Open Thread – Tues 2 Aug 2022


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Dot
Dot
August 4, 2022 12:19 pm

Can’t wait until “Cold Fries” is classified as racist.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
August 4, 2022 12:21 pm

A qwerty story that the ABC is sure not to cover.

Transgender murderer arrested for killing again at age 83, after two prior murder convictions (2 Aug, via Instapundit)

…as a recent story in the New York Times shows. “How did a two-time killer get out to be charged again at age 83?” reads the Times headline. That killer was arrested at age 83 for killing someone, after previously spending three decades in prison for killing one girlfriend, and before that, spending twenty years in prison for killing an earlier girlfriend. Twice, the killer had been paroled and released after deliberately murdering someone.

The New York Times story is about Marceline Harvey, “a transgender woman who transitioned at some point after her release from prison.” That means Harvey spent decades in prison as male-identifying biological man, only to identify as a woman after being released from prison around age 80.

A parole panel released Harvey in 2019, despite Harvey’s prior killings of two women. Harvey later was allowed to stay in a women’s shelter after identifying as a woman. As the New York Times notes, “a homeless shelter worker and people close to Ms. Leyden questioned whether, despite her gender identity, Ms. Harvey should have been placed in a homeless shelter for women, given her history of attacking and murdering them.”

The Times notes that a nurse practitioner who ran the intake interview at the shelter “said she told Ms. Harvey that placing her in a women’s shelter seemed like a bad idea, given her history of killing women.” Yet despite the nurse’s objections, “her supervisors allowed Ms. Harvey entry,” because the city’s “policy” is “to place individuals in shelters based on their reported gender identity.”

Soon, Harvey returned to violence, killing Susan Leyden, and then chopping up and discarding her body parts.

Ok, this guy offs his girlfriend and gets 20 years. Gets out then offs another girlfriend, gets 30 years. Gets out aged 80, “transitions” into a woman, is placed into a women’s refuge and then offs a another woman and chops her up into pieces.

Nope, don’t think the ABC is going to report this one.

Barry
Barry
August 4, 2022 12:22 pm

Another example of insane COVID hysteria still going on right now.

Schools in Tasmania leave windows and doors open in the middle of winter as a COVID countermeasure.

Same here in Melbourne. As a consequence Teachers are off sick, students are off sick – not with COVID, but because they are blasted with cold outside air in the middle of winter.

Of course, there’s no evidence in the form of RCT’s or even observational studies that opening windows in winter actually reduces transmission – it’s just some shiny-bum health bureaucrat’s brain-fart rolled out across our kids schools without a skerrick of skeptical thought.

People have been enclosing buildings and installing closed windows for thousands of years to shelter from the effects of cold in winter – but some fuckknuckles think this is a good idea?

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
August 4, 2022 12:23 pm

Greenies spewin’ – Great Barrier Reef study shows greatest coral cover on record

Thursday, 04 August 2022

The northern and central Great Barrier Reef have recorded their highest amount of coral cover since the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) began monitoring 36 years ago.

Great news for people who care about the reef.

Crap news for Greenie propagandists who selfishly use the reef to advance their political cause.

https://www.aims.gov.au/information-centre/news-and-stories/highest-coral-cover-central-northern-reef-36-years

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 4, 2022 12:23 pm

The font of goodwill expressed in the 1967 referendum 55 years ago has evaporated away by the greed of the so-called indigenous “leaders” of the last two or three decades, whose only response to that goodwill has been to screech “Gimme more”.

The tragedy of the 1967 referendum is that the font of goodwill expressed was matched by the “Black Power” movement as evidenced by the setting of of the Tent Embassy in Canberra, and the idiotic policies of the Whitlam Government, in setting up the outback communities, where the Aborigine would be the “noble savage”, practicing his culture and living in harmony with his tribal lands.

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
August 4, 2022 12:24 pm

Just finished latest Megyn Kelly podcast.

She and John Rogan of Washington Post go into the latest BS “research” suggesting a lab leak. Meanwhile I have seen there Aussie newspapers report the research without any mention

Her 2nd guest was ex SEAL Rob O Neil who killed Bin Ladin. Good discussion on recent hit on Al Quada leader, Afganistan in general, wokeness in military and why there are recruiting problems in US military.

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
August 4, 2022 12:25 pm

Josh Rogan not John.

Boambee John
Boambee John
August 4, 2022 12:31 pm

Roger

And, of course, as advisers to every level of government, including local (where social planning is becoming a big thing).

The counter-revolution must start with local government. Fortunately, the Liars and the Slime have already established the principle that local government can take an expansive view of its responsibilities. Take over your local council, with some like-minded fellow travelers, and use that to reverse the rot.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
August 4, 2022 12:41 pm

Schools in Tasmania leave windows and doors open in the middle of winter as a COVID countermeasure.

Um, if you want a virus to live long enough in the air to get to another person, then cold air is best. It’s why we use fridges to preserve stuff.

flyingduk
flyingduk
August 4, 2022 12:44 pm

OAPs ripped off as usual! .. looks like the September rise will be 4% not the, official, 5.2% inflation rate by using gummint

And you need to double the ‘official’ numbers to get the real inflation rate

local oaf
August 4, 2022 12:45 pm

zyconoclast says:
August 4, 2022 at 11:16 am
From the US, don’t know about Oz

Google is adding a label to help searchers easily find businesses that self-identify as Asian-owned.

Wow, would be like adding a big target to your business saying please come and rob, loot and burn when the next rioting season starts.

rickw
rickw
August 4, 2022 12:45 pm

“It’s not worth your life to resist. They will get caught! Toss the keys in the opposite direction you plan to escape,” Johnson said in the post.

Spraying them with gas and setting them on fire isn’t an option?

rickw
rickw
August 4, 2022 12:46 pm

Wow, would be like adding a big target to your business saying please come and rob, loot and burn when the next rioting season starts.

Unless the label was Korean Owned.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
August 4, 2022 12:46 pm

Imagine – you get free housing while working o/s for DFAT and now you want the value of that free housing to be calculated into your super entitlements.

I hope it wins.
Then we can take the tax office to court over calculating the FBT against my super.
Given my work supplies power/water/medical/housing that should be worth a motza if they add the cash amount to my wage.

Mining employees will be farting through silk once the worth of flights/accommodation/tucker etc all cops a 10% super contribution as well (backdated).

Anchor What
Anchor What
August 4, 2022 12:55 pm

Albo saying what we need are “booster shots”.
Isn’t it time they dropped the rubbishy non-vaccines and came clean about commonly available and inexpensive anti-virals?

Zipster
Zipster
August 4, 2022 12:56 pm
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 4, 2022 12:57 pm

‘Sexist’ party hit Layla gets the elbow from German beer festivals
David Crossland, Berlin
Wednesday August 03 2022, 12.00pm BST, The Times
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A chart-topping song about a “sexy brothel mama” has triggered a sexism row in Germany after it was banned from summer beer festivals even though drinkers are clamouring to hear it.

Layla by DJ Robin & Schürze contains the lines: “I have a brothel and the brothel mama’s called Layla” and “beautiful Layla, she’s prettier, younger, sexier”. She has a “sexy figure, blonde hair” and is described as a Luder, which can be translated as a cheeky minx or a hussy.

Würzburg, in Bavaria, tried and failed to stop it being played at a beer festival last month, prompting censorship accusations and an online petition called #freelayla, which has amassed more than 50,000 signatures.

The authorities in Düsseldorf have also tried to ban the song, while the spokesman for Munich’s beer hall managers, Peter Inselkammer, said it would not be played at Oktoberfest this year — not just due to sexism concerns but also because “it’s a bit stupid”.

Layla has held the No 1 spot in the German singles chart for the past five weeks and the controversy might be helping to keep it there. It is being played wherever Germans gather in large numbers to drink, from Mallorca’s nightclubs to sweltering, packed beer tents at summer festivals in Germany.

The song embarrassed the Social Democratic Party’s LGBTQ group SPDqueer after it was accidentally played by its float during a gay pride parade in Stuttgart at the weekend. The group promised an investigation because it rejected “all forms of sexist or misogynist music”.

Bild, the German tabloid, wrote on Tuesday that the SPD was “out of touch” and falling for “every ‘gender’ and ‘woke’ nonsense”.

Other politicians have said it should not be censored. Marco Buschmann, the German justice minister, wrote on Twitter: “One doesn’t have to like song texts. One can even find them stupid or tasteless. But to officially prohibit them goes too far.”

rickw
rickw
August 4, 2022 12:57 pm

Sadly Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 doesn’t appear to be Supranational!

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
August 4, 2022 1:00 pm

How to obtain a shedload more staff.

.1. Dont start taxing kids till they hit 21. NO TAX AT ALL. (you can set a cap of $200,000 or something silly)
.1. Dont tax retirees AT ALL. Once they have left the workforce due to age you stop taxing them (again with a very high cutoff)

Congratulations, you have just solved the labour shortage and cost yourself very little.

Most people at the start of their working life, and past retirement contribute SFA in tax.
By not taxing them at all you give a huge incentive to work and help them at a stage of life where money is generally tight.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 4, 2022 1:05 pm

1. Dont tax retirees AT ALL. Once they have left the workforce due to age you stop taxing them (again with a very high cutoff)

Hear, hear!

sfw
sfw
August 4, 2022 1:09 pm

Oldozzie, haven’t you been told to not link to or look at zerohedge? The expert here assures me that it rots your brain. I guess that’s easier than responding to whatever the article in question is postulating.

Anchor What
Anchor What
August 4, 2022 1:15 pm

We are all taxed via GST, Stamp Duties on property and motor vehicle transfers, and so on.

Vicki
Vicki
August 4, 2022 1:19 pm

https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/advocacy-journalism-is-propaganda?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

Robert Malone has an interesting article on the growing phenomenon of “advocacy journalism”. Although this title suggests everything, as Malone notes, it is astounding how forthright modern media is about it, as we can see from this definition from Wiki:

“Classic tenets of journalism call for objectivity and neutrality. These are antiquated principles no longer universally observed…. We must absolutely not feel bound by them. If we are ever to create meaningful change, advocacy journalism will be the single most crucial element to enable the necessary organizing. It is therefore very important that we learn how to be successful advocacy journalists. For many, this will require a different way of identifying and pursuing goals.”

Vicki
Vicki
August 4, 2022 1:23 pm

Labor’s landmark climate change legislation, which would create a legally binding target to cut greenhouse emissions by 43 per cent on 2005 levels by 2030, is now expected to hit the Senate next month.

God help us all.

Tom
Tom
August 4, 2022 1:27 pm

Like we’ve seen with the other tags, now searchers can easily find Asian-owned businesses through a Google search and via Google Maps. Business owners who have already created a verified business listing with Google can add the label by opting in, and can also opt-out at any time.

All to help Antifa-style progressive street thugs in the US target Asians for bashings and robberies.

The progressive sociopaths at Google are violent, racist scum.

Vicki
Vicki
August 4, 2022 1:31 pm

I see that flyingduk is online at the moment.

I know that some Cats have been suffering the effects of Long Covid. I have just watched an interesting discussion of the use of a Keto Diet in countering the lingering effects of the virus (and perhaps the vaccine). It would be interesting to get Duk’s opinion.

https://drtrozzi.org/2022/08/01/stage-4-cancer-survivor-will-dove-interviews-dr-rob-verkerk/

Zyconoclast
Zyconoclast
August 4, 2022 1:48 pm

Do we know what admissions policies that foster diversity is code for?

Historic Number of Corporations File Amicus Briefs in U.S. Supreme Court in Support of College Admissions Policies That Foster Diversity

Accenture
Adobe Inc.
Aeris Communications, Inc.
Air Products & Chemicals, Inc.
Airbnb, Inc.
Alaska Airlines, Inc.
American Airlines, Inc.
American Express Company
American International Group, Inc.
Amgen Inc.
Apple Inc.
Applied Materials, Inc.
Ariel Investments, LLC
Bain & Company
Bayer US LLC
Biogen Inc.
Bristol Myers Squibb
Chamber of Progress
Cigna Corporation
Cisco Systems, Inc.
Corning Incorporated
Corteva Agriscience
Cruise LLC
Cummins, Inc.
Dell Technologies, Inc.
Dupont de Nemours, Inc.
Eaton Corporation
Engine Advocacy
Etsy, Inc.
General Dynamics Corporation
General Electric Company
General Motors Company
Gilead Sciences, Inc.
GlaxoSmithKline LLC
Google LLC
HP Inc.
International Business Machines Corp.
IKEA Retail US
Illinois Tool Works Inc.
Intel Corporation
Jazz Pharmaceuticals PLC
JetBlue Airways

Johnson & Johnson
Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc.
KPMG LLP
Leidos Holdings, Inc.
Levi Strauss & Co.
LinkedIn Corp.
Logitech Inc.
Lyft, Inc.
Mastercard Inc.
Match Group, LLC
Mattel, Inc.
Merck & Co., Inc.
Meta Platforms, Inc.
Micron Technology, Inc.
Microsoft Corp.
Northrop Grumman Corporation
Paramount Global
PayPal Inc.
Pinterest, Inc.
Procter & Gamble Company
RealNetworks, Inc.
Red Hat, Inc.
Ripple Labs Inc.
Salesforce, Inc.
Shell USA, Inc.
Silicon Valley Leadership Group
Starbucks Corporation
Steelcase Inc.
The Hershey Company
The Kraft Heinz Company
The Prudential Insurance Company of America
Twilio Inc.
Uber Technologies, Inc.
United Airlines Inc.
Verily Life Sciences LLC
Verizon Services Corp.
ViiV Healthcare Company
VMware Inc.
Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc.
Zazzle Inc.

rickw
rickw
August 4, 2022 1:53 pm

Senator Rennick on what can only be characterised as TGA gross incompetence and gross negligence:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Qhm1_n84so

Winston Smith
August 4, 2022 1:56 pm

Feelthebern:
This shows just how far that activist judges can use State Emergency Powers to subvert the intent of voting laws.
In Australia we also have activist judges who are able to interpret laws under Emergency Powers.
A closer look at some of our recent elections and the statutory bodies overseeing them may just be an eye opener.

Gilas
Gilas
August 4, 2022 2:06 pm

feelthebern says:
August 4, 2022 at 9:42 am

omg.
You carry 700k units of x.
Average carry 12 months.
You now carry 100k of that 700k units of x for 18 months with higher average re-sale value than the other 600k units of x.
What does that do for your cash flow?

ftb, my previous comment wasn’t aimed at criticising you..

Teslas are easily 100% more expensive than the average Hertz rent-a-car..
And why would Teslas easily last 18 months vs 12 months?
And would their re-sale value be proportionally more than the higher purchase price when compared to the ICE alternatives?

All I’m saying is that this youtuber drinks enough Tesla Kool-Aid to drown an elephant.
He’s full of shit.

Winston Smith
August 4, 2022 2:08 pm

Mater:

Yeah, that hasn’t gone down well in my local environs.

A quick poll of persons here about the Voice:
Old Mate – “Hadn’t heard about it.”
Other Old mate – “It’ll be about the money.”
Chemist – “Shrug.”
Checkout Chick – “Don’t Care.”
I think we underestimate the apathy of the Great Unwashed at our peril.

calli
calli
August 4, 2022 2:11 pm

And I almost forgot, but better late than never.

Happy Birthday FlashCat. And many happy returns.

And thanks to Dover for stepping into the breach.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
August 4, 2022 2:13 pm

rickwsays:
August 4, 2022 at 1:53 pm

Good to see the paid reps of Australia hard at work keeping themselves informed of critical issues..

Bastards need their delicate bits attached to a shock generator, more than 5 minutes out of their seat and an ever increasing charge to the nether regions.

Keeping themselves deliberately ignorant

Wally Dali
Wally Dali
August 4, 2022 2:16 pm

Happy Anniversary Dover!
…i did get the feeling that the warranty was running out…

Lysander
Lysander
August 4, 2022 2:16 pm

Re the whole China thing and its “drills”

I recall watching a movie where the Arabs said they would continue conducting drills on Israel’s border for months on end until Israel got sick of it and gave up thinking an invasion was coming (and that’s when Egypt and Syria would strike).

Winston Smith
August 4, 2022 2:20 pm

Bluey:

I’m basically with you. However I sense a change amongst LDP members on where they should head. As I said before, we’ll see. Where else is there to go? The Libs are fucked, Pauline Hanson means well but is near the end of her career and the UAP (on the basis of what I saw at a demo in Strathfield) are a rabble.

The LDP was infiltrated and subverted, then put on a red hot griddle for 3 minutes, years ago. The Marxists have smothered you in a mushroom sauce and will feast on your carcass with a fine red wine until you get rid of them.
This is what they do, subvert their enemies into powerlessness and consume them. Show me any Right of Center party in the Western world and tell me I’m wrong. They’re stuffed full of RINOs and their ilk.
Until the Conservatives go back to their roots and rediscover what made them workable in the first place, they will remain in the political wilderness. Pure, but powerless while the Left enact their agenda.
There is some relief in that they thought your ideals made you dangerous enough to target.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
August 4, 2022 2:27 pm

And here it is.

Labour arent even going to bother with the figleaf of “we had to amend to pass the legislation” instead they are going straight to doing what they really wanted via the stalking horse of the greens/performing teals.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-08-04/climate-bill-passes-lower-house-greens-teal-tweaks/101299160
A bill to write the government’s 43 per cent emissions reduction target into law has passed the lower house after the government agreed to several minor amendments from the crossbench.

The federal government did not need the votes of crossbenchers in the lower house to pass its climate target bill, but it agreed to support amendments moved by a number of independents.

The “teal” independent MPs who swept into parliament on a platform of climate action and government integrity have celebrated the federal government’s willingness to negotiate changes to its bill.
….
Ms Steggall said the next step for the government must be to phase out oil, coal and gas by ending new approvals, a key sticking point of the Greens, who agreed yesterday to give the bill the votes needed to pass the senate despite not receiving that concession.

Not a mad person at all.
Completely sane and very well informed.

Boambee John
Boambee John
August 4, 2022 2:30 pm

Winston

This is what they do, subvert their enemies into powerlessness and consume them. Show me any Right of Center party in the Western world and tell me I’m wrong. They’re stuffed full of RINOs and their ilk.

A communist tactic known as “Entryism”.

Zipster
Zipster
August 4, 2022 2:34 pm

Historic Number of Corporations File Amicus Briefs in U.S. Supreme Court in Support of College Admissions Policies That Foster Diversity

The list is like WEF issued a memo

shatterzzz
August 4, 2022 2:35 pm

Gee whizz! .. how desperate can the NSW gummint be? ..received a letter this morning from Community & Justice, Sheriff’s Office telling me I’m eligible for jury duty ..!
Jury duty.. FFS! .. I’m 74 years old, retired and long past caring about ‘serving” gummint in any way ..
You’d think that they’d have enuf working age bodies in NSW that calling on OAPs is a bit far fetched ..
I meanz this is the mob that won’t let unvaxxed visitors into old folks homes but, apparently, old folks going into crowded court rooms is OK ……!

Winston Smith
August 4, 2022 2:42 pm

Feelthebern:

The decision makers in the US stirring up shit in Azerbaijan need to look at a map.
Azerbaijan aint Ukraine with ready access & a porous border.

That’s correct, FTB. But it does share a border with Iran. Iran – no matter what it says publicly still regards the Russians as one of the Lesser Satans.
Never underestimate a Persians capacity for duplicity.
It looks like the State Departments game plan is to bog down Russia with brushfire wars on its periphery, turning the states that used to be part of its defensive shield under the USSR into liabilities that have to be defended against.

Zipster
Zipster
August 4, 2022 2:44 pm

Moderna patented sequence in SARS-CoV-2 – COVID-19 vaccines update 52
Coincidentally Moderna owns a patent on a modified sequence of a gene, the fragment of which in reverse order also happens to be part of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein gene. We discuss how such coincidence could arise, what the patented gene is involved in, and why the sequence in question has already been surrounded in controversy and attracted countless conspiracy theories.

Arky
August 4, 2022 2:47 pm

The future is black.
And by black, I mean African.

https://www.populationpyramid.net/africa/2019/

Most of the rest of the world is devoid of young people.
You old geezers are looking at a complete collapse in your lifestyles without mass importations.
Before we can do it though, we have to kill dead the multi- culti ideology that invites people over and says “Ahh, we’re shit, do your own thing”.

Vicki
Vicki
August 4, 2022 2:55 pm

Viv Forbes does an excellent summary of why Australia is doomed with a new government intent on crippling the economy:

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/08/this_is_what_finally_puts_an_end_to_australia.html

Zipster
Zipster
August 4, 2022 2:58 pm

And by black, I mean African.

why do you think they are trying to starve them

Dot
Dot
August 4, 2022 2:58 pm

The LDP was infiltrated and subverted, then put on a red hot griddle for 3 minutes, years ago.

This is nonsense. If it’s true you can name the date and say what the effect was.

“They’re not conservative” does not cut it, a moderate libertarian party never claimed to be a beacon of conservatism, only a moderate degree of similarity.

Zipster
Zipster
August 4, 2022 3:11 pm

The Albanese government’s climate bill enshrining Labor’s 43 per cent by 2030 emissions reduction target into law has passed through the lower house.

JC
JC
August 4, 2022 3:12 pm

Leadership appears to have cranked up his leadership predictions again, which is no surprise.

The Future is black as in Africa Leadership says. The problem with this prediction is that 20 years ago people were fearful that the mid east population would explode. Nup, it’s imploding and it was so sudden and severe that it caught out every demographer. These sorts of predictions – in fact any long term prediction – is just stoopid.

Also, there are predictions people will be able to live healthy lives with a ceiling of 120 in the not too distant future. Longevity and healthy longevity is a function of technology – in this case medical technology.

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
August 4, 2022 3:13 pm

Labour arent even going to bother with the figleaf of “we had to amend to pass the legislation” instead they are going straight to doing what they really wanted via the stalking horse of the greens/performing teals.

Possibly also calculated to make them feel relevant, and make them look relevant in the eyes of their voter base, with a view both to shoring up their re-election prospects in seats Labor doesn’t expect to win and to make them feel all warm and friendly to Labor.

m0nty
m0nty
August 4, 2022 3:16 pm

Smart business by Labor to feed the teal chooks. Albo knows what he is doing.

Dutton flailing about looking like a goose.

Wally Dali
Wally Dali
August 4, 2022 3:21 pm

The white slacks are a mistake, but i gotta say Zoe Daniel is the only teal chook who is actually bangable.

shatterzzz
August 4, 2022 3:21 pm

Possibly also calculated to make them feel relevant

Didn’t he start that last week when he authorized an extra “staffer” after the media lauded fanfare of cutting their numbers ..!

Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
August 4, 2022 3:31 pm

M0nty

Dutton flailing about looking like a goose

Just what Elbow said in parliament today.
What a coincidence!

sfw
sfw
August 4, 2022 3:38 pm

“Zoe Daniel is the only teal chook who is actually bangable.”

You need your eyes checked, it would take more beer than I can drink.

Jorge
Jorge
August 4, 2022 3:49 pm

Democracies everywhere now are run by political parties who understand that the way to stay in power is to pay off voters.

It follows that debt is out of control.

No leader anywhere gives a fuck. There is no intention to pay off this debt. It is insurmountable.

Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
August 4, 2022 3:49 pm

it would take more beer than I can drink.

On the horns of a dilemma.
Need beer to commence activities.
Too much beer makes ……performance…….problematic.

Boambee John
Boambee John
August 4, 2022 3:55 pm

Old School Conservativesays:
August 4, 2022 at 3:31 pm
M0nty

Dutton flailing about looking like a goose

Just what Elbow said in parliament today.
What a coincidence!

AnAl had priority access to the talking points email, poor m0nty-fa had to wait for the late delivery to be able to parrot the points in his usual mindless fashion.

Rabz
August 4, 2022 4:00 pm

The Albansleazey* goat rodeo’s:

climate bill enshrining a 43 per cent by 2030 emissions reduction target into law has passed through the lower house

Again, there seems to be a distinct lack of detail as to how this lunacy might be achieved. We are “governed” by insane ideologues utterly unaware of their own staggering stupidity and hubris.

*Trying desperately to be known as “Mr 43%” as opposed to “Mr 33%”.

Winston Smith
August 4, 2022 4:07 pm

Bruce O’Newk:

Shoutenfreude • 13 hours ago
What is the carbon foot print of that car now. Bahahaha

From the Breitbart article
*snork*

Roger
Roger
August 4, 2022 4:29 pm

Isn’t it time they dropped the rubbishy non-vaccines and came clean about commonly available and inexpensive anti-virals?

The ABC only became interested in anti-virals when it was reported Biden was being treated with them.

Now they’re back to bashing the vaccine hesitant/sceptical.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
August 4, 2022 4:35 pm

m0nty says:
August 4, 2022 at 3:16 pm
Smart business by Labor to feed the teal chooks. Albo knows what he is doing.

Smart?
New sheet music for the Titanic quartet.

Zyconoclast
Zyconoclast
August 4, 2022 4:55 pm

AGL, Snowy Hydro warn power grid reforms will drive up bills

A controversial plan to shore up east-coast grid by paying generators to be on standby has been dealt another blow as power giants AGL and Snowy Hydro reject the reform and warn it could result in excessive increases in customers’ bills.

Zyconoclast
Zyconoclast
August 4, 2022 5:03 pm

The latest VFACTS industry sales data published by the Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries today shows only four Tesla Model 3s were reported as sold in July – a fraction of the 3097 sold in March, and 4653 over the first six months of the year.

However, the single-digit sales result can be attributed wholly to supply

Zipster
Zipster
August 4, 2022 5:08 pm

No leader anywhere gives a fuck. There is no intention to pay off this debt. It is insurmountable.

inflate it away

Speedbox
August 4, 2022 5:12 pm

General Motors Co (GM) is prepaying Livent Corp $198 million for a guaranteed six-year supply of lithium.

Prepaying cash for a guaranteed metal supply is almost unheard of in the mining industry – and this deal shows just how worried/keen GM is to secure sufficient raw materials to meet its goal of producing 1 million electric vehicles (EVs) annually by 2025.

The broad terms of the deal were announced last week, but yesterday Livent announced the financial terms. “GM is certainly thinking for the long term here,” CEO Paul Graves said. “By making the advanced payment, they are clearly giving us the commitment that we were looking for.”

Livent will supply the automaker with battery-grade lithium hydroxide made primarily from lithium extracted at its brine-based operations in South America, over a six year period beginning in 2025 with the goal of transitioning 100% of its downstream lithium hydroxide processing for GM to North America.

https://stockhead.com.au/resources/eye-on-lithium-gm-just-prepaid-livent-198m-for-a-guaranteed-six-year-supply-of-lithium-hydroxide/

H B Bear
H B Bear
August 4, 2022 5:23 pm

inflate it away

Worked in the past. There could be a few casualties this time around.

JC
JC
August 4, 2022 5:26 pm

inflate it away

At a nominal GDP growth of 5.5%, which is inflation of 2.5% and growth of 3%. It would take 30 years to make it look like debt of $200 billion looking at it in a present day context. This assumes a current debt level of $1 trillion. It’s doable.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
August 4, 2022 5:28 pm

Monty thinks Elbow is smart.
We’ll be lucky if we don’t experience an economic collapse regardless of the fart fighting target set by the cliff edge lemming toll team.
Anyone who has the remotest contact with nuts and bolts businesses can see the crushing burden of energy pricing will steamroll economic growth.

JC
JC
August 4, 2022 5:29 pm

Worked in the past. There could be a few casualties this time around.

I dunno Bear, this place really is the lucky country in so many ways. Basically 26 million people sitting on a continent the size of continental US. There are no limits to what we could achieve. The limitations are placed on ourselves by moronic decisions.

JC
JC
August 4, 2022 5:32 pm

Smart business by Labor to feed the teal chooks. Albo knows what he is doing.

Yea a bunch of fucking morons who have zero idea what the fuck they’re doing. Yep, it’s a recipe for greater things to be feeding them. You big fat rotund eggnog idiot. Get back in the basement before I call Brett Sutton telling him you’re above ground. Go on, shoo.

John H.
John H.
August 4, 2022 5:33 pm

“Classic tenets of journalism call for objectivity and neutrality.

Oh please …

“Journalism is printing something that someone does not want printed. Everything else is public relations.”

? George Orwell

Slim Cognito
Slim Cognito
August 4, 2022 5:33 pm

I meanz this is the mob that won’t let unvaxxed visitors into old folks homes but, apparently, old folks going into crowded court rooms is OK ……!

Tell them you are not vaxxed and they will drop you. Courts still have vax requirements if I recall correctly. Imagine being judged by 12 of your peers who were not smart enough to avoid getting jabbed or worse still, lined up for it.

H B Bear
H B Bear
August 4, 2022 5:34 pm

I dunno Bear, this place really is the lucky country in so many ways.

I’m thinking anybody with a $500k+ mortgage taken out in the last 5 years isn’t sleeping so soundly. For once corporates aren’t the problem, although I expect a few more builders to go bust before too much longer.

JC
JC
August 4, 2022 5:36 pm

Tweeted for you, Dover.

jc
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1m
Replying to
@TamePunk
One better. How about we begin taxing worthless imbeciles with an nasty attitude and a twitter account. Just spitballing too.

Tom
Tom
August 4, 2022 5:38 pm

This assumes a current debt level of $1 trillion. It’s doable.

The Liars haven’t even started yet. RGR left us with $400 billion of government debt, which the Stupid Fucking Liberals quickly turned into $1 trillion. The Australian economy is roughly $A2 trillion, which means the Liars have another $1 trillion to go for 100% GDP debt (like Europe and the US). Inflate that away, Australian tax slaves – before we even get to the next recession caused by eat-the-rich tax increases.

Winston Smith
August 4, 2022 5:40 pm

sfw:

Oldozzie, haven’t you been told to not link to or look at zerohedge? The expert here assures me that it rots your brain. I guess that’s easier than responding to whatever the article in question is postulating.

A lot of us have been told what we can and cannot do, but until a situation arises where JC can do a funding deal that allows him to control content here at the Cat, it’s irrelevant.
We learnt a lot by watching how Turnbull operates.

Top Ender
Top Ender
August 4, 2022 5:41 pm

Beyond belief!

A MAN who tried to rape a three-year-old boy while he played in his Darwin front yard could soon be released to live with other children, despite the lack of an “accurate risk assessment”, a court has heard.

Joseph Marrday, 22, pleaded guilty in the Supreme Court to one count of attempted rape after he tried to insert his erect penis into the small boy’s mouth in March last year.

The court heard Marrday approached the boy as he stood in the yard, reached through a gap between the gates and placed his hand on the back of his head while he unzipped his pants and removed his penis.

He then positioned himself directly in front of the gap in the gates and “pushed the victim’s head towards his erect penis” and “attempted to insert his penis into the victim’s mouth”.

A passer-by out for a run came across the scene and interrupted Marrday before sounding the alarm with the child’s mother who was inside and the would-be rapist ran off.

Police found and arrested Marrday a short time later and he told them he “never did anything to the little one”.

“The girl told like me that I was thing to that little boy, sex (sic),” he said.

“She frightened me and I turned and ran away.”

In a sentencing hearing in the Supreme Court on Wednesday, Marrday’s lawyer, Shannon Ramsay, asked Justice Judith Kelly to consider allowing her client to return to the remote Aboriginal community of Warruwi on a suspended sentence.

“When he’s in Warruwi he has not come to the attention of the criminal justice system,” she said.

“He has had an incredibly positive upbringing, incredibly supportive upbringing and it has been a combination of factors that has brought him before this court.”

But Justice Kelly said there would be “a slight potential difficulty” with that as there were “children in the house he’s going to be living in”. “They’re his cousins, I think, and the mother says she’s never had any problems with him, there’s no concerns about that,” she said.

Justice Kelly said any attempt to evaluate Marrday’s risk of reoffending would be “kind of guess work”.

“Is it really possible to do any really accurate risk assessment with sexual offending of this nature with somebody who has never committed such an offence before?” she asked.

“Sometimes it’s just unknown.”

Crown prosecutor Tami Grealy said a proposed condition for Marrday’s release could be that he should not be around children except under supervision “or with the express permission of an adult with parental responsibility”.

He will return to court for sentencing on Friday.

Winston Smith
August 4, 2022 5:43 pm

Vicki:

Labor’s landmark climate change legislation, which would create a legally binding target to cut greenhouse emissions by 43 per cent on 2005 levels by 2030, is now expected to hit the Senate next month.
God help us all.

God won’t help us Vicki – He’ll just stand by, scratching His head and wondering how to build a fleet of B Arks.

miltonf
miltonf
August 4, 2022 5:48 pm

The tame thing seems to have bpd

JC
JC
August 4, 2022 5:48 pm
calli
calli
August 4, 2022 5:51 pm

Graceless Rabid is a very, very stupid person.

Winston Smith
August 4, 2022 5:52 pm

Lysander:

I recall watching a movie where the Arabs said they would continue conducting drills on Israel’s border for months on end until Israel got sick of it and gave up thinking an invasion was coming (and that’s when Egypt and Syria would strike).

This was the standard Warsaw Pact scenario – every year the armed forces would end their training cycle with a full mobilisation on their Western Borders, then send everyone home. NATO knew the shit was going to hit the fan if the reservists etc didn’t get stood down. It was the WP way of getting a full two weeks of mobilisation jump on NATO.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
August 4, 2022 5:54 pm

FBI soldiers revolt against pro-Biden headquarters

Whistleblowers come forward to reveal discrimination against conservatives

rickw
rickw
August 4, 2022 5:56 pm

climate bill enshrining a 43 per cent by 2030 emissions reduction target into law has passed through the lower house

Albo’s Australian Third World Poverty Bill.

Fuck these fucking imbeciles.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
August 4, 2022 5:58 pm

JCsays:
August 4, 2022 at 5:48 pm
This is one pretty car.

Pure Lust

Drove Son’s 458 around Monza twice(as well as 550 Rented for the Weekend) and the Ferraris on display from Switzerland for both weekends were Pure Porn

then Mugello, all Ferrari Owners staying in Villa nearby for Weekend

miltonf
miltonf
August 4, 2022 5:59 pm

Where do these dead shits get numbers like 43% from? or 2 degrees? Not 45% or 40%? Maybe some apparatchik or pubic serpent? Anal seems to be giving TLS a run in the worst PM stakes. Marxist wreckers.

Lysander
Lysander
August 4, 2022 6:00 pm

Thanks Winston!!!

Winston Smith
August 4, 2022 6:01 pm

Boambee John:

A communist tactic known as “Entryism”.

First codified by that Italian chappie in the ’30’s.
No, not that Italian chappie, the other one.

Roger
Roger
August 4, 2022 6:01 pm

The Liars haven’t even started yet. RGR left us with $400 billion of government debt, which the Stupid Fucking Liberals quickly turned into $1 trillion.

Thanks Josh!

Bluey
Bluey
August 4, 2022 6:02 pm

Winston Smithsays:
August 4, 2022 at 2:20 pm
Bluey:

I’m basically with you. However I sense a change amongst LDP members on where they should head. As I said before, we’ll see. Where else is there to go? The Libs are fucked, Pauline Hanson means well but is near the end of her career and the UAP (on the basis of what I saw at a demo in Strathfield) are a rabble.

The LDP was infiltrated and subverted, then put on a red hot griddle for 3 minutes, years ago. The Marxists have smothered you in a mushroom sauce and will feast on your carcass with a fine red wine until you get rid of them.
This is what they do, subvert their enemies into powerlessness and consume them. Show me any Right of Center party in the Western world and tell me I’m wrong. They’re stuffed full of RINOs and their ilk.
Until the Conservatives go back to their roots and rediscover what made them workable in the first place, they will remain in the political wilderness. Pure, but powerless while the Left enact their agenda.
There is some relief in that they thought your ideals made you dangerous enough to target.

For whatever it might be worth, I do not describe myself as Libertarian or conservatives. Definitely not left wing though. Think more limited voting franchise, small government, and earning the right to vote. Sort of the the starship troopers style model, but different.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
August 4, 2022 6:03 pm

Washington Post Sinks to New Lows in Write-Up of Death of Rep. Jackie Walorski

In contrast, ISIS leader Abu Bakker al-Baghdadi’s October 2019 obituary in the Washington Post initially characterized the terrorist as an “austere religious scholar at helm of Islamic State” in their headline before changing it to read “extremist leader of Islamic State” while proclaiming in the piece that he “maintained a canny pragmatism” despite his terroristic tendencies:

So a terrorist “leader” gets more respect than a Republican member of Congress. Maybe had he talked openly about his opinions on abortion and Joe Biden, the WaPo would have given him harsher treatment.

And yet the mainstream media still wonders why trust is at an all-time low and why so many despise the games they play?

It’s like they just can’t help themselves.

miltonf
miltonf
August 4, 2022 6:07 pm

Fraudenburg’s got his nice job with Goldman Sucks so he’s ok thank you very much. One thing’s for sure, Anal’s turning out as bad as we expected. These people are toxic garbage.

Winston Smith
August 4, 2022 6:08 pm

Dot:

The LDP was infiltrated and subverted, then put on a red hot griddle for 3 minutes, years ago.

This is a reference to being cooked, Dot.

This is nonsense. If it’s true you can name the date and say what the effect was.

Not nonsense Dot. The LDP was neutered years ago by the Trotskyists. It’s what they do, and the LDP has a huge blind spot over their own subversion and domestication.

miltonf
miltonf
August 4, 2022 6:10 pm

Lyin’ hole discredited himself after his ‘tim tam’ comment

Roger
Roger
August 4, 2022 6:12 pm

Plibersek has reportedly flagged that she will refuse approval of a NTH QLD coal mine proposed by Clive Palmer.

Tom
Tom
August 4, 2022 6:14 pm

Anal seems to be giving TLS a run in the worst PM stakes.

I’m so nostalgic for the old-fashioned amateur incompetence of the Lying Slapper before the Australian ruling class went to bed with people hell-bent on destroying our standard of living, the Australian economy and its wealth generation.

Meet your new prime minister, Adam Bandt. Elbow is just an old Troksyist spectator. No match for the new feral communists.

Roger
Roger
August 4, 2022 6:15 pm

These people are toxic garbage.

Compulsory voting tends to produce such.

H B Bear
H B Bear
August 4, 2022 6:18 pm

Anal seems to be giving TLS a run in the worst PM stakes.

Early days yet. Should be neck and neck by the time he’s finished. No surprise they both hail from the Left faction.

Roger
Roger
August 4, 2022 6:19 pm

Anal seems to be giving TLS a run in the worst PM stakes.

Elbow aspires to Whitlamesque greatness.

Gillard will be left in the dust.

Eyrie
Eyrie
August 4, 2022 6:20 pm

God won’t help us Vicki – He’ll just stand by, scratching His head and wondering how to build a fleet of B Arks.

Just to jerk some chains, Elon should name the first passenger Starship “The B Ark”.

H B Bear
H B Bear
August 4, 2022 6:22 pm

Gillard will be left in the dust.

Never underestimate a Fabian.

Tom
Tom
August 4, 2022 6:31 pm

Of all the sons of Australian anti-communists, Luke Nguyen is a ripper when it comes to food. Thanks, SBS — you’re not completely useless.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
August 4, 2022 6:33 pm

I am amused that the manager linked low skills with uni training! Too many Yartz graduates unable to clean a table?

Boambe John, I think he had in mind making them see that such work is valuable and should be acceptable to them. Probably also meant that they might never have held a dishcloth in their hands and you have to start sometime, so get someone to show them how. And hey, we passed by Boambee (it’s off the highway) on our way up to and Qld I now know where Boambee is, and where John hails from.
Things you learn, lol.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
August 4, 2022 6:36 pm

.. to Qld and ..

By way of explanation, inserting a word or two tends to make this computer backtrack and things turn out wonky. Story of my life, really. Oh, I didn’t mean it to sound like that, and now lookee what’s happened. lol

will
will
August 4, 2022 6:43 pm

Zipstersays:
August 4, 2022 at 5:08 pm
No leader anywhere gives a fuck. There is no intention to pay off this debt. It is insurmountable.

inflate it away

inflate this away

The Congressional Budget Office warned that US federal debt is expected to rise 185% within the next 30 years. Total debt holdings could double the size of US GDP by 2051. No politician or spender of this debt cares as they have no intention of paying it off. The Congressional Budget Office is calling this an optimistic forecast, given the previous estimate of debt soaring to 202% of GDP by 2051. The fact of the matter is that no one can foresee how much money politicians will continue to spend. Servicing the debt will become more expensive over time, expected to reach 10% of GDP by 2051, 7.4% in 2042, and 5.1% in 2032.

Most do not realize that the national debt is already at monumental levels. US gross federal debt to GDP reached 100% by 2012. The ratio remained somewhat stagnant until capitalism became sick with COVID in 2020, and the GDP to debt ratio rose to 128.1%. The figure stood at 137.2% by December of 2021 and has continued to increase.

China no longer wants US debt and has begun to sell off its holdings.

Dot
Dot
August 4, 2022 6:44 pm

Not nonsense Dot. The LDP was neutered years ago by the Trotskyists.

Oh really? What year?

Yes, actual Trotskyists? Internationalist communists? To the far left of Joe Stalin?

Loopy stuff, Winston.

It would be nice to confront these people in a party meeting.

On the other hand, the “Liberal” Party has been trying to destroy the LDP for over a decade, maybe more.

Liberty & Democracy for now, that was popular with the members years ago!

miltonf
miltonf
August 4, 2022 6:46 pm

China no longer wants US debt and has begun to sell off its holdings.

yes that’s interesting- when the US economy was strong I don’t think it was such a big deal but now it’s been deliberately crashed.

Zipster
Zipster
August 4, 2022 6:48 pm

“The girl told like me that I was thing to that little boy, sex (sic),” he said.

Hunter is that you?

Frank
Frank
August 4, 2022 6:50 pm

The white slacks are a mistake, but i gotta say Zoe Daniel is the only teal chook who is actually bangable.

Any bets on which one of the teals will flounce first.

Dot
Dot
August 4, 2022 6:50 pm

miltonf says:
August 4, 2022 at 6:10 pm
Lyin’ hole discredited himself after his ‘tim tam’ comment

Really? One comment?

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 4, 2022 6:51 pm

Jacinta Price blasts Teal MPs over helping to abolish cashless debit card

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Newly elected Country Liberal Senator Jacinta Price has invited teal independents to visit remote indigenous communities and leave behind their “ivory towers”, after the MPs voted with the government to abolish the cashless debit card.

Senator Price, who is a strong proponent of the program, said the teals did not “know the first thing” about’ indigenous Australians, arguing the independent MPs were using their privilege to undermine indigenous women and children.

Her criticisms come after Labor passed legislation through the lower house to abolish the cashless debit card amid concern it was unfairly stigmatising First Nations Australians.

The decision to scrap the program follows an Australian Nat­ional Audit Office report released in June that highlighted a lack of evidence to demonstrate the ­effectiveness of the scheme.

Implemented under the ­Abbott government in 2016, the scheme was designed to encourage socially responsible behaviour by quarantining 80 per cent of a person’s welfare payments on a debit card to prevent it being spent on alcohol and gambling.

It was initially introduced in Ceduna, South Australia, East Kimberley and the Goldfields in Western Australia, and then ­expanded to Bundaberg and Hervey Bay in Queensland. The cost reached $36m in 2020-21, with nearly 17,000 ­people participating as of February this year.

Senator Price argued that the teal independents — many of which represent inner city electorates — did not understand the harmful consequences that would occur as a result of the decision.

“The teals wouldn’t know the first thing about the lives of vulnerable indigenous Australians, they may as well be living on another planet,’ she told The Australian. “To think they would use their privilege to further undermine vulnerable indigenous women and children in remote communities is utterly shameful. “

“I invite them to step out of their ivory towers and come to my part of the world to get some education. No amount of lip service acknowledgments of ‘First Australians’ by these teals will make up for the devastating impacts that will occur as a result of the removal of the CDC.”

But Goldstein MP Zoe Daniel said the evidence to suggest the effectiveness of the scheme ‘did not stack up’ and hence voted to repeal the legislation.

“Evidence that the card reduced alcohol, gambling and domestic (and) financial abuse did not stack up. These issues remain prevalent and need to be addressed in other ways,” she said.

Opposition employment and workplace relations spokeswoman Michaelia Cash said the new teal independents should “hang their heads in shame” after they voted to repeal the cashless debit card on Wednesday, saying they were “completely removed from the reality of life” in Indigenous ­communities.

Senator Cash said a lack of proximity between the teals’ inner-city electorates and remote communities where the scheme was used meant they were unable to understand its benefits.

Senator Cash said the teal independents should listen to Senator Price, whose community understood “what good” the scheme had done.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
August 4, 2022 6:52 pm

Where do these dead shits get numbers like 43% from? or 2 degrees? Not 45% or 40%?

Dunno about the 43 beans in every cup one but the 2 degrees one was invented out of thin air by an economist in 1970. Then, because that wasn’t immediately scary enough, in 2018 they moved it in to 1.5 degrees.

Good for us all that since CO2 is basically harmless that we’ll meet both targets by doing nothing at all. Bad for us all is these kooks aren’t going to do nothing. All pain no gain.

H B Bear
H B Bear
August 4, 2022 6:58 pm

Antonio Guterres was sounding true to his South American roots on the ALPBC this morning. I suspect even Senor KRudd couldn’t top that.

Zipster
Zipster
August 4, 2022 7:01 pm
Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
August 4, 2022 7:02 pm

Antonio Guterres was sounding true to his South American roots

Yup. He’s a full on green Marxist.

UN chief calls for extra taxation on profits made by fossil fuel companies amid global energy crisis (4 Aug)

If you want to force oil prices into the outer solar system then restricting exploration and development and taxing the crap out of the companies is a great way to do it.

miltonf
miltonf
August 4, 2022 7:03 pm

Now that I’m not on Sinc’s blog anymore, I can seriously wonder out loud what economists actually do. IMO their predictions have less credibility than those of a haruspex.

miltonf
miltonf
August 4, 2022 7:07 pm

The old Guterres turd is Portuguese. The world is now ruled by foul old commo/crooked codgers

miltonf
miltonf
August 4, 2022 7:08 pm

I thought Lyin hole went for a Tim Tam when the ALP was trying to stop Abbott’s RC into Union thugs

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
August 4, 2022 7:13 pm

Great coral cover on the Great Barrier Reef, news just out on Bolt and with Peter Ridd commenting on scientific fakery in the service of fake climate change. OK, will James Cook University’s risible VC now be handing back most of that $500 million handed over by the weak and hopeless Liberals who hoped to appease the forces of Gaia?

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 4, 2022 7:13 pm

John M.
8 minutes ago
Sorry Jacinta, the Teals would love to see the problems first hand, but their Electric Vehicles are incapable of making the trip.

Snork, snork…

Roger
Roger
August 4, 2022 7:15 pm

Can those here who are so inclined please keep Sen. Jacinta Price in your prayers.

She is going up against spiritual powers.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
August 4, 2022 7:16 pm

Like Bolt or not, at least he’s not soft on climate change scams.

We need every possible media voice we can get to expose this fraudulent science and save the country, its jobs and economy, rather than believe in ‘saving the planet’. Throw your hotel towels on the floor and refuse to make do withless for no real reason.

miltonf
miltonf
August 4, 2022 7:20 pm

Can those here who are so inclined please keep Sen. Jacinta Price in your prayers.

She is going up against spiritual powers.

yes she’s a treasure and a very brave woman- shows too the that the CLP can get it right

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
August 4, 2022 7:21 pm

That said, Hairy was parked a little to one side of the big gate that opens our resort car park and I was just getting out to swipe the hotel card against a badly placed opening device when up zooms at huge van at a great pace into the space on our right hand side, the gates opening from his own remote control, and in he zips. White van man strikes again, says Hairy. We saw him later by the lift. He’s our hotel laundry man. I felt like telling him to be more polite, it’s my towels that are keeping him in business, but then I thought I don’t know his job, maybe he really was in a tearing hurry to meet some deadline.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 4, 2022 7:24 pm

She is going up against spiritual powers.

She is up against what used to be known – rather rudely – as “airconditioned Aborigines” – they may have had an Aboriginal grandmother – and do very well, out of the “industry” and playing on the “white guilt.”

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
August 4, 2022 7:26 pm

And when will JCU be apologising to Peter Ridd? Never, of course.
They are run by incompetents and self-aggrandizers who have cruelly injured an honest researcher.

Eyrie
Eyrie
August 4, 2022 7:26 pm

Now that I’m not on Sinc’s blog anymore, I can seriously wonder out loud what economists actually do. IMO their predictions have less credibility than those of a haruspex.

Little actually, surrounded by much mumbo jumbo verbiage to conceal the fact. The practice of macroeconomics should be punishable by death.

Tom
Tom
August 4, 2022 7:30 pm

I’m trying, but I’m not sure if I can cope being interned in an Australia where, according to the clowns who run this country’s TV advertising, every female is suddenly, magically tanned.

That is: black.

This bizarre manifestation of milennial self-hatred evidently has something to do with the religious belief for athiests that humans control the climate.

Weird, huh?

cohenite
August 4, 2022 7:32 pm

The July report at http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/current/month/qld/summary.shtml shows one station (Coconut Island) had its hottest ever July daily maximum, with 35 stations having their lowest ever July daily maximum. Coconut Island also had its record highest July mean maximum, with 36 stations having their record lowest July maximum. 11 stations had their lowest mean temperature on record. However, these are records at the existing stations, not their predecessors.

In other catastrophic news the GBR has coral growing back at record rates.

Indolent
Indolent
August 4, 2022 7:34 pm
Rabz
August 4, 2022 7:34 pm

the 2 degrees one was invented out of thin air by an economist in 1970

Bloody economists (again) …

Indolent
Indolent
August 4, 2022 7:34 pm
Rabz
August 4, 2022 7:36 pm

The practice of macroeconomics should be punishable by death

Liberty quote.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
August 4, 2022 7:38 pm

Drove up to Noosa for lunch today but got hungry at Coolum and stopped there instead; didn’t see any of Cloive’s dinosaurs but didn’t actually go into his resort. Had a pleasant Thai-style light lunch and then moved on to do some clothes and shoe shopping in Noosa. Hairy wore the sporty beamer cap that came with the car; going local in Noosa, he says. It’s like Westfields Bondi Junction by the Sea there these days, with all the status chains present in the main show-off street as well as the one-off boutiques. We watched the passing parade and fashions on the beach looking out for any of our friends and neighbours for a while, tested out the cold water, didn’t swim, devoured an ice cream cone each and went home to Mooloolabah. A good day out, approves my happy holidaying love. We’re off out to dinner now.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
August 4, 2022 7:41 pm

I’ll leave you with Jess Hoyle, Tasmanian lesbian woman who wants only lesbian women born without a penis to be able to hold a gathering for only lesians. She’s been told she is probably going to be prosecuted. She’s odd, sweet and innocent looking, laughingly saying that it seems the law doesn’t understand what a woman is and what a lesbian is. She now says she has Asberger’s syndrome, and I wish to hell they would just leave her alone. She has struggles and problems enough.

Dot
Dot
August 4, 2022 7:44 pm

miltonf says:
August 4, 2022 at 7:03 pm
Now that I’m not on Sinc’s blog anymore, I can seriously wonder out loud what economists actually do.

Buy any decent microeconomics text.

Data entry. If you’re a pleb.

Stay away from macroeconomics unless you buy Romer (real stuff) but it requires 2nd year uni calculus.

I used to work at a labour aligned joint. One of the principals got paid thousands (maybe 10k) to write a 20 page opinion piece devoid of data or actual analysis.

Short answer; solve interesting problems for investors or problem makers if you’re lucky.

Unlucky: you are a whore like any lawyer.

Gillard actually quoted me. It’s funny. The same boss made me rewrite some stuff because it was “polemical”. Gillard took what I said out of context too.

I tried to use the labour market section of our annual macro forecasts to push for tax cuts and negative income taxes.

The underboss liked it, despite being a real lefty. At least he understood good policy. The boss thought economic cycles were like clockwork and driven by investment.

Not a deep thinker, in my correct opinion.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 4, 2022 7:45 pm

Look at this muslim bastard:

I’m not normally a vindictive soul, but I’d stake him to a bull ant’s nest, smear him in pork fat and leave him to the crows.

rickw
rickw
August 4, 2022 7:45 pm

A thoroughly decent Australian:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W840JTlD7tw

Dot
Dot
August 4, 2022 7:47 pm

It always amazes me that Deloitte Access had so much street cred.

Their reports had the tone and writing skill of a 14 year old hillbilly.

People pay good money for advice. Tens of thousands for some specialised reports and forecasts.

Show some respect and write professionally.

Winston Smith
August 4, 2022 7:50 pm

Total Government Debt
Total Government Debt$1,557,458,945,745
Total Government Debt is the gross sum of liabilities across federal, state and local Government in Australia.
Total Australian Government Debt increased by a mere 13.5% from December 1989 to December 2007, from AU$81.2 billion to AU$92.1 billion.
However, from December 2008 to December 2017 Total Australian Government debt increased by over 520% from AU$115.4 billion to AU$716.3 billion.

The primary reason behind this increase has been to provide depth in the market for government bonds so that the Reserve Bank of Australia can easily increase liquidity through open market operations by printing more Australian Dollars and buying the government bonds back.

Enough depth for you yet, JC?

Cassie of Sydney
August 4, 2022 7:52 pm

“Ok, this guy offs his girlfriend and gets 20 years. Gets out then offs another girlfriend, gets 30 years. Gets out aged 80, “transitions” into a woman, is placed into a women’s refuge and then offs a another woman and chops her up into pieces.

Nope, don’t think the ABC is going to report this one.”

Of course not, doesn’t fit the narrative. Here in NSW a triple murderer by the name of Reginald Arthurell now identifies as “female’. HE was released last year on parole and now goes by the name “Regina Kaye”….how quaint. But I’ll call him “Reginald” because that’s the truth, a truth that’s inconvenient and I don’t care if I’m accused of “dead naming” HIM. In January of this year Reginald Arthurell was rearrested after an alleged sexual crime. The MSM scum, in their pieces, referred to Reginald as “a NSW woman convicted three times for homicide is back behind bars after being arrested for an alleged sexual crime.”

Clown world.

m0nty
m0nty
August 4, 2022 7:55 pm

So why did you decide to become a lawyer, Dot? Surely economics as a profession helped you sleep better at night.

Top Ender
Top Ender
August 4, 2022 7:55 pm

Queensland Senator Pauline Hanson has declared that she will make herself the face of the “no” campaign against an Indigenous “voice” to parliament, saying that if implemented it would lead Australia down the road to “apartheid.”

Ms Hanson, who walked out of the Senate during an Acknowledgment of Country last week, also revealed that her office had registered 46 website domain names in preparation for the campaign against the voice, which Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has vowed to bring to a referendum during this parliament.

The Daily Telegraph understands Ms Hanson’s office has bought the rights to a number of web addresses including VoicetoParliament.com.au and Ulurustatement.com.au

Daily Tele with comments – will be interesting seeing how they go

Winston Smith
August 4, 2022 7:56 pm

ZK2A:

“airconditioned Aborigines”

Consider it stolen with no chance of attribution.
Too good for that.

Dot
Dot
August 4, 2022 7:57 pm

monty, I refuse to have my dog lecture me on how to sing an opera.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
August 4, 2022 7:57 pm

Cohenite

Been the coldest winter I have experienced in 20 years in Queensland. Even the SST are at lows we regularly don’t see at this latitude. I am suspect of that reading from Coconut Is, however the Is is only 10 deg South so wouldn’t rule it out totally.

Roger

I did some investigative work into a couple of forearc basins around the coastal areas of Mackay and Rocky, one of the risks identified has the tree changers interrupting drilling. Around Calen and further down nestled near Shoalwater Bay Training Area there are a few areas of substantial concentrations of these people. Client in this case offloaded the tenements, the coal apparently wasn’t that great anyway.

That said hopefully Blibbersek is ready for some legal shenanigans.

Cassie of Sydney
August 4, 2022 8:01 pm

Oh and yesterday Monty accused me, on another thread, of being a Christian bigot. LOL, that was a classic. Poor old Monty, he clearly isn’t the sharpest tool in the shed, and he can’t even blame “long Covid” because as we all know, he’s been like this for years.

m0nty
m0nty
August 4, 2022 8:02 pm

monty, I refuse to have my dog lecture me on how to sing an opera.

Ah, so you became a lawyer because you are a bullshit artist.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Border Closure

Rockdoctor says: August 4, 2022 at 7:57 pm

Been the coldest winter I have experienced in 20 years in Queensland. Even the SST are at lows we regularly don’t see at this latitude. I am suspect of that reading from Coconut Is, however the Is is only 10 deg South so wouldn’t rule it out totally.

The Coconut Island reading is Fair Dinkum.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Border Closure

Wow.. just …. WOW…. .
48hrs & something like 100 (attempted) comments, and one actually posted.
(yeah, there’s still a few site issues)

Wow!

rickw
rickw
August 4, 2022 8:09 pm
Winston Smith
August 4, 2022 8:13 pm

Cohenite:

Mr Said’s son Islam Said and brother Yassim Said were later convicted of helping him evade arrest.
Defence attorney Joseph Patton said in opening statements that the police had been too quick to focus on the Egyptian-born Said and suggested that anti-Muslim sentiment was a factor.
He claimed that Sarah Said may have been hallucinating due to extreme trauma when she told police her father had shot her.

It looks like the Defence Lawyer needs to have his qualifications looked at as well.

Cassie of Sydney
August 4, 2022 8:19 pm

“Yaser Said, 65, allegedly shot Amina Said, 18, and 17-year-old Sarah Said and left their bodies in his taxi outside of a hotel in Irving on New Year’s Day 2008 in a so-called “honour killing”.”

I suspect there’s more to the story around those two Saudi girls who were found dead in their Western Sydney unit. There bodies had been there for weeks. The two girls had fled their Saudi family and were seeking refuge in Australia and the word is that they’d been threatened The MSM are saying “suicide” but I have my doubts. Sad story.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
August 4, 2022 8:26 pm

I suspect there’s more to the story around those two Saudi girls who were found dead in their Western Sydney unit.

Regret to say I am in agreeance Cassie. Too many open questions and their behaviour reminded of some fleeting experiences I had in central Asia with a muslim majority. My mate who did a tour of Afghanistan said same about the women cowering in a corner when they searched complexes in Oruzgan. Whatever else there is to this story there’s obviously more to it that the cops or media aren’t going near yet.

Winston Smith
August 4, 2022 8:26 pm
Harlequin Decline
August 4, 2022 8:30 pm

I saw the most preposterous thing on TV I have seen to date. So absurd I had to rewind and play it again.

It was Zoe fucking Daniels saying, and I kid you not-

‘OK, the Goverment doesn’t need our votes but the Government needs our brains’

Never mind the B-Ark, we need a C -Ark.

Dot
Dot
August 4, 2022 8:35 pm

‘OK, the Goverment doesn’t need our votes but the Government needs our brains’

Reverse zombieism.

Dot
Dot
August 4, 2022 8:36 pm

m0nty says:
August 4, 2022 at 8:02 pm
monty, I refuse to have my dog lecture me on how to sing an opera.
Ah, so you became a lawyer because you are a bullshit artist.

Woof!

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
August 4, 2022 8:40 pm

Someone mentioned Saudis?
The Islamic Jihad kids are even worse.
But islamophobia.

Boambee John
Boambee John
August 4, 2022 8:53 pm

Bruce of Newcastlesays:
August 4, 2022 at 6:52 pm
Where do these dead shits get numbers like 43% from? or 2 degrees? Not 45% or 40%?

Dunno about the 43 beans in every cup one but the 2 degrees one was invented out of thin air by an economist in 1970. Then, because that wasn’t immediately scary enough, in 2018 they moved it in to 1.5 degrees.

Good for us all that since CO2 is basically harmless that we’ll meet both targets by doing nothing at all. Bad for us all is these kooks aren’t going to do nothing. All pain no gain.

Even worse, if you actually believe that CO2 is a problem, then nothing we do can have any effect. The eggspurt klimate ” scientists” have calculated (ie, guessed) the quantity of CO2 that can be emitted to have a high (I forget the actual %, but in the 80s IIRC) probability of staying below 1.5 degrees.

Chainerr alone will exceed the estimated limit before 2050. In effect, the rest of the world could shut down completely, and the emission limit will still be exceeded. I suspect that wiser heads than the klimate “scientists” have realised the stupidity of the target and are trying to ignore it.

Boambee John
Boambee John
August 4, 2022 9:03 pm

Dotsays:
August 4, 2022 at 7:47 pm
It always amazes me that Deloitte Access had so much street cred.

Their reports had the tone and writing skill of a 14 year old hillbilly.

People pay good money for advice. Tens of thousands for some specialised reports and forecasts.

Show some respect and write professionally.

I once had occasion to review an Environmental Impact Statement prepared by a top engineering consultancy firm.

I got bored with the text, so I looked at the maps. There was some embarrassment at a later meeting with the consultants, when I pointed to a map they had prepared for the EIS, which showed a stream flowing up one side of a ridge, and down the other.

Top men, top ….men.

Boambee John
Boambee John
August 4, 2022 9:05 pm

m0ntysays:
August 4, 2022 at 7:55 pm
So why did you decide to become a lawyer, Dot? Surely economics as a profession helped you sleep better at night.

It didn’t seem to work that way for you, m0nty-fa.

Boambee John
Boambee John
August 4, 2022 9:07 pm

m0ntysays:
August 4, 2022 at 8:02 pm
monty, I refuse to have my dog lecture me on how to sing an opera.

Ah, so you became a lawyer because you are a bullshit artist.

Sez a j’ismist! ROFLMAO.

rosie
rosie
August 4, 2022 9:26 pm

People are being injected with ballots now?

rickw
rickw
August 4, 2022 9:28 pm

‘OK, the Goverment doesn’t need our votes but the Government needs our brains’

We are so deep into the idiocracy.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 4, 2022 9:35 pm

ZK2A:

“airconditioned Aborigines”

Consider it stolen with no chance of attribution.
Too good for that.

That phrase was coined by the scion of one of the prominent Noongar clans…

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
August 4, 2022 9:40 pm
Zipster
Zipster
August 4, 2022 9:59 pm

‘OK, the Goverment doesn’t need our votes but the Government needs our brains’

crumbed, fried and served with a sharp Sauvignon Blanc

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
August 4, 2022 10:17 pm

Great fun tonight. We had a pub meal in Murphy’s Irish Pub and had dreams of Ireland once again. The band were modern Irish, which means basically loud country and western influence with old Belfaster Van Morrison songs and Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah, Big Boppa’s Great Balls of Fire, and Liverpool Beatles Just Seventeen. This hit parade was leavened with some genuine trad Irish, including Durty Old Town. Finished up on Five Hundred Miles, with me and Hairy stomping away on the dance floor with the pulsing crowd.

It’s Pensioner’s Nite, he had announced distancing himself as we went in, with the room pounding and most people having eaten already. We’ll wait for a table, they’ll be off to bed soon, he opines. We managed eventually to find a spare spot, and yes, the crowd was mostly over 70, just a sprinkling of younger ones, but hey big fella, I tell him, that’s you since May this year. Don’t ask me to dance, I had whispered in the lift going down, as I rushed out grabbing my bag but forgetting to put on my bra again (like most women, I like it off at home). I suggest he notes that I am wearing a loose t-shirt and a cotton wrap. I loose the wrap and the inhibitions and jiggle away on the dance floor anyway. Still firm enough to get away with it, he notes. You old guys, I tease him, as we watch one septugenarian greet a mere acquaintance, a lady of certain years, with a hug and then a couple of quick but public squeezes on her bum. We’re not dead yet seemed to be the general order of the night, and I concur.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 4, 2022 10:27 pm

We had a pub meal in Murphy’s Irish Pub and had dreams of Ireland once again.

Curse you, LizzieB. I’m remembering standing by the statues in O’Connell Street.

“Cheez, they look like bullet holes….”

The General Post Office was just across the road…

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 4, 2022 10:34 pm

“It’s Pensioners night tonight.” says the young bloke on the door.

“Pensioners night? I’ve got a Gold Card. Does that count?”

“Gold Card? What’s one of them?”

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 4, 2022 10:40 pm

John
5 hours ago
If Aboriginals want reparations, get them from the English. They were the ones running the country up to 1901. Australia didn’t legally assume all Englands responibilities.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
August 4, 2022 10:55 pm

Hairy looking at the cruise tours available in Puerto Vallarta where last time we got kicked off our Panama Cruise. We’ve done the Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton one, so don’t pick that, I say. Here’s a good one, he says. You get a Mexican on a horse with a blanket, and he’s wearing a big hat, he encourages. Next, I say. So on we go. And now I’m going to bed and leaving it up to him. Five bays by catamarine and the archaeological exploration, he is murmuring. A mixture between a Mayan and an Olmec city. Sounds OK, I throw out from the bathroom. It’s a museum, he says. Next. Rural communities and traditions? You’ll get people going blur blur blur, he demonstrates. Next. Mountain bikes? Flavours and colours of Mexico? Wait till morning, I advise. Lotsa Irish beer in that pub.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
August 4, 2022 10:56 pm

Mayan folkloric performance, he’s still intoning. Does that involve whipping out of hearts?
Culturally diverse, well, ok, he mutters, mulling it all over.

Top Ender
Top Ender
August 4, 2022 10:59 pm

A Hobart City Council committee has unanimously voted to remove a controversial statue of former Tasmanian premier William Crowther from Franklin Square, with Lord Mayor Anna Reynolds saying the monument symbolised an “appalling period of our history”.

Crowther, who died in 1885, decapitated the corpse of Tasmanian Aboriginal man William Lanne and sent the skull to the Royal College of Surgeons in London.

For his mutilation of Lanne’s corpse, Crowther was suspended from his role as an honorary medical officer at the Hobart General Hospital.

The council’s Community, Culture and Events Committee voted to remove the bronze statue and commission a new interpretation and/or sculpture costing a total of $70,000, with the plinth to be retained and a new permanent home to be found for the statue.

It comes after a report from council officers recommended the Crowther statue’s removal.

The matter will be brought to a final vote at the next ordinary meeting of the council on Monday, August 15.

Top Ender
Top Ender
August 4, 2022 11:00 pm

‘Embarrassing admission’: Teal independent bungles climate vote

Independent MP for Kooyong Dr Monique Ryan, who ousted former Treasurer Josh Frydenberg from his blue-ribbon seat, has accidentally voted against Labor’s landmark climate bill.

Sky News Political Editor Andrew Clennell labelled the admissions from Dr Ryan and Nationals MP Darren Chester, who also voted incorrectly, as “embarrassing”.

H B Bear
H B Bear
August 4, 2022 11:03 pm

Even for a j’ismist Zoe Daniels is unimpressive.

H B Bear
H B Bear
August 4, 2022 11:07 pm

Expect to hear the Teal refrain, “The government doesn’t need our votes but …” a fair bit over the next few years. Time will tell if that is enough for another go round. I have my doubts.

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
August 4, 2022 11:12 pm

As US correspondent, Daniel did bugger all other than sit in a townhouse and recite the Reuters tickertape. Peaked in 2016 when she asked her two young kids how the Trump man made them feel, ABC all over.
Never travelled, never pressed the flesh or got off the Avenues. Blindsided by the God Emperor’s triumph, the only conclusion she could draw was waaacism, white trash and stolen.
Contrast with Steve Kates’ Art Of The Impossible, which was an accidental yet essential account, while the member for Dunning & Kruger is still high on her own brain farts.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
August 4, 2022 11:18 pm

with the plinth to be retained

For the Grace Tame statue, no doubt.

The Beer whisperer
The Beer whisperer
August 4, 2022 11:25 pm

Senator Cash said a lack of proximity between the teals’ inner-city electorates and remote communities where the scheme was used meant they were unable to understand its benefits.

Teals think that civilisation ends beyond Sussex St. And wouldn’t know an aborigine if they called them a fucking white c***.

Arky
August 5, 2022 12:15 am
Winston Smith
August 5, 2022 1:41 am

https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/trans-cheerleader-25-given-assault-citation-after-teammates-denies-gender-identity?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=819
From Zero Hedge – they just keep getting pushier and pushier because the girls won’t stand up to them.

Winston Smith
August 5, 2022 1:53 am

Nancy Pelosi has arrived in South Korea, continuing her Asia tour – now leaving in her wake a tense Taiwan situation that’s seeing Chinese PLA forces encircle the island with live fire drills – but South Korea’s President Yoon Suk-yeol will not meet with her.

As much as I dislike Pelosi, the refusal to meet by the President and the Foreign Minister shows an appalling lack of propriety.
About time to withdraw the 28k personnel based there, I think.

Tom
Tom
August 5, 2022 4:00 am
Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
August 5, 2022 4:00 am

Tom!!
Get to it!!

Tom
Tom
August 5, 2022 4:01 am
Tom
Tom
August 5, 2022 4:02 am
Tom
Tom
August 5, 2022 4:03 am
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