Open Thread – Tue 26 July 2022
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And so we return to the beginning… (…of the working week.)
Must Be Jelly.
Old Lefty April 28, 2024 11:20 pmInteresting choice of headline from the BBC: ‘Biden roasts Trump at correspondents dinner.’ Obama was…
Interesting choice of headline from the BBC: ‘Biden roasts Trump at correspondents dinner.’ https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68915195 I assume the roasting was metaphorical.
Uno
My life’s work is now complete.
Tree.
Speaking of trees.
Guy doing great work, pity he also joined the changy religion.
“It’s been a wonderful journey,” he says. “I’m still on that journey, still learning, and still dependent on God to reveal his secrets in nature as we try to solve some of the world’s greatest problems.”
John Spooner.
Warren Brown.
David Rowe.
Michael Ramirez.
Al Goodwyn.
Tom Stiglich.
As a moronic Tigers fan I believe this Manly situation was concocted by the NRL to take attention away from the controversy over Sunday’s game.
Labor open to deeper emissions cuts in Greens deal
From the Oz.
Eat shit Teals.
Eat shit Australia.
I suppose the Victorian will save money ending a few CBD leases.
Sure, the Premier says he knows this will create “challenges” for CBD businesses but people are “happier, more efficient, more productive” at home.
And it will help save the planet.
I hope everyone who voted for Planet Saving enjoys the fruits.
Quite a few of them will, rosie.
Spiv Central.
On another note, I am watching a series on Youtube called Wartime Farming about agriculture in the UK during WWII. It’s not exactly deep, comprising a bunch of people pretending to be farmers during the war, with the usual corny ‘humour.’ But, I have learned a few things, such as:
– Grain prior to the war was mostly supplied via imports from the US and Canada – not surprisingly, UK farmers couldn’t compete in their green and soggy land. Hence, they had to quickly tear up millions of acres of pasture and convert it to grain fields.
– Consequently, beef and sheep were regarded as wasteful use of land, and were slaughtered to make room. Meat rations came, and shrank and shrank and shrank.
– Pigs became haram because they allegedly ate the same type of food as humans. The pig population fell by more than half.
– However, you were allowed to be in a ‘pig club’ where a few people got together and raised a single pig on food scraps and whatever else they could find.
– Farm dogs were also slaughtered when they had no sheep or cattle to herd and there was nothing to feed them on. Not eaten, though.
– Foot and mouth popped up here and there but nobody seemed too worried about it, except on site.
– The red dye used to prevent military petrol from being diverted could be removed by filtering it through a loaf of bread (true, they did it on camera); and
– I recommend The Divine Agatha’s A Murder is Announced as a primer on how postwar Britons subverted the hated rationing.
They are very soft on the sinister Ministry of Food, it’s all ‘patriotism and fairness.’ In fact, the Ministry was a typical socialist outfit which actually reduced productivity, but that is a story for another day.
Biden appoints pro-crime appellate judge – the stacking continues.
Powerline Blog
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Brilliant summary of where US politics is at now, and has been over the recent past, with special reference to Trump and The Swamp, from American Thinker.
Link
Everybody and his dog plant avocados, with predictable results:
and
As I mentioned in my recent supermarket survey, they are now about a buck each. At this rate, they’ll be 25 cents in a few years.
Here’s the dirty secret about avocados. Years ago, I rented a house in inner Sydney which had an old avocado tree in the backyard. The soil was poor, it never got a scrap of attention, and it produced far more fruit than I and my friends, acquaintances and workmates could consume.
Good avo trees are indestructible.
A lot of people are going to lose a lot of money in the years ahead.
Excellent artwork once more this morning.
World food production is under threat from the leftist climateers and globalist Malthusians. It was also a biblical prophecy and some of my Christian friends have been warning about it for a year or more, and laying down stock of non-perishables while at the same time building some self-sufficiency in food production at home.
Real Deal, at 12.01 a.m. on the OOT:
Almost sent my heart aflutter. Then I realised that I don’t actually want the loathsome little ferret dead. Even crippled is going a bit too far – he’s midget, a leftie and a ranga as it is.
He can just go and work at a servo in Cobar for the rest of his days, standing on tiptoe so he can see over the counter. There.
Paul Sorvino, long-time gangster actor and Goodfellas star dies in his sleep. A statement said there were no suspicious circumstances.
Ray Liotta died the other day. No suspicious circumstances, they said. Pesci and de Niro better keep their wits about them.
Post War Britain food rationing. Churchill asked what all the fuss was about and requested to see what was being rationed to the population for a family of four. He looked at what was served up and saw no problem with the daily provisions. Until it was pointed out to him these were provisions for one month.
My father fled Britain as soon as he was old enough. He arrived in Australia having never seen first hand an orange nor banana. We really were the lucky country.
He was an excellent Evil in Time Bandits. Always liked his work.
David Warner dead: Titanic and Omen star dies aged 80 as family say ‘We are heartbroken’ (25 Jul)
Not sure whether he ever played cricket though.
Just listened to a BBC radio thing on vegan food. The contortions they put good ordinary basic products through to create eg vegan Camembert is ridiculous, expensive and wasteful imho. What’s wrong with eating a carrot? No, it has to be dehydrated, squeezed, combined with seaweed and salt and made to look like a chicken nugget before a veggie person will eat it. Thankfully, I suspect that energy prices will put an end to most of these factory fantasies.
Joh, did they mention private Victory Gardens? Apparently they are becoming a “thing” again. From experience, home veggie and fruit growing is fraught – what the pests leave behind, the birds get.
Tolkien characterised post war Britain beautifully in his chapter “The Scouring of the Shire”, with its subsequent community decay and plethora of Rules.
Unlike the Shire, Britain used its dominions to feed the industrial powerhouse. Perhaps it was more like Isengard in that respect.
Anchor, having a vast cache of food is fine…until the Gatherers and Redistributers come knocking. And then you can only hope they’re from the government and not a local crime gang.
You can be prepared for anything.
Most importantly, you must be prepared to defend your preparations.
The Russian blacklist got decent coverage.
Ukraine released one on the 14th July but I must have missed the coverage.
https://unherd.com/thepost/ukraine-government-issues-blacklist-of-russian-propagandists/
For some reason Glenn Greenwald is on it.
Must be a mistake.
The kiddies are revolting.
House Staffers Arrested After Protesting in Schumer’s Office (25 Jul)
Six House staffers on Monday were arrested by Capitol Police after they staged a protest inside the office of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., demanding he resume negotiations on a climate bill, Axios reports.
Staffers for five congressional Democrats, including Reps. Cori Bush of Missouri, Ro Khanna of California, Jamaal Bowman of New York, Jamie Raskin of Maryland, and Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, were arrested after they refused to leave Schumer’s office, where they had been pushing for him to reopen negotiations with Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., on a bill to address climate change.
This is a problem for the elite Dems. They may not believe in Gaia but their party workers do – this was clear from Project Veritas doing separate undercover interviews of two Bernie staffers. Both were seriously crazy on global warming stuff.
Calli, for me the problem with growing your own is that you either get way more than you can possible use or famine. I can see how communal gardens can be a solution, having like minded people with a wide variety of crops around would allow for trade and reduce waste. I have two apple trees, a Granny Smith and a Red Delicious, in a good year I must get close to a thousand or more apples, there’s no way to use even a small fraction, so they just rot away, this area is full of similar trees, nobody wants them in season.
so a large chunk of the Vic PS will now lounge about at home.
I hope the govt workers comp insurance is up to date. There’ll be all sorts of new ‘work’ injuries.
Pulling Back the Curtain on Junk Science: How Climate Alarmists Manipulate the Presentation of Data
Walmart drops 10% after market.
I think markets have to get their head around inventory build.
Bad excess inventory, food & women’s apparel.
Good excess inventory, guns & ammo & auto components.
lying with statistics: US all cause deaths edition
Tedros overrules W.H.O. to declare COVID Vaccine-induced Shingles (Monkeypox) a Public Health Emergency of International Concern
China espionage fears in D.C.: FBI killed a $100M Chinese government garden in capital that would have been ‘perfect’ for intelligence and determined Beijing-made Huawei equipment could disrupt nuclear arsenal, disturbing report finds
Ashli Babbitt Was Murdered Under the Color of Authority on January 6: Use-of-Force Expert
Nah…you can chalk it up to Manly’s spectacularly dumb marketing people who didn’t bother to consult playes over it because they assume everyone is on board with normalising sexual perversion.
Avocados, like olives in the past, attracted the feel good investment class with the same results.
High cost plantings and long lag times to production kept the smashed Ponzi scheme going until the glut of production kicked in. Unfortunately long term growers are crucified along the way. They would have known this was coming.
Headline in the Tele:
A highlight of the piece:
What’s alarming is that there isn’t a media campaign telling faaabulous interior designers and Canberra staffers to stop riding bareback with five other blokes at a time.
Here’s a response.
‘Attention poofs. Stop jazz handing, and making your problem everyone else’s problem. Sort it out yourselves without becoming the centrepiece of conversation for once.’
I hope the govt workers comp insurance is up to date. There’ll be all sorts of new ‘work’ injuries.
WFH in Melbourne my work required me to complete a check list and sign off a declaration my home was fully compliant with all building regulations and was a safe work environment. I have an older style house and have maintained to a reasonable standard but to be fully compliant would require $,000 . I promptly sat on the form until they chased me up…which they never did. Overreach by our legal department. But I knew they were covering their arses in case something happened and I needed to put a claim in.
Be interesting to see how the Public services are managing their way through this.
Monkeypox is love, bigots.
The marketing people are driven by money and social media. They assume everyone else is motivated the same way.
Fixed it for you BoN.
Re Manly, sponsors were told that the players were all cool with it.
Or at least some of them were.
and gonorrhea is the glue that holds it together. Sorry.
Agreed, Mater. Been there, done that. But I’m not prepared to be axed to death over a tin of soup.
Another one bites the dust
He did have some sandpaper so he may have.
Apprehensive this morning.
Going to the dentist.
For some reason I don’t like two people shoving their fingers & probes in my mouth.
Sounds like me without being a midget at 100kg and 187cm. I have other attributes you will find disdainful as well.
I have just heard Janet Yellen declare the recession necessary and appropriate. In other words, a recession we had to have. Who knew she graduated from the Paul Keating School of Economics.
I can’t comprehend how a business worth millions of dollars (Manly Sea Eagles) could have blundered like this.
Israel Folau was one man, and his courage is tops. But, in what universe did the intelligensia that run Manly imagine that their seven Islander players, devout Christians, would roll over?
Or, did they not even know that about their top players? Fuzzie Wuzzies, cheery chaps? What?
Sports administrators are the thickerati epitomised.
So not only are they spectacularly dumb but also liars or, at the least, dissemblers.
Is this common in marketing types, I wonder?
The government IS your local crime gang … and district, and regional, and state, and national….
Very clever Spooner cartoon this morning. Cheers as always Tom.
Bugger avocados.
Need constant water and fert, pick by hand, prune with chainsaw and FEL.
Not sure they’re much under any sort of monorail scheme, Gez. Not in WA at least, any reasonable plantation here has been put in by a single desk operation, and a farmer who has secured water, power and shipping routes.
Bloke this way sold out of his operation, which I think might have been the largest in the southern hemisphere, for megabucks, at the peak of the market.
I was having a casual chat and saying to him, “you know, your avos are in the same sweet spot which oranges once were in the southern US- easy to handle, long storage, supported by the health hype and menu setters- but beware the turning of the tide!!!! You might only have fifty or sixty years of this crazy ride left!!!!!!!”
Two years later, he was out, to the tune of $220m.
Possibly taxpayers. Will an avo pull join the grape pull? In the US, I think Mexican crime gangs control supply from over the border.
Beats riding on a flying horse.
El Al to operate direct flights from Israel to Australia – via Saudi Arabia (25 Jul)
Time for one of those polls that asks ordinary Australians how much they are prepared to forego from ever tightening household budgets in order to save the planet, which is doing just fine, btw.
Kellie-Jay Keen, like me a believer in human biology, like me a believer that females should have the right to their own safe spaces sans biological men hanging around, like me a critic of the ludicrous idea that just because some pervert calls himself a woman, it doesn’t make him a woman, like me a believer that only biological females give birth, like me is someone who doesn’t believe that “transwomen are women” yesterday received a visit from the Wiltshire police (she lives in Wiltshire UK). They had no warrant and Keen asked them why they were at her house and they responded………
“for being untoward about pedophiles”.
Apart from the fact that this is what happens when police are politicised, this is the dystopian reality of what is and has always been behind the whole sinister movement of LTBTQRSTARSE, we have been gaslighted, we have been coerced and we have been bullied into accepting perversion, it didn’t stop with SSM (which is why I voted NO), it will not stop with children being surgically and medically mutilated, it is about the sexualisation of children and adults having sexual access to children. Last week Twitter banned the word “groomer”, this week a woman is visited by the police for being mean about pedophiles.
Don’t say you weren’t warned.
Maori-Warringah forgetting their Polynesian base is pretty funny.
From the Oz report on the Manly Love Beagles jersey controversy:-
What?
They are being criticised for not protesting about punting and drinking as well?
When you read books like Hollywood Babylon and its many updates, you get a sense of what happens in professional sport.
I was briefly employed by and became friends with a senior figure in the NSW Rugby League, himself a former player.
He was an interesting and affable character. One night after a longish boozy dinner, we were talking about very credible rape allegations regarding a player.
‘We have to fix it up. It’s part of the job.’
Anyone who imagines that professional sport is not like this is delusional.
At ‘The Spectator’ there’s an article by Bev McArthur, explaining why Andrews and Labor must lose the election. Trouble is that McArthur is a Lib pollie and not once in the article does she write about the failings of the Libs, either she really doesn’t know how bad the Libs are or she does but won’t admit it. Either way she’s not fit for power, just like her party.
https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/07/danistan-extending-or-exiling-an-era/
BREAKING
Dom Perrottet bows to calls to permanently fly Pride flag on Sydney Harbour Bridge.
Did you read a word of what I said?
Avocado tree in poor soil in inner Sydney, no care, fruited like mad.
Stop making stuff up.
They’re Christians, not wowsers. The two concepts aren’t necessarily joined at the hip.
Some of the priests getting around in boyhood were the biggest pisswrecks going around, and didn’t mind a punt either.
🙂
Paul Sorvino was in early seasons of Law and Order. Got himself written out because shooting outdoors was messing with his singing voice.
I liked him in that role.
83 year old dying in his sleep seems normal.
There’s a huge difference between seed grown backyard avocado trees
and commercial plants.
One is all tree and seed, the other produces edible fruit.
Food rationing in Britain lasted until 1954 – rationing in defeated Germany had ceased some time before that……
A very strange non secateur to draw I thought.
Simply ignorance?
Or an attempt to paint the seven as just common or garden homophobes, and not true Christians?
It had a whiff of Bandana-Logic about it.
Should Manly players have to wear the club’s pride jersey?
Yes 18 %
No 82 %
6839 votes
From the Oz this morning.
About time. QANTAS isn’t there by accident.
rosiesays:
July 26, 2022 at 5:20 am
The masks are really dropping off now arent they?
Highly credentialed mongs in the PS now exempt themselves from attending the office based on the “we are just as productive at home” story.
Without realizing the flip side of that statement, they are just as unproductive at work as if they arent there.
Even the most rubbish inner city Sydney soil is no match for Perf sand (unless you’re in Botany sand belt).
I have had to change the way I fertilise and garden since moving here onto sand. The amount of organic material that has to be put in beggars belief, plus the absence of trace elements (especially manganese) due to mining. Also weird fluctuations in pH over the site. It just goes on and on. Rock minerals help, but they are expensive.
Avos love slightly acidic, clay based soils. I get why a Perth gardener would struggle.
Ooooo….top 100…
Tolkien characterised post war Britain beautifully in his chapter “The Scouring of the Shire”, with its subsequent community decay and plethora of Rules
Before Brexit, there was a great doco with limited UK distribution and could be also viewed on-line that put the case for the UK tossing out the EU.
The background to how the UK ended up in the great European bureaucratic purgatory of rule making showed that winning the war meant that the country lost the re-build.
Unlike Germany under Adenauer, the UK essentially retained all the heavy load of rules and more that were introduced during the war years because it could, and then post war added to them.
Germany, otoh, had to clear the decks and start over because it was destroyed. Quickly, it out ran the UK and became a manufacturing power. The film is called, Brexit: the movie.
The paleface/longnose/tax leach tribe assembles for action.
Serious question.
Is any of those assembled actually what (to use a haram wording) is considered a pure blooded Aboriginal?
Can anyone find a Bible verse which bans punting or drinking?
After all, Jesus didn’t turn water into Fanta.
What does Titus say?
The Gardener’s Lament:
Sand = minimum backbreak, maximum heartache
😀
The Unions have jumped on the WFH bandwagon. Make of that what you will.
Since they’ve decided building another flagpole is too expensive it would be fun to see them tie themselves in knots which flag is higher than which.
Do you fly the abo flag above the rainbow flag (thereby miffing qwerties)? Do you fly the rainbow flag below the Australia flag (ebil nationalism…)? You sure can’t have the abo flag on the same pole as the Oz flag, that would cause incandescent rage no matter whether on top or bottom.
So they’re (this line has also been pushed on social media) trying to frame the players as hypocrites while pushing the rainbow flag on them in the name of inclusion.
Tom, Warren this morning.
From mole’s link.
There’s your “Voice” then.
I haven’t ventured into the cbd for a very long time.
abc on small commercial tenancies
Cheeri – uppi stuff Billie Jean live:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOj_xsc-EBM
Outstanding.
They are building a serial killer museum.
Adelaide tipped to become Australia’s next Melbourne or Sydney for tourism
Good question.
So…drinking alcohol is okay, just not drunkenness.
As for “dishonest gain”, you might stretch that to gambling because the “gain” involves no actual work. But it is a stretch.
Perth sand has to be seen to be believed. My mates father owned and operated a sand pit in the middle of suburban Perth. They had a contract to take landfill from one of the largest LGAs for decades and still didn’t fill the hole. Yellow sand all the way down.
The argument is that those members are there to represent their electorates, not Indigenous people as such.
I’ll bet good money that the “voice” will be made up of what used to be rather rudely known as “air-conditioned Aborigines”, who have never set foot in an outback community, in their lives.
Rationing in Japan post-WWII ceased before rationing in the UK did.
And then you can only hope they’re from the government and not a local crime gang.
I thought they were one and the same.
Calli – gardening in Perth is all about compost/organics and mulch. The sand also goes water resistant as well. Go figure.
Were they allowed to drink irradiated milk? 😉
WFH (as distinct from being self-employed) makes the home less so since the home is under the scrutiny and mandates of some external organisation. The home is thus not far from being owned by that organisation, irrespective of whether the home is owned by the worker – or rented.
And to think, too, that WFH can mean and has already meant that the worker, never meeting with colleagues or setting foot in HQ, is forced to be triple jabbed.
The crims might at least be willing to negotiate.
My mother remembers my grandmother having a suitcase full of hoarded food during the war.
If you wanted to make jam sugar was very precious.
we had a bit of rationing here too.
Australian Defence Force spending $14m to buy uniforms from China
Despite being our biggest security threat, the Australian Defence Force is spending tens of millions of dollars a year buying our gear from China.
The Australian Defence Force is spending up to $14m a year buying uniforms and other apparel from China.
Despite being Australia’s biggest security threat, China makes service dress uniforms and ceremonial clothing including shirts, skirts, trousers and jackets for the Australian army, navy and air force.
Chinese firms also provide the Australian Federal Police, a key agency in countering foreign interference, with just over a third of its uniform and personal equipment.
Chinese companies are now selling the ADF sporting attire, non-combat footwear, wet-weather gear and general personal protective clothing including hi-vis vests, coveralls, safety goggles and gloves, the ADF has confirmed.
The imports, largely from Shandong province in eastern China, represent the biggest foreign input for defence clothing.
Australian-made garments make up 70 per cent of the total spend.
While 14 per cent of the ADF’s annual $90-100m clothing budget goes to China, Australia’s standard combat uniform across all three arms of service and the iconic slouch hat are two product lines required by the federal government to be made in Australia.
Herald-Sun
A disturbing little side note on monkeypox.
A new research paper on 528 monkeypox cases in 16 countries lays out that 98% of the people infected were gay or bisexual men, 75% of them were white, and 41% had HIV. No women were among the cases, and 95% of cases were thought to be linked to sexual transmission.
It appears that blokes who have AIDs are not only rooting a lot of other chaps, but doing so without taking precautions.
Linda Burney’s mother was Scots, Pat Dodson’s father was an Irish shearer….
Only if they cried while doing it.
Japan was occupied by the Americans.
Britain got a socialist government.
Hmm Rosie.
I wonder when the central planners of the TaliDan regime will propose stepping in to buy the freeholds so the elites can continue to enjoy the fruits of Labor.
Food in the UK is pretty precarious even without a war. Remember reading the label on some snow peas – massively overpackaged and flown in from Zimbabwe. Australian farmers market it ain’t.
Oh FFS Johanna, back off.
I’m talking about commercially maximized production.
I had two trees grown from seed sheltered in front of the house, they were enormous and one of them constantly dropping fruit, surviving only on random chook droppings. But it’s delusional to think I could plant 1998 more alongside in an open paddock, leave them for five years and bank on the same results.
Breaking news.
Commercial crops require fertiliser and pest control.
Yet I’d wager not one of them doesn’t imagine they’re there to represent indigenous people.
Read a good little book on rationing in wartime.
Boxed up now and cant remember the title.
Was quite clear on the corrupting and distorting effects on the general population as those who would never consider themselves crims found themselves dealing with them for a kg of pork chops.
The sheer number of petty empowered bureaucrats sent out to “manage” people were never going to just go away once the war finished.
Happens here too. Hydrophobic – it actually repels water. You need a wetting agent (surfactant) to get the water to “stick” and it takes forever. Has something to do with ions and anions.
The other grisly truth – ants. They love living in it and their activity not only depletes the soil of any organic material (which they steal) but they add to the water repellence through the chemicals they excrete. And when the organic material runs out, they start on the roots.
On the upside – I haven’t bent the tines on the border fork like I used to do in Sydney.
I’ve seen the Attlee Government described as the most fiercely Socialist that Britain ever had.
When my sister turned vegetarian she did so in an entirely unobtrusive way. She didn’t demand special treatment, gave us no lectures, has no problem with people turning up with meat dishes for functions at her place. In fact, she married a man who loves beef.
But I did used to enjoy teasing her at the way so many vegan types (of which she his not) labour and struggle to make their non-meat food look like meat. She did like the tofu patties – because they were tofu, not because they were fake beef.
15 days without rain is a drought in the UK.
Anyone seen Ed recently?
His stupidity is conspicuously absent.
I fear he might have snagged a couple of foreign hitchhikers (after the Covid drought) and is too busy working on them in the basement to bless this blog with his Google inspired insights.
This food scare stuff is silly.
Haven’t Sri Lankans heard of uber eats?
Zero sympathy.
Pay that one, Mater.
You need a wetting agent (surfactant) to get the water to “stick” and it takes forever.
Black and gold detergent is your (cheap) friend.
Which raises a number of crucially important points:
When are we going to see a QWERTY Voice to Parliament?
And what about an Incel flag?
Or one for Sex Doll Enthusiasts?
Or solitary wankers?
Why are we not celebrating the way everyone goes about their intimate relationships.
Blockquote fail coming up.
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha says:
July 26, 2022 at 8:48 am
Post War Britain food rationing.
Food rationing in Britain lasted until 1954 – rationing in defeated Germany had ceased some time before that……
It’s a bit sad the full “pride round” concept might not make it in Rugby. The commentary would have been something else.
Perth sand has to be seen to be believed. My mates father owned and operated a sand pit in the middle of suburban Perth. They had a contract to take landfill from one of the largest LGAs for decades and still didn’t fill the hole. Yellow sand all the way down.
About 1800 meters deep. There is a demarkation line through Perth. Yellow sand one side, with iron oxides in it and basically almost pure silicon dioxide the other side (white) with some organic impurities.
Heck, I hit the ‘report’ button thinking it was a ‘reply’ button to Rosie.
So my reply:
What is this ‘save the planet’. I wonder. It’s a way of diverting attention from the fact that the ‘planet’ is for people, otherwise it is meaningless. So…make life better for people? Well, we know how to do that: free markets, rule of law for all, governments not tinkering with things of which they know naught…and that’s anything important.
But the Greens and Teals, let alone the ALP and the Libs know none of this and want to destroy the peace, livelihoods and wealth of as many as possilbe.
Mother has allowed him to take the clothes peg off.
He’ll be back if Mother catches him touching his dirty bits and the peg goes on.
Again.
Jab jab booster booster, hope I’m not boring you………………………
While the COVID-19 vaccines did serve to temporarily protect at-risk populations by boosting immune antibodies, a combination of vaccine durability challenges (e.g… the novel products waned in effectiveness over the months) and a rapidly mutating RNA virus have led to what still becomes a dangerous situation for the elderly and immunocompromised, even if they are fully vaccinated and boosted. TrialSite has reported on this phenomenon in Australia, where twice the people (mostly elderly) died in the first twelve weeks of 2022 than all of 2020 and 2021 combined. Given the majority of the population was immunized by the end of 2021, the vast majority of deaths in 2022 Down Under were fully vaccinated persons. This trend was observed in New Zealand, Singapore, South Korea, and elsewhere.
https://www.trialsitenews.com/a/bureaucrats-bombshell-as-dr.-birx-declares-we-overplayed-vaccines-only-hope-for-elderly-now-paxlovid-testing-ed750c81
KD
Paul Sorvino, long-time gangster actor and Goodfellas star dies in his sleep. A statement said there were no suspicious circumstances.
That is sad. His daughter was monstered by Weinstein. He recently had some brutal words for him.
Sorvino played a great gangster in The Rocketeer (1991). When confronted by Nazis he had a great line; “I may not earn an honest dollar, but I’m 100 percent American.” Underrated movie.
Morrison absent from parliament.
In Tokyo for a speaking gig along with other ex-leaders such as David Cameron, Stephen Harper & John Key. To the best of my knowledge, none of them are still sitting members though.
A recent German in vitro study found vaccine stimulated antibodies had all but disappeared after three months.
Natural selection is coming for the alphabet males.
https://www.trialsitenews.com/a/queen-mary-university-of-london-study-98-of-monkeypox-patients-infected-by-male-to-male-sex-b8d9a506
Test.
Big_Nambas
Now come on… only nearly 1/2 of them also have AIDs as well.
I thought it was something to do with bacteria and some coating they put around the sand grains. I’ve got a bottle of wetting agent somewhere and pull it out when it really gives me the shits. It’s worse under eaves and anywhere that doesn’t get natural rain. Everyone is using clays and bentonite now which wasn’t the case 20 years ago. There is a much better range of additives now.
Unfortunately it seems the conservatives are not up to the fight against the woke, globalists and gaians. Half of the conservatives are WEF grads or admirers and the other half are clueless. Unless a new party rises from the ashes of spineless conservatives then this will accelerate the downfall.
It is indeed.
Jennifer Connelly at her prime, when she had a healthy amount of meat on her bones.
I made a comment once before about the vegans and their children storybook attitude to animals.
Animals raised on farms live protected from predators, are kept healthy, have plenty to eat, and die as instantly as we can manage. The life of animals in the wild is one of being at the mercy of the elements, where disease or old age would offer a lingering painful death, where (were an animal capable of conceptualising it) their best hope would be the swift dissolution of having a predator snatch them suddenly and rend them to bloody pieces, to plow at full tilt into a window and break their neck (bird specialty), or tumble from a very high rockface and hope their braincase is dashed to pieces at the bottom.
Or, for those that venture near human settlements there is always the sweet kiss of steel from too unconcernedly meandering across a road in front of a car.
I was on my balcony the other day and saw that a magpie had entangled its head or neck in the bamboo of the property behind. Every once in a while it would flap its wings hoping to get it just right so it could escape. All around it other magpies (and miners and mynas and cockatoos etc) just carried on doing their thing. Darting too and fro, singing, screeching, looking for food, and so on. Well, birds are like that.
The next day the magpie was still there. Still occasionally flapping, but increasingly feebly. Next morning it was inert. Dead. Hanging by its neck.
Those two days would have been agony. Panic, fear, and frustration, and then hunger and thirst (and possibly choking) would have taken over. Two days to deplete the resources of the animal until it died.
If a person did something like that to an animal they would be sent for psychological tests. No human would countenance an animal being made to suffer like that. And yet nature does not bat a metaphorical eyelid.
I know* when I eat my eye fillet that the beast was likely nervous in the minutes up to the moment a steel bold stove the part of his skull in and annihilated its brain. Probably the best end an animal could hope for.
* To be clear, knowing does not mean I am thinking about it. I would say that I know how to drive even when I am not driving. IF I did think about the cow I would be thinking that it was a quick end. Just don’t want people thinking I relish the actual killing. Off to the psych if I did.
Canada has implemented new restrictions on agriculture, under the banner of fighting climate change. Farmers argue this would be similar to the same fertilizer ban implemented in the Netherlands, which is predicted to force many farms out of business. And similar to the Netherlands, protests in Canada are already brewing. Crossroads with JOSHUA PHILIPP
In other AG news.
The general consensus in the grain trade is that Russia can’t be trusted to uphold it’s end of the Ukraine/Turkey deal.
The market can smell propaganda from a mile off.
It is beyond belief that this could be the next leader of the free world, FMD.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1551234994911182848
thefrollickingmole says:
July 26, 2022 at 9:40 am
Big_Nambas
Now come on… only nearly 1/2 of them also have AIDs as well.
We were far to quick in developing a cure for AIDS.
Tim did say this:
“Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach’s sake and thine often infirmities” (1 Tim 5:23).
The governmental response to covid across the Western world – with the exception of Sweden – suggests we were never as free as we thought.
You’re right. Got my anions and cations mixed up with pH and fertility. And ants. Never ever forget the ants.
Any kind of ants? Or react-ants?
You need a pHD for this stuff.
Climate bill update
What is transparent is that the horrid little shit is setting up blame deflection for the coming disaster.
“We are simply following the guidance of the trusted and widely respected independent Climate Change Aughority. Cold showers by candle light is a small price to pay…”
Jennifer Connelly at her prime, when she had a healthy amount of meat on her bones.
Absolutely true, Mater. She still looks great in Top Gun, but could probably do with about 3 or 4 more kilos. Great eyebrows too.
People might be beginning to rankle at governments farming out decisions to others rather than think (and take responsibility) themselves.
We might as well vote in the ‘experts’ and do away with politicians altogether.
Liberal MP Bridget Archer willing to cross floor in support of 43 per cent climate target
Emblematic.
Shorten must be seething – he had wanted to be known as ‘Climate Bill’.
Instead we get the blustering little gnome – the little kid at school who tries to make up for his diminutive stature by being always ready to fight anyone at the drop of a hat.
These people are insane, clearly the end of the world is near,
https://twitter.com/i/status/1549524231469371392
He goes on …
“But thou shouldst sup upon the wine with great restraint. And shouldst thou be enamoured of the racing beasts, thou shouldst exercise the wisdom of Solomon if thou places wagers upon these beasts. Particularly thou multi betting.” (1 Tim 5:24)
There’s an upside.
As a statutory body they can be sued for damages due to negligence.
Jennifer Connelly at her prime, when she had a healthy amount of meat on her bones.
Absolutely true, Mater. She still looks great in Top Gun, but could probably do with about 3 or 4 more kilos. Great eyebrows too.
Bah, elbows are too pointy.
Green Disaster: Battery Fire Turns Connecticut Electric Bus into Towering Inferno
Yep pH has a big effect on the availability of micronutrients. I’ve never worried too much about pH just assumed Perth tends to be alkaline and got on with it. Plenty there to keep you busy if you worry about it. My gardening philosophy is find tough plants you can live with and plant those. Am developing an appreciation for the differences and variety in gum trees at the moment. Not planting any though.
Land banking by big developers driving up property prices, report at the age, paywalled
“[but] ending the climate wars is really the perspective I am approaching this from”
I think Ms Archer means…
“capitulating in the climate wars is really the perspective I am approaching this from”.
Sadly the electoral carnage on 21 May missed a few….Archer, Bragg, Fletcher and Birmingham. Such a pity.
Matt Gaetz Has Perfect Response to Reporter Asking About His ‘Offensive’ Comments Suggesting Women at Abortion Rallies Are Fat and Ugly (VIDEO)
Now this is how you respond to the lefty media.
A reporter asked Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) about his comments over the weekend criticizing women who attend pro-abortion rallies.
“Why is it that the women with the least likelihood of getting pregnant are the ones most worried about having abortions?” Gaetz said during a speech at a TPUSA event. “Nobody wants to impregnate you if you look like a thumb.”
“These people are odious! They’re like 5’2?, 350 pounds and they’re like ‘give me my abortion’” Gaetz said.
A reporter confronted Gaetz about his comments: “Is it safe to say that, based off your comments, you’re suggesting that these women at these abortion rallies are ugly and overweight?”
“Yes,” Gaetz said.
“What do you say to people who think those comments are offensive?” the reporter asked in a follow-up question.
“Be offended,” Gaetz said with a straight face.
From the Comments – “I’ve noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born.”
? Ronald Reagan
If you want to end the [ ] wars with your political opponents you are in the wrong business.
rosiesays:
July 26, 2022 at 10:35 am
Land banking by big developers driving up property prices, report at the age, paywalled
The investigation by economic think tank Prosper Australia tracked 26,000 sales in nine master-planned communities, including three in Melbourne – Woodlea Estate, Atherstone and Manor Lakes, owned by developers Mirvac, Lendlease and the Dennis Family Corporation. The study found that over 9.5 years, only 23.8 per cent of sites released by government to these developers had been sold to home buyers.
Instead of land and housing prices falling as more land is opened up for development, prices increased by an annual rate of 5.5 per cent above inflation. This means families buying lots in these developments now are paying an average $194,000 more for a typical site than those who bought in at the early stages of the development.
Karl Fitzgerald, director of advocacy at Prosper Australia, said more than 110,000 approved sites had been released to developers nationally over the past decade, but only 26,000 sites, or fewer than a quarter, had been sold.
“The slower the sales, the more developers make,” he said. “We have been at this growth-at-all-costs mentality for a long time now and our report shows we could concrete over all of Victoria and still housing prices would increase because of the market power developers have to just halt supply at whim.”
The Catholic Weekly – Opinion – Dr Philippa Martyr – July 25, 2022.
The cutout Francis of the reformers
Mark Latham’s Outsiders
SPORT AND POLITICS DON’T MIX
Most people go to sporting events to get away from things like politics.
Politics is inherently divisive, with a range of strongly held views and voting preferences.
So when politics comes into sport it can never be ‘inclusive’.
Just look at Manly’s decision in the NRL to introduce a Gay Pride jersey for their match against the Roosters on Thursday.
The club never consulted with its players, many of whom are deeply religious (Christian and Islamic). Now seven are saying they would rather sit out the match than be forced into wearing a Gay Pride jersey that they do not believe in or feel comfortable playing in.
The 7 players have been excluded by the club’s actions.
The Woke Left want us all to express our pride in homosexuality and LGBTIQAP alphabet on a daily basis.
But why should footballers have to do this when it has nothing to do with winning footy games?
There’s a big difference between acceptance and the active promotion of sexuality.
There are thousands of political statements a football jumper could make, but all of them would be divisive and exclude certain groups of people.
Why not Pride in organic farming, veganism, climate action and an Australian Republic? Where are the jerseys for these ideologies?
The whole notion of turning sport into politics is ridiculous.
As the clowns running the Manly club have just found out.
Athletes are not billboards and none of the fans expect them to be.
The only way of being ‘inclusive’ and ‘respectful’ to all people is to stay out of politics and stick to conventional sport.
How hard is that?
You are right Bear.
I’ve put my miniature daffodils in pots near the front door, much easier to control and admire.
Acanthus is taking over the beds out the back.
I don’t mind.
Notice how Liberals always end these ‘wars’ by giving liberals what they want. Gay ‘marriage’, abortion, trans, and like, always negotiating the surrender because that is their role. They are like a lawyer that always advises negotiating but never litigating.
Yep. Immediate red flag.
Not quite a snap Cassie. Possibly a run though.
Morrison absent from parliament.
In Tokyo for a speaking gig
What could that fool have to say that anyone would be interested in?
Re the Manly 7, thoughts and prayers. The full weight of structural liberalism is now bearing upon them.
Good to see Dr Martyr put the boot in to the Plenary Council of Professional Catholics.
You can’t end a war by embracing a lie.
Laws of nature will mug you in the end.
Dover at 10:41 – spot on. Democracy in Australia is a series of lock step movements to the left as the Lieborals implement whatever changes the Liars manage to get through before they are thrown out again.
Animals raised on farms live protected from predators
Free range chickens must nervously look at the sky for predatory hawks all the time.
Sancho Panzersays:
July 26, 2022 at 10:16 am
Beertruksays:
July 26, 2022 at 10:01 am
Tim did say this:
“Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach’s sake and thine often infirmities” (1 Tim 5:23).
He goes on …
“But thou shouldst sup upon the wine with great restraint. And shouldst thou be enamoured of the racing beasts, thou shouldst exercise the wisdom of Solomon if thou places wagers upon these beasts. Particularly thou multi betting.” (1 Tim 5:24)
And “remember thou the words of our Lord that “the days will come in which not one stone shall be left upon another that shall not be thrown down”, so make sure to include “destruction of the temple” in thine next multi”.
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A bit like your reasoning to the war in Ukraine.
On Bridget Archer.
“I haven’t looked at the detail of Labor’s legislation yet, and our party room hasn’t had the opportunity yet to discuss it…”
But I’m going to support it anyway (because it’s a long time in Opposition and a career as a ‘Liberal the Left can deal with’ looks attractive…).
Failure on multiple levels.
The worst.
I’d love to know what Sir Robert Menzies was expecting when he named his creation the Liberal Party of Australia.
Soros Open Society Foundation Employee Brags About Having Sex with Multiple Men at Pride Event – Then Blames Government After Catching Monkeypox and Gonorrhea
A public health expert and director of George Soros’ Open Society Foundation told The Guardian how he had sex with several men during NYC Pride festivities. Then he blamed the government after contracting both monkeypox and gonorrhea.
Sebastian outright admitted that he was aware that “monkeypox was an emerging issue, especially for gay men.” And yet, he had sex with multiple men anyway because he believed that the number of cases in the city was not very high.
“I was aware that monkeypox was an emerging issue – especially for gay men – but I was also under the impression that the number of cases in the city was relatively small,” Sebastian told the Guardian. “What I didn’t understand was how absolutely dismal testing capacity was: at that point, the city only had [the] capacity to process ten tests a day.”
“I had sex with several guys over the weekend. Then a week later, on 1 July, I started feeling very fatigued. I had a high fever with chills and muscle aches, and my lymph nodes were so swollen they were protruding two inches out of my throat,” he added.
Instead of taking responsibility for his own irresponsible actions, Sebastian blamed the government for how poorly it has handled the situation.
This whole thing just feels like a huge failure that should not have been allowed to happen, especially not two and half months into the outbreak. If someone like me, who has worked in sexual health for a long time, had such a hard time navigating care, I can’t imagine other people doing it. I know several people who are just sitting at home in agonizing pain because they’re not getting the support that they need.
I’m pretty worried that we’re close to the point that this is going to be another endemic disease, especially among gay men, if we haven’t passed that point already. I’m worried we’ll be stuck with it forever.
I always take “Destruction of the Temple” in one of my multis.
Big odds, but when it comes in … oh boy!
Oh yes.
It is now the standard MO.
All sides.
The swine have all watched Yes Minister ‘courageous’ episode.
Is a warm inner glow really worth it?
Legislating the 43 per cent emissions target buys a whole lot of trouble for the same result.
Juith Sloan
Behind Oz Paywall
They don’t have to worry so much about foxes etc – protection is not perfect but it is better than they would have had in the wild.
First time voter seeking fatherly advice…
“Dad, what’s the difference between the Liberals and Labor?”
“Oh…about three years, son.”
Not at all. I haven’t viewed Russia as an enemy since 1991. I don’t see any real ‘Western’ interest involved in what is a regional conflict between two powers that were united a generation ago.
Latham says politics and sport don’t mix.
Guess who agrees with him?
From the Oz.
An insipid defence of religious freedoms, to be sure.
But can you imagine Short’n saying that during the SSM debate or the Folau drama?
Their polling in outer suburban marginals must be red-hot against the gay/tranny push.
Tucker Carlson: Conviction Of Steve Bannon Is An “Escalation,” This Is About Sending Political Enemies To Prison
Tucker Carlson reacts to Steve Bannon’s conviction and voices his concerns over the practices of the January 6 committee on Friday’s broadcast of FOX News’ ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight.’
Full printout of the Discussion follows
How To Erode the World’s Greatest Military
Alienating half the country is not a wise strategy of military recruitment.
By Victor Davis Hanson
“Former opposition leader Bill Shorten said the debacle was a “great shame” and should not have reached this point.
“Politicians should stay out of sport so I will adhere to that advice. It’s a shame it got to this” he said.
“On one hand, you will have a lot of young gay people saying do we have to validate our existence again? On the other hand, these players strongly feel their view and their supporters miss out.
“How did it get into this? How did the club allow this train wreck to occur? And that’s (what) I think is the great shame.”
“I am going to back … my admonition that politics and sport don’t mix.””
Firstly, this is better than nothing, I’m no fan of Shorten but at least he’s willing to speak up. He may have won the 2019 election if he’s spoken up like this more often.
Secondly, where is Dutton? This is manna from heaven for an opposition party.
Thirdly, if the Liberals were still in power, we’d probably hear nothing from Morrison and the likes of Karma Sharma, Katie “I love Obama” Allen, Fiona “call the police on constituents” Martin and Rent Zimmerboy would be calling the players refusing to wear the jerseys “transphobes” and “bigots”.
Finally, what sayeth Matt Kean?
The 2nd coming of Peanut Head? Yeah, the focus groups must be running hot. Could there be a 2nd Golden Rule? Those ungrateful married pooftas.
The study found that over 9.5 years, only 23.8 per cent of sites released by government to these developers had been sold to home buyers.
Yep, land banking needs to be taxed more aggressively.
And there needs to be some form of use it or lose it provisions.
Or there needs to be a revenue share agreement between the seller (the taxpayer) & the developer if the land is banked for over 10 years.
Some of the wealthiest families in Australia made their wealth by land banking.
Why do homosexuals need constant validation of their existence?
Because they know there is something wrong with their lifestyle (see monkeypox man anove) and getting everyone to ‘valididate’ them will somehow make it right?
The tax base in Australia could be taxed so much more efficiently but it always comes back to dud ideas.
Tax income less.
Tax assets more.
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We’re in the middle of a hot proxy war with Russia.
It doesn’t matter how you personally “view” them. They are the enemy.
Should have read Dom bends over…..
Salute to the cock in ass.
Arkysays:
July 26, 2022 at 11:28 am
I haven’t viewed Russia as an enemy since 1991
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We’re in the middle of a hot proxy war with Russia.
It doesn’t matter how you personally “view” them. They are the enemy.
Arky, just Curious – Have you been to Russia?
feelthebern at 11:27 – preach it. It may improve as Boomers die off. Inter generational stuff is only really getting started I feel.
Whenever I hear raise income taxes or tax the family home or “windfall tax” it’s just code for taxing people out of social mobility.
Tax lazy assets more.
There are no assets more lazy than banked land.
Fascinating evolutionary response: every native bird species knows the noisy miner alarm call. They either take off to cover or if larger start looking up to the sky. It’s amusing when a bunch of magpies or cockies start looking up in every direction, I can’t help doing the same.
Introduced indian mynahs don’t have this response. They never learn it, either. It’s scary how many generations of Australian birds must’ve occurred for all of them to be attuned like this.
Chooks, being effectively an introduced species would be the same – blithely unaware of the noisies’ warning call.
A lot of ‘honest US citizens’ think Joe Biden is one of the best presidents in the country right now
We’re not sure which is more pathetic: proclaiming that Joe Biden is “one of the best presidents” in the country right now, or copying and pasting it into your own tweet.