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Thanks for the UN report, Dover, but I stopped reading it when I got to these sorts of comments. For…
Good news from the Netherlands? https://x.com/geertwilderspvv/status/1856753778814308733?t=xv5kBPk-3W4HRXH8Ugn9Hg&s=19
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Declaring him persona non grata would be a big step. A quiet word suggesting a replacement would be better placed…
2022.07.27 The Persecution of Alina Lipp and Graham Phillips
Remember that B John . I kept saying it was like Weekend at Bernie’s.
“Do some more research, Salvatore. Torres Strait islanders are Polynesians. Their ancestors kept going past Melanesia to Polynesia.”
Correct Tom, my understanding is that they were called the “Lapita” people.
Be that as it may Timothy, I understood that Yeshua was an abbreviated form of Yehoshua (or Yahoshua – Yah’s Salvation), my point was that there was an original Book of Matthew which was written in Hebrew which was used by the Nazarenes.
Good stuff in Geller today:
FBI Leadership Pressuring Agents to Artificially Pad Domestic Terrorism Data
Florida School Board Member ID’s 75 Books with Pornographic or Inappropriate Material in Library
WATCH: Teacher Turns His High School Classroom Into a Gay/Trans Nightclub
As I recall pigs came to PNG from the Torres Strait peoples about 2000 years ago. They were different cultures then, and there was a big dividing line between the peoples of the inland and of the coast, because of malaria.
Why just Stockholm as it the odd man out?
One possibility: Stockholm has about 1million people, as far as I can tell, around 200k are Muslim, roughly half the Muslim population of Sweden.
The best breeders in the city generally didn’t get the jab?
my point was that there was an original Book of Matthew which was written in Hebrew which was used by the Nazarenes.
The Cat virtual Bible study!
Err, Bananaby’s dad is not Cardimona’s BiL.
Unless there is some Queenssslander inter-marriage we didn’t know about.
I suppose the idea of race, gender, and now ability swapping of modern productions is an attempt to make the point that the values and truths are not to be mistakenly seen as only relevant to men. The same truths will manifest themselves (if they are really true) regardless of who plays protagonist and antagonist.
I would find it easier to believe that the people who claim this believed it were it not for the feverish urgency and sadistic glee with which they do all this swapping. Whoever the male hero was they want to replace him with a woman who is more smarter and more gifted than the male version. A Mary-Sue. While men are always bumbling, stupid, and if not evil then easily playing into its hands, and needing to be rescued by the new woman hero.
Apparently there is a new film about Mary, Queen of Scots replete with Black and Asian characters – and more than a few distortions of other characters to feed the egos of gays or something.
If they made a story such as that set in the future (but not just Mary, Queen of Scots 2300 set in the future, I just mean a new story that argued the same points) then I would have absolutely no problem with it.
But if you know enough history to have a sense of times past – the dynamics between classes, men and women (I won’t say ‘gender’ as I doubt anyone who resorts to that term to explain the world is anywhere near manly enough to be compared as a man, or womanly enough to be compared as a woman), previous events, subsequent events etc – then this swapping to make it like now is a jarring disconnect.
How do you think these people would feel if we made a new version of Zulu, where the soldiers are black, and the natives white? It should not matter as both sides were heroic. Or a new version of version of Malcolm X? (Actually, they can keep him. Loathsome character.) Or a version of Roots where some of the slaves were white, and some of the masters black? Slavery is abhorrent regardless of who is enslaved, surely?
Now, for them, the above would be beyond the pale, especially the last because they would be affronted on racial grounds. No white person can claim cover under slavery, and no black person would have been a slave-owner. It was a situation with a clear racial divide. But, again, is the injustice of slavery only a racial one. And black people were not prohibited from success under Mary – they just weren’t there, so you could argue race doesn’t matter. (They weren’t there, so it doesn’t matter. That doesn’t sound credible, does it?)
There a few online movie/TV critics I follow. The Critical Drinker is, I suppose, my fave. His review of Prometheus was pitch-perfect, although he has had to done down the inebriation factor as he has become attained higher profile. There are also Nerdrotic and Just Some Guy. They have proven to me to be very astute as to the machinations of the swappers.
Oh, and they are already sounding the alarm over how bad Amazon’s LOTR: The Rings of Power is probably going to be. Two months to go and they still won’t let anyone know what it might be about – confining themselves to teasers which have lots of scenery and uncontextualised shots. Even their new trailer is indistinguishable from a teaser.
Amazon has taken Tolkien, stolen a few elements of his story and the visual stylings of Peter Jackson’s movies, and made a series dishonest to both to push a shallow messaging that they now seem afraid to own up to. They have certainly butchered Tolkien’s characters to make Galadriel a warrior lady, the champion of the hobbits a woman (hobbyt?) and the one truly evil character, Sauron, is the pastiest white guy you can imagine.
In the past a black hat signified a bad guy. Now it is white maleness.
What they claim again and again is that people need to be able to identify themselves in movies and comics and whatnot. But they only recognise two and a half dimensions of identity: Race, real sex, and the swirling shifting shades of sex (the non-G and L parts of GLBTQIETC). They declare that we must be open to diversity, but they are blind to most types – which real people see as nothing more remote than ‘the guy next door’.
I grew up learning the lessons of Italians against Jews in the form of The Merchant of Venice. I raged indignant for Moorish Othello against his Christian Iago. After having my heart near broken by the Catholic Thomas More in A Man for All Seasons I cheered on the English fleet against the Catholic Spanish Armada and the Catholic French in Hornblower and Sharpe. I have rallied behind the comical simplicity of Homer Simpson (and they knew the audience would as well despite precious few people seeing themselves as simpletons) – and how did the movie The Castle work again? I feel stupid having to define it this way but there are real human feelings attached – I have sided with the short against the tall, the unsophisticated against cunning, etc. I cheered for Ripley in Aliens and knew Geordi in Star Trek would save the day.
Yes, I identify with many people on TV and in cinema. Tall or short. Clever or naive. Male or female. Catholic or protestant. Rich or poor. Educated or untutored. Fat or thin. Old or young. Parochial or international. Black or white. Married or single. Office working or labouring. Australian, British, or French, or Asian peasant.
Catching myself time and again in the dazzling kaleidoscopic flashes of circumstance the Tits and Melanin view of art is so tragically vapid and shallow that it only really fits its miserable adherents.
/rant
A quick question of the economically literate among us:
Armaguard and Prosegur, Australia’s two main cash in transit companies, have announced their intention to merge.
What is the likelihood this will be approved by the ACCC?
Disclaimer: I am a very recent employee of one of the above two companies.
Vicki earlier
Wut?
Significant player?
He was a fringe player for a couple of years during a era where no-one made a living from the game.
Many more skilled players got on with other careers rather than go on Wallabies tours.
If it was a half-professional sport he wouldn’t have got a look-in.
Biden is now a deep fake
WEF young global leaders.
Such leadership, they’re all yours in return for a few junket meetings.
Biden is now a deep fake
He’s on the hot gear now, they’re don’t care if they kill him, as long as he gets off a few final salvos, and looks vaguely presidential prior to him popping a breaker.
Given that Matthew was a Levite and a government official, and given that it was the Levites who led the Maccabee Revolt against the Greeks, I don’t think that he would have been a great fan of Hellenization.
What is the likelihood this will be approved by the ACCC?
I reckon good. Who’s going to argue with a merger between the two most heavily armed companies in the country? On top of that, what would a 5 day “service disruption” look like?
Lefty’s just love murder, NZ’s extreme abortion bill. The only piece missing is enabling killing of kids up to 5 years old if they irritate you:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlmLkOGRkSA
I’ll stick to my guns Tom.
Notwithstanding that, in the interest of discussion (etc.) I’m happy to receive/review anything on the subject.
Without changing my above statement.
There a few online movie/TV critics I follow. The Critical Drinker is, I suppose, my fave. His review of Prometheus was pitch-perfect, although he has had to done down the inebriation factor as he has become attained higher profile.
Some days I think Prometheus is great, other days this review sums it up.
ML – One of my wishes for about the last 20 years is that someone somewhere would do a decent screen version of the Honor Harrington stories. Unfortunately they’re very righty, and David Weber is a Christian. Big no no for screen adaptations…
Admiral Honor Harrington herself is a female analogue of Lord Nelson, since the whole series is based on the Napoleonic wars. But her monarch Queen Elizabeth of Manticore is a fine lady who is black as the ace of spades. Reminds me of a cross between Condoleezza Rice and Margaret Thatcher. Nope, that ain’t going to fly either, same as Candace Owens is a name which must never be spoken.
I am sad that the fillum business has gone so lefty, there are many many stories that could be told, but which don’t get told because they aren’t convenient to lefty politics.
Let me see birth rate down, how does it compare to first year of lockdown? Maybe everyone bred then because nothing else to do and not breeding now?
Deep fakes, it os almost to CCP levels. Once they release footage of Biden swimming across the Potomac we will know he died a month prior.
JCsays:
July 28, 2022 at 8:00 pm
Remember that B John . I kept saying it was like Weekend at Bernie’s.
ROFLMAO, the Weekend at Bernie’s theme appears in a lot of memes about Creepy Joe.
Heartening.
The Manly Decliners* are getting tuned up 18-6 at half time.
It would appear they might be missing a bit of early speed and oomph. Never mind.
*Vagina decliners.
I think you’re right Sancho, I don’t get family relationships very well. Is there a word for the familial relationship between dads on either side of a marriage? I thought BIL, but you are right. I can’t work out what to call it.
Sadly I only spik Inglis, so I don’t know any other languages. I’m sure the concept is renderable in another lingua.
Much discussion about what language Jesus spoke. Shirley, being from Puerto Rico he would speak Spanish. Runs away and hides 🙂
A couple of months ago I asked the learned folk on this blog who had some understanding of the Sydney railway network why the railway line from Parramatta to Carlingford was removed instead of extending it a few kilometres to Epping. That would’ve provided a direct rail route from Parramatta to Hornsby and Chatswood via Epping.
That seemed like a sensible thing to do given the huge population increases in north-west Sydney, and suburbs like Carlingford being dormitory suburbs where people went to sleep at night and where they brushed their teeth before heading off to work the next morning. There’s no employment there, everyone works somewhere else, and they are forced to commute by road when a better railway link was possible.
Last night YouTube popped a video into my suggestions list made by someone who was also wondering why the Carlingford to Epping rail line wasn’t built.
The Carlingford Line, The Forgotten Extension, and The Uncrossable Zone: Sydney’s Lost Railways
Bruce of N
I am sad that the fillum business has gone so lefty, there are many many stories that could be told, but which don’t get told because they aren’t convenient to lefty politics.
And those that have been told are made to disappear. We see Charlton Heston as Gordon being beaten by Muslims at Khartoum, but we do not, at least in recent times, see him as El Cid, beating Muslim invaders in Spain.
On a more parochial note, the made for TV series ANZACs was made in the 1980s, to commemorate by telling part of their story. I thought it might reappear during the WW I centenary between 2014 and 2018, bur apparently not, (Or maybe I missed it?)
Test Winston The Tree of Knowledge Barcaldine
Anyone know why Maori-Warringah decided to do the rainbow thing
for the Women of League round?
Are they trying to tell us something about lady league players?
Test – Winston can’t see your toilet in front yard but see you live near The Tree of Knowledge Barcaldine (you weren’t the poisoner?)
The suspense is starting to take a toll on me.
I have to know.
Monty,
how are you?
Helen, It’s getting to the stage where the replacement number of children is up around 4.
You need to take into account:
1) Hospital system letting your kid die from myocarditis
2) Schools suffocating them with masks
3) Social infertility for 50% of the females due to aversion to overly forward men, or an acquired taste for carpet.
4) Social infertility for 50% of the males due to not having it drilled into them that the prime directive for males is the continuation of the species.
5) Starvation due to employers insisting on untested ,potentially mutagenic treatment just to remain employed.
etc, etc.
The days when you could have 2 kids and assume a few grandchildren as your legacy are gone.
Marry early, have children early, have at least 3 preferably 5, then you can make the world your (and their) oyster. Wait, and the family line will end with you or your simp kid.
Is there a word for the familial relationship between dads on either side of a marriage?
1. “drinking mates”; alternatively
2. “not mates”
if only
I’ve looked at this a couple of times and all I see is a steady decline as the number of fertile women decreases, so does the birthrate, and of course women are deferring having familes, so the average age of first time parents continues to increase.
But yeah sure it’s the vaccine.
Aust birth rate at more than 10-year low
Presenting Normie Swan, the Tim Flannery of medicine (the Tele). Day 1:
Day 2:
Several points:
1. Swan is a grifter and a flog;
2. He’s using the George Negus ‘some people have said’ line; and
2. I had not realised the ABC was panicmongering to the extent they had a ‘Coronacast’.
6. I cannot count.
Um, how Hebrew is a regal name like John Hyrcanus? Let alone his son and High Priest successor, Aristobulus?
Aristo.
As Greek as a four day weekend.
Unless Cardimona is married to Bananaby’s uncle.
Yeah. Now it explains why some people still wear masks.
angryoldpeanuts
They should start a Monkeycast asap.
Or maybe call it a Poxcast.
Sure to be popular with their listeners.
Just in case you missed it…
and NSFW
Off the rails! Wild booze-fueled POOL PARTY with twerking bikini-clad girls, dwarf and DJ turns subway train into crazy party over the weekend
-A crazy impromptu pool party took place on an NYC subway train over the weekend, with women dancing in bikinis and playing in paddling pools
-The video posted to Twitter shows the women dancing among passengers while they pass around liquor bottles – even though drinking on the trains is outlawed
-The party also featured a DJ with decks and a homemade slip ‘n slide
testing
Old blokesays:
July 28, 2022 at 8:55 pm
A couple of months ago I asked the learned folk on this blog who had some understanding of the Sydney railway network why the railway line from Parramatta to Carlingford was removed instead of extending it a few kilometres to Epping. That would’ve provided a direct rail route from Parramatta to Hornsby and Chatswood via Epping.
Sportsbet: “Something to do with rezoning for maaaaates” is the short priced favourite.
barry
You are using SIMP in a rather weird way.
Women can abort our children without our consent or knowledge or divorce us for no penalty but for cash and prizes. The courts are terribly unfair. With that level risk, taking a chance on someone is just DUMB.
Men with standards are not “SIMPs”.
Examples of SIMPing – “Lauren Southern is still best girl because she’s a pretty young thing”
– “I totally believe Tomi Lahren that men are trash because she says the things I believe and is pretty”
The Stranger of Galilee
I remember hearing this sung by Shirley McDonald, at the Church of England Norfolk Island, when she was married to Eric Jupp in the ’70s.
It was on a weekly show that Eric Jupp had on the ABC Channel 2.
For me it was unforgettable.
Vomitous.
All train carriages smell vaguely of shit…
People that subscribe to Patreon would provide a rich list of examples.
Dot,
Please be reassured I was not thinking of you when I wrote “simp”. Honest.
Nevertheless time is running out for you to fulfill your destiny. Pick a nice Jewish girl. Join the family business. Take over when the old man dies. Go forth and multiply. This is why people will remember your name.
Rickw,
I’m not sure that being armed is a factor. I suspect that the big clients (NAB, CBA, BWA, ANZ plus Colesworth) are going to make a lot of noise. When their current contracts expire, where do they go? What leverage do they have?
I believe it will get through on the understanding that the TWU will be donating to the ALP going forward. Am I wrong?
A few years ago, my Bride and I caught a NYC subway to Coney Island to go look at the Mermaid Festival.
Our car was full of women who appeared to be completely naked, except for full body paint scales and other fishy things. Thongs may have been involved, so lower body nudity is not 100% certain – detailed forensic inspection didn’t seem a wise idea at the time.
The New York Times
As Ukraine Signs Up Soldiers, Questions Arise About How It Chooses
Recruiters approach young men on the street, but the standards are not always clear and there are reports of unwilling men being signed up while some eager to fight are turned away.
But the effort, especially the street recruiting, is drawing accusations that it is secretive and arbitrary, that it violates the government’s own rules and that it sometimes drafts the unwilling while spurning the willing. It has also led to a cat-and-mouse game between recruiters and men trying to avoid them.
Recruiters like Oleksandr, who did not give his full name because he was not authorized to speak to the media, say they issue summonses to register only to those who want to fight. “We ask them, do they have military training and do they want to serve in the war?” he said.
But some of those on the receiving end say they were never given a choice about appearing, while there are reports of men who are eager to fight being turned away, for reasons that appear bureaucratic in nature.
A petition signed by more than 25,000 Ukrainians, the threshold for requiring President Volodymyr Zelensky to respond, requests a ban on issuing summonses at checkpoints, gas stations and other public places. It asks him to establish a transparent process for when people might be called up.
Denis, 29, said he was recently handed a summons he did not want outside a Kharkiv supermarket. But at the recruitment office, “I lied and said I didn’t have any military training,” he recalled — a lie that may not be caught because his records are in a different part of Ukraine. Denis, who did not want his last name to be published for fear of punishment, added, “I know guys who don’t even leave their apartments because they’re afraid to get a summons, but I also know a lot of people who want to fight.”
In Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city by population, a channel on the messaging app Telegram provides anonymous, crowdsourced, real-time information on the locations of recruiters for people trying to steer clear of them. It has more than 67,000 subscribers.
“Our goal is to prevent the inappropriate issuance of summonses,” reads the channel description. It invites residents to send in locations and photos of police officers and recruiters.
But the numbers have not been enough to match the Russians’ battlefield strength — or to keep up with casualties, which officials have said peaked this spring at 100 killed and almost 400 wounded daily.
There are also signs, five grueling months into the war, that the sense of unity is fraying at the edges. Soldiers, including minimally prepared raw recruits, have done long, hard service, while others have managed to stay far from it.
Last month, the Kyiv police chief, Ivan Vyhivskyi, said that police and military commissars raided two nightclubs that were violating curfew and issued 219 summonses for military registration to men they found there.
That drew a sharp response from a senior sergeant of the 47th Armed Forces Battalion in a Facebook post this month.
“I am proud of my military service and I am outraged that my profession is being reduced to the level of punishment for these scumbags,” wrote the sergeant, Valeriy Markus. “It’s humiliating.”
He wrote that soldiers and officers who put their lives on the line were demoralized by a chaotic recruitment process that drew draftees with poor qualifications or little inclination to serve.
BIDEN ADMINISTRATION
How the CDC Coordinated With Big Tech To Censor Americans
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention coordinated with social media companies and Google to censor users who expressed skepticism or criticism of COVID-19 vaccines, according to a trove of internal communications obtained by America First Legal and shared exclusively with the Washington Free Beacon.
Over the course of at least six months, starting in December 2020, CDC officials regularly communicated with personnel at Twitter, Facebook, and Google over “vaccine misinformation.” At various times, CDC officials would flag specific posts by users on social media platforms such as Twitter as “example posts.”
In one email to a CDC staffer, a Twitter employee said he is “looking forward to setting up regular chats” with the agency. Other emails show the scheduling of meetings with the CDC over how to best police alleged misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines.
Although many of the posts flagged by the CDC contained false information about the COVID-19 vaccines, the efforts to police misinformation also resulted in mistaken acts of censorship. An April 2021 email from a CDC staffer to Facebook states that the “algorithms that Facebook and other social media networks are apparently using to screen out posting by sources of vaccine misinformation are also apparently screening out valid public health messaging, including [Wyoming] Health communications.”
The communications reveal a high level of coordination between the government and tech industry during the pandemic and raise questions about the extent to which other private companies are working with the federal government to censor the public. The Biden administration has faced criticism for engaging in what some have called “Orwellian” practices, such as the establishment of the Department of Homeland Security Disinformation Governance Board. The Free Beacon reported that the now-shuttered disinformation board arranged a meeting with a Twitter executive who blocked users from sharing stories about Hunter Biden’s laptop.
The CDC’s effort to police alleged disinformation expanded to other federal agencies as well. An internal March 2021 email from a senior CDC staffer states “we are working on [sic] project with Census to leverage their infrastructure to identify and monitor social media for vaccine misinformation.”
Dr Flogger Swan has been doing the tediouscast nearly daily for at least 18 months.
Regurgitating the google fact of the day and inviting a panel of mongs to marinate in his glorious juices while making appreciative noises at his speculations.
It’s up there with phatty philllip addddams on speed switch off.
No.
I’m a dude.
Another lead balloon Australian stock hits the skids.
F45 listed last year at $16 a share amid a flurry of publicity, with Mark Wahlberg among the investors.
It is now trading at $1.60 and heading south.
What is F45?
It is a gym franchise which does 45 minute sessions. As does nearly every other gym programme.
It seems to provide nothing out of the ordinary in content (cardio, weights, endurance).
I often wondered where the value was.
But there wasn’t any value, so I’ve stopped wondering.
Powell pushing Asia into a new financial crisis
No, America Isn’t Over
But a political era — that of the New Deal Democrats — is coming to its inglorious end.
Had to look it up
it’s called “co-father-in-law”
never heard it before
Numbers Bob was unavailable for comment.
Good. Gooooood.
/Palpatine
So, Manly down 20:10.
Pretty ordinary game despite the hype about the ‘Brave Manly Defence’; looks like the Roosters will struggle to stay in the top 8.
Bandana Man’s triumphant article celebrating the glorious victory by Manly’s second stringers – “on yer bike. We don’t need coconut bigots in our game!” – is crumpled in the bin.
Just penning the alternate.
“It is better to lose with honorable rainbow men, than win with coconut bigots“.
While working last year, the brew room had the ABC running 24/7. Every time I walked in, they were either banging on about Covid or it was running along the text at the bottom of the screen.
Every. Fucking. Time.
Dr. Vernon Coleman: New, Scary Flu Jab Coming!
That’s what I was thinking too, there was a lot of land kept as a railway reserve now available for residential development.
Crikey, of all publications, has a crack at the racist progressives:
The ‘Manly seven’ stood by their beliefs. Why all the racist condescension?
Dot is saving his precious bodily fluids like fine wine.
Stored in optimal containers and rotated at strategic times to ensure maximum body and flavours.
By drinking only the purest grain alcohol and avoiding entanglements that might dilute his manly essence.
A good article, from a surprising source.
And the crack in the last couple of paragraphs about the Manly Beagles owners behaving like 19th century plantation owners … Ouch!
Indolentsays:
July 28, 2022 at 10:17 pm
No, America Isn’t Over
But a political era — that of the New Deal Democrats — is coming to its inglorious end.
No, it’s just matured. Trump revealed it and the patina of democracy the swamp operated under was discarded and the swamp now operates in the open with impunity.
The antics of the Dems lately shall be pushing hordes of voters from Team Red to Team Blue in the US, I reckon. Rigging shall have to be stepped up a notch and may still fail.
Graphic surgical procedure warning.
Saw this on Twitter
This is what they do to young girls and women who are led to believe changing sex is attainable.
*content warning ??
Arm mutilated
Double checked it here
https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/center-transgender-health/services-appointments/faq/phalloplasty
And it’s real.
Just back from the faaabulous pride game. Most people there were dressed like normal fans in normal jerseys and beanies. A tiny minority mostly women in rainbow scarves and wigs, one plump middle aged grand dame was carrying a bouquet of rainbow coloured roses. Some males had rainbow Amnesty International badges. A few pride flags but not much. A generally typical Brookvale crowd.
I, course wore my chaps, a Shirley Bassey gown and Village People construction helmet.
A lame match though. I thought the Roosters would lap Manly a few times but only won 20 to 10. They won’t go far in the finals.
From jupes’ thoughtfully posted Crikey link – Guy Rundle:
Bam.
BAM.
BAM.
Aha. UK emails just in. I have been busy putting my fingers to keyboard regarding my ancestral church, and it appears I have just managed to effect a stay of execution; the Diocese informs me that there will be no closure as yet and that they will be re-negotiating with others, including the National Trust (to whom I sent quite a sharp email recently).
Hairy forwarded this closely argued missive to a friend from his Cambridge years, the Inns of Court Barrister involved with Hairy protesting to Cambridge University about statue removal and funding from dubious Chinese sources. This chap has a certain scorn for the National Trust’s money-wasting ‘wokeness’.
Wow, the iceberg has really hit the martini, said this legal eagle about my latest letter.
I can only hope so.
KD
Several points:
1. Swan is a grifter and a flog;
2. He’s using the George Negus ‘some people have said’ line; and
2. I had not realised the ABC was panicmongering to the extent they had a ‘Coronacast’.
Swan rates 9 flogs out of 10 on the FitzSimons scale of idiocy.
I share an office with a woman who listens to and quotes Swan’s Coronacast as a kind of argument settler on anything Covid related. Drives me batty.
I feel sorry for Coach Des Hasler. The Chsirman is doing his best to make the club an unpleasant place to stay at for the Pacific Islander players. Good luck in getting more to Manly.
They are the guide to how to ruin your playing squad.
“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”
Pity this article at the Oz not allowing comments.
The article shows how much damage Labor is going to do to the country. I doubt Carney will be speaking at such events in China and India.
“Former Bank of England governor Mark Carney takes at deniers who believe coal has a future”
Johannes Leak.
Mark Knight.
Warren Brown.
David Rowe.
Bob Moran.
Michael Ramirez.
A. F. Branco.
Steve Kelley.
Matt Margolis.
Gary Varvel.
Lisa Benson.
Thanks, Tom.
Dilbert
Whether you pro one side or the other, the comments regarding this picture at the
? British Vogue is something to read and wonder about.
Strong tenderness, tender strength.
Morning inmates.
Massey ferguson
Dot
They are just jealous.
Jason Foster’s twitter @JsnFostr has dozens of documents showing the FBI whistleblowers work.
It will go no where but it shows just how rotten the FBI is.
https://twitter.com/jsnfostr
I thought Grassley was walking into another nothing burger.
But it genuinely seems like there is meat on the bones.
But I repeat, nothing will happen.
An exaggeration but still gotta applaud the competence of the Victorian government, again.
The Victoria electric vehicle road tax is emerging as a new Robodebt fiasco
Thanks Tom,
Bob Moran’s a bit dark this morning.
From Tim Pool
Transgender kids surgery hospital gets shut down, very little word of it, says anyone bringing it up on Twitter gets shitcanned.
https://youtu.be/e_QEPI5nMEU
Good morning lousy communist perverts.
Boeing Stratofortress
PREverts!
Must be the communist subversion.
Top marks Mother Lode-bet that felt good, I did.
Felt good that is.
Tim Pool gets it. The child mental health industry is dysfunctional.
“A new report from Rasmussen Reports shows that a vast majority of Americans are concerned about election integrity and election cheating.
Numerous investigations have found evidence of a fraudulent 2020 election in key swing states across the nation and proven that the 2020 Election was rigged and stolen from President Trump. A single election audit in Maricopa County, Arizona, discovered evidence of hundreds of thousands of potentially fraudulent and questionable ballots.” Link
But, but, but … Piers Morgan and so many in the media assured us that “there is no evidence of electoral fraud in 2020”. In fact the bulk of Australian media do not discuss the subject honestly, and keep reporting the Stalinist Show Trial in the USA congress as if it is all above board. Sky are about to launch a three part doco about Trump – what line will they take?
Current top story at the Global Times.
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202207/1271699.shtml
Exclusive:
China-Solomon Islands police training enhances friendship, law-enforcement capacity after Chinatown losses
For those looking for good old fashioned corporate skulduggery in a series, I’m re-watching The Plane Makers, early 1960s British. It was the forerunner of the excellent The Power Game.
A couple of points. This is series 3. Series 1 was lost thanks to vandals who destroyed the films to make space. Series 2 is alleged to exist, but I can’t find it.
And, what a different Britain! A force in manufacturing and technology, optimistic about the future. Patrick Wymark’s Wilder would have been welcome at Maggie T.’s dinner table 20 years later … but he was dead.
Wymark’s daughter Jane played the ghastly Joyce Barnaby in Midsomer Murders. She was as left wing as all get out, the classic doctor’s wife. Guilt-tripping, ‘caring’, up for every cause going, and ultimately wimpy.
I find it hard to believe that they were related.
Ramirez peaked when he did the one showing Pelosi’s walled compound, with her quoting that “walls are immoral”.
It’s been all downhill since then.
But your work, Tom, continues to be widely appreciated.
Leak is brilliant today.
I recently read that Norman Swan was the one to begin and push the process to destroy William McBride. McBride certainly did himself no favours during the process but Desmond Zwar seemed to think he should’ve been better treated and that he may have been sloppy in some areas but not enough to destroy his reputation and career.
Good Morning
Doosun
Thanks Tom. Poor Ramirez is gone quite cuckoo. I wonder what he thinks when he sees the polls? Like this one a few days ago:
Straw Poll: Donald Trump Is Undisputed Favorite in 2024 Republican Primary Field (24 Jul)
Not just straw polls, formal polls like this one from 2 July show Trump 40 points ahead of De Santis. I wonder what the Republican base who’ll crawl over broken glass for Trump knows that Ramirez doesn’t know?
Panthers field a reserve grade team, beat the Tigers 18-16.
Manly field a reserve grade team, get beaten 10-20 by the Roosters.
Roosters aint going to last long if they make the finals.
How old is Ramirez? Could he be suffering from the same complaint as Biden?
It’s National Intern Day in the US today.
Bitter sweet day for Bill Clinton.
I see that TheirABC has its daily story about the high price of rentals up.
Strangely, almost all of them feature ‘single mothers.’ There is always a cone of silence over the fathers – where are they in all this?
There is no denying that there are serious housing problems around, but as usual, TheirABC can be relied on to cherrypick favoured groups for special attention. I remember one a few weeks ago where an unemployed blimp (female) covered in metal piercings and bad tatts complained that real estate agents and landlords were discriminating against her, with tacit support from our taxes.
Every single time, the proposed solution is more taxpayer built and then subsidised housing.
Although, there was a story there the other day which was described in the headline as a ‘unique’ solution. Three generations of a family clubbed in together to rent. As Gerald would say – pretty unique, eh?
Derek was so Manly, Cyril said.
I thought it was rather good.
Poster worthy, even.
Johannes Leak acknowledges the important role played by the Pofessional Aboriginal in the Aboriginal Industry. “ You have no standing.”
McBride falsified research data to support a predetermined conclusion. Pretty blatant misconduct to say the least.
“McBride falsified research data to support a predetermined conclusion. Pretty blatant misconduct to say the least.”
Yep.
Yes, so did I. No harm in pining for sunlit uplands. After that bizarre “The Line” pod city presentation yesterday, a picnic on a blanket looks pretty wholesome.
I had to smile at the pod garbage – a nice, shiny city with zero reference to the scores of factories churning out the products to make it possible. Because the eloi don’t imagine that sort of stuff – it just appears like magic.
Consumers warned of looming ‘nightmare’ as AEMO reports record wholesale electricity costs
Another of the “many reasons” is the failure of AEMO to insist on a technically-based approach to building out renewables.
This present situation is not down to the Poot, or cold weather, or the operational failure of the coal fleet. It is 97.3% due to incompetence, wilful ignorance, and hopey hope amongst the political class.
Everything happening was predictable and was predicted. Not Nostradamus and crystal balls; engineering and physics.
This is what failure looks like.
Pfft.
Tigercat, baby…
good – yes, but dark (the ‘globalist scumbags’ buried under the surface).
On rainbows.
Worth repeating from the Crikey! Guy Rundle link posted by jupes and reprised by KD.
Ooooh!
That’s gotta hurt!
Nick Sandmann encounters a Jimmy Carter appointed judge…
Former Covington Catholic Student Loses Media Defamation Lawsuits (28 Jul)
Funny how this sort of thing happens so often with judges appointed by Carter, Clinton and Obama. It’s a mystery.
Dot,
Are you one of The Beanies’ subscribers? I usually go to the Timcast IRL but it does not seem to carry the same volume of content that it used to.
Some musings on a cold winter morning at a motel primarily used by tradie types.
Firstly, as motel guests, they are the best. They rock up from around 4pm onwards, collect their keys, and are gone by 8.30 am at the latest. Most are in bed by 10 pm, because they start leaving at 5.30 – 6 am. 7 -7.30 is peak leaving time.
They have a meal and maybe a few quiet beers, but party animals don’t last long in that world.
Second, in this part of the world a lot of them are doing stuff related to water. They are drilling, installing, repairing, scoping out new work, and installing and fixing the electrics. People who turn on the tap and expect water don’t realise that it involves a lot of electrical power and expertise.
Thirdly, 90% of the vehicles are white. It’s so boring, but there must be a good reason for it. Does anyone know why?
On the weekends we get all sorts of riff raff. Trouble, noise, vomit, the whole nine yards. No wonder management treats tradies with TLC.
that is a great article.
It certainly did, Tints.
I do. Always had white vehicles after a stupid foray into having them sprayed in company colours.
– resale value
– advertising can be easily applied at removed
– stay cooler in the heat (usually parked out in the blazing sun)
jupessays:
July 28, 2022 at 10:40 pm
Crikey, of all publications, has a crack at the racist progressives:
The ‘Manly seven’ stood by their beliefs. Why all the racist condescension?
That’s twice recently that Crikey has been non-PC. Has there been an awakening there?
That’s and removed.
You can get plastic signage that almost shrink wraps onto the panels these days.
National Dry-Cleaners Day tomorrow.
ABC leading with power price pain story.
Not enough coal & gas fired energy.
It’s like a murderer delivering the funeral eulogy of his victim.
Let’s see who else posts ‘the three young doctors die after getting second booster’ fabrication.
One young doctor, stomach cancer
One 49 year old doctor, lung cancer
One doctor in his mid to late sixties, after a serious illness.
May they all rest in peace.
And of course there’ll be no apologies to me for having the temerity of doubting the narrative of the anti vaxx oracles.
Ontario hospital network mourns loss of three doctors who died within a week
“It’s like a murderer delivering the funeral eulogy of his victim.”
And without a lick of embarrassment
Yes.
A one hit wonder who became a little too desparate for a comeback.
Simple. In the new order of things, the race rung is way down the ladder of activism. And like all rungs, will be trodden on to get to the top. A means to an end if you will.
Those who think their race will protect them are sadly misguided. They are being used while imagining they are “using”. Every so often the curtain draws back and we see how fragile race is as a protection against progressivism. The Manly seven must know this now. I understand they have capitulated.
The plantation owner reference rings true, with Fitzsimian in the role of self appointed overseer.
Same sheep, different mob.
Nothing is ever as clear cut as it seems. And once you are heavily invested in a viewpoint, it’s very hard to shift.
Meanwhile, in one of the crazier parts of Britain:
The NHS’s controversial gender clinic for children will shut its doors after a damning report found it was unsafe while calling for more research into so-called ‘puberty blocking’ treatments for teens.
An ongoing review of Tavistock’s Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) clinic accused doctors of rushing children into life-altering treatment.
It also found the service was overwhelmed with patients, with more than 5,000 referrals being made in the last year, compared to just a few hundred 10 years ago.
Daily Mail
Well, what was I supposed to conclude?
And Daily Exposé seemed convinced.
(Only two days left to save the Daily Exposé).
Hot on the heals of turning up at Kelly-Jay Keen’s home, Harry Miller has been arrested for “hate speech against pedophiles”. The UK plod’s priorities….protecting pedophiles and arresting everyone except for actual criminals.
We’re seeing the other side of the rainbow. It isn’t nice, is it?
Finally got COVID! Two years of damage and destruction for this?!
Professional sportspeople should realise they are one step up from an organ grinder’s monkey. Neighbours with a ball.
I see the comments by people like Fitzsimmons to be the fruits of the Enlightenment, men free from faith are free to be the smartest people on the planet and people of faith have to be bludgeoned into catching up.
He doesn’t even see his racism* though it’s excruciatingly obvious to many others.
*I suspect he really believes they are inferior with a lucky propensity for rugby prowess.
But it was trusted sources on the innernet.
What else was I supposed to conclude?
“Finally got COVID!”
Congratulations!
Only 10 days ago, it was 12 days left.
Uncanny accuracy.
Don’t know how they do it…
#nigerianprince
I saw a vague reference to the first incident and Googled “Wiltshire Police Apology”.
Some solid returns from that search.
In 2015 they were caught out demanding the names of buyers of Charlie Hebdo magazine after the Moosley massacre in Paris.
So buying a commemorative magazine after brutal murders is hate-speech?
This is not merely a few misguided types who misinterpreted their training. That Police Force in particular has form.
Gotta wonder how Manly players, sponsors and the NRL feel about this .. sort of leaves “competing” on the interchange bench .. LOL!
Manly Sea Eagles chairman Scott Penn says standing firm on the NRL club’s values is “more important” than on-field results, with his depleted team succumbing to the Sydney Roosters following the controversy.
Another brush with Australia’s public health system. GP appointment at 2pm. Through the ED of a major tertiary hospital and home by 6pm. Leaving ED standing room only – must have been close to 100 people there. As usual, once you get to the front of the queue the actual treatment was fine.
Rickw, I’m breaking out the champagne when I get it. So much promise, so little delivery.
Some levity from Westprint Maps.
I don’t agree calli.
On twitter 4chan reddit I saw vindictive death wishing triumphant over the alleged death of doctors (woot!) from boosters.
And also a lot of dumb, the chopping off the end of the hospital memos should have rung alarm bells, and pointing to what were obvious bot generated death notices on the internet as proof was dumb too.
It’s becoming more and more like a cult.
Most people who got vaccinated, did so and got on with their lives.
Only a tiny percentage cling to the mask lockdown narrative and if they have serious health problems maybe that’s not so unreasonable.
Video: your car hates you.
Some newer cars shall throw an ABS or brake error, or disable your cruise control or air conditioning, just because the engine’s emissions are problematic. Beware!
Im praying that you will be (against all the odds) in the 99.7% who survive!
How is Monty?
Is this thing on?
It’s a metaphor, not a manifesto.
The worst is getting to #2 and being bumped by some inconsiderate codger having a heart attack or a foaming at the mouth eye-rolling junkie.
But it was worth it for the queue-jumping acting performances, particularly those obviously addicted to ppain-killers … “I know what it is … oowwww … it’s me back … aaarrrggh … codeine usually fixes it … oooohhh … or Endone … gasp, wince … “
rickw says: July 29, 2022 at 8:25 am
What a humblebrag.
😀
Rosie, people are being played for sh*ts, giggles and profit. On both sides of the paddock.
It’s human nature to align your thinking to one side or another, and for some that alignment has come at tremendous cost. The heavier the investment, the more the viewpoint is clung to, even to the point of gloating over the plight (real or imagined) of the other side. I have seen stuff on social media from the vaxxed, for instance, that makes my hair stand on end. Ditto the unvaxxed.
No one is completely above it all. Certainly not me. My disgust is directed at the string pullers, not the bulk hapless marionettes.
On the Manly 7 capitulating…
I’ll reserve judgment until it comes from them.
What’s reported is that they’ve asked to be consulted next time.
That’s not capitulation yet.
In the meantime, they’ve exposed the rabid intolerance of the Gaystapo and their collaborators.
johanna says:
July 29, 2022 at 7:02 am
For those looking for good old fashioned corporate skulduggery in a series, I’m re-watching The Plane Makers, early 1960s British. It was the forerunner of the excellent The Power Game.
A couple of points. This is series 3. Series 1 was lost thanks to vandals who destroyed the films to make space. Series 2 is alleged to exist, but I can’t find it.
Thanks for the heads-up. Will watch the whole thing.
BTW, the complete three series are available on cyber-lockers, if you know where to look.
Thanks roger. On gloating, that was the “take” from 9 News this morning.
I should have known better than to believe it.
Survival for people under 70 with no co-morbidities is 99.95%.
Predictions are difficult, especially about the future………………
https://youtu.be/3iV8X8ubGCc
I am naturally sceptical, but some of that was laughably amateurish.
Remember Faulty’s “professionally produced video about vax patents” which he insisted we all watch for homework?
But somehow couldn’t produce the patent numbers or the jurisdictions where they were issued.
I’ll bet someone turns up now with “But that was real!” [Daily Exposé link].
Inflation washing over the economy.
Crop insurance is up 25% from last year based on my farm figures.
Insurers are also cutting off cover for growers in many municipalities.
Hindmarsh Shire in western Vic has seen the books closed on any further insurance.
There’s no seasonal or historical reason that I can see for such action in regard to risk. Perhaps it’s risk to the general pool from other possible claims outside agriculture emanating from the big reinsurers.
I don’t see the investment by most people, they thought the vaccine would reduce their risk, they moved on.
Incidentally
I just read part of a substack regarding a debate between Alex Berenson and Pierre Kory.
Apparently Berenson isn’t an ivermectin true believer.
The virus doesnt exist!
9/11 was faked!
Everyone is controlled opposition!
It’s a cult.
Strike me down…
AEMO concedes that sky-rocketing electrickery prices are due to a lack of coal generation.
ABC expert on the wireless says this is worse than the 1970s oil shock; people will not be able to afford power and the goverment will have to bail them out.
And I think they will come armed with evidence, like SBW removing alcohol adverts from his gear with NRL and sponsor approval.
But that won’t suit the narrative.
A team taking to the field with 40% not wearing rainbow patches (roughly the SSM “No” vote percentage) ruins the image that everyone is on board, thus blowing up the attempt to gaslight all those NRL viewers out there in TV land.
Manly-Warringah has basically run this like some 19th-century plantation whose owners are Fabians, reading Bernard Shaw, teaching the peons badminton
Old man Penn made the money.
Next generation Penn is viewed has not being the sharpest of chappies.
But he was sharp enough to convince his dad to buy into Manly when TV dollars were not a lot & now they are a lot more.
Oh that was the vaccines were developed twenty years theory in a professionally produced video I didn’t watch. .
Which kind of messed with the experimental gene therapy not properly trialled theory.
People love to have that extra special secret knowledge.
Morning
libertango!
“AEMO concedes that sky-rocketing electrickery prices are due to a lack of coal generation.”
Finally getting the news at eleven.
Big_Nambas says:
July 29, 2022 at 8:52 am
Predictions are difficult, especially about the future………………
This Seinfeld episode should be compulsory viewing for school kids.
Social bullying 101.
Wiltshire Police are the mob who seized climate sceptic Tallbloke’s computer equipment and held it for many months for reasons that have never been properly explained.
This was maybe ten years ago.
The form runs deep there.
who could have possibly predicted this! it’s a mystery
In a previous life I occasionally had dealings with the modern, university educated journalist. They almost invariably got important details wrong because they lacked knowledge of the Sitz im Leben of the story they were covering(due to a lack of real life experience that a previous generation of journos had in spades) and they don’t know how to check their prejudices. There are certainly exceptions, but they are just that – exceptions.
Reported on the ABC even.
Just got the Labrador home from the vet.
Bowel was backed up with home made bricks from eating every bit off crap she could find. Pieces of horse hoof and wool.
A sad dog with a very sore ring.
I’ll be just as sad when the bill arrives via email.
Cheap renewables, Bwahahahahahahahahahahahaha, I told you so.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-07-29/aemo-reports-record-wholesale-power-price-customer-nightmare/101279554
Fans of the Atlassian duo should look at the AFR mag today.
The app doesn’t do it justice.
Worth going to your local coffee shop to read the hard copy.
The clubs values? Hmmm, I wonder how those are divined. What is the process by which the club’s values are distilled?
No need to really go into that. It will be the decisions of the board who have been informed reports from PR and marketing research firms.
I doubt they have consulted their members, and we know they have not asked the players. I doubt the club’s founding documents say anything about punishing people for keeping to their conscience rather than lending full-throated unthinking support to whatever the CEO says.
Talking about ‘club values’ also shows that this situation is just the thin edge of the wedge. There are plenty of causes that this club can be expected to fall down to its knees before simply because of the ‘research’ they are given. BLM, the ‘voice’ in Parliament, AGW (perhaps they can have hairshirt jerseys), etc.
And in the future there will be more causes, each clambering to the top of the pile where they stand as ‘a blazing indictment’ until newer causes clamber above them to steal the light. Domestic violence, child abuse are obvious ones. They will involve obviously inflated numbers spewed from studies, reports, and government papers. Child love might make an appearance. Animal love might. Sounds farfetched? Demanding that we all admire trannies sounded so once as well.
Why aren’t you watching them on ‘cyberlockers’ then? Or telling us how to?
I’d love to believe that most of Series 1 is gone is a myth. I have hopes for series 2.
The Plane Makers.
Highly recommended.
Every lefty knows renewables are cheap. Ultimately the solution to the inadequate coal powered supply will be even more renewables.
Racism. Obviously.
Solzhenitsyn made the point that ‘men free from faith’ who don’t believe they will be judged by any power higher than laws of men, can end up doing some horrible shit.
After all, men are mere mortals and can dream up some horrible laws. History shows this to be true.
Reminds me of how our Health Department had to trawl around pictures of crack addicts in America to illustrate their cigarette packets. No usable local products were available.
As usual, the government exempted itself from truth in advertising laws.
‘There’s a sinister agenda going on’ | Leilani Dowding on push to normalise eating bugs in the West
Normies faced with a choice between paying the electricity bill or the mortgage/rent may take a different view.
Lucky, lucky bastard.
It really is a numbers game. Anyone who actually believes an “official” word on Covid at this point needs a brain transplant. Passive resistance is the only way forward.
golden pup
@Golden_Pup
To date, at least 7,300,000 Ontarians can be classified as anti-vaxxers, because they have not received the minimum-recommended three doses of COVID-19 vaccine.
My all-time favourite was the bloke looking like he’d just been stretchered out of Changi, lying on a hospital bed covered in tubes, and with the notation that he died at 34.
He was actually dying of AIDS, the monkeypox of the time.