Grim milestones….

1115 days
OR: 3 years, 2 weeks, 5 days
OR: 159 weeks, 2 days
OR: 26760 hours

And the best minds in the media and various intelligence agencies & public interest groups havent been able to track down or release any of the alleged rapists of girls on Epsteins Pedo island.

Every organ of justice and accountability has been stymied in their red hot pursuit of those involved.

Munty is a cellar dweller. Ha!

Climate Scientist Zali opines:

Labor’s 43 per cent emissions cut is ‘not a scientific target’: Zali Steggall

Warringah MP Zali Steggall says Labor’s 43 per cent emissions reduction target is “not a scientific target” but is instead a “political target”.

Ms Steggall said she had been elected for pushing a 60 per cent emissions reduction target by 2030.

“It’s very disingenuous to say you’re taking climate change seriously, but not listening to the science,” she told Sky News Australia.

I’d imagine 60% is pretty sciency.
It looks ingenuous.

#dimbulb

Dumb comparison Arky.

Mother was not amused.

Neither was the Little Red Hen.

Today I’m lucky to have a clean, sparkling house. No midnight elves, alas. I really need them for the oven, too.

Munty confuses whiners with winners Matrix.

Nothing ever 100%.

Deborah Glass VIC Ombudsman has found no evidence that Dan knew about the Red Shirts rort.
Did you do it Dan?
Nup.
All good then.

As requested a while ago. The Mocker strikes again!

Does the furore over the Manly pride jersey sound familiar?

THE MOCKER

Manly’s self-imposed problem goes far beyond the issue of players’ conflicting religious beliefs, writes The Mocker.

AN HOUR AGO JULY 28, 2022

When you follow someone, you’ll see their latest stories on your homepage in the ‘Following’ section.
It would be an understatement to say the reaction to the Manly Sea Eagles’ rainbow dalliance was not what club officials expected. You have to feel sympathy for them. After all, they appeared to have done the necessary background work to launch the club’s inaugural pride jersey, the first NRL club to do so.

They had obtained the NRL licensing team and the Manly board’s endorsement. They also got the go-ahead from the football department of the club. They brought in Hollywood stars Hugh Jackman and Chris Hemsworth to help with PR. In short, they consulted just about everyone except the coaching staff and the players. You know, the ones expected to wear the jersey. The first they knew of the decision was when they read about it on social media.

But that was just a minor oversight. Inexplicably, however, many of the Manly players cannot accept their perspective counts for nothing. Consequently seven of them will sit out Thursday night’s match against the Sydney Roosters rather than wear the pride jersey. Given this matter will fester for the remainder of the season, the team can forget their chances of making the top eight.

ARL Commission Chairman Peter V’landys says the Manly rugby players who are boycotting a match over a pride jersey have “expressed their right of freedom”. Mr V’landys said the players are going through “anguish”. “We’ve… got to respect each other’s views and opinions,” he told Sky News Australia.

If only there had been some way for the club to ascertain how the players felt when this policy was just a proposal. If only had someone twigged that half the team belong to an ethnic and cultural demographic that is deeply conservative and religious. And if only there had been some precedent in Australia to alert the club how players from that group would react.

But let’s be clear: the players are the ones being unreasonable. At least that is what former Canterbury Bulldogs player and England captain James Graham reckons. “For me personally I think it is an overreaction from the players,” Graham told Fox Sports’ NRL 360. “It is just a few colours on a jersey. It is not worth missing a game over.” That’s the same James Graham who received a 12-week suspension for biting the ear of Melbourne Storm player Billy Slater during the 2012 grand final.

What this policy amounts to cannot be accurately summarised as “just a few colours on a jersey”. It would also be simplistic to say this was simply about supporting vulnerable members of the gay community. The rainbow colours represent LGBTQIA, a nomenclature of disparate groups. For many in that classification, its purpose is to emphasise that sexuality is innate and cannot be overridden. For others, it is a platform for advancing an ideology.

As such, Manly’s self-imposed problem goes far beyond the issue of players’ conflicting religious beliefs. In adopting these colours, it also gives comfort to the ideologies they represent. For example, does the club believe that subjective beliefs trump science? Does the club agree with activists who hold that biological lesbians refusing to date trans-women are hateful? What happens to a player who publicly states it is nonsensical to claim that some men can give birth?

The Manly Sea Eagles rugby club has advised the seven players boycotting tonight’s game to stay at home, says Sky News reporter Gabriella Power. Ms Power said the players were initially expected to attend the match to… support their teammates. “The club has advised them to stay home More
But none of these questions matter to the club’s defenders. Criticise the decision to go ahead without consulting the players and you are likely to be met with an exaggerated sigh followed by “Because it’s 2022,” or “I cannot believe we are having this discussion”. It is a repeat of the cynical and censorious tactics used by ‘yes’ campaigners in the same-sex marriage plebiscite. We cannot allow the ‘no’ campaigners to speak because lives are at stake here. Sound familiar?

Publicly, activists are bemoaning and decrying the actions of the dissenting players. In reality, the outcome is a win for them. The players, despite their wish to attend the match, have been warned off the ground due to security reasons. No longer can they reject rainbow ideology provided they are discreet about it. Now they must expressly affirm LGBTQIA mantra or suffer constant opprobrium.

But this is about inclusivity and diversity, activists will insist. If you are tolerant, you will welcome the club’s decision. If you do not, you are prejudiced. And they can count on the media to support this false dichotomy. Take for example Nine’s Wide World of Sports journalist Matt Bungard. According to him, the players refusing to don the jersey were “homophobic”.

And there is nothing like an angry denunciation by Sydney Morning Herald columnist Peter FitzSimons to exemplify the progressive version of tolerance. “What the hell is wrong with you blokes that you don’t get it?,” he wrote in reference to the seven Manly dissenters. “Your religion? I tell you nothing you don’t know when I say that it seems more than passing weird,” he sneered, adding they had “embarrass(ed) the game, the club and themselves”.

But being a magnanimous and tolerant fellow, he does not believe their careers should suffer.

“For all that, when it comes to what to do with them, I wouldn’t sack them outright,” he wrote. Really? That’s exactly what he insinuated in a tweet the day before.

Inconveniently for FitzSimons, he had taken the opposite stance earlier this year when AFLW Giants player Haneen Zreika decided she could not wear the club’s pride jumper because it clashed with her Islamic faith and her community’s beliefs. Gently chiding her for this “regrettable” and “disappointing” decision, he considered the matter at an end.

“Ms Zreika … is quietly saying that, purely personally, she is not comfortable wearing the Pride jersey because she believes it contravenes her religion,” he wrote. In other words, nothing to see here.

As I wrote earlier this year, I did not believe Zreika did anything wrong. Fortunately, she was supported by her club. Contrast that with the treatment of Jason Saab, Christian Tuipulotu, Josh Schuster, Haumole Olakau’atu, Josh Aloiai, Tolutau Koula and Toafofoa Sipley, who were ambushed by the announcement they would be wearing a pride jersey. It appears officials deliberately did so, believing that presenting this as a fait accompli would forestall protest. That was insulting and the club was right to apologise to them.

FitzSimons, incidentally, bristles when readers contrasted his firebrand treatment of the Manly players with his kid glove treatment of Zreika. Those accusing him of hypocrisy, he wrote this week, are “space cadets”.

Fitz, all I can say is that you’re the one talking out of Uranus.

Zapster:

I think it’s time for a re-colonisation of the nihilists

How about a purge?
We haven’t had a damn good purge for such a long time.
In fact, I would say the entire world is just about ready for an Imperial Grade Dreadnought Class Purge.
Bring on the Purge, I say!

Shake my Hamas riling up its readers by allowing a dissenting take on the jersey issue.

Gay-pride jersey paradox: enforcing ‘tolerance’ and ‘diversity’ is simply intolerant and divisive

from above

We now see particularly the most civilized parts of civilization turning against civilization and undermining its own bases. We see this in the United States and very dramatically in its western part, where an ideology of de-civilization is being promoted, which is fundamentally a nihilistic philosophy. We see the destruction of some of the greatest cities of the West Coast, such as Seattle, Portland, San Francisco or Los Angeles, caused by people who reject Western civilization, but offer no positive alternative.

Joe Manchin and Chuck Schumer Strike a Deal, $370 Billion for Green New Deal Energy Transition, Tax Increases to Pay for it and More IRS Agents

July 27, 2022 – Sundance

Two weeks ago, CTH warned everyone that Joe Manchin’s torpedoing of the $500 billion Green New Deal senate spending program was a head fake; he was always going to sign up to expand the control of the federal government over energy use. Today Manchin and Chuck Schumer made it official.

Look deeper into the people in Joe Manchin’s life that are tied to the healthcare industry. There you will find the familial beneficiaries of the deal. “Besides being Joe Manchin’s daughter, Heather Manchin Bresch, born 1969, spent several years as the CEO of Netherlands-based pharmaceutical company Mylan. She held the post from 2012, but stood down in November 2020, as a result of the company’s merging with Pfizer’s Upjohn outfit. Upon assuming the role, Heather Mamchin became the first woman to run a Fortune 500 pharmaceutical company.”

The scheming strategery of Joe Manchin is as predictable as the scheming strategery of Mitch McConnell.

The two wings of the UniParty duck seem still on the surface. This type of ploy is exactly how DC is able to operate, paddling forward furiously, just below the surface; and almost no one can see what is happening.

But let’s be clear: the players are the ones being unreasonable. At least that is what former Canterbury Bulldogs player and England captain James Graham reckons. “For me personally I think it is an overreaction from the players,” Graham told Fox Sports’ NRL 360. “It is just a few colours on a jersey. It is not worth missing a game over.”

Haha, Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs NRL club are too aware of such things to make a mistake like this one. They’ve long since twigged that many of their supporters “belong to an ethnic and cultural demographic that is deeply conservative and religious.” James Graham must’ve had his head in an ice bucket all the time he was there.

Yes, the trainwreck and criticism of the trainwreck was a free speech argument and not how sad it all turned out.

Not from me. The hosts property rights trumps all.

Sitting here in outpatients waiting to see specialist. Karen is demanding to know why she hasn’t been seen as her appointment was over an hour ago. I haven’t had lunch yet. This said by someone who’s already had little lunch, after little lunch, lunch before big lunch plus snacks between. 150kg at least.

Hes also a bit of a blackpill on the future.

In many ways, the broad church reflects the fusionism of W.F. Buckley Jr and the Reaganite coalition. In other ways, and less favourably, it reflects the 1980s fusion of Hayek and Habermas, the great marriage of economic liberalism and social, laissez-faire postmodernism. After all, many small-l liberals always found the Howard-Abbott marriage of economic liberalism and social conservatism both fragile and, for them, unwelcome. The infusion of practising homosexuals into the Liberal Party has accelerated the overturning of the old alliances, but there is also a rampant strain of what is now termed (certainly, by its adherents) “modern Liberalism” that goes beyond devotion to same-sex marriage, and now includes support for abortion on demand, euthanasia, vigorous adherence to the Covid State and the trashing of freedoms and federalism that this has entailed, and at least soft acceptance of the “science” of climate change, or, at any rate, the keeping secret of one’s doubts about it. It has also been seemingly comfortable with fiscal incontinence, executive overreach, a politicised public service and the reduction of representative democracy to cargo-cultism and to the acceptance of the disbursement of electoral goodies as the new form of “representation”.

And has pinched one of our terms.
Uniparty…
It was one of those markers of the new broad church, which we might now call the Lib-Lab Duopoly or the Uniparty.

Inconveniently for FitzSimons, he had taken the opposite stance earlier this year when AFLW Giants player Haneen Zreika decided she could not wear the club’s pride jumper because it clashed with her Islamic faith and her community’s beliefs. Gently chiding her for this “regrettable” and “disappointing” decision, he considered the matter at an end.

Worth reading Fitzsimons’ January 2022 piece in full. Not particularly because it show the Poiret up as a stupid and inconsistent person; more because it exemplifies the difficulty woke folk face in navigating the complex and brittle hierarchies of identity and privilege to make a point:

The right way to have a say
TFF was bemused by a minor Twitter storm yesterday, waking to the news that young GWS footballer Haneen Zreika has agreed with her club she can sit out the Pride round in the AFLW because her embrace of the Islamic faith means she’s uncomfortable being seen by her community as endorsing homosexuality.

This, according to several of the more nutty Twitterati was the exact equivalent of the Israel Folau situation, and the only reason we of the loudmouth press had been silent about it in the midnight hours – apart from sleeping – was that we were hypocritical lefties.

No, really! I am NOT making that up! They really said that.

Yup, here we have a young and relatively unknown footballer quietly telling her understanding club that while she totally supports gay teammates, she’d rather sit this one out because her own religious community is against it.

And according to the nutters, this is the news and outrage equivalent of the most famous triple-code footballer in the land flagrantly going against his employers expressed contractual demands to shout from the rooftops – on social media – all you gays will burn in hell for being gay! Oh, yes, and God sent the bushfires to punish you all for letting gays marry!

(Pause, as fans burn their membership cards, and sponsors race for the exits.)

This is the same thing?

Got it. I’m going to try and hold the front page, but it looks to me like it will be tough to get them interested, lefty scum that they are – probably under the orders of Beijing, those well-known lovers of all things gay.

Listen up. Completely unprompted, Folau wilfully spouted homophobic gibberish to the world, warning that the fate of all gays is to burn in hell for eternity – knowing full well it would turn his team and sport upside down. And it really did nearly send the NSWRU and Rugby Australia bankrupt.

Ms Zreika, with no such contractual obligation, and no track record of raising hell – on gays or otherwise – is quietly saying that, purely personally, she is not comfortable wearing the Pride jersey because she believes it contravenes her religion.

People believe all kinds religious nuttery – almost by definition. The key is not to use your platform to prosleytise like Folau did and rub other people’s noses in the most offensive and damaging of those beliefs. Ms Zreika is doing no such thing: she’s quietly declining to use her platform to promote a belief she’s not comfortable with.

It’s regrettable, disappointing and surprising – given that she is already progressive enough to break down the barriers to be the first Islamic woman to play in the AFLW – and to have played in the Pride round last year, albeit without personally wearing the jersey. But it ain’t remotely Folau in terms of impact, and not a thousandth of it in terms of newsworthiness.

Now I didn’t notice any of the seven Manly players demanding that QWERTY folk repent, or burn in Hell, or otherwise be condemned in any way. I could well be wrong, but they appeared to quietly decline to ‘use their platforms’ to promote a belief they weren’t comfortable with.

Fitz, all I can say is that you’re the one talking out of Uranus.

I had not realised there was a Real Man in the Red Bandana, rather than a Failed Simian Rugby Player

Remembering the ‘Man in the Red Bandana’

Mother Lodesays:
July 28, 2022 at 4:31 pm
Those accusing him of hypocrisy, he wrote this week, are “space cadets”.

Devastating riposte!

I preferred the Mocker’s riposte: yer talking out of Uranus [space cadet].

Oooooh…a Space Cadet? What a compliment.

Have a look at what NASA requires as a bare minimum.

callisays:
July 28, 2022 at 4:38 pm
Oooooh…a Space Cadet? What a compliment.

Have a look at what NASA requires as a bare minimum.

So, What Does It Take To #BeAnAstronaut?

Astronaut requirements have changed with NASA’s goals and missions. Today, to be considered for an astronaut position, applicants must meet the following qualifications:

1. Be a U.S. citizen
2. Possess a master’s degree* in a STEM field, including engineering, biological science, physical science, computer science or mathematics, from an accredited institution.
3. Have at least two years of related professional experience obtained after degree completion or at least 1,000 hours pilot-in-command time on jet aircraft.
4. Be able to pass the NASA long-duration flight astronaut physical.

. Two years (36 semester hours or 54 quarter hours) of work toward a doctoral program in a related science, technology, engineering or math field.
. A completed Doctor of Medicine or Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine degree.
. Completion (or current enrollment that will result in completion by June 2021) of a nationally recognized test pilot school program.

Uranus Simian and Loose Lips Legal would definitely not qualify as Space Cadets

Thanks for your efforts.

Suck up!

Winston Smith of ///logical.raccoons.signpost says:
July 28, 2022 at 10:26 am

Winston, what’s with the link?
Supposed to be a genuine site? It returns a ‘not found’.

Mother Lode

But I am sure Pete is as devoted to reason and rational thought as he is to honesty in history books.

Fitzsimian is a below average writer of (loosely) historically based novels, of excessive length. Georgette Heyer was far better.

johannasays:
July 28, 2022 at 4:51 pm
Something which has slipped by in terms of the new government paying its debts is the proposed relaxation of rules covering super funds.

Looks like the union funds are getting their paybacks, big time.

So much for fiduciary duty! I wonder will these changes apply to all super funds, or only to industry super funds? Silly question, only the funds run by maaaaaates!

If you are in an industry super fund, it might be time to look elsewhere?

Jacinta Price for the win. Welcome to/Acknowledgement of Country is performative bullshit that achieves nothing apart from fooling progressives into believing their adherence to this dogma is making a difference, is improving the lot of the average Indigenous Australian – even though it’s getting worse. This does benefit the progressives, who are endlessly thirsty for things they can do or say to exhibit their correct beliefs, so Acknowledging Country gives them delicious dopamine hits every time they do it and they feel so good. It also benefits a very small number of Aboriginal Inc chiefs who have become fabulously wealthy by sowing and reaping white guilt. The Welcome to Country scam is very useful for their ends.

It’s bad for Indigenous Australia and Australia more broadly, as it is easily confused as progress. It looks like reconciliation. No, it’s helping to establish Indigenous Australians as a protected class of people in Australia – separate from everyone else, always in need, always a victim, always owed special treatment. Genuine reconciliation is the opposite of this. We are moving further and further away from genuine reconciliation.

Homophobia, he said, “was taught to us by White, Western views brought to us by colonization and the Christian church.”

I suppose that is true, as I doubt homosexuality existed conceptually or as a practice prior to European settlement of Australia.

Apart from not needing “welcome to country”, don’t see why we need a separate flag for Aboriginals and yet another for “Torres Strait Islanders” – of whom there about 33,000.

Wonder what Jacinta thinks?

Didn’t Blanchett play Richard II? Not sure if it was Shakespeare’s play though – might have been an edgy Woke satellite.

I’m sure homosexuality didn’t exist conceptually but I’m certain homosexual activity took place, precontact.

usually ended in the communal cooking pot…. literally

Richard III has some crackers of insults.

My personal favourite:

Out of my sight, thou dost infect mine eyes

😀

Fitzsimian is a below average writer of (loosely) historically based novels, of excessive length. Georgette Heyer was far better.

Well, he puts his name to them. Apparently “researchers” are involved.
The only one I’ve read was more or less competently written (though factually and logically all over the place) except that every now an then an incongruous semi-literate paragraph would be wedged in replete with trademark FitzSimian half-witticisms. It really looked to me like the “researchers” actually wrote the thing and the bandana man just made a few sub-mediocre insertions and claimed “credit” for the entire work.

Fitzsimian is a below average writer of (loosely) historically based novels, of excessive length.

My old dad likes Red Bandana history books. One day I was visiting him, he had one on his coffee table. “Gallipoli” I think, so we got talking about history. I mentioned I was reading Livy about the Roman Empire. He says “I like history books, can I borrow it?” So I gives him the four volumes of the English translation after I’d finished.

Have never heard a mention since…

Jesus would have spoken Aramaic to his disciples.

Would have most probably also spoken Koine Greek given that he was from Galilee and that most of the disciples seem to have been proficient writers in Koine Greek.

A study presented at American Heart Association’s conference demonstrates for the first time how spike protein directly damages heart tissue without binding to ACE2

Good job experts.

Tom

He has no concept of Christian faith because he’s essentially a nihilist who believes in nothing, just like most of the the rest of the Australian upper middle class.

Didn’t m0nty-fa marry his way into the Australian upper middle class?

Chinese Military Vows to Act If Pelosi Visits Taiwan; Senate Passes Bill to Boost Chip Production
China in Focus – NTD
00:50 Chinese Military Vows to Act If Pelosi Visits Taiwan
03:04 Senate Passes Bill to Boost Chip Production
05:25 Space Force Chief: China Space Effort Threat to U.S.
08:38 U.S.: Beijing’s ‘Provocations’ Risk Major Incident
10:04 China Sending Troops to Russia’s August Army Games
11:32 Japan Defense Report Warns of Escalating Threats

During this study, researchers also examined a heart biopsy from a deceased patient with inflammation due to COVID-19. They detected the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein and TLR4 protein in both heart muscle cells and other cell types. In contrast, these two proteins were absent in a biopsy of a healthy human heart. “That means once the heart is infected with SARS-CoV-2, it will activate the TLR4 signaling,” Lin said. “Besides directly damaging the heart muscle cells, the spike protein itself is very inflammatory and may cause systemic inflammation that indirectly causes heart problems.

”

now thats some gain of function

This research takes the first step toward determining whether the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein affects the heart. The researchers now plan to investigate how SARS-CoV-2 spike proteins cause inflammation in the heart. There are two potential ways: the first is that spike protein is expressed in the virus-infected heart muscle cells and thereby directly activates inflammation; the second is that the virus spike protein is shed into the bloodstream, and the circulating SARS-CoV-2 spike proteins damage the heart.

I was told it was Aramaic for the local chit chat and Koine Greek for the shopping list (ie. the marketplace). A spoken vs. written language.

Gibson got it right for his movie.

Cassie – excellent piece by you on the main page.

Understanding used twice in the same sentence. I have decended to Fitzsimian depths of written English. The shame!

Roger says:
July 28, 2022 at 5:59 pm

ob, the oldest manuscripts are in Koine Greek.

The earliest Hebrew manuscript we have appeared more than 1000 years after them.

It doesn’t appear that way Roger, Jerome wrote that he had seen two copies of the original Hebrew Book of Matthew when studying the Hebrew language in Judea in the 4th century. Yeshua addressed the Jewish multitude (Sermon on the Mount) in their native tongue, i.e., Hebrew, and they recorded it thus.

It is assumed that the Book of Matthew was written in Greek due to the word-play on Petra / Petros which only works in Greek, interestingly a similar word-play is also found in the Hebrew original.

Yes. Hebrew would be used in a formal setting like the synagogue.

One of my most memorable and precious memories is my son in law reading from a scroll that his family had given.

Then we threw sweets at him from the top gallery. 😀

Lia cracked one in the change room?

I think the chick just didn’t want to look at the last turkey in the shop.

Then we threw sweets at him from the top gallery. ?

If they thew steak or Woodstock cans I’d consider joining. But I love pork so no.

The Pharisees especially would be conversing in Hebrew, it would be a point of honour for them.

They were already hellenised, despite opposing it. The last house ruling as Irsrael independently or as vassals had very different names to their predecessors. Even if it was “Hebrew”, it wasn’t the liturgical Hebrew.

Yeshua addressed the Jewish multitude (Sermon on the Mount) in their native tongue, i.e., Hebrew, and they recorded it thus.

What was the native tongue of the masses?

You have 400 silent years then a Hellenised elite forming after a war of independence, then a slow Roman takeover of an already hellenised culture.

So inclusive that he has to exclude Christians to be inclusive.

Manly boss Scott Penn reveals players will wear pride jersey next year but stressed more consultation with players is needed (Sky News, 28 Jul)

Millionaire Manly owner Scott Penn is committed to making his club “the most inclusive” in rugby league and made a surprise statement about the future of the pride jersey amid the ongoing saga that has dominated the headlines.

The chairman of the Manly Sea Eagles has declared the club’s pride jersey will return next season despite ongoing furore over the “everyone in league” uniform.

Keep digging son, I’m almost sure you’ll get to Shangri La eventually. Most viewers, though, will have switched off.