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Take my hat off to Pauline. The storms she’s weathered and still there, all guns blazing. This is about the…
Look around you. I don’t see much liberalism.
Freedom is always the outcome of a set of conditions; not a condition itself. That’s what I was saying.
Quality commenting. good dog… you found the ball but you absolutely reek … wtf did you roll in? here you…
Everything happening was predictable and was predicted. Not Nostradamus and crystal balls; engineering and physics.
And certain companies, who seem to be making out like bandits, who specialize in power delivery, have engineered this.
https://www.asiafinancial.com/australian-big-battery-boosts-revenue-at-frances-neoen
The commissioning in Australia of one of the world’s largest lithium-ion batteries helped Neoen, the French renewable energy utility, to a 36% rise in first-quarter revenue, the company said on Tuesday.
Higher electricity prices in Australia also helped to boost revenue across its wind and solar divisions, where sales rose by 23% and 31%, respectively.
Chief executive Xavier Barbaro said the Victorian Big Battery, which went online in December 2021 in time for the southern summer, was largely responsible for the strong quarter.
The lithium-ion battery can supply 450 megawatt hours of power and is aimed at preventing blackouts in a market increasingly reliant on solar and wind power.
Neoen, which generates the bulk of its power in Australia, added more than 2 gigawatts (GW) to its advanced pipeline during the quarter, while assets in operation or under construction at the end of March were stable at 5.4 GW.
The company specialises in solar farms, onshore wind and energy storage and posted overall sales of 109 million euros ($115 million), with storage revenue almost tripling from a year earlier.
The group confirmed its profit targets for this year and up to 2025, when it plans to have 10GW under construction or in operation.
Only made possible by sub-mongs in government crippling existing power supplies in favor of unreliables.
Stand by for a Gillette-ing of monumental proportions.
They are being force-fed the story that the sole driver behind these prices is the international cost of fuel, and that renewables will free them from it.
When people are as scientifically illiterate as the general public now are, pulling the wool over their eyes is easy. Just throw in a couple of impressive sounding acronyms like AEMO, CSIRO, etc, indicate that they produced a report saying, and then leave them vote (or tweet) accordingly.
All those “study trips” to France and after government board appointments wont pay for themselves you know.
https://www.reuters.com/article/total-australia-idAFL4N2CM0MD
MELBOURNE, May 4 (Reuters) – France’s Total SA is seeking to expand its power retailing business in Australia from the middle of this year as part of a global plan to sell electricity to 9 million sites by 2023.
Total already sells power to the Gladstone liquefied natural gas (LNG) project, in which it is a stakeholder, and wants to supply electricity to other large customers across Australia’s eastern states, it said in an application to the Australian Energy Regulator.
…
Total’s footprint in Australia includes stakes in the Ichthys LNG project in northern Australia, solar farms in Victoria and New South Wales and a battery project in Western Australia. (Reporting by Sonali Paul; Editing by Anil D’Silva)
Official Government Documents indicate Authorities are using Monkeypox to cover up the fact the COVID-19 Vaccines cause Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
The digs at The Expose for asking for support are charming and amusing but it would be nice if sometimes those same people would bother to engage with the actual content.
If the ABC is beginning to deviate from the narrative there must be seismic rumblings being detected in the general community.
Steve Kirsch
My email to the San Jose Mercury News
90% of the vehicles are white. It’s so boring, but there must be a good reason for it. Does anyone know why?
Saving police time.
Black cars with low profile mags is code for dodgy pricks. All the crims from the best postcodes in Melbourne have black Mercs and Beamers tricked up.
What he is really saying is that expressing loyalty to the liberal regime is more important than on-field results.
shrinkflation for jobs: yes, it’s a recession
when you’re right, argue facts, when you’re wrong, argue with the dictionary
Are the Manly Warringah Penns related to Andy Penn of Telstra?
The National Tragedy of Hunter Biden’s Laptop
How a country’s political corruption, institutional decay, and moral decline can be summed up in one sad family saga
I will not have you speak about JC like that!
I will not!
Germany turns off the hot water: Hanover becomes first big city to ban hot water in public buildings in response to Russian gas crisis
New semiconductor shortages have popped up in Europe as stock from one supplier is no longer available . Rumours are the military have moved in to redirect to their weapons production. Someone over believes things are about to get serious.
Austrian Chancellor says EU embargo on Russian gas “impossible”
Inevitable.
The one positive out of Australia’s object lesson in politics v Laws of Nature is that it’s a parliament dominated by Net Zero enthusiasts that will ride this fuck up into the ground.
There is no silver bullet, no emerging technology gain, no smart solution.
Just shit loads of money, and wealth transfers, and naked subsidies, and taxes, and forced changes to peoples lives, and inequalities, and businesses going out the back door.
It will be panic bought batteries located in the wrong places, power station bribes, grabs at gas producers – increasingly desperate political ‘fixes’.
‘We’re all in this together’ won’t wash.
And it will all be obvious to everyone.
Biden’s Military Vaccine Mandate is a Political Test
How Corrupt is Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky?
Steve Hughes must’ve been talking about Manly men.
Only a bit sweary.
If Elbow doesn’t alter course he’s going to be a one termer.
I will not have you speak about JC like that!
I will not!
The having is admirable, the getting not so much.
WHO Nudge Unit chief: So what if I’m a Communist?
unherd
johanna says:
July 29, 2022 at 9:22 am
Why aren’t you watching them on ‘cyberlockers’ then? Or telling us how to?
The answer to that should be obvious…
But you’re right, from Wikipedia: “Only Episode 1 of Series 1 of Plane Makers exists, but series 2 and 3 survive”
In total, 58 episodes were made.
I just checked my source:
Series 1 is one episode only (Episode 1) out of 13, Series 2 has 29, Series 3 has 13, so it looks like Series 3 is also incomplete.
OTOH, The Power Game is complete, DVDRips with added photo collection.
If you want the links, ask Dover for my email.
Trudeau moves forward with fertilizer reduction climate policy
Triage is not your friend. Last time I left the ED it was to 3 weeks in a coma (so I am told). Much less dramatic this time. Walkered my own way out.
The Tour de France Femmes is on the TV.
Highlight #1: A 40-rider stack in the peloton while travelling along a straight road. Presumably this occurred because one rider decided to change lanes without indicating; and
#2: Heading into the final turn, the leader went down the wrong road while all the others went straight ahead – caused by the rider blindly following the GPS instead of what was right in front of her.
God help the French health system if they all had to parallel park at the end.
… and totally over the target of Grifter HQ.
Let me know if any “actual content” turns up.
Incidentally, what was the source of the “three Canadian doctors vax deaths” story?
Yes.
Take the Bean Pill.
Norm MacDonald skewered race grifting.
If you want to be racist, just buy a pro ball team, you can legally own blacks.
Test
Maybe I praised WordPress too soon…
Gez – which Seinfeld episode are you referring to? I’ve always associated the quote with Yogi Bera. The best bit on social conformity is when Kramer doesn’t wear the ribbon at the AIDS walk.
Finally got COVID!
I can’t afford to get bat-flu – too expensive .
Going to go for a slight cold instead.
Such backward and outmoded thinking from the club’s members. I will bet most of them think the idea of the Manly football club is to win games. They turn up on weekends and cheer for their teams to win.
Penn and his elevated ilk know that the football club’s purpose it to help its members and society at large by ensuring that there is no corner of this world where an individual is not being told how to be a better person.
It is a grim and thankless task, but Scott Penn is ready to do it. He is the real MVP at Manly.
Good advice.
I just wish Ian would think before he spoke.
Then he would never speak.
I’ll tell you a secret, Mater: the normies out in the suburbs don’t believe the bullshit they’re being fed about everything. They just can’t articulate it as well as you and I.
What Is a Woman BEST MOMENTS – Part 2 Matt Walsh
Classic.
On vax deaths.
A relatively well known ex-footballer in his 60’s from the district died over the weekend, but no cause announced.
A little bit of speculation about vax on the innernet. “Another athlete” one cried.
This bloke was no athlete in recent years, trust me.
I only really knew him by sight, which was often shrouded in smoke.
Haven’t seen him much in town over the last few years but, when I did, he was rarely without a ciggie.
Peter Stuyvesant is my prime suspect.
“NRL club’s values”
Tim Wilson once made the fatuous claim in social media exchange re ssm that publicly listed companies now stand in the same place as churches re values.
Now it’s football clubs.
No no no I didn’t buy Qantas shares because new improved values and I don’t watch sport for them either.
Worthy of The Mocker, ML.
I was a queue jumper last Sunday. Daughter and grandson arrived, I walked back to the front door watching little bloke discover the lawn mower. Buzzing in head, world goes grey, as I took a controlled dive to the paving told missus to call the ambulance. Lay on the paving unable to move the top of my body. Never hit my head or pass out. No pain. Daughter took over and looked after me well. I thought to myself “is this it, not quite how my final moments would be”. Ambo’s arrive 1 hour later. BP 200/140. Pulse 65. As I’m heading for hospital I hear over their radio that Fire and Rescue is their backup. Get looked at by a mate of my son’s whom I recognise even with a facemask. First question, have you been vaccinated for coof or flu? No. Had a couple of specialists whispering to each other. Son’s mate nonchalantly says, well your body is not shutting down. I laughed. He kept my family updated by text all day. We don’t do hanging round hospitals. Off to get 4 CT scans done. I had cognitive tests and was only left alone for about 5 minutes at a time at the most. Six hours later bye bye, every test is ok. I feel ok. I reckon I was looked at by every race on the planet. Its like the UN at Canberra Hospital. I knew I was ok when a nurse walked by with a 11/10 bum. That’s how to get seen promptly. The other way is to collapse when the staff are looking at you. Don’t over do it just enough to get noticed.
Manly Sea Eagles chairman Scott Penn says standing firm on the NRL club’s values is “more important” than on-field results, with his depleted team succumbing to the Sydney Roosters following the controversy.
You know how you used to laugh at shit like this and wonder how people went along with it?
Not so funny when you are living it is it?
Even The Green Left Weekly Radio (now Half) Hour formerly known as AM lead with it. Poor Sabra, she has probably had to take the rest of the day off as some form of compassionate leave.
If you get symptoms, don’t test. Then you can take your pick from the smorgasbord as to what you have.
About as accurate as a RAT test anyway.
That state governments daren’t reintroduce mask mandates because they’re afraid of mass non-compliance is an indicator of that.
Catching up from yesterday.
Sex assault cases in NSW reach new record high as more women attacked in Covid-19 lockdown
New ABS crime data reveals car thefts in NSW have rebounded after a decrease during Covid lockdowns and blackmail cases are also up.
https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/truecrimeaustralia/crimeinfocus/sex-assault-cases-in-nsw-reach-new-record-high-as-more-women-attacked-in-covid19-lockdown/news-story/7bd7b4f4b56606f98247e0a3845d0978
Two paragraphs.
And alarmingly, most victims were female and aged under 18 at the time of the attacks – targeted in homes, during the extended Covid lockdowns.
It also showed they knew their attacker and in NSW 41 per cent were family or domestic violence related.
It revealed the sexual assaults took place at a residential location and almost 100 per cent of attacks did not involve a weapon.
The liberal regime springs into action.
Cometh the Horsemen: Pandemic, Famine, War | Michael Yon and Dr Jordan B Peterson
THE FEMININE INTELLECTUAL VOCATION
by Marie Kawthar Daouda
7 . 28 . 22
johanna says:
July 29, 2022 at 9:22 am
Spaminator still blocking my response despite 6 attempts.
Ask Dover for my email if you want to know more.
Never been tested for covid. Never got it.
Miraculous, I know.
KD – I wouldn’t be too hard to chick bike riders. Pack riding doesn’t allow too much margin for error as all videos of those weekend warriors going down with no hands on the handlebars to peel their banana going down would attest.
Have decided to be even more annoying than usual, and ask why there is no rest-stop for Teddy Sheean VC on the Hume Highway. There are for the other 100 VCs. (Actually must check if BRS has one.)
Wrote to Services NSW a week ago and got a reference number. Silence since.
Phoned them this morning to find out why. Maximum confusion at the other end. Eventually cut off, and then onto call 2. No, I need to speak to Transport Management Centre.
And on we go. Please govern me harder Daddy!
MAKE 1984 FICTION AGAIN!
AwakenWithJP
George Christensen
Safe and effective? Not the case in Australia.
QLD deputy Premier Doctor Stephen Miles (for a doctor of trade unionism he is) tries to pull the old trick off to shift blame for the $200m Wellcamp white elephant:
“The CHO (Jeannette Young at the time) told us to build it.”
Pathetic.
I hope so. I hope their bullshit meter is better turned than old Bob’s.
His kept giving false positives because it was positioned too close to his own mouth.
WA farmers will be celebrating Sneaker’s Minister for Agriculture might now be described as “embattled”. Some carefully worded statements from farmer representative groups to the effect that didn’t really rate her and nothing much has changed.
If the stats are correct 46% of Australians have had covid.
As a member of the apparent majority I’m not yet feeling sufficiently special.
If you make it to to last .3% time to really humblebrag.
How is life at home Mr Bear?
Gilas, fixed. Some reason Akismet was spamming that comment.
I have a very good (2nd hand) story regarding Alannah MacTiernan however it really requires an intimate knowledge of 70s era St Georges Tce architecture for maximum effect.
Two things I did not know.
1) The Commonwealth games were starting &
2) Lenny Henry was still alive.
Home is going OK thanks Rosie. Everything is a little bit more effort than life at a purpose designed facility and I am missing the 24 hour onsite nursing station as my little anecdote will attest. We’ll get there.
Nah… it’s just incompetence. Nothing to see here.
Possibly the best argument for a Pony Girl lead Pony Club.
Emergency Department at private hospital.Wife is delirious and clearly unwell.She is isolated becuase she has an infection so I am not allowed in.
ED doctor, I cant find anything wrong I will discharge her.No you bloody won’t.She is totally delerious and almost comatose.Answer well maybe she will be like that for ever.
I insisted and she was admitted.PET scan uncovered a laundry list of issues, inflamed pancreas , undiscovered hip fracture which same hospital had missed in October and so on so forth.
Discharged three weeks later.
Its not just the public system that is in strife.
JC
Quick rush in here and defend your mate Larry…
Its awesome, the scumbag using OPM to push his woke/green agenda is losing piles of their money for them.
Breaking bad: How BlackRock lost $1.7 trillion dollars in six months
BlackRock Inc. is used to breaking records. The world’s largest asset manager was the first firm to break through $10 trillion of assets under management. But the bigger they are the harder they fall. And this year BlackRock chalked up another record: the largest amount of money lost by a single firm over a six-month period. In the first half of this year, it lost $US1.7 trillion of clients’ money.
BlackRock’s management was quick to invoke the first-half market carnage when revealing the investment performance last week. “2022 ranks as the worst start in 50 years for both stocks and bonds,” chairman and chief executive officer Larry Fink said on his earnings call.
….
In BlackRock’s case, around $US21 billion has flowed out of active equity in the past decade, with $US730 billion flowing into indexed equity. The firm’s passive equity holdings are now 10 times larger than its active business, although it does operate some active multi-asset and alternatives strategies that narrow the gap.*
* I dont know much about stocks etc, but isnt indexing basically retard level investment as far as knowledge and sophistication goes?
Stray apostrophe in aisle 2…
Persisting With Life Choices news (the Tele):
Indolent: the actual content is not worth engaging with – and pointing out the constant stream of stock misrepresentations and ‘statistical’ legerdemain is not interesting.
Today’s offering is more of the same:
A ‘Hmmm?’ piece of pseudoscience:
“Extreme similarities” as in one is caused by a virus, one by a rare autoimmune condition.
And a piece of disproven bollix: the vaccinated AIDS argument (courtesy of Robert Peston, Norman Fenton, et al), now disproven by the 2021 Census results.
I’m sorry, I know you don’t write it, but the Exposé is a cheap con.
The worst.
Dr. Rob Swanda
@ScientistSwanda
Here I give a brief overview of how the vaccine against #Monkeypox works.
This vaccine is under various brand names including JYNNEOS (US), IMVANEX (EU), and IMVAMUNE (Canada) which is made by the company Bavarian Nordic.
Re the West Australian Minister for Agriculture -Alannah Grogpickle won’t be running at the next election – the reservation I have is that she will be replaced by someone even more incompetent.
BlackRock funds just lost $17 billion due to Russian exposure. That’s just the tip of the iceberg, as Western banks are owed $121 billion by Russian entities
Vanguard basically made a business out of it. All the research says unless you are Warren Buffet it is the way to go. Most people think they are Warren Buffet.
Daily Tele editorial:
From a ‘progressive’ perspective, the introduction of Christianity to islands in the South Pacific was part of a racist and colonialist program to impose Western culture on Indigenous populations.
Apparently this even applies to Tonga, which was never actually colonised. One academic paper gets around this by simply changing the definition: “While Tonga has not been formally colonised, we cannot ignore the emotional and cultural colonisation they have experienced.”
That point of view doesn’t give Tongans, a fine and proud people, much credit for self-determination.
In any case, many modern historians and commentators agree that colonisation was bad and black Islander people should never be compelled to adopt attitudes and beliefs from outside their cultures. In our more enlightened era, such impositions are considered wicked legacies of a bygone time.
But now it’s happening again. And this time it is being led by those same ‘progressives’.
Seven Manly Sea Eagles players of Islander background refused to play in last night’s match against the Sydney Roosters. They’d been told to wear LGBTQIA+ pride jerseys for the game.
Rather than do so, which would have run counter to their Christian faith and family culture, the seven Sea Eagles simply made themselves unavailable for selection.
(In fact, the players weren’t even told about the jerseys. They read about them in The Daily Telegraph on Monday. Their club had weeks earlier sent promotional pride jerseys to Hollywood stars Hugh Jackman and Chris Hemsworth, but couldn’t be bothered informing the players.)
For their stance, those seven players were demonised online as homophobic and worse. They were lectured about being “uneducated”. They were told to follow orders and wear the jerseys. One columnist – a white bloke, of course, like most of the Manly Seven’s critics – called for them to be sacked.
Talk about a dominant group imposing its will on non-believers. Interestingly, many Manly Seven detractors weren’t nearly so outraged when GWS Giants player Haneen Zreika, a Muslim, refused to play in a pride round game earlier this year.
As well as being modern-day cultural imperialists, militant wokes are also irredeemable hypocrites.
This is the sort of mess sport gets itself into when it introduces causes and missions beyond simply playing sport. All manner of ideological and social barriers suddenly emerge.
Ironically, in doing so, it also undermines sport’s comparative advantage over other human interaction – its status as a ‘safe place’ where fans can take refuge from all the tensions and conflict of real world society and culture.
Yet the NRL seems determined to continue down this path. A league-wide pride round is now being considered for next year’s season.
On one level that’s inspirational, turning a painful episode into a bigger, bolder unity project.
But on another level, good luck with that. Nearly 50 per cent of NRL players are of Islander background. Others are Islamic. Without a great deal of genuine engagement with these players and their communities, a pride round might become no-stars round or first-gamers round.
Or, even more accurately, exclusion round. All in the name of inclusion.
Ben English
Editor, The Daily Telegraph
The irony burns.
https://m.dw.com/en/how-gas-shortages-also-threaten-wind-power/av-62600630
Zulu – I would say where would they get one but we are talking about the WA Liars. I’m sure there is a former shop steward from the Bedpan Emptiers Union or Channel Stokes reporter champing at the bit.
That website used to be for a a mechanics’ shop in regional Britain. It already had a pedigree for scamming.
Let me state for the record I, possibly more than others, appreciate an empty bedpan.
Would-Be Kavanaugh Assassin Was ‘Shooting for Three’ Justices, Sources Confirm
Nicholas Roske, the California man who attempted to kill Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, was literally gunning for a SCOTUS trifecta. He wanted to kill three justices. His plan was to “change the votes for decades to come,” according to court documents.
Roske flew in from California and took a taxi to Kavanaugh’s house. He was armed with a handgun, a knife, pepper spray, and burglary tools. Roske left Kavanaughs’ house when he saw marshals standing guard and called the police on himself. Roske told investigators that he wanted to kill Kavanaugh to “give his life purpose.”
Has anyone seen an answer to the Obvious Question
Roske flew in from California – He was armed with a handgun, a knife, pepper spray, and burglary tools
How did he get on a flight with a Gun? or Did he buy it when he landed and if so Where?
Bear: I thought you were on the up.
That’s just terrible! They’ll be forced to buy their wind turbines from China. I wonder how China can afford to forge those steel rings, and extract the neodymium for the magnets in the turbines?
Incidentally even China now is suffering the effects of the humble cheap Chinese air conditioner, which has wreaked such havoc elsewhere in the world.
China’s Power Demand To Surpass Record Amid Heatwave (28 Jul)
Maybe if Xi removes the ban on Australian coal he could have more electricity for the proles.
If you read anything today make sure you read Michael Anton’s They Can’t Let Him Back In. It’s magnificent and disturbing.
RobKsays:
July 29, 2022 at 10:54 am
The irony burns.
https://m.dw.com/en/how-gas-shortages-also-threaten-wind-power/av-62600630
Wind energy and Europe’s largest steel mill have a problem. The mill uses a lot of gas to forge steel rings for wind turbines. But gas prices are rising, and Russia turning off the taps could force the plant into emergency operation – or worse.
From Video “Its Gas Usage is equivalent to 6,000 Households”
KD, one prang in the TdF Femmes a couple of nights ago was another classic.
4 riders hit the deck .
Meanwhile an Aussie rider who had crashed earlier was head down bum up speeding to catch the peloton.
Catch them she did. Rode into the carnage at full speed. The femme she crashed into had to withdraw from the race.
I know I shouldn’t have laughed.
It’s all good, boys – the soft touches are back on power…
Because as everyone knows, white is the prettiest colour.
Makes the air conditioning more effective, and said vehicle more visible on the road.
New York City Health Department Begs WHO to Rename Monkeypox Because It Stigmatizes Gay People
The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene has written a letter to the World Health Organization asking it to change the name of the disease “monkeypox” because it “stigmatizes” gay men.
The department may have a point. A recent New England Journal of Medicine paper concluded that 95% of monkeypox transmissions occurred “during sex between men.”
Shouldn’t the New York City health department concentrate on stopping the spread of this disease instead of worrying whether the name of the disease might offend some easily-offended group?
Spectator World columnist Cockburn wonders if the names “Black Plague” and “Yellow Fever” should be renamed for insinuating racism.
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rick-moran/2022/07/28/new-york-city-health-department-begs-who-to-rename-monkeypox-because-it-stigmatizes-gay-people-n1616601
Well said Mr English! I was thinking the editorial sounded like it was written by one Tim Blair, who is also an editor at the Terror. Then I got to the byline, and rejoiced that Tim has a fellow traveler in the royal editorshipness.
One wonders what the Murdoch kiddies think about the DT, since they’ve become wokerati. They’ve been emasculating Fox with gusto lately.
Dick Morris to Newsmax: Fox’s Murdoch Not Hurting Trump With His Attacks (28 Jul)
Yup. Although it almost certainly isn’t Rupert who’s behind this rubbish.
From Dover’s link at 11.05:
Yeah, baby.
Don Surber today suggests they call it Gay Pox.
He can be brutal at times.
Nukes, Nubs And Coners: The Unique Social Hierarchy Aboard A Nuclear Submarine
Getting assigned to your first sub doesn’t make you a submariner and once you become one you’ll find yourself in a social structure unlike any other.
Is there some colloquial connection between ‘monkey’ and ‘gay’?
Or are they complaining because people have associated the disease with gay men, because changing the name won’t help. It will likely make it worse as everyone will be tell each other why it was changed. “Because it is mostly gays that get it.”
Does it repress the desire of certain persons to visit aquatic facilities of ill repute?
I was amused by this one today:
Monkeypox Warning: W.H.O. Chief Tedros Tells at-Risk Men to Reduce Number of Sex Partners ‘for the Moment (28 Jul)
Golly that’s terrible. What an awful imposition upon such fragile people! It is however entertaining that Mr Tedious has been forced into this confession. It’s good for the soul son, apparently.
The acting Auditor General is having a sniff around why the tender process was deemed confidential in confidence:
Old Faustus’ Prediction: an acting Auditor General will soon cease acting.
not even a flesh wound
For Dot…
https://youtu.be/hvKiQRYORyE
You don’t know that until you try it.
Perhaps start off with the We’reallinthistogether22 Virus and see how we go.
Ads showing Grim Reapers bowling down children and grannies will help…
New York City Health Department Begs WHO to Rename Monkeypox Because It Stigmatizes Gay People
Schlong Covid?
Spare a thought for Rex Mossop today.
Yep. Hopefully not an issue for the next 30 or 40 years. More a historical reference.
dover0beach says:
July 29, 2022 at 10:33 am
Thank you!
Tried to delete different words, symbols.. nothing worked.
the dear petals, it’s going to be another Jonestown
Very good.
Dunno why anyone would watch any womens sport, except maybe Beach Volleyball. The chicks try hard but you would see better action at any club level mens sports. Sad but true.
Thursdays suck.
Alarm as Earth hits ‘Overshoot Day’ Thursday: NGOs (28 Jul)
We should sacrifice some useless mouths to shift Earth Overshoot Day to Friday instead. Maybe the Global Footprint Network and WWF people would be willing to sacrifice themselves for this noble result?
Crikey Ranga.
That’s not redlining.
That’s deep purple on a weather map.
BP is funny.
I used to take BP medication.
Then I had a little op to correct a minor kidney issue.
BP fixed for years.
(Kidneys and BP are intrinsically linked).
Then I suddenly got a yuuuge reading – 185-190 over 110-120 ish.
Went on a tiny dose of BP medication (half the smallest tablet per day) again and it is back to 120/70.
I reckon my spike was just an infection or something I didn’t really notice, and I don’t really need medication.
But the meds don’t cause me any aggro and my doc says it is a really good heart disease preventative anyway.
I have to say that Allanah McTiernan has risen considerably in my estimation as a result of her flippant comments about the possibility of foot and mouth disease spreading to WA. Just look what she said:
She’s taking the piss out of Covid-era rhetoric! I think. Or maybe she’s drunk off her arse again and grabbed the wrong script.
sfwsays:
July 29, 2022 at 12:22 pm
Dunno why anyone would watch any womens sport, except maybe Beach Volleyball. The chicks try hard but you would see better action at any club level mens sports. Sad but true.
Netball? Pretty much the only sport actually designed by women for women. Apart from height advantage in the circle I’d say men wouldn’t play it as well.
It’s not on my must see list, but if I was watching I’d prefer to see a women’s match.
And some sporting moments transcend the mere stats. I’ve seen people run the 400 at B grade suburban club level faster than Cathy Freeman ran in the Sydney Olympic final, but that Olympic final is justifiably one of the Australian sporting classics, because of the sheer mental and emotional pressure that Freeman carried into that race.
Any chance of posting the text here for the skin-flints without a sub?
A yuuuge puff piece I am guessing?
gain of function has turned the humble cold into a veritable swiss army knife
Rex “The Moose” Mossop
“to change the name of the disease “monkeypox” because it “stigmatizes” gay men”
I think it unfairly stigmatizes monkeys.
But we’ll now see the same scenario we saw with AIDS, Monkeypox will, actually already is, being rebranded so as to push the lie that it can afflict anyone, something that is simply not true.
Morsie says:
July 29, 2022 at 10:45 am
Its not just the public system that is in strife.
Definitely not.
When you turn up to ED these days, once you get past the ambulance code-blacks (bed-block) and the communist slag at the triage desk, you’ll meet the most ignorant junior doctors that ever graduated from med school, so low have the standards fallen.
History taking is limited, pressured and often judgemental.
Physical examination is almost desultory, if it happens at all.
One is far more likely to get a CT scan than a half-competent neurological or abdominal examination.
The pressure on beds means that the incentive to discharge home, rather than admit, is immense. One will usually get a referral letter to some GP or one of the on-call consultants’ private rooms, where a more thorough assessment is usually made, with all the added costs.
Having just completed an indoctrination-laden, content-poor school education, the young RMOs know little outside of a narrow, post-modern version of socialised medicine, full of SJW ideologies and woefully short on traditional medical methods.
When I was giving lectures to residents and registrars, asking them any questions was the best way to produce blank looks. What used to be regarded as standard medical knowledge was mostly absent. Technical or statistical knowledge, to properly understand clinical research, was usually zero.
Strict adherence to protocols or procedures written down by committee or the Orwellian-named Clinical Excellence Commission (NSW) is the extent of ED staff skill/responsibility these days.
And as for any clinical presentation that falls outside the protocol.. start praying.
The Mrs just got a call from the principal of my year 6 daughter’s school. Apparently my firstborn told one of her classmates that he “smelled like poo”, causing this student to run out of the classroom. Three things spring to mind:
1) I’m pretty certain I know who the kid is. If I’m right, he’ll quite happily dish out poo to others, metaphorically speaking, my daughter included. If you dish it out, you need to be able to take it. And if you can’t, tough poo, that’s on you. (Also, this kid actually does smell like poo. Or at least he did not all that long ago.)
2) my kid has an acid tongue when she chooses to use it. He got off lightly.
3) if a school principal is calling a parent because a year 6 student told another year 6 student that they smelled like poo, then this is clearly a school with very well-behaved students.
Manchin and the GOP Dupes
Eager for home-state subsidies, they left the door open for his deal with Schumer.
Kimberley A. Strassel
If good policy makes for good politics, the reverse is also true. Senate Republicans proved that in spades this week, as their lust for home-state handouts paved a runway for President Biden’s long-sought climate, tax and healthcare agenda.
Seventeen Republicans on Wednesday helped Democrats pass a $280 billion subsidy blowout for the semiconductor industry. The bill is an embarrassing stew of accountability-free corporate welfare and government spending. This is the priority Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell in June vowed to hold hostage so long as Democrats still had the Biden reconciliation agenda—formerly Build Back Better—on the table. Instead, encouraged that West Virginia Democrat Joe Manchin continued to block that front, Republicans figured they might as well cash in.
Mere hours after that vote, Mr. Manchin announced he’d agreed to a $740 billion reconciliation deal after all. Surprise! The kinder commentators are noting that Republicans got “duped” by their West Virginia buddy—but that’s unfair to dupes. Mr. Manchin had never ruled out an agreement; quite the opposite, he said negotiations were continuing. All Republicans had to do was refuse to touch a semiconductor bill until the reconciliation vehicle expired on Sept. 30. Or better yet, walk away from the bloated industrial policy altogether.
Especially because they didn’t need this bill, politically. Inflation, gasoline prices, baby-formula shortages and a faltering economy had already provided Republicans all the ammunition they needed for their campaign to retake the Senate. But some Republicans saw an opportunity to funnel money to home-state chip interests, while others saw a chance to do the only thing they know how, spend. Even Mr. McConnell—“master strategist”—voted yes. Don’t confuse getting duped with a failure of basic impulse control.
The strategic failures of this vote are legion. Republicans will boast to their constituents about the semiconductor cash, but 15 of the 17 who voted yes aren’t even up for re-election this year. The bill will prove far more useful to Arizona Democrat Mark Kelly, who helped negotiate the legislation and is already bragging it will cement his state’s goal of doubling chip jobs over the next decade. And to New Hampshire Democrat Maggie Hassan, who used the vote to reinforce her tough-on-China claim. And then there’s Ohio, where retiring Republican Sen. Rob Portman just delivered a huge political win to the Democrat vying to succeed him in the job, Rep. Tim Ryan, a House co-sponsor.
Meanwhile, the GOP blew its one bit of leverage against the bigger Biden spending bill—which may now prove unstoppable. Democrats had been demoralized and divided, with this week’s headlines all about House infighting over a policing bill. That’s been replaced with an agreement that will revive enthusiasm among the left’s core constituencies, including the green activists and union foot soldiers who are crucial to election mobilization. Republican voters, conversely, can console themselves that their leaders are running out of time to help Democrats add further to the deficit—whether via infrastructure bills or semiconductor bills, Covid bills or veterans bills.
The GOP is instead reduced to hoping one of several Hail Marys might still bring the Manchin bill down. They will lodge complaints with the Senate parliamentarian, trying to get core provisions of the 700-page bill thrown out under strict reconciliation rules and destabilizing the bill’s coalition. They will tee up amendments for the upcoming “vote-o-rama,” with an aim of pressuring vulnerable Democrats to defect. They are gaming out how they might use to their advantage Mr. Manchin’s demand that he get separate reform of the permit process for energy projects alongside reconciliation. But these all seem long shots amid a Democratic coalition newly galvanized to do whatever it takes.
Which is why they also shouldn’t bank on another Manchin-like figure riding to their rescue. All eyes are on Arizona Democrat Kyrsten Sinema, who has yet to pronounce on the bill and has in the past ruled out certain tax hikes. But Mr. Manchin and Majority Leader Chuck Schumer cleverly stayed away from her red lines, instead proposing a provision on which she’s been opaque—a 15% corporate minimum tax on large corporations. The clear goal of this deal was to isolate Ms. Sinema and dare her to derail her party’s agenda single-handedly. The pressure will be enormous.
It’s why House renegades have also gone quiet. New Jersey Rep. Josh Gottheimer and fellow blue-staters had previously declared they’d never support a reconciliation bill that doesn’t increase the deductibility of state and local taxes, which was limited by the Trump tax law of 2017. This bill doesn’t, but they’ve gone wobbly. Likewise, House progressives had declared than nothing short of Bernie Sanders’s $6 trillion reconciliation plan would do in this climate “emergency,” yet Congressional Progressive Caucus Chairman Pramila Jayapal this week had nothing but praise for a slimmed-down Manchin bill. Speaker Nancy Pelosi is a master head-knocker, and the stakes are high.
Mr. Schumer vows to have this bill done and dusted by the end of next week. If it happens, the GOP will bear plenty of the blame.
How hard is it just to say no? Apparently too hard for this spending-addicted Republican minority.
Managed that one day when visiting GP for scripts. He was quite alarmed. I felt completely fine though. I worked out a day or so later that I’d had a viral infection – very mild as to be nearly unnoticeable, but with some muscle pains, fatigue and suchlike. I suspect that may be the cause of many such spikes, especially these days with coof stalking the nation.
More likely it means the school principal has a cranium packed with poo.
Crybully.
Dr Faustus at 10:37
And, in my mind, it has the effect of tainting anything else Indolent links to.
In defence of a little corner of the hospital “system”. My Dad was admitted to John Hunter a month ago – optical emergency.
The doctors and nurses there were fantastic. The frustrations only occurred when trying to admit him and finding a bed, which they did in due course. A “mixed” ward, but it couldn’t be helped.
9/10.
BoN.
My BP spike pre-dates Kung Flu, but I strongly suspect it was driven by some transitory infection.
I have my own BP machine and do a bunch of readings every three months or so and transfer them to an app.
A sea of greenlight indicators except for half a dozen in a week around that time.
I can’t believe 50% of a minimum dose tablet would fix a 185/115 level if the underlying cause was ongoing.
Look, when you’re dealing with children that taunt each other with psychologically destructive slurs like ‘I know you are you said you are but what am I?’, ‘dobbers wear nappies’ (or the equally appalling ‘dobbers kiss robbers’) and the innumerable potential endings of ‘roses are red, violets are blue’, you have to exercise the nuclear option when a kid tells another kid they smell like poo. Expulsion is the only option, really.
Sticks and stones can break your bones,
But names can never hurt you.
…..
Well, they do actually, but not as much as being thumped with a bit of four-be-two. There are worse things than mouthy malice.
First Major German City Turns Off Hot Water and Public Building Electricity to Save Gas
July 28, 2022 | Sundance
Hanover, a city in the northwest of Germany, has become the first major metropolitan area to try and reduce the use of natural gas by removing hot water from public buildings. The move comes as natural gas supplies from Russia are reduced to 20% of capacity. Germany is attempting to fill up storage facilities of natural gas in order to survive the winter.
The GOP establishment doesn’t want a huge, unruly majority that is difficult to corral, especially if it consists of a bunch of MAGA people. This is an existential threat to the GOP establishment, which would sooner lose in November and keep its position at the trough rather than win bigly and potentially get ousted by the interlopers.
Well, McCarthy wants to win, that is true. He wants his turn in the speaker’s chair. But McConnell doesn’t give a shit as long as he or one of his surrogates remains in charge of the GOP in the Senate. A red wave of historic proportions threatens the ambitions of both men. It’s the last thing they want and they’ll do whatever they can to prevent it.
Sancho – Likewise. Been 145/85 since first year uni. Hydrostatic pressure does have some effect as my poor old pump thingie has to pump harder to get the blood up to the altitude of my noggin.
Difference between a 170 cm shortarse and a 190 cm bird guy is nominally about 15 points BP because of the extra height. Probably why short guys live longer.
“The best bit on social conformity is when Kramer doesn’t wear the ribbon at the AIDS walk.”
Not that there’s anything wrong with that…
Time for McConnell to be dumped. Years ago.
The Zelensky pair’s Vogue glamour shots from hell
Is there anyone out there who’s not disgusted, utterly disgusted, with the chic Vogue fashion-glamour shots of Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky and his wife from the rubble and war rooms of Ukraine?
Things have changed. Arms are flowing in from Europe and the U.S. in huge amounts now. There is constant talk of rebuilding as if the war has been won already. Some $54 billion has been allocated by U.S. Congress to hand over to Ukraine for various purposes — pensions for bureaucrats, infrastructure rebuilding, weapons, housing, and more — with no oversight or accountability, which is a credibility-killer of Ukraine, as it leaves much of the U.S. public skeptical. Joe Biden’s corruption is another tangential issue — is Biden handing over that cash to keep Ukraine quiet about what it knows about Hunter Biden’s corrupt business dealings? Be nice to know the answer to that one. Meanwhile, Russia is in no paradise for its stubborn invasion. It’s now being pressured by its allies, such as Kazakhstan, and to some extent, China, to get the hell out.
The fact that a lot of money has rolled in, that Ukaine is corrupt to start with, and the war has yet to be won, serves to make this Vogue photo shoot a snake-eyes roll of the dice for the idea of stoking any sympathy for Ukraine. They have the cash. Where is the victory? Tell us about all the time you have for this photo shoot with all its fakey-fake goo-goo eye embraces and those straddling macho legs on the first lady sitting down to show determination? They haven’t won…so aren’t they supposed to be a bit more serious than to take on a Vogue glamour photo shoot? We thought this war was real.
Here’s one pic that didn’t make it into Vogue
meanwhile
I do not work my ass off and pay $4.60 a gallon so that some Ukrainian oligarch and his wife can pose for a puff piece in Vogue.
I hope the Greens get their way and smash Australia back to 1787.
As the ensuing Liberal PM’s term will make Menzies look like a part-timer.
She missed:
– if it saves one life!, and
– we’re all in this together.
3) if a school principal is calling a parent because a year 6 student told another year 6 student that they smelled like poo, then this is clearly a school with very well-behaved students.
Asked my teacher wife.
-If they do smell like poo then it’s not OK.
-If they don’t then it’s a quick discussion on appropriate language, and only if the teacher is within earshot.
-All kids lie like criminals at the dock.
-Trying to find the truth ends up being merely a survey of each child’s popularity.
-Nipping in the bud any perceived bad behaviour saves worse to come.
For the innocent party it’s a nice lesson in injustice that will serve them well for the future.
Please be Canberra!!!
https://www.theverge.com/2022/7/28/23280497/china-long-march-5b-uncontrolled-rocket-reentry
More lockdowns coming to a town near you!
https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/monkeypox-san-francisco-emergency/2963044/
This site shows the discrepancy clear which compares high school boys vs female Olympic finalists
https://boysvswomen.com/
Semi-monopolistic news agency used by newspapers globally tells its users to frame all journalistic output in compliance with trans and gender ideology.
https://reclaimthenet.org/associated-press-stylebook-transgender-issues/
The Associated Press Stylebook, used as a style manual by most media outlets, has been updated to include a “Topical Guide” for transgender coverage.
The guide says writers should use “unbiased language” when referring to trans people. It also says writers should “avoid false balance” by “giving [a] platform to unqualified claims or sources in the guise of balancing a story by including all views.”
“A person’s sex and gender are usually assigned at birth by parents or attendants and can turn out to be inaccurate. Experts say gender is a spectrum, not a binary structure consisting of only men and women, that can vary among societies and can change over time,” the guide further states.
The guide adds: “Avoid terms like biological male, which opponents of transgender rights sometimes use to oversimplify sex and gender, is often misleading shorthand for assigned male at birth, and is redundant because sex is inherently biological.”
It tells writers to describe the amputation of genitals and breasts as “gender-confirmation procedures” or “gender affirming care” because these treatments “can improve psychological well-being and reduce suicidal behavior.”
Other rules include: “Don’t refer in interviews or stories to ‘preferred’ or ‘chosen’ pronouns. Instead, write ‘the pronouns they use,’ ‘whose pronouns are,’ ‘who uses the pronouns,’ etc.”
So, Quadrant is reporting (from AEMO report) that one megawatt hour cost, on average, $50 in 2015.
It is now $350.
Burn, baby burn.
The drag party of a LIFETIME is set to launch in Australia with sparkling performances, bottomless bubbles, makeup stations and rainbow food – here’s everything you need to know
rosiesays:
July 29, 2022 at 8:42 am
How is Monty?
He was so chirpy yesterday, I am beginning to suspect that he had no more than a minor sniffle.
What a country eh OCO?
If the kid does indeed smell like poo- which I assume is true by the evasive action- then something’s wrong with his or her life, and you’d expect the leviathan Wellbeing apparatus, which I confidently assume your school sustains, to swing into action.
But, no. The principal switches to group image damage control.
P.
I couldn’t bear to click on the link.
Is the drag party a new political party? /sarc
Is truth a defence in “you smell like poo” argy-bargy at school?
My daughter was in Year 5 ten or so years ago. She kept getting bullied and harassed by a couple of kids. School did nothing.
She finally lost it one day and called one of her classmates at “Big Fat Gay Watermelon.”
Phone calls to parents, emails. Had to meet with Principal, class teacher and finally apologise to the Watermelon kid.
Months later this kid (admittedly on the spectrum) verbally abused my daughter. Again she dished it back on him. Again emails from Principal, much finger wagging. Only this time the Watermelon Kid’s dad entered the school grounds and threatened my daughter. School knew of this when when Principal wrote email about my daughter’s aberrant behaviour but withheld it from my wife and I.
When I found this out the hunted (me) became the hunter. Letter to Principal expressing outrage about a parent entering the school to threaten a kid. I wave around words like “disturbing”, “grave matters”, “daughters safety”, “legal repercussions” and the greatest one; “potential paedophile”.
All of a sudden this grim, sanctimonious state public school Principal became very charming and apologetic with words such as “your daughter’s safety is of paramount importance,” and “ensuring a safe environment” yada yada. For the rest of our schooling our daughter never had another complaint.
The Watermelon kid was big and fat, don’t know about gay, though.
AEMO is reporting that the average price in August 2021 was ~$50/MWh.
The problem is not $40/GJ gas.
We are being shagged, good and hard, by the renewable robber bandits who have gamed the market.
Was it M0nty?
DrF
a great man by the name of Ron Manners with whom I often had a glass of red with told me many moons ago: “If you study, and study hard at understanding the totality of the energy market, you stand to make a lot of money.”
He wasn’t wrong.
Just say NO.
Los Angeles County Drops Plans to Reimpose Mask Mandate After Beverly Hills, Long Beach and Other Cities Push Back on Covid Tyrants
Not if your pants are on fire. The rules of evidence in schoolyards is a very precise discipline.
Shocking!
#IStandWithKarens
Tucker Carlson: It turns out we’re insane
It’s gone up! Now 65,000 years!
AUSTRALIAN children are being denied access to 65,000 of knowledge and history according to education reformists calling for indigenous knowledge to be embedded in the curriculum.
The incorporation of Indigenous knowledge into classes from primary school all the way to university has become the rallying cry of an education forum at the Garma Festival.
International, Australian, Northern Territory and Yolngu leaders are calling on the rest of Australia to “look to the future” with major reforms proposed at the East Arnhem conference.
Garma’s return after a two-year pandemic hiatus gathered thousands of people together in a celebration of Indigenous community, culture and policy-making.
Professor Marcia Langton said her team at the University of Melbourne had spent eight years developing a program incorporate and recognise Indigenous knowledge into the national curriculum.
Prof Langton said the University of Melbourne had brought together experts from diverse facilities, from physics, education, theatre and music, to indigenous languages, to discuss how indigenous knowledge could be embedded into the curriculum.
She said it was her aim for every student to have the opportunity to understand how Indigenous knowledge could influence their own understanding.
“Remember the issue in the Ulu?u statement of the heart: Truth telling,” Prof Langton said.
“Our children deserve the truth.”
Prof Langton said a “nation building” curriculum influenced by Indigenous knowledge was critical to Australia’s future.
But Prof Langton said she was too cynical to bring forward an Indigenous-led curriculum for history students.
“Every Australian is entitled to know the truth about our country,” she said.
“At present … in schools there’s no relationship or very little relationship to the truth.
“If we had started with history and the frontier wars, our work would have been immediately been rejected.
“There remains a denialist approach.
“Apparently all of you dropped out of a spaceship and landed here,” she joked.
“There was nobody ever here before, it was all yours, there was nobody before you who may have created it.
“That’s about what you learn in school about us, our past and the county in which you live.”
“I’m sorry for being cynical, but I’ve been into too many schools and looked at many curricular.
“Why are Australian children denied 65,000 years of history and culture, and denied even an accurate history of Australian since 1901?”
Prof Langton sarcastically asked “what’s the definition of structural racism again?”.
She said there was very little difference between those who refused to teach Indigenous history because it was “too difficult “ and “too decisive “ and Senator Pauline Hanson, who recently walked out of parliament over the acknowledgment of country.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner June Oscar called for a Indigenous knowledge to not only be acknowledged, but a mandated part of the curriculum in Australian classrooms.
“How dare we not include and acknowledge the Indigenous civilisations of this continent in our education and learning pathways,” Ms Oscar said
“Having our Indigenous education systems have always been foundational to engaging in our lives and bringing our worlds into being.
“I learned to live in both worlds as many of the young Indigenous people have. And in doing so slipped from one reality to another with the educational tools from both existences.
“(But) we don’t want to see formal education to come at the cost of culture and out identity.
“We share knowledge to live and survive by.”
Ms Oscar spoke of the harms of racist and culturally insensitive teaching could have on young minds, particularly young Indigenous women.
Ms Oscar said she was inspire by the voices of a youth panel, featuring alumni of the Australian Indigenous Education Foundation.
She said these young people had fought against racism both from their peers and teachers.
“It’s still alive in this country,” Ms Oscar said.
New Zealand High Commissioner and M?ori education advocate Dame Annette King told an education panel the denial of First Nations knowledge was a great shame shared across the Tasman Sea.
“Almost across the board M?ori currently fare the worst in social and economic outcomes,” Ms King said.
She said a systemic repression of M?ori culture and language meant that the number of children able to speak their own tongue dropped from over 90 per cent in 1975 to just 5 per cent in the 1990s.
But she said the was hope, with culturally revitalising education platforms turning the tide and celebrating M?ori culture in schools.
She said within her lifetime M?ori had become an official language of her county, with language spoken in parliament, media and wider community with ease.
She said the M?ori experience was very different to the many hundreds of Aboriginal and Torres Strait languages in Australia.
Also a chance to vote:
Should Indigenous knowledge be included in the Australian school curriculum?
Yes
No
but presumably paywalled – NT News
Looks like the readers are raaaaaaacist:
Should Indigenous knowledge be included in the Australian school curriculum?
Yes 21 %
No 79 %
119 votes
Boambee John says:
July 29, 2022 at 1:54 pm
rosiesays:
July 29, 2022 at 8:42 am
How is Monty?
He was so chirpy yesterday, I am beginning to suspect that he had no more than a minor sniffle.
He’s pushed on to the summit from base camp after eating his last Sherpa.
It’s a brave attempt as he’s low on oxygen and high on hype.
Same type of thing happened to my youngest, only in the private system. She was forced to apologise to a boy who she clocked after he attacked her with scissors. This all happened without my knowledge and well after the event.
Upshot…out of that school she went and into the junior school of her elder sister’s high school. Never looked back.
There was no point in arguing with the dopes who took Mr Stabby’s side. Parents of Mr Stabby were big donators to the building fund and big cheeses in business. I sometimes wonder if the little jerk eventually ended up in clink. He definitely isn’t in parliament.
Jealousy is a curse
You are getting ridiculous phone calls from teachers and principals because we are no longer able to beat your stupid, ugly recalcitrant and unutterably spilt brat children.
Just thank us and shut the fuck up.
Spoilt.
If you want to go in fists and all, it might be better to beat the father first.
If you can find him.
Just went for a talk today and stood next to Maggot Turnbull the Most Miserable at the traffic lights.
Maggot has aged, I suppose hatred does age a person. It must eat away at you. Anyway, he must be happy, he helped get rid of the Liberals in Wentworth and the Liberals are gone federally. He doesn’t have to worry about gas and electricity prices quadrupling, Maggot is rich and lives in a energy guzzling mansion in Point Piper. Such tedious concerns are for the common, vulgar riff-raff living in the outer suburbs of our cities, we all know who I’m talking about, the same riff-raff living in marginal electorates that Maggot couldn’t be bothered campaigning in. You see Maggot, who thinks he’s the cleverest person on the planet (but isn’t) never learnt one very important political rule, which is that if you want to lead a democracy and you want to hobnob with world leaders, you first have to do a little hobnobbing with riff-raff in marginal electorates.
Meanwhile, the Maggot’s legacy? Destruction and SSM. He must be so proud.
From Daniel Wild of the IPA of Labor’s Climate Change Bill
Unfortunately, this is all too true. Rings a bell with Gilas’ comment at 12:40 p.m. too. We are churning out unthinking automations.
Gonzalo Lira
@GonzaloLira1968
Absolutely right. This is what I’m writing about in The Ziggurat.
A great talk on Religious Liberty from last night at Notre Dame, Rome by Justice Alito, worth a look!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uci4uni608E
..
Tongue in cheek of course Calli.
But my comments reflect an underlying thing.
You should see what’s coming next out of the liberal parts of the USA.
Teachers can’t even keep a student in at lunch as punishment without parent permission.
In other words, teachers no longer have any method of control over students other that that said students like them enough to not completely behave like animals.
I don’t think the system is sustainable. It’ll thankfully be gone before the end of the decade.
If parents like those complaining here today actually saw what was going on in schools they would pull their children out en masse.
Glad I’m out of it.
The last class I did replacement teaching for had burnt through three (THREE!) first year maths teachers before the end of term two.
When your offspring are retiring teachers before the teachers careers even start, then the thing is already done.
(He has a few jibes for Trudeau, Harry and other world leaders on abortion)
Thanks, Calli. Obviously not isolated.
One of the fellers who used to work door etc. for me on busy nights had a day job as a teacher in a state school.
He had some excellent one-liners, & a deceptively fatty build – which when you had a closer look, wasn’t comprised of fat at all.
From time to time he’d have occasion to mildly admonish one of the undisciplined bogan-raised brats in his class.
This led to a parent, usually the father (who until that instant had shown zero interest in his child’s education) charging down to the school, entering the classroom & getting mouthy.
Very empowering for the kids.
Nightime doorman, weekend rugby union front rower, and daytime teacher, would state nervously that “this is state govt property were on, an education dept facility, violence or even threat of it not allowed, so we’ll have to stop the violent talk-…”
“I’ll say what I please fatso, blah blah blah..”
“If I may finish, sir, on Education dept property violence & aggressive language is not allowed, so if you’ll please accompany me to the other side of that Boral Cyclone fence, we’ll be out on the grassy roadside, I’ll then smash you in half, then we’ll come back in here & continue your conversation in an adult fashion”
This would have a remarkably transformative & calming effect on the situation. Bogan dad would cease any rough language, become most respectful to the teacher, & would pretty much end up nodding & saying “yessir, three bags full sir, whatever you think best sir, I won’t bother you during class time again, sir, & I’ll make sure little Rockhead knows to not play up again, sir”
Little Rockhead & his mates would be left with spinning heads at the whipcrack manner in which management of the situation had diametrically reversed, though they’d understand very well the part about dad being invited outside & instead publicly backing down in front of the whole class of kids.
Alas not all teachers are physically able to handle difficult parents in such a manner.
So, Quadrant is reporting (from AEMO report) that one megawatt hour cost, on average, $50 in 2015.
It is now $350.
We had 3 car manufacturers back then and none now.
This and all the lockdowns would mean much lower industrial demand for electricity.
I guess you didn’t invite him for coffee and cake, Cassie.
Neither would I, the pompous, pretentious, preening pr.. , er prat.
Retirements will accelerate over the next few years and there isn’t enough experienced staff in their 30s and 40s to stabilise the thing.
Maybe they’ll import folk from Sierra Leone or Bhutan to teach your children.
Who knows.
“look to the future”
By worshiping the little clay idols of the most backwards culture on earth.?
Oh sorry, not even clay idols.
A mob for whom Apocolipto was science fiction set thousands of years in the future.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngWBddVNVZs
Langton is a foul old race baiting skank.
A serious country wouldnt let it anywhere near educating kids.
So, Quadrant is reporting (from AEMO report) that one megawatt hour cost, on average, $50 in 2015.
It is now $350.
We had 3 car manufacturers back then and none now.
This and all the lockdowns would mean much lower industrial demand for electricity.
Now we cross over to the next issue of concern from the ABC..
Big business, what is it doing with productivity gains and why havent they flowed through to wages yet…..
Well, at least its the sort of thing blind Freddy can see.
Increase costs of inputs (materials and energy) and funnily enough it means less wages growth.
Still, when you are in your prole pod eating the bugs and owning nothing you wont need much anyway.
What they really want is to eliminate ownership of everything for everyone, but themselves of course.
World Economic Forum calls to reduce private vehicles by eliminating ‘ownership’
Monkey Pox alternatives…….
Vegemite Drilling Pox
Poo Denters Pox
Brokeback Mountain Pox
Mardi Gras Pox
Oxford Street Pox
Liberals Pox
Non Hetero Pox
Rainbow Pox
Possibilities are endless.
Wonder if the bloke who proposed to a bloke in the parliament premises has a suggestion.
Fox News host Tucker Carlson calls Vogue’s photoshoot of Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s and his wife Olena Zelenska as insulting to the American taxpayer on ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight.’
#FoxNews #tucker
Ha!
If they are going for periods of time then, presumably, they want to what happened over that time.
First – there are more changes to be seen in the lifetime of a single European than the uneventful 200 bajillion years of Aboriginal occupation before 1770. You could list the new events for every year in Europe from 1770 (when whitey’s history intersected with Aboriginal history) to 1820 and it would be a big list.
Second, and perhaps qualifying the first, I would venture that Aboriginal history has very little ‘depth’. For all of its being 900 quadrajillion years, is there any knowledge of the evolution of technology, religious belief, societal progress etc. By and large we have the way things were when Cook turned up and assume the same goes back until the numbers of the years get fuzzy. Every year going back is essentially the carbon copy of the year 1770. People might know that it can’t have been the same all that time, but that is because we know (by western science) that the planet has changed over that time so the people would have had to have changed with it.
If you took the years between 1770 and 1820 in Europe as pages and pulled out the redundant ones you could not reduce it to five or ten sheets. Every page, every year, would be distinct and essential. The stack would stay 50 pages think.
If you stacked all 240 Megakapajillion years of what we call Aboriginal history on top of each other they would eventually settle and subside into one year. That is how our grasp (even Marcia Langston’s) of Aboriginal history works.
We know nothing of how individuals may have improved the boomerang. The woomera was being used by early Homo Sapiens in Africa and Europe. What must have been achieved and how it was done remains a void. They were a Stone Age population. Their gift was not changing. And it served them well – they survived. But pretending that there is 9,573 Supermegakepajillion years of knowledge when, as far as anyone understands, it is 20,423 Hypersupermegakepajillion of the same year is literally trying to make a mole hill look like a mountain.
So here is the thing – any speculation or interpretation of this history is actually the application of European analysis, not the discovery of history. The significance of the different of waves of occupation discovered by historians and its application to understanding has no parallel in Aboriginal tradition. It is a purely European exercise. If there is a song about a spirit coming from over the mountains and defiling all the kangaroos it has no probative value – not until I western historian is able to discover that there was an encroachment by an established Roo-shagging tribe that it would have meaning.
Langston seems really to believe that there is magic in Indigenous culture.
All we can really say is that when Europeans turned up this is how Aborigines lived, and that somehow they managed to cling on when likely anyone else would have perished.
Nobody likes to be pulled off by the Ref at half time.
The six Aboriginal seasons and running naked through the desert. That’s all they’ve got. What else can they teach our kids of any use?
I would.
I’d even buy a special teaset for the occasion.
Nobody likes to be pulled off by the Ref at half time.
But enough about Mardi gras..
This seems to be quite a theme today.
Charlie Kirk: Universities Are ‘Hedge Funds with Schools Attached,’ a ‘Scam’
Two decades of Alzheimer’s research may be based on deliberate fraud that has cost millions of lives
Vogue. Instagram for the WEF crowd.
” That’s just the tip of the iceberg, as Western banks are owed $121 billion by Russian entities…”
Well, you know what they say: few hundred billion here, a few hundred billion there… pretty soon you’re talking about real money.
Not to worry – I’m sure we can all afford a little more public debt to bail them out – after all, they’re too big to fail, right? Can’t have all that super just disappear, much better to make it worthless – seems nicer somehow, you know? More politically acceptable, anyway – even if the outcome for the plebs is the same, or worse, politicians can’t be seen to be to blame.
Mary Talley Bowden MD
@MdBreathe
Lawyer up
@twitter and @cdc
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@America1stLegal
obtains emails between CDC director of digital media Carol Crawford and
@Twitter
execs on how to suppress free speech. Examples in thread.
Gonzalo Lira Retweeted
Tina
@TinaGeeez
Funeral director John O’looney shows blockages removed from blood vessels of a young man’s heart. Who died “suddenly”
My son came home on Tuesday afternoon announcing that he had no school on Wednesday. The day had been cancelled, not enough teachers.
This is the third time this has occurred in the last couple of months.
I have been preparing lessons and delivering to him three times a week (60-90 minutes a night) to actually teach him the work he is being assigned in place of lessons, which have no teacher assigned during the days he is there.
Monty’s little sniffle has done (and is continuing to do) untold damage.
Interesting stuff. The teacher’s union in the US is without a doubt the most self-centered, leftwing, destructive and racist organization in the country outside of the Demonrat party. And we are supposed to feel bad some of their numbers are taking early retirement? It’s possibly the best thing that could happen. Moreover, the teaching profession in the US is single-handedly responsible for institutionalized racism. The kids in deprived areas receive a dreadful education without any hope of succeeding. US teachers, for all intents, didn’t educate kids for two years. during the pandemic.
Systemic racism in the US = Teachers union = Teachers.
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Makes the air conditioning more effective, and said vehicle more visible on the road.”
Nah – white is a group 1 colour, therefore cheap.
Shows the dirt the least too.
It is also the one least likely to have someone really hate it.
Trivia: the hardest car paint colour to match is white – there are a mindbogglingly large number of shades of what most people just assume is the same “boring” white.
Spare a thought for Rex Mossop today.
Nobody likes to be pulled off by the Ref at half time.
“Tiny, diminutive – little Mark Schulman.”
Cathy Freeman/Olympics, who really cares? I have had no interest in the Olympics since they became an arm of professional sport, all sports already have annual world titles, there’s just no point to the Olympics. I can’t understand why anyone would waste time watching them.
Netball, well if your girlfriend plays and you’re trying to get on with her, yeh you go. Once you don’t have to play the interested man anymore you get out. Different if it’s your daughters, go for it and encourage them, watching the fruit of your loins play sport at any level is always good. However my long suffering father didn’t get to see much when he took me to road races when I started cycle racing, unless you followed the bunch around for a few hours you don’t see much. I think he loved it when I got my license and a car and could make my own way to the race.
I have worked out the problems I get with the site, I’m using Brave, if I refresh the page it just takes me back to the last comment and time when I opened the page. If I let the browser/page sit for a half hour or so and refresh it brings up the latest comments. Just have to be patient I guess.
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July 29, 2022 at 10:23 am
Have decided to be even more annoying than usual, and ask why there is no rest-stop for Teddy Sheean VC on the Hume Highway. There are for the other 100 VCs. (Actually must check if BRS has one.)
Most of those between Sydney and Canberra relate to WW II and later wars. I have not noticed any WW I names along that stretch.
It’s not a lot and most of the “owing” in fact , possibly 90%, is to European banks. American banks save of Citibank have little exposure to Russia. Even Citi is pretty much in the clear of further provisioning after the recent last quarter results.
Should Indigenous knowledge be included in the Australian school curriculum?
Yes 21 %
No 79 %
119 votes
Although I’ve been out of there for years I still get emails from the university postgrad medical school where I had an affiliation. Usually I just bin them but today there was one that caught my eye when it mentioned a compulsory “indigenous Voice” module that all the staff & students are expected to complete.
I hate to think of how much woke rubbish is burgeoning in the medical curriculum these days . It’s wasting the limited time available for teaching & experience that is essential for training medicos. I’m sure it’s going to have an adverse effect on the quality of practitioners long into the future.
sfw, try going to ‘Home’ at top of the page, then back to OT. It’s worked for me in the past.
Mole stop stirring the pot.
Larry is a fucking areshole. In fact, the fuckhead is a cancer.
This piece of shit runs the largest fund management business in the world and pretends the stocks in the various funds managed by Blackrock are his own. He strong-arms large companies to follow leftwing causes. He’s turned corporate governance into a pile of greenleft-shit.
Few people are as despicable as Larry Fink.
Has anyone else had trouble buying a spare key for car?
Was told by a locksmith that they can’t sell a remote key because a new law prevents devices with removable lithium button batteries being sold and compliant keys can’t be sourced. He says that dealers have cars on the lot that can’t be sold because they can’t get compliant keys.
Looking at the ACCC web sight, it looks legit. https://www.accc.gov.au/media-release/businesses-on-notice-as-mandatory-button-battery-laws-commence
This “world-first standards..” to “..prevent potentially life-threatening injuries to children” are going to make it even harder to get a car. Oh well, if it saves one life……