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Everybody Hates Keir Starmer
Good. Trump needs someone in intelligence to keep an eye on Tulsi Gabbard.
The big 2.5 US car companies are almost Soviet the way they carry on.
Ms Shaked was reportedly barred under the belief she may vilify or incite discord in Australia. lies, lies by lying…
Tap, tap.
(Cough).
Is this on?
You’re on your own.
Not entirely.
Entirely. And always.
Lets talk about political appointments of the past. Queensland for starters. Peter Beattie Trade Commissioner to LA or some where in the US. The point there was already one there. Anna Bligh who took over was expert in off loading Labor embarrassments to positions in other Labor states but on departure her husband was rewarded with a position in NSW by a Liberal Premier no less and she was given the roll for life it seems with the Australian Banking Association. And when they say guiding them through reforms from the Royal commission ,she is an expert Beattie used her to front the press to get him out of his messes.
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John Spooner.
Mark Knight.
Warren Brown.
Steve Bright.
Tom Stiglich.
Matt Margolis.
Steve Kelley.
Tom Stiglich #2.
Patrick Cross (who has announced he will retire from cartooning next month to enter the Catholic priesthood).
Ben Garrison.
Thanks Tom! Always appreciate your cartoon choices.
Thanks Tom
There are a handful of prisons in the NT, and they are ‘administered’ by Corrections, rather than private crews in some other States.
The screws are, of course, unionised. They are part of the United Workers’ Union, and they ran a bit of protected industrial action yesterday. Most of their beef is with a four-year freeze on public servant wages, which is probably the only half-decent thing introduced by the spectacularly incompetent NT Government in recent times.
The UWU NT Branch secretary is a fat chick called Erina Early. This is her supporting commentary, which appeared overnight in the NT News:
Free money for everyone, all day and every day. Straight off the money tree plantation, because they’re the government.
‘Biden was elected because he projected an avuncular, culturally centrist, reassuring return to normality after the chaos and drama of Trump. But he has delivered, China policy excepted, consistently bad policy way to the left of his former identity. This is disastrous for the US.”
The latest Greg Sheridan dribble….from today’s Oz. I think it’s time Sheridan was gently tapped on the shoulder.
Dipshit antifa terrorists like Monty decide to punch “Nazis”, end up harassing women, brown people, the elderly, young and old patriots flog the Soros terrorists deadshits.
From salty cracker
https://youtu.be/7JDRjYu-3wM
Biden’s Presidential vanguard.
That and rape concealing doctors.
Moaning Pom News:
Balding, ginger trophy husband tells his entire family to get fucked at the behest of silicon-enhanced former soapie performer wife, and then moves to another country. Then, again prodded by said wife tells the entire country he lives in that it’s shit:
How does one receive an invitation to these things again?
The soulless attention whore was speaking on the the occasion of Mandela Day, which celebrates the existence of a convicted terrorist.
And:
Indeed. Killing women and children action. Then 27 years of inaction, in a prison cell.
Ticking all the boxes. Climate change, supporting terrorism, anti-US, pro-abortion-at-will. It’s an antifa recruiting speech.
I suspect Harry’s taking this ‘happy wife, happy life’ thing too far.
Never marry the help or the boat cake.
So who is right?
The astonishing Covid-19 stats that EVERY Australian needs to see – and the data proves we DON’T need more rules – as a busy city centre hospital’s ICU ward sits almost EMPTY of Omicron patients
The median age of those dying from Covid in Australia is now 83 years old – the same age as the nation’s average life expectancy. The federal health department’s latest Covid report exposes as myths the claims being used to drive Australian authorities to re-introduce mask mandates and continue having Covid cases isolate for seven days.
The data comes as St Vincent’s Hospital in Sydney said they have just ‘one or two’ patients in ICU – with top doctors confirming the winter wave is far less severe than those to have previously hit Australia.
‘We certainly don’t have many,’ confirmed a hospital spokesman on Monday.
Daily Mail
or
Australia sees record COVID-19 cases, hospital admissions due to Omicron variants, influenza as nation’s hospitals struggle
ABC
You were gullible if you were worried about COVID.
You are a loon if you want everyone to still be worried.
Shrieks from Seven’s Breakfast bimbos – a third Covid wave! Cases climbing in nursing homes, “experts” didn’t predict it, we don’t know what’s coming!
Here’s a clue you idiots.
– vaccines haven’t delivered as expected – over sold and underperformed.
– treatments have been criminally neglected as pharma hunts the holy grail
– the variants and sub variants have become more transmissible while decreasing in lethality
– nursing homes are full of the elderly waiting to die. If covid doesn’t take them, pneumonia or something else will
– the annual influenza is more deadly but isolation because covid has reduced immunity in the general population
As for the “crisis in nursing homes” and all the hand wringing over staff shortages, how many of the boo-hooers actively encouraged their children to work in the sector? How many lauded the value of that type of work? No. Far better for the kids to get a useless degree in an “ology” and end up pumping espresso than doing something useful.
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For those who think “conspiracy theory” is one word too many.
Via Fighting back against COVID and Climate Change tyranny at American Thinker.
This story tells you why the USA is headed for a reckoning.
A raid on dangerous insurrectionists in Texas.
throwing the vaxx companies under the bus: evidence emerges
are we seeing the warm up act?
The Decade of Vaccination: WHO Estimates “Vaccines” Will Reduce the World’s Population by 15%
Tom Cruise Sends Patriotic Message to LeBron James as ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Passes $1.2B, Becomes Studio’s Biggest Worldwide Gross Ever
How Putin is killing Biden’s presidency
Kamala Harris again compares the end of Roe v. Wade to slavery and tells NAACP conference she instructed her team to produce Venn diagrams on states restricting abortion and the right to vote
Still waiting for ABC radio to cover this in their morning covid bulletin.
So many experts interviewed, so muich studied avoidance of the obvious question.
UKRAINE’S ‘SERVANT OF THE PEOPLE’ IS A WESTERN FICTION
What does My Brain is Slurry think the US has done, exactly?
I suppose he and Sparkles continue to buy carbon credits but the great unwashed should swelter, shiver, walk?
After reading last nights efforts, I can see why a new thread was called for.
Calli, can you still get spares for the pressure washer, after the Covid fiasco?
I’m confident vaccines have saved many older lives but of course some are already so far on their way out nothing will boost their immune system sufficiently.
The news cycle has an insatiable appetite.
Apparently there are only 12 days left to save the Daily Expose. A stunning turnaround from ‘only two days left’ three weeks ago. From the link:
Other outlets are now reporting a global mayonnaise shortage, caused by the Expose drowning all its pieces in it.
Also in the Expose, and by the same author:
Pat Cross is entering the Norbertine monastic community. Wonderful to see God call and men answer.
I suspect it’s to do with Roe v. Wade.
Oh goody, my very own biological weapons factory.
Thanks, Tom. Spooner & Kelley, great.
I also liked Warren Brown today – depicting Smith’s joie de vivre at winning the Open by way of his mullet is a nice diversion from all the sh1t that’s going on.
KD, I have to say, though I saw the headline in the news, I didn’t know who you were talking about!
Showing that even when your name’s in the press today, for some, you’re already wrapping up the chips.
At least she’s keeping Harry’s balls in the style to which they are accustomed.
The art history of the western world is just extraordinary in its quality and quantity.
No wonder we are apologising for its lack of diversity.
And why so much of the modern is mere confronting rubbish.
I’m surprised no-one has noted the rise of the mullet in global sporting dominance.
First Toby Price, now Cameron Smith.
I’m sure there’s a recent boxer or two I’ve missed.
That’s a 10,398% annualised increase, right there. By February 18, 2024 the Exposé will be bigger than News Corp.
Guaranteed wealth generation that They don’t want you to know about.
Invest now.
Am perplexed today. Should I Keep working with my local Vic Lib Party to oust the Dictator or hand in my badge after the Xunts supposedly on my side signed up to a treaty and then a 50% emissions reduction target by 2030. Stuck between a shithole and shitholifcation.
On the horizon Victoria is set to run out of gas 6th August. Cold showers for many might be a wake up call but I doubt it.
Thanks for the toons Tom.
Steve Kelley’s is brilliant.
Daily Exposé.
The Persian Carpet Emporium of innernet news.
Running a perennial closing down sale.
Sky is getting its necessary ritual obedience to the Murdoch kiddies in early today.
‘Shocking’ climate change report shows Australia’s environment in ‘crisis’ (Skynews, 19 Jul)
That’s the headline as it appears on the Sky News main page. I am terrified! The sky is falling! Well, Sky may be falling, but the Australian environment is in rude health as far as I can see. Must kowtow to the druids though, or you’ll be sacrificed.
Easy to forget that Impressionism also visited the good ol USA.
Delightful painting this morning, Dover.
A lot of the time Sky News during the day is just as left-wacky as the rest of the media. Here’s the latest:
Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek will reveal a “shocking” five-year report – held back by the former Morrison government till after the Federal Election – found Australia’s ecosystems will deteriorate and are at risk of collapse if climate change is not addressed collaboratively.
NSW Covid Weekly report: https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/Infectious/covid-19/Documents/weekly-covid-overview-20220709.pdf
says 75 admitted to ICU across NSW in last week, but “.. ICU admissions increased to an
average of 11 admissions”
So an average of 11 new ICU patients per week across NSW.
Norman Swan is an idiot.
Its not like Influenza has many variants, is it, Norman?
my mistake. This 75 YEAR TO DATE.
Its not like Influenza has many variants
In the USA the “Half Term” variant of Covid is warming up for a concerted run.
On the other hand Knuckles the daily expose’ is more likely to be accurate than the MSM.
Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek will reveal that her career as a Minister of a second string portfolio is at risk of collapse if climate change is not addressed collaboratively.
This Month’s Special: A free side of climate change with every policy announcement.
Hand it in Fair Shake. Death, being stabbed in the back is exactly the same as stabbed in the heart. We see 99.9% of the political class (arse) sharpening their knifes yet most proles don’t see its for gutting the population at large.
Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek will reveal a “shocking” five-year report which found Australia’s ecosystems will deteriorate and are at risk of collapse
Note that despite a hundred years of debill debill warming, there’s not evidence of this collapse.
They’re still relying on modelling / chicken bones in the dirt.
The fifth horseman of the apocalypse.
What can I do to save the drug dealer’s wife’s career? Anything, just tell me.
This obviously encompasses three of the driest seasons since the late 1930’s.
I would bet every cent I own that if these same scientists were to revisit the “collapsing ecosystems” in this report , they would find the reverse to be the case.
FMD. At 0400 this morning, it was 8C in my coastal village in southern Vicco. It’s now 5C.
Got no idea which state we’re getting our coal-fired electricity from, while the Stupid Fucking Paywallian assigns its Chief Renewables reporter Perry Williams to write the front page splash on the latest crisis in the fucked up national power grid (Power crisis threatens as gas runs low).
The Paywallian is now the opposite of a newspaper: its “senior business reporter” who wrote today’s lead is barracking for the destruction of the national power grid.
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Tell Matthew what you think
#bringbackfrack
don’t worry, Victoria has a gas substitution roadmap.
this requires an independent judiciary, fbi and doj
Gaia needs virgins now!
We’ll be getting an EPA.
I looked in the Macquarie dictionary and for the word collaboratively the first meaning was, fill my trough and make me look important. In other news she must have been pissed that Rub n Tug got up when she was being touted as PM material.
exactly. Have a look at the links for the Great Barrier Reef report I linked in the previous OT. Its going gangbusters – big recovery in the last couple of years to exceed levels never seen (measurements date back to 1986).
Hi.
And you’re paying 439/MWh while we’re paying $59. Almost too cheap to meter.
Market solution.
Interesting about Pat Cross becoming a priest.
I know it was one of Kierkegaard’s bugbears that being to be a ‘good’ Christian in a Christian country makes virtue nothing more than being social – a lot of the people around him putting on their Sunday best, reciting the prayers, belting out the hymns, would then gather outside the church and make small talk, then go back to their homes and live the week without any Christian reflection at all. But going through the motions was enough for other people to tell them they were good Christians and it was enough for people to tell themselves.
It takes a lot more commitment and is not just ‘going with the flow’ these days. In fact, with the hostility of the MSM and the empty talking heads believe every Catholic priest to be a pedo.
They may well have done, at least to buy them a few more weeks or months.
At what expense, though? Isolation from nearest and dearest which, particularly for dementia patients, hastens their end. Exchanging one misery for another.
The Beloved and I are in the 65+ cohort, enjabbened and still skeptical. And why wouldn’t we be, with the avalanche of outright lies and half-truths and utter nonsense bombarding us daily?
The most vulnerable to covid had to be protected in any way possible, but some of those “protections” were cruel and pointless. Perhaps a reflection on the character of the “experts” who thought them up.
How that ever translated to the wider population is beyond my imagination…but it did and it was ruthlessly policed. So much so that I still have friends shopping in masks for fear of catching the thing. And saddest of all – the elderly at the shops wearing filthy masks. It’s a bloody disgrace.
Very good article by Keith Windschuttle, explaining what the “voice” will be all about, and showing Aboriginal claims of “sovereignty” for the joke they are. Bring on the referendum, the sooner the better.
Mom confronts BLM protesters outside her home
Did somebody say convoy? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EnJEeHND_lQ
So it hasn’t budged. No matter what anyone did. Back in March 2020 I started keeping some dodgy stats. The average age was just under 83 on an n of 17 or something. I stopped counting when Dan and Surfer Boy started smearing the numbers – in his seventies, in her nineties. By then, bioweapon or not, it was going to be no worse than a bad flu season. Still spooked by the whole carnival.
I speak with some perverse authority on these matters. I’m the bloke who started the dunny paper rush A member of the household is spastic and I though, jeez, if this blows up…. We got through the last of the 4 ply Quillette Gold about six months ago. Actually. The spastic got the Gold and the rest of us made do with grass and gympie gympie leaves…. I was wandering down the aisle the other day and the Goldies were back on the shelf. I thought they were gone for good. And I tell you what, a Goldie feels ever so silky soft after that gympie gympie fella. Anyway. I had no intention of bringing down western civilization. It’s just poo tickets and paper towels are not negotiable, spastic wise. Sorry.
What a joke. I read the roadmap, and there’s pretty much ZERO in there about where this substitute energy is going to come from.
Its all focussed on ‘equity’ and compensation for the consumer.
Sorry Vic – you’re fucked. (Maybe just a bit sooner than the rest of us).
[PROOF] The Great Reset Is HAPPENING!
Russell Brand
Mass protests in Sri Lanka are happening as farmers continue to protest in the Netherlands and Germany. Is it really a coincidence that these are happening at the same time?
Withdrew her candidacy.
No ticker.
Wants it handed to her when “a good government loses its way.”
Yes, there were a couple who frequent this place who were a bit miffed at George’s acquittal.
“Everybody knows they’re all at it. He looks like the type.”
(Let’s see who is first with “Who on earth are you talking about?”)
If we’re relying on Plibbers to save us I would say that’s a crisis.
So:
‘Shocking’ climate change report shows Australia’s environment in ‘crisis’ (Skynews, 19 Jul)
Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek will reveal a “shocking” five-year report which found Australia’s ecosystems will deteriorate and are at risk of collapse if climate change is not addressed collaboratively.
Given that nothing the Oz govt will do can change the climate, we should ask the Minister what she is going to do when these collapsey things happen. And will she be resigning when it doesn’t come true.
Morning Bird.
Ready to go on the attack as instructed?
Bring it on!
(BTW, I trust Dad is recovering well now you’ve sorted his meds out).
You first, Tanya. Dispose of a couple of your investment properties and reduce your “carbon footprint”. You know you want to.
Who is “instructing” Birdie? I’m curious.
Or is it just voices?
I was surprised to find that the actor Gary Sinese was baptised in 2010. Apparently his wife became Catholic in 2000, and him 10 years later. I noticed in his series CSI: NY that religion and Catholicism were treated well. There is even a scene in an episode where people are recollecting what they were doing on 9/11 where one of the main characters is kneeling over a dead firefighter reciting the Nicene Creed while everyone else watches on in a reverent silence.
Not voices plural.
A voice.
Who has finally found xe’s voice after years of having no voice.
Which xe vociferously told everyone about at every opportunity.
More taxes can control the climate.
Apparently.
I alway tend to view ‘political’ announcements by public figures and organisations (Government, government, and activist business) through the prism of personal self interest – with public benefit as an incidental, or unavoidable outcome.
I realise this is an outsiders perspective; cynical, brutishly un-nuanced, and shallow to the point of cocksmokery.
But in 30 years of dealing with these awful fuckers, this approach has never led me badly astray.
U S Marshalls raid AMISH over FOOD! Small homesteads next?
Bit hard for me, given my 32 year medical career was cancelled, the ADF told me it was ‘shutup or hand in the uniform’, the Police Pistol Club threw me out after I uploaded the video of the local plod harrassing me over my Covid communications with my MP, and the CFS labelled me a ‘reputational risk’ triggering my resignation.
What exactly do I have left to ‘walk out’ from?
Fair Shakesays:
July 19, 2022 at 8:11 am
Am perplexed today.
I’m always perplexed. Keep practicing and you can maintain a state of being perplexed for longer as well!
You’re in good company.
“No one will really understand politics until they understand that politicians are not trying to solve our problems. They are trying to solve their own problems—of which getting elected and re-elected are number one and number two. Whatever is number three is far behind.”
? Thomas Sowell, Dismantling America
these politicians are all pure and distilled fuckwits
Yet more infuriating bullsh*t. Must be a day ending in “y”.
How that ever translated to the wider population is beyond my imagination…but it did and it was ruthlessly policed. So much so that I still have friends shopping in masks for fear of catching the thing. And saddest of all – the elderly at the shops wearing filthy masks. It’s a bloody disgrace.
I still have “friends” who won’t associate with me until I reveal my vaxx status – so much for “strong communities” and “caring for each other” in hard times – the two great mantras of Covid spruiked by the ABC & msm.
And ML, – on Kierkegaard and Christians in a Christian country as not showing the struggle of faith in their “easily lived lives” – in those times, coming to someone’s aid never first required the presentation of health status or denomination affiliation- even with the strongly sectarian allegiances of that era.
Give me any day of the week an old fashioned religious adherence – the simple faith of collegial hymn singing and tea and bickies afterwards – to the faux moral posturing now widespread in western countries, which is purely totalitarian in nature.
And on that idea of having a “cafe” faith – this is exactly what people like that singer, Minchin, and that Adam Spencer on the ABC argued in favour of in the census – “if you’re only religious by family identity”, then no need to check that on your form.
Thanks to obnoxious sanctimonious twats like that pair of morons, I checked the Catholic box on the Census form for the first time since completing it as an independent adult.
Grate work, numbskulls.
Off-shore wind.
Which even AEMO says is too expensive to connect to the grid.
the more garbage and squalid the art is, the more it is valued by the post-modernists. Who are nothing more than nihilist neo-marxists.
I really have become a hardened cynic, it seems. If public benefit was an “unavoidable outcome” the mongrels wouldn’t bother. A better description would be “accidental” or “unintentional”.
I’m not to going to conflate the political decisions taken by government regarding lockdowns with the efficacy of vaccines.
I think vaccines save lives, and all lives are worth saving.
It should go without saying that in most cases vaccination should be voluntary.
(I don’t think people in the health industry should have the right to refuse vaccination in general, putting aside the covid vaccine controversy.)
The “safe and effective” narrative is falling apart
Edgy.
I think it’s correct to say that the religion question has always been optional since it was first asked in 1911.
A Catholic mass is so much more than collegiate singing, in fact, quite often it involves little to no singing.
Though I love ending with Regina Caeli.
By “vaccines” are you referring to the covid stuff or vaccination in principle?
I’m quite happy to conflate politics and covid vaccines because the two go hand in hand and are inextricably entwined in an embrace unto death.
C.L
Jason had his preferences as do you.
Yep.
I particularly liked that twitter feed which showed PalaceChook having drinks with Parrotet (both unmasked of course) indoors at the SOO – only to have her say a couple of days later that everyone should wear masks inside.
I think it was Neil Oliver who said ‘They know it’s a sham”.
We could have had the vaccines without the varying by level of dictatorship lockdowns.
Victorians remember.
Not all elderly people live in aged care and I’m absolutely certain, no matter where they live, loving family would always be reluctant to pass infectious disease to the vulnerable, even before covid.
I know a fully vaxxed very frail 92 year old who got a very mild dose of covid in aged care, you just don’t know who’s immune system will let them down.
Looks like Victoriastan is gonna be the first ‘stan to run out of gas. Quite an effort by the Chairman. Not bad considering the others are still using horse drawn carts.
rosiesays:
July 19, 2022 at 9:24 am
Well said
Yield Curve Inversion ‘Infection’ Spreading [Ep. 263, Eurodollar University]
The US Treasury yield curve continues to spread and has reached the 52-week bill. The Fed is being told by the market it will be CUTTING rates, soon.
Actor Gary Sinise describes conversion
Roger,
The point was that it wasn’t the optional status of the question but that there was and is a concerted effort to remove religion – and all the habits, customs and history of this nation – from the public square using the “edginess” of jingles and help from supposedly “suave” spruikers.
(A bit like that push in the republican referendum for “a mate for head of state”.) All very pedestrian but purely designed to undermine.
The problem is that while we all can see the agenda behind it – the purely destructive nature of having us question who we are as a people – being laid with that passive-aggressive demeanour that the left trades in, before it gets its way, the design is to never reach the end point, until we are all serfs.
About when I realised it was time to give up JJJ.
Census box ticking – tick Aboriginal if you’re white. Don’t tick religious if you only go to church at Christmas. Brought to you by the APS and ABS.
I wonder how they know what the ‘type’ looks like.
I personally have not encountered so many that I can identify a distinct ‘type’. But perhaps I just have a better class of acquaintance.
Off-shore wind.
Anyone who has ever owned a boat kept in salt water knows this is a bad idea.
‘It’s so obvious. They’re all the same. None so blind. Stupid denialists.’
Kierkegaard might have felt a bit differently if he was Italian rather than Danish.
That said, there was no doubt a lot of phariseeism, even in Italy.
But he would not have been blind to the sublimity of the aesthetic in service of the divine.
When HIV-AIDS became “a thang” laws were brought in under anti-discrimination legislation to ensure that people who had previously had a disease, currently have a disease or may in the future have a disease, could not be discriminated against – I’m happy to be corrected, but I don’t think there was any carve out in the health sector.
On protecting people, including the vulnerable – the problem is is that it’s arbitrary in nature and do open to the gatekeepers to determine the parameters and if we all get to play.
Take a look at the hundreds if not thousands of stories of sexual violence and abuse of young, underage girls in the UK over 25+ years who were though vulnerable were not protected from their abusers because those charged with their care were more concerned that to do so could have claims made against them of racism.
When govt and bureaucracy become the answer to how we live our lives – how and what means we will “protect” ourselves and our loved ones, we’re no longer living in a free country.
And on the “jabs” these things are not vaccines as we were all brought up to understand vaccines. They still only have emergency level use authorisation so no one should be made to have one – not even medical staff.
I know what Kierkegaard was on about, or perhaps in part. Lots of “easy Christianity” on the Lower North Shore in the 60’s and 70’s.
Of my entire confirmation class, I am one of a half-handfull who still worships and serves. Most abandoned it with the white veil, others at uni or marriage or the first hurdle. Like the parable of the sower, who knew the seed fell on fertile ground, I certainly didn’t. And when the hardships and life’s cruel knocks came, the little plant grew even tougher.
None of the saints were perfect. Perhaps that’s why they knew all about Grace – they had tested it’s depths and found it endless.
Yes duk, a man who thinks he has nothing left to lose is a dangerous man.
Artists used to focus on things beyond themselves.
Contemporary artists seem to think it is all about expressing themselves – but why would I have an interest in them?
And since they are so self-absorbed the fundamental dynamic (dare I say dialectic? Don’t know why I like that word so much) is the opposition (that is why I grabbed at the word) between themselves and all of everyone else. So their art is intended to ‘confront’ (as in offend) others.
Artists once persuaded or revealed. Now they want to destroy anything that is not in them.
Art is an expression of how the artist sees the world.
If most contemporary artists see the world that way, perhaps they need help?
At least the deeply troubled Van Gogh saw beauty.
And ML, – on Kierkegaard and Christians in a Christian country as not showing the struggle of faith in their “easily lived lives” – in those times, coming to someone’s aid never first required the presentation of health status or denomination affiliation- even with the strongly sectarian allegiances of that era.
Indeed so. No doubt there was a good deal of wrongness in the sectarianism, but it was at least in part a product of taking faith seriously. And, as you say, it didn’t stop good deeds. About sixty years ago sectarianism was still strong in the dairying country round Noorat, but when the Protestant grandfather of a friend of mine died the first people at the front door were the Catholic family from next door to tell the widow not to worry about the milking till after the funeral because they’d have it covered.
The astonishing Covid-19 stats that EVERY Australian needs to see – and the data proves we DON’T need more rules – as a busy city centre hospital’s ICU ward sits almost EMPTY of Omicron patients
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11023541/Covid-19-Australia-ABC-presenter-Norman-Swan-fears-Australia-stuffed-variant.html
The ABC is conflating influenza and Covid data – either deliberately or the writer is stupid. From the way the rest of the article flows it suggests a deliberate propaganda piece aimed to mislead and intimidate the public to justify authoritarian over-reach by health authorities and governments. Aunty has turned into a monster. It is no longer there to defend the truth and through its lies becomes culpable of destroying thousands of peoples’ lives.
Narcissists and narcissism are the nouns you are looking for.
Thanks, P.
Last two census times I’ve ticked the C of E/Anglican variant, my familial heritage. because I can’t let the anti-civilisationists win. Before that it was always ‘no religion’. However, even as an inner-city leftie I felt rather sad about ticking that. Now I’m am a card-carrying Cultural Christian and agnostic. Proud of my familial background of Huguenots, people who stood up and fought or fled for their religious beliefs, with my ancestors then joining the Church of England, using the Book of Common Prayer which was new in their day, for services which I still love to hear sung.
he has a charity that does great work things for wounded veterans, and don’t forget his Lt Dan Band
Youtube really does have everything.
Backwoods Gourmet Channel
How to skin, dress, age and cook squirrel in milky seminole swamp gravy with Southern buscuits [sic], indigenous cooking channel. Almost 3 million views, replete with gourmet chef mouthgasm at the end as said “tree chicken” goes down the hatch.
Sudden urge to have a shower.
rosie says:
July 19, 2022 at 8:03 am
The art history of the western world is just extraordinary in its quality and quantity.
No wonder we are apologising for its lack of diversity.
And why so much of the modern is mere confronting rubbish.
Rosie,
I went to a Picasso Exhibition in the The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, with my son when he was living there in the 90s and was surprised at the quality of his normal art before the modern, especially his paintings, Portrait of the Artist’s Mother, 1896
When you look at the series of paintings of women, it is more indicative of his artistic abilities
The other amazing thing on that visit was that the The Metropolitan Museum of Art had a showing of over 20 Sidney Nolan Ned Kellys – impressive
Yup.
If there is one thing people agree on is that many of the most monstrous people are are so able to conceal their worst natures and can pass themselves off as quite normal – even to spouses.
reminds me of a Utopia episode.
Facilitator: “Why are we all here?”
Nat: “To build a freight rail bypass?”
Facilitator shakes head…
Other employee: “To ensure we have a safe and inclusive work environment”
Facilitator nods in agreement.
Do you actually need $1m to retire?
New analysis challenges the widely touted view that couples need $1 million in super to enjoy a comfortable lifestyle in retirement, with Choice spin-off Super Consumers Australia saying retirees with low spending patterns can potentially bow out of the workforce with $88,000 in super, without their living conditions deteriorating.
The new research analysed pre-retiree and current retiree spending patterns to determine what it takes to live a “low” spending, “medium” spending and “high” spending lifestyle in retirement.
A single pre-retiree aged 55-59 who plans to spend around $55,000 a year in retirement is considered to have a “high” level of spending, and as such needs to save $745,000 by the time they’re 65, the analysis found, based on the retiree owning their home, or not paying rent or a mortgage.
But if they are planning a lifestyle with a “medium” annual spend of $44,000, they will need $301,000 and if they are planning a “low” spending lifestyle of $34,000 a year, they will need $88,000.
All cohorts are assumed to also receive the age pension, which is expected to make up 91 per cent of income for retirees within the low-spending cohort.
Meanwhile, single retirees aged 65-69 with medium- to high-level spending patterns require between $258,000 and $743,000 by the age of 65.
Couples aiming for similar lifestyles will require between $352,000 and $1.02 million in savings, the research found.
Single retirees also aged between 65 and 69 planning a more modest annual spending need $73,000 by the time they’re 65, while couples need $95,000. As with the pre-retirees, it’s assumed that retirees with this spending pattern will have the age pension make up 91 per cent of their income.
Super Consumers Australia suggested its medium-spending target of $258,000 in savings by retirement would provide a single person a comfortable retirement.
However, that figure is at odds with the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia’s (ASFA) Retirement Standard, which suggests a single person will need $545,000 to achieve a comfortable retirement.
“Having credible targets, based on actual spending, means people can confidently spend and get on with enjoying their retirement,” said Super Consumers Australia director Xavier O’Halloran.
The three savings targets, high, medium and low, are based on what people tend to spend in retirement, and include a “buffer” to provide confidence that their savings can weather market turmoil and are based on growth asset allocation assumptions of a 60/40 split and a mean one-year nominal net return of 5.60 per cent.
However, ASFA chief executive officer Martin Fahy said the standard is “forward-looking, aspirational and resonates with retirees and their lived experience”.
“At a time of rising inflation and year-on-year increases in health care and aged care costs, Australians are obviously worried about having enough to meet their retirement needs,” said Dr Martin Fahy.
“The ASFA Retirement Standard recognises that at 12 per cent Superannuation Guarantee contribution rates, Australians aren’t condemned to poverty in retirement.”
Mr O’Halloran also took aim at the common belief that retirees need $1 million in superannuation.
Noting that couples with high spending patterns will generally need around $1 million to maintain their standards in retirement, he added that the message that all retirees will generally need $1 million to retire is “actually quite harmful”.
“That can lead to over-saving, it can lead to them making sacrifices during their working life that they don’t need to make, if they just want to maintain their standard of living.
“It also sees some people in that higher bracket pass away with a significant amount of savings still left over, that they haven’t been able to make the most of during their lives, which I think is a shame.”
The median male super account balance at 55-59 is $162,337, according to the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA), while the median female balance is $109,639.
The analysis comes as the Retirement Income Covenant regime enters effect, requiring funds have a “retirement income strategy” in place so that members can best use their funds in retirement.
“As part of the Retirement Income Covenant, we would expect funds to be using these targets to help members make sense of their retirement income needs,” said Mr O’Halloran.
Aha… it was the bell ringing episode of Utopia. A classic.
https://youtu.be/kaucq9TRevk?t=71
Sancho Panzer says: July 19, 2022 at 1:23 am
Top Ender is substantially correct, Biggles was presented a white feather whilst on leave in England. (It is my belief that it happened not in London but a country estate in Kent, near to Ramsgate)
Sancho Panzer however, is deliberately committing lese majesty with a baseless slur.
In the interest of accuracy it must be noted that The Honourable Algernon Montgomery Lacey was not mentioned at all in the relevant story.
Biggles has killed more men than he is able to recall – Sancho would be well advised to proceed with caution.
I wonder how his painting worked for him – he was not in it for the money.
As you say, he painted the beauty in the world. Was it a need to capture beauty, or to make it more real with his vibrant strokes of paint, or was it the act – surrendering to the experience as the conduit between the world and the canvas.
I am sure this has been gone over very thoroughly by numerous someones.
Most recessional hymns are quite short.
Something the Victorian DPP is now fully aware of.
The ALPBC is going full enviro catastrophist today.
Sent this off the the useless Liberals in Vic:
Signed off as very disappointed.
Suspect we’d be far better off seeing the Liberals wiped out like WA, and give minor parties a chance to step up. Hell, something like the socialist alliance types might actually stand up to Labor once in a while. That’d be a change.
Aunty has turned into a monster
I think it was last week on the Outsiders that James Morrow made the point that a large number of ABC watchers – public servants and the like as well as “knowledge” workers – during the lockdowns were able to work from home and some continue to do so. Thus showing that “Aunty” is simply spruiking for her audience.
Well, the “type” is very rarely the Pommy-toothed, lank haired, hunchbacked perv imagined by many. Often takes the form of the avuncular, “always a helper” bloke at the local sports club.
Hey, is there a comment moderation policy here? Just posted a comment and it didn’t show. What are the verboten words?
what the living fuck nonsense is this?????
how do you get $34k income from $88k savings or $44k from $301k savings???????
Old School Conservative says: July 19, 2022 at 9:37 am
I really should write about being a quarantine centre (before I lose my contemporaneous notes).
The “we’re all gonna die” was complete bull/sheep & the powers-that-be not only knew it, they acted accordingly.
Here is the list of forbidden words:
1)
2)
3)
4)
5) (unless that is really their name)
6)
7) (Except on St Swithun’s Day and odd Fridays)
8) and
9)
I think that covers them all.
Oh, the gaps disappeared.
Now it looks silly.
So, the teachers union saw the doctors and nurses unions clamour for mask mandates and have decided to get a slice of the action:
WA teachers’ union asking parents to help make students wear masks in absence of mandate
Request denied.
quite right. they will be struggling on 2 million with current rates of return, unless of course what they are suggesting is a full spend down plan.
It was a comment about the current whingeing about white sporting attire and periods. Blocked!
Knuckle Dragger says: July 19, 2022 at 6:40 am
Is she any relation to Braydon the Magnificent?
With Aunty carrying on like a green haired enviro loon let’s take a minute to remind ourselves how London commuters deal with the treat of climate change:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MDZvu8Hmncc
When you look at the series of paintings of women, it is more indicative of his artistic abilities
When an artist has demonstrated genuine technical competence, it’s a lot easier to accept that their “less accessible” stuff has some genuine artistic purpose behind it. By contrast, there’s no reason to give the benefit of the doubt to people who don’t seem ever to have produced anything which requires real technique.
Which they couldn’t have done without the grocery pickers and delivery drivers, restaurant staff & Uber Eats drivers, parcel sorters and couriers.
They effectively outsourced the risk to some of the lowest paid workers in Australia.
“We’re all in this together.”
Choice consumer advocates and socialists.
I think they are referring to people who live on squirrel meat substitute and hibernate in winter.
And get the pension with all the trimmings (such as they are).
Biggles was the poofiest of poofs.
So gay.
The gayest.
how do you get $34k income from $88k savings or $44k from $301k savings???????
It’s meant to be via an infusion of OPM through the welfare system, but even then it looks hopelessly optimistic.
No she’s not.
(Apologies to Mr. Bradon Early.)
Sancho Panzer says: July 19, 2022 at 11:11 am
Yet there’s not a shred of evidence to support this allegation.
Detective-Inspector Bigglesworth is a very senior police officer & has the full support of Scotland Yard.
You may wish to choose your words more carefully.
Without looking, I would imagine the assumptions include owning your own home… which is improbable for those on lower wages.
Back in the 80s I worked for a while at an Anglican Church in Melbourne. The 8 am service used the BCP, they had a great organist and a small choir which sang from Hymns A&M. Services began with a formal procession led by the Crucifer. Men in attendance were almost invariably dressed in dark blue blazer with tie and grey trousers.
I couldn’t believe it when I checked their services online last weekend. The minister dressed in casual clothing, white sneakers and vest, drums, guitars, two out of tune singers and no formal order of service, the emphasis all on the talk which was about committing your life (again ?) to Jesus. No hard stuff.
The church is unrecognisable. Not necessarily a bad thing. But I prefer a bit of silence, my own thoughts, and to be left alone. One of Kierkegaard’s comfortable hypocrites, that’s me.
the pension cutoff is well above the average home in most cities
Yes, that article about funding retirement is nonsense.
It assumes that you own your home outright, which excludes a big chunk of the population. The alleged returns on capital are laughably optimistic. And, future living expenses are unpredictable – just look at what is happening right now with energy.
Then there is the need for a buffer for when the fridge dies or the hot water system packs up, not to mention semi-disasters like storm damage. And I take it that these retired people do not own a car, let alone have to replace one.
It’s all puffery to cover the ugly truth that the compulsory superannuation system is a failure for all but a few well placed people in the public sector.
The $77,000 retiree never needs to replace household items* or do home maintenance.
*gas hot water, gas heating, gas stove hey Dan of the Roadmap?
I replaced my gas heating 12 months ago ($2500), my gas and electric oven (a shade under $4000) approximately two years ago, if Dan or Matt thinks I’m going to replace with electric any time soon…
Oh and where’s the spare $50k for an EV you retirees?
below
What’s a pension worth?
I know, pensioners all going to turn the electricity off every morning and just put it back on for long enough to make a cup of tea and some toast for lunch and dinner.
We’ve seen the roadmap.
Are you all electric yet Monty, if not why not?
JCs mate rears his fat empty head to advise the prime mongister of Australia how to run the economy.
Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz calls for windfall profits tax in Australia
Tax is a ‘no-brainer’ after companies’ huge profits during Covid but corporate influence makes it ‘politically difficult’, Stiglitz says
The Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz has called for a windfall profits tax, arguing the idea is a “no-brainer” that has been taken off the table due to the influence of big companies.
Stiglitz made the comments to reporters during a tour of Australia after personally lobbying the treasurer, Jim Chalmers, to introduce the tax and warning that excessive interest rate rises could push Europe, the US, and then Australia into recession.
At a press conference on Monday the treasurer, Jim Chalmers, again ruled out a windfall profits tax despite a new report from the progressive thinktank Australia Institute finding rising profits are helping to drive inflation.
Stiglitz said a windfall profits tax was a “no-brainer” as companies made “huge windfall profits” during the Covid pandemic, and as the Russian invasion of Ukraine had increased energy prices.
“It makes a great deal of sense at this current juncture – it’s not as if the energy companies did anything to deserve it.”
“It was [Vladimir] Putin who engaged in that reckless action. Why should the energy companies be rewarded?”
The tax would discourage companies from exercising “monopoly power” and induce them not to increase prices, he argued, and prevent largely foreign-owned resource companies from extracting money from Australia .
…
In comments to employees of the Australia Institute, Stiglitz also praised environmental taxes such as a carbon tax, which he acknowledged may not be feasible in Australia, an apparent reference to the bipartisan consensus not to drive emissions reduction with taxes since the Coalition’s repeal of the interim carbon price.
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Stiglitz said the lower bound of Australia’s inflation target, 2%, had been “pulled out of thin air” and there was “no theory or evidence that 2% was the right number”.
Stiglitz said there is a “strong theory” that during a high period of transformation, “it makes a lot more sense” to accept “a slightly higher rate of inflation if it facilitates that kind of transition”.
Come in and defend your mate JC!
/the bait is laid, the trap set, we must be werry werry quiet…
Biggles was not a gay boy!
He had a passionate relationship in WWI with a lady who turned out to be batting for the other side.
Well, spying for the Huns, that was.
Anthony Albanese and Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen seem blissfully unaware of the developing crisis affecting the NEM. Retail electricity prices have gone up recently but these increases will look like small beer relative to what is coming down the pike.
Oz…can post the whole article if necessary
Top Ender says: July 19, 2022 at 11:39 am
Her carried that torch for a long time.
Fifty years later Biggles took personal leave to go behind the Iron Curtain on a covert mission to rescue her from communist slavery.
The latest front has opened in the culture wars, and it’s a bloody affair indeed.
The chatterati were just yammering on about how terrible Wimbledon’s compulsory white attire rule was because periods. Now it’s women’s cricket whites. Seriously? Why are we supposed to be concerned about something that has been successfully managed by elite female athletes up until this point? One gets the impression these people *want* menstrual blood to be flowing freely at Wimbledon and then they will all insist this be celebrated.
The next step will be the introduction of all kinds of prominently featured accommodations for athletes who may be menstruating, and these will be rolled out across all elite sporting competitions. Because men can menstruate as well, remember.
Weird, the blog doesn’t like the smh link related to the above comment.
GreyRangasays:
July 19, 2022 at 10:16 am
Yes duk, a man who thinks he has nothing left to lose is a dangerous man.
AS the lefty protestors of the 1960s and 1970s often said “When you’ve got nothing, you’ve got nothing to lose”. Now they are the ones with the money and power, they forget that they are now the ones with something to lose.
Can you send me the link you’re using?
Oh well. The smh article title was “It’s only a matter of time before a Test cricketer has a period in her whites” – that’s probably all you need to know, really.
About the parable of the sower.
It’s about what kind of soil (spellcheck wants soul) we are, I think.
The Regina Coeli is the Easter Canticle.
Otherwise it’s the Salve Regina, or Alma Mater.
No matter, really, and not pedantry, only age.
A glimmer of light in the Vic libs?
Integrity matters in the Westminster system
https://todayspaper.heraldsun.com.au/infinity/article_popover_share.aspx?guid=27661b9b-d35f-47a6-8a88-8b642b9349dd
OCO, found you in the spam folder. Akismet letting us know what it thinks of the SMH.
Done, Dover.
The tax would discourage companies from exercising “monopoly power” and induce them not to increase prices, he argued, and prevent largely foreign-owned resource companies from extracting money from Australia .
This is absolutely correct! Increasing a business’s costs (like tax) always leads to falling prices.
You KNOW it makes sense!!!!
I suppose it could work if the rate was 100% or more of the “windfall profit”. That would be a great selling point for Australia when we’re competing against other places for future foreign investment.
Hahaha fair call. Sorry about multiple posts. I was trying to evade ye olde Catallaxy bot.
And the more wind and solar we install the greater the amount of gas we will need to run the system when coal is no longer available. Last night between 7.30pm and sunrise and into late morning wind and solar were only delivering 3% of power to the NEM. The rest (97%) was made up by coal and gas with some input from hydro. No battery will ever cover the gap. So if they turn coal off it will either be gas or nuclear as our only options.
Apparently there’s been a spate of such incidents in NSW & VIC this winter.
Russia to Cut off Germany from Gas Thanks to Zelensky
I wonder how these delicate sportsfolk imagine all the women before them managed. It isn’t as if there are no products on the supermarket shelves to assist them in their monthly “embarrassment”.
Or is it a stupid ploy to rearrange the rules around “whites” to suit them? Because special.
Andrews needn’t worry about his domestic gas ban – people won’t be able to afford it anyway.
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rosiesays:
July 19, 2022 at 11:34 am
I know, pensioners all going to turn the electricity off every morning and just put it back on for long enough to make a cup of tea and some toast for lunch and dinner.
We’ve seen the roadmap.
Are you all electric yet Monty, if not why not?
The far more important question is, has m0nty-fa taken up the Solar Challenge?
Has he fitted solar panels to his roof? Has he placed a battery in his backyard (in a fire resistant enclosure)? Has he replaced his Gaia slaying IC vehicle with an EV? And, most important, has he cut his home off from the grid, to help Chairman Dan with his current supply issues?
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Oh come on says: July 19, 2022 at 11:53 am
The chatterati could benefit from emulating (or asking an elite female athlete about) the exercise & training regimen of the world’s couple of dozen elite female athletes.
The chatterati can then state whether they believe their original point is an issue.
OK.
Now I am worried about you.
Bring on the mid-terms; hopefully we’ll see the the mother of all electoral admonishments.
BREAKING: AHS (Alberta Health Services) end covid vax mandate
I love Londoners.
Reminds me of this protest classic. https://www.standard.co.uk/hp/front/mass-brawl-on-the-trading-floor-7169300.html
… who was, in fact, the squadron’s trannie mascot.
Quite. And the beauty of it is that we can’t know at the time of “sowing”. I think of the 1st century sower with his great bowl of grain, broadcasting it left and right has he trudges across the field – he doesn’t know either, he just spreads the seed in hope.
Like Saint Paul’s runner who finally breasts the tape, we won’t really know until the race is run. So we keep striving faithfully until the end.
Deborah Birx’s Guide to Destroying A Country From Within