Open Thread – Tuesday 10 May 2022


The (Little) Tower of Babel, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1563

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GreyRanga
GreyRanga
May 13, 2022 1:40 pm

Sorry Gez misread. I’d still cut out a small section carefully then slowly slice it upand chck inside the wall cavity.

Roger
Roger
May 13, 2022 1:41 pm

A man posing as North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un has gatecrashed the Prime Minister’s morning media appearance.

In what a member of his staff has called “one of the most offensive things I’ve ever seen on a campaign trail”…

I find Morrison refusing an inquiry into how covid was managed and lying about the reason to be offensive.

So toughen up, because in a little over a week you’ll be looking for a job in the real world.

Lysander
Lysander
May 13, 2022 1:43 pm

I agree Lysander but I’m going to be a single issue voter in the upper house on this occasion.

And fair enough Rosie. I just don’t understand why so many “conservatives” on here are going with LDP. Sure, they’re small govt and less tax. But that’s all. Their social policies are akin to Greens on abortion, euthanasia, porno, drugs, same sex marriage, boaties etc…

Conservative in name only? (CONE – yup, drugs, makes sense). 😛

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
May 13, 2022 1:43 pm

Struthsays:
May 13, 2022 at 1:37 pm
Well they’ve certainly been terrified of all your non action on the couch.

When your points are only what fantasies you dream up while masterbating furiously, it would help if you got to the vinegar stroke before you press “post comment”

Oh shit, I thought I had my webcam covered.

Lysander
Lysander
May 13, 2022 1:44 pm

Conservative in name only? (CONE – yup, drugs, makes sense). ?

Well that worked “well*” dickhead Lysander.

*(Thankfully I have no intention of ever running or belonging to a party ever again)

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
May 13, 2022 1:45 pm

Where the WA Libs fucked up was appointing Zac Farkup as leader and then letting him unilaterally announce a climate plan worse than WA Greens

Dont forget, Zac and IT disappeared around the same time… coincidence or….

/cue mystery music

Lysander
Lysander
May 13, 2022 1:46 pm

Anyway – Happy Birthday Scomo.

Lysander
Lysander
May 13, 2022 1:47 pm

Dont forget, Zac and IT disappeared around the same time… coincidence or….

/cue mystery music

Yeah!!! Where did the Infidel go?

Roger
Roger
May 13, 2022 1:48 pm

And we all knew Farkup was only going to be an interim as there was no way he was going to win. But I knew he was going to lose on the first campaign day when he announced he had indigenous heritage and mental health issues…

So this Kirkup chap was involved in WA state Liberal politics for a decade or more as a staffer and then an elected member before being made leader and nobody realised he was a total flake?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
May 13, 2022 1:49 pm

Knuckle Draggersays:

May 13, 2022 at 1:37 pm

Drill 1/2? holes in the plaster and put the oxy torch in.

The gas axe.

Klaus would approve.

Might want to check with your insurer first.
They can be a bit nanny-state when it comes to “innovative and agile” home maintenance.

Lysander
Lysander
May 13, 2022 1:49 pm

And FM, here’s a serious question about Perth (non PC of course)…

Why do they have three bars/pubs at Yagan Square when you’re obviously allowed to buy cheap goon from Woolies and sit outside and drink it on the concrete?

Vicki
May 13, 2022 1:49 pm

I know that many of you are very well versed in the geopolitics of the Ukraine conflict, & that you also follow the excellent blogger Eugyppius. However, for those who don’t, this latest observation of the conflict is worth pondering:

Ukraine and Western Geopolitical Mythology
The globalist empire insists always and everywhere that it is fighting the last war, even as it inches closer to the next one.

eugyppius
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A long time ago, everybody understood that war was an armed and violent enterprise undertaken by soldiers to achieve specific objectives. One was expected to hate the enemy and his goals, but even the most egregious jingoists were clear that the enemy had goals, and that their side did too. Now that Europe faces its most significant armed conflict since 1945, we are discouraged from understanding war in this way. The dominant message is that the Russian invasion of Ukraine is a bluntly evil thing, which the evil Vladimir Putin is perpetrating for vague evil expansionist purposes, or because he is crazy, or both. To judge from press reports, war is no longer something that soldiers wage, in battles, at the front; instead, it is an undifferentiated atrocity wrought upon civilians at home. For every sloppy, low-resolution piece the media publish on the strategic situation in Donbas, there are ten about mourning parents of fallen soldiers, about refugees, about air strikes on schools, about subway bomb shelters, about alleged war crimes against civilians.

I’m not saying that war isn’t violent, or that civilian casualties don’t matter. What I am saying, is that you cannot understand what is happening in this war as a series of atrocities, and I am also saying that press narratives of Russian war crimes are a monumental hypocrisy. They proceed from the American empire, which since World War II has demonstrated ruthless, near-total indifference to the civilian victims of their air campaigns. What’s happening in the Ukraine is nothing compared to the brutal shock and awe tactics that killed hundred of thousands of ordinary people in Iraq.

Recasting every global conflict as a 1940s morality play of genocidal evildoer vs. all that is righteous and good, is very dangerous. It has created a groundswell of popular demand for escalation against a nuclear-armed power, which the political actors themselves don’t always seem prudent enough to resist. Some Anglosphere politicians have taken this hysteria as permission to indulge their dangerous fantasies of regime change in Russia, while the intelligence services encourage still further escalation, by leaking stories about their role in helping the Ukrainians kill Russian generals and sink the Moskva. I’m not a geopolitical analyst, so I can’t realistically evaluate the risk of escalation, but I know that people massively underestimate the likelihood of rare catastrophic outcomes, and that nuclear war heads the list of both rare and catastrophic. To the extent the empire underestimates the risk, it will keep pushing.

If 1945 moralising has encouraged some British and American leaders to reprise their role as conquerors in Europe, it is increasingly inspiring German politicians to cultivate corresponding period fantasies of defeat and deindustrialisation. As I type these words, our Minister of Economic Affairs is assuring us that we can get through the coming winter just fine without Russian gas; two days ago, our Foreign Minister pledged in Kiew that Germany will end its dependence on Russian energy forever. The worst case scenario is that they actually do this. The more likely scenario, is that Russian oil and gas is merely laundered through third countries, so that we can appear virtuous while continuing our imports at considerable mark-up. That might stave off catastrophe, but it will also make millions of Germans drastically poorer and it won’t hurt Russia.

The politics of this war are the most bizarre thing I have ever seen. It is very strange indeed to be called a right-wing extremist in Germany for having pro-Russian sympathies. It is even stranger, for someone who is periodically accused of being a Nazi – despite totally disavowing National Socialism – to read editorials in mainstream newspapers insisting that the Azov battalion are not actually Neo-Nazis, even though this is what they claim to be. In the early days of the war, at the height of pro-Ukraine hysteria, a major German retailer was even caught selling the Azov flag in their online shop, complete with the Sonnenrad and the Wolfsangel. All of this confirms my long-running thesis, that the empire is firmly post-political. It employs political forms purely as a matter of expedience; its only real principles are expansion, assimilation and atomised consumerism.

Russia could lose, but they’re not losing right now. If they were, the New York Times wouldn’t be running articles with headlines like “Ukraine War’s Geographic Reality: Russia Has Seized Much of the East”. The danger is what happens next, when it becomes clear to all and sundry that the slow, grinding destruction of the Ukrainian army by Russian artillery is continuing apace, despite sanctions and weapons deliveries.

It has been a long, long time since the last major war – a much greater interval than Europe has ever seen before, thanks to nuclear deterrence. But the energies, ambitions and hatreds that cause war, and that war alone can dissipate, have been building under the surface this whole time, unabated. Sooner or later they will burst forth. The chances that this happens now, are not zero.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
May 13, 2022 1:49 pm

GreyRanga says:
May 13, 2022 at 1:40 pm
Sorry Gez misread. I’d still cut out a small section carefully then slowly slice it upand chck inside the wall cavity.

Every surgeons answer.

Lysander
Lysander
May 13, 2022 1:50 pm

So this Kirkup chap was involved in WA state Liberal politics for a decade or more as a staffer and then an elected member before being made leader and nobody realised he was a total flake?

That’s, unfortunately, often the way it works… Zac was a nice guy and a good staffer. Very smart. Wish I could say the same for the trajectory of a current political leader aiming to be PM.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
May 13, 2022 1:51 pm

Unseasonal rain in D-Town.

Portents of doom.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
May 13, 2022 1:51 pm

masterbating furiously,

There is no ‘e’ in masturbate, St Ruth.
There is definitely a ‘u’ though.

Zipster
Zipster
May 13, 2022 1:51 pm

Long COVID May Be Chronic, Require Anti-Inflammatory Meds: Study
Severe systemic inflammation during hospitalization for COVID increases the risk of dying within a year after the patient seemingly recovers, University of Florida researchers found.

The stronger someone’s inflammation is during their hospitalization for COVID, the greater the likelihood of dying within a year of recovering from the initial infection, researchers report in the journal Frontiers in Medicine.

Miltonf
Miltonf
May 13, 2022 1:53 pm

Ha ha

duncanm
duncanm
May 13, 2022 1:58 pm

Tom,

thanks for dropping the odious Rowe. Save’s me remembering to skip his link.

Tom
Tom
May 13, 2022 1:59 pm

Mrs TE and I came down with Chinese bat-flu earlier this week.

I had it last week, TE. Thankfully, areff gave me a course of Ivermectin and the Kung Flu was gone in three days.

So now I have natural immunity.

Still it’s amazing the destruction wrought in the West by the CCP’s biological weapons program (part-financed by the US Deep State with the help of the CCP-paid-for puppet US president).

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
May 13, 2022 1:59 pm

Why do they have three bars/pubs at Yagan Square when you’re obviously allowed to buy cheap goon from Woolies and sit outside and drink it on the concrete?

Because if you are going to name a public place for a murderous shithead who got what was coming to him (oh dear, how sad, the chap who murdered 3 men was shot for the bounty on his head) then obviously you are signalling crimes arent crimes if you are of suitable ethnicity/dug fuckedness or general smell.

Yagan square apparently needs ‘revitalization” already, the local attractions sipping their goon bags dont appear to be the draw card they thought they would be.
Having a temporary police trailer parked there permanently doesnt add to the amenity either.

mcClowns cunning plan…
Shifting an entire University next door, onto some of the most expensive to build locations in the globe…
https://www.watoday.com.au/national/western-australia/identity-crisis-yagan-square-mess-typifies-perth-s-concrete-jungles-20210831-p58ngu.html

First it was a lack of foot traffic from adjacent public transport to blame (that would eventually pick up); 12 months ago it was the lockdowns we have since emerged from.

Now the McGowan government is underpinning a new hope on the relocation of Edith Cowan University.
“You have got to remember, next door the Edith Cowan University campus is about to be built that will bring 10,000 students into the city into that very location every day once it’s finished in 2025.”

Roger
Roger
May 13, 2022 1:59 pm

That’s, unfortunately, often the way it works…

Have political parties not heard of psychological testing?

Or are they afraid of what it might uncover?

Lysander
Lysander
May 13, 2022 2:03 pm

Fair call FM…. and yes, I saw the “temporary” police bus there (still) yesterday after many months now…

The place is scary, smells like piss and was meant to connect Northbridge to CBD….instead it is a magnet for drunken anti-socials and an eyesore.

rosie
rosie
May 13, 2022 2:05 pm

Very frail 92 year old of my acquaintance had covid a week or so ago.
Flung it off like a light eiderdown.

Lysander
Lysander
May 13, 2022 2:05 pm

I know you’re not allowed to walk into a polling booth with a party slogan or title on anything that you are wearing.

But can I wear my MAGA hat?

flyingduk
flyingduk
May 13, 2022 2:09 pm

So now I have natural immunity.

And a lot of good it will do you …… this is about ‘vaccination’, not immunity.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
May 13, 2022 2:12 pm

rosiesays:
May 13, 2022 at 2:05 pm
Very frail 92 year old of my acquaintance had covid a week or so ago.
Flung it off like a light eiderdown.

Seems to be a virus that needs people to have a definite specific weakness in their immune system to hit hard.
And who knows what that might be.
A certain strain of another illness a long time/short time ago making you vulnerable/invulnerable or just a bit of “junk DNA” some people carry.
But Kudos to a 92 year old beating it, at that age it doesnt take much.

Lysander
Lysander
May 13, 2022 2:14 pm

So now I have natural immunity.

“Officially,” in WA you have natural immunity for 12 weeks.

What pisses me off, despite whether St Ruth wants to rant, I got the vax (coerced and at very last minute) and got pretty sick for two days. I had to get the second for same reasons… and got pretty sick for about three days. Then I got Chinaflu… and got pretty sick for about two days. Perhaps I’m just a softcock…

Lysander
Lysander
May 13, 2022 2:16 pm

So I got a jab to get sick so I wouldn’t get sick to get a second jab to not get sicker only to get sicker only to get sick.

Right.

jupes
jupes
May 13, 2022 2:17 pm

And we all knew Farkup was only going to be an interim as there was no way he was going to win. But I knew he was going to lose on the first campaign day when he announced he had indigenous heritage and mental health issues

Wow. So the bloke asking to be premier of a state reckons having mental health issues is a vote winner. What a batshit crazy time to be alive.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
May 13, 2022 2:18 pm

This is a funny article…
You should read it.
Now.
Jamaal the hopping dickless Yupik….Wheezy Metherson
https://www.takimag.com/article/hollywood-apartheid-is-ready-for-its-close-up/

Lysander
Lysander
May 13, 2022 2:18 pm

Have political parties not heard of psychological testing?

Or are they afraid of what it might uncover?

Sociopathy, mostly.

Nelson Kidd-Players
May 13, 2022 2:19 pm

Rallies are back on tomorrow. 12:00 at Parliament House for Melbourne.

John H.
John H.
May 13, 2022 2:19 pm

Rogersays:
May 13, 2022 at 1:59 pm
That’s, unfortunately, often the way it works…

Have political parties not heard of psychological testing?

Or are they afraid of what it might uncover?

It’s easy to beat psych tests. Been there, done that.

Bluey
Bluey
May 13, 2022 2:20 pm

I’m seeing claims Russia and China have presented evidence to the UN about the USA and 12 European countries were participating in a biowarfare program based in Ukraine. Not the stuff from a month ago, but a presentation in the last week.

Anyone have something more solid than social media accounts making claims?

Lysander
Lysander
May 13, 2022 2:21 pm

Well I’ve just found out a friend of ours who has a daughter who barely survived childhood leukemia (she’s only 13 now), has a bloated heart the size of an adult’s, screwed liver and kidneys just got over Chinaflu with a sniffle… amazing….

Bluey
Bluey
May 13, 2022 2:25 pm

Oh this is going to be ggggoooooooooodd.

https://twitter.com/KKeneally/status/1524860819334303745

Labor supports cost recovery from people in immigration detention

The vast majority of people in detention are criminals or have violated their visa

Mr Morrison has been in office for nearly a decade including as immigration minister. Why has he left it to now to announce this?

132andBush
132andBush
May 13, 2022 2:28 pm

Gez,
Re your potential infestation.

It’s happened before.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
May 13, 2022 2:30 pm

Anyone have something more solid than social media accounts making claims?

No.

And the chatter I have seen seems to suggest that the entire meme may have been originally cooked up by the Russian MOD as another convenient casus belli to justify their invasion, or at least a means of eroding Western support for any defence of Ukraine.*

Please note how abruptly it disappeared as March rolled on and the Kiev front collapsed. Never to be heard from again.

* Silly Russian disinformationistas. Since when has any non-Congressional element of a US adminisration, or a Russian one for that matter, ever paid any attention to their own proles?

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
May 13, 2022 2:30 pm

And if not the MOD, somewhere within Russia’s Deep State. Who seem just as off with the fairies as ours, at times…

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
May 13, 2022 2:36 pm

Lysandersays:
May 13, 2022 at 2:14 pm
So now I have natural immunity.

“Officially,” in WA you have natural immunity for 12 weeks.

What pisses me off, despite whether St Ruth wants to rant, I got the vax (coerced and at very last minute) and got pretty sick for two days. I had to get the second for same reasons… and got pretty sick for about three days. Then I got Chinaflu… and got pretty sick for about two days. Perhaps I’m just a softcock…

Ken will be checking to see if its soft or not. Seems he’s into that sort of thing.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
May 13, 2022 2:36 pm

Gez,
Re your potential infestation.

It’s happened before.

I thought you would have used this clip, Bush? 🙂

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
May 13, 2022 2:37 pm

Ed’s gone to ground, Monty is back and someone mentioned a Rothschild earlier.
Dare we hope?

Lysander
Lysander
May 13, 2022 2:37 pm

LOL!

Anyone watching Sky (I don’t access atm) – Dutton is giving a presser as apparently there’s a Chinese warship off WA coast?

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
May 13, 2022 2:38 pm

Labor supports cost recovery from people in immigration detention

comment image

The blonde vacuum pump may be unaware that Labour removed the practice of assigning costs to failed asylum seekers some years ago.
Or it might just be a lying slag.

Lysander
Lysander
May 13, 2022 2:39 pm

Found it: Chinese warship came within 250NM of Broome and is tracking along the Northern coastline.

https://www.perthnow.com.au/news/wa/chinese-warship-tracked-off-wa-coast-c-6784533

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
May 13, 2022 2:45 pm

Labor supports cost recovery from people in immigration detention

Does anyone really believe that Labor will do anything?

They just want to make the Libs look delinquent in their duties – and in a sphere where the Liberals have are able to claim success and Labor has proven a dismal failure: Borders.

There is no way Labor will implement the policy it is pretending anyone serious about borders would. They will throw open the borders by the afternoon that Albo gets sworn in. And the idea of in any way penalising someone here illegally (mostly people overstaying work visas) might by some technicality be extended to fat balding bearded men posing as teenagers from the Middle East busted for fondling a pre-pubescent girl under her swimsuit in a swimming pool.

The injustice!

132andBush
132andBush
May 13, 2022 2:49 pm

Rex,
My clip offers a few options and finishes with the only one that makes sense.

I hope Gez appreciates our research.

Bluey
Bluey
May 13, 2022 2:50 pm

I don’t think Labor will actually do anything regarding the immigration detention, but it’s sure to infuriate their voters. Just look at the comments under that tweet.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
May 13, 2022 2:53 pm

Ah!
The Putin Pest control method.
Triumphal music required as the incendiaries are set off.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
May 13, 2022 2:56 pm

Rex,
My clip offers a few options and finishes with the only one that makes sense.

I hope Gez appreciates our research

I’m sure he has. 🙂

Boambee John
Boambee John
May 13, 2022 2:57 pm

Tom

Still it’s amazing the destruction wrought in the West by the CCP’s biological weapons program (part-financed by the US Deep State with the help of the CCP-paid-for puppet US president).

Going by the hard lockdowns in Chinerr now, they haven’t exactly come out on top. BW can be a two-edged sword.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
May 13, 2022 2:57 pm

Tomsays:

May 13, 2022 at 1:59 pm

Mrs TE and I came down with Chinese bat-flu earlier this week.

I had it last week, TE. Thankfully, areff gave me a course of Ivermectin and the Kung Flu was gone in three days.

Mrs Panzer and I had it about three weeks ago.
One day in bed sleeping solid for nearly 24 hours, three days of backaches and headaches and then three days of milking it for sympathy.
Not great, but not worth shutting the world for (accepting that Batflu 1.1 and 1.2 were probably worse and also accepting that some get hit harder than others).
I had already decided that the balance had tipped. Whilst, for me, the balance of risks of flu vs vax for the early variants fell in favour of the vax, I wasn’t getting a booster* to avoid or mitigate Omicon.
….
* Except if it would piss off St Ruth.
Then it’s boosters all the way down.

Indolent
Indolent
May 13, 2022 3:02 pm
Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
May 13, 2022 3:05 pm

The plasterboard pest control discussion seems to have escalated into what might be called a “disproportionate response”.
I apologise if my excessive enthusiasm contributed in any way.
You see, I am fighting the battle of the Army Worm in my lawn, and the chemical warfare has reached the stage of …

“Fuck dilution. The next spray is going on neat.”

rosie
rosie
May 13, 2022 3:12 pm

Thanks Mole.
Netflix deserves it.

Roger
Roger
May 13, 2022 3:12 pm

Make of it what you will…

Unconfirmed reports General V. Gerasimov has been “purged” along with some other top brass.

I can think of worse things than retiring to a dacha in Crimea.

Like getting picked off by a UKR sniper while visiting the front line, for instance.

Indolent
Indolent
May 13, 2022 3:14 pm

They will all be made to pay.

By whom?

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
May 13, 2022 3:21 pm

If youve ever wondered if evil people know they are evil… this should set you straight.

A serial bad decisions maker gets a dose of university feminism and the gruinmaid celebrate her ongoing efforts to murder as many pre-born as possible.

I became the abortion lady of Mississippi’: the mother of seven who devoted her life to the pro-choice cause

lowlights.
She had twins already, having got pregnant and married at 16 (though the marriage didn’t last). By the time she was 25, Bertram Roberts, now 44, had seven children. She had wanted to terminate one of these pregnancies – her health was suffering so soon after her previous birth, and she was a single parent living in poverty. It seemed impossible to have another baby, but when she arrived at the clinic, she found she couldn’t afford the abortion. “I got turned away, and then I ended up being too far along. The trauma of that, even though I love my child … I came to terms with having to stay pregnant, but not everybody does. I was fortunate – I had my mom and my grandmother to help me.

Bertram Roberts, who identifies as a non-binary femme*, is executive director of the Yellowhammer Fund, an organisation based in Alabama that provides abortion care and campaigns for reproductive justice.

It will disproportionately affect women of colour, who accounted for nearly 67% of abortions in Alabama in 2019, and those living below the poverty level, who will be more likely to self-manage abortion with pills at the risk of being caught, “and criminalisation is going to disproportionately fall on black and brown bodies, because it always does.” Forced birth, says Bertram Roberts, “is going to kill people. You can’t force people to stay pregnant and then not expect that people are going to die, when it’s more risky to give birth than to have an abortion.** And that’s just in general, that’s not even specific to black women.”

Then, she says, “life happened***, and I became a teenage mom and wife. I got pregnant again and again and again, and you just learned that no issue is as black and white as anti-abortion activists try to make it seem.”

University – where she embraced racial justice and feminist campaigning**** – politicised her

Involved with the local branch of the National Organization for Women (NOW), she was the only person who would go on television to talk about the incendiary issue of abortion. “A lot of people had jobs to lose,” she says. Bertram Roberts was unable to work because of chronic health problems. “You can’t fire me from being disabled*****,” she says with a laugh. “What are you going to do?

* I think this is code for “cant get anyone drunk enough to lift her FUPA and have sex with it”.
** Kermit Gosnel smiles…
*** You made serial bad choices, you arent a houseplant that nobody watered.
**** Wow, who would ever guess doing a meme course as opposed to a qualification in an actual occupation would lead to a life of dysfunction and continuing shit choices.
***** Fat… morbidly obese and self disabled from further serial bad life choices.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
May 13, 2022 3:22 pm

What a complete fuckwit.

Chief Health Officer, Victoria
@VictorianCHO
I’m down with COVID. Feeling pretty rubbish, tbh. Razor blade throat and painful cough. Clearly not the same for everyone. Can’t imagine how it might have been – for me – without three doses of vax. Good on science.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
May 13, 2022 3:23 pm

Indolentsays:

May 13, 2022 at 3:14 pm

They will all be made to pay.

By whom?

The People.
Of course.

H B Bear
H B Bear
May 13, 2022 3:24 pm

There is no ‘e’ in masturbate, St Ruth.
There is definitely a ‘u’ though.

I told youse. No book lernin’.

shatterzzz
May 13, 2022 3:26 pm

Lotza theories on what wins an election coming out but out here in turtle/KK land the best message has come from the Greens thus ensuring both McMahon & Fowler will stay Labor fiefdoms!
The Greens policy issue of a rise in various benefits to $88 a day is the big winner! .. cos 60% of all voters here are on benefit of some sort and 85% of the ethnic vote relies, soley, on gummint largesse ..
Climate change .. inflation .. just don’t cut it compared to more moolah in the fortnightly handout .. They noze that a Green dream can change into a Labor promise very quickly ..!
……. Going with the pie-in-the-sky promises short-term can b erisky but winning is all that matters cos in 3 years you can re-hash the same promises and they’ll still be believed .. LOL!

Indolent
Indolent
May 13, 2022 3:28 pm

And for this we closed down thousand of businesses across Australia!

A feature, not a bug.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
May 13, 2022 3:28 pm

Indolentsays:

May 13, 2022 at 3:14 pm

They will all be made to pay.

By whom?

The Mastercard Man and his crony Visa will come for them, Indolent.

Just as they come for us all…

#PayYourBills,Fucko!

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
May 13, 2022 3:30 pm

Clearly not the same for everyone. Can’t imagine how it might have been – for me – without three doses of vax. Good on science.

Let’s just pull this statement apart.
If it is “not the same for everyone” how can he objectively measure whether “three doses of vax” made any difference?
If he “can’t imagine” how it might have been, in the absence of an unvaxxed clone infected simultaneously, he can’t be quoting “da science”.
In my case it was about six months post my second dose.
By their own admissions in their campaigns for boosters they were saying protection has waned after six months.
Therefore, I had low or no protection and got milder symptoms than Bretty-Boy.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
May 13, 2022 3:31 pm

#PayYourBills,Fucko!

Oh wait- That’s Comstar’s angle…

Winston Smith
May 13, 2022 3:32 pm

Calli:

What is causing the shortage? Is it a flow-on from covid lockdowns (though I’m not sure the US stopped everything like we did) or have the Daigu moved in on the US because our borders remained closed?

Not the Daigu – I doubt they can’t get bulk shipments back home to China
Have you noticed how many shortages and crippling price rises come back to government intervention in the economy?
This is the crisis that is being put together for the Democrats to stop the Mid Terms.

Zipster
Zipster
May 13, 2022 3:34 pm

I’m down with COVID. Feeling pretty rubbish, tbh. Razor blade throat and painful cough. Clearly not the same for everyone. Can’t imagine how it might have been – for me – without three doses of vax. Good on science.

but we can clearly imagine a vaccine that actually worked….

Indolent
Indolent
May 13, 2022 3:34 pm
Rex Anger
Rex Anger
May 13, 2022 3:34 pm

I’ve seen a lot of that “Thank the vaxxxxxxx my Batflu is so not nasty” meme about.

I think it’s lodged a bit too deeply to disappear completely over the next Flu season or three. And more’s the pity.

#ManFlu

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
May 13, 2022 3:35 pm

Rex.

Stolen, pinched, liberated and taken…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=01iJiiaK5Ac

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
May 13, 2022 3:35 pm

Just unbelievable. Crazy doesn’t cover it.

Democrat Rep. Katie Porter says increasing abortions would help Americans deal with high inflation

Someone’s being creative with their talking points for the week, Indolent.

Let’s see what the Democrats’ Meme Generator comes up with next… 🙂

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
May 13, 2022 3:35 pm

Farmer Gezsays:

May 13, 2022 at 3:22 pm

What a complete fuckwit.

Gez, reading between the lines of that very guarded and qualified statement, he is really saying “Omicron is a bust”.
Compare and contrast with the “deadly Delta” and “devious Delta” reporting. If this was six months ago it would be “Brave Brett Battles Covid” and a lecture about “Vax or Die”.

Zipster
Zipster
May 13, 2022 3:36 pm

Anyone watching Sky (I don’t access atm) – Dutton is giving a presser as apparently there’s a Chinese warship off WA coast?

he’s just mapping the seafloor for the subs

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
May 13, 2022 3:39 pm

Compare and contrast with the “deadly Delta” and “devious Delta” reporting

What about “Drop-dead gorgeous Delta?”

I could cheerfully contract that variant… 🙂

#StopThat!

Zipster
Zipster
May 13, 2022 3:39 pm

The Russian Defense Ministry stated that during the special operation of the RF Armed Forces it was possible to obtain additional information about bio-incidents in Ukraine.

“Materials were studied that testify to the deliberate use in 2020 of the causative agent of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis to infect the population of the Slavyanoserbsky district of the LPR,” the ministry said.

In addition, the Ministry of Defense reported that counterfeit money distributed in 2020 in the LPR was infected with a strain of tuberculosis resistant to anti-TB drugs and distributed among minors. The organizers of the crime took into account the behavior of children who “pull everything into their mouths” and take food with unwashed hands.

@izvestia
The Russian Defense Ministry said that the ideologists of the US military-biological activities in Ukraine are the leaders of the Democratic Party. The involvement of controlled organizations and the increase in their income brings them additional funds for election campaigns, making it possible to hide their distribution.

Through American government agencies, a legislative framework was created to finance military biological research directly from the federal budget. Under state guarantees, funds were raised from organizations controlled by the leadership of the Democratic Party, for example: the Clinton, Rockefeller, Soros, Biden funds.

According to the department: large pharmaceutical companies are also involved in this scheme: Pfizer, Moderna, Merck, and Gilead, affiliated with the US military department.

@izvestia

Indolent
Indolent
May 13, 2022 3:40 pm
Rex Anger
Rex Anger
May 13, 2022 3:42 pm

Stop it, Indolent!

We’ll run out of Simpsons memes before we hit Saturday. 🙁

Speaking of your milk article upthread, I am sure a solution has already been arrived at…

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
May 13, 2022 3:45 pm

If this was six months ago it would be “Brave Brett Battles Covid” and a lecture about “Vax or Die”.

Possibly Sancho.
Brett can now go back to turning the lights off in hospital wards.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
May 13, 2022 3:47 pm

What about “Drop-dead gorgeous Delta?”

Ooooh, aaaaah … NURSE!!!!

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
May 13, 2022 3:48 pm

Possibly Sancho.
Brett can now go back to turning the lights off in hospital wards.

And casually dropping inverbrates in commercial kitchens.

132andBush
132andBush
May 13, 2022 3:48 pm

Anecdotal;
The people I know who’ve had Covid and suffered the worst symptoms have all been jabbed three times.
I directly know 12 people who are non jabbed (me included) and only one has caught it (SIL) and she barely had a sniffle.

Zipster
Zipster
May 13, 2022 3:48 pm

Russia Bans Gas Flows to Europe Through Key Yamal Pipeline
Gazprom can’t deal with the owner of Polish section of Yamal
Russian government order has also reduced gas flows to Germany

Dot
Dot
May 13, 2022 3:49 pm

Say what you want about Brett Sutton, but now he’s a Survivor (TM).

Zipster
Zipster
May 13, 2022 3:54 pm

Growing proportion of COVID deaths occurring among vaccinated: ABC News analysis
‘These data should not be interpreted as vaccines not working,’ one expert said.

safe AND effective!

m0nty
May 13, 2022 3:54 pm

Morrison getting desperate, rolling out Dutton to intone sonorously about amphibious communists coming to kill us… 250 miles off the coast of some godforsaken part of WA.

So desperate, in fact, that Morrison has started apologising profusely for being himself today.

Zyconoclast
Zyconoclast
May 13, 2022 3:55 pm

Russia’s top commander General Valery Gerasimov has been suspended, a top adviser to the Ukrainian president has claimed…

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
May 13, 2022 3:59 pm

132andBush says:
May 13, 2022 at 3:48 pm
Anecdotal;
The people I know who’ve had Covid and suffered the worst symptoms have all been jabbed three times.

I know one mate who’s never been jabbed and caught the covid. He was crook in bed for a few days but came good and said he felt great after. He’s a muso/farmer and has opinions that are a bit out there but that’s the fun in knowing him.

jupes
jupes
May 13, 2022 4:04 pm

So desperate, in fact, that Morrison has started apologising profusely for being himself today.

I think you’re on the wrong blog M0nty you idiot. Everyone here hates the SFLs.

Top Ender
Top Ender
May 13, 2022 4:14 pm

On illegal immigration.

Forget where I read it, but the other day read an article that said that around six Middle Eastern blokes had claimed to be married to the same (British?) lady in order to gain entry.

Another piece of the same article was reporting about 95% of people claiming to be teenagers were in fact much older. One was balding, too.

Roger
Roger
May 13, 2022 4:14 pm

So desperate, in fact, that Morrison has started apologising profusely for being himself today.

Really?

I want some grovelling. With tears…

Roger
Roger
May 13, 2022 4:18 pm

Dutton is giving a presser as apparently there’s a Chinese warship off WA coast

West Australians can relax.

They’re on their way to a friendly port, Melbourne.

John H.
John H.
May 13, 2022 4:19 pm

jupessays:
May 13, 2022 at 4:04 pm
So desperate, in fact, that Morrison has started apologising profusely for being himself today.

I think you’re on the wrong blog M0nty you idiot. Everyone here hates the SFLs.

Morrison apologised for being a bulldozer. He even got that wrong. He should be apologising for speaking so much bullshit. His biggest problem now is that people have stopped believing him yet he thinks stating he will change is believable.

132andBush
132andBush
May 13, 2022 4:22 pm
Winston Smith
May 13, 2022 4:23 pm

Rabz:
She bought mostly crap she didn’t need.

Boambee John
Boambee John
May 13, 2022 4:24 pm

m0ntysays:
May 13, 2022 at 3:54 pm
Morrison getting desperate, rolling out Dutton to intone sonorously about amphibious communists coming to kill us… 250 miles off the coast of some godforsaken part of WA.

munty getting desperate. Imagine what the Liars would say if there had been no announcement.

H B Bear
H B Bear
May 13, 2022 4:25 pm

Chinese invasion? There goes the surplus.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
May 13, 2022 4:26 pm

m0ntysays:

May 13, 2022 at 3:54 pm

Morrison getting desperate, rolling out Dutton to intone sonorously about amphibious communists …

I am more concerned about corpulent communists running tipping comps from their basement.

H B Bear
H B Bear
May 13, 2022 4:27 pm

SloMo looking for a Tampa. Too late methinks.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
May 13, 2022 4:27 pm

Zipster says:
May 13, 2022 at 3:54 pm
Growing proportion of COVID deaths occurring among vaccinated: ABC News analysis

The NSW weekly summary of covid cases has now dropped the table that showed the vax status of hospitalisations.
Deaths by status disappeared a while ago. It’s almost as if they’re hiding something.

Cassie of Sydney
May 13, 2022 4:29 pm

So Morrison is admitting that he’s been a bully?

Struth
May 13, 2022 4:29 pm

There is no ‘e’ in masturbate, St Ruth.
There is definitely a ‘u’ though.

I’ll defer to your expertise on the subject.
However when you’re as good at it as Grey ranga, maybe there should be.

Meanwhile you jabbed retards all sit here within the last 30 or so comments openly showing us your insanity through brainwashing, and admit to getting sick from covid.
Yet the facts are.

You don’t know it’s not just a regular cold or flu you got.
Only a FUCKING SPACE CADET would believe the fucking tests two years down the track after what has been proven about them.

You caught a fucking normal cold or flu.
Yes you did.

The one they renamed covid.
And there’s more than one…..but they all disappeared when they got renamed!!!!

Don’t you think it’s strange that no matter how I rename Sancho of the Slip lane he never disappears, but people at war with us rename a FUCKING COLD and the original cold disappears?

Can you fucking twats work out why I’m a litle, just a little “over” your FUCKING BRAINWASHED INSANITY.?

All that’s happening now is what the people you dismiss as kooks have told us all along, like Robert Malone and Peter McCullough…..your immune system is being destroyed and your catching every little cold coming your way that you once would not have even known you had as your immune system would have fought it off.

VAIDS it’s called Aquired Immune deficiency…..aquired by the jab.

Plain and fucking simple and anyone with half a fucking brain not lost to fear propaganda can see it a mile off.

Those who have fallen to it and have also had the jab, have a desperate desire to want to believe they haven’t been taken for the fools they are.
You got done.
And I was trying to warn you, but all I got was I was a conspiracy theorist and a nanna killer.

Think back to what you were like in 2020 and how absolutely lost to the bullshit many of you were, and your attitude towards me and people like twostix and a few others, because I can guarantee, you’re only getting back what you gave.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
May 13, 2022 4:30 pm

Winston Smith says:
May 13, 2022 at 4:23 pm
Rabz:
She bought mostly crap she didn’t need.

I think it’s a political statement from the Teal ladies of leisure.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
May 13, 2022 4:33 pm

132andBush says:
May 13, 2022 at 3:48 pm
Anecdotal;
The people I know who’ve had Covid and suffered the worst symptoms have all been jabbed three times.

That is the problem.
Anecdotal.
My experience is that Omicron is pretty mild.
But as soon as I say that, some people will counter with, “Ooh, but X got really crook with it”.
In a couple of cases I am tempted to come back with, “But X is a renowned attention-seeking, malingering hypochondriac”, but there is little point.
Maybe we could have poured some of those wasted resources into figuring out what genetic factors made some people more susceptible than others (apart from known co-morbities).

Winston Smith
May 13, 2022 4:34 pm

Mandatory evacuations were issued for residents of Coronado Pointe and Pacific Island Drive areas.
Orange County Fire Authority Chief Brian Fennessy said the fire was driven mostly by the wind in an area with “thick vegetation that has not burned in probably decades.”

Please excuse me for not really giving a damn about idiots who refuse to allow regular burning because climate change.
Hows that gerbil wormening in your kitchen now?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
May 13, 2022 4:36 pm

The message at 4:29 was brought to you by Dr Nick Riviera.

Delta A
Delta A
May 13, 2022 4:38 pm

What about “Drop-dead gorgeous Delta?”

You rang?

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
May 13, 2022 4:42 pm

Speaking of your milk article upthread, I am sure a solution has already been arrived at…

Mine is superior.

Do not fall for cheap imitations.

/Is not the sentence ‘shut up you titty monster” worthy of the great bard himself?

areff
areff
May 13, 2022 4:42 pm

Anyone seen the Archibald winner? The descent of Western Civ continues.

Top Ender
Top Ender
May 13, 2022 4:46 pm

The Wong chap:

“So, I am pleased to announce today that, if elected, Labor will deliver a First Nations foreign policy that weaves the voices and practices of the world’s oldest continuing culture into the way we talk to the world, and in the work of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.”

Ms Wong continued, explaining an Albanese Labor government would appoint an ambassador for First Nations People.

“We will ensure First Nations peoples have a stronger voice in our engagement with the world, deepening their long-held ties across countries of the Indo-Pacific,” she said.

“The Uluru Statement gives us the chance to be a more unified nation, stronger and more resilient at home and in the world. And Australians understand why that matters.”

Sky

rosie
rosie
May 13, 2022 4:47 pm

I haven’t caught a cold since I started looking after my grandson, that was in early 2021, got two in quick succession then zip, zilch, nada.
I blame the vaxx.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
May 13, 2022 4:48 pm

“The Uluru Statement gives us the chance to be a more unified nation, stronger and more resilient at home and in the world. And Australians understand why that matters.”

One simple question to scupper the whole “Ares Rock statement from the heart”.

Is this the final demand?
If not then what is.

Roger
Roger
May 13, 2022 4:50 pm

Is this the final demand?
If not then what is.

Sovereignty.

John H.
John H.
May 13, 2022 4:50 pm

Sancho Panzersays:
May 13, 2022 at 4:33 pm
132andBush says:
May 13, 2022 at 3:48 pm
Anecdotal;
The people I know who’ve had Covid and suffered the worst symptoms have all been jabbed three times.

That is the problem.
Anecdotal.
My experience is that Omicron is pretty mild.
But as soon as I say that, some people will counter with, “Ooh, but X got really crook with it”.
In a couple of cases I am tempted to come back with, “But X is a renowned attention-seeking, malingering hypochondriac”, but there is little point.
Maybe we could have poured some of those wasted resources into figuring out what genetic factors made some people more susceptible than others (apart from known co-morbities).

There is active research into susceptibility variance. Genes are part of that picture. For example, MHC variance plays an important role in immune responses. Inflammation driven by obesity is obviously a major problem. Inflammaging is also an issue. Naive T cell availability is another issue. There is even research on circadian dynamics, which is so obvious even I thought of that.

The problem isn’t that the research isn’t being done, the problem is there so many potential variables to consider(PVN, SOCs, TNFRs, Il-1ra, il-2, 8 etc etc).

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
May 13, 2022 4:52 pm

Let’s just try not to overdo the Not Quite Entirely Safe For Work content, Mole.

Not because there is anything wrong with it, of course. 😀

But it might distract from more important things. Like DeAtH CaMps, dying of cock-smoking and Russia’s next impending Feint in the Donbass… 😉

calli
calli
May 13, 2022 4:56 pm

Sitting in my Darwin apartment overlooking the national park and wharves, twelve storeys up, chilled glass of something imbibable in my hand.

Drove in during a torrential downpour, zero visibility. So we stopped on the side of the road and enjoyed the tropics. Then decided to go and vote in Briggs Street which had unaccountably become “Bridge Street” on the GPS so we had a tour of Tropical Kellyville before realising we were in the wrong place. Having arrived, we ran the gauntlet of noisy political spruikers to lodge our absentee vote. For all the good it will do.

I have visited two nurseries and I have shopped. The orchid place was unbelievable. I have acquired some ground orchids, vandas and two small cattleyas – this is what typifies plant lovers – we live in hope. Also those ixoras and some other beautiful foliage plants, so beautiful in the tropics. I am now riding gunshot on the washing machine while the Beloved hunts and gathers. I think fish may be on the menu tonight. 😀

Delta A
Delta A
May 13, 2022 4:57 pm

Struthsays:
May 13, 2022 at 4:29 pm

Omicron is NOT a normal cold or flu.

The symptoms and the development of the virus are quite unique. Not dangerous, unless one has severe comorbidities.* Not even particularly miserable, as is a good old fashioned cold. But no matter how loudly Struth shrieks, it is NOT a cold.

*I have three major comorbidities, including blood cancer. I didn’t need to spend even one day in bed with Omicron.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
May 13, 2022 4:58 pm

Rogersays:

May 13, 2022 at 4:50 pm

Is this the final demand?
If not then what is.

Sovereignty.

The pathway will go as follows:-
.1 It will be sold as a “Voice to Parliament” with no legislative weight for the purposes of “R”;
.2 Any MHR or Senator who votes against “Voice” resolutions, or any journalist who writes unfavourably about them will be hounded up hill and down dale as a racist;
.3 Judicial Mordies will find the “Voice” irresistible when searching for a hook to overturn common law and legislation;
.4 Some sort of fucked up sovereignty will follow.

H B Bear
H B Bear
May 13, 2022 4:58 pm

If your cock smoking best not to inhale. Slick Willie style.

Struth
May 13, 2022 4:59 pm

Let’s see.
Believe Sancho of the sickbed, or those who signed the Barrington declaration?

Just remember simpletons, many here were so lost to what was obvious propaganda right from the start, that after six months or so of trying to get the level of hysteria down, and with Notafan accusing me of Nanna killing, KD saying I’m a grifter etc, of seeing people just shit themselves and totally lose the plot, I took a year away for my own mental health as it was fucking depressing.
All those so called conservatives, with all there high and mighty principles ,lost in an instant as they shit themselves like babies.

Some of you who think you’ve regained your sanity, are playing with yourselves………..

And here’s the clue.
You can’t think logically.
You can’t seem to remember the things that would allow you to come to logical conclusions because you’ve blocked them out.

I’ve watched you, since 2020 and it’s sickening.
The realities are denied, or ignored.

Yet the reason I keep pointing it out is because it’s not over.
Not by a long shot.

You are still going to have to stand or fall as necessary, we all are, as much as KD scoffs at it like people have never had to at any time in history before. You won’t be able to live in denial much longer.
Ther eality isn’t good, but you’ve let them have their way with your body, why give them your mind as well?
Do you think they want your body or your mind?

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
May 13, 2022 5:01 pm

Meanwhile you jabbed retards

Maybe that’s why everyone who isn’t Struth sounds perfectly reasonable and coherent when conversing with each other- We all speak rEtArD.

Though, that does not explain how we are able to converse freely and amicably with the substantial pureblooded and refusenik populations on the Cat as well.

Maybe we vaxxxxxxed and unvaxxxxxxed Cats alike are not the ReTaRdS, after all?

calli
calli
May 13, 2022 5:01 pm

Anyone seen the Archibald winner?

Ahahahaha! Yes!

Angry POC with buckets. With an unmistakable pop-art theme.

Why bother learning a craft? Just daub junk and win money.

Struth
May 13, 2022 5:02 pm

Omicron is NOT a normal cold or flu.

The symptoms and the development of the virus are quite unique. Not dangerous, unless one has severe comorbidities.* Not even particularly miserable, as is a good old fashioned cold. But no matter how loudly Struth shrieks, it is NOT a cold.

*I have three major comorbidities, including blood cancer. I didn’t need to spend even one day in bed with Omicron.

Christ almighty.

Can you let the CHO of Victoria know, he says it effects everyone differently.
Thank god you’re about to set him straight.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
May 13, 2022 5:02 pm

Is this the final demand?
If not then what is.

Sovereignty, all funded by the whitefella taxpayer.

Struth
May 13, 2022 5:04 pm

*I have three major comorbidities, including blood cancer. I didn’t need to spend even one day in bed with Omicron.

But you do need a couch, with a shrink sitting next to it.

You’re not the only one here, nothing personal.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
May 13, 2022 5:04 pm

But no matter how loudly Struth shrieks, it is NOT a cold.

Awww Delta, now I won’t be able to use it as a Manflu excuse!

Though, while the Amgers have had a visitation from Ohmigod, it only ever afflicted my sister who brought it in. And 3 weeks after she stopped feeling crap and bedbound, none of the rest of us still have it.

Those Wuhan folks need the following endorsement in their Party dossiers:

“Must Try Harder.”

Roger
Roger
May 13, 2022 5:05 pm

Some sort of fucked up sovereignty will follow.

With reparations attached.

H B Bear
H B Bear
May 13, 2022 5:06 pm
Delta A
Delta A
May 13, 2022 5:06 pm

he says it effects everyone differently.

‘Affects’, Struth. Affects.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
May 13, 2022 5:07 pm

Let’s just try not to overdo the Not Quite Entirely Safe For Work content, Mole.

All fully clothed, no rude words and only cartoons.
My conscience in this matter is clear.

My motives however…
Im just a saint, a saint i tell you.

jupes
jupes
May 13, 2022 5:07 pm

Is this the final demand?

No. It never is.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
May 13, 2022 5:07 pm

You are still going to have to stand or fall as necessary

You stay away from my Cenotaphs and Shrines of Remembrance, Struth.

You’ll either burn yourself on the Eternal Flame, drown yourself in a Pool of Remembrance or poke your eyes out on any protruding edges.

Or worse, impale yourself on one of the torpedos at the Freo Memorial…

H B Bear
H B Bear
May 13, 2022 5:08 pm

kd wrong and ambassador Pascoe. What could wrong?

Could be a long 3 years.

132andBush
132andBush
May 13, 2022 5:08 pm

But as soon as I say that, some people will counter with, “Ooh, but X got really crook with it”.

That’s what happens.

My counter to that is the story of the first bloke I know of who caught it back in May 2020. As wide as he is tall, just had an operation for bowel cancer and was undergoing chemo. Hardly had a sniffle.

You point at the stats showing who is dying (the elderly) but because of the hysteria whipped up by the MSM no one listened.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
May 13, 2022 5:08 pm

Mole, my dear fellow,

I am sorry to say that your link is broken…

Roger
Roger
May 13, 2022 5:09 pm

“The Uluru Statement gives us the chance to be a more unified nation, stronger and more resilient at home and in the world. And Australians understand why that matters.”

I don’t know which Australians Senator Wrong has been talking to in order to form this view, but ABC’s Vote Compass – a sampling of more “enlightened” and “progressive” views, one would have thought – finds that indigenous issues are of importance in this election for only 1% of respondents.

Delta A
Delta A
May 13, 2022 5:11 pm

But you do need a couch, with a shrink sitting next to it

For what reason?

I have no psychiatric (or psychological) disorders. I am just reasonably annoyed with hysterics who try to shout me into their way of thinking.

Believe it or not, Struth, you are not in any way superior to anyone here.

H B Bear
H B Bear
May 13, 2022 5:11 pm

… finds that indigenous issues are of importance in this election for only 1% of respondents.

Remember the Golden Rule.

Struth
May 13, 2022 5:13 pm

Delta, can you show us the official medical journals describing the symptoms of Omnicon please?

Then answer me one question.
Did all the flus you caught in your life have exactly the same symptoms?
Did all the colds?

Why do people call some head colds, and others are on the lungs?

You of course, being a medical expert in Omnicon, can tell us all these things.
Can you tell us why fruit and coca cola can produce positive test results, while a hyperchondriac knows she has long covid even though the tests come back negative?
(she’s also been jabbed, but that can’t be it, can it?)

132andBush
132andBush
May 13, 2022 5:13 pm

Struth says:
May 13, 2022 at 5:04 pm

*I have three major comorbidities, including blood cancer. I didn’t need to spend even one day in bed with Omicron.

But you do need a couch, with a shrink sitting next to it.

You’re not the only one here, nothing personal.

You’re doing the equivalent of blasting through town in the middle of the night with the Jake on all the way instead of just “lifting off” a bit sooner.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
May 13, 2022 5:13 pm

As bad as monty is, he’s no Iampeter.

Iampeter (for better or worse) had a staying power no mortal should ever posess.

The way the man could weeble back upright day after day after being knocked flat and having his pseudointellectual tyres shot out from under him was something to behold.

I miss making him rage. 🙁

#NostalgiaIsNice,

#ButBestNotRepeated

Delta A
Delta A
May 13, 2022 5:14 pm

Did all the flus you caught in your life have exactly the same symptoms?
Did all the colds?

Yes.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
May 13, 2022 5:15 pm

Try again..

Even google impugns my purity of spirit.

Im just a saint, a saint i tell you.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
May 13, 2022 5:15 pm

Omnicon

Pretty sure that’s a type of Transformer, Struth.

Try to use the correct terms- It makes our jobs a little harder…

Struth
May 13, 2022 5:16 pm

I never claimed superiority, but I have a better bullshit detector than those that have fallen to fear propaganda.
So put your money where your mouth is Delta, and give us the officaila symptoms of Omnicon.
It’s not a cold as you say……..

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
May 13, 2022 5:16 pm

Dot:

Say what you want about Brett Sutton,

Righto. He’s a mincing fuckwit.

I trust he was saved by the doona and pillowcases featuring himself.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
May 13, 2022 5:16 pm

Im just a saint, a saint i tell you.

You’re just a soul whose intentions are good… 😉

#OLawd

#PleaseDon’tLetHeBe

#Misunderstood

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
May 13, 2022 5:17 pm

I never claimed superiority,

Yeah…

but I have a better bullshit detector than those that have fallen to fear propaganda.

Nah.

John H.
John H.
May 13, 2022 5:17 pm

Rogersays:
May 13, 2022 at 5:09 pm
“The Uluru Statement gives us the chance to be a more unified nation, stronger and more resilient at home and in the world. And Australians understand why that matters.”

I don’t know which Australians Senator Wrong has been talking to in order to form this view, but ABC’s Vote Compass – a sampling of more “enlightened” and “progressive” views, one would have thought – finds that indigenous issues are of importance in this election for only 1% of respondents.

Roger I think most people are long over it. In my experience people don’t even discuss it and that includes the indigenous people I have known. This is far more interesting than all the blather about indigenous issues.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/rE2dCLLXmQQ

Struth
May 13, 2022 5:19 pm

The only symptoms different from a cold that they talk about are the symptoms ONLY THE JABBED experience, which they now call covid symptoms.

But the unjabbed aren’t getting sick and aren’t dying from any of this shit.

Struth
May 13, 2022 5:21 pm

Did all the flus you caught in your life have exactly the same symptoms?
Did all the colds?

Yes.

See what the sane are up against?
Stubborn denialsim.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
May 13, 2022 5:21 pm

Delta I gave you an uptick but somehow you got 4, you deserve them.

MatrixTransform
May 13, 2022 5:21 pm

You realise you’ve just plonked yourself into the Scientific Materialists that Matrix linked to, don’t you?

I think you’ll find that Indolent linked and article and I referred to the article using the same link
but don’t let facts or common sense get in the way

it’s like a mother’s club in this joint

What is scientific materialism?

fucked if know.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
May 13, 2022 5:21 pm

You are still going to have to stand or fall as necessary, we all are, as much as KD scoffs

Which option are you choosing, St. Ruth?

Option 3? The sitting option?

‘Stand, fall, or sit as necessary’ doesn’t have the same ring to it.

Top Ender
Top Ender
May 13, 2022 5:24 pm

Of course!

Sydney artist Blak Douglas has won the Archibald Prize

This is Blak, and his prize winner.

This is the bio of ol’ mate Black, aka Adam Douglas Hill

“But mummy, said the child. “The Emperor has no clothes on, and Blak and the lady in the pic are white.””

No grants for you, my boy.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
May 13, 2022 5:24 pm

Remember the Golden Rule.

Kick the swine when they are down?
Never give a sucker an even chance?
If there are 5 people playing poker and you dont know who the mark is, its you?
Or the original and the best

chrisl
chrisl
May 13, 2022 5:25 pm

Does anybody who follows AFL have trouble knowing the names of the players on their own team , let alone the players on the opposition team ?
Can anybody name a single player for Fremantle?
The turnover of players is enormous.
Sometimes they come up as a 100 game player and I have never heard of them.
And they all seem to be named Jack or Jeremy or Chad
Where have all the Peters gone ?

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
May 13, 2022 5:25 pm

Gollum gollum.

Liberal Party responds to Labor’s The Lord of the Rings advertisement with Gollum-like depiction of Anthony Albanese (13 May)

The Liberal party have responded to a Labor election advertisement by releasing a bizarre video of Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese depicted as Gollum.

Labor earlier used this depiction of Scott Morrison appearing as Gollum over his resistance to support the wage rise put forward by Mr Albanese.

Sounds right to me. May the best Gollum win.

Roger
Roger
May 13, 2022 5:27 pm

Remember the Golden Rule.

Kick the swine when they are down?

There are no votes in indigenous issues.

Top Ender
Top Ender
May 13, 2022 5:29 pm

Calli, in that hotel you are right in the line of the first bomber strike on Darwin.

They hit the wharf, the Administrator’s Residence behind you, and the Post Office behind that – where Parliament House now stands.

calli
calli
May 13, 2022 5:30 pm

What is scientific materialism?

Oddly enough, a quick Google will tell you.

Scientific materialism is a term used mainly by proponents of creationism and intelligent design to describe scientists who have a materialist worldview. The stance has been attributed to philosopher George Santayana.

Sounds about right.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
May 13, 2022 5:31 pm

Ken I only pick on you coz you deserve it for crapping on for last 2 years about how wonderful you are and everyone of us except a few are responsible for your situation as if its only you. Blaming everyone else does you no credit and you’ve burnt any you had before. Any semblance of normality is long gone. Get off the couch, get over yourself and think about what you can do in the future. I seriously doubt you’re capable anymore. If you don’t pull your finger out of your arse you won’t have a future and that exactly the same as so many here. Grow up or go and sook somewhere else.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
May 13, 2022 5:33 pm

and the Post Office behind that – where Parliament House now stands.

So you are saying they were off target by 80 odd years?
Hell of an overshot.

calli
calli
May 13, 2022 5:34 pm

Thanks TE.

We’re off to the Parap markets tomorrow, then I think we’ll have a look in the tunnels. Dinner cruise afterwards as is fitting for we lotus eaters.

My first impression of Darwin is very positive. Not quite sure what I expected, but not this. Of course, post Tracey everything was re-built. I still had the images of a flattened town in my mind as we drove in.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
May 13, 2022 5:36 pm

then I think we’ll have a look in the tunnels.

What?

Are you insane?

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
May 13, 2022 5:38 pm

TE did you know the Administrator took off straight away with the money. His assistant who I believe was of chinese extraction got the money back and returned to Darwin to continue his position. A guy I used know wrote something about it in the 80’s.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
May 13, 2022 5:38 pm

By the way did people know there is no practical limit to the number of times a 4 year old can say the word ‘trains” after their first visit to a train museum?

As in,
I want to go back to the…
When are we going back to…
Are we going to the…
We go now to the…

and a few hundred variants.
But the http://www.railheritagewa.org.au/museum/pages/bassendean/ museum is a good little 1/2 a day for a kid.
But beware the goblins in the back shed, they called themselves miniature railway enthusiasts but i knew better.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
May 13, 2022 5:38 pm

Delta Asays:

May 13, 2022 at 4:57 pm

Struthsays:
May 13, 2022 at 4:29 pm

Omicron is NOT a normal cold or flu.

No, it isn’t.
In my case it was mild, but that isn’t true for everyone.
But it was not “the cold” as diagnosed by Dr Nick Riviera earlier.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
May 13, 2022 5:39 pm

Calli don’t eat the poorly cooked smallgoods.

Zipster
Zipster
May 13, 2022 5:40 pm

“The Uluru Statement gives us the chance to be a more unified nation, stronger and more resilient at home and in the world. And Australians understand why that matters.”

when the left say unified, prepare for a wedge

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
May 13, 2022 5:43 pm

Knuckle Draggersays:

May 13, 2022 at 5:21 pm

You are still going to have to stand or fall as necessary, we all are, as much as KD scoffs

Which option are you choosing, St. Ruth?

Option 3? The sitting option?

At the rate he is belting through the Tim Tams, we might need a “stand, fall, or roll if necessary” option.

John H.
John H.
May 13, 2022 5:44 pm

callisays:
May 13, 2022 at 5:30 pm
What is scientific materialism?

Oddly enough, a quick Google will tell you.

Scientific materialism is a term used mainly by proponents of creationism and intelligent design to describe scientists who have a materialist worldview. The stance has been attributed to philosopher George Santayana.

Sounds about right.

Calli my question was partly tongue in cheek because to argue that scientific materialists have postmodernism as a religion is a ridiculous statement. Every scientist I have known laughs at postmodernism. Most scientists don’t have time for such considerations although neuroscientists would do well to think about the mereological fallacy and materialism is not without its problems. Some “social scientists”(Ha!) may embrace postmodernism but I don’t regard them as scientists.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
May 13, 2022 5:46 pm

thefrollickingmolesays:

May 13, 2022 at 5:38 pm

By the way did people know there is no practical limit to the number of times a 4 year old can say the word ‘trains” after their first visit to a train museum?

Man, oh man.
I think I could introduce you to a little bloke who could give him a run for his money with his special chosen obsession … “dinosaurs”.
I think it’s kind of related.
Old trains (particularly steam) and dinosaurs look so foreign as to be almost a fantasy.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
May 13, 2022 5:47 pm

Trains vs dinosaurs.
Bring it!

Dot
Dot
May 13, 2022 5:49 pm

VAIDS it’s called Aquired Immune deficiency…..aquired by the jab.

No.

I don’t have that. Nor will I ever have that.

Maybe you can tell me why I will get it. I am all ears.

JC
JC
May 13, 2022 5:52 pm

Zipster says:
May 13, 2022 at 5:40 pm

“The Uluru Statement gives us the chance to be a more unified nation, stronger and more resilient at home and in the world. And Australians understand why that matters.”

when the left say unified, prepare for a wedge

But it’s from the heart, Zip. Don’t forget that. 🙂

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
May 13, 2022 5:56 pm

 If you don’t pull your finger out of your arse you won’t have a future and that exactly the same as so many here. Grow up or go and sook somewhere else.

What we got here is learned helplessness.
Treating circumstances as uncontrollable and therefore submitting to them.
An expression I heard again recently is “You are the CEO of your own life”.
If you approach life with the attitude that you will manage every bit of it you can, it is almost impossible to develop the St Ruth “poor fella me” victim mindset.

Zipster
Zipster
May 13, 2022 5:56 pm

when the left say unified, prepare for a wedge

But it’s from the heart, Zip. Don’t forget that. ?

more like through the heart

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

So put your money where your mouth is Delta, and give us the officaila symptoms of Omnicon

If you want the ‘official symptoms’, whatever those might be, google it yourself. I can only speak from my own experience.

One of my symptoms, which I’d never experienced before, was what I described to the Grandies as an empty, hollow space between my ears. (Yeah, yeah, go the rats, Struth. The kids did, too. But at least they were funny.) This non-painful ‘space’ caused slight disorientation and interesting head-rushes. (BTW, my 100% Aussie cleaning lady said that this was one of her symptoms, too.)

But it was the progress of the virus which was unique. Won’t describe it*; I’ve said enough on the subect.

*Unless you ask really nicely.

JC
JC
May 13, 2022 6:00 pm

Lol, That’s what coconut head always says.. “It’s from the heart” These fuckers want to give advice and sit above OUR parliament. This is coming from a shyster who ought to be focused on the social impairment of his people.

Roger
Roger
May 13, 2022 6:00 pm

when the left say unified, prepare for a wedge

A “racist” wedge.

Roger
Roger
May 13, 2022 6:01 pm

Who is “coconut head”, JC?

Top Ender
Top Ender
May 13, 2022 6:02 pm

GreyRanga says: TE did you know the Administrator took off straight away with the money.

Not true mate. Aubrey Abbott, a hero of the Beersheba Charge, was much disliked around town, especially by unionists, and a lot of rumours were spread about his conduct during and after the raid.

In reality he did depart for Alice Springs – but not until 2 March, nearly two weeks later – and ran the civilian administration of the NT, such as was necessary, as the defence forces took most of it over, for the rest of the war.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
May 13, 2022 6:03 pm

By the way did people know there is no practical limit to the number of times a 4 year old can say the word ‘trains” after their first visit to a train museum

Are you in town for the June Long Weekend, Mole?

We are steaming Greenmount out the back on Sunday June 5th.

Bring the little fella to see one actually in motion! 😀

Nelson_Kidd-Players
Nelson_Kidd-Players
May 13, 2022 6:03 pm

Cats: Beware, someone’s driving down the freeway in the wrong direction!

Struth: Just one? They all are!

Delta A
Delta A
May 13, 2022 6:04 pm

Calli don’t eat the poorly cooked smallgoods.

That’s funny, Ranga.
(Hope KD and his monkey think so.)

Struth
May 13, 2022 6:08 pm

Somehow the jabbed failures in life want to tell me how to live mine.
Sancho, show some respect to people who haven’t jabbed themselves into sickness and death.

You and Ranga both have your hands on it.
Both of you might want to buy a mirror.

And now Delta tells us omnicron causes a space between your ears.

You bastards.
You’ve been having me on all this time.
I knew you couldn’t be that thick…….ok, where’s the camera……where’s the camera?

miltonf
miltonf
May 13, 2022 6:10 pm
Nelson_Kidd-Players
Nelson_Kidd-Players
May 13, 2022 6:10 pm

Grey Ranga, there must have been three upticks from others between you loading the page and hitting the thumb yourself.

Or you do have superpowers. 🙂

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