy at reading X rays which wouldn’t surprise me.

John H.
John H.
April 18, 2022 12:56 am

MatrixTransformsays:
April 18, 2022 at 12:47 am
low life expectancy had more to do with infant mortality than adult lifespan

too many bongs John

… just sayin’

I wish. Not enough these days MT. Brain is dying so I may as well blaze up.

MatrixTransform
April 18, 2022 1:05 am

Bong John,
you do try to make it all sound high-brow but its pretty obvious to everybody except yourself and JC that you’re full of shit

gawd you draw a long bow … are you saying that dental problems in the middle ages were rare(?) because there was little sugar and carbs?

you must be a special kind of stupid

I read a fascinating study on the composition of calculus (tartar) the other day.

you should get off youtube

John H.
John H.
April 18, 2022 1:13 am

MatrixTransformsays:
April 18, 2022 at 1:05 am
Bong John,
you do try to make it all sound high-brow but its pretty obvious to everybody except yourself and JC that you’re full of shit

gawd you draw a long bow … are you saying that dental problems in the middle ages were rare(?) because there was little sugar and carbs?

There was plenty of carbs in the middle ages. Grains FFS. I didn’t say dental problems were rare I was challenging your claim that everyone was dying around 30 years of age because of dental problems. How do you know that is true?

What are you such an insulting prick? You do that to everybody. What happened to you that makes like that or is it genetic?

MatrixTransform
April 18, 2022 1:17 am

What are you such an insulting prick?

clearly you mean, Why am I such and insulting prick?

the answer is, because you are a retard

now fuck off and do a wiki on life expectancy over time

tosser

MatrixTransform
April 18, 2022 1:21 am

challenging your claim that everyone was dying around 30 years of age because of dental problems.

a throw-away line?
you’ve elevated to some ‘claim’ … what the fuck is wrong in your head?

John H.
John H.
April 18, 2022 1:25 am

MatrixTransformsays:
April 18, 2022 at 1:17 am
What are you such an insulting prick?

clearly you mean, Why am I such and insulting prick?

the answer is, because you are a retard

now fuck off and do a wiki on life expectancy over time

tosser

You’re dead wrong. You’re spare parts. You’re fucked in the head. Seriously, there’s something wrong upstairs because you make so many errors of reading and logic. You need depot medication because time and again you erect straw men to attack people because you are so stupid you can’t even read plain english.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20181002-how-long-did-ancient-people-live-life-span-versus-longevity

Of 397 ancients in total, 99 died violently by murder, suicide or in battle. Of the remaining 298, those born before 100BC lived to a median age of 72 years. Those born after 100BC lived to a median age of 66. (The authors speculate that the prevalence of dangerous lead plumbing may have led to this apparent shortening of life).

MatrixTransform
April 18, 2022 1:29 am

like I said … special

I reckon bong john and rosie may be neighbours

BBC?

fuck me

this joint is basically Twitter

John H.
John H.
April 18, 2022 1:33 am

MatrixTransformsays:
April 18, 2022 at 1:29 am
like I said … special

I reckon bong john and rosie may be neighbours

BBC?

fuck me

this joint is basically Twitter

You need help. Kids helpline is appropriate for you.

rosie
rosie
April 18, 2022 3:57 am
Tom
Tom
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Tom
Tom
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Tom
Tom
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Tom
Tom
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Tom
Tom
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Tom
Tom
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Tom
Tom
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Tom
Tom
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Tom
Tom
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Tom
Tom
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Tom
Tom
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Tom
Tom
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win
win
April 18, 2022 4:54 am

The bad press for Albanesie reminds me of the sudden Bob Hawke leadership at the end of an election campaign. The clean skin with no time to check out the credentials.

John Sheldrick
April 18, 2022 5:00 am

“It’s kind of cute that you still believe in him”

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132andBush
132andBush
April 18, 2022 6:19 am

Ahh win,
You’re too cynical.

I agree.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
April 18, 2022 6:22 am

The Left hates God. You can see why they’re such a hot-bed of antisemitism.

Catholic church attacks across US a ‘cultural crisis’ leaving religious leaders stumped (17 Apr)

CATHOLIC CHURCHES and Christian iconography have been targeted in a wave of attacks mystifying religious leaders in the US.

The US Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) recorded 128 incidents since May 2020, covering 35 US states. Religious leaders across the Atlantic, including the Archbishop of Denver, Samuel Aquila, have called the spate of attacks a “cultural crisis” for the country, but cannot be certain of the motives behind the incidents.

Some have involved the destruction of stained glass windows, stealing from religious property, or even arson.

Millions of dollars of damage was the result of an attack on a Catholic school in the state of Ohio, and a 250-year-old church was targeted with fire in California.

Among the victims of the mystifying attacks is Washington DC’s national basilica, where an unidentified man hammered away at a marble statue at the shrine.

He was caught on CCTV vandalising the statue of Our Lady of Fatima in December 2021.

The defacing of statues is an emerging theme in the attacks, according to USCCB religious liberty director, Dan Balserak.

He told the Telegraph that this is “ominous, but also mysterious because it’s not a message that might be intelligible or point to a particular motive”.

With the church desecretations, Mark Haas, of the Archiocese of Denver, has said that many incidents in Colorado have “anti-Catholic, pro-abortion messages”.

He described: “The ones that have been targeted at us have been pretty brazen and pretty aggressive.”

He added: “Where they’re spray painting messages, it usually is around abortion.

I think those last three sentences give a pretty good indication of who is doing it and why.
Persecution is rising again. Ah well, it’s not as if we weren’t warned by the apostles.

132andBush
132andBush
April 18, 2022 6:33 am

The mission for today; get 200ha of canola in the ground ahead of expected rain tomorrow.
Bit of a toss up between leave it all till after, which would mean a delay of at least three days, or go now and hit the middle of the sowing window with the attendant risk of ground crusting after the rain potentially affecting emergence.

We’re going for 200 before and 200 after on the dryland. All irrigated canola will go in after.
Spreading “white gold” (urea) @100kg/ha in front of planting and 70kg of starter down the tube.
At today’s prices that’s $275/ha in fert alone.

calli
calli
April 18, 2022 6:40 am

Thanks Bush. Always interesting to hear about what’s happening on farms. We suburbanites take so much for granted.

132andBush
132andBush
April 18, 2022 6:45 am

We’re sitting pretty right now, Calli.
Plenty of soil moisture and right in the slot re planting windows and to be truthful could do without any more rain till it’s all in the ground but you never knock it back.
Talking to a couple of blokes yesterday and they’re not in our position.

calli
calli
April 18, 2022 6:50 am

Now that I’m out of building I love the rain. The New Broom…not so much. The recent deluge has cost him many…many thousands with site closures and delays. Fortunately he has a massive backlog of work, a bit like all that seed in the hopper.

All that has to happen is to get the turnover running hot again. Once you lose momentum it takes forever to build up again. The rain on top of the lockdowns was brutal.

lotocoti
lotocoti
April 18, 2022 6:56 am

Spreading “white gold” (urea)…

Side note.
Everyone used Russki urea on their premium pizza topping crops, back in the mid/late 70s,
according to the Old Man.

rosie
rosie
April 18, 2022 7:06 am

Pro abortion activists attacking Catholic churchs.
They know who their enemies are.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
April 18, 2022 7:06 am

Now that I’m out of building I love the rain. The New Broom…not so much.

A young lady who just won’t go away:

Another, Third Planet-Cooling La Niña? Dr. Ryan Maue Sees Strong Chance Of This Occurrence (16 Apr)

It would have been so nice to know a year in advance what conditions would prevail at a later date. On November 4, 2019, the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research published what was held as groundbreaking news. Thanks to its new algorithms and a lot of computing power, it was now possible to predict an El Niño or a La Niña a long time in advance. The hit rate was supposed to be 80%.

Unfortunately, one year later exactly the opposite of what was predicted in fact happened, the German Klimaschau reported.

Since then, things have been quiet about these PIK long-term forecasts.

In any case on Twitter, US meteorologist Ryan Maue sees a good chance that a third will follow the two recent consecutive La Niñas. The last time this happened was 22 years ago at the turn of the millennium.

The difference is PIK are notorious warmists and Ryan Maue is a realist climate scientist. It’s fun that PIK’s 2019 prediction was such a faceplant. Seems to happen a lot with warmies.

rosie
rosie
April 18, 2022 7:08 am

And I see I prefer making up my own facts got another run overnight.

rosie
rosie
April 18, 2022 7:09 am
rosie
rosie
April 18, 2022 7:11 am
rosie
rosie
April 18, 2022 7:14 am
rosie
rosie
April 18, 2022 7:18 am
calli
calli
April 18, 2022 7:18 am

The working class men don’t like the working class man either.

That’s why the public service and all its related qangos have to be swollen into a useless, parasitic and left voting behemoth asap. Nearly there.

Dot
Dot
April 18, 2022 7:21 am

Interesting comparison of what Biden Snr and Jnr think of crack cocaine.

https://tv.gab.com/channel/bianco/view/say-no-to-crack-625ba096a9488ecccfe8d472

…and yes I am going to repost this over and over again until people watch and share it, like Biden Snr molesting that poor red head girl (which even made monty go away).

rosie
rosie
April 18, 2022 7:22 am

It’s fascinating that the media seem to have taken a dislike to Elbow and it seems to be having an impact
They didn’t like Tony Abbott but he won very comfortably.
What fickle sheep we are in the midst of a climate emergency.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
April 18, 2022 7:24 am

those sniffles

Ah the MSM, they so love a scare story. It seems that the data is a little, shall we say, enhanced.

Who died of Covid in Minnesota? | Power Line (16 Apr)

Most recently, Greg undertook the review of all 2020 and 2021 Minnesota death certificates which bear the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) code for COVID-19 (U07.1).

Having reviewed all 10,903 such certificates, Greg’s analysis supports the conclusion that the vast majority of Minnesotans was not at serious risk of death from COVID-19 and that the campaign of fear and intimidation was simply wrong. Greg’s viral Alpha News column setting forth his analysis is “Who died of COVID-19 in Minnesota?” Subhead: “Only 291, or 2.67% of the 10,903 certificates we examined, were ‘COVID only’ with no comorbidity listed.”

Two point six seven percent is definitely close enough for government work, especially for a lefty government who wants to repress the proles for ideological reasons.

calli
calli
April 18, 2022 7:26 am

With a hair’s breadth between the two parties, it’s hardly surprising. They know Morrison is compliant and of the “whatever it takes” mould.

Dot
Dot
April 18, 2022 7:30 am

The political cartel need to be destroyed.

Put GRN, ALP, L/NP last.

Vote LDP, UAP & PHON.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
April 18, 2022 7:32 am

The difference is PIK are notorious warmists and Ryan Maue is a realist climate scientist. It’s fun that PIK’s 2019 prediction was such a faceplant. Seems to happen a lot with warmies.

Or as we farmers put it “Seasonal weather forecasts are a whole lot of bullshit.”

Boambee John
Boambee John
April 18, 2022 7:37 am

Almost missed this pearler from Dickless last night.

Yeah, I know, but …. Scotty From Marketing was a dud, leave tactics and strategy to people who know how to get it done.

Seems the Strad is out of tune? Perhaps the strings sounded better when they were still in the cat?

But now the cover has been dropped. Dick Ed is just another US-style so-called “progressive”, who just knows that he is so brilliant, and has the solution to all political problems, as long as his orders are followed strictly. Shoulda stayed under cover a bit longer, Dickless!

rosie
rosie
April 18, 2022 7:39 am

But it is surprising to me.
I thought Morrison was to blame for all things covid, bushfires, opting for the never never of 2050 that should be 2030 in the face of a climate emergency.
And yet Australian seem to once again rejecting climate frothing and a progressive attack on hip pockets to fund their green dreams.

Roger
Roger
April 18, 2022 7:40 am

Albanese booed at Bluesfest.

That was edgy.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
April 18, 2022 7:44 am

Bob Moran is brilliant today thanks Tom.
Look to God not government.

rosie
rosie
April 18, 2022 7:44 am

To be fair BoN that article refers to people who caught delta.
I know some people have been pretty consistently calling all strains of covid the sniffles.
Still fairly convinced earlier variants especially could be much more serious even for the noncomorbid.
All part of history now.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
April 18, 2022 7:47 am

Marine Le Pen’s presidency election hopes dealt a blow as she and her father are accused of embezzling more than £500,000 from the EU a week before she goes head-to-head with Emmanuel Macron

EU investigators have accused Le Pen, 53, and her own father Jean-Marie Le Pen, 93, of embezzling some €620,000 (£513,000) on behalf of their party, the far-Right National Rally.

They accuse Le Pen of personally diverting some £114,00 (€137,000) of EU funds taken illegally during her time as an MEP, between 2004 and 2017, into party coffers.

The allegations were made public on Sunday – exactly a week before Ms Le Pen goes head-to-head against Emmanuel Macron to choose France’s new president.

Actually, as keen observers of EU politics know, the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) investigation into “accounting irregularities” has been bubbling along since 2016. The OLAF report landed on the Paris Prosecutor’s desk on 11 March.

Timing is everything.

Zipster
Zipster
April 18, 2022 7:48 am
Roger
Roger
April 18, 2022 7:49 am

The bad press for Albanesie reminds me of the sudden Bob Hawke leadership at the end of an election campaign. The clean skin with no time to check out the credentials.

Not sure I follow this. Do you mean 1983? Hawke was elevated to the Labor leadership at the beginning of the campaign, not the end; in fact Fraser called the election on the same day. And Hawke was hardly a political clean skin, having been in the public eye for a good decade or more before as head of the ACTU (and an American informer, but that’s another story).

Tom
Tom
April 18, 2022 7:50 am

The mission for today; get 200ha of canola in the ground ahead of expected rain tomorrow.

Good luck with the sowing today, 132andBush, though, according to the radar and the Bureau of Mythology forecast, most of the rain in Victoria will be today, not tomorrow.

However you look at it, what’s falling now is a nice autumn drop hopefully signalling a good season is you’re putting things in the ground.

Roger
Roger
April 18, 2022 7:51 am

Timing is everything.

The DOJ & SEC announced an investigation into Musk & Tesla after he announced his Twitter bid.

The political class is circling its wagons.

rosie
rosie
April 18, 2022 7:53 am

I remember another French candidate of the conservative right hit with fraud allegations during an election. Chances screwed, charges dropped after the election.

Zipster
Zipster
April 18, 2022 7:54 am

The Left hates God. You can see why they’re such a hot-bed of antisemitism.

the left are recreating Sodom & Gomorrah

Roger
Roger
April 18, 2022 7:55 am

Allan Tudge’s accuser, having just negotiated a settlement of $500K + pertaining to that matter, has now registered a complaint against another Liberal parliamentarian.

One wonders if she’s working down a list…

rosie
rosie
April 18, 2022 7:55 am

François Fillon.

Zipster
Zipster
April 18, 2022 7:55 am

The DOJ & SEC announced an investigation into Musk & Tesla after he announced his Twitter bid.

bugmen swarm to the rescue of the queen davos

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
April 18, 2022 7:57 am

Water is transphobic.

‘Rights of nature’ law clinic faces transphobia allegations (16 Apr, via Powerline)

Accusations of transphobia are roiling a law clinic that spearheads campaigns to establish legal rights for lakes and rivers.

Since last summer, seven of the 15 staffers or contract attorneys have left the nonprofit Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, which gained some renown in recent years as a leader of the “rights of nature” movement to win civil rights for parts of the environment. Three of those who quit told E&E News the organization was divided by a toxic work culture that resisted efforts to make it more inclusive, including for LGBTQ people.

Kira Kelley, a former contract attorney, said a current CELDF staffer repeatedly misgendered transgender and nonbinary people when referring to them in conversations. Kelley and another former staffer also said a different co-worker made comments about chemicals in water turning people transgender.

Ok, so there’s a whole NGO full of lawyers who spend their time suing people on behalf of lakes and rivers? First I heard that lakes and rivers have feelings and legal rights, but maybe they’re representing water sprites and nixies or something.

But then to hear these river representatives are transphobic nazis who think pollution is turning people into trannies is more like the sort of entertaining thought process normally encountered while doing LSD. Lay off the magic mushrooms, lake lawyer persons, before you all turn into fairies or something.

(RTWT, it gets even weirder when you get to the part about the Deep Green Resistance people.)

Zipster
Zipster
April 18, 2022 7:59 am

Allan Tudge’s accuser, having just negotiated a settlement of $500K + pertaining to that matter, has now registered a complaint against another Liberal parliamentarian.

best little whorehouse in canberra

Zipster
Zipster
April 18, 2022 8:06 am

To be fair BoN that article refers to people who caught delta.
I know some people have been pretty consistently calling all strains of covid the sniffles.
Still fairly convinced earlier variants especially could be much more serious even for the noncomorbid.
All part of history now.

the only apparent difference between omicron and previous strains is that omicron does not attack the lungs, so less likely to kill quickly, the same toxic insert is still there. It is there in the pfizer and other mRNA vaccines as well. Only Novavax have removed it afaik.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
April 18, 2022 8:08 am

18mm here in the east Wimmera.

We’ve completed all the dry weather jobs, fert/gypsum spreading, burning rows in canola and legumes, track renovating and cleaning up grain bag sites. The seed cleaning is this week. We’re behind on that as we bought a generator to run our own new seed cleaner and there’s been the usual hold up in delivery.

We have the seeder out and any repairs are tackled this week. I’m hoping my tech savvy nephew doesn’t get another bright idea and make the unit unusable for the old blokes.

Our soil moisture is good but not up to Bush’s levels. Canola is going in on fallows and a couple of pulse paddocks which are still to be a certainty with the high costs. I still reckon barley is a good fall back with the reduced input costs and weather risk.

I might be in the truck for most of sowing delivering wheat out of bags to feedlots and stockfeed companies. I don’t mind as it’s easy work and the auto truck is very nice to drive. You’re also visiting towns for a good coffee and a pie. I never let anyone else know that I like the job though.

Judge Dredd
Judge Dredd
April 18, 2022 8:10 am

Gonzalo Lira is missing. Prayers inbound.
https://thesaker.is/gonzalo-lira-is-missing/

duncanm
duncanm
April 18, 2022 8:12 am

John H.says:
April 17, 2022 at 11:36 pm

agree with you on all counts – both the oddness of the event (as the guy says, of a ‘religious movement’ type impact), and the ‘continuous civilisation’ bunkum.

It also adds to the missing pieces in the Aboriginal oral history, such as the Bradshaws.

There were some pretty big climactic events during those 50k years though – the last glacial maximum for example (~35k to 20k).

Bluey
Bluey
April 18, 2022 8:14 am

Found out someone I knew a few years ago, lovely girl who adored kids, finally met someone and had one of her own. Super fit, healthy, early 40’s and was diagnosed with cancer December last year.

Died on Saturday.

Not saying it was the jabs, but she would’ve been required to have 3 for work. I’ve been hearing far to many anecdotal stories like this recently.

Zipster
Zipster
April 18, 2022 8:18 am
duncanm
duncanm
April 18, 2022 8:19 am

Rabzsays:
April 18, 2022 at 12:33 am
Another way to lose weight …

I reckon this would keep you fit..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4LkSRXrK34

Seems to make attractive ladies appear out of the cornfields, too.

miltonf
miltonf
April 18, 2022 8:19 am

I’m old enough to remember the way that the foul little hawk phony kicked and back stabbed his way to the PMship. From ‘I’ll bring this country to its knees’ uni-unionist (probably the prototype) to being parachuted into Wills. The toilers’ ‘friend’ who cut tariffs, closed down saw mills and delivered worst unemployment since the 30s before he was chased out by the Bankstown head kicker. And all he seemed to care about c1991 was his and family’s financial security. What really made made me wanna puke was when he turned up at the Simon and Garfunkle concert and the Anal Byron Bay incident reminds me and that.

shatterzzz
April 18, 2022 8:20 am

It also adds to the missing pieces in the Aboriginal oral history, such as the Bradshaws.

Shirley, BRUCE hasn’t missed anything? ..
he’s very good at joining the dots & colouring by numbers .. LOL!

rosie
rosie
April 18, 2022 8:21 am

People are usually healthy before they diagnosed with cancer and approximately 40 percent* of people can expect to get cancer.
*2016 2017 data says 39.5 percent

H B Bear
H B Bear
April 18, 2022 8:23 am

… auto truck …

Ruh roh.

Boambee John
Boambee John
April 18, 2022 8:27 am

Bruce of N

Ok, so there’s a whole NGO full of lawyers who spend their time suing people on behalf of lakes and rivers? First I heard that lakes and rivers have feelings and legal rights, but maybe they’re representing water sprites and nixies or something.

Pagan earth worshippers.

shatterzzz
April 18, 2022 8:28 am

Allan Tudge’s accuser, having just negotiated a settlement of $500K + pertaining to that matter, has now registered a complaint against another Liberal parliamentarian.

Brittney must be rueing the missed chance .. all she scored was a staffer, BRADBURY’s “I believe you” & a new BFF in Grace-less .. sweet .. but not quite $500 000 .. LOL!

Bluey
Bluey
April 18, 2022 8:29 am

rosiesays:
April 18, 2022 at 8:21 am
People are usually healthy before they diagnosed with cancer and approximately 40 percent* of people can expect to get cancer.
*2016 2017 data says 39.5 percent

What got me was how fast it was between diagnosis and death. I just find it tragic, she was a lovely girl and she’d finally found her own little bit of happiness in the world.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
April 18, 2022 8:30 am

Allan Tudge’s accuser, having just negotiated a settlement of $500K + pertaining to that matter, has now registered a complaint against another Liberal parliamentarian.

Vamp was the term used to describe this type of woman in the last.
Nothing changes except opportunity.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
April 18, 2022 8:30 am

Albo heads to the deep green beating heart of Australia and it doesn’t go well.

Albanese greeted with deafening boos at Bluesfest in Byron Bay (17 Apr)

Anthony Albanese was greeted by deafening boos and jeers as he took to the stage at Bluesfest in Byron Bay on Sunday night.

The Labor leader briefly faced the crowds ahead of a performance by rock icon Jimmy Barnes, but did not receive the rock star welcome he was no doubt hoping for.

Photos and video from the scene show a line of audience members giving Albo the thumbs down as he delivered his hasty speech.

I can see why Albo might want to go to a blues and roots festival. The Labor Party is well known for having lots of big blues and also lots of roots.

calli
calli
April 18, 2022 8:30 am

The other problem is slow diagnosis because resources diverted to covid. Even down to face to face consults, let alone getting appointments for scans and pathology.

The covid sh*tshow is going to result in people who would normally have survived because diagnosis/treatment succumbing.

And now I see the grubbyment is worried about children’s mental health following disruption to education and socialisation. Create the problem then throw money at it, but never fix it.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
April 18, 2022 8:32 am

Australian grain farmers to rescue of Ukrainian counterparts
Joanne Tran
Journalist
12:28AM April 18, 2022
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The chaotic scenes of the Russian invasion of Ukraine led West Australian grain farmer David Fulwood and others from Grain Producers Australia to muster support for a fundraising appeal to deliver humanitarian aid to Ukrainian farmers.

“I have a farm in Western Australia and I have a lot of empathy for farmers in Ukraine. They’re just trying to run their business and now they are faced with the challenge of also defending themselves,” Mr Fulwood said.

Mr Fulwood, a frequent visitor to Ukraine after wining a coveted Nuffield scholarship in 2006, will donate proceeds from the sale of some of his farm’s harvested grain and he wants other Australian farmers to do the same.

The funds from the appeal will be allocated towards programs that will help Ukrainian farmers and their communities with long-term recovery efforts.

“Ukraine and Russia make up about 30 per cent of grain export. If the world is not trading with Russia and Ukraine can’t get their grain in, there’ll be severe food ­security problems,” Mr Fulwood said. “This is just a small way for Australian farmers to show them that we care too and that we support them.”

H B Bear
H B Bear
April 18, 2022 8:32 am

miltonf at 8:19 – plenty of stage management to the Hawke myth. In the late 80s I was required to join the AWU to gain some life skills as a (very well remunerated) holiday trainee at Rio’s Tom Price operations. One year we were on the footy oval and went out on strike till Hawkey could get there to resolve the issue.

shatterzzz
April 18, 2022 8:34 am

in fact Fraser called the election on the same day

Didn’t Fraser call the election expecting to go head to head with Hayden only for Labor to announce the change of leadership to Hawke after it was, publically, dun & dusted …..

H B Bear
H B Bear
April 18, 2022 8:38 am

The problem for Albo is it becomes too easy to give the Black Knight a whack. I’m sure the kids-in-short-pants are working on it.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
April 18, 2022 8:42 am

Didn’t Fraser call the election expecting to go head to head with Hayden only for Labor to announce the change of leadership to Hawke after it was, publically, dun & dusted …

From memory, Fraser wanted to call the election seven months early, but the then Governor General refused.

calli
calli
April 18, 2022 8:42 am

One year we were on the footy oval and went out on strike till Hawkey could get there to resolve the issue.

It was obvious what Labor was doing, but everyone seemed helpless to bell that cat. And Fraser fitted the media’s “arrogant” tag like a glove. They never forgave him for the Fall of Gough.

And then there were the first stirring of the Communists/Greens with the Franklin Gordon brouhaha – they flexed their muscles and discovered they were strong.

Roger
Roger
April 18, 2022 8:44 am

Albo heads to the deep green beating heart of Australia and it doesn’t go well.

Not sure the local hippies are the target market for Bluesfest anymore, Bruce.

What started as a blues and roots music show at the Byron Arts Factory has long since been taken over by Big Music and has become a place for Hollyweird A-listers to hang out…backstage, of course.

Bluey
Bluey
April 18, 2022 8:44 am

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha I have noticed one problem that’s not getting talked about is the minefields strewn about the wheatfields. Not something that goes away overnight.

miltonf
miltonf
April 18, 2022 8:45 am

One year we were on the footy oval and went out on strike till Hawkey could get there to resolve the issue.

yes someone once joked that the little grub needed to join actors’ equity. Showbiz for ugly people indeed.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
April 18, 2022 8:46 am

Albo needn’t worry.
I’m sure the testosterone depleted soy boys of the Liberal left have more shit to throw at their own side.

H B Bear
H B Bear
April 18, 2022 8:48 am

Spot on Roger. Blues festival disappeared up its own firmament some time ago. Barnsey? Pass the Chardonnay.

Roger
Roger
April 18, 2022 8:49 am

Didn’t Fraser call the election expecting to go head to head with Hayden only for Labor to announce the change of leadership to Hawke after it was, publically, dun & dusted …..

Fraser knew the Labor spill was on and thought he had the measure of Hayden, so he tried to head them off at the pass, so to speak. Unfortunately for him, the attendant rigmarole of visiting the G-G delayed the process and allowed Labor to effect the switch before the election was announced.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
April 18, 2022 8:50 am

I can see why Albo might want to go to a blues and roots festival. The Labor Party is well known for having lots of big blues and also lots of roots.

Boom-tish.

Ed Case
Ed Case
April 18, 2022 8:50 am

In 2002 (because I was hopelessly besotted with a goil) I lost a fifth of my body weight over six weeks.

PLEASE, Rabz … how?

Enemas, for sure.

Roger
Roger
April 18, 2022 8:51 am

Blues festival disappeared up its own firmament some time ago. Barnsey? Pass the Chardonnay.

Yeah, now it’s all rock dinosaurs and millenial hipsters, Bear.

Hardly any genuine blues or roots artist gets a look in apart from the token appearance by Jon Butler.

Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
April 18, 2022 8:56 am

Inside ‘prima donna’ Andrew O’Keefe’s life in custody
Fallen TV icon Andrew O’Keefe has become an entitled, demanding “prima donna” of the Silverwater prison yard according to a stunning assessment from staff.
(Daily Telegraph)

Inconceivable.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
April 18, 2022 8:59 am

Seems Albo got up on stage, and said “Ah, it’s good to be in Queensland.”

Ed Case
Ed Case
April 18, 2022 8:59 am

Inconceivable.

Leadership qualities.

miltonf
miltonf
April 18, 2022 9:01 am

And then there were the first stirring of the Communists/Greens with the Franklin Gordon brouhaha – they flexed their muscles and discovered they were strong.

Vomit making- the attack on industrial development, the trashing of states’ rights, the Evanski spy flights, the sneaky backdoor use of ‘external affairs’ powers and the conduct of the meja particularly doogue.

Top Ender
Top Ender
April 18, 2022 9:01 am

It’s the 80th anniversary of the Doolittle B-25 raid against Japan today.

16 twin-engined US Army bombers took off from the deck of the carrier USS Hornet to attack Tokyo. It was a one-way mission as landing back on again was too difficult. Having carried out the attack, most crash-landed in China.

More details and pix here

Roger
Roger
April 18, 2022 9:05 am

Fallen TV icon Andrew O’Keefe has become an entitled, demanding “prima donna” of the Silverwater prison yard according to a stunning assessment from staff.

Well at least they don’t have to worry about a former lover hijacking a helicopter to lift him out of the prison yard in broad daylight, as happened at Silverwater in the ’90s.

I think he’s burned all his bridges there.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
April 18, 2022 9:10 am

winsays:

April 18, 2022 at 4:54 am

The bad press for Albanesie reminds me of the sudden Bob Hawke leadership at the end of an election campaign. The clean skin with no time to check out the credentials.

Bob Hawke was elected ALP leader the day Malcolm Fraser called the election.
It wasn’t a late campaign switch.
And he was hardly an unknown quantity.

H B Bear
H B Bear
April 18, 2022 9:10 am

Jon Butler

Thus diminishing the entertainment options to Fremantle’s homeless community.

Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
April 18, 2022 9:12 am

The attack on motherhood and the English language continues apace with this msn news headline:

Nick Cummings is having a baby!

Just a continuation of the socially acceptable phrase “we are pregnant”.
Bloody rubbish. Or as all pregnant women should say, “what you mean ‘we,’ kemosabe?”
As if men go through nine months of labour and then childbirth. Give real women their well deserved due – pregnancy is a joy but also difficult for many.
Men should not be sharing that limelight. Preparing themselves for practical support and emotional care, yes. But only women get pregnant and only women deserve the accolades for giving birth.

PS Rowan Dean was brilliant in destroying the Austalian bureaucrats who wouldn’t define “a woman”

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
April 18, 2022 9:18 am

Judge Dreddsays:

April 18, 2022 at 8:10 am

Gonzalo Lira is missing. 

Have you tried the Holiday Inn in Waikiki?

Roger
Roger
April 18, 2022 9:20 am

What a way for Elbow to end the campaign week from hell…being booed by the Barnesy crowd.

Next stop, regional central QLD, Akubra inappropriately donned…

Top Ender
Top Ender
April 18, 2022 9:26 am

Can’t imagine any of the three very popular Labor would-be PMs – Whitlam, Hawke, and Rudd – getting boos from a concert in their time before they were first elected.

There were enormous groundswells of support for those three when they were initially put up as the saviours of their party and their country. Older Cats likely recall the “It’s Time” adverts for Gough; the rockstar incandescence of Hawke in amongst crowds, and the god-status of Rudd and his Kevin07 campaign.

I don’t see any of that for Albo. I’m gonna call it now and say he won’t make it.

calli
calli
April 18, 2022 9:32 am

I’m starting to agree, TE.

Much as I despise the Libs, if Elbow is the answer – what the hell is the question?

Tom
Tom
April 18, 2022 9:34 am

Elbow. Perfect.

H B Bear
H B Bear
April 18, 2022 9:36 am

The only thing SloMo and Albo have got going for them is each other. I’m not sure how valid historical comparisons are. It will be close but the maths in QLD and WA must favour the Liars. Clearly no one is clamouring for either.

Roger
Roger
April 18, 2022 9:36 am

Much as I despise the Libs, if Elbow is the answer – what the hell is the question?

I think it was Leak who nailed it in a cartoon last week…”It’s an unpopularity contest.”

Mak Siccar
Mak Siccar
April 18, 2022 9:40 am

Baddies versus Baddies !

Roger
Roger
April 18, 2022 9:43 am

…if Elbow is the answer – what the hell is the question?

I’ll take “Why doesn’t Labor have any decent retail politicians?” for $200, thanks.

H B Bear
H B Bear
April 18, 2022 9:43 am

If Albo the student Trot gets a wider audience it’s hard to see him doing a KRuddy. He’ll need some help from his media mates here. But then they managed it with Gillard.

Top Ender
Top Ender
April 18, 2022 9:48 am

they managed it with Gillard…

True, but then there was a certain percentage of voters who would vote for G “becuz she was the first woman”.

Albo’s a carpetbagger in new glasses who’s never had a real job. There will be a cohort of voters who will see him for what he is, and swerve accordingly.

The other factor ScoMo has going for him is that there is a lot of world uncertainty about these days, and most voters are scared of the unknown in doubtful times.

Kneel
Kneel
April 18, 2022 9:48 am

“You failed yourself, and yes you were better than most, but not when it counted and my god are you going to pay for it.”

Rather odd to see you complaining about my ethics Struth.

According to you:
1) about 70% are jabbed
2) jabbed will all suffer at best permanent physical disability and at worst death
3) only options to fight are disobedience or violence.

You chose disobedience – fair enough, your choice.

At what point is violence justified?

Would that be where 20% of your fellow countrymen are being maimed or killed by the government? 50%? 70%? 90%?
Because you say it is unquestionably around 70% already, yet that is not enough for you to resort to violence.
So I’m wondering at what point you can justify violence – clearly it is more than 70% of your countrymen being physically harmed or killed, so what’s the limit? 80%? 90%? Only when it’s your family?
It seems that your failure to act here to protect your fellow countrymen when you earnestly believe the government is maiming or killing 70% makes YOU complicit in those maimings/deaths.
Doesn’t it?
Doesn’t just sitting back and watching it happen make you complicit?
Or is it that there is only so much you, as an individual, can do?
That I can’t ask more than you are willing to give?
But if that is true, why do you ask more from others than they are willing to give?
How can you berate them for doing what they can, for not doing more, when you yourself are not “all in”?
Is it that you have doubts about what is about to unfold, that things are not as you have stated they are? That would be fair enough reason IMO – but also reason to believe that “folding” and getting jabbed is really not so bad as you are making out either.

So ultimately, I think your stated positions are either not so unequivocal as you make out, or you are also complicit too and it’s just a matter of degree. Or so it seems to me – there doesn’t really appear to me to be a third option.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
April 18, 2022 9:48 am

Yay!!! First cruise ship in two years sailing right by us on the harbour at Watson’s Bay now.

Helicopters in the sky and a water can to accompany it.

Life is getting back to normal in Sydney. Covid is over, most people think.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
April 18, 2022 9:49 am

that’s water canon

A white ship and very beautiful to see the big swan sailing majestically by.

Bluey
Bluey
April 18, 2022 9:51 am

Both parties have moved so far from their base the base have moved on. Libs are the one people are recognizing, but especially in Victoria Andrews has clearly done serious damage to Labor with the working class base. I see plenty of UAP signs hanging off construction sites and people’s fences in a strong Labor area.

How many of the Labor candidates or sitting MPs have done anything outside the party machine or politics in general? I can’t think of any that have done any blue collar work, but I’m also not too familiar with who’s who.

The only real positive thing I have to say about the Libs is they have people who had a career outside politics.

H B Bear
H B Bear
April 18, 2022 9:56 am

Top Ender – all true. IF the polls are correct the Lieborals can’t win with a primary vote of less than 40%. Albo is deeply unimpressive. No wonder he was the choice of the rank and file.

rosie
rosie
April 18, 2022 9:57 am

Without knowing what type of cancer, how advanced it was at the time of diagnosis etc all I’m hearing is covid mumbo jumbo.

Indolent
Indolent
April 18, 2022 9:58 am

It’s fascinating that the media seem to have taken a dislike to Elbow and it seems to be having an impact
They didn’t like Tony Abbott but he won very comfortably.
What fickle sheep we are in the midst of a climate emergency.

Very simply explanation. The media hated Abbott but the public liked his policies. When it’s a question of Tweedledee and Tweedledum then personalities come into it.

Makka
Makka
April 18, 2022 9:59 am

but especially in Victoria Andrews has clearly done serious damage to Labor with the working class base.

Don’t hold your breath Bluey. Grumble and moan as they will, it will take a lot more than Andrews to shake off Labour’s parasitic drone like followers in Vic. Change in Vic is especially difficult now since tens of thousands disgusted folk have left the state – most of whom have never voted for Labor I’ll wager.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
April 18, 2022 10:02 am

How many of the Labor candidates or sitting MPs have done anything outside the party machine or politics in general? I can’t think of any that have done any blue collar work, but I’m also not too familiar with who’s who.

Only one – Joel Fitzgibbon was an auto electrician before he went into politics, and IIRC, he’s not contesting the next election.

H B Bear
H B Bear
April 18, 2022 10:04 am

Abbott was coming off the back of R-G-R. Whatever you think of SloMo he’s not in that league.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
April 18, 2022 10:05 am

if Elbow is the answer – what the hell is the question?

The MSM will never ask that question for the same reason they never asked it of Joe. They want the full green-progressive box and dice, but know full well the voters don’t. So Albo is refusing to talk about policies so that when he get in he can announce green salvation for the planet because yikes there’s an Emergency.

I think the Libs rather like the same green wet policies but know their base would run screaming away if that was ever known.

The Libs should talk about Mean Girls some more. It resonated. They won’t because people might think they’re meanies, which is an interesting oxymoron.

Bluey
Bluey
April 18, 2022 10:07 am

Makkasays:
April 18, 2022 at 9:59 am
but especially in Victoria Andrews has clearly done serious damage to Labor with the working class base.

Don’t hold your breath Bluey. Grumble and moan as they will, it will take a lot more than Andrews to shake off Labour’s parasitic drone like followers in Vic. Change in Vic is especially difficult now since tens of thousands disgusted folk have left the state – most of whom have never voted for Labor I’ll wager.

Maybe, but I’ve never seen much other than Labor signs around election time here. Particularly UAP signs in people’s yards says they’re staking their choice pretty loudly, and with it being roughly equal numbers to Labor I see as a promising.

rosie
rosie
April 18, 2022 10:08 am

That is right Calli re too late diagnosis.
An issue flagged early, including here, and no doubt those chickens are coming home to roost.
My view on cancer is expect to get it and be grateful if you don’t.
Husband and wife neighbours both got in their fifties, around the same time, she survived, he didn’t and in-law husband and wife both battling cancer at the moment, early sixties.

Perth Trader
Perth Trader
April 18, 2022 10:09 am

I dont care , what trade policy , climate policy , employment policy or aged care policy a party or politician has . I just refuse to vote for a party or politician or did not condemn rubber bullets being fired at peacefull protesters or citizens being beaten up and jailed by police these last 2 years . A POX ON ALL OF THEM.

rosie
rosie
April 18, 2022 10:11 am

Around here the most annoying signs are yellow and black ‘climate action now’ all of course on homes that are comfortable upper middle for whom energy bills are mosquito bite nuisances.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
April 18, 2022 10:11 am

Top Endersays:

April 18, 2022 at 9:48 am

they managed it with Gillard…

True, but then there was a certain percentage of voters who would vote for G “becuz she was the first woman”.

It’s worth remembering she only got the Big Chair after KRudd “lost his way” then succeeded in burning a sizeable majority and having to depend upon the Three Amigos to govern.
Hardly wildly popular.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
April 18, 2022 10:14 am

For those Cats interested in naval stuff I see a photo of the damaged Moskva somehow has got into the open. Here’s an analysis by a navy guy:

https://twitter.com/Capt_Navy/status/1515830499020877830

Bluey
Bluey
April 18, 2022 10:14 am

rosiesays:
April 18, 2022 at 9:57 am
Without knowing what type of cancer, how advanced it was at the time of diagnosis etc all I’m hearing is covid mumbo jumbo.

You know this reads like you’re happy she died, so long as you can’t assign it to the jabs? I only said about the jabs because anecdotally, I’ve heard a lot of similar in the last few months. I thought that was pretty clear.

It could well have been something preexisting. It could have been the jabs. It could have been magical space aliens from a distant galaxy.

I still find it tragic to hear someone relatively young, with a small child, who’d found a little happiness in life after so long, had died in such a way so soon after finding that.

rosie
rosie
April 18, 2022 10:14 am

In a state with a population well over six million ‘tens of thousands’ is not even a hiccup.
Despite twitter best efforts I think most people see covid as a state issue.
Fuel back down to $1.53 might gladden hearts to the LNP.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
April 18, 2022 10:17 am

Blueysays:

April 18, 2022 at 10:14 am

rosiesays:
April 18, 2022 at 9:57 am
Without knowing what type of cancer, how advanced it was at the time of diagnosis etc all I’m hearing is covid mumbo jumbo.

You know this reads like you’re happy she died, so long as you can’t assign it to the jabs?

No such thing was said or implied.
Don’t be a St Ruth dick.

rosie
rosie
April 18, 2022 10:18 am

More like it reads like you were happy she died as long as you could blame vaccines.
I’m just saying don’t bother with vague cancer stories caused by the jab.
All premature cancer or other deaths are a tragedy for loved ones.
This I know.

Bluey
Bluey
April 18, 2022 10:20 am

I’ll say it again.

I only said about the jabs because anecdotally, I’ve heard a lot of similar in the last few months. I thought that was pretty clear.

Zipster
Zipster
April 18, 2022 10:20 am

My view on cancer is expect to get it and be grateful if you don’t.

avoid canola and other oxidised oils for a start. garlic and herbs with meats.
keep carbs to burnable through exercise quantities to avoid diabetes. choose glass over plastics. etc

none of it is rocket science.

miltonf
miltonf
April 18, 2022 10:20 am

We have same ghastly ALP apparatchik Sam something running- loves our vibrant communities but still feels the need to step up. The sort of muck that writes itself.

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