Open Thread – Tue 26 July 2022


The Burning of the Houses of Parliament, William Turner, 1835

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m0nty
m0nty
July 27, 2022 5:11 am

Even as a hero in a Garrison toon, Steve Bannon looks like an uglier Ron Jeremy.

m0nty
m0nty
July 27, 2022 5:13 am

Also LOL at the ghost of Bob Brown in the Rowe.

feelthebern
feelthebern
July 27, 2022 5:14 am

Aaron Maté speaks with Jimmy Dore about being on Ukraine’s blacklist.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylpAdDULwnw

This one is easy.
The Russian list got extensive coverage in the corporate media.
The Ukraine list, not so much.

Tom
Tom
July 27, 2022 5:16 am

Bern, Dover’s website is having several simultaneous out-of-body experiences. You may have noticed the activity log on the right-hand side of the homepage isn’t updating — a symptom of bigger problems.

Dover doesn’t rise until later when he will Look Into It.

feelthebern
feelthebern
July 27, 2022 5:24 am

How does NATO deal with Turkey?
If there is any truth to Baykar (from Turkey) building drones in Qatar to be shipped to Russia it’s going to cause everyone headaches.

feelthebern
feelthebern
July 27, 2022 5:27 am

LOL, Tom you don’t have to hide your ally status.

m0nty
m0nty
July 27, 2022 5:27 am

I suspect Dover has fiddled
about with some site cache settings. We are seeing cached versions of some elements.

bespoke
bespoke
July 27, 2022 5:30 am

I am beginning to wonder if the purpose of war is to reinstate reality to delusional polities.

I was hoping it would be avoided this time. But for all it advances humanity still hasn’t learnt to pick good leaders.

Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
July 27, 2022 5:46 am
bespoke
bespoke
July 27, 2022 6:09 am
Anchor What
Anchor What
July 27, 2022 6:09 am

How deep is The Swamp?
Dynamite article on January 6 involvement of players who should not be involved, and amendments to law that hide evidence. The 14000 hours of video will go down the memory hole for sure.

Anchor What
Anchor What
July 27, 2022 6:22 am

Re il trovatore, the foundling: excellent report, Lizzie B.
But there is quite a bit of witch hunting and burning going on to this day.

Anchor What
Anchor What
July 27, 2022 6:24 am

Troy Bramston goes full retard about Trump in his article for the increasingly patchy Australian.

Anchor What
Anchor What
July 27, 2022 6:30 am

Brett Baier is looking remarkably like Chris Wallace, out of step with the Fox News anchors we follow daily – who tell things more truthfully. The mere fact that Liz Cheney would agree to be interviewed by him tells you something, but his soft glove treatment tells you the rest.

bespoke
bespoke
July 27, 2022 6:30 am

Delaying booked visitation for grandparents because some committee says the kid needs a ‘brake’. At same time the department is getting the foster perents to put a two year old into daycare.

The posses is serfserving.

bespoke
bespoke
July 27, 2022 6:37 am

prosses

bespoke
bespoke
July 27, 2022 6:45 am

One hour every two weeks after two long years. Geebus!

feelthebern
feelthebern
July 27, 2022 6:49 am

test

feelthebern
feelthebern
July 27, 2022 6:52 am

Bramston really is only any good when writing about the ALP.
He is a great Labor historian.
You wouldn’t tap Steve Mortimer to write stories about the Dragons.
Same situation when it comes to Bramston.

feelthebern
feelthebern
July 27, 2022 6:54 am

ubered into the office today.
Always a great sign when the uber driver tosses a cigarette out the window on approach.

132andBush
132andBush
July 27, 2022 6:57 am

This is not to suggest that we turn our backs on wind power. Clearly, the technology of turbines will improve over time. But until the capacity factor of turbines comes closer to rivalling that of conventional power plants, we ought to seriously consider putting their proliferation on ice.

From Tinta’s link.

Huge chunk of wishful thinking there.
He can’t make the connection between the source of power (wind) and the resultant poor CF. He thinks the problem is all in the tech.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
July 27, 2022 7:02 am

Stupid giant chick basketballer. Free to good home (the Hun):

Liz Cambage’s career has taken another wild twist, with the controversial Australian basketball star’s contract terminated by WNBA powerhouse the Los Angeles Sparks.

The Sparks released a statement on Tuesday announcing a ‘contract divorce’ with Cambage, who has endured a rocky road on and off the court over the past 18 months.

The powerhouse centre last year abandoned the Opals’ Olympic campaign after an ugly incident in a pre-Games scrimmage with the Nigerian team turned ugly with the 30-year-old at the centre of a heated confrontation, with allegations of the Australian using racial slurs against her opponents.

The LA Sparks leddeees apparently endorsed her attitude and behaviour after the Opals shitfight. It would appear that her Gigantor-esque ‘look at me’ lumbering over everything in sight got too much, even for Californians.

Not enough attention, evidently. Oh dear. How sad. Never mind.

feelthebern
feelthebern
July 27, 2022 7:04 am

The Chinese are rolling out the red (lol) carpet for Widodo this week.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
July 27, 2022 7:11 am

IMF warn of a worldwide recession.

Action on climate change and covid has wrecked the economy. Well done fools.

feelthebern
feelthebern
July 27, 2022 7:22 am

Stephen Koukoulas & Chris Joye have been fighting on twitter for the last two months.
Chris Joye is saying that east coast house prices will drop 20% if the RBA continues to hike.
The Kouk initially said that rate hikes would increase house prices 7% but he has changed that over the past couple of weeks.
Anyway they debated this & a link to the podcast is below.

https://omny.fm/shows/fear-and-greed/interview-the-great-house-price-debate

It’s 30mins.
This is the first time I’ve heard The Kouk in long form format.
Maybe speaking like this isn’t his strong point.
The key thing is just how shallow his understanding appears to be.
I was really surprised.

Cassie of Sydney
July 27, 2022 7:24 am

Further to the Manly imbroglio, it was nice to see Peta Credlin slap down and silence that ugly, thin-lipped mediocrity and all round shit Andrew Clennell when he slyly tried to infer that the “Manly seven” were bigoted, Credlin chimed in “what if it was the Canterbury Bulldogs or another team out west that you were demanding wear the pride jersey?” Of course we know the answer to that, either the Bulldogs probably wouldn’t participate in such a round or they wouldn’t force the jersey on their players. Clennell’s response to Credlin was a thin-lipped grimace.

Crossie
Crossie
July 27, 2022 7:25 am

Anchor What, I have noticed Bret Baier going strange lately but he is only following in Neil Cavuto’s shambling footsteps. Neil has been suffering from Trump derangement for some time and is twisting everything to feed it. Those two are definite no no’s for me.

Mater
July 27, 2022 7:26 am

Test

calli
calli
July 27, 2022 7:26 am

One hour every two weeks after two long years. Geebus!

Bespoke, is that the time you are “allowed” to see your grandchildren? If so, that’s despicable.

calli
calli
July 27, 2022 7:28 am

The sidebar updates for me automatically. Could it depend on the type of device people are using?

Crossie
Crossie
July 27, 2022 7:28 am

Cassie, maybe I should give Credlin a try again. At present I’m ditching Paul Murray in favour of watching Alan Jones online.

Crossie
Crossie
July 27, 2022 7:31 am

My display looks the same as it always had, I use iPad. It’s completely different on my phone and so I never read it that way.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
July 27, 2022 7:37 am

Yes Cassie.
Credlin lined the weak prick up and clipped him nicely on the way past.

P
P
July 27, 2022 7:46 am

As Anglican bishops gather, deep divisions over statement on banning same-sex marriage emerge
CNA Newsroom, Jul 26, 2022

Following criticism from Anglican bishops, participants in the Lambeth Conference in Canterbury, England will be given the opportunity to “clearly state their opposition” to a motion against same-sex marriage and blessings of homosexual unions.

calli
calli
July 27, 2022 7:47 am

Heh. Watching this morning’s reports from Birmingham – there’s about to be another circus to distract the masses don’t you know. Everyone wearing hoodies and cardis and looking decidedly rugged up.

What happened to the Wicked Summer of Doom?

Meanwhile, here at the Bay, we have had the coldest winter anyone can remember. The westerly is howling and it feels like 11C or lower. And the surf is roaring in the background just to add to the Winter ambience.

Cassie of Sydney
July 27, 2022 7:49 am

“Crossiesays:
July 27, 2022 at 7:28 am
Cassie, maybe I should give Credlin a try again. At present I’m ditching Paul Murray in favour of watching Alan Jones online.”

I’ve ditched Blot and I don’t miss him. I don’t mind Paul Murray and watch him every second night. I watch AJ either later in the night or the following morning. AJ is a must watch.

Nobody is watching Morgan. Just think, Sky ditched Jones for Morgan.

feelthebern
feelthebern
July 27, 2022 7:49 am

The Senate voted 64 to 32 to advance a $280 billion bill subsidizing chip manufacturing and funding science research and advanced tech.

They really should call this the Pelosi’s Husband Bill.

Cassie of Sydney
July 27, 2022 7:50 am

“Farmer Gezsays:
July 27, 2022 at 7:37 am
Yes Cassie.
Credlin lined the weak prick up and clipped him nicely on the way past.”

Yep……it was very very nice to watch. Clennell’s ugly thin lips cracked and smirked when he received that smacking down, fucking hypocrite that he is.

Further to my post above, I’m enjoying Credlin.

lotocoti
lotocoti
July 27, 2022 7:52 am

Further to the Manly imbroglio …

That’s the infuriating thing.
There would’ve been silence if Hazem El Masri said no.

Diogenes
Diogenes
July 27, 2022 7:53 am

Re the question why go into Stalingrad…
In a nut shell there was no no strategic, tactical, or propaganda (TIK debunks the Hitler was obsessed because it was named after Stalin myth in one of his videos) reasons, but rather operational…
Paulus’ orders were to block the Volga to interdict oil traffic using the river as part of the overall Caucuses campaign. For logistical reasons he needed the railway that ran into the city to maintain his army so that he could block the river. The rest is history.

Cassie of Sydney
July 27, 2022 7:54 am

“There would’ve been silence if Hazem El Masri said no.”

Correct…and that was Credlin point, she beautifully pointed this out to an ugly, thin-lipped, sanctimonious hypocrite.

Roger
Roger
July 27, 2022 7:56 am

Further to the Manly imbroglio, it was nice to see Peta Credlin slap down and silence that ugly, thin-lipped mediocrity and all round shit Andrew Clennell when he slyly tried to infer that the “Manly seven” were bigoted

Just who are the bigots in this matter?

There were calls yesterday for them to be sacked.

feelthebern
feelthebern
July 27, 2022 7:59 am

What’s really crazy is that the NRL has approved the same team wearing of different gear in the past.
Sonny Bill Williams wore a different jumper & shorts during his time at the Roosters.
His had no booze or gambling ads on his.
The Roosters asked the NRL & the NRL said yes.
There was no reason why the Manly guys good have worn the standard strip all things considered.

Roger
Roger
July 27, 2022 8:00 am

might has always in international affairs, made right. anyone who think otherwise knows nothing about history

Thank you for the history lesson.

I was alluding to just war theory.

Roger
Roger
July 27, 2022 8:01 am

Matt Kean under pre-selection pressure.

Apparently local Libs are fed up.

John of Mel
John of Mel
July 27, 2022 8:02 am

You might think you will like the world after the USA goes into that long goodnight, I guarantee you won’t though.

I agree. But Russia is not the one who is (and has been) destroying the US and the rest of the West. That’s not the main enemy. Is Obama, Biden, et al Russian assets? There is a lot of distraction and misdirection happening.

feelthebern
feelthebern
July 27, 2022 8:03 am

Matt Kean under pre-selection pressure

He will win pre-selection comfortably & be the opposition leader post the SLF’s getting towelled up next March.

Roger
Roger
July 27, 2022 8:08 am

He will win pre-selection comfortably…

Possible…but perhaps not in Hornsby.

calli
calli
July 27, 2022 8:09 am

What’s really crazy is that the NRL has approved the same team wearing of different gear in the past.

It isn’t crazy – it’s orchestrated and very finely targeted.

These men are Christians. The first (weak) shot over the bows was from The Pirate, a Christian hater from way back. Why do they wear gambling and alcohol advertising? blared this thing yesterday. The short answer is that neither of these issues are considered an abomination.

Homosexuality is considered an abomination and no Christian can appear to support it. This is equally true of Muslims and other religious groups, but that doesn’t matter. The target is, and always will be, those bigotty bigot Christians.

rosie
rosie
July 27, 2022 8:11 am
Roger
Roger
July 27, 2022 8:13 am

There was no reason why the Manly guys good have worn the standard strip all things considered.

I suspect they weren’t given that option, which then brought forth their boycott.

calli
calli
July 27, 2022 8:13 am

Matt Kean under pre-selection pressure

With a stack, stack here
and a stack, stack there…
Here a stack, there a stack
everywhere a stack, stack…

…preselection is assured,
Kean is in like Flynn!

😀

Boambee John
Boambee John
July 27, 2022 8:16 am

Figuressays:
July 27, 2022 at 1:36 am
Why are people wishing Monty well? Surely we are past the point of thinking leftists will ever reciprocate decency and respect.

A couple of years ago, on the Old Cat, m0nty-fa was gloating about a conservative figure who was either quite sick or had died. About a week later he re-appeared, complaining of, IIRC, kidney stones. Lots offered sympathy.

My attitude then was that while I wished him no harm, he would get no sympathy from me because of his callous attitude to the travails of others. I maintain that position now.

Tom
Tom
July 27, 2022 8:19 am

Calli, there were regular white winter frosts in southern Victoria in the 1960s. The cycle is turning, but we’re not there yet.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
July 27, 2022 8:20 am

Kean will be a captain’s pick if the rank and file reject him.
Still would be well worth them voting him down for the embarrassment value.

Boambee John
Boambee John
July 27, 2022 8:21 am

m0ntysays:
July 27, 2022 at 5:11 am
Even as a hero in a Garrison toon, Steve Bannon looks like an uglier Ron Jeremy.

We acknowledge your greater knowledge of Ron Jeremy (Who?). Are you one of his greatest fans?

feelthebern
feelthebern
July 27, 2022 8:23 am

Amazing how CSL has been silent regarding the blood testing in Wuhan.
Yes, Australia’s CSL paid approx. $A500mill cash for collections in Wuhan & Hubei province.
Partly to collect in China.
More importantly so they could send higher margin blood product from around the world into the Chinese cosmetics market.
Next time you donate blood for free here in Oz you should feel very comfortable about CSL taking some of that & selling it to the mega rich in China.

Big_Nambas
Big_Nambas
July 27, 2022 8:25 am

Jab jab booster………….no chance of me changing my mind, Struth will like this read.

so uh, maybe you should have thought about that before calling an experimental injection using a failed mRNA modality known to be toxic and to drive autoimmune response “a vaccine” despite it not working and then riding around like the paul revere of pseudoscience telling everyone that because it’s a vaxx, it’s safe and ignoring the glaring fact that there was woefully insufficient testing to make any such claims.

https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/the-sources-and-effects-of-vaccine?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

rosie
rosie
July 27, 2022 8:26 am

Are people in New Zealandselling because they can’t cover mortgage repayments?
Kiwis in tears as New Zealand house prices plunge

rosie
rosie
July 27, 2022 8:28 am

Perhaps the New Zealand government could do something about inflation.
Oh wait, there’s a climate emergency.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
July 27, 2022 8:31 am

Matt Kean under pre-selection pressure.

Apparently local Libs are fed up.

Sweet! But is he really in trouble? I thought the Liberal Party had engineered its procedures so as to protect them from members’ wishes.

This is one of his Twits:

Someone tell those seven Manly ? players the ? isn’t contagious, but wearing it might make them better for showing #pride and #respect for different people. If there’s a #nrlpride round next year, I hope the mighty dragons ? go red, white and rainbow!

Funny he thinks showing pride makes you a better person, rather than having something to be proud of.

But this glosses over the strange formulation – that the pride, in his understanding, is supposed to be pride in supporting the agenda. I thought is was supposed to be pride in being an alphabet person.

Obviously when he speaks of respecting different people he means the ones he approves of – otherwise he would respect the 7 Manly players, none of whom have gone pooftah bashing or whatnot. They have not even tried to force their opinion on others. They are just resisting other people forcing their opinion on them.

And it ignores the fact that having them wear the pansy jerseys is an attempt to make it look like they support the QWERTY agenda. It is an attempt to create an impression which is at odds with the truth. A lie. That is what Matt thinks will make a better society.

Weaseling flimflam from a green-witted rat-faced poltroon.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
July 27, 2022 8:33 am

m0ntysays:
July 27, 2022 at 5:11 am
Even as a hero in a Garrison toon, Steve Bannon looks like an uglier Ron Jeremy.

The cruel brain fog of covid has thickened the pre-existing haze in Montyzuma.
I thought he looked more like Ginger Lynn.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
July 27, 2022 8:35 am

IMF warn of a worldwide recession.

Action on climate change and covid has wrecked the economy. Well done fools.

Its almost like there is a direct link between energy use and prosperity.
As if every MWH used lifts you further from the nasty/brutish/short version of life.
And the cheaper you can produce every MWH is essential to prosperity as well.

Gilas
Gilas
July 27, 2022 8:36 am

Vagabond says:
July 26, 2022 at 9:03 pm

Now, several years later, I don’t miss it at all and am having a great time doing other stuff.

Just saw your comment. Agree 100++% with everything you wrote.
“Banality of evil” is what, to my mind, describes the sociopathic bureaucracy that medicos have allowed to grow and rule over them.
I was a young RMO and still remember the AMA battles of the early 1980s, where federal governments were still careful and circumspect in their drive to crush any independence within a profession that Whitlam hated with a passion and vowed to subdue and control through the Medibank boondoggle. The AMA were played like the arrogant, bloated imbeciles that they still are.

And here we are… The “Best Health System in the World” overseen by indentured cretins and their enablers. Riddled with waste, inefficiency, scandalous waiting-lists, worsening professional standards and creeping incompetence of service delivery, well hidden by the various Councils and Colleges, which are now more concerned with re-icing the Arctic.

Like you, the “crossing of the Rubicon” into the unregistered wilderness required a lot of apprehension and thought, but once done, the relief in the release from the control of these arsewipes is something to behold, I can’t stop smiling when thinking about it.
Instead of being subject to their intrusive, increasingly stupid and pointless “standards” and CPD BS, I’ve now become their worst enemy, the health “consumer” who knows the health system’s soft underbelly, and knows how to extract maximum damage from any complaint against these Kunts.
From servant to master.
Let the fun begin!

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
July 27, 2022 8:37 am

A major correction on real estate is on its way here as well, along with unemployment kicking up.
NZ is just ahead of the curve because it’s leadership is round the bend.

Big_Nambas
Big_Nambas
July 27, 2022 8:40 am

And the beat goes on……..and on………..and on………………………

tps://www.trialsitenews.com/a/record-covid-19-deaths-in-new-zealand-despite-near-universally-vaxxed-and-heavily-boosted-population-36366ce2

https://www.trialsitenews.com/a/heavily-vaxxed-japans-sars-cov-2-surge-turns-deadly-hospitalizations-accelerate-death-toll-now-growing-1f735571

https://www.trialsitenews.com/a/are-the-mrna-covid-19-vaccines-a-form-of-gene-therapy-yes-according-to-a-bayer-pharma-exec-moderna-98a5b0b1

Roger
Roger
July 27, 2022 8:42 am

With a stack, stack here
and a stack, stack there…

Not as easy to carry off as it used to be, particularly with all eyes on the seat now due to these reports.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
July 27, 2022 8:43 am

And here we are… The “Best Health System in the World” overseen by indentured cretins and their enablers.

I think last time I looked there were 2 ex-medicos and 8 pubic serpents on the AHPRA board.
https://www.ahpra.gov.au/About-Ahpra/Who-We-Are/Agency-Management-Committee/Member-Profiles.aspx
It appears to have got worse, the only Doctor isnt really.
A RN/midwife as a Dr??

Dr Susan Young
Dr Young is a registered nurse and midwife with expertise in health, education and training, governance, regulation and accreditation. Susan commenced her second term as an Agency Management Committee member on 30 September 2020.

Ms Gill Callister PSM

Ms Jenny Taing OAM

Ms Barbara Yeoh AM

Emeritus Professor Arie Freiberg AM, FASSA, FAAL

Mr Lynton Norris

Mr Jeffrey Moffet

Roger
Roger
July 27, 2022 8:46 am

The ABC reports that there is much hope among primary producers that Chinese tariffs and boycotts will be lifted under Elbow.

I understand their plight, but due to internal factors I don’t think China will ever again be the market it was for Australia. Best not to put all your eggs in that particular basket.

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
July 27, 2022 8:47 am

What happens to the footage if the Dems confirm Republicans win the House and the Senate ? Surely they don’t want the footage under Reps control.

If there is footage which would have helped already sentenced J6 defendants there will be hell to pay.

“14000 hours of video will go down the memory hole for sure”

flyingduk
flyingduk
July 27, 2022 8:48 am

Further to the Manly imbroglio…..

In news just in – diversity divides!

132andBush
132andBush
July 27, 2022 8:49 am

I thought he looked more like Ginger Lynn.

I thought it looked like Monty.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
July 27, 2022 8:50 am

The ABC reports that there is much hope among primary producers that Chinese tariffs and boycotts will be lifted under Elbow.

Ha
No hopers providing hope.

lotocoti
lotocoti
July 27, 2022 8:54 am

A pride month tale from the grauniad.
Not seeing a lot to be proud about.
Which must make me a h8tr.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
July 27, 2022 8:54 am

I’m off to take a Labrador to the Vet after it decided to wander off and find a long dead sheep, then consume wool and skin.
Blocked up like the women’s toilet at the Melbourne Cup.

flyingduk
flyingduk
July 27, 2022 8:55 am

Its almost like there is a direct link between energy use and prosperity.

Back of the envelope calculations:

1) The average household uses 18kWH of electricity per day (says my last power bill)
2) One horse power = 880 watts
3) The sustained work rate of a professional cyclist is ~100 watts
4) Halving #3 above, and translating to an 8 hour day, your average household is employing 18/0.4 = 45 human staff per day, and thats just in electricity – your car is likely 100-200kW, so drive that for an hour (even at 1/3 load) and your daily ‘staff’ in the form of energy is over 100.

*THAT* explains nicely how much your standards of living will suffer in your new energy constrained future!

Indolent
Indolent
July 27, 2022 8:57 am
thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
July 27, 2022 8:59 am

Denial, deep river in Egypt no more.

This person is medical student, who apparently wants to specialise in STDs.

So how is he studying?
Going to a monkeypox pride meeting in germany…

I saw signs of monkeypox at Berlin’s pride parade – but that doesn’t mean it’s a ‘gay disease’
Roland Bull

Apparently, Berlin is set to receive 80 thousand doses of monkeypox vaccine in late July.

Surveying the crowd, that could well be too little, too late. People had travelled from across Europe and around the world for Christopher Street Day over the weekend. They would be letting their hair down*, then heading home. Other countries should be making their own preparations.**

As I embraced one friend, I noticed two large scars on his face that he would later explain were the remnants of enormous pustules that had flared up, crusted over, scabbed and finally healed, indicating he was no longer infectious. The scars would likely never dissipate though, hence the effort of a bushy beard to hide them.

Expanding on his experience, he told me of red-raw tonsils and excruciating lymphadenopathy. “I didn’t know we had that many lymph nodes!” he marvelled.

I did. I’m an Australian medical student halfway through my degree, taking a year off to breathe after two years of pandemic study and my own health woes. I push the upper-limits of “mature-aged” at medical school, having come to the vocation late in life after a career in LGBTQ+ health.***

Berlin has long been a kind of second home.

As the march progressed, amid the thumping techno and bustling rainbows, I heard more stories. Sores concentrated in the rectum obscuring diagnosis – in the absence of pox on the body, the man’s fever was just attributed to Covid or the flu.**** The rectal sores must have seemed an unwelcome anomaly though.

This New Yorker article described a similar scenario resulting in screams of pain when going to the bathroom and hours spent delicately trying to keep the area clean.

The mental health impact of forcing people into further isolation was also a topic of conversation, with 21 days generally recommended in the event of a suspected infection. I shudder to think of the impacts of that on the socially and economically vulnerable, especially after the last couple of years.*****

By the time we reached the Siegessäule – Berlin’s victory column and namesake of a prolific, local queer rag – I had noticed more than a few suspect physical signs. A scar here, a rash there.******

“Was that a pock or a pimple?” I wondered as I brushed past a group of scantily clad revellers. I had a feeling masks and sanitiser weren’t going to cut it this time, and I didn’t sense an appetite in this crowd for more lockdowns.*******

*ass hair
** Welcome to a superspreader event, coming soon to a bathouse near you…
*** And here you are in an outbreak where “lockdown/test/trace” would be effective aying dont do it. Its reasonably difficult to catch if you are aware someone has it and relatively short duration….
**** So in effect minus the sores a classic presentation for AIDs. Nothing to be concerned about eh?
***** Whats the bet a peruse of this perverts twatter feed will find tick tock dances of “we must all lock down forever to beat covid”…
****** So doctor sees signs of virulent infection in crowd, yet chooses to say/do nothing.
******* Mainlining metric meters of cock in a group “isnt going to cut it this time” either you low self control mongs.

In effect they are going to make this a “society” problem by spreading it as far and wide as possible.

Roger
Roger
July 27, 2022 9:02 am

And it ignores the fact that having them wear the pansy jerseys is an attempt to make it look like they support the QWERTY agenda. It is an attempt to create an impression which is at odds with the truth. A lie. That is what Matt thinks will make a better society.

In the 1970s Dave Allen used to tell a joke about a bloke emigrating from the UK before the authorities made homosexuality compulsory.

At the time it was funny because it seemed absurd, but here we are.

shatterzzz
July 27, 2022 9:02 am

The Manly shirt saga has to be one of the biggest own goals in sport.

When it comes to “boot in the mouth” the NRL can always be relied on .. LOL!

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
July 27, 2022 9:07 am

I think we might now know the reason for the panic.

The scars would likely never dissipate though, hence the effort of a bushy beard to hide them.

Permanent scarring to my carefully moisturised skin.

Oh come on
Oh come on
July 27, 2022 9:13 am

looks like Bhutan doesn’t want western tourists.

I am often a Western tourist (not as often as I’d like to be) and to be fair, a lot of Western tourists are insufferable. Particularly the Germans. I’d probably ban the fuckers, too.

Last time I went back to Vietnam, I encountered an unfamiliar phenomenon that smelly, shameless backpackers had discovered – they were funding their travels through poor countries through busking. Now, I have no problem with profiting from busking if you’re putting on a decent show, but the vast majority of these parasites were singing songs like Silent Night or their national anthem (I shit you not) and/or playing a ukelele badly. And they were getting quite a bit of money from locals passing by (who were generally bemused by what these white people were doing), giving far more than they’d give a local beggar. After all, they’re white so they expect more.

I wanted to stand next to them and tell the locals these are shitty buskers, they’re terrible, no one back home would pay them a penny for warbling out some Britney Spears tune, stop encouraging these seagulls! Also, if you don’t give them any money, they’ll have to go home, making your streets more fragrant.

There is a derogatory name for this cohort of backpackers that abysmally busk their way through the third world that I’ve forgotten. To the credit of the rest of the backpacking community, they are poorly regarded and often shunned.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
July 27, 2022 9:13 am

Welcome to the NRL Monkeypox round!

lotocoti
lotocoti
July 27, 2022 9:15 am

Denial, deep river in Egypt no more.

But think of the pride, Mole.
They have so much to be proud about.

Oh come on
Oh come on
July 27, 2022 9:16 am

And the beat goes on……..and on………..and on………………………

tps://www.trialsitenews.com/a/record-covid-19-deaths-in-new-zealand-despite-near-universally-vaxxed-and-heavily-boosted-population-36366ce2

Butbutbutbut our modelling shows so many more would have died if the vaxx rates weren’t so high, so stop asking questions.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
July 27, 2022 9:17 am

Err, no, lotocoti.
Just no.

shatterzzz
July 27, 2022 9:17 am

There was no reason why the Manly guys good have worn the standard strip all things considered.

A very good reason! .. the left brook NO resistance to their desire(s) .. failure by any team member to wear the “pride” would have been seen as not only a sign of weakness but wavering in the ranks ..!

lotocoti
lotocoti
July 27, 2022 9:24 am

Just no.

The warning should be enough for anyone.
Years ago, a workplace proximity acquaintance’s new girlie took her to the
Sydney mardi gras. Disgust and horror best summed up her reaction.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
July 27, 2022 9:25 am

I thought he looked more like Ginger Lynn.

Founder of the Lynn televisual dynasty. Let the Ginger Lynn vs Amber Lynn debate begin.

H B Bear
H B Bear
July 27, 2022 9:25 am

Troy Bramston goes full retard about Trump in his article for the increasingly patchy Australian.

Mavis should stick to his knitting. Which usually involves being on his knees around senior Liar figures. Or rewriting Liar history.

Zipster
Zipster
July 27, 2022 9:27 am

with allegations of the Australian using racial slurs against her opponents.

Komrades the goodest kommunist is colour blind! Back to re-education camp!

Roger
Roger
July 27, 2022 9:28 am

Normies are being gaslighted to accept sexual perversion.

Zipster
Zipster
July 27, 2022 9:29 am

Will more deadly variants arise from over 10 Viral Strains in China? CCP’s efforts to control people
Unlike many countries in the world, there are more than 10 variants of Omicron prevalent in mainland China. Imagine, the 10+ variants in China are 10+ viruses battling it out in the human body. Will a more deadly variant arise from this?
Although the strict epidemic prevention policy has caused huge losses to China’s economy, each faction of the CCP is getting what they want. As we previously reported, some members of Xi Jinping’s think tank have shared their feedback that the industry of vaccination and anti-epidemic control has expanded and that the Communist Party’s powerful clique of former party leader Jiang Zemin has made a huge fortune as a result. And for the current government, it has reached an unprecedented level of surveillance of the public through various epidemic prevention measures.

H B Bear
H B Bear
July 27, 2022 9:32 am

Boambee John at 8:16 – your point is well made. I agree. Fuck turning the other cheek.

H B Bear
H B Bear
July 27, 2022 9:40 am

Farmer Gez at 8:37
A major correction on real estate is on its way here as well, along with unemployment kicking up.

For mine unemployment is the key. If they can keep it under control they might just squeak through. I have my doubts.

cohenite
July 27, 2022 9:46 am

Even as a hero in a Garrison toon, Steve Bannon looks like an uglier Ron Jeremy.

I imagine you look like jeremy too, you fat turd; without the gigantic dick of course.

cohenite
July 27, 2022 9:47 am

Last 24 hours, NSW got 92% of power from coal and gas. Liddell which provided 10% is closing April 2023. There is nothing to replace it. Stock up on candles.

Roger
Roger
July 27, 2022 9:50 am

The Age reports that the Victorian Building Authority is pressuring its building & plumbing inspectors not to report faults in order to meet inspection sign off targets imposed by the Andrews government. A building inspector suicided in May, prompting allegations that a culture of bullying prevailed at the authority.

Zipster
Zipster
July 27, 2022 9:52 am

Former President Donald Trump is planning an announcement on July 26 that is expected to be a “major policy speech.” Trump has not yet announced a 2024 presidential run.

Meanwhile, legacy news outlets are warning that Trump has been building a new cabinet of supporters who would get behind his agenda, and claim that Trump has readied a new “Schedule F” tool that can allegedly uproot what he calls “the deep state.”
Crossroads with JOSHUA PHILIPP

Zipster
Zipster
July 27, 2022 9:54 am

Trump’s 2025 plan includes a nightmare list of Cabinet picks — and purge of career officials: report
Trumpworld feverishly building a database of thousands of MAGA diehards who could replace longtime civil servants

Tom
Tom
July 27, 2022 9:57 am

Normies are being gaslighted to accept sexual perversion.

The Poofter Industrial Complex had to do something with all that fundraising apparatus that was assembled to humiliate the straights in the poofter marriage fight after victory came unexpectedly early because the normies just wanted the perverts to leave them alone.

I know! Trans rights! Let’s die on that hill!

And so the feminists found out who was really on top of the lefty totem pole. The Poofter Industrial Complex has relegated the rad fems to the ladies auxiliary.
.

Roger
Roger
July 27, 2022 10:06 am

The target is under age adolescents & children, Tom.

I’m not suggesting all homosexuals are on board with that agenda, but that’s the destination.

Dot
Dot
July 27, 2022 10:08 am

bern

Koukoulas is a shill and a fucking idiot with no technical competence to back up his bullshit.

A weathervane of stupidity.

People who pay for this shit are spivs or victims of the scam the spivs are pulling.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
July 27, 2022 10:12 am

4m ago
‘I never will’: Hanson’s Indigenous Senate protest
Courtney Gould
COURTNEY GOULD
Pauline Hanson has been accused of racism after she stormed out of the Senate the acknowledgement of Country.

The acknowledgement, which is given at the beginning of each sitting day, pays respect to the Ngunnawal and Ngambri peoples who are the traditional custodians of the Canberra area as well as elders, past and present, of all Australia’s Indigenous peoples.

Senate President Sue Lines was in the middle of the acknowledgement when Senator Hanson decided to make a scene.

“No, I won’t,” she yelled, adding “I never will.”

While it wasn’t captured on the parliamentary broadcast feed, NCA Newswire snappers then caught the One Nation senator fleeing the scene.

Greens Senator Lidia Thorpe, a DjabWurrung Gunnai Gunditjmara woman, quickly condemned the “disrespectful” move.

“Day two of the 47th Parliament and racism has reared its ugly head,” she tweeted.

“Pauline Hanson disrespectfully stormed out of the acknowledgement of Country in the Senate, refusing to acknowledge “those people.” You want to make parliament safe? Get rid of racism.”

Greens Senator Lydia Thorpe had a DjabWurrung Gunnai Gunditjmara great grandmother….

Oh come on
Oh come on
July 27, 2022 10:16 am

It would be a big gamble for Trump to announce a run in 2024 prior to the midterms. This would be a gift to the Dems, who were banking on their Jan 6 kangaroo commission delivering up something the electorate cares about, which it has singularly failed to do. Right now they have nothing to run on. However, running against candidate Trump could galvanise their base and limit the losses they’re currently facing.

On the other hand, if the Dems still get smashed in November, candidate Trump can claim ownership of the win. And it will probably flush out a few RINOs as well.

I don’t know – all in all, I think it’s probably safer to wait.

H B Bear
H B Bear
July 27, 2022 10:19 am

I’m off to take a Labrador to the Vet after it decided to wander off and find a long dead sheep, then consume wool and skin.

Suspect you aren’t the first. Our late dog made a similar trip after walking along the beach digging up and eating all the dead blowies. Great dogs but not discerning eaters.

P
P
July 27, 2022 10:20 am

Hanson snubs Indigenous acknowledgement

She said if anyone needed acknowledgement it was “our people that have fought for this country. People who have sacrificed their lives”.

Senator Hanson added the Indigenous flag had “never been voted on” and criticised the acknowledgement to country.

“I will never pay respect to (the flag). I find this flag divisive,” she said.

“We are now hearing it on flights and aeroplanes. I’m sorry – this is my country as well.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
July 27, 2022 10:26 am

THREE WORDS THAT MAKE NAVIGATION EASY

A free app converts navigation points into simple three word codes

You may not know it, but the piece of real estate you’re sitting in has a unique three-word code, developed for a free app called ‘what3words’.

The what3words concept is simply brilliant, but it must have been a mammoth task to set it up. The entire globe, including the oceans, has been grid-mapped into 57 trillion squares.

All those squares have English names and English is the universal search and rescue language, meaning that an ocean location is easy to find by emergency authorities. The land-mass squares are named in 26 languages, as well as in English.

The what3words system uses a proprietary algorithm in combination with a limited database, meaning that the core technology is contained within a file around 10MB in size.

As the system relies on a fixed algorithm, not a large database of every location on earth, it works on devices with limited storage and no internet connection. The encoding is permanently fixed and unchangeable.

That code can be input into a navigation device or mobile phone, allowing easy location, without the driver’s need for a detailed address and access instructions.

Because the what3words grid of the entire world is made up of three-metre by three-metre squares, each with its own combination of three words, it’s possible to define any point to a nine-square-metre plot.

Finally, some vehicle makers are installing the app in their vehicle’s navigation systems, so we’ll see wider use of this brilliant system.

https://what3words.com/

H B Bear
H B Bear
July 27, 2022 10:26 am

When it comes to “boot in the mouth” the NRL can always be relied on ..

Keeps Roy & HG busy for a couple of hours each week. I have the ALPBC Listen app with only them on it. Still not worth $1bn+ a year but the went downhill when poached by Triple M.

calli
calli
July 27, 2022 10:26 am

While it wasn’t captured on the parliamentary broadcast feed, NCA Newswire snappers then caught the One Nation senator fleeing the scene.

……

“Pauline Hanson disrespectfully stormed out”

I love the hand-in-glove relationship of press with the grotesque Thorpe.

Note “fleeing”. No footage of the incident, just stills.

“Disrespectfully stormed out” – sounds like rank projection to me. How about “left” or “removed herself” and said why when asked why?

Vicki
Vicki
July 27, 2022 10:28 am

Why do so many people seem to believe that Manly area is for silver tails? My daughter moved there recently – & yes there are $10 million plus houses, particularly around Freshwater. But the area has always been recognised as a tradie/surfer haven. It is far from a silver tail area.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
July 27, 2022 10:35 am

Dr Susan Young
Dr Young is a registered nurse and midwife with expertise in health, education and training, governance, regulation and accreditation. Susan commenced her second term as an Agency Management Committee member on 30 September 2020.

According to the website, her Doctorate is in…Education!

I think that using the ‘Dr’ on a page about health is deliberately misleading. The most charitable interpretation would be that she insists on being called ‘Doctor’ everywhere she goes regardless of relevance.

All her dry cleaning would have ‘Dr Susan Young’ on the ticket.

After ordering her morning coffee at the cafe she would weave her way to the back wall so the barista must call out loud enough to be heard by everyone in the shop “Doctor Susan Young?” whereupon she can then sail up to the counter with the parting crowd looking on admiringly in her wake.

Or accosting medical professionals in hospitals saying:
“Hi. Dr Susan Young. What is diagnosis for him?”
“Suspected meningeal tumor.”
“Hmmm. I have had a lot of luck with having patients squat in water and push. Perhaps a preparatory course of lying on their backs playing classical music through speakers next to their belly. I am sure I have a PowerPoint presentation you could prescribe.”

Barry
Barry
July 27, 2022 10:37 am

Is ‘Pride’ not one of the seven deadly sins?

Yet, like perversion, deviance, filth, abuse, intemperance and ostracism we are now to be shamed into promoting it?

Perhaps ‘Pride’ in its sinful sense is an apt moniker.

H B Bear
H B Bear
July 27, 2022 10:39 am

The target is under age adolescents & children, Tom.
I’m not suggesting all homosexuals are on board with that agenda, but that’s the destination.

Used to love it when Hendo pointed that out to Mincing Marr on The Ol’ Leathery Variety Hour.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
July 27, 2022 10:40 am

Case against Roberts-Smith has ‘more holes than Swiss cheese’

Ben Roberts-Smith’s lawyer has sensationally claimed the case against the celebrated soldier “has more holes than Swiss cheese”.
Perry Duffin
3 min read
July 25, 2022 – 3:51PM
NCA NewsWire
1
news.com.au01:10
Ben Roberts-Smith trial: What did the SAS find buried by the Taliban?

Nine‘s war crime defence against Ben Roberts-Smith’s lawsuit “has more holes than Swiss cheese” and Australian heroes have been used as “pawns” in murder allegations, the elite soldier’s legal team has told a court.

Mr Roberts-Smith’s marathon defamation trial is in its final days in Sydney’s Federal Court after years of preparation and months of evidence.

The highly decorated soldier is suing Nine newspapers over a series of 2018 articles claiming he killed six unarmed Afghans while he was deployed with the SAS.

He strenuously denies their claims, Nine insists they’re true.

Both legal teams are now tying the evidence together in closing addresses designed to convince Justice Anthony Besanko to rule in their favour on the internationally significant trial.

One of Nine’s central allegations is that Mr Roberts-Smith was involved in two executions within minutes during a raid on a Taliban compound on Easter Sunday, 2009.

The compound, known as Whiskey 108, was concealing an unusual tunnel beneath it, the court has heard.

Nine claims two men emerged from the tunnel – one with a fake leg, the other elderly – and the SAS detained both.

The newspapers claim Mr Roberts-Smith instructed a junior soldier, known as Person 4, to borrow a rifle suppressor off another SAS soldier to shoot the elderly Afghan in the head inside the compound.

The newspapers, and some SAS witnesses, further claim Mr Roberts-Smith executed the Afghan with a fake leg by dragging him outside Whiskey 108 and machine gunning him with a Minimi weapon.

“What I think is that it was an exhibition execution, (Mr Roberts-Smith) wanted people to see that there‘s going to kill someone out there in front of everyone,” SAS soldier Person 24 told the court in his evidence earlier this year.

Mr Roberts-Smith denies anyone was found in the tunnel and insists no one was executed.

His barrister, on Monday, said Nine’s story failed to answer two glaring contradictions.

The first, the barrister said, is that the tunnel area was very busy but only one SAS witness claimed to be nearby when Person 4 allegedly executed the elderly Afghan.

“That tunnel courtyard was a confined area that had all these people in there around this time,” Mr Moses said.

“It was busier than the Rundle Street Mall on a Saturday afternoon but nobody saw this? Nobody heard it?”

The second contradiction, Mr Moses said, was that Nine alleged Mr Roberts-Smith tried to conceal one execution with a suppressor but brazenly executed the second Afghan with an extremely loud Minimi machine gun.

“There‘s an inconsistency in (Nine’s) case which has more holes in it than Swiss cheese,” Mr Moses said.

Person 4 refused to testify about Whiskey 108 but testified, under an immunity certificate, about his alleged involvement in a second crucial raid in 2012.

Person 4 told the court he watched Mr Roberts-Smith kick a farmer off a steep drop and into a dry creek bed in the town of Darwan in September that year.

The SAS soldier claims he and his best mate, Person 11, dragged the injured farmer across the creek before Person 11 executed him in front of Mr Roberts-Smith.

It was a murder and a cover-up, Nine claimed, that emerged after the emotionally shattered Person 4 told senior soldiers who went to the media.

The court has heard one of Nine’s central sources is a senior SAS soldier known as Person 7 who shared the cliff kick allegations, among many others.

Person 7 told the court he had serious difficulty with Mr Roberts-Smith being awarded the most prestigious commendation in the military – the Victoria Cross.

Mr Moses, on Monday, said Person 7 had used Person 4 as “a pawn” to bring down Mr Roberts-Smith.

The attempt to destroy Mr Roberts-Smith had resulted in the unstable Person 4 being cast as a murderer as well, the barrister told the court.

“(Person 4) is an Australian hero,” Mr Moses said.

“He‘s had a number of issues and difficulties, but he has been used by Person 7 as a weapon in the war that he sought to wage against Mr. Robert Smith over the Victoria Cross.”

Other witnesses, Mr Moses said, had perjured themselves and were “dripping with lies” by the time they finished testifying.

The closing arguments continue.

Counsel for Ben Roberts Smith has been unkind enough to point out that the Afghan witnesses have had full board and lodging, all expenses paid for over a year, in a poverty stricken country, such as Afghanistan……

calli
calli
July 27, 2022 10:43 am

Vicki, it was always the North Shore vs The Rest, particularly the inner city working class clubs. For some strange reason Easts never popped their heads above the parapet.

Amusing these days, given house prices and incomes in Balmain, Ashfield, and even Redfern.

Upon the demise of the North Sydney Bears, only one team was left to carry the “privileged” crown.

Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
July 27, 2022 10:43 am

Credlin chimed in “what if it was the Canterbury Bulldogs…..


Cassie, did Credlin say the unsayable and use the word Muslim?
If so, full credit to her.
If she only inferred it, then my applause drops down to a golf clap.

rosie
rosie
July 27, 2022 10:44 am

“I think that using the ‘Dr’ on a page about health is deliberately misleading”
You mean like ‘Dr John Campbell ” whose
” doctorate was awarded in 2013 for work on developing teaching methods using digital media such as online videos”

calli
calli
July 27, 2022 10:46 am

Mother Lode…

I can’t resist.

Barry
Barry
July 27, 2022 10:46 am

Roger says:
July 27, 2022 at 10:06 am

The target is under age adolescents & children, Tom.

I’m not suggesting all homosexuals are on board with that agenda, but that’s the destination.

Homosexuals can only reproduce through molestation.

The young are more impressionable and malleable hence the homos understandably focus by on them. Witness likewise the inexorable drive to subvert the historical norms that protect them.

Oh come on
Oh come on
July 27, 2022 10:46 am

It’s difficult to know where WA’s COVID wave is heading, and a lack of modelling is not helping

More modelling! That’s what we need. Definitely.

As Western Australia weathers a third COVID wave, the pandemic is looking more complex than ever before and it is easy to feel we are heading into the great unknown.

It’s also easy to no longer give a rat’s.

That was only compounded by confirmation from the state’s health department that it had not modelled what lies ahead.

Because too many people no longer give a rat’s. But we must have our modelling! Because…

The inexact science of previous modelling has helped fill the gap between what is happening now and what is to come, giving some sense of comfort throughout the uncertainty of the pandemic.

“The inexact science”? The Covid modelling hasn’t been a load of bullshit, no. It’s just an inexact science. Follow the inexact science! And we need it for the purpose of providing a security blanket for the bed-wetting Covid hysterics? That’s quite a concession.

But what do the experts say? Good lord, has anyone thought of the experts?

The experts say modelling is becoming less important in providing exact answers, and is instead a key way of assessing the impact of different options.

Well, we’ve already determined it’s an inexact science, so it wasn’t ever important in providing exact answers. Correction – it never should have been important in providing exact answers. But thankfully, it can still play a part in providing the experts with whatever dodgy evidence they need to push their agendas. Sorry, I meant it’s a key way of assessing the impact of different options.

And in weighing up the options, many health professionals believe now is not the time to ease restrictions, and instead we should consider stepping them up further.

Guess which restrictions they want stepped up? Hint: this is an ABC article.

Hey, a certain group of people haven’t been monstered for a while. Let’s give them a good kicking:

And while the vaccination status of those in hospital has changed as jab rates have improved, one group has remained steady – the unvaccinated.

Those who have not had any doses of a COVID vaccine accounted for nearly a quarter of hospitalisations, based on the latest data, despite making up only about 1 per cent of the population.

Damn those anti-vaxxers, filling up our hospitals with their dirty unvaxxed bodies. We need some kind of solution to deal with these people. Something final.

The 1% unvaxxed rate claim is bullshit. The ‘quarter of hospitalisations are unvaxxed’ claim is very likely bullshit. We don’t even know whether those in hospital are there because of Covid or happened to test positive to Covid in hospital…and we aren’t going to be told.

But more Covid modelling, more inexact science, and DEFINITELY a reintroduction of a mask mandate – that’s what we need. Thanks, ABC.

Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
July 27, 2022 10:46 am

Bret Baier going strange lately

Increasingly it appears that the few remaining truth tellers with courage are Steyn, Carlson, and Oliver.
I’m fence sitting on Brand at the moment.

Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
July 27, 2022 10:52 am

the surf is roaring in the background

calli, having lived near the sea for a long time (well, the Northern Beaches part of the ocean anyway) I can say I don’t remember such a sustained period of big swells.

That’s not to say it hasn’t happened – it may be my dementia preventing memory recall!

feelthebern
feelthebern
July 27, 2022 10:54 am

Remember when Winston Churchill posed for Vogue ?

feelthebern
feelthebern
July 27, 2022 10:55 am
John of Mel
John of Mel
July 27, 2022 10:55 am

In other medical science news, drugs from Alzheimer’s and depression are useless (best case scenario) and in many cases are harmful. It’s been known for some time apparently and still nothing is being done – doctors are still prescribing them, producers are still getting insane profits and medical authorities continue to approve them. But, yeah, let’s trust “the science” and medical authorities.

feelthebern
feelthebern
July 27, 2022 10:56 am

Dover, it won’t let me post the link to the Zelensky family posing for Vogue.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
July 27, 2022 10:57 am

Pauline Hanson has been accused of racism after she stormed out of the Senate the acknowledgement of Country.

They really need to reflect on what racism actually means or, at least why its original meaning was held to denote injustice.

It all started as the injustice of imagining people to have inferior worth or abilities on the basis of race (the underlying objection being that all people are equal in worth, and that abilities across races were indistinguishable from the range of abilities within races – that abilities do not correlate to race.)

What Pauline is doing here is objecting to political theatre. She objects to having to ‘bend the knee’ to people who claim a magical connection to the land when you yourself do not believe in magic, and to begin everything you do as being predicated on you being a visitor or a guest, not quite as entitled as someone else.

What happens when some activist or other with a possum skin poncho and a handful of smouldering twigs declares that we are no longer welcome?

Oh come on
Oh come on
July 27, 2022 11:00 am

You mean like ‘Dr John Campbell ” whose
” doctorate was awarded in 2013 for work on developing teaching methods using digital media such as online videos”

That’s a pretty sleazy smear job, Rosie.

For the benefit of readers, I’ll post the entire paragraph of John Campbell’s medical credentials from his Wikipedia entry for context:

Campbell received a diploma in nursing from the University of London and Bachelor of Science in biology from the Open University. He subsequently earned a Master of Science in health science from the University of Lancaster and a Ph.D. in nursing education from the University of Bolton. The doctorate was awarded in 2013 for work on developing teaching methods using digital media such as online videos.

He doesn’t claim to be a medical doctor and frequently says he isn’t. He is, however, an accomplished medical professional and I don’t think he’s misleading anyone by using the title he does.

feelthebern
feelthebern
July 27, 2022 11:02 am

After teaching nurses for 20+ years I can handle Campbell calling himself doctor.
Jill Biden, not so much.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
July 27, 2022 11:07 am

Why do so many people seem to believe that Manly area is for silver tails?

Agree. It is loud and gauche. It is a ‘youth’ area. Shops and restaurants (or, rather, ‘eateries’) cater overwhelmingly to that demographic.

Big_Nambas
Big_Nambas
July 27, 2022 11:12 am

Meme;

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Mother Lode
Mother Lode
July 27, 2022 11:12 am

I can’t resist.

?

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
July 27, 2022 11:13 am

That question mark was supposed to be a grinning emoji.

calli
calli
July 27, 2022 11:27 am

One of my favourite movies, ML.

The cheating in exams scene is a classic too.

Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
July 27, 2022 11:29 am

The young are more impressionable

An annecdote.
A young man I know “came out” as gay whilst in Year 11, in the middle of the SSM debate.
My opinion is that a shy boy who made friends with girls easily was influenced by mass media and young homosexual men of his acquaintance to believe he was therefore gay. Add in some bullying from macho males at school and it all seemed quite logical to him.
He had no Christian upbringing to deliver alternatives to him, and a secular value system of “love is love” looked good to him.
Today he is in a stable same sex relationship so there is some light at the end of the tunnel.

bespoke
bespoke
July 27, 2022 11:33 am

PM is a distraction squirrel.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
July 27, 2022 11:34 am

Oh come onsays:

July 27, 2022 at 11:00 am

You mean like ‘Dr John Campbell ” whose
” doctorate was awarded in 2013 for work on developing teaching methods using digital media such as online videos”

That’s a pretty sleazy smear job, Rosie.

No it isn’t.
There has been plenty of legitimate criticism of CHOs and pro-vax, pro-mandate commentators mis-using unrelated or honorary titles to add weight to their pronouncements.
Hi Perfesser Sutton!
Same goes for the other side of the debate.
Campbell would be more honest if he insisted on the title “John Campbell PhD”.
I think Hendo skewers these types beautifully …

“Dr Jane Smith (for a doctor she is)”

Buccaneer
Buccaneer
July 27, 2022 11:35 am

Welcome to the NRL Monkeypox round!

Does the jersey come with pustules?

Dot
Dot
July 27, 2022 11:37 am

If I was younger I would have come out to troll…the humpy under the bridge is rather damp sometimes.

Top Ender
Top Ender
July 27, 2022 11:40 am

Wokeball now takes precedence over footy

JAMES MACPHERSON

Rugby league’s first inclusion game is so inclusive that it will include everyone – except Christian players.

Half the Manly Sea Eagles team are refusing to wear a gay pride jumper in Thursday night’s game against the Sydney Roosters. The seven players are understood to be Josh Aloiai, Jason Saab, Josh Schuster, Haumole Olakau’atu, Tolutau Koula, Christian Tuipulotu and Toafofoa Sipley. All are deeply religious.

The Manly team had a rainbow jumper designed for players to wear in the game but the suits in head office forgot to consult the players who will need to run around in it. That’s how committed to inclusion they are.

When the players found out via the media that they would be wearing a jumper celebrating gay pride, up to seven told management they would not be joining in.

If you’re unfamiliar with rugby league, seven players represent more than half the team. At least Manly have enough players for one side of the field – the left wing.

Club officials fear the boycott will split the club and wreck its bid to play finals football this season. Thursday night’s match is a must-win for the team.

But don’t imagine the club will backflip on promoting gay pride in favour of winning a game of football. They would rather lose the match than face the wrath of LGBTI activists. Wokeball now takes precedence over football. It’s incredible that rugby administrators could be so out of touch with their own team that they did not appear to have considered how the deeply religious beliefs of half their players might be affected by a gay pride round.

Or perhaps they did know but chose not to care. If you’ve not realised that diversity is a one-way street, you haven’t been paying attention. Social media slammed the seven Manly players, most of them Islanders, as bigots and as religious hypocrites.

Just on that, it’s interesting to note that Muslim AFLW player Haneen Zreika was allowed to sit out a gay pride game earlier this year with barely any controversy. In fact, she was widely congratulated for standing by her faith with dignity and a minimum of fuss.

And when Australian cricketer Usman Khawaja hesitated joining celebrations after winning the Ashes, his teammates were widely praised for delaying the traditional spraying of beer out of respect for his Muslim faith so he could join them on the winner’s dais.

So what’s the difference with the Manly players? Why are they not congratulated for the courage of their convictions? Why is their faith not respected?

Simple. They’re Christians.

According to news reports, league bosses rejected requests for religious players to wear the traditional jersey. The rainbow and traditional jumpers are so close in design that the only reason players not wishing to participate in promoting gay pride could be denied the ability to stick with their normal jersey is pig-headed ideology.

Effectively the religious players have been told: You will celebrate diversity by doing exactly the same thing as everyone else or you will not be included in the inclusion round.

Ironically, the pride jumper is called “Everyone in League”.

What could be more inclusive than both gay and religious Islanders having the right to play for the Manly jersey, which they already do. Why should either party be made to feel marginalised for the other? But where’s the diversity and tolerance if everybody is forced to publicly support a particular point of view and zero dissent is permitted? That isn’t inclusion, it’s fanaticism.

What LGBTI activists fail to understand is that no one cares about the sexuality of players, and no one wants to know. As long as the players put the football over the try line and kick it through the uprights, no one much cares whether they kiss a woman or a man after the game.

Ironically, it is the gay activists making an issue of sexuality, not the religious players.

It’s more than 20 years since star Manly player Ian Roberts became the first rugby league player to come out as gay. That no one is interested in the players’ sexual preferences these days shows how far we have come.

To continue banging on about this is regressive, not progressive. We agree with gay rights activists that sexuality doesn’t matter. Now just play football.

James Macpherson is an independent journalist, political commentator and Sky News contributor. He is author of Woketopia: Laying Bare the Lunacy of Woke Culture, published by Connor Court.

Oz

Top Ender
Top Ender
July 27, 2022 11:42 am

Dover, tried to paste an article about “Wobeball” – text from the Oz – but the system won’t let me.

It hesitates, and then just doesn’t post anything.

John of Mel
John of Mel
July 27, 2022 11:43 am

Does the jersey come with pustules?

And a small photo of John Hopoate.

Dot
Dot
July 27, 2022 11:49 am

I wanna know why this blog hasn’t seen an increase in traffic.

bern, what are two topics that are recession proof?

Fractional reserve banking and uhh, certain ethnic slurs.

You’re content creators, go out there and earn eyeballs!

Frankly I’m disgusted and ashamed.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
July 27, 2022 11:55 am

Bit of Car Tech for Rev Heads

4WD MODIFICATIONS – TECH TORQUE

If you want to know how ESC works, what a nanotube is, who Ackroyd was or why Australia will grow its own fuel – it’s all here.

and

BLANK SHEET, BLANK CHECK? —

We test an electric Mercedes that can go 747 miles on a single charge

Mercedes-Benz built the Vision EQXX for ultimate efficiency.

P
P
July 27, 2022 11:56 am

Released

feelthebern says:
July 27, 2022 at 10:55 am

Roger
Roger
July 27, 2022 11:59 am

You want to make parliament safe? Get rid of racism.

She says, as the government seeks to entrench a race based “voice to parliament”.

Arky
July 27, 2022 12:02 pm

I have written quite often about how useless female coppers are and how female soldiers can’t meet the physical standards required.
So when you do get a female of an excellent standard, which does occur, that requires highlighting too.
Well done, this bird, faultless policing:
https://funker530.com/video/nsfw-officers-force-to-shoot-man-advancing-with-knife/

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
July 27, 2022 12:02 pm

bern, what are two topics that are recession proof?

Fractional reserve banking and uhh, certain ethnic slurs.

If this site is lacking, surely there is an authoritative voice on these subjects elsewhere on the innernet.

Oh come on
Oh come on
July 27, 2022 12:04 pm

No it isn’t.
There has been plenty of legitimate criticism of CHOs and pro-vax, pro-mandate commentators mis-using unrelated or honorary titles to add weight to their pronouncements.

Yes, it is. Campbell started putting out medical educational videos on his YouTube channel several years before Covid came along. The guy has written textbooks about nursing practice. Yes, a level of status is implied by using the ‘Dr’ title. He’s an authoritative medical source and I think that status is deserved. He never claimed to be a medical doctor and goes out of his way to make it clear he’s a medical nurse, not a medical doctor.

With that said, his experience and qualifications suggest he is an expert in his field, as well as education in his field of expertise. If he didn’t know what he was talking about in his videos, I might agree with you. However, it’s quite clear he does.

feelthebern
feelthebern
July 27, 2022 12:05 pm

Time to set up a DMT clinic in Australia.
I reckon NSW or Tasmania would be the most open to it.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
July 27, 2022 12:05 pm

feelthebern says:
July 27, 2022 at 10:56 am
Dover, it won’t let me post the link to the Zelensky family posing for Vogue.

Vlad will be pissed.
Time for a new bare chested pin up spread. Perhaps on a donkey with palm fronds as he enters Kiev.

Oh come on
Oh come on
July 27, 2022 12:10 pm

Imagine coming down with monkeypox and having to explain it to the Mrs.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
July 27, 2022 12:10 pm
feelthebern
feelthebern
July 27, 2022 12:11 pm
OldOzzie
OldOzzie
July 27, 2022 12:13 pm

Whistleblowers: One of the “Analysts” Who Declared the Hunter Biden Laptop “Russian Disinformation” Just Happened to be One of the “Analysts” In Crossfire Hurricane Who Vetted the Carter Page Warrant

Every time they have political dirtywork to be done, they turn to the same two dozen trusted partisan ringers they know will deliver the results they’ve all agreed to in advance and claim it’s all “objective analysis.”

Anchor What
Anchor What
July 27, 2022 12:13 pm

Chalmers says it’s time to heal the “divisions” and come together and sing the praises of the Labor government, who are going to repair the devastation of 9 years of coalition government.
Right!

Top Ender
Top Ender
July 27, 2022 12:14 pm

A MASSIVE fight has broken out at the Darwin CBD Woolworths.

The scuffle, which took place on Tuesday afternoon, involved about 10 people.

A video, taken at the supermarket and posted to Facebook, shows a man jumping the counter of the Passengers Cafe and grabbing multiple large knives.

He then moves towards other people with a knife.

The fight continues into the self-service area of the Woolworths, then down aisle six.

The supermarket’s alarms are going off throughout the video.

The pharmacy and bottleshop in the centre closed their security doors during the incident.

An eyewitness recounted the “terrifying” moment the knife fight broke out.

Christine told Katie Woolf on Mix104.9 she was out the front of Woolworths on Cavenagh St on Tuesday afternoon when the incident occured.

“About 3.30-4pm in the afternoon a whole heap of people came in — I’m talking 14 or so people,” she said.

“They jumped the counter at Passengers Cafe and they took her knife and ran amuck through the shopping centre.”

Christine said nearby shoppers ran and hit among the aisles.

“Customers were screaming and there were a whole heap of people hiding in the bakery but to tell you the truth no where was safe,” she said.

She said the experience was “absolutely horrendous” and a terrible look for those visiting.

“What a welcome to Darwin,” she said.

“It’s a joke.”

Northern Territory Police have arrested one person and are continuing to investigate.

“Around 4.30pm, police were notified of a group of up to 10 people, some armed with edged weapons, causing a large disturbance outside a supermarket on Cavenagh St,” an NT Police statement said.

“Police attended immediately, ending the disturbance and recovering all weapons involved. No injuries were reported however there was property damaged caused.

“A 16-year-old male was arrested on the scene. Investigations are ongoing to identify other persons involved.”

The teenager is in custody and is expected to be charged with going armed in public, engaging in violent conduct, possessing a schedule 2 drug (non-traffickable quantity) and breach of bail.

He is expected to appear before the Youth Justice Court later Wednesday.

Superintendent James O’Brien said: “This appears to have been an escalation of a dispute between family groups. We are speaking with witnesses and are aware of a video of the incident posted to social media.”

“If anyone has video or witnessed the incident, please contact police on 131 444 and quote reference 10070979,” he said.

Woolworths has been contacted for comment.

NT News. This is the main Woollies in central Darwin. Has a small number of shops in the same precinct. The coffee etc takeaway on the left of the video was likely closed at the time – operated by some long-suffering Asian ladies.

Also without paywall at the NT Independent.

Roger
Roger
July 27, 2022 12:18 pm

Yes, a level of status is implied by using the ‘Dr’ title. He’s an authoritative medical source and I think that status is deserved. He never claimed to be a medical doctor…

The use of “doctor” as a title for registered medical practitioners in some English speaking countries is merely a courtesy.

Doctor is an academic title those with an earned doctorate in their field of expertise are entitled to use. People with an honorary doctorate should not refer to themselves as Doctor.

Oh come on
Oh come on
July 27, 2022 12:18 pm

TikTok is cancer. What would be more damaging to the development of a child – its parents divorcing, or unfettered access to TikTok from an early age? I genuinely don’t know. TikTok is legitimately that bad. It’s the crack-cocaine of social media platforms as far as teens are concerned.

P
P
July 27, 2022 12:19 pm

From Pauline:
Why acknowledgement of country creates racial division and why Australia only has one true flag
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lHKI6mNI8A

feelthebern
feelthebern
July 27, 2022 12:23 pm

Sandmann had his case against the NYT thrown out.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
July 27, 2022 12:23 pm

Doctor is an academic title those with an earned doctorate in their field of expertise are entitled to use. People with an honorary doctorate should not refer to themselves as Doctor.

I would go further.
People with a doctorate in education should go out of their way to ensure they simply use the “PhD” handle when talking about medical matters which are not their speciality.
This goes equally for CHOs and “trusted sources on the innernet” putting the opposing view.
The trouble is, “PhD” doesn’t carry any cred anymore.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
July 27, 2022 12:24 pm

feelthebernsays:

July 27, 2022 at 12:23 pm

Sandmann had his case against the NYT thrown out.

Huh?
I thought they settled?

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
July 27, 2022 12:26 pm

Top Ender says:
July 27, 2022 at 12:14 pm
A MASSIVE fight has broken out at the Darwin CBD Woolworths.

The scuffle, which took place on Tuesday afternoon, involved about 10 people.

A video, taken at the supermarket and posted to Facebook, shows a man jumping the counter of the Passengers Cafe and grabbing multiple large knives.

He then moves towards other people with a knife.

The fight continues into the self-service area of the Woolworths, then down aisle six.

“A 16-year-old male was arrested on the scene. Investigations are ongoing to identify other persons involved.”

The teenager is in custody and is expected to be charged with going armed in public, engaging in violent conduct, possessing a schedule 2 drug (non-traffickable quantity) and breach of bail.

He is expected to appear before the Youth Justice Court later Wednesday.

Superintendent James O’Brien said: “This appears to have been an escalation of a dispute between family groups. We are speaking with witnesses and are aware of a video of the incident posted to social media.”

Woolworths has been contacted for comment.

NT News. This is the main Woollies in central Darwin. Has a small number of shops in the same precinct. The coffee etc takeaway on the left of the video was likely closed at the time – operated by some long-suffering Asian ladies.

Also without paywall at the NT Independent.

The Australian Version of Guess the Ethnicity

Violent family disputes in Wadeye have spilled over into the Darwin CBD after 10 people – some of whom were armed with knives – terrified shoppers at the Woolworths on Cavenagh St Tuesday afternoon, NT Police said.

Darwin CBD violence at Woolies connected to ongoing Wadeye unrest: Police

Oh come on
Oh come on
July 27, 2022 12:26 pm

Doctor is an academic title those with an earned doctorate in their field of expertise are entitled to use.

Agree. So Campbell is entitled to use it.

And you’re also correct about recipients of honorary doctorates not being entitled to use the ‘Dr’ title. However, the ABC likes to ignore this whenever an Indigenous artist dies – then they’re all Dr So and So this and Dr So and So that because using his first name is verboten and he received an honorary doctorate from Uluru University.

It’s so condescending.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
July 27, 2022 12:26 pm

Thanks for posting about the female cop Arky, the best bit was no mucking about but why didn’t the male cop drop him first as he closing on him?

Roger
Roger
July 27, 2022 12:27 pm

TikTok is cancer.

It’s also a data harvesting exercise by the CCP with a number of hidden capabilities users are not informed of.

Boambee John
Boambee John
July 27, 2022 12:31 pm

Roger

The use of “doctor” as a title for registered medical practitioners in some English speaking countries is merely a courtesy.

Aren’t both of the entry degrees to become a medical practicioner Bachelors’ degrees?

sfw
sfw
July 27, 2022 12:32 pm

flyingduk, I thought 1HP was 740 watts or thereabouts.

Roger
Roger
July 27, 2022 12:34 pm

People with a doctorate in education should go out of their way to ensure they simply use the “PhD” handle when talking about medical matters which are not their speciality.

Such as when an epidemiologist whose doctoral thesis was on hand washing in the third world hospital setting was given a national platform to opine of the safety and efficacy of the covid vaccines.

Yes, it happened; more than once.

I haven’t watched Dr. Campbell’s videos, but I gather he’s happy for his research to stand or fall on its merits rather than on his academic credentials, which is exactly as it should be.

Zipster
Zipster
July 27, 2022 12:35 pm
Oh come on
Oh come on
July 27, 2022 12:41 pm

Huh?
I thought they settled?

He settled with CNN for an undisclosed sum. I know he sued for $250 mil, but he could have received very little, perhaps nothing. A quick settlement with a power player like CNN is an indicator to others that they’d best pony up. Doesn’t work on every media outlet – some are pigheaded and will fight defamation claims made against them even when the claim is strong and it would be in their commercial interest to settle. I imagine the NYT is in this camp. And I bet the NY state jurisdiction tends to look after it well (although it seems Lady Luck and the Grey Lady parted ways when the latter was allocated the judge presiding over the Project Veritas suit).

As a contrast, apparently the Daily Mail group is known for being pragmatic and commercially minded when it comes to defamation claims.

feelthebern
feelthebern
July 27, 2022 12:43 pm

And I bet the NY state jurisdiction tends to look after it well

Hearing was in Kentucky.
But still a Federal judge.

Roger
Roger
July 27, 2022 12:44 pm

Aren’t both of the entry degrees to become a medical practicioner Bachelors’ degrees?

Bachelor of Medicine & Bachelor of Surgery is the Australian standard and more or less aligns with other Commonwealth countries.

Just to confuse matters, in the US general practitioners obtain an MD, but this is because medicine there is a graduate, not an undergraduate, degree.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
July 27, 2022 12:48 pm

Such as when an epidemiologist whose doctoral thesis was on hand washing in the third world hospital setting was given a national platform to opine of the safety and efficacy of the covid vaccines.

I think some CHOs are offered honorary doctorates or honorary professorial chairs upon appointment.
Why?
Presumably to add gravitas to their pronouncements.
This is why I am very wary of anyone with a PhD using the title “Doctor” when talking about specialist medical matters.
Take covid out of it.
Let’s say he is talking about the relative merits of different knee and hip replacement prosthetics.
He is given a platform and uses the title “Doctor”. A casual observer might draw the incorrect conclusion he is an ortho specialist.
I don’t have a particular beef with Campbell in particular. Just the casual use of the term doctor in a context which could be misleading.

Zyconoclast
Zyconoclast
July 27, 2022 12:48 pm

President Joe Biden’s incoming cyber defense deputy has claimed that “systemic racism” is one of the greatest threats to U.S. cybersecurity

Camille Stewart, a former Google strategist whom Biden reportedly tapped for White House deputy national cyber director, has argued that “our #NatSec apparatus must be a part of dismantling systemic racism,” and “pursuing anti-racist and anti-hate policy outcomes” should be a chief national security focus for the administration.

Stewart, who served as policy adviser for the Obama administration’s Department of Homeland Security, has criticized the United States as an intrinsically racist society in her writing and on social media.

She claimed that the U.S. economy “lost $16 trillion b/c of Racism against Black Americans,” and warned in 2020 that “SYSTEMIC RACISM WILL RUIN THIS DEMOCRACY,” arguing that systemic racism was a part of “every institution not just the criminal justice system.”

Zyconoclast
Zyconoclast
July 27, 2022 12:50 pm

Test

Zyconoclast
Zyconoclast
July 27, 2022 12:51 pm

Test 2

Roger
Roger
July 27, 2022 12:57 pm

He is given a platform and uses the title “Doctor”. A casual observer might draw the incorrect conclusion he is an ortho specialist.

Now, if we were in the UK, the ortho specialist would be called “Mister”, because he’s a surgeon, not a “doctor.”

All clear!?

😀

Oh come on
Oh come on
July 27, 2022 12:59 pm

It’s also a data harvesting exercise by the CCP with a number of hidden capabilities users are not informed of.

One could say the same thing about almost every smartphone currently on the market, although there are more recipients of the harvested data. iPhones are the worst. There is seemingly no commercial reason for Apple to spy on its users to the extent it does. Unlike Google’s Android platform, it doesn’t sell user data to advertisers and the like, so why bother? Apple now monitors all media on every iPhone – just to make sure there isn’t any kiddy porn on there, that’s all. And an iPhone tracks you everywhere – even if you switch it off, it acts as an iTag and can be identified and geolocated by other Apple products.

Why would Apple want to intrude into the lives of its users to such an extent? Perhaps there is a commercial reason for doing so, after all. Governments have deeper pockets than advertisers, and they really want the data. As much as possible. I’m sure they’d pay handsomely for the kind of data Apple collects about its users.

This is mere speculation, though…

shatterzzz
July 27, 2022 1:01 pm

Parliament is back .. woof woof! but at least PAULINE still supporting the majority .. us, normal folk .. !
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11052055/Pauline-Hanson-storms-Senate-welcome-country.html

H B Bear
H B Bear
July 27, 2022 1:02 pm

Does the jersey come with pustules?

No. You get those at the afterparty.

H B Bear
H B Bear
July 27, 2022 1:05 pm

Dover, enjoying the Turner. Must get one for the study.

Roger
Roger
July 27, 2022 1:07 pm

One could say the same thing about almost every smartphone currently on the market

I guess so, to some extent. I’m no expert on smartphones or their apps, but it was recently reported that the Tik Tok app can & does transfer, without your permission, all of your phone data to servers in China.

shatterzzz
July 27, 2022 1:08 pm

feelthebern says:
July 27, 2022 at 10:56 am
Dover, it won’t let me post the link to the Zelensky family posing for Vogue.

Haven’t got the article link but here’s the front page pix …
https://ibb.co/z4WgCLm

Oh come on
Oh come on
July 27, 2022 1:10 pm

Hearing was in Kentucky.
But still a Federal judge.

Hm, interesting. Is Sandmann still being represented by that crazy lawyer L Lin Wood or whatever his name is? If so, that may have something to do with it. He kind of shredded his credibility by following the Q psy-op down every lunatic rabbit hole they took him down.

Alternatively, the NYT has a lot of institutional gravitas. Sandmann is associated with smelly MAGA people, and judges have country clubs to attend. The president who nominated the judge is far more predictive of the outcome of political cases than it should be, as well.

Or maybe Sandmann’s lawyers simply did a shitty job.

Tom
Tom
July 27, 2022 1:15 pm

As posted by Zipster at 12.48pm, a brilliant piece of journalistic research on illegal immigration and the “diversity” nonsense, written and presented by the Tucker Carlson Tonight team. Here’s the Fox News version so you don’t have to give clicks to YouTube.

It’s quite odd that the anti-civilisationists of the Democratic Party are pursuing open borders now when the Australian ALP tried it unsuccessfully in 2007 and lost an election over it. The difference is that the Democratic Party has totally captured and enslaved the US news media, whereas enough of the Australian media was still doing actual journalism in the period after 2007 that helped thwart the first attempt in the West to import a new left-voting electorate, a.k.a. the Great Replacement.

It will be fascinating to see whether the media’s gaslighting of the US electorate can head off a thumping defeat for the Dems in the 2022 mid-terms without massive cheating.

Gilas
Gilas
July 27, 2022 1:19 pm

Roger says:
July 27, 2022 at 12:57 pm

Now, if we were in the UK, the ortho specialist would be called “Mister”, because he’s a surgeon, not a “doctor.”

That’s also the case here, or it was when I was still dealing with surgeons, some years back.

As for Dr Campbell, I didn’t watch or follow his pronouncements, plenty of other excellent expertise available on the COVID clusterfuck, but I naturally assumed he was a medical doctor. From what I’ve read, he’s a better Dr than many of the turds given that title in med school. Mes hommages!

H B Bear
H B Bear
July 27, 2022 1:21 pm

Bob Katter must be miffed having his schtick relegated to off Broadway by Hanson.

Zyconoclast
Zyconoclast
July 27, 2022 1:22 pm

An entire police department in North Carolina resigned on July 20 after the hiring of a new town manager, Justine Jones. Now the latest reports suggest that the Kenly Town Council called for a meeting on the night of July 22, which saw about 50 residents gathering at Kenly Town Hall. Several supported Jones at the meeting, arguing she never got a chance to build relationships with the people of the town.

The official announcement of the mass resignation was made in a Facebook post by Kenly Police Chief Josh Gibson, in which he mentioned that he had submitted his two weeks’ notice alongside the entire department, along with assistant town manager Sharon Evans and utility clerk Christy Jones. He wrote, “I have put in my 2 weeks notice along with the whole police dept. Sharon Evans and Christy Thomas with the town of kenly after 21 years of service… the new manager has created an environment I do not feel we can perform our duties and services to the community.. I do not know what is next for me. I am letting the lord lead the way.. I have loved this community.. it has become family and one of my greatest honors to serve.. God bless you all in Kenly….”

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