Rex Angersays:
July 1, 2022 at 12:57 am
Fuck it, I’m getting another whiskey. This deserves celebration.

Yes and whiskey is the Irish and American and whisky is Scottish.

Happy July the 1st and here’s to the second half of the year being given over to more ‘Push Back’.

Unfortunately there is too much truth in Leaks cartoon today.

Rex Angersays:
July 1, 2022 at 12:45 am
Scotus has actually done it. It’s limited the administrative state.

Cue another week to a month of m0nty and the trollherd howling and gnashing their snaggleteeth at us, and running in endless [il]logic circles while trying to demonstrate to us how wrong and evil these decisions are.

‘Montypox virus’ is related to the Oozlum Bird that flew around in ever-decreasing circles until it finally disappeared up its own backside. This adds to its rarity. The ‘Montypox virus’ is known to infect certain Internet websites and Blogs. There is no known cure except that this virus must be challenged at all times.

Twas Monty Clown from ‘toonatown that caught the climate craze.
He tossed away the humble coal that served us many days
He drapped himself in putrid green, revolting to be seen
He raced towards the newest Cat to screech and rant and scream
But as he wheeled out taunt and scold, with air of ‘bristic pride
The Cats in chorus grinned and asked, what SCOTUS did decide?

Clarence Thomas was chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission for eight years, I suspect he is very familiar with overbearing bureaucracy.

Rex Angersays:
June 30, 2022 at 11:35 pm
Hey Monty
Out of interest what do you do for a crusta

Here is the Fat Man’s Twitter profile.

Ha, ha, ha. I clicked on the Twatter link that you posted and oh wot’ a Profile.

Firstly seeing that photo, I would like to know the number of the Bus. Wot’ Bus you may well ask. The number of the Bus that ran over his boat race (face).

I didn’t read to much but I did clock onto the word ‘nerd’. Just about sums it up although ‘Montypox virus’ gives nerds a bad name.

[T]he Third Army diversion at Gommecourt cost 6,758 casualties against 1,212 German and the combined casualty count with the Fourth Army reached 57,470, (19,240 of which had been fatal). The French Sixth Army suffered 1,590 casualties and the German 2nd Army suffered 10,000–12,000 casualties.

“Over the top lads”. How to wipe out a Generation of young men. Madness.

“Over the top lads”. How to wipe out a Generation of young men. Madness.
Best not to be involved in any of that sort of thing.

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-62000742

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has lost some of its power to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

The landmark ruling by the US Supreme Court represents a major setback to President Joe Biden’s climate plans.

He called it a “devastating decision” but said it would not undermine his effort to tackle the climate crisis.

The case against the EPA was brought by West Virginia on behalf of 18 other mostly Republican-led states and some of the nation’s largest coal companies.

They argued that the agency did not have the authority to limit emissions across whole states.

These 19 states were worried their power sectors would be forced to move away from using coal, at a severe economic cost.

More Push Back for ‘We the People’.

“For decades, the Supreme Court has held that judges should generally defer to government agencies when interpreting federal law. On Thursday, the conservative majority continued a recent trend of chipping away at that practice.

Instead, the court’s justices embraced what’s called the “major questions doctrine” – which asserts that a federal agency’s discretion is limited on big issues that involve broad regulatory actions. If Congress had intended the Environmental Protection Agency to be able to issue sweeping regulations of an entire sector of the US economy, they said, it would have explicitly written that power into the Clean Air Act.

In January, a similar majority of the court cited the major questions doctrine to strike down an attempt by the Biden administration to use a federal workplace law to mandate vaccinations for employees in large companies.

It’s now clear this court will turn a sceptical eye to agency attempts to cite vague or broad laws to enact any sort of major regulatory changes. That’s a significant development, given how difficult it has been for Congress to pass substantive new legislation in recent years. The time when presidents could find unilateral “work-arounds” in existing law may be coming to an end.”

Falling population to cost NSW and Victoria cash and possibly seats in parliament
Shane Wright
July 1, 2022 — 5.00am

Victoria and NSW will pay a huge economic and political price for the COVID pandemic, losing potentially hundreds of millions of dollars worth of GST and seats in parliament to other parts of the country.

New population estimates for the nation’s two largest states which show a “shortfall” of 101,000 Victorians and 95,000 people across NSW pave the way for a re-jig of the $79 billion GST pool and a loss of federal representation.

If Victoria does not turn around the population crash it suffered through COVID, it could lose an unprecedented two federal electorates in boundary redistributions, while NSW is on track to lose one. Western Australia could reclaim the electorate it lost before the 2021 election as well as millions in additional GST payments.

The Australian Bureau of Statistics this week released the 2021 census. That information was used to update the nation’s estimated population as at June last year at 25.6 million. This was 50,000 lower than the bureau had expected when it last updated its forecasts.

While a 50,000 over-estimate of the population is not large, there were wide differences between the states and territories.

The federal Treasury this week revised down Victoria’s estimated population by 101,000 to less than 6.55 million while NSW’s was revised down by 95,000 to less than 8.1 million. Both states, which had been growing pre-pandemic, now have fewer residents than at the start of the pandemic.

Jab jab booster …………………. Short article from Cory.

As more data rolls out about the COVID lies, it never seems to make the mainstream media. I wonder why?

Two of the greatest lies of the modern world are assurances that the experimental COVID vaccines are safe and effective.

They are neither yet the mainstream media have very little interest in discussing the problems. In order to get to the truth, you need to dig into the medical journals that are willing to publish some actual science.

One of them is Nature, which despite the Green sounding name is a very credible scientific journal.

https://www.corybernardi.com.au/posts/safe-and-effective-not/

Speaking of music.
My suggested theme for the next Rabz Radio Show:-
“Maudlin Songs for Absinthe Friends”.

Keep it simple: how best to design a voice referendum FRED CHANEY and BILL GRAY

12:00AM July 1, 2022
24 Comments

Commendably, the Albanese government has committed to the implementation of all elements of the Uluru Statement from the Heart, including the early conduct of a referendum to enshrine a voice in the Constitution. If it is to meet its commitment, the government is going to have to demonstrate that it has the capacity to address more than the Uluru statement during the life of this parliament.

While public polling shows a growing majority support for a constitutionally embedded Indigenous voice to the parliament, it remains unclear to the wider voting public as to how this will be done.

Indeed, it is an issue on which the government’s newly appointed envoy with responsibility to oversee the preparations for the referendum, senator Patrick Dodson, has urged early and decisive action to identify the proposition that will be put to the people, ­supported by a broad educational effort to enhance the public understanding of the question(s) that would be put at the referendum.

In considering the referendum, however, it is important for the wider public to understand that it is not necessary to have a detailed or agreed model of a voice finalised or legislated before going to a referendum.

Those who authored and advocate the Uluru statement did not advocate the constitutional entrenchment of a specific model of a voice. Rather, they seek a constitutional right to have an Indigenous voice that would be heard by the parliament.

In suggesting the need to proceed with the referendum before the finalising of a model for a national voice, we emphasise that there would be no reason to pause the extensive work already undertaken by the working group co-chaired by professors Marcia Langton and Tom Calma. Their report, given to the previous government in 2021, sets out a series of options and recommendations designed to operationalise a national voice. The Albanese government has yet to make known its position in relation to that report, but it may well follow all or some of the proposals contained in the report as it moves to implement the Uluru statement.

We suggest that whatever model or mechanism may emerge from a process of negotiation and co-design, that model will inevitably need to change as circumstances evolve. No model will be perfect and will require tweaking and amendment going forward. By way of example, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission model and its legislation was the subject of many amendments and reviews during the 15 years of its lifetime. That reality alone makes it impractical and undesirable to entrench a detailed model within the Constitution.

In addition, the cost of holding a referendum – currently around $170m – to amend a specific model each time it needed to be modified, is another clear reason it would be impractical and unachievable. We cannot hold a referendum every time there needs to be a change to the model.

My suggested theme for the next Rabz Radio Show:-
“Maudlin Songs for Absinthe Friends”.

A Leonard Cohen retrospective?

“Over the top lads”. How to wipe out a Generation of young men. Madness.

You drive past the area where the Newfoundland Regiment was annihilated on the first day – hardly a single man reached the German wire- and look at the memorial that features a Newfoundland caribou, bellowing in anguish, at the loss of the best and bravest……..

Faceplant

DESPERATE Leftists Blame Cassidy Hutchinson DISASTER on Misogyny!!!

I still don’t understand Bitcoin and don’t like the idea of investing in something you can’t see or touch.

80,000 Bitcoin millionaires wiped out in the great crypto crash of 2022

Raging US inflation is FAR WORSE than we’re being told: If the government calculated price increases the same way it did in the 1980s, we’d ALREADY be in Jimmy Carter territory, write former restaurant empire CEO ANDY PUZDER and ex-senator JIM TALENT

“I’ll be out there today urging people to get vaccinated where they haven’t been, and to remind them that the vaccines are safe, efficient (and) they work,” she told the Seven Network on Friday.

Meanwhile, the soon to be dominant Omicron sub-variant in Australia is vaccine resistant and so far relatively harmless.

I hate poetry with a passion, especially that rhymes.

Amusing poems he does detest
And rhyming sort he hates the best.
The feet and metres that do infest,
The measured syllables duly stressed,
The cocky bard with swollen chest,
The cock of the walk – with cock’s own crest;
The fawning fans, with tears, impressed
And deem themselves to be so blessed.
Like hatchlings craning in the nest
For Mum, in splendid plumage dressed,
To drop them morsels to digest.
Does this demand such strong protest?
How mean the spirit by this distressed?
Sorry Gabor, I write in jest.

Speaking of big boxes of tissues, heeeere’s m0nster …

The major implication of the ruling is that SCOTUS has declared itself to have the power to abolish any regulation it doesn’t like, for arbitrary partisan reasons.

Ah, no.
If a Federal Agency wants to impose regulations on states, it has to be done under cover of clear and Constitutional legislation. By which Congressmen will have to stand (or fall if necessary) every four years. No more hiding behind “experts” in the bureacracy.

It just has to do it one by one.

It’s OK m0nster.
We’re patient.

Make sure there are no nearby razorblades…

Maybe we should mix it up a bit…how about Lou Reed’s Berlin?

I remember the ATO
Re tax deductions
Would just say no
To relief for donations
To Religious Institutions
If the parliament had wanted it
They would have said so

You’d think that a court ruling that government bureaucracies are limited to powers
explicitly given them
by the people
would have bipartisan support but no

Just encountered an ad on fakebook from Moderna,

A clinical trial is studying an investigational (sic) mRNA vaccine for seasonal influenza.

mRNA seasonal influenza vaccines could potentially provide stronger immune responses.

Lex
1 hour ago
Sure, let’s just go with “the vibe” of the thing and rely on the people who say “trust me, it’ll be alright on the day”.

The only thing I found encouraging in this article was reference to “First Australians” rather than “First Nations” to describe our indigenous peoples.

I find it abhorrent that this term, plagiarised from the Canadian lexicon and having absolutely no relevance to the Aboriginal people of Australia, is used as if the hundreds of disparate tribes who roamed the country before the white man arrived were in any way a “nation” sharing common ideals, a common language, and common laws.

Even now it’s highly unlikely that you would find two tribes agreeing on anything much at all, unless it was a desire for more Government assistance.

Comment, from the Oz, on the article regarding the referendum about a “voice” to Parliament.

The new independent MP for the seat of North Sydney, Kylea Tink, says she wants to see a code of conduct for parliament that has consequences for MPs, suggesting the new integrity commission could be empowered to sack parliamentarians if necessary.

This just doesn’t work. An MP’s HR Department IS the electorate.

Surely such a move would require constitutional change?

The major implication of the ruling is that SCOTUS has declared itself to have the power to abolish any regulation it doesn’t like, for arbitrary partisan reasons. It just has to do it one by one.

Munted, you’re going to get so sick of #Winning!

McClown throwing $400 at every house for energy price relief (on top of $600 last year).

https://www.mediastatements.wa.gov.au/Pages/McGowan/2022/07/400-dollar-Household-Electricity-Credit-commences-this-weekend.aspx

Here’s a tip Daddy, make electricity cheaper by using the millions of square kilometres of resources that we have!?

McClown throwing $400 at every house for energy price relief (on top of $600 last year).

What did I write yesterday?

Once the pain of electricity bills hits the electorate, Labor governments across the land will be scrambling for short term political fixes.

Security for the Carnival Magic tried to intervene when the physical fight escalated to as many as 60 people but eventually had to call in the Coast Guard to help escort the ship back, according to the New York Post.

The 21st century version of “Murder on The Orient Express”.

More than one quarter of US residents feel so estranged from their government that they feel it might “soon be necessary to take up arms” against it, a poll released on Thursday claimed.

This survey of 1,000 registered US voters, published by the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics (IOP), also revealed that most Americans agree the government is “corrupt and rigged against everyday people like me”.
…
The survey also stated that almost half of respondents expressed averting political talk with other people “because I don’t know where they stand”. One-quarter described losing friends, and a similar proportion claimed to have avoided relatives and friends, due to politics, per the survey.

It is not surprising that with the US federal and state governments becoming so big and using their powers indiscriminately that this feeling is occurring.

My understanding is that a large proportion of the men didn’t even make it to their own front lines – the communications and first trenches were so full of the dead and dying that the second wave had to advance across the Canadian defences to get to the start line.

Quite correct. Martin Middlebrook “The First Day on the Somme” has a very good account.

Today’s Courier Mail has article about next few years having 1,000 new police recruits and now actively seeking to recruit straight from school.

They will merely replace retirees.
What I meant to say was additional positions/vehicles/stations on the coast.

Most of the

I find it repugnant that the 3rd wave of peoples should demand so much and have no moral authority to do so.

When you’ve had every federal gummint since “Lord” Gough bowing & scrapin’ to give them more and more for nuttin’ in return why wouldn’t they keep getting shriller & shriller .. ya never letz a mug off the hook does ya! .. it’s all .. come in spinner & pass the sandpaper! .. it’d be unOrrr-strayan wouldn’t it ..
and the chorus, maestro pleeeze …. “We still call CENTRELINK HOOOOOOME!”

Phone did silly things and my post posted before I was ready

Whilst there IS a record spend on health and new beds, that is only a catch-up on what was needed years ago. There is no forward planning for new beds in other planned growth areas.