Open Thread – Weekend 23 April 2022


An Evening in Arcadia, Thomas Cole, 1843

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H B Bear
H B Bear
April 23, 2022 4:09 pm

Who needs Medicare telehealth when struth can provide an armchair diagnosis?

H B Bear
H B Bear
April 23, 2022 4:10 pm

Take one cock and smoke it dinner time.

Ed Case
Ed Case
April 23, 2022 4:13 pm

Meme from Andre Martyanov Blog.

calli
calli
April 23, 2022 4:14 pm

You have now degenerated into a lewd troll.

An ornament to any forum you inhabit.

JC
JC
April 23, 2022 4:19 pm

JC – who do you think has been setting the price for the last 3 decades?

Bear, it’s not a smartarse answer.

Buyers and sellers set the price at any given time.

Ed Case
Ed Case
April 23, 2022 4:19 pm

You have now degenerated into a lewd troll.
That’s actually a step up for Struth [or Sancho, for the more reality based].

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
April 23, 2022 4:27 pm

People require Postal Votes for various reasons.
The AEC hasn’t got time to reply to people’s requests for Postal Votes

Lolwut?

So why does the AEC post to my letter box, in my name an absentee voting form without fail for every pending State, Local and Federal Election, Grigory?

Regardless of whether I use it or not?

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
April 23, 2022 4:28 pm

BatMong springs into action as he sniffs the risk some of that stream of unaccountable covid cash might dry up.

Covid funding to states should be extended, Daniel Andrews says
Victorian government wants extension of commonwealth funding arrangement to combat pandemic

Victorian premier Daniel Andrews has reignited calls for the commonwealth to extend its increased health funding for Covid, warning the effects of the pandemic will not end after winter.

The commonwealth last month extended the Covid-19 National Partnership Agreement to 30 September. The agreement supports the state and territory health systems respond to the pandemic, with a further $982.5m committed in the March federal budget.

On Friday, Andrews said Victoria required the additional funding to catch up on deferred care such as elective surgery that had been pushed back during the pandemic.

“I would again, urge the prime minister and the federal treasurer to reconsider that $1.5bn cut to health that occurs in September,” Andrews said.

“This will not be over in September.”
Under the agreement – where the commonwealth funds 50% of Covid-related health costs – Victoria received an additional $1.56bn this financial year.
..
The state’s elective surgery waitlist ballooned during the pandemic, with 80,000 people on the elective surgery waitlist at the end of December. The Victorian president of the Australian Medical Association, Roderick McRae, has warned the waitlist may have risen to as high as 120,000.

So thats the rest of this year with all of Austfailure still having every state territory and commonwealth still under emergency acts then.
These people are insane.

180 or so people have died, in TOTAL for the whole of Australia in the 59 years old and under age group.
https://www.health.gov.au/health-alerts/covid-19/case-numbers-and-statistics
Drop down to “Total deaths by age and sex if you think thats inaccurate.

Ed Case
Ed Case
April 23, 2022 4:32 pm

Look out!
Stimpy has risen.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
April 23, 2022 4:33 pm

@ Mole-

His finances are in the pits, and claiming EmErGeNcY funding is easier than trying to slapfight all the other mendicants at COAG for GST handouts.

Or having Faustian pacts with the CCP torn up at the last minute by his Class Enemies…

Ed Case
Ed Case
April 23, 2022 4:34 pm

You’re Special, Franger?

Winston Smith
April 23, 2022 4:35 pm

sfw:

A proper Bill of Rights

A Bill of Rights is only of any use if it limits government actions and doesn’t have State of Emergency ‘get out of gaol free’ cards in it.
That one has been abused far too often.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
April 23, 2022 4:35 pm

That’s actually a step up for Struth [or Sancho, for the more reality based].

#WeAreAllSancho…

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
April 23, 2022 4:37 pm

You’re Special, Franger?

I don’t smoke sufficient gypsum to qualify for the Short Bus like you do, Grigs. 🙂

Heliuummmmmmmm, on the other hand…

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
April 23, 2022 4:39 pm

JC what have you done about the energiser car? Offer still stands for the gas guzzler.

Winston Smith
April 23, 2022 4:42 pm

Bruce O’Newk:

UAP reckons the 15% resource tax can pay the trillion back

Tony Abbott finally got rid of the mining tax. Why would any righty vote for another one?

Are we testing Chiinerrs ability to use inferior quality coal and iron ore it can get from inner Asia?
Because this kind of stupidity is going to do just that.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
April 23, 2022 4:43 pm

A Bill of Rights is only of any use if it limits government actions and doesn’t have State of Emergency ‘get out of gaol free’ cards in it.

More importantly, your governing classes need to actually respect and adhere to the rules as written. Freshly-imposed Bills of Rights or not.

As the Cat’s myriad cynics and DeNiAlIsTs have understood long before raging against the power for upticks became popular in 2020, all the muh Constitution-ing in the world matters for naught if the folks entrusted with the responsibility of governance, are more interested in carrying out their personal agendas at all costs. And look for every means of subverting and supplanting the rules (and any pesky dissenters) they feel might get in the way of their Manifest Destiny.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
April 23, 2022 4:44 pm

In other news, the farmers markets were very, very good and much cheaper than I imagined. No masks. I bought some “designer” mother’s ruin and figs straight off the tree.

You’ll have currawongs after you Calli. Here they finished off the figs in the nearby Port Jackson fig tree yesterday, so shifted across to the Cafe. I’ve being followed around by currawongs all day. Mince is yum! (Figs are yummier though.)

sfw
sfw
April 23, 2022 4:47 pm

All of you against the resources tax, fair enough so tell us your plans for paying off the trillion and plans that you can sell to the electorate. If you can’t do that then all you are doing is shaking your hand at the sky, like Grandpa Simpson.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
April 23, 2022 4:48 pm

… and we seamlessly move from Truckonomics to Trucker Telehealth.
Equally adept in both fields of endeavour.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
April 23, 2022 4:49 pm

Are we testing Chiinerrs ability to use inferior quality coal and iron ore it can get from inner Asia?
Because this kind of stupidity is going to do just that.

The blackouts they had last winter were a good taster.

Then there these videos from China’s biggest colliery a few years back.

Ignore the immediately appearing fact that the locos pulling it are powered by the mine’s slacks and dross- This is their domestic fuel at its worst (and it’s pretty bad).

Combine this with their merchant shell-games to get Australian thermal and metallurgical coal off blockaded ships and onto docks, the aforementioned blackouts in a vicious 2021-22 winter and the fact they purchased all of Russia’s Siberian export coal productiom for 2022.

It isn’t a pretty domestic picture.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
April 23, 2022 4:49 pm

Sorry Winston, forgot the film-

Sandaoling Mine, from circa 2019:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pYqb1x21hWg

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
April 23, 2022 4:53 pm

THE BIDEN YEARS, AN EPITAPH:

Took 14 months to go from “build back better” to “there will be food shortages.”

shatterzzz
April 23, 2022 4:56 pm

Whether it be AnAl or Bradbury who come out on top something they both could use in our build-back-better scheme(s) is some of this Ukrainian we-makes-’em-to-last-stuff .. LOL!
https://ibb.co/bF8qJZW

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
April 23, 2022 4:57 pm
cohenite
April 23, 2022 4:57 pm

Gutfelt was shit in your pants funny today.

cohenite
April 23, 2022 4:58 pm

Gutfeld! FFS. Shit in your pants does that to you.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
April 23, 2022 5:01 pm

All of you against the resources tax, fair enough so tell us your plans for paying off the trillion and plans that you can sell to the electorate.

Given the last 2 attempts to impose blanket resource taxes failed amidst vociferous opposition from miners, political oppositions and thinking folks alike, what makes you confident the UAP’s proposal would stand up if they had the balance of power to introduce it?

Clive’s not a leftist, so it will work?

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
April 23, 2022 5:03 pm

Whether it be AnAl or Bradbury who come out on top something they both could use in our build-back-better scheme(s) is some of this Ukrainian we-makes-’em-to-last-stuff .. LOL!

I thought that was a shipment of Australian cars, sent as Civil Development Aid?

custard
custard
April 23, 2022 5:06 pm

Got permanently suspended from Twitter.

Badge of honour.

All because I tweeted about the child of Mark McGowan who is in hospital ‘with’ ChinaVirus . I speculated that was it because of the vaccines.

I also attached a meme featuring Julie Andrews uttering the words

Super
Callous
Fascist
Risky
Experimental
Doses

Lol

Vicki
Vicki
April 23, 2022 5:06 pm

Angaston is the pick of the villages. Spent some time at the blacksmith’s shop watching him make a horse shoe.

Gosh Calli – that takes me back to my teenage years when I took my pony to the blacksmith to be shod. Sonny Bennett was the blacksmith’s name – and he looked to me like he was 70 “in the shade”. He had shod horses for so many years that he took no nonsense from them – he’d just whack them in the belly with his hammer if they played up! He still used the forge and made every shoe to fit the shape of the horse’s hoof and to rectify any gait problems. He used to particularly shape one of the rear hooves of my pony for a reason I now can’t recall – but the shape of the shoe had a slight bend on one side. I can even recall the price – 25 shillings for a set.

johanna
johanna
April 23, 2022 5:11 pm

In the midst of Chermany’s authoritarian regime are rays of sunlight:

German prosecutors have decided not to press charges against a Czech millionaire who drove his high-powered sports car along a German highway at speeds of at least 414 kilometres per hour.
Key points:

Radim Passer reached speeds of at least 414kph in his Bugatti Chiron
German prosecutors say Mr Passer did not endanger anyone, due to the timing of his test run
More than two-thirds of Germany’s autobahn network has no speed limit

Germany’s DPA news agency reported on Friday, local time, that prosecutors in the town of Stendal reviewed footage of the incident and concluded that Radim Passer had not broken the law when he pushed his Bugatti Chiron to extreme speeds on a stretch of autobahn between Berlin and Hannover.

In a post below the video, which was uploaded to YouTube, Mr Passer wrote that the video was recorded last year on a 10km section of straight road with three lanes and “visibility along the whole stretch”.

More than 400kph! Wow! 🙂

Winston Smith
April 23, 2022 5:14 pm

Knuckle Dragger:

Footage of the man being punched and yelled at by crowd members quickly circulated on social media, while onlookers clapped and cheered.

Another link please?

That is glorious vision.

Couldn’t get in and 12ftladder can’t break the paywall either.
Another link please?

calli
calli
April 23, 2022 5:15 pm

They had a little museum out the back, featuring the Doctor’s buggy and an enormous, locally made wagon designed for grain haulage. I stood there imagining a team hitched up and ready to go.

The workshop itself was delightfully cosy – it would be terrible in summer. All around there were fragments of the past – farriers tools, a couple of cobblers lasts, some old woodwork items including planes and brace and bit, all sorts of good stuff. The floor was cinders.

The smith himself was a tall, slim man with a long silver pony tail. Most unexpected.

Vicki
Vicki
April 23, 2022 5:18 pm

THE BIDEN YEARS, AN EPITAPH:
Took 14 months to go from “build back better” to “there will be food shortages.”

Today listened to a scary scenario put up by guru David Hunter on Adam Taggart’s Wealthion which predicts an initial 40% “melt-up” of global stocks in the first half of this year, followed by a catastrophic 80% “melt-down.” Given that P/E ratios are so out of kilter – maybe even more so than in 1929 – it actually seems possible.

Vicki
Vicki
April 23, 2022 5:21 pm

The workshop itself was delightfully cosy – it would be terrible in summer.

They certainly were, Calli. I can still see in my mind the fire in the forge at the back of the smithy’s shop. You could feel the heat holding the pony at the front of the shop.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
April 23, 2022 5:26 pm

My great grandfather was smithy in the goldfields, his name was Smith.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
April 23, 2022 5:27 pm

sfwsays:

April 23, 2022 at 4:47 pm

All of you against the resources tax, fair enough so tell us your plans for paying off the trillion and plans that you can sell to the electorate. 

Ah yes.
The very neat qualifier “that you can sell to the electorate“.
But isn’t that the precise cause of your Abbott Derangement Syndrome?
That he looked at policies through the lens of not only what he could sell to the electorate, but what he could get through his party room or through the Senate.
Suddenly populist retail politics is back in vogue because Fat Cloive is doing it.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
April 23, 2022 5:29 pm

GreyRangasays:

April 23, 2022 at 5:26 pm

My great grandfather was smithy in the goldfields, his name was Smith.

Smith, eh?
Careful you don’t doxx yourself.
🙂

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
April 23, 2022 5:31 pm

His workshop is still preserved as a tourist attraction.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
April 23, 2022 5:32 pm

Thancho, mother’s side of the family.

Big_Nambas
Big_Nambas
April 23, 2022 5:32 pm

Winston Smith says:
April 23, 2022 at 5:14 pm

Micheal Smith News. No paywall.

Good punchup, i would have joined in.

slackster
slackster
April 23, 2022 5:33 pm

All the talk of how to repay the debt is missing the point.
The debt will never be repaid, because it is too big now to be repaid.

Winston Smith
April 23, 2022 5:33 pm

Old Ozzie:

The Ukraine conflict has roiled the global edible oil market. The Black Sea region accounts for 76% of world sunoil exports. Commercial shipments in the region have been disrupted due mainly by insurers for vessels charging very high war premiums that make cargo nearly impossible in insure.

Here we go with the insurance aspect of world trade I spoke of six months ago. With this scenario, the Australian Government should be dusting off old WW2 plans to indemnify ship owners against loss of vessels and cargoes. But will they?
Of course not. They’ll send it to a Parliamentary Committee to investigate – after working out just who gets the allowances for doing the job.
Then the Maritime Wukkas Union will demand war rates for their members on the ships, while threatening a nation wide strike if foreign crews are allowed on board in Australian waters.
Then – Concession #1 – the Chinese crews on those vessels will have to be members of the appropriate Union – at appropriate War Time Union rates of +10,000% normal.
Again – 🙂 joking.
Sorta.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
April 23, 2022 5:35 pm

Is it hard ball time yet?
You know, hard ball or die?

JC
JC
April 23, 2022 5:41 pm

JC what have you done about the energiser car?

I heading o/s in a couple of weeks and will figure it all out when I get back. I keep going back and forth about making a huge change vs what I know – petrol cars.

Bluey
Bluey
April 23, 2022 5:43 pm

Oh wow. Anyone else look at the link to the age article in the sidebar? When you’ve got the likes of the age muttering against mandates, and the commenters don’t see the reasons anymore, I reckon you should be running for the exit plan.

JC
JC
April 23, 2022 5:46 pm

Please make this stop. It’s too painful to read.

No one is talking about a tax on gross revenues.
It’s an EXPORT licence, to be paid by the customer, ( a non Australian country).
We all used to understand, and we all know that increasing a cost on a product makes it less competitive.
However, if your competition is useless you make as much hay as you can when the sun shines.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
April 23, 2022 5:53 pm

Oh, and sister koala has brought a Tesla, new, no idea of the model.

Dad was sort of impressed, but described the interior as reminiscent of a 1980s Mitsubishi Magna.
Rather plastic and small.

Roger
Roger
April 23, 2022 5:55 pm

ScoMo is certainly giving grass roots Liberal members reason enough to resign.

One of his “captain’s picks” in SA has in the recent past supported BLM, defund the police and said sending criminals to gaol was too expensive. Since being nominated she’s deleted her social media twitterings, but I’m willing to speculate that she has’t had a road to Damascus like conversion to mainstream Australian values.

I suppose you could say she’s a small government advocate!

Dot
Dot
April 23, 2022 6:02 pm

sfwsays:
April 23, 2022 at 4:47 pm
All of you against the resources tax, fair enough so tell us your plans for paying off the trillion and plans that you can sell to the electorate. If you can’t do that then all you are doing is shaking your hand at the sky, like Grandpa Simpson.

Let me repeat myself.

You could cut government spending in half with no discernible difference to outcomes or even military preparedness.

That is how wasteful we are in Australia.

You could pay off the monumental debt over two-three electoral cycles and have massive tax cuts.

…if people don’t understand how this is so, they haven’t looked at government finances in depth.

Yes. Cut spending, largesse and the gravy train. That’s the part that is hard to sell.

All I can say is if debt gets to 1.2 trillion and we have bond rates at 6%, we’re literally ruined.

Not only could we not pay it back, after a mere five years, it would be like losing 12 years of 3% trend real GDP growth, but at a higher per capita rate.

It could literally ruin us and end us as viable country.

Dot
Dot
April 23, 2022 6:03 pm

defund the police and said sending criminals to gaol was too expensive

That’s at least sort of true.

Zipster
Zipster
April 23, 2022 6:05 pm

Drbeen Medical Lectures
Circulating S1 and Spike After Moderna Vaccine Injection

The first ever study showing circulating S1 and Spike in the blood of the healthcare workers vaccinated with Moderna vaccine. Researchers from Brigham and Women Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Montreal, Quebec Canada, demonstrate that these antigens are cleared after the IgG and IgA are formed in the individual.

Zipster
Zipster
April 23, 2022 6:05 pm

Circulating S1 and Spike After Moderna Vaccine Injection

er…that wasn’t supposed to happen….

Delta A
Delta A
April 23, 2022 6:10 pm

One of his “captain’s picks” in SA has in the recent past supported BLM, defund the police and said sending criminals to gaol was too expensive.

Roger, could you please name this person. All South Aussies need to know.

Roger
Roger
April 23, 2022 6:11 pm

That’s at least sort of true.

What do you do with serial burglars & car thieves then?

By all means give first offenders in property crimes an opportunity to reform, but when the criminality becomes habitual, what then?

Winston Smith
April 23, 2022 6:12 pm

TheFrollickingMoll:

Weakened margins at steel mills in China have also worked against the high-grade ore supplier, with Chinese operators slashing input costs by taking lower-quality, cheaper ores in recent months.

What would happen if China were to cancel all Australian iron ore purchases, and import from Russia which has atm 5 mines delivering 80 million Tpa.
What would happen if China were to cancel all Australian coal purchases and import from Russia?
We are about to discover that buying of resources in China is a political decision, not an economic one.

Makka
Makka
April 23, 2022 6:16 pm

which has atm 5 mines delivering 80 million Tpa.

They would buy the other 640 million tonnes from us.

Roger
Roger
April 23, 2022 6:17 pm

Roger, could you please name this person. All South Aussies need to know.

Anna Finizio in Hindmarsh, Delta.

Doctor in Law, apparently, and quite the budding reformer.

She’s presently in furious denial, of course.

Makka
Makka
April 23, 2022 6:19 pm

Oops, that ~620 million tonnes of i/o from us.

Ed Case
Ed Case
April 23, 2022 6:22 pm

By all means give first offenders in property crimes an opportunity to reform, but when the criminality becomes habitual, what then?
These are the Lumpen Proletariat, they’ll always be a burden on productive people and they breed at a good clip too.
Police are superfluous, because we’ve already got the Sheriff’s Office.
That might need to be enlarged, out of work cops can be sent to the ADF.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
April 23, 2022 6:22 pm

JCsays:

April 23, 2022 at 5:46 pm

Please make this stop. It’s too painful to read.

No one is talking about a tax on gross revenues.
It’s an EXPORT licence, to be paid by the customer, ( a non Australian country).

Struthonomics 101.

Rabz
April 23, 2022 6:26 pm

How’s that Abronayzee basement action panning out so far, Cats?

I’ve been off the air. 😕

JC
JC
April 23, 2022 6:29 pm

Who do people think will end up with a working majority in the house?

Rabz
April 23, 2022 6:30 pm

Labore and the greenfilth

Rabz
April 23, 2022 6:31 pm

Leavened with some teal coloured personages …

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
April 23, 2022 6:32 pm

What would happen if China were to cancel all Australian iron ore purchases, and import from Russia

Winston – In that summary the only iron ore resources able to be shipped by sea are the Kola area ones and the Kerch ones. The former probably only can be shipped in the height of summer, otherwise it’s a long long way 3/4 around the globe. The latter is a long way away too, and has to go through the Bosphorus, Dardanelles and the Suez Canal, all pretty tight shipping lanes.

All the rest have to be railed, and there’s no capacity. The eastern Siberian ones might work with dedicated rail, but the capital investment would be huge. Weather in winter would also be tough.

At the moment China is buying as much metallurgical coal from Russia as they can, but it’s only a small amount – probably because of the capacity constraints. Iron ore would displace that coal – and since you need the coal to make steel it’d be a catch 22,

Roger
Roger
April 23, 2022 6:34 pm

How’s that Abronayzee basement action panning out so far, Cats?

I’ve been off the air.

He made the mistake of sending Jason Clare out as a sub.

Now all the women voters are saying “Why can’t he be Labor leader?”

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
April 23, 2022 6:36 pm

JCsays:

April 23, 2022 at 6:29 pm

Who do people think will end up with a working majority in the house?

Rabzsays:

April 23, 2022 at 6:30 pm

Labore and the greenfilth

If any Fat Cloives get elected they will fall towards the Liars.
The pork is better over that side.

Zipster
Zipster
April 23, 2022 6:39 pm

They would buy the other 640 million tonnes from us.

theyll send it back one day

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
April 23, 2022 6:39 pm

Labore and the greenfilth

Watch Albanese justify accepting Greens support………

Rabz
April 23, 2022 6:40 pm

Now all the women voters are saying “Why can’t he be Labore leader?”

Next one after this one, you deep thinking democracy lovers. 🙂

Delta A
Delta A
April 23, 2022 6:41 pm

Is there a female tendancy to be dramatic as far as their offspring and family getting sick is concerned….?
Is there a tendancy to gullibility?

I currently test positive for covid.

I took the tests because I have several comorbidities, including age and cancer, and I wanted to be as sure as possible. I have not sought medical treatment or reported the tests. In all probability, I caught it from my children and grandies, and I’ve probably passed it on to DiL.

Not one of us has been dramatic about this. We expected to catch covid at some stage and we did. For some – the kids, mainly – it was as rickw described his son’s symptoms ages ago: one day feeling off, runny nose and temp. Fighting fit on day 2.

Best man and I had more severe symptoms, longer lasting, but not bad enough for bed rest. Interestingly, we have had all the ‘bad cold’ symptoms – congestion, body aches, fever, headache, sneezing and heavy cough, but not in the order that one expects from a cold. I’ve recovered three times now, only to be hit again with one of the above.

When this is over, I shall have natural immunity from this highly contagious and very real virus. I never succumbed to the media and political fear mongering. From the moment “vaccines” became mandatory I, and all my immediate family, refused to have one. That was our choice. Some in our extended family disagree with our decision. Fortunately, they don’t nag about it, and having stated my opposition to the “Vax”, neither do I.

Roger
Roger
April 23, 2022 6:41 pm

Who do people think will end up with a working majority in the house?

Still too early for predictions.

The road to The Lodge goes through Queensland and Palaszczuk, Elbow’s proclaimed model premier, is very much on the nose here atm.

Zipster
Zipster
April 23, 2022 6:41 pm

Another field in China is “stuck neck”, more serious than chips? Highly dependent on foreign seeds
Shanghai is in the grip of an outbreak that has led to a complete lockdown of its 26 million people. Which city would Chinese Chairman Xi Jinping visit to show his concern? It isn’t Shanghai. He visited the southernmost province, Hainan province, which is home to one of the country’s most important seed production bases.
Food security is an issue that has been repeatedly mentioned by the Beijing authorities in recent years, and they are focusing on the research bottleneck of the seed technology.
China’s Minister of Agriculture and Rural Affairs has also told the official media that “seeds are the ‘chips’ of agriculture, and arable land is the ‘lifeblood’ of food production, and only by seizing these two key elements can we fundamentally ensure national food security.”

Bruce in WA
April 23, 2022 6:41 pm

From earlier in the thread …

After burning for 16 hours, multiple fire crews finally put out the fire at East Conway Beef and Pork

I’m surprised that after being on fire for 16 hours the fire crews were able to do anything at all! (I just lurv today’s standards of journalistic writing.)

Rabz
April 23, 2022 6:47 pm
Rabz
April 23, 2022 6:48 pm

The road to The Lodge goes through Queensland

As was played out in 2019.

Labore stalled there and it was all over (just).

Bluey
Bluey
April 23, 2022 6:52 pm

Rogersays:
April 23, 2022 at 6:41 pm
Who do people think will end up with a working majority in the house?

Still too early for predictions.

The road to The Lodge goes through Queensland and Palaszczuk, Elbow’s proclaimed model premier, is very much on the nose here atm.

Don’t discount Victoria. When, as I posted above, you’ve managed to get the likes of the age questioning a Labor premier there’s a good chance Labor are in serious trouble.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
April 23, 2022 6:52 pm

We are about to discover that buying of resources in China is a political decision, not an economic one.

Ask Big Clive. He wants to whack an additional 15% tax on Australia’s iron ore in order to get rid of the wild-spenders Covid and other debt. An admirable aim, but not one that is particularly going to work.
Our quality iron ore is tempting to China, but they can manage without it, especially if there is an economic incentive to do so to add to the political one.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
April 23, 2022 6:56 pm

Recovering tonight from a great time last night of fast-flowing noisy converse with like-minded Cats at a deliciously tempting home-cooked dinner party. Hence,obviously, not held at our place. 🙂

Nor at Cassie’s. Cassie is having a break from commenting but I told her she is missed here.

Rabz
April 23, 2022 6:56 pm

If any Fat Cloives get elected they will fall towards the Liars

With the exception being Craigo Kelly, being the big fan of the liars that he is.

Talk about throwing your hat into the wrong ring. He could have joined Shambles in the LDP.

But yeah, spivs of a feather, flocking together – err, without meaning to sound unnecessarily judgemental, Cats.

Roger
Roger
April 23, 2022 6:59 pm

Cassie is having a break from commenting but I told her she is missed here.

+1

Rabz
April 23, 2022 6:59 pm

when the criminality becomes habitual, what then?

.1 Incarceration
.2 Incarceration
.3 See .1

Makka
Makka
April 23, 2022 6:59 pm

but they can manage without it,

No, they can’t. At least they think so. That’s why they are paying $140 a tonne for it, while hating our guts. Get real.

Ed Case
Ed Case
April 23, 2022 7:00 pm

Latest on Deves:

The nomination form also confirms her candidacy was proposed by barrister Bridie Nolan, the now wife of her opponent Zali Steggall’s ex-husband.

While some have described Ms Deves as conservative, in fact she is a self-described TERF – trans exclusionary radical feminist.

The term “The Rainbow Reich” is often used in TERF online communities to suggest the trans movement is totalitarian in nature and is destroying the LGBTI community.

Samantha Maiden is checking thru those 6,000 Tweets The Devester deleted.

Bruce in WA
April 23, 2022 7:00 pm

Nor at Cassie’s. Cassie is having a break from commenting but I told her she is missed here.

Certainly is.

Rabz
April 23, 2022 7:01 pm

Cassie is having a break from commenting

Thanks, Graeme!

Roger
Roger
April 23, 2022 7:05 pm

While some have described Ms Deves as conservative, in fact she is a self-described TERF – trans exclusionary radical feminist.

And a climate loon.

Ed Case
Ed Case
April 23, 2022 7:06 pm

Never heard of Andrea Dworkin?
You have now.

Ms Deves has also repeatedly referenced the late radical feminist Andrea Dworkin, a Jewish anti-pornography campaigner and rape survivor.

Ms Dworkin, one of the world’s most famous and influential radical feminists in the 1980s is famous for saying: “I really believe a woman has the right to execute a man who has raped her” and that “sexual intercourse remains a means, or the means, of physiologically making a woman inferior: communicating to her, cell by cell, her own inferior status … pushing and thrusting until she gives in.”

shatterzzz
April 23, 2022 7:09 pm

You could cut government spending in half with no discernible difference to outcomes or even military preparedness.
The problem then would be “unemployment” .. since Krudd and, maybe, even longer one of the let’s-not-mention-it-out -loud initiatives has been the explosion of numbers in the Federal Public Service not only creating hundreds of “NGO”s which are 100% reliant on gummint funding but the enlarging of existing and creation of new Depts. .. add -on the, apparent, need for ALL ministers & members of Parliament, both Houses, to need numerous gummint advisors most in their early twenties with in many cases NO experience in “real” workplace environment but “political” or family connections ..
and now the BAT FLU era has shown that controlling the printing of money isn’t a gummint priority anymore there is no incentive to reel in spending ..!

Rabz
April 23, 2022 7:11 pm

she is a self-described TERF – trans exclusionary radical feminist and climate loon

But enough about what makes her the “ideal” gliberal feral erection candidate …

Broad churches, peoples …

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Congratulations Custard, on attaining Twitter’s Trump-level account status.

Ed Case
Ed Case
April 23, 2022 7:12 pm

Coupla interesting pics of Katherine Deves, she rocks that dress Sonia McMahon wore to the White House.
https://www.news.com.au/national/federal-election/secret-docs-lift-the-lid-on-katherine-deves-past/news-story/fc702e46b119fcc54972ae419acbbefb
I’d say she’s LBG Friendly but the Trannys in sport is a bridge too far.
Presently in Witness Protection by the Liberal Party.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

shatterzzz says: April 23, 2022 at 7:09 pm

You could cut government spending in half with no discernible difference to outcomes or even military preparedness.

The problem then would be “unemployment” .. since Krudd and, maybe, even longer one of the let’s-not-mention-it-out -loud initiatives has been the explosion of numbers in the Federal Public Service not only creating hundreds of “NGO”s which are 100% reliant on gummint funding but the enlarging of existing and creation of new Depts

There’s a shortage of Fruit Pickers.
So no problem.

Winston Smith
April 23, 2022 7:14 pm

I asked a couple of weeks ago this economics question:
If dumping a product on a market means the manufacturer is transferring costs to its regular customers in the form of higher prices doesn’t that mean if I buy a 4Tb USB stick for $1.30, when similar products here cost $48, then buying the Chinese product means a loss of $46.70 to China?
So if I buy 10,000 4Tb USB sticks from China, I can cause nearly half a million in damages to a factory there?

Rabz
April 23, 2022 7:16 pm

Eddles – the Dworkin is quite possibly the most hideous human creature to have existed on this planet, evah.

She makes gollum look like the Ratajkowski.

Roger
Roger
April 23, 2022 7:16 pm

.1 Incarceration
.2 Incarceration
.3 See .1

Otherwise a small criminal element makes life miserable for the law abiding majority as their unchecked behaviour inevitably becomes more brazen. That’s how you end up with “no go” areas where police are hamstrung.

Rabz
April 23, 2022 7:18 pm

Sacré bleu, mes amies! 🙂

MatrixTransform
April 23, 2022 7:19 pm

Anyone here read The Weather Makers by Tim Flannery?
I’m wondering if it’s worth buying.

Depends … is it printed on Sorbent quality paper?

Ed Case
Ed Case
April 23, 2022 7:20 pm

There’s a shortage of Fruit Pickers.
So no problem.

Yeah, pick apples at Red Hill for a month, hitch hike to Yandina and pick Ginger for a fortnight, head out to Stanthorpe and prune Nectarines in -13 with the wind screaming up from Guyra, it’s a great life.
Dickhead.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
April 23, 2022 7:20 pm

Rabzsays:

April 23, 2022 at 7:01 pm

Cassie is having a break from commenting

Thanks, Graeme!

Exactly.
Deranged moron.

JC
JC
April 23, 2022 7:21 pm

There’s a shortage of Fruit Pickers.

Yes, Ted mentioned he’s naming his own wage as a banana picker.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
April 23, 2022 7:22 pm

Don’t do it, Lizzie, don’t do it, was the general opinion last nite about us buying the familial church, reworked over centuries, which is not in good condition. Sad, because there has been a church on site there since at least the Domesday Book and it still has many Listed C15th aspects to it. We too are wavering, because it is not the original costs we fear but the ownership legalities for heritage repairs that we might be up for forever, given we would have no intention of changing it from being a public place nor of on-selling it in any way.

Undaunted, I am now preparing other ways of ensuring that it still lives, even though the competition for heritage funding is fierce. I’ll need to find a heritage organisation with half a million Ozzie dollars (circa 250 British pounds) to fix the roof and underpin the foundations and so give the spirit of the place somewhere to reside between the two. A tall order.

Luckily, I have had a brainwave. What is it that is the most difficult thing to find in Britain? Answer: somewhere to park! The graveyard could be commissioned for that, and parking fees put into a trust fund that we could kick off with A$50,000 which could provide for the ongoing general maintenace of the church but not repairs. It is located in the middle of nowhere, which you might think would not work; but it would, because it is in the middle of farmland with no parking for miles, but stands at the head of a Great British Walk, the pride and joy of The National Trust, where there is NO PARKING. That, plus a little moral pressure from some old statutes I’ve obtained, might work. Win-win.

Unless they try to knock it down to provide more parking when it becomes so successful.
Hoist on my own petard? Have to get something written into the Trust Fund against that.
Thinking, thinking …

Ed Case
Ed Case
April 23, 2022 7:24 pm

Yeah, Rabz, but … the Ratajkowski has had plenty of ‘enhancements’.
Otherwise, she’d look more like
The Dworkin

H B Bear
H B Bear
April 23, 2022 7:25 pm

Don’t discount Victoria

I’m discounting Victoria. If it isn’t over after Qld, WA will seal it this time around.

Dot
Dot
April 23, 2022 7:25 pm

If dumping a product on a market means the manufacturer is transferring costs to its regular customers in the form of higher prices

Why would it get dumped?

Why wouldn’t they just sell more units domestically at a higher price?

So if I buy 10,000 4Tb USB sticks from China, I can cause nearly half a million in damages to a factory there?

They’re already losing money. It’s more about recouping losses at that point.

A lot of “dumping” in the past probably wasn’t. If Australian wheat has a really good growing year and nowhere else has a bad year, are we dumping?

It’s likely the world price would have lowered domestic prices significantly in the first place. The losses to producers are already baked in.

Rabz
April 23, 2022 7:26 pm

Rog, there was a ground breaking study conducted in the 2000s by a collectivist mate of mine* (a statistician) who after studying much data, came up with the wholly unexpected conclusion that the more hardened criminals that were languishing in gaol, the safer the community was.

Who’da thunk it. 😕

* While in the employ of a certain NSW “statutory authority”

custard
custard
April 23, 2022 7:27 pm

The Trump speech I linked to above is worthy of mention.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen Trump free range so much.

Whatever

Dot
Dot
April 23, 2022 7:28 pm

Yeah, pick apples at Red Hill for a month, hitch hike to Yandina and pick Ginger for a fortnight, head out to Stanthorpe and prune Nectarines in -13 with the wind screaming up from Guyra, it’s a great life.

You gain a lot of skills, get paid more if you work harder, can have a low cost of living, meet a lot of people (young babes 🙂 ), it can be a foot in the door into viticulture or agriculture generally and you see a lot of the country, plus you work outside which can be a lot more healthy for you than an office cube farmer position.

You can also buy a car for cash and buy a jumper & a beanie.

Boambee John
Boambee John
April 23, 2022 7:29 pm

Top Endersays:
April 23, 2022 at 2:38 pm
Abolish all Federal PS jobs which duplicate State/Territory services…

Have a national driving licence not eight separate departments…
Have a national teacher registration board not eight separate departments…
Have a national police force not eight separate departments…

And so on.

No. De-centralise schooling, driving licencing and police to regions, more along the US practice. Too much power in the centre can be used to exert greater control.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
April 23, 2022 7:32 pm

JCsays:

April 23, 2022 at 7:21 pm

There’s a shortage of Fruit Pickers.

Yes, Ted mentioned he’s naming his own wage as a banana picker.

Back to picking the bananas, eh?
I heard he’d been sacked from the packing shed.
Couldn’t get them all in the box with the bends facing the same way.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
April 23, 2022 7:36 pm

AUD 500,000 is c250,000 British pounds. That would cover the immediate major repair costs and would require heritage funding. Eye-watering amounts, and not ones we want to have constantly being required as more underpinning may be required.

A Maintenance Trust Fund of AUD 50,000 giving circa BBP25,000, which we could cover, invested at 3% it would provide circa GBP750 a year for general upkeep.

That would work, with parking fees added.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
April 23, 2022 7:37 pm

Winston – Cheap chips from China may well come loaded. Stolen data from a virus infection would easily pay for the cost of a thumb drive.

I was amused by this story today.

Millions of Windows laptops infected with ‘unremovable’ malware – are you affected? (22 Apr)

Security experts are warning that millions of Windows laptops are infected with malware that is effectively ‘unremovable’. Over 100 laptops made by technology firm Lenovo appear to be affected by a trio of critical vulnerabilities which allow hackers to secretly install malware that is virtually impossible to remove or even detect. The flaws allow hackers to modify a computer’s Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI), which is the first piece of software that runs when a PC is turned on.

Lenovo, Lenovo, now where have I heard that name before? Of course one person’s bug could well be another person’s designed-in back door…

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
April 23, 2022 7:37 pm

it can be a foot in the door into viticulture or agriculture generally

That’s a point that’s usually overlooked.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
April 23, 2022 7:38 pm

the wholly unexpected conclusion that the more hardened criminals that were languishing in gaol, the safer the community was.

A recent Quadrant had an article arguing very much the same sort of thing.

Winston Smith
April 23, 2022 7:45 pm

Thefrolickingmoll:

Vote #1 Turbull hung drawn and quartered after being dragged naked over a salt lake.

Two questions:
.1 Will the towing vehicle be Malcolm Campbells “Bluebird”?
.2 Can the unprotected human body remain intact as it passes Mach 1?
Will there be a video?

Eyrie
Eyrie
April 23, 2022 7:46 pm

Have a national driving licence not eight separate departments…
Have a national teacher registration board not eight separate departments…
Have a national police force not eight separate departments…

No, just agree that a qualification obtained anywhere in Australia is good nationwide without time limits or residence qualifications. Likewise car rego. State with lowest prices gets the business and revenue. Competition Commission charges and jails anyone colluding, government or not.

Ed Case
Ed Case
April 23, 2022 7:46 pm

All quiet on the Deves front, though Samantha Maiden is on the scent of something.
I just hope there’s no rooting happening anywhere.

Top Ender
Top Ender
April 23, 2022 7:49 pm

Countries with the Highest Crime Rates

The countries with the ten highest crime rates, expressed in per 100,000 people, globally are:

Venezuela (83.76)
Papua New Guinea (80.79)
South Africa (76.86)
Afghanistan (76.31)
Honduras (74.54)
Trinidad and Tobago (71.63)
Guyana (68.74)
El Salvador (67.79)
Brazil (67.49)
Jamaica (67.42)

Link

Rabz
April 23, 2022 7:54 pm

Winston – your comment about dumping and tariffs makes no sense whatsoever.

Please reword. I’ve just wasted about 10 minutes trying to figure out what the fuck your question was.

Hint – “dumping” means dropping into a market a significantly lower priced good than those previously available. The dumped good is invariably subsidised (by a foreign government for example) – which you seem to have completely ignored in your query.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
April 23, 2022 8:02 pm

Afghanistan (76.31)

Don’t they cut the hands off of thieves?
You’d think that might be a deterrent.

Ed Case
Ed Case
April 23, 2022 8:07 pm

I think that (76.31) might be the Murder Rate, Bruce.

Winston Smith
April 23, 2022 8:09 pm

Calli:

Now call me whatever barnyard creature you fancy me to be today.

I hereby nominate Calli for role of the “Farmers Dorper.”
🙂

Ed Case
Ed Case
April 23, 2022 8:10 pm

Venezuela (83.76)

Papua New Guinea (80.79)
South Africa (76.86)
Afghanistan (76.31)
Honduras (74.54)
Trinidad and Tobago (71.63)
Guyana (68.74)
El Salvador (67.79)
Brazil (67.49)
Jamaica (67.42)

There’s something in common about those Countries [apart from Afghanistan] that I can’t quite put my finger on.

Struth
April 23, 2022 8:13 pm

The stupid here…it burns.

Struth-o-nomics and truck-o-nomics is agreeing with somebody that knows how to make more money than all the dumb bastards here slinging off at him, combined.

Dot, who pays off the debt according to your plan?

And our resident pussy stroking upper class housewife from next door to Malcolm’s place reckons the Chinese don’t need our iron ore.
Cassie calls me a troll for calling her idiocy out and other women swear they’ve had covid while describing a cold.
The damage done to your brains seems irreparable

Ed Case
Ed Case
April 23, 2022 8:13 pm

They’re still hanging blokes in South Africa, Jamaica, Trinidad, PNG and Guyana, so, while Capital Punishment may or may not be a deterrent, look on the bright side …

Rabz
April 23, 2022 8:15 pm

And so the blundering has commenced …

JC
JC
April 23, 2022 8:18 pm
Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
April 23, 2022 8:19 pm

Russia says it plans full control of Donbas and southern Ukraine; Moldova protests

Russia plans to take full control of Donbas and southern Ukraine during the second phase of what it calls its special military operation, the deputy commander of Russia’s central military district said on Friday, Russian news agencies reported.

“Control over the south of Ukraine is another way to Transdniestria, where there is also evidence that the Russian-speaking population is being oppressed,” TASS quoted Minnekayev as saying at a meeting in Russia’s central Sverdlovsk region.

Obviously protecting Russian-speaking Moldovans from Nazis, pooves, and Klaus Schwab.

In a Christian outreach sort of way: the Salvation Army with artillery.

Winston Smith
April 23, 2022 8:20 pm

Rex Anger:

Sorry Winston, forgot the film-

Sandaoling Mine, from circa 2019:

I remember you posting several videos of similar. The night shots are spectacular, but don’t the carriages of coal ever catch on fire?
It certainly looks like a huge risk…

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
April 23, 2022 8:22 pm

They’re still hanging blokes in South Africa,

The last person hanged in South Africa was in 1989. The death penalty was abolished in 1995, although there are calls for it to be reinstated.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
April 23, 2022 8:23 pm

Blundernomics?

Struth
April 23, 2022 8:25 pm

Sancho, you were destroyed today.
Length of time hanging on this thread does not change things.
You moronic space cadet.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
April 23, 2022 8:28 pm

Seriously St Ruth.
Who is feeding you this bullshit?

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Very few are up to picking bananas.
It is difficult work, up there with wheat lumping.
Nor is it for the squeamish or faint-hearted.

Farmers used to place realistic job ads for Banana Pickers.
Apply if you are a;
“Strong, Fit, Mentally Durable, Male taller than 1.8metres”

In the olden days (when there were backpackers in Australia) they’d read these ads & the backpacker chicks, pumped full of equal rights & grrrls can do anything, (but with utterly no idea of what the job involves) would report the ads to the Fair Work Ombudsman, for “discriminatory hiring” or somesuch bullshit.

Don’t know the rot that went on, but when the dickhead caste gets involved it can be tedious.
Net result was prolly that the growers were forced to advertise generically for “banana pickers” & applicants who were not “strong fit durable male 1.8m” simply wasted their time submitting applications & making farm visits.

calli
calli
April 23, 2022 8:29 pm

Cassie calls me a troll for calling her idiocy out and other women swear they’ve had covid while describing a cold.
The damage done to your brains seems irreparable

Including yours.

Not Cassie. Calli.

I guess we all look the same don’t we.

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
April 23, 2022 8:29 pm

Yeah, pick apples at Red Hill for a month, hitch hike to Yandina and pick Ginger for a fortnight, head out to Stanthorpe and prune Nectarines in -13 with the wind screaming up from Guyra, it’s a great life.
Dickhead.

I don’t know whether it still happens but there used to be a “permanent” workforce who’d travel the eastern seaboard from cane plantations in Queensland to apple orchards in Tasmania.
It may not have been an idyllic rustic nirvana but the people who did it didn’t seem to be miserable or oppressed.

calli
calli
April 23, 2022 8:32 pm

I now await being “dealt with” for my insolence.

And I understand why Cassie is having a break.

rosie
rosie
April 23, 2022 8:36 pm

Just put on your gardening boots Calli, very effective against those chihuahua ankle bites.

Struth
April 23, 2022 8:36 pm

Being a bitch doesn’thelp your argument, calli.
Please let us know, seeing we live in a high trust society when it comes to our health and medical industry, how you know your specialist is a specialist in covid, and what yout credentials consist of that makes you sure you can guarantee he isn’t misled, or just F O S.
Does a medical degree or similar insulate you from fear propaganda and brainwashing?

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
April 23, 2022 8:36 pm

It is difficult work, up there with wheat lumping.

Haven’t you Queenslanders ever heard of bulk handling?

Ed Case
Ed Case
April 23, 2022 8:36 pm

I don’t know whether it still happens but there used to be a “permanent” workforce who’d travel the eastern seaboard from cane plantations in Queensland to apple orchards in Tasmania.
Yeah, there was a play about that, Summer of the seventeenth doll.
Mechanisation replaced labour on the Qld canefields around 1964.

Rabz
April 23, 2022 8:36 pm

I now await being “dealt with” for my insolence.

No, not going to happen.

Struth
April 23, 2022 8:37 pm

When you’ve got Notafan on your side Calli, you’d probably want to take a good hard long look at yourself.
Just sayin’…………

Ed Case
Ed Case
April 23, 2022 8:38 pm

And I understand why Cassie is having a break.
Cassie has been commenting like a trooper on C.L.’s blog today.

Zipster
Zipster
April 23, 2022 8:39 pm

China in Focus – NTD
01:05 Chinese oil giant’s $4B debut in Shanghai
03:33 17 Chinese firms forced to delist in U.S.
05:20 Chinese court sentences U.S. citizen to death
05:56 Northeastern China residents struggle to find food
08:52 Why China’s sticking with ‘zero COVID’
12:02 Q&A: Current status of China’s #UndergroundChurches

rosie
rosie
April 23, 2022 8:39 pm

No struth at C Ls.

Rabz
April 23, 2022 8:39 pm

has been commenting like a trooper on C.L.’s blog today

As is that good lady’s right, Eddles.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
April 23, 2022 8:41 pm

The damage done to your brains seems irreparable

Including yours.

As evidenced today.
Fat Cloive is having a laugh.
He knows his “policies” (including the mining tax and capped interest rates) are bullshit, solely aimed at reaping the dim-bulb vote.
And it appears to be having some effect.

Ed Case
Ed Case
April 23, 2022 8:43 pm

I’m confused.
The FruitLoop known as Struth is a Vax Sceptic, so is Cassie.
What’s the stoushing about then?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
April 23, 2022 8:44 pm

Jim’s Mowing.
Kenn’s Diagnostics and Pathology.

rosie
rosie
April 23, 2022 8:45 pm

I remember last time Clive stood some Queensland pensioners thought he was going to fund a pension increase from his own pocket.
Not even Clive’s that rich.

MatrixTransform
April 23, 2022 8:45 pm

So if I buy 10,000 4Tb USB sticks from China, I can cause nearly half a million in damages to a factory there?

a few years back we bought a couple of hundred memory stacks from china.
over-printed with the company logo
for gifts.

the memory sticks simply didn’t work

their factory was fine and we got a tax-deduction

win-win

Rabz
April 23, 2022 8:46 pm

I’m confused.

Again, for a change.

The FruitLoop known as St Ruth is a Vax Sceptic, so is Cassie.

Eddles, stick to your lanes, Squire, flamers and spooks.

You know you want to.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Haven’t you Queenslanders ever heard of bulk handling?

Haha. Wheat lumping wasn’t such fun that anybody tried to keep it going once bulk handling was viable.

Sugar was the last holdout.
Then the workforce went on strike one year.
So farmers loaded the sugar onto ships.
After that it was bulk handling.

Smart work you union dickheads.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Jim’s Mowing.
Kenn’s Diagnostics and Pathology.

Sancho’s Business Consultancy. 😉

Rabz
April 23, 2022 8:48 pm

Jim’s Mowing

St Ruth’s Byron Bay Hypnotherapy Retreat and Wombat Petting Zoo

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
April 23, 2022 8:59 pm

Then the workforce went on strike one year.
So farmers loaded the sugar onto ships.

Similar situation in Western Australia in the late 1970’s – wharfies refused to load live sheep. A group of the younger generation of farmers – well prepared for an all in brawl – ran the picket lines, and loaded the sheep at three times the speed that the wharfies could ever do.

Struth
April 23, 2022 9:01 pm

This blog is disappearing up it’s own pompous, CINO, sneering orifice, thanks to the little club of fuckwits, and that’s sad for the rest here.
The little country club conservatives who, without the slightest proof ever found,, regarded themselves as superior beings from the very start of the separation of the catallaxies, and tried to control the membership from the Untermenschen .

Completely insulated, dopes of submission is what they really are.
The coffee club of self importance.
I take great pleasure in confronting many here daily with their own intellectual failings and lack of character..
If they weren’t such self impressed sons of suction, (who underneath lack confidence) it wouldn’t be nearly as satisfying.
Especially as their low character and lack of concern for their fellow man seems is going to take their lives early.
And if not, they’ll always know , by their own lack of courage and morals when it counted, they failed, and any second……..any second……..Warnie.
Couldn’t happen to a more deserving bunch of fuckers.

Not real bright.
Naive to say the least.

Say what you like, I’m not you.
I’m not jabbed, and I still have all my faculties.
Unlike the jabbed denialists here.
Adam’s blog got most of the better folk.
This one could be good to.
But the sneering nobodies with nothing to add, bring the whole place down.

calli
calli
April 23, 2022 9:03 pm

Adam’s blog got most of the better folk.

Then comment there.

Struth
April 23, 2022 9:04 pm

reaping the dim-bulb vote.

While you stick with zero covid and tyranny.

Struth
April 23, 2022 9:04 pm

And net zero.

FFS

Struth
April 23, 2022 9:06 pm

Then comment there.

See above.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Crikey Struth, I prescribe some introspection (Dr. Salvatore’s surgery)
We’re not all traitors.

How about just lay low for a year or so, then when the rest of us are dead from the suicide jab & the population is down to a pre-Eureka Stockade level, none of the traitors will be still alive to sell-out Australia and you’ll be in high demand, both as a breeding sire & a skilled hands on bloke.

Something for you to look forward to. 😉

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
April 23, 2022 9:13 pm

Adam’s blog got most of the better folk.

Don’t let the door hit your arse on the way out.

rosie
rosie
April 23, 2022 9:23 pm

Odd isn’t it.
Mr Freedom made it quite clear, some time ago that ‘the country club conservatives’ wouldn’t be welcome at the blog with no name, then flounced over to Adam’s a month ago eagerly anticipating an influx of the ‘better people’ (whoever they are) and now is back here again abusing everyone who dares have a contrary opinion while pretending he is a victim of the mean meanies.
If all the upticks are yours 🙂 why not simply comment at you own place where you and your army of lurkers don’t have to put up with all of the dreadful traitors?

Rabz
April 23, 2022 9:24 pm

The li’l country club conservative f*ckwits who, without the slightest proof ever found, regarded themselves as superior beings from the very start of the separation of the catallaxies and tried to control the membership from the Untermenschen

So why are you and myself here, St Ruth, given your obvious hostility and my regrettable and subsequently retracted suspicion of Doves?

I am the son and the heir … 🙂

calli
calli
April 23, 2022 9:52 pm

Lol. That shut everyone up Rabz.

Rabz
April 23, 2022 9:54 pm

err, that wasn’t my intention, Squirette! 😕

rosie
rosie
April 23, 2022 9:54 pm

Oh in all the tumult I forgot.
Delta A get well soon.

Indolent
Indolent
April 23, 2022 9:55 pm

The Maniacal Mask Crisis Tyrants

Let’s all have a mature discussion about this (that means delusional and deranged leftists you probably should not read any further). First, there was NEVER any law passed by elected representatives in our legislative branch that made wearing a face covering mandatory in America.

We live in a Constitutional Republic and operate based upon the rule of law, our Constitution. Neither the executive nor the judicial branches of our republican form of governance make law. Judge Mizelle has awakened us from this dangerous slumber of believing edicts, orders, mandates, and decrees are equal to law.

I would suggest the same is true for Australia.

And this is 100% true –

And the reaction of the left is very telling. If you wish to don a face diaper, go ahead, if I wish not to that is my decision. But what this issue has revealed is that the maniacal mask crisis tyrants are not concerned with “science”…they desire totalitarian control. This is a freedom issue.

Rabz
April 23, 2022 10:02 pm

The next radio show, peoples – I’ve taken a unitary arbitrary vote and decided that it will essay the Sixties (1962- 1971).

If anyone disagrees, then feel free to state your case. A theme that will hopefully elicit at least 50-100 comments (most of which won’t be mine) on a Saturday night. 🙂

May 7 2022, 7:00pm (AEST).

Wally Dali
Wally Dali
April 23, 2022 10:06 pm

Both coaches at Optus Stadium are masked… inside their boxes.
And at a glance, 20% of the crowd.
Embarrassing.

Rabz
April 23, 2022 10:08 pm

The Formidable Cool … 🙂

shatterzzz
April 23, 2022 10:13 pm

Dr. Fiona Martin .. does BRADBURY know?
https://ibb.co/WPg3LtJ

Winston Smith
April 23, 2022 10:20 pm

Big Nambas:
Excellent stuff!
Was it numbers?

H B Bear
H B Bear
April 23, 2022 10:27 pm

I expect the AFL are stuck with the Covid protocols struck during 2020 and 2021 when it posed a threat to humanity. Now they look rather silly in 2022 when it ranks with carpal tunnel syndrome.

Winston Smith
April 23, 2022 10:29 pm

Dot:

…if people don’t understand how this is so, they haven’t looked at government finances in depth.
Yes. Cut spending, largesse and the gravy train. That’s the part that is hard to sell.
All I can say is if debt gets to 1.2 trillion and we have bond rates at 6%, we’re literally ruined.

You don’t even need to look that frigging hard, Dot.
Just look at Government Pages in the Phone Directory.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
April 23, 2022 10:32 pm

Seems that Riccardo Bosi is running as an independent for a seat in New South Wales.

Winston Smith
April 23, 2022 10:32 pm

Roger:

What do you do with serial burglars & car thieves then?

By all means give first offenders in property crimes an opportunity to reform, but when the criminality becomes habitual, what then?

The lash.
And I’m serious.

Winston Smith
April 23, 2022 10:41 pm

JC:

Who do people think will end up with a working majority in the house?

The Tea Ladies.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Seems that Riccardo Bosi is running as an independent for a seat in New South Wales.

I hope he wins.
It’ll make parliament interesting, especially when they both start courting him to support them into a minority government.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

The lash.
And I’m serious.

When Singapore sentenced that spoiled yankee expat brat to Six-of-the-Best for vandalising autos, it really focused minds, all around the world.

Heh!

Pedro the Loafer
Pedro the Loafer
April 23, 2022 10:57 pm

I pinched this from Michael Smith News.

Laugh out loud funny:

The truth behind Gillard’s fall in India.

Winston Smith
April 23, 2022 11:16 pm

Rabz:

Winston – your comment about dumping and tariffs makes no sense whatsoever.

OK. Scamdinavia makes Poofle Valves at $1 each and sells them for $2 in Scamdinavia.
I can buy them online direct from the factory for 50c.
This is the definition of dumping, yes?
Dumping raises costs to the dumping nation, while the buying nation gets the benefit because each Poofle Valve I buy raises the cost to the Scamdinavian buyer.
Isn’t this damaging to the Scamdinavian economy?

Arky
April 23, 2022 11:32 pm

Winston Smith says:
April 23, 2022 at 11:16 pm

..
Do you remember the European butter mountains?
..

Agricultural underproduction in the 1950s led to a series of market interventions, including the Common Agricultural Policy. Governments subsidized milk production by a guaranteed minimum intervention price for dairy products.[2] This led to a surge in the production of grain, milk, butter and related products until production exceeded demand in the late 1970s, resulting in a glut. Milk production in West Germany alone increased from 75 million tonnes in 1960 to nearly 100 million tonnes by 1979.[2] To combat the overproduction, governments introduced milk quotas, which were governed by the Common Agricultural Policy.

In the following decades, production continued to outstrip demand, and the European governments and later the European Union would purchase tonnes of the surplus agricultural goods, creating so-called “milk lakes” and “butter” or “beef mountains”.

..
How would you like that shit dumped on you if you were an antipodean dairy farmer?

Gabor
Gabor
April 23, 2022 11:34 pm

calli says:
April 23, 2022 at 9:03 pm

Adam’s blog got most of the better folk.

Then comment there.

” Adam’s blog got most of the better folk”

What?
All five of them are the better folk?
Hate say this Struth, but you are not losing it, you actually lost it.

Read back your rants to yourself before you post, I’m sure you are intelligent enough to realise how stupid most of them are.

Arky
April 23, 2022 11:40 pm

Of course, when totalitarian regimes create the same “glut” effect with slave labour, stolen intellectual property and export incentives around manufactured goods, the same people who would never allow tonnes of French butter to land here start going “competitive advantage, old man”.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
April 23, 2022 11:53 pm

Seems that Riccardo Bosi is running as an independent for a seat in New South Wales.

Which electorate?
And can someone explain why he still has a “donate” button on the A1 website touting for funds “to register as a political party”?

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
April 23, 2022 11:55 pm

Jim’s Mowing.
Kenn’s Diagnostics and Pathology.

Mr. Worth’s Economics Tutorials for Professional Economists and Brokers by Pub Singers.
Formerly known as Capable Kenn’s Constitutional Law Interpretative Service.
Which was formerly known as Private* Kenn’s Guide to Military Ideology.

*Pending.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
April 23, 2022 11:57 pm

Private-elect?
Private-in-waiting?

“It’s hard ball or die time”.

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