The size of this dog still staggers me. He’s been clocked at 34 mph = 54.717696 kph. When Stevo drops…
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The jailing judge was overruled shades of USA
What an utter slimeball. @WallStreetSilv Bill Gates: “I don’t remember talking about masks at all” This is footage of him…
On the subject of Nazis. I notice that a lot of people here reference the loons in the green movement…
Was just down at a local establishment, having a feed with an associate. Obviously, I was rated highly by the…
governing a western country is so humdrum even a young woman who still goes clubbing can do it. when faced with real issues they haven’t got an f*ing clue
chomsky is an anarchist but we have been there already
What actions do you advocate Arky?
Do you want a rerun of the Crimean War and the Siege of Sevastopol? We could even redo the Charge of the Light Brigade although Florence Nightingale won’t be around to apply the bandages.
I have the rona. So far I am sleeping a lot. Worst is yet to come.
Hope you get better soon Monty.
Fatboy. Get into the basement and don’t come out until you’re told. And get well. If Brett Sutton hears you’ve been above-ground, you’ll be in serious trouble. And stop eating FFS. Lose some weight with COVID. Get better.
Do the contain links from trusted sources on the innernet?
Get well soon Monty.
m0ntysays:
July 26, 2022 at 5:03 pm
I have the rona. So far I am sleeping a lot. Worst is yet to come.
See if your co-morbid ass is eligible for the anti-virals they dish out to the old and infirm.
(you are in sicktoria arent you?)
https://www.coronavirus.vic.gov.au/covid-19-medicines
Your doc should be able to wrangle you a course vis telephone consult.
Not everyone is eligible for COVID-19 medications. They are only for people with COVID-19 who are at higher risk of becoming seriously ill. This includes people aged 70 years and over and those with other medical illnesses. Besides these groups, most people can manage COVID-19 safely at home without medication.
Words fail me, they honestly do.
Remember Corporal Klinger in M*A*S*H?
In a 2022 remake he would be Colonel Klinger running the show, and the Corporal trying to get chucked out would be feigning devout Christianity.
Im willing to write a reference for you being a mong if that helps.
You are between 18 and 49 years old
You may be eligible for COVID-19 medicine if you have one of the following:
You have a weakened immune system
You have:
blood cancer
had an organ transplant and are taking medicine to lower your immune system
had a stem cell transplant within the last 2 years
an immunodeficiency (conditions that weaken the immune system)
a blood disorder such as thalassemia or sickle cell disease
had a rituximab infusion (medicine delivered into the vein) within the last 12 months
taken medications which lower your immune system such as chemotherapy or corticosteroids within the last 3 months.
You have other health conditions
you have Down syndrome*, cerebral palsy or congenital heart disease
you are living with disability with multiple other health conditions and/or frailty
If you have COVID-19, have had less than 5 days of symptoms and think you are eligible, immediately contact your GP or a GP Respiratory Clinic for further assessment. Let the clinic know you have COVID-19 and that you think you are eligible for COVID-19 medication.
* This may mean you call them up and say you are feeling depressed??
“With one woman killed every 10 days in Australia by a current or former partner”
Aboriginal domestic homicides comes in handy when it suits, right Tony?
Dover
The side bar updating to the latest comments appears to be broken. It’s been stuck on Thought Leader’s since his comment at 3.21 castigating you about something – possibly to do with Taiwan ? ( I haven’t kept pace).
I think Monty is excluded by age from that list moley.
I assume from this that treatment is not available for everyone? How was this allowed to occur? Is there a shortage?
Perhaps they can flog a few million useless vaxx doses for some of the precious elixir.
Yes, JC, they did take my word for it possibly because before they told me what their policy was, I mentioned that I had had Covid six weeks ago.
I guess they are entitled to impose whatever conditions they wish, as I am at liberty to refuse to buy their services. But I did think all this nonsense was behind us.
I don’t have the side-bar problem.
Agreed.
I can’t get a ciggy paper between Putin and Zelensky as far as which one is the bigger dickhead.
Australia shouldn’t be within a bull’s roar of this on either side.
No troops.
No Bushmasters.
No boycotts.
No blue and yellow lights.
Naffink.
Sidebar up to date here too.
Aren’t the anti virals very expensive?
Iirc a course of monoclonal antibodies in the US cost around USD $2000
Rosie
I think fatboy gets in under these:
He has an enormous head size, possibly the biggest in the country, suggestive of heavy-duty Downs as well as the other conditions mentioned.
Cost? You dare mention cost?
We are a country of endless resources to fling every which way. 😀
Wut?
My gym, which is run by the Shire of Greater Riskaversion, doesn’t want anything but proof I have paid my subs.
Huh, because Fiefox is stuck on the Leadership’s 3.21 comment, which in itself is pretty horrendous. I forced quit and it’s still there. Safari is fucked too.
Did you Vicks it?
Try Friar’s Balsam too. Inhale as required.
If you admit that your main point is that Russia is entitled to do what it is doing based on that it can, which is what I think you are admitting, then lets not hear any more arguments about Russian spheres of influence or historical boundaries or the rest of that kind of justification.
And if we leave that out then all that is left is what is in our interest.
Which is what I stated this morning.
It is not in out interest to see Russia taking over neighbouring European nations.
No matter how funky and outrageous our own institutions right now
Someone asked what fuckwit Kean would say;
https://michaelsmithnews.typepad.com/.a/6a0177444b0c2e970d02a308d8ad58200c-pi
Dover
All three (chrome, Firefox and Safari) are stuck there. Dunno. If its not something you’re seeing then so be it.
many of the young think that Christian bigots single out gays the way racists do blacks.
They don’t realise heteros come in for quite a bit of disapproving attention in a non discriminatory policy.
I imagine a ‘living in sin’ round would have Vlandys’ wholehearted support.
Just to be clear.
The sidebar comment update is stuck, but not going into the form itself as that appears to be updating.
rosie says:
July 26, 2022 at 5:24 pm
Aren’t the anti virals very expensive?
Iirc a course of monoclonal antibodies in the US cost around USD $2000
Lagevrio that I used for covid had full cost 1023.00 but I paid $6.00.
I fully support the Manly players. I am sick and tired of having poofters and dykes lifestyle and kinky sex practices rammed down my throat. I don’t care who they fuck and suck as long as I don’t have to know about it or worse condone it.
I have the rona. So far I am sleeping a lot. Worst is yet to come.
Hope you feel better soon, mOnty. Nurse JC will be around to take your temperature and bring cofee and mars bar slices.
Coffee not cofee. I’m a tee drinker.
A long-standing dispute with the brain-dead-fuckwitted U-beaut Oz medical bureaucrats has finally ended.
Being a proud pure-blood has unfortunately had its drawbacks, such as being unable to get any locum medical work, due to vaxx mandates, while my battle was raging.
This is despite the fact that dozens of staff-specialist locum positions go begging at all times.
Hence I’ve made the overly-delayed decision to throw in my medical registration before it expires, this will save me $thousands yearly, plus the worsening, increasingly intrusive, bureaucratically-driven hassles of ongoing registration hurdles and College CPD.
The gimme! gimme! public will be the ultimate loser of the worsening senior consultant manpower-shortage, but they voted for the cretinous free-stuff and overregulation policies of the last 50 years, so they can all go and engorge themselves sucking d..k.
The interesting thing is that asking AHPRA to de-register oneself prior to the anniversary date (30th September) is almost impossible. I still haven’t succeeded and it looks like it may take well over a week. This from a bureaucracy which de-registers health practitioners on a sniff of non-compliance with the protean Byzantine regulations.
Honest question: Have any other health professionals on the Cat had the same experience?
Banning ICE vehicles is REALLY dumb.
(Well duh).
However, consider;
1. Nuke power, particularly liquid thorium etc.
2. The Fischer Tropsch and Haber Bosch processes.
We can make alkanes, ethers, aromatics, ammonia and hydrazine from the power of the atom and the abundance of the atmosphere.
Modern catalysts make these processes very efficient too. Add in catalytic cracking and GTL, reforming etc and we have carbon neutral liquid fuels.
mUnter.
A traditional cure. Chicken manure poultice, wrapped around the bonce while sitting in a warm bath of your own urine. Marinate for 24 hours.
Also, strictly no Communism for the next 40 years.
Real Dealsays:
July 26, 2022 at 5:38 pm
I have the rona. So far I am sleeping a lot. Worst is yet to come.
Hope you feel better soon, mOnty. Nurse JC will be around to take your temperature and bring cofee and mars bar slices.
Does m0nty-fa like his Mars Bars in the Scottish style? Deep fried?
It’s not in our interests to start a nuclear war with Russia over a rotten corrupt state like Ukraine.
He’s only a 90% chance to make it the next 40 years.
Gilas
Honest question: Have any other health professionals on the Cat had the same experience?
Of them being incompetent mongs?
Yes 3
1: Nurse was hauled over the coals when a certifies complete loose unit speed freak and its meth mouthed mistress accused her of being the antichrist. At the same time they accused nearly everyone onsite of similar transgressions only to not even appear in court when a hearing was set.
Still over 12 months before she was ‘cleared” despite the complaint being a 5 page rambling free form version of Vogon poetry with a couple of accusations thrown in.
2: Complete Paramedic degree, am eligible for “grandfathering” of hours of practice after nearly 20 years of delivering pre hospital care.
Ooops- we wont process your application till after the grandfathering clause expires… oops you arent eligible now..
3: Put in new hours/ operating under direction etc paperwork… ooops we said we wanted 1700 hours of training/operating done and you have given us over 2200..
Then reject it anyway because they arent happy with my position description giving me enough “face time” with patients. This decision has arrived in the same month Ive had a rollover with crush injuries, a motocycle accident requiring RFDS transport and numerous smaller bits and pieces.
In the increasingly unlikely event Im finaly able to practice unencumbered by having to pass everything through the anus of Sauron ill be ready for age based deregistration anyway.
They are just awful.
safe and effective!
I’m not saying that.
These are not necessarily justifications. They might be part of some sort of a justification but they can also be reasons or circumstances that help flesh out what is going on and why.
Our interest is to stay out of it because Russia is not engaging in a generic conquest of European nations. It is settling what it perceives, rightly or wrongly, to be a wrong that began with the settlements of the early 1990s that have been exacerbated by subsequent events. Our prudential interest is for peace to emerge as soon as is practicable. To encourage them to negotiate. To contain the conflict as much as possible.
I have two sidebars, a bottom bar and it is refreshing like a disco strobe.
No server errors either.
Although, as I say, I am logged in on my Nazi-pass(tm).
No Bushmasters.
Maybe, just so we can find out how shit they are.
I do not qualify for antivirals.
And yes, I am missing meals already.
Take me for instance, I have 30-40 years left in me but if I get the virus I am roughly a 10% chance to die. There are plenty in my position.
The virus has done sweet FA for us so far, why would it start now?
..
Wrong.
It’s their THIRD such adventure in recent times.
And yes, I am missing meals already.
As in eating them in your sleep and then waking and wondering why the fridge is empty?
sfw:
This is why you need a little community organisation. Remember how just about every small to medium town had a Chinese gardener?
The supermarkets crushed that quick smart with legislation about ‘quality’ and ‘disease free certification’.
Now we get substandard fruit that travels to the nearest major city and back again after a ticket clipper sticks a sticker on it.
Get a gardening club together and grow stuff. Plan ahead – three months after the lights go out, there will be a glut of potatoes and tomatoes as everyone plants the same thing.
Get used to trading – five families can chip in and buy one of these rotary tillers for under $300. Offer to make garden beds for others for 10% of their first crop.
Learn how to bottle the excess apples and other fruit.
There are lots of ways to get ahead of the curve – if you aren’t a handyman, and couldn’t erect a greenhouse in a pink fit, buy a kit like this. The framework looks a bit fragile but you can chuck that away and use polypipe.
You need it fully enclosed, as stated above or you are just growing food for the birds.
I am not allowed into the kitchen. I am isolating in one half of the house while the wife and kids take the other.
The wife has had a sore throat for days but keeps testing negative.
thefrollickingmole says:
July 26, 2022 at 5:52 pm
Of them being incompetent mongs?
Yes 3
I hear your pain.
That’s what surprised me, AHPRA’s and the various Councils’ tendency to shoot first and then drag the poor professional through months or years of Kafka-ean hell, just to do a job that should take a few days, if performed by a sub-80-IQ human.
Yet they still can’t do the opposite and de-register someone who asks for it. And for this level of incompetence we all pay $hundreds annually.
Who aside from Ukraine do you mean? Georgia and Chechnya? They are European only in Eurovision sense. Hardly, generic European nations.
As we told you two years ago (and should seem obvious to you now), everyone needs to catch it for this stupid shit to end.
Just give it to them, and let’s move on with life.
But I did think all this nonsense was behind us.
Many inhabitants of Vicdanistan relish the opportunity to do a bit of Nazi.
It’s like The Wave. Some irrelevant dumb fuck suddenly finds their power, they’re not going to let that slip away easily.
m0nty
I thought you had a cardiac complaint??
And for your other half, experience with whats circulating onsite here has day 3 as the magic one for a sore throat to turn into a positive.
Longest has been 5 days from general unwellness to positive.
One poor family coped nearly 2 full weeks of isolation as it pinged a different person every 3 days in the household.
As in eating them in your sleep and then waking and wondering why the fridge is empty?
And what’s wrong with that?
Nothing like $5ea avocados to encourage a little market entry. Anybody want to buy an ostrich?
Mole
I take it you don’t have ivermectin nor HCQ on hand.But don’t pay attention to us, keep trusting the government.
RAT tests are crap
Wut?
My gym, which is run by the Shire of Greater Riskaversion, doesn’t want anything but proof I have paid my subs.<em
Sancho, it’s a physiotherapy practice which runs various classes for those of us who have reached the stage of gradually falling to bits. The local standard gym has no issues with Covid as far as I know. It’s just further away and less convenient.
Just surprised that these antiquated Covid restrictions still persist in isolated pockets. No common sense applied.
If you admit that your main point is
Welcome to the Ben Shapiro high school debating challenge.
Seriously.
All the little Greta Thunbergs, demanding “safe climate – good jobs for all.”
Start your own businesses…
m0nty says:
July 26, 2022 at 5:03 pm
I have the rona. So far I am sleeping a lot. Worst is yet to come.
Climate change?
m0nty says:
July 26, 2022 at 6:02 pm
I am not allowed into the kitchen. I am isolating in one half of the house while the wife and kids take the other.
The wife has had a sore throat for days but keeps testing negative.
But your God Dan said that you can’t get covid if your vaxxed. What happened?
I do, but that in itself is not enough to qualify.
And yes, I am fully expecting the wife to test positive soon. She went for a PCR test on the weekend, still nothing.
Down to under ten a day?
Does anyone want to hear my theory that the white Renault was being driven by Prince Edward or should I just head over to 4Chan?
Nay Zippy, nay I say, I may be feeling a little hoarse but I am not going to eat horse paste. You idiot.
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Third such recent adventure.
They have form.
In Europe or not. It matters not.
They are an expansionist state and will exploit percieved weakness, hence waiting for Biden presidency
TIK history fans might might like this.
Paulus should have broken out early? TIK’s response to Anton Joly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3HAuWbSCWI
Sometimes my eyes glaze over when it comes to Stalingrad.
In this one he goes over why Paulus stayed put.
What would have been better?
Suicidal break out attempt or what ended up happening to the Krauts.
As TIK says hindsight is 20/20.
CharlieP.
Right.
So they have classified themselves as a medical practice?
And they expect people to do moderate exertion with a mask on?
Fuckwits.
There is usually some quality office fluff floating around. Always put your hand up if they are looking for people to go and meet the marketing guys.
10% chance of death not good enough?
Could it be that your assessment of 10% was just made up horseshit, much like everything you say?
Can I just make a few comments about the recent visitor.
I don’t go over to the other site, but someone pointed it out to me.
A few days ago, the Thought Leader was at the Lollipop blog critical of this site and saying how he found the Lollipop Cat a nice haven for thought leadership such as himself and would reside there now. He tried to yank a few chains from there, like mine I was told. Anyway, an amusing thing happened. The blog owner, Adam , go onto the site and informed HIS Leadership not to criticize other blogs or he’d receive a size 10 hobnail from there.
Hilarious.
Now here he is. LOL
RAT tests are crap
Only for the nasally timid. You’ve really got to get that bud up there and do the twist.
‘Round and’ round and’ round and’
Adam Lollipop:
hahahahhahaha
sfw:
I forgot to add – the best preservative bottle are the Moccona bottles with the seal intact. Many different sizes, but good and solid.
Get one of neighbours to get a bee hive. Good trading staple. There are many types available and this is one of the easiest to learn on.
Last thing and I’ll shut up – Water.
No one thinks about it because it’s always there. But sometimes it isn’t.
Get a rainwater tank. Many manufacturers in Australia – hint: 3 x 10,000 liters is more handy than 1 x 30,000 liters, in case one gets a leak, and you can transfer between tanks at the garage, house, etc. Link gives prices but not necessarily recommendations.
Evidently not. They are trying to catch conditions other than heart disease, not sure why they exclude it but that’s their decision.
My best guess is that too many people would qualify if they included heart disease, it’s an expensive treatment.
Today Des Hasler ensured that his pipeline of Polynesian players did not get turned off.
bespoke
Green voters.
Are you not amused.
This is exactly what you want, people unable to consume and despoil that old slut Gaia’s sacred naughty bits…
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/jul/26/energy-bills-will-plunge-millions-into-unmanageable-debt-warn-mps-ofgem
Millions of people will be plunged into “unmanageable” debt this winter unless the government comes up with more support for those struggling to pay their energy bills, MPs have warned.
In a report focusing on how to ease punishing energy costs now, while guarding against future crises, the business and energy select committee said:
The energy price cap should be replaced with a “social tariff”.
The energy regulator Ofgem has been “negligent”.
A national home insulation programme should be launched urgently.
One of my staff’s father had COVID last week.
He’s a Chinese citizen ie no medicare card.
He’s 60 years old with heart issues.
He popped into Royal North Shore & they offered him Paxlovid for $1200 for the course of treatment.
Which he took up.
Not sure what his day in hospital cost him.
I’ll ask.
My granduncle spoke warmly of Paulus even if he did become “einer verdammte Kommunist”. So from a guy who was there, and was evacuated in the last days evacuation flights were possible, having had lost his arm, that says something.
Given the Germans and Russians were still literally fighting for individual houses inside Stalingrad, if an “uncoordinated breakout” had been ordered it would have been like Napoleon’s retreat from Moscow.
During this Pride round a few commentators have gone over the top saying Ian Roberts was the hardest man to play the game.
He was a weapon, but I’d put David Gillespie, Les Davidson & Peter Kelly all ahead of Roberts.
And for all the hype, Gillmeister had a great hi lights reel but not much more.
PS, please don’t tell Gillmeister I said that about him.
My best guess is that it’s a nothing burger for someone of your age, but that goes against the bullshit you’ve been spruiking for two years, whilst cheering as peoples lives were being destroyed.
If pushed I’d say that Peter Kelly bloke was toughest I have seen.
Again, all of these recent adventures involve territories formerly part of the Russian Empire/Soviet Union.
It shouldn’t be lost in the jumper situation that Bob Fulton’s grandson will make his debut for Manly this week.
Spot of spacechooking for Cats, with an interest in matters military.
David Horner’s latest book – “The War Game – Australian War leadership from Gallipoli to Iraq” makes interesting reading – “How and why Australia went to war, and how it managed nine conflicts between the First World War and Iraq.”
“Wartime Prime Minister, John Curtin, visited RAAF bomber squadrons in Lincolnshire, before D-Day, and watched the aircraft take off for Europe. As the bombers neared the coast of France, he sent them a signal. “Good luck – Curtin.” It was the closest he ever got to an operational theatre.”
(Page 189.)
Knuckle Dragger:
No can do,KD.
These narcissists are unable to cope with a world where they and their problems are not the center of everything.
Hopefully not.
I felt a bit shit, slept for two days, waiting for the worst – and that was pretty much it.
Genius.
“m0nty says:
July 26, 2022 at 5:03 pm
I have the rona. “
I hope you get better Monty. My sister has it too. Chicken soup helps……chicken soup helps everything.
Flyingduk:
Now you begin to understand why the legislation to confiscate backyard crops and livestock was brought in.
It’s not about FMD or any other disease – it’s about forcing you to be dependent on a government that cannot support you after the disaster it has caused.
It’s about control.
Hot lemon drink!
Yes that is me mole but with a blue singlet.
Monty, even though I have no respect for you because you have willed yourself to be dumb to comply
with the leftism that endumbens you, at least you can acknowledge reality — i.e., Kung Flu is everywhere.
I live in hope that, in order to protect your family, you will eventually abandon the stupidity you have embraced.
Best regards.
Wodger:
Where’s my drone with a little flamethrower attachment?
Elbow.
“He wasn’t the first gay man to play rugby league, I’ll give you the big tip.”
No thanks Luigi.
Of course it’s everywhere, Tom. I got it from my Mum who got it from my sister’s father-in-law on a recent trip to Perth.
Apparently to takes 5-10 days for the worst of it to hit, so I’m not looking forward to that.
Still alive! And Covid free. I am Legend. 😀
Give it a break Monty.
You’re talking yourself into it.
My lady friend had COVID a month ago.
Was over it in 3-4 days.
She is still coughing her guts up a month later.
I’ve accused her of sneaking Winnie Blues on the sly.
4 jabs good, 2 jabs bad
The wife rolls her eyes when I always go to the worst case scenario, and I know I tend to do that, but I tell her that’s my job as a dad.
Same here Calli.
PS, do they still make Winnie Blues ?
I’m sure you and I aren’t the only uncovid Calli.
To my knowledge at least six of the adults in my immediate family remain untouched.
I wish you well munty. On the downside when you get over the coof you’ll still be munty and there’s no getting over that.
He was a weapon, but I’d put David Gillespie, Les Davidson & Peter Kelly all ahead of Roberts.
I think that is correct, Bern. Tough guy no risk (ask Gary Jack), but I think Cement Gillespie was the toughest.
All my lot have succumbed, the wimps.*
My parents and the Beloved and I are made of sterner stuff.
* naturally, I will have to eat my hat when I finally get the stupid thing.
Very interesting. From 2017.
https://theconversation.com/could-taking-vitamins-in-huge-doses-produce-a-health-miracle-after-all-76472
The take away for me is everyone is different and probably need tailored medical care. I have a friend who has low iron, she should aim for the “side effect” of “too high” iron absorption.
I would throw Noel Cleal in the mix .
If the NRL wants to bring the community together for a cause which many men could get behind they could have the ‘Stolen Foreskin’ round. Many men had their foreskin taken from them without their permission when they were babies. The NRL could sell turtle neck sweaters in your favourite club’s colours in remembrance. Hot dogs could be sold with extra long buns which completely cover the sausage inside.
Surely this has been discussed at NRL headquarters?
Then we could have a Russia v Israel exhibition match.
Peter V’landys is also an economic adviser to Biden.
“The technical definition of a recession is not a recession, because I said so, there is a lot to unpack there, we look at many other indicators so you are wrong!”
TFM:
I can’t find my copy of Speers book, but he recounts the story after the Stalingrad disaster, Germany was desperately trying to find replacements for the Eastern Front units that had been bled white – he spoke to the industrialists about the amount of taxes they were paying.
“You know how much tax you need to pay, disband your bureaucracies and send the men to the front.”
Apparently tax revenues increased and the army gained over a half million more recruits.
As to rationing, there’s nothing more important than counting columns of numbers, even if the war has been over for ten years.
And yes, I am fully expecting the wife to test positive soon. She went for a PCR test on the weekend, still nothing.
I’ll go the Duk bet here, if she hasn’t tested positive by now, she’s not going to.
That’s right, we destroyed the country for 2 years for something that’s so virulent and new that some people are already immune to it.
Still waiting to test positive….
A major point about the Manly fairies “diversity” that isn’t getting the attention it deserves …
What should be a real concern is the NRL, apparently, happy with a possible “top 8” club fielding an understrength team in it’s “premier” competition for no better reason than “look-at-moi” … FFS!
Covid19 has around a 17% secondary attack rate.
So the odds are good that the rest of the family won’t even get an asymptomatic positive case.
Big Nambas:
Good.
Hopefully they will shut up when they’re dead, but it isn’t guaranteed, is it?
Geoff Toovey says “hold my beer”.
..
And again, this matters not one iota unless you believe that the English would also be justified invading old bits of the Empire.
So, again, that leaves us with the only valid consideration in all this being: what is in our interest.
the fatter you are the harder it hits….
rosiesays:
July 26, 2022 at 7:27 pm
I’m sure you and I aren’t the only uncovid Calli.
To my knowledge at least six of the adults in my immediate family remain untouched.
Yep uncovid & unvaxxed- wife – vaxxed? – 5 others in house covid positive all vaxxed – son & family all quad dosed 3 times covid – elder daughter only her and husband – 3 kids no covid – all vaxxed
“rosiesays:
July 26, 2022 at 7:27 pm
I’m sure you and I aren’t the only uncovid Calli.
To my knowledge at least six of the adults in my immediate family remain untouched.”
I’m still untouched by it.
Adam Bandt hates democracy and Australia.
“We don’t want to be in a situation where parliament may pass a bill on a Monday to cut Australia’s pollution and then on Tuesday that good work gets undone when the government opens big new gas projects that would blow that target out of the water.”
If we’re going to pass targets and put them in the law, we want to make sure it’s Dutton-proof,” he said. So it’s not something that can be unwound at a future date
Interesting
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/07/25/poll-nearly-one-third-voters-believe-they-may-have-take-arms-against-united-states-government/
test
Franksays:
July 26, 2022 at 8:00 pm
test
I wish I’d said that.
Sometimes my eyes glaze over when it comes to Stalingrad.
In this one he goes over why Paulus stayed put.
What would have been better?
Suicidal break out attempt or what ended up happening to the Krauts.
As TIK says hindsight is 20/20.
Sven Hassel gave a pretty good account of a fictional break out from Stalingrad in .. SS GENERAL …
Read all of his”Panzer” series starting at 14 years old but have only just come across a potted bio ..
Hassel served in the Danish merchant navy till 1937, when he moved to Germany to join the army. He served with the second Panzer Division stationed at Eisenach and in 1939 was a tank driver during the invasion of Poland. A year later he attempted to escape because of being mentally exhausted. He was transferred to a Sonderabteilung, a penal unit manned by criminals and dissidents. He served with the 2nd Cavalry Regiment and later the 11th and 27th Panzer Regiments (6th Panzer Division) on all fronts except North Africa and was wounded several times. Eventually he reached the rank of lieutenant and received an Iron Cross 1st and 2nd class. He surrendered to Soviet troops in Berlin in 1945 and spent the following years in various POW camps. He began to write his first book Legion of the Damned while he was interned. He was released in 1949, and was planning to join the French Foreign Legion when he met Dorthe Jensen. They got married in 1951. He went to work in a car factory. In 1957 Sven Hassel suffered from an attack of a sickness caught during the war and was paralyzed for almost two years. After recovery, he began to write more books.
Biden’s dithering irks White House staff
By TEVI TROY
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
President Biden has taken a lot of heat lately for his poor leadership skills. One recurring theme is that he lacks the decisiveness needed for the job.
Perhaps because early decisions on Afghanistan and Build Back Better worked out badly, the White House these days is wracked by “bottlenecks and indecision,” according to CNN’s Edward Isaac-Dovere. Mr. Biden is consistently unable to finalize decisions on issues, such as tariffs and student-loan debt, that have reportedly lingered for over a year. According to Politico, Mr. Biden’s inability to decide drives his staff “a little nuts.”
He peppers them with questions. When he doesn’t get an answer, he uses it as an excuse to put off a decision while staff goes back to get more information.
Biden’s inability to decide is reminiscent of Barack Obama, who was famous for long periods of indecision, particularly on what to do about Afghanistan in 2009. Former Vice President Dick Cheney accused Mr. Obama of “dithering” on this question. Mr. Biden shared this view of his former boss. “I thought he was deliberate to a fault,” the future president wrote in “Promise Me, Dad,” his 2017 memoir. “ ‘Just trust your instincts, Mr. President,’ I would say to him. On major decisions that had to be made fast, I had learned over the years, a president was never going to have more than about 70 percent of the information needed.”
The 70% figure might have come from Mr. Biden’s decades in Washington, but it more likely came from Colin Powell. Powell had a 40/70 doctrine for senior leader decision-making, which held that if you make a decision with only 40% of the information, you are making it prematurely, but if you still haven’t decided by the time you have 70% of the information, you are no longer in control of events.
Decision-making is an essential demand of the presidency, and some presidents — including some of Mr. Biden’s most prominent Democratic predecessors — were especially good at it. When reporter John Gunther asked Eleanor Roosevelt, “How does your husband think?” she replied: “My dear Mr. Gunther, the president never thinks. He decides.”
Harry S. Truman may hold the record for most tough calls in a presidential administration. Four months into his term, he faced the decision of whether to drop the atomic bomb on Japan, though he’d never even heard of the weapon while serving as vice president.
He also had to make a tough call to pursue Operation Vittles, which created the Berlin airlift and allowed West Berlin to remain a free city. Add to that hard choices on whether to recognize Israel in the face of opposition from his top advisers, to defend South Korea from a North Korean invasion, and to remove the popular Gen. Douglas MacArthur.
Lyndon B. Johnson admired Truman’s decision-making ability. Doris Kearns Goodwin quoted him: “You know the great thing about Truman is that once he makes up his mind about something — anything, including the A bomb — he never looks back and asks ‘Should I have done it? Oh! Should I have done it?’ No, he just knows he made up his mind as best he could and that’s that.”
Johnson, who faced his own share of difficult decisions over Vietnam, made this observation somewhat wistfully, recognizing that he lacked Truman’s ability to decide and move on. “I wish I had some of that quality, for there’s nothing worse than going back over a decision made, retracing the steps that led to it, and imagining what it’d be like if you took another turn,” Johnson said. “It can drive you crazy.”
Decisiveness is an essential quality for all leaders. But presidential decisions are different. They can be made only by the person at the top, and they can have enormous implications with historical importance. They are also lonely decisions. Aides can advise, but ultimately the decision is on the leader. Credit, blame or both will fall on the person in charge. As Mr. Biden is learning, it isn’t an easy challenge, but something effective leaders must do.
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Tevi Troy is director of the Presidential Leadership Initiative at the Bipartisan Policy Center, a former senior White House aide and author, most recently, of “Fight House: Rivalries in the White House From Truman to Trump.”
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Cronkite
Where are the crazy book titles?
Dissection of a WWII Jack Boot:
(Kinda topical for Australia)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5m_SD-WhHE
Opera House last nite for Il Trovatore, only about half the patrons, mixed but a lot of older ones, wore masks, and it wasn’t just the old in the 50% that did so. I expected it would be more, because notices everywhere said Opera Australia ‘strongly advised’ the wearing of masks.
The Opera itself was just okayish. The arias were well sung and the anvil chorus was very rousing, but oh dear me, the sets were awful – all video things in panels – and the decision to unaccountably place the thing in the mid-twentieth century was quite stupid, for the plot is about a witch-burning and has a violent medieval sense of passion and destiny. They had to use gypsy (Romani) colour to set the goodie hero into a circus context with fantasy angels and pseud0-devils just to add flavour, while the aristo Count, the baddie in the Romeo and Juliet scenario, had his entourage looing straight out of Film Noir, all trench coats and homberg hats.
The worst part was that Leonora, the Juliet figure, had a figure not to die for. Two groups sitting in front of us had departed after the Interval. Apparently they could take no more. She was huge, and when she appeared after Interval in a white frothy wedding dress even my imaginative capacities baulked.
Dear me, I whisper to Hairy. I cannot suspend disbelief any longer. No passion could throb with sympathy in my heart for this poor lady and the smaller Asian tenor playing her Romeo, valiantly feigning interest as she enfolded him with her great bulk. It only improved when in the last few scenes some kind costume designer had put her in a black coat over the white froth, which draped and covered a lot of it.
It had a few good moments if you closed your eyes and just listened, but why oh why can’t they leave well alone and stage an Opera in its proper time and setting? If a change works, then it is ok, but this one was so confused and contrived. It added nothing to have scenes of mid-20th century wars as a background picture and to have a nursing unit in wartime replace the heroine’s retreat to a monastery. At the last, the heroine suicided, the hero was beheaded and the mother murdered the Count proclaiming revenge, all these deaths hurried along within the last two seconds before the curtain fell.
Retaining a little of their earlier religious leanings vs their passionate intensity might have helped cushion the shock that the fat lady had so quickly sung her way out. Personally, I was beyond caring.
Where are the crazy book titles?
Reality is overtaking what was previously thought to be abnormal. For example classic book titles rebranded to be consistent with gender neutrality:
People With Vaginas and People Without Vaginas in Love
Of Mice and People
Little Women, Men and Nonbinary Individuals
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Human
The Person Who Would be Royal
Rich Biped, Poor Biped
The French Lieutenant’s Peep
The Person Who Mistook Their Partner for a Hat
The Individual with the Dragon Tattoo
The Siblings Karamazov
Biped Bovary
The Being in the High Castle
No Country for Old Lifeforms
The Ruler of the Flies
The Senior Citizen and the Sea
Death of a Salesperson
Homo Sapien of La Mancha
No. It matters because you are making the claim that each of these adventures is evidence of ‘expansionism’ that threatens every European state even those that have never been part of the Russian Empire/ Soviet Union.
Already addressed.
A couple of weeks ago someone here, I think, mentioned changes coming to a way GPs with their own ABN will work in medical centers. I can’t find this information anywhere now. Does anyone know what changes are coming?
Brendan O’Neill nails it:
As I mentioned this morning, the realities of feeding the population were driven home to inhabitants of the island called the UK in WWII.
Similarly, Chermany is discovering that relying on another country for a substantial part of your energy needs is fraught with danger.
I am beginning to wonder if the purpose of war is to reinstate reality to delusional polities.
Winston Smithsays:
July 26, 2022 at 7:45 pm
Big Nambas:
https://www.trialsitenews.com/a/queen-mary-university-of-london-study-98-of-monkeypox-patients-infected-by-male-to-male-sex-b8d9a506
Good.
Hopefully they will shut up when they’re dead, but it isn’t guaranteed, is it?
Not much chance. The “Love that dare not speak its name” long ago became the love that won’t shut up.
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Circular argument.
You addressed it by again referring to the bogus idea that Russia could invade it’s ex- territories, why not, an idea that you justify by claiming that makes it not in our interest.
You are literally going on circles at this point.
Georgia borders NATO.
You have stated nothing concrete contra my argument that it is not on the West’s interest to see Russia continue to invade nations on her borders.
Of which this is the latest of three in recent times.
Once could be forgivable. Twice might be coincidence. Three times is a pattern.
rosiesays:
July 26, 2022 at 7:53 pm
Adam Bandt hates democracy and Australia.
“We don’t want to be in a situation where parliament may pass a bill on a Monday to cut Australia’s pollution and then on Tuesday that good work gets undone when the government opens big new gas projects that would blow that target out of the water.”
If we’re going to pass targets and put them in the law, we want to make sure it’s Dutton-proof,” he said. So it’s not something that can be unwound at a future date
A Parliament may not bind its successors. Perhaps Bandit should ask AnAl to put it to a referendum, to entrench it constitutionally?
Johanna; Re. Rationing.
Don’t get cocky, kid, as they say in the classics.
I have my parents AUSTRALIAN WW2 era ration books in the archive. It went on for years after the war.
Common feature?
Britain and Oz were in the clutches of hard-left governments at war’s end. Both countries got the sort of scumbaggery that one expects from doctrinaire sociopaths.
The degenerate loonies of the verdant filth are MUCH more ambitious, this time around.
Gilas wrote:
The interesting thing is that asking AHPRA to de-register oneself prior to the anniversary date (30th September) is almost impossible. I still haven’t succeeded and it looks like it may take well over a week. This from a bureaucracy which de-registers health practitioners on a sniff of non-compliance with the protean Byzantine regulations.
Honest question: Have any other health professionals on the Cat had the same experience?
In my experience the fascists at AHPRA were quick to demote me to “non practicing” as soon as I asked for it. They sent me a huge list of “thou shalt nots” but no refund. While I’m happy to be free of their monkey on my back with meaningless regulations, onerous CPD and currency of practice requirements. I was briefly sorry not to be able to refer, teach or continue research projects I was involved in but that soon passed. They really have thrown the baby out with the bathwater in the way they instantly make you go from a rooster to a feather duster. Years of experience and potential future community benefit down the toilet.
They did offer “COVID emergency workforce ” registration but I wasn’t interested in doing menial work unrelated to my previous specialty.
Now, several years later, I don’t miss it at all and am having a great time doing other stuff.
It can be tough, but I hope you have other interests to keep you busy.
Bad news, mUntard…
seems that yr the wife
Have a butter menthol and go to bed
Just remember ‘ A positive test is NOT a disease’ … if you aint sick, you aint sick
Trust me, EVERYONE on this planet has been touched by COVID multiple times – if you didnt get a clinical illness it means you immune system dealt with it without you even knowing. At some stage, a variant will cross your path which does cause clinical illness, but that doesn’t mean you weren’t already exposed in the past.
Im guessing THAT is why our various governments are always so keen to take away said arms….
No, I never addressed it by saying it in could invade and therefore this makes it not in our interest. The two aren’t even related. Even a legitimate claim might nevertheless be resisted if it were in our interest.
I’ve addressed the pattern.
Same here.
Business partner and his wife got it despite being mega-boosted. They only got outta covid-jail last Friday.
Personally, I believe I already had the thing in May 2019. Got sick within a hour after the flu vax and was pretty shit until November.
Who knows, eh?
It may be possible that the BCG vaccine may have enhanced resistance to Covid-19 although not yet proven.
@ Mother Lode:
Stalin, Mao, etc?
Always fun to remind folk that the nazi party’s original street-fighters, the “brownshirts”, turned out to be gayer than laughter.
There is a book that addresses the matter; “The Pink Swastika”.
The S.A. became such an embarrassment that there was an incident known as “The Night of the Long Knives”.
REAL Politik, as the Teutonic cousins say.
For some unknown reason I don’t appreciate Verdi, Lizzie. Puccini I love, having seen a few. Don’t like modern interpretations. Having said that I like Bell Shakespeare modern versions.
I don’t have a reference, but I did read one account that said Bess Truman was FURIOUS when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima – Harry hadn’t told her!!!!
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Alright. I get the impression you are bored with it now.
Thanks for the discussion today.
I think we’re left with we will see what we will see in the months ahead, and it will get interesting if it extends into a Republican Senate and house and a lame duck Biden presidency.
One of the authors of which was an Orthodox Jew….
When calli I and others say we haven’t had covid, it ought to go without saying we haven’t been sick.
I’ve said before if I’ve had it I haven’t noticed.
I got pinged on the app in France for exposure on a long train trip but they took eight days to notify me and I certainly had no symptoms.
I did a test, as required, but it was negative.
Yep, the immune system doesn’t make sense until you realise that you only get symptomatic when an infection gets the upper hand. I’ve avoided Pfizer and its ilk to keep my immune system strong enough to ironically avoid covid.
Understand that old people get cancer because their immune system is no longer up to the challenge. Dermatitis is a small price to pay to fend off the really dangerous challengers.
Dot’s post upthread re vitamins is worth scrolling back to.
again with the test
ZK2A:
From the Daily Mail.
Words fail me…
So, what the fvck do these security agencies actually DO to earn their money?
And they expect people to do moderate exertion with a mask on?
Yes, they do. Another good reason to give them a miss, really. They have some skills I really need but principle must come before pain relief in the fight against Covidiots.
My compliments, Winston, and thank you.
Any Kittehs care to comment?
Anthony Cumia reminisces about an old Marlboro ad.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8d_1kCRYLE
JC says:
July 26, 2022 at 6:26 pm
Haha indeed, Dover is coping with complaints about the hick-ups on the forum with good humour .
Lollipopman kicked complainants off.
Declaring someone a ‘dickhead’ is rather subjective I’d suggest lollipopman looks in the mirror.
bern:
They do still make Winnie Blues. Men, however, opt for Reds every day of the week.
Stolen Foreskin Round.
Brilliance, and one of the reasons I am fond of FlashCat.
I have as much interest in, and go to equal heights of disinterest in Russia v Ukraine as I do your average Fremantle vs Gold Coast game late on Sunday afternoons.
.1 Lies. I don’t believe you would fit in half a house.
.2 How many years has Mrs m0nster said you need to stay over your side?
Knuckle Draggersays:
July 26, 2022 at 11:14 pm
I have as much interest in, and go to equal heights of disinterest in Russia v Ukraine as I do your average Fremantle vs Gold Coast AFLW game late on Sunday afternoons.
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FIFY.
You aren’t comparing apples with apples.
If there were chunks of the former British empire populated by a large majority of people that regard themselves as British (and the British also regard them as British) AND the fact they are no longer regarded as British by the rest of the world is a consequence of geopolitical forces outside of the control of the actual and the purported British, I think you could make a pretty good argument that, if Britain was able to bring those territories populated by people who regard themselves as British and are regarded as British by the British, then Britain ought to do so.
As it happens, Britain did precisely this, when the Argies invaded and attempted to annex the Falkland Islands. Nope, said the Poms, the Falklanders are Brits so that’s our territory and we’re going to take it back.
And they did because they could (just).
The collapse of the USSR weakened all of its constituent parts, and when the dust settled, a bunch of ethnically Russian ersatz exclaves were scattered throughout the former USSR.
Russia now is able to do what the British did in the Falklands. It’s not expansionist. I don’t see the Russkies eyeing the Baltic states or Finland. Occupying territory containing inhabitants that despise you is very costly.
Russia is correcting what it sees as the errors of the dissolution of the USSR that it was too weak to prevent at the time. Is it right or wrong to do so? I have an opinion, but ultimately….
THIS SHIT AIN’T OUR BUSINESS
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Sure it is.
The USA took on that business when it financed the reconstruction of Europe after WW2, not to mention financing everything from D day to the Manhattan project to securing sea lanes globally ever since.
You might think you will like the world after the USA goes into that long goodnight, I guarantee you won’t though.
m0nty says:
July 26, 2022 at 6:19 pm
Better stay away from horse hydrator, too, Mønts. Who knows what it shall do to you.
The Manly shirt saga has to be one of the biggest own goals in sport.
Just incredibly badly handled and the organisation deserves all the heat put on them.
Why are people wishing Monty well? Surely we are past the point of thinking leftists will ever reciprocate decency and respect.
He wanted all unvaxed to die and is an evil communist POS.
Monty, take 1000 boosters. If you don’t it means you hate science.
Monts. My missus tested +ve for the coof last friday(PCR). -ve Rats today. Me – no symptoms. No quarantining from each other. We Went for a nice walk around our suburb today despite the rules that the missus must quarantine till this Friday. She learnt her lesson … don’t get tested.
How’s that investment working out for the US today? Rich dividends being paid?
Don’t think what you think I think, as you’ve got me all wrong.
Incidentally, Arky, you didn’t explain why it’s our business. Just because the US muscled into that part of the world doesn’t mean it should have done so.
It’s not our business. And if it is due to the foolish actions of our leaders, we should be doing whatever we can to extricate ourselves from this business.
Doubling down on stupid is…well, I’ll let you finish that.
Feelthebern:
The entire race to the north of Stalingrad to cut the Volga so the oil at Astrakhan wasn’t able to get to the refineries at Moscow area apart from rail transport.
There’s one problem. The Volga froze over October/November so the ships couldn’t move the oil.
So why take the city?
John Spooner.
Mark Knight.
Mark Knight #2.
Peter Broelman.
David Rowe.
Patrick Blower.
Michael Ramirez.
Gary Varvel.
Tom Stiglich.
Matt Margolis.
Patrick Cross.
Ben Garrison.
Tom, your avatar is now pink.
Is that for Pride round in the NRL?