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Leak hit it out of the park.
Ben Garrison.
Lisa Benson.
Tom Stiglich.
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Leak hit it out of the park.
Ben Garrison.
Lisa Benson.
Tom Stiglich.
Wasn’t the only one of the Labor Front bench, who had ever been “on the tools”, Joel Fitzgibbon, who was an auto electrician?
They actually read the Guardian, can you imagine having to talk to the clowns on a daily basis.
Sean Hannity: The FBI has earned their shattered reputation
Harsh, but them’s the breaks.
Think so Zulu. That ‘Dr’ Andrew Leigh is another effete cretin that I loathe.
Vice President Kamala Harris vacations on Kauai in unannounced visit.
Vice President Kamala Harris and second gentleman Doug Emhoff arrived in Lihue this afternoon for an extended vacation on Kauai.
Andrew Leigh has that bunny boiling queen thing down pat.
thefrollickingmolesays:
August 16, 2022 at 6:22 pm
Dear Santa, all i want for Christmas is…
https://spectator.org/does-donald-trump-have-jeffrey-epstein-client-list/
Does Donald Trump Have Jeffrey Epstein’s List of Clients?
Next Step – Trump must know something, because the Swamp has done everything to the man short of assassinate him.
Biden was like that, but look at what he did last week. (Cue seventeen of you chorusing in with “he ain’t done nothin”, because of course you weren’t paying attention.)
My wife pointed out that I was wrong about Kamala being without peer in woke speak gibberish.
Meghan Markle.
Make a choice: continue living your life feeling muddled in this abyss of self-misunderstanding, or you find your identity independent of it. You push for colour-blind casting; you draw your own box. You introduce yourself as who you are, not what colour your parents happen to be.
I stand corrected.
Biden was like that, but look at what he did last week.
What did he do dickless.
Apropos to nothing.
Stay on subject Monty.
Community Service Announcement.
Zulu
“Wasn’t the only one of the Labor Front bench, who had ever been “on the tools”, Joel Fitzgibbon, who was an auto electrician?”
And he sold himself to China, before having an epiphany only after nearly losing his seat to One Nation.
Wasn’t him that did it.
He can still sign his name though, just.
It’s pure elder abuse.
Good thing he doesn’t live in Canada, he be euthanized.
m0nty-fa
“Biden was like that, but look at what he did last week”
Took his reprobate son on holiday with him? Didn’t know what his AG was up to? Got another “10% for the Big Guy”?
Pray regale us. It won’t take long.
Five AFL clubs have been fined for falsifying RAT tests:
The last is particularly amusing.
Hate to be cynical: what are the odds on Trump copping a stray FBI slug and/or the mid terms abandoned?
As bad as that is, just imagine her internal monologue.
As bad as that is, just imagine her internal monologue.
Being an NPC it’s entirely possible that she doesn’t have one!
Well, at least the arseless chaps have been located.
Wow – just watched that entire Mark Robinson speech. MAGAnificent stuff.
They’ll go for the steal first. It worked last time and they would’ve further developed the organization and equipment since then.
What the Dems are trying is to get the “win” without causing a Ft Sumter moment. Which is getting tougher and tougher to achieve. We’ll see if they can thread the needle or not.
Speaking of football, there’s been another entertaining story here in Ncl the last couple of days.
KNIGHTS LAUNCH INVESTIGATION INTO FOOTAGE (Ncl local news, 16 Aug)
I dare not even speculate what they were up to.
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Very interesting video about eating insects — and how they contain toxins that human beings cannot process.
That is, eating bugs makes you sick.
And maybe that’s the reason they want you to eat bugs — to get you sick and therefore more controllable.
Unbelievable.
Geo_monitor
@colonelhomsi
These are the leaflets handed out in nursery schools in the UK..
Russian Stocktake
It was only last week that the WH was saying they knew nothing about the raid until Garland admitted its role.
mUnty sees Potential Greatness in Albo. He is the first. Including most of the Hawke Cabinet. He hides his talent well.
Steve Kirsch
Do you know how many people have been killed worldwide by their governments from the COVID shots?
It’s around 12M. That is 40X the number of Americans who were killed in World War II. It’s more than double the number killed by COVID.
What is it with NRL players and toilets? Most curious.
What were Newcastle’s footy heroes up to in the toilet cubicle, Bruce? Private Eye might have called it ‘discussing Ugandan affairs’.
The reference was to the explanation given by a senior member of Idi Amin’s regime and another Ugandan (in this case if the opposite sex) when the UK police found them together in a toilet cubicle in Heathrow. It became one of Private Eye’s suite of euphemisms (like ‘tired and emotional’ for pissed) that helped them evade libel writs.
Andrew Leigh is the smartest chap on the government side of the house.
It’s not hypocrisy, it’s hierarchy.
Great characters in Private Eye- Miss Rita Chevrolet, Sir Bufton Tufton, Sheldon Roughtrade and of course Glenda Slagggg.
Just listening to Rowan Dean. Absolutely on fire about the vaccine and mandates and playing great sound clips especially from CHO VIC.
A must listen to and share with your mates.
The Frollicking Moll:
With the rumoured investigation of Giuliani, I think we need to realise the Mid Term elections are going to be corrupted beyond repair.
It all started with Obama and the politicisation of the apparatus of the Organs.
From “sit down, boofhead” to “agree or else” in the space of an election night.
Test
Test successful.
That’s a trifle presumptive. Do we still have a list of banned words? I miss the frisson of seemingly random moderation.
Hmmm… frottage
Jordan Peterson repost, well worth watching:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=–QS_UyW2SY
Courier Mail. Queensland kids might not be able to read, write or do sums, but they’ll all be first bottle on the “First Nations” and “reconciliation.”
This will make Palaszchak about as popular as a turd in a swimming pool.
In my district anyway.
The original Eye story was about the deeply unlovely Irish journo, Mary Kenny, backing up some Ugandan politician at a political pissup.
That may well have been bullshit.
If only it were that benign.
They’ll be taught any old bullshit, be given immunity from the law, immunity from children removal no matter how bad they may behave as parents, and be treated like royalty by the mere existence of a single distant relative more than others have.
Both Victoria and Queensland have preempted the referendum, given radicals the opportunity to fuck up their chances before the referendum even gets out of the starting gate.
Wodger:
I’m not sure there was anything sinister about it, but why the secrecy?
That fact alone has my spidey senses twitching.
Generally speaking, politicians are stupid and arrogant people, largely devoted to political careerism. Unfortunately, aboriginal people, particularly in the communities, are not being well served by their flabby, self-serving dishonesty.
At some point someone will have to explain what ‘treaty’ means – to the people who actually have to pay for it.
What’s most relevant to twenty first century Australia – two million tons of fertiliser a year, which won’t have to be imported, or cave paintings, song lines and rock art?
This is from earlier today about the collapse in volunteering and donating to charities. How can there not be a collapse when the people running the charities are all woke? Recently I had to reply to several begging emails that they may get my donations when they stop pushing climate change alarmism considering that their charities have nothing to do with the environment.
These are highlights from the latest NT Independent editorial, which sets out a few examples of Faustus’ statement and delivers a compelling reason why the NT is no different to anywhere else in the country:
There’s more, but it culminates in this most excellent and accurate assessment:
BAM. Right on the button.
Dover Beach:
You may be right, DB, but why the secrecy?
Probably because it would only come into effect in the event of incapacity of one of the relevant Ministers.
..
Incorrect he used at least one of the ministerial powers to over ride the gas exploration.
So, no, your premise is wrong.
Dover, if the reason for dual ministers was so benign, then telling and selling it to the voting public would have been easy.
But they didn’t. Which prompts us to speculate on the possibly nefarious reasons for becoming an additional Minister in 5 portfolios without notifying Australians.
Whatever his reasons for taking such unprecedented action, he treated us like fools.
KAMALA HARRIS: “Equity as a concept says recognize that everyone has the same capacity,
I prefer George C Scott as General Patton:
“Don’t ever let anyone feed you any of that “equality” bullshit. Men are not born equal. Anyone who’s ever seen a race or a fight knows that.”
Think “reparations”.
What was to be the definition of incapacity and was it to be the same in each respective ministerial case and who was to declare incapacity and was Morrison himself beyond being incapacitated.
John Spooner.
Mark Knight.
Warren Brown.
Warren Brown #2.
David Rowe.
Patrick Blower.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Matt Margolis.
Al Goodwyn.
Chip Bok.
Lisa Benson.
Thanks Tom
Woman sparks uproar by declaring that being fat is not beautiful
A woman has come under fire after stating that she believes “fat people are not beautiful” and that “being fat is not okay”.
The anonymous Australian woman was featured in a TikTok video on a channel called Common Ground Convos, a page that says they “ask the important but controversial question, then try to find common ground”.
On a video captioned “Is it okay to be fat? What do you think?”, the host asks a woman on the street her opinions about obesity.
“I can’t do fat people. It’s not okay to be fat,” the woman declared.
Holding up a photograph of plus-size influencer Tess Holliday, the interviewer asks the woman what she thinks.
“No I can’t look at that, sorry, I can’t,” she said.
“Would you ever consider that beautiful? Would you ever consider that healthy?” he probed.
She answered a firm “no” to both, shaking her head.
“Why are young people being told that beauty is just a social construct?” he continued.
“That’s bulls–t” she replied.
“I can’t do fat people. Do you want a fat person waddling, they can’t walk because their thighs are so big?
“It’s not healthy and it doesn’t look good.
“Maybe I’m politically incorrect, but I don’t give a s–t.”
Dilbert
9 out of 10 in the Oz quiz today.
Kind of ok I had no idea about the Downtown Abbey question.
The only update on the talking points is that surrogates are now generally quiet on the fact that the FBI did actually take Trumps passports.
I find it fascinating that one person can make part of the population lose their minds.
I’m thinking Pavlov.
There is nothing in my universe that sets me off the way Trump triggers these guys.
I wonder what it feels like.
If Morrison’s multi-ministering in any way contributed to the mandating of vaccines, then I want to see him swing.
The Chinese urge caution over the Germans participating in Australian exercises.
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202208/1273148.shtml
The Munich radio station I listen to online had a report about Exercise Pitch Black on a news bulletin yesterday. My German was good enough to understand that they were talking about the RAAF and military exercises with the Americans, Japanese and South Koreans but not good enough to understand why they were talking about it. This explains it.
Scott Morrison fucked is harder than any of the Greens have.
Did it get this buck toothed loon any more votes?
NO!
fucked US, thanks autocorrect, you cock.
Not sure how to feel about this.
In the news alert, the WSJ won’t name this all important bill.
Biden Signs Bill Aimed at Lowering Drug Costs, Boosting Renewable Energy
President Biden signed into law sweeping legislation to lower prescription drug prices, boost the renewable energy sector and impose new taxes on large corporations. Democrats hope it will improve their prospects heading into November’s midterms.
Are they refusing to promote the “Inflation Reduction Bill”?
Or are they trying to smother the idiotic name?
I’m having trouble reading the Inflation Reduction legislation.
What passed the House is 273 pages but not in the format of other other ones like the CARES Act (600 odd pages) or the Omnibus bill (2700+ pages).
Is this because it originated in the Senate?
Can anyone help?
Liberty Quote
On Monday there was a rare debate between a catastropharian and a climate realist.
The Koonin-Dessler Debate (16 Aug)
The realist won. They always do, every single time.
SloMo’s legacy didn’t last long.
The good news for ScoMo is that he doesn’t have to worry about a quid post parliament due to the US subs deal.
History has a way with dealing with people. Eventually.
Yes. Unlike Hockey and Sinodinos I don’t think he will be popping up on the Washington cocktail circuit any time soon.
Five out of my six kids work in gov jobs, education, police and customs, the oldest boy (man) works as an electrician. All of them started work in private businesses but moved to gov jobs over the years. I don’t like it but understand and support their decisions. The pay, conditions and security in gov jobs is amazing.
When I started work in the 70’s gov jobs were lower paid by a fair margin and the security sort of made up for the loss of income. Now gov jobs are the leaders in all pay and conditions. It shouldn’t be like this but it is.
I’m struggling to imagine a circumstance where the PM could be sworn in to an already occupied ministry without the relevant minister’s knowledge. If there was a perfectly reasonable explanation, why didn’t he tell them?
Or…They might be lying about not knowing. Surely the Angus Taylor would have known about the gas exploration cancellation, or at least asked questions when it was shelved.
What is going on here?
Don’t worry, ScoMo will be part of some US think tank or at least on their circuit before he knows it.
All these former PM’s must be devastated that they couldn’t run the Shanghai Shuttle like Hawke did bringing CCP bigwigs to Australia for their medical treatment.
A favour which they never forgot.
Hawkey did very nicely riding the tail of the dragon. Ask Blanche.
Aboriginal leader Warren Mundine is being bombarded with hundreds of racial threats and abusive messages every day for opposing the Indigenous Voice to Parliament.
Daily Mail
After Zemin let Josh set up shop in Beijing & Shanghai, Bob & Blanche had a grand ol’ time.
Effectively a monopoly over all CCP relationships.
I wonder why Bramston has never written about that part of Labor party history.
fucked US, thanks autocock, you correct. I don’t use autocorrect.
While scary talk about a possible nuclear war gives news sites a bit of clickbait, sober analysis reveals that Australia has abandoned so many key capabilities that we are vulnerable to catastrophes a lot less severe than that.
We no longer have any heavy industries. Our power system teeters on the brink of collapse. Fuel for planes, cars, trucks and locomotives has to be imported and the buffer stock is only weeks not months. Gas exploration and extraction is mostly verboten. Rail lines are abandoned, overgrown, no longer maintained, while we do have coal and water which used to allow us to run steam locos.
Food production is difficult to maintain without petrol and diesel. Distribution is impossible without petrol and diesel.
We live in the age of massive political failure.
Did Scomo collect multi salaries from his multi ministries role?
Does Scomo collect multi pensions on his retirement from multi ministries role?
Does Scomo not collect $200 , not pass go and go straight to jail
If this is the character of even just some of those supporting The Voice then that in itself is a reason to reject it, for it will be theirs soon enough.
Tallyho
ChapsBluds.sfw, and the good superannuation. My wife took a 50% pay cut to go into the APS purely for the conditions. Mate’s corporate accountant daughter did the same thing. Funny thing, my daughter did the opposite. Is being paid 50% more, better conditions, avoids the toxic APS even though still doing the same work but has no contact with the plebs.
It’ll be interesting to see the parliamentary dining room if Scumo sits by himself. All his colleagues walking past saying “arsehole”.
All the kids work for private enterprise bar one (for about a year now), who is very ambivalent about their role. Sure the pay and conditions in the qango are excellent, but the standard of work, even down to presentation and dress is giving them the heebie jeebies.
I don’t think it will be too long before they are back in corporate, having suckled on the teat of Public Money and found it tasteless.
The usual Constitutional talking heads lining up to give SloMo and the Lieborals a kick.
As someone who never took much pleasure from kicking the dog, I almost feel sorry for them.
C.L. (see Blogroll) has an excellent thread up about ScoMo of the MultiTask.
What all Cats already know but worth the read anyhow.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/08/greens_should_embrace_nuclear_microreactors.html
Closest I got to a government job was a contractor to the UK public service. It was “interesting” but paid the bills. We did a consulting job for a WA LGA and put a ban on ever working for that tier of government again. And never did.
Scroll to the offending pic.
The mark of a narcissistic totalitarian git is to inject yourself into everything.
https://www.9news.com.au/national/victoria-government-driving-tests-free-learner-and-pplate-driver-victoria/c7d73b64-0ad1-47d7-8cfc-1972fc01d47b
When Pelosi is voting to send poor kids to fight China over Taiwan, remember this.
From the WSJ:
U.S. Approves Nearly All Tech Exports to China, Data Show
The U.S. approves nearly all requests to export tech to China, data show, despite identifying tech competition with Beijing as a top national-security threat.
Thanks Will. Always love Dilbert.
You lot are so predictable.
Pop over to Currency Lad.
C.L puts up a spot on piece about the Elbow’s hypocritical oaths.
mUnty is disappointed.
The greening of the Scotchlandian National Socialist Party polis.
Secret SloMo dying on the vine. ALPBC reduced to interviewing PK. Eeew, how Tasmanian.
Not sure why the Chinese would be concerned about the Germans. Everything I have read suggests they are far from the fighting force they were in WW2.
“The Chinese urge caution over the Germans participating in Australian exercise”
So much for a respectful national discussion.
elevating that which you try to hide
streisand in the gears of the propaganda machine.
U.S. Government data confirms a 143,233% increase in Cancer cases due to COVID Vaccination
Sad.
End Wokeness
@EndWokeness
This is what dementia looks like:
https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1559635564248301568?s=20&t=VMwAtdraqGum9IadTFF6MQ
I suggest what they’re concered about is the multi-national character of the growing alliance being arrayed against them in the region. Neither they, nor Putin, anticipated such a response from a West they regarded as supine.
Thailand study of young adults post jab showed nearly 30% with cardiovascular injuries
“You lot are so predictable.”
LOL, the ever predictable kettle m0nty-fa calls various pots black.
Supporters of the “Voice” don’t hold the high moral ground, after all?
Mask Mandates Ineffective in Los Angeles: USC and UCLA Doctors
Trump’s Espionage? Washington DC and the Pundits Won’t Talk About This, But I will
Bourne1879
“Not sure why the Chinese would be concerned about the Germans. Everything I have read suggests they are far from the fighting force they were in WW2.”
Just reminding their local lackeys exactly who holds their individual purse strings.
Never stand between an aboriginal activist and a trough of tax payers money.
I suspect that there are no end of shenanigans that take places within parties and cabinets, and that the model of discrete responsibilities aligning with portfolios and headed by individual ministers who cooperate as a team has been treated as an ideal belonging to stable times – but unfortunately for every government they just happen to be in desperate times, so the model is eternally in temporary abeyance.
Prime Minsters (and Premiers) constantly, I believe, meddle with their ministerial lieutenants’ conduct, even outright overruling them.
Morro and Bishop, in their respective portfolios, performed with steely resolution under Abbott. ScoMo withstood the MSM barrage about the inhumanity of stopping the boats (and thereby actually did stop the death toll the smuggling trade exacted) and Bishop was the indefatigable champion after the Malaysian Airlines crash such that she even won an award from the Dutch for her spirited refusal to backdown when being fobbed off.
After Abbott did anyone see anything of that character again. I think it was pretty clear that Abbott was the real force behind them.
What Morro did sidelining the frankly useless Hunt was probably just a formalised version of what happens in practice all the time. In this case just one moron substituting for another. In fact given Hunt’s history as a misanthrope, in this case a warmy, I would guess Morro was more restrained than Hunt would have been.
As Samuel Johnson said: There is no settling the point of precedence between a louse and a flea.
All of them are just insects living off the warm sweet blood they can suck from Australia.
This idiocy never seems to end
Scottish Express
@ScotExpress
NEW: SNP humiliation as they invest £20m in electric police vehicles but not chargers to use the
Meanwhile in Gloucester
Electric police cars are ‘running out of puff’ and causing ‘lots of problems’
ELECTRIC police cars are running out of charge when responding to emergencies because the sirens and blue lights drain the batteries, according to a Police and Crime Commissioner.
Gloucester Constabulary has the largest full electric fleet in the UK, with 21 percent of their 435 vehicles being electric. Chris Nelson, Conservative Police and Crime Commissioner for Gloucester, said officers who were driving the electric vehicles had difficult experiences finding chargers in the county.
Mr Nelson acknowledged that some officers, especially in more rural areas, were having issues locating charging stations.
Speaking at a recent police and crime panel, the PCC said he was concerned about the operational impact electric vehicles were having on the force.
He added: “We’ve all got to go towards electric vehicles. We have the largest fleet by percentage size – that has brought its problems.
“The design options available for electric vehicles for operational uses are not perhaps as advanced as I would like them to be.
“So, let’s put it like this, I’m cautious about going any further down that road at this stage.
Why do P-Platers need driving tests?
On the topic of the States signing treaties with the indigenous – I’m waiting for the first High Court challenge, to see if they have that power…
I upticked this. It is one of those funny, highly ironic comments with which H B Bear graces Catallaxy.
Yet only me and someone else have so far upticked it.
Made me suspect that ironic commentary has gone the way of the dodo.
Too many people are literalists around here now?
Not that the Chinese didn’t have reasons to doubt the ability or even the willingness of Western countries to stand in their way:
‘From backlog Britain in January to blackout Britain in December, the government appears to be speedrunning economic development in reverse. The allegation that the UK is becoming an “emerging market country” is untrue; “emerging” implies a degree of forward motion and optimism that simply is not present…
In 2022, the government is planning to implement South African style “load shedding” — organised blackouts. This is where endless, relentless short-termism governed by “poll of the week” priorities gets you; it’s easier to shut down chunks of the country a few years on than to face an angry letter from a small cluster of NIMBYs.’
The failing state we’re in.
More – Police stations across Scotland given electric vehicles despite having no charging points
More than 20 police stations in Scotland are home to electric vehicles despite not having any charging points.
The national constabulary has invested almost £20 million over the last three years in electric vehicles as part of its drive to create “a fit-for-purpose, efficient, effective and sustainable 21st century police service”.
But the Scottish Lib Dems said its research found the number of available charging points had not kept pace with the number of cars bought.
Figures obtained via Freedom of Information found there were 23 police stations with no chargers.
And one police officer alleged electric vehicles were being left overnight “in various council car parks” as a result.
Plus
Electric vehicles slammed by readers as ‘too expensive’ and ‘inconvenient’
MOTORISTS are not willing to swap to an electric or hybrid vehicle to reduce their environmental impact, a new poll of Express.co.uk readers has found.
The UK Government is encouraging drivers to stop using petrol and diesel vehicles to help meet net-zero emissions targets. The sale of new petrol and diesel vehicles will be phased out by 2030 and hybrid vehicle sales will also cease in 2035.
Electric vehicles run off batteries which require external charging while a hybrid is powered by a smaller self-generating battery alongside a petrol or diesel engine.
In a poll that ran from 5pm on Wednesday, July 29, to 2pm on Tuesday, August 9, Express.co.uk asked readers: “Would you choose an EV or a hybrid car for now?”
Overall, some 3,375 people responded with the vast majority, 75 percent (2,524 people) answering “no” they would not switch to an EV or hybrid car.
A further 23 percent (762 people) said “yes” they would, while just three percent (89 people) said they did not know either way.
Dozens of comments were left below the accompanying article as readers discussed the benefits and drawbacks of switching from a petrol or diesel vehicle.
Most readers were against replacing their vehicles with electric models.
One reader, username The taxilady wrote: “NEVER. Diesel until I die.”
Username Elsie forever said: “I will never own a disposable electric car. Batteries that last a short time. The cost of these vehicles is astronomical. The plan will never work.”
Via Moon of Alabama:
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2022/08/a-marines-assessment-of-russias-military-operation-in-ukraine-a-profound-appreciation-of-all-three-realms-in-which-wars-are-waged.html
Our utopian future.
Hyperbowl Award of the Week!
Labor says Morrison was “running a secret state” and “undermining democracy”.
Daytime Sky’s Laura Jayes is feeding lines to Shorten: kick him out of the party?
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Bearesays:
August 17, 2022 at 9:12 am
Too many people are literalists around here now?
Que? from an Illiterati
Not sure why the Chinese would be concerned about the Germans. Everything I have read suggests they are far from the fighting force they were in WW2.
Maybe, overall, but I bet their individual fighter pilots are pretty good. They have a tradition to uphold going back to von Richthofen and there is still a Richthofen Geschwader in the Luftwaffe.
The Beer whisperersays:
August 17, 2022 at 9:18 am
Our utopian future.
Brilliant – Australia today!
Australia is a Federation of States; the States allocated some powers to the Federal Government via the Constitution; ergo the States have absolute power to do everything else. I don’t think there would be any restrictions from the State “constitution” Acts.
Says the party spearheading The Voice.
Peanut Head does faux outrage quite well. Albo needs work.
I see the feckless Liberals are lining up to sink the boot in as well.
Can’t see the wood for the trees.
I think it was pretty clear that Abbott was the real force behind them.
Yes, and down in Victoristan how many Labor Ministers just do as they are told by Dan?
Or, to put it bluntly, how many portfolios does he run?
No Constitution can prevent sheep in Cabinet.
My two children with Hairy are both double-degree lawyers, with masters in accountancy and taxation. One in corporate sector the other in public sector. The corporate pay is better but the hours are punishing for high achievers, as is the work. The public sector job has plenty of family time and is far less competitive and with less clear lines for achievement.
The problem is that if such a treaty was to be binding in international law – as treaties are by their nature as legal instruments- only the Commonwealth could enter into it.
The Orange Oaf (h/t JC) has magical qualities that cause panic in the lefties who emote about themselves online 24/7.
a) He does stuff instead of talking about it;
b) he is very good at what he does outside politics and makes lots of money;
c) he’s a highly intelligent alpha male;
d) he’s the most popular public figure in the USA since JFK.
e) like 75% of the population, he can’t stand the corruptocrats, pervs and parasites who run the country.
Americans who’ve not yet been born will not only be horrified by the hoodlums who tried to wreck the country in the 2020s, but fascinated by the businessman who went to Washington in 2016 as a corruption-buster.
Even some of the radical trash now understand that making Trump a martyr is backfiring big-time and assassinating him would trigger a second civil war, which would destroy the Democratic Party and the American left.
Otherwise, what you have is a Clayton’s treaty.
Would the indigenous activists be happy with that?
I should think they’d want a treaty with teeth in international law.
The world is a stage and every activist an actor.
An AFR columnist is saying BHP must sell it’s met coal operations.
Lizzie I gave you an uptick to make you feel better. I think upticks are overrated.
Doesn’t stop me from giving them though.
ML:
What Morro did sidelining the frankly useless Hunt was probably just a formalised version of what happens in practice all the time
There’s more to it than that. The fact that the original reason for this setting up of a “shadow” ministerial responsibility for Health was because of the excessive power that s.475 of the Biosecurity Act when invoked would give the minister responsible.
That Morrison was concerned enough about the use (and possible misuse) of that power under Hunt (or anyone in the portfolio) and at the first opportunity it would be needed to be invoked, speaks volumes about how all legislation in Australia – but especially the type of legislation that creates excessive power over Australians at times of extreme circumstances, which is the very moment when it will be implemented – is being developed, finalised and passed into the laws of this land. It seems that no-one in parliament is reading this stuff before voting on it.
An example of the overreaching of power in legislation seemingly as a matter of course is the push last year by then minister, Stuart Robert, to have the Trusted Digital Identity legislation passed into law. From the submissions, many Australians have pointed out that it could create in Australia a similar system to the Chinese Social Credit System.
Question is, is it still going through the processes under the bureaucrats to be made law? Will Labor as a matter of course take it up? Or with the Coalition loss has it fallen into the rubbish bin of stupid ideas?
All true pointers. If you’ve ever run a Department, as I have, you’ll know that, as well as direction-setting, leadership requires both knowledge of what is going on across a range of areas and also the ability to guide but not interfere unless very necessary, and even then, to do so legally, with transparency and hopefully some support.
It is the formalising of the positions into the Prime Ministership that has caused Morrison his present grief, allowing Albanese to have a field day. As I’ve said here before, it was underestandable, albeit a panic move, in the early phases of the Covid threat, but certainly not after the Great Barrington Declaration in October 2020 (which btw I signed as an MPH), and unconscionable in 2021. especially with its use prior to the Federal election to axe the gas field explorations.
That was Morrison as his political worst, as a greenie seeking votes. A hill he’s died on.
Tomsays:
August 17, 2022 at 9:37 am
There is nothing in my universe that sets me off the way Trump triggers these guys.
The Orange Oaf (h/t JC) has magical qualities that cause panic in the lefties who emote about themselves online 24/7.
As Summed up by
Dear Professionally Republican….
August 16, 2022 | Sundance
…. We can see you.
MAGA is the voice of the working class.
The working class is what keeps all the shit working. We are the binding within the patchwork quilt of our constitutional republic.
The working class that had been beaten, put down, isolated, disconnected from policy, ridiculed for not having pedigree, all of it, became United in MAGA.
It’s a massive political tent. The biggest political coalition in the history of American politics.
Candidate Trump introduced the professional GOPe to economic nationalism. They, perhaps you, hated him for it.
President Trump then initiated economic nationalism.
The MAGA working class immediately felt the benefits of economic nationalism.
This is what unifies the MAGA base and attaches to President Donald Trump.
This is what both wings of the professional political class just do not understand, a President Trump has created a movement and collected the largest factual constituency of voters in the nation. This is the hill we stand upon, there is no other position.
No amount of media spin is going to change the reality of that political landscape.
The MAGA coalition is the most diverse, widest and deepest part of the entire American electorate. President Trump’s army consists of every creed, color, race, gender, ethnicity and orientation. It is a truly color-blind coalition of middle America patriots and middle-class voters that cuts through the political special interest groups.
Quite simply Trump’s MAGA army is the ultimate party.
No Republican will ever hold office in the next decade without the blessing of both President Trump and this coalition. There is absolutely no reason to believe that we will not lay waste to the republican system if the GOP acquiesces to the transparent political targeting of the Biden-Harris Dept of Justice.
Beyond the politics… this 100 million vote assembly are consumers of products, goods and services generated by the same elites that hold them in contempt. If President Trump transfers and directs that energy, entities and even entire industries can be wiped out. even more dislike.
Pompeo, DeSantis, Noem, Haley, Pence, Cheney et al. None of them carry the working-class coalition.
We do not yet know where this current political crisis is going to end; but we do know that 100,000,000 Americans will not accept the outcome of a political process transparently filled with two-tiers of justice, corruption and federal manipulation. That makes President Trump a very dangerous entity to the DC system, regardless of whether they admit what surrounds them.
There is no reference point for 100 million Americans being disenfranchised by Wall Street, bribery, corporations, corporate media and big tech. That 100-million-person army is fuel for a cataclysmic shift in the American landscape.
Trump because F**K YOU, has been s a very powerful force!
Tread carefully….
No upticks Tom but I heartily agree. Can we have an attempt on Trump to have a precursor to Civil War where the top 10% of the left are removed. I am of the view if someone threatens you believe them and take appropriate action as to what you see fit to do. I personally have never threatened anyone but have responded to my satisfaction.
Just to Cheer Everyone Up!
Full-scale nuclear war could kill 5 billion people, study shows
Hong Kong | Five billion people would die in a modern nuclear war as the impact of a global famine – triggered by sunlight-blocking soot in the atmosphere – would probably far exceed the casualties caused by lethal blasts.
Scientists at Rutgers University mapped out the effects of six possible nuclear conflict scenarios. A full-scale war between the US and Russia, the worst possible case, would wipe out more than half of humanity, they said in the study published in the journal Nature Food.
The estimates were based on calculations of how much soot would enter the atmosphere from firestorms ignited by the detonation of nuclear weapons. Researchers used a climate forecasting tool supported by the National Centre for Atmospheric Research, which allowed them to estimate productivity of major crops on a country-by-country basis.
Even a relatively small-scale conflict would have devastating consequences for global food production. A localised battle between India and Pakistan would cause crop yields to decline by an estimated 7 per cent within five years, the study suggested. A US-Russia war would make production fall by 90 per cent within three to four years.
Researchers also considered whether utilising crops now used as animal feed or reducing food waste could offset losses in the immediate aftermath of the conflict, but concluded that savings would be minimal in larger-scale battles.
The study comes after the spectre of conflict between the US and Russia was raised following Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned in April that there was a “serious” risk of nuclear war breaking out.
“The data tell us one thing,” said Alan Robock, the study’s co-author and a professor of climate science in the Department of Environmental Sciences at Rutgers University. “We must prevent a nuclear war from ever happening.”
Excellent point re Andrews.
Rules Victoria with an iron fist.
Iirc he refused to speak to Northcote mp Fiona Richardson for about three years prior to her death because she somehow crossed him.
He openly operates a mini cabinet, no shock horror from Shorten.
Many Labor mps, including ministers, in Victoria are not standing again, pushed under buses with monotonous regularity, no-one dares look sideways, people must get sick of it eventually.
“The working class can kiss my arZe
I’ve got the boss’s job at last!”
Followed By!
Get ready for a wet summer as La Nina returns
Australia faces a 70 per cent chance of La Nina returning this spring, with a high likelihood of wet conditions over the next three months, just after massive floods hit the east coast earlier this year, the country’s weather bureau said on Tuesday.
With La Nina, sea surface temperatures in the eastern Pacific Ocean are cooler than normal, waters in the western tropical Pacific are warmer than normal, water moisture in the air picks up and brings rain to eastern and central Australia.
The three-month climate outlook shows a “high chance of above average rainfall for most of the eastern two-thirds of the Australian mainland between September and November 2022,” the Bureau of Meteorology said in a climate driver update.
The return of La Nina this spring, which starts in September, comes after devastating floods hit eastern Australia amid relentless heavy rains earlier this year.
“With wet soils, high rivers and full dams, and the outlook for above average rainfall, elevated flood risk remains for eastern Australia,” the bureau said.
Australia experienced back-to-back La Nina years in 2020 and 2021.
In July, meteorologists put the odds of La Nina returning at 50/50 but a final declaration can’t be made until October or November at the earliest.
If confirmed, 2022 would see the fourth instance of three consecutive La Nina events since records began in 1900.
Winter in Europe this winter is going to be very interesting.
Seeing how often domestic turns itself off if one dares to try to cook with the washing machine on, or as in one Paris apartment, use two hotplates at the same time, self inflicted power shortages are a certainty.
Conservatives, hey?
LOL no. The big tell on that one is how Trump in office did very little to help the working class, and signed bills designed to help the rich like himself.
Is the author of that nonsense in on the con, or is he dumb as a post?
Sooo…..remember when SCOTUS turned abortion rights back to the states & it was the biggest story on the planet?
Well overnight China has announced further restrictions to access abortions but not a peep from the western media.
It’s part of a larger package to stimulate population growth.
You will have more access to abortion in Ohio & Indiana than you will in most European nations & China.
The corporate media might just be misleading the morons who still believe what they produce.
Boston Children’s Hospital Throws Child Off Roof After She Claims To Be A Bird
Maaaaaaaaate!
As long as it kills some of the birds outside my window all day every day, I am fine with that.
Top Doctor Blasts CDC For Failing to Research Heart Injuries in Children
A new medical study out of Thailand is detailing alarming heart inflation cases among young boys after they were given the COVID-19 mRNA vaccine. Top doctors in the United States are taking notice.
“This study does matter; it is important. It is the first prospective study of biomarkers post vaccine. It came from Thailand. It is concerning. It captures so many failures with drug safety,” Dr. Vinay Prasad writes on his website. “The authors ran a bunch of tests on kids (202 boys, 99 girls) aged 13-18 who got the 2nd dose of Pfizer, after getting the first dose without adverse events. The EKG changes in the pre-print are not the story. The story are rates of cardiac biomarkers and how often they are elevated. 3 patients had chest pain and biomarker elevation; 4 patients had no chest pain but elevated cardiac biomarkers. These were all in boys. 7/202 boys had overt or subclinical myocarditis (3.5%) or roughly 2 orders of magnitude more common than prior reports from passive adverse event reporting of myocarditis.”
“The fact the US, CDC, NIAID, FDA, etc etc. have to rely on a Thailand preprint for the first prospective study of cardiac biomarkers is mind-boggling negligence. The US and this CDC have shown that either they are incompetent to take safety signals seriously, or indifferent to safety. They earn Grade F. This study should have been done in the USA, by Pfizer 1 month after EUA was granted. End of story,” he continued.
Johns Hopkins University professor Dr. Marty Makary is also blasting the CDC for failing to research heart injuries.
Mother Lodesays:
August 17, 2022 at 10:02 am
Full-scale nuclear war could kill 5 billion people, study shows
As long as it kills some of the birds outside my window all day every day, I am fine with that.
Noisy Miners?
ABC Radio no less – Native or not, it’s time to cull noisy miners
Why are ‘heart injuries’ being discussed as a novelty?
Israel reported myocarditis as a side effect from Pfizer in young men from the get go.
Attorney General Garland’s stature shrinks as he doggedly pursues Trump
Opinion by Jonathan Turley
Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University and a member of USA TODAY’s Board of Contributors.
I remembered last night that even way back in one of the early seasons of Law and Order (I remember because Fred Thompson played the character and I was surprised to hear a repudiation of a progressive sacred cow – which has the right to abort its calves right up until birth and preferably after) Roe v Wade was brought up, and even there the point Fred’s character made was that it was bad law, based on a non-existent constitutional right to privacy.
Always seemed a stretch – a right to privacy becoming a right to an abortion because the procedure is between a doctor and a patient. If the procedure is illegal then being private about it does not make it legal. Doctors could inject someone an addict with barbiturates – does that become legal merely because it is private?
Yes, it’s telling that everything is an emergency or a crisis.
And it always has the same solution.
The only interesting things is how stupid and ignorant someone can be and still manage to breath in and out.
Carl Sagan was wrong about the “nuclear winter”, as the Gulf War demonstrated, with many hundreds of oil well pumping black soot into the atmosphere, nothing much happened. Sagan built his “scientific” career on creating theoretical models of planetary atmospheres that was merely speculation. Nice work if you can get it. He was wrong about everything, including “global warming”.
Grange is wasted on people from Rockingham. Although I wouldn’t expect Sneakers to mix it with Coke. Been mixing with Chardonnay Socialists for too long for that (no pun intended).
Just looked down and noticed that my gold ring which is set with three saphires has lost one of its stones. There is simply a gaping hole where it was, which I am staring at with disbelief. Sentimentally, I had it made from a single earring when I lost its partner outside the Metropole Hotel in Hanoi. That loss sounds careless but it is easily done: lost single earrings litter archaeological museums. The earrings had been a birthday present some years ago from Hairy. The loss of this claw-set stone is my fault for wearing the ring constantly no matter what I am doing. Now I’m looking at my gold eternity ring which I wear all the time too, also from Hairy, with five large channel-set diamonds, imagining a similar gap there.
A gap in the fabric of time.
Personally I won’t allow Grange at the club. How gauche. Perhaps a Henschke or a Moss Wood.
Melania Trump shows off her freshly coiffed locks as she leaves NYC salon.
The “Metropole” – the “Grand Old Lady of Hanoi.” French paratroop officers had a drinks party in the bar there, before they jumped into Dien Bien Phu….
True enough. Into the lower atmosphere. A different thing altogether when a huge explosion forces debris into the higher atmosphere. In 1815 Krakatoa exploded and the world experienced a year-long loss of power in the sun, with diminished heat and light, which affected crops and caused localised famines. Same thing happened with volcanic eruptions in circa 1400bc and in 536ad, which both seem to have caused chaotic conditions world-wide for a period of years.
Ahaha! Comment from P’s twitter link:
The Bipartisan Demand to Reveal What Is in the Classified Documents Taken From Mar-a-Largo
Sens. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Mark Warner (D-Va.) sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland and Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines demanding specific information on the classified documents that FBI agents allegedly found at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Largo residence.
The two senators are the chairman and ranking minority member of the Senate Intelligence Committee and represent a growing bipartisan consensus in the Senate that the extraordinary search and seizure of a former president’s and potential 2024 presidential candidate’s belongings in his private residence needs to be fully justified — not just to Congress but the American people.
Garland, the FBI, and some Democrats want to treat this incident as “business as usual.” Doing so only heightens speculation that they have something to hide.
Axios:
The Rubio/Warner letter shows that the Senate is not about to be hoodwinked again. The ocean of ink written about the Russian collusion narrative — almost all of it was hysterical, ludicrous speculation for which not one single mainstream media reporter or analyst has ever acknowledged the error. No one was ever fired for accusing the president of the United States of being a Russian intelligence asset.
We haven’t seen that kind of lunacy in Washington since the early 1960s when conservatives were accusing John F. Kennedy of being a Russian agent. The difference is that those conservatives were quite properly ignored and/or ridiculed. In 2017, reporters covering the Russian collusion story were honored by their peers.
Good luck to Rubio and Warner, but no one is expecting the same intelligence agencies who fed the hurricane of speculation about Donald Trump’s loyalties in 2017 to act any differently in 2022.
Good luck trying that with the crew around here.
A couple of frosty mornings I expected the bird bath to be frozen over,
but no, the hard bastards were having an early dip.
H B Bearsays:
August 17, 2022 at 10:19 am
Personally I won’t allow Grange at the club. How gauche. Perhaps a Henschke or a Moss Wood.
I was able to buy 6 bottles of Serrat Shiraz Viognier 2014
Have drunk 2 bottles so far, very smooth
Which brings us to the heart of the matter. This wine is rare. They make bugger-all of it, to use the technical term. In fact, only 175 dozen. To put this into some kind of perspective, it’s generally accepted that Penfolds Grange has an annual production around the 10-12,000 dozen mark. Penfolds Grange, of course, is not made in massive volume. Some wines are counted in their 100,000s of dozen.
The catapult to super-stardom was unleashed four weeks ago when Serrat Shiraz Viognier 2014 was named Wine of the Year in the Australian wine industry’s annual best-selling bible, the Halliday Wine Companion. It was given a score of 99/100, and a suggestion that red wine-loving folks should “move heaven and earth to get hold of a bottle”.
The wine also proves, the book notes, that “the greatest wines are perfect from the first moment they are bottled”.
Remember, just 175 dozen. Excuse me if I have a little cry now.
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
? George Orwell, 1984
Good lord.
I know comedy is subjective but apparently these were the “best” 12 jokes of the Fringe fesival.
Hardly raising to the level of dad jokes 1/2 of them.
one or 2 worth a chuckle.
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2022/aug/16/from-time-machines-to-threesomes-12-of-the-funniest-jokes-from-the-edinburgh-fringe
Michael Spicer: Why did the chicken cross the road? Because it saw someone from work on a Saturday.
Susie McCabe: What’s the difference between a hippo and a Zippo? One is really heavy and the other is a little lighter.
Lou Sanders: I asked if I could change the vaccine I was getting and the guy said he’d get his supervisor. I thought that was like Pfizer but a really, really good one.
Eryn Tett: A spiritual guidance teacher playing hide and seek with kids: “All right, well, you guys go hide. And find yourselves.”
Ignacio Lopez: I come from a long line of immigrants. No, seriously, the queue was massive – the first thing they teach you when you move to the UK is queuing.
Olaf Falafel: I spent the whole morning building a time machine – that’s four hours of my life I’m definitely getting back.
Sophie Duker: Don’t knock threesomes. Having a threesome is like hiring an intern to do all the jobs you hate.
Ari Eldjárn: I never wanted a beard. But then it grew on me.
Tessa Coates: Got arrested for relaxing at a campsite the other day – loitering within tent.
Amy Gledhill: I’m from a little place I like to call York. I shouldn’t, because it’s pronounced Hull.
Michael Akadiri: Being a doctor in comedy has got me some fans. I had a guy book tickets to see me because it was the quickest way to get a doctor’s appointment.
Jessica Fostekew: I haven’t got the energy for a hot girl summer. I’m aiming for a warm woman spring.
The historic old Metropole back then was one of the most beautiful hotels I have ever stayed in. The French meal we had in the classic dining room there was also one of the best meals ever. Worth an earring falling off on the ground as I walked in, never to be found again of course. I like to think it became someone’s good fortune.
IRS Criminal Investigation Recruiting Pictures Will Have You Laughing Out Loud
Now, before the “fact-checkers” drop the hammer on me, the full disclosure here is that these photos, despite currently blowing up the internet, are actually old. An article from 2017 describes the event as taking place at Stockton University, billed as a way to lure students to a “career path they might not have thought of.”
IRS Special Agent Robert Glantz said the day gives students a glimpse of a career path they might not have thought of. Several Stockton graduates who are working in the field participated in the simulation.
IRS Special Agent Scott Smith, ’92, said students did a good job interrogating him, even though he gave them a hard time during questioning.
“They paid attention,” he said.
The pictures may be old, but I’m not sure that makes them totally irrelevant. Given the current IRS expansion courtesy of your tax dollars, they still seem like something worthy of laughing at.
The parrots are not so bad. The cockatoos are just bogan – screeching seemingly at random.
Magpies can be quite musical with a timbre such as I would expect from a small wind-pipe but less reedy – enough for you to relax a bit. Then…POW! They scream.
Weird thing is that lately, when I step onto the balcony with my first coffee (nice to drink strong coffee in fresh crisp air) magpies launch themselves from the surrounding trees and land on the railing and look at me. Seriously, yesterday I stepped out and with 30 seconds there were seven of them. Silent, as if waiting. Like, for what?
Creepy.
The Bee is on fire again.
“Boston Children’s Hospital Throws Child Off Roof After She Claims To Be A Bird”
Good work OldOzzie. The best I could do was crash a Moss Wood vertical tasting at the Claremont Hotel and ensure they did not go home with too many half bottles.
Dobbs working as intended: to punish and subjugate women.
A Minneapolis teachers union contract stipulates that white teachers will be laid off or reassigned before “educators of color” in the event Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS) needs to reduce staff.
After the Minneapolis Federation of Teachers (MFT) and MPS struck a deal on March 25 to end a 14-day teacher strike, the two sides drew up and ratified a new collective bargaining agreement complete with various proposals.
One of the proposals dealt with “educators of color protections.” The agreement states that if a non-white teacher is subject to excess, MPS must excess a white teacher with the “next least” seniority.
Thanks, Ranga. I gave you an uptick in return to show you that I agreed with that. 🙂
Looks like the UK farms are next on the world saviors chopping blocks..
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/aug/16/england-must-reduce-meat-dairy-intake-says-henry-dimbleby
The only way to have sustainable land use in this country, and avoid ecological breakdown, is to vastly reduce consumption of meat and dairy, according to the UK government’s food tsar.
Henry Dimbleby told the Guardian that although asking the public to eat less meat – supported by a mix of incentives and penalties – would be politically toxic, it was the only way to meet the country’s climate and biodiversity targets.
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A restaurant owner telling the government how to shaft farmers who are as mad as the chaps with “the end is nigh” on their sandwich boards.
“One of the arguments people make about pasture is that land is not good for anything else,” he said. “But actually, even more than the actual direct carbon emissions from ruminants, the opportunity cost of the land they occupy is huge. We destroyed most of our rainforests 1,000 years ago in this country but most of that land has huge potential to store carbon. Almost all the land you took out of food production should be low-grade extensive pasture.”
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There is a huge cultural shift needed for people in England to stop feeling like they need to eat meat so regularly, Dimbleby said.
“It goes right back to Magna Carta, the idea of what I do on my land is my business. Even though the government wouldn’t be implementing a kind of Stalinist five-year plan, there would still be a combination of incentives and regulation.
They hate it, that idea someone isnt beholden to them to come cap in hand to bow and scrape for permission to use their own land or labour.
Its just incredible how all these top down ideas to immiserate people “for their own good” are occurring in every Western nation at once.
Didn’t want more upticks for myself though Ranga, but for H B Bear, as a signal to the fact that irony is not yet dead on the Cat. It’s heading that way though.
The one thing I don’t see is where the rot started – with Obama. He was elected because of his colour and so the swinging voter could crow “See, we’re not racists.” You bloody fools, you let the head of the snake into your houses and lives, and now the rest of it is curled up in your living room, bathroom and bed. A very high price for being able to say “See, we aren’t racists.”
It’s going to take a purge of Pinochet proportions to save the US now.