Open Thread – Weekend 20 Aug 2022
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And so we return to the beginning… (…of the working week.)
Must Be Jelly.
Old Lefty April 28, 2024 11:20 pmInteresting choice of headline from the BBC: ‘Biden roasts Trump at correspondents dinner.’ Obama was…
Interesting choice of headline from the BBC: ‘Biden roasts Trump at correspondents dinner.’ https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68915195 I assume the roasting was metaphorical.
Boom boom
Welcome to the death camp.
You can check out any time you like etc etc.
To the showers N K-P!
Woman with a rake
Now THAT’s art. And it’s funny.
Outstanding choice by blog management.
Zinc surged after one of Europe’s largest smelters said it would halt production next month as the continent’s energy crisis threatens to hobble heavy industries.
The Budel smelter in the Netherlands — controlled by Trafigura Group’s Nyrstar — will be placed on care and maintenance from Sept. 1 “until further notice,” according to a company statement. Zinc trading on the London Metal Exchange jumped as much as 7.2% to the highest intraday level in two months as traders priced in even tighter supply.
Earlier this month, top zinc producer Glencore Plc warned that Europe’s energy crisis posed a substantial threat to supply. Smelters across the region are barely turning a profit and the Nyrstar plant, which accounts for about 2% of global output, has been operating at a reduced rate since the fourth quarter of last year.
Where’s Rabz? He used to be king of gazumping the weekend fred.
Great choice of picture, Dover. Perfectly fitting, of the week that was
From a site called Wonkeedonkee Tools:
I don’t really get the controversy about ‘negative gearing’.
If people have income in excess of their need to spend they want to invest.
They can leave it in the bank, invest in the share market or buy property etc, each option has pros and cons.
You can also ‘negatively gear’ share investments.
If you do your dough investing the government doesn’t allow you to write off your capital loss against your income but anti ‘negative gearing’ zealots never mention this, nor the fact that unless you keep adding to your portfolio negative returns eventually become positive.
And of course if marginal tax rates reduce ‘negative gearing’ becomes less attractive (now there’s a easy way Elbow can reduce negative gearing tax deductions).
At least Monty who iirc is a landlord himself isn’t bouncing around with progressive talking points on this subject.
Johannes Leak.
Mark Knight.
Warren Brown.
David Rowe.
Bob Moran.
Dave Brown.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Steve Kelley.
Al Goodwyn.
Matt Margolis.
Chip Bok.
Tina Norton.
Good for the carbon bottom line
Housing crash to plunge New Zealand into recession
LNP member John-Paul Langbroek wants apology from Annastacia Palaszczuk over her remarks about his Instagram photo
Another boondoogle driven by green ideology
Andrews’ $200 billion Suburban Rail Loop debt bomb is an insult to Victorians as our health system sits on life support
Scott Morrison’s power grab is a storm in a teacup compared to Daniel Andrews’ battle to keep his Covid papers secret
“They did politics”
Matt Bach is right.
Melbourne needs a Cheltenham to Box Hill train line like it needs a hole in the head.
Had to share.
Awesome cartoons this morning, thanks Tom. Is that Rowe I see in Leak’s cartoon?
Bob Moran’s “Pfruit” is a fine touch.
I’m going to have to get up earlier so the toons will help a lot. Southern male magpie’s chicks hatched Thursday so this morning he arrived so early it was barely light enough to see. Sat outside bedroom window and sang hopefully, so I had to get up, give him food for his apparently starving deprived kids, then shiveringly return to bed to warm back up. Oxytocin is a helluva drug.
Finally! My portrait!
Thank you Dover. 😀
I’ll make sure I leave it tines up for m0nty.
He likes them that way.
Meanwhile, 4am is an ungodly hour to wake up with a face one inch from your own. And it wasn’t the Beloved’s. Oh the joys of young children.
Goodbye, Bwian.
From Mark Dice.
(Dice must have lost about 1/3 of his material now!)
https://youtu.be/N7nBadNVedw
This piece makes a good companion to Jo Nova’s latest on energy prices exploding to ridiculous heights – for nothing good. We are so stuffed.
“ Until the advent of the anthropogenic global warming hypothesis, the Piltdown Man was the most remarkable scientific fraud in history. The anthropogenic global warming hypothesis has now assumed that title.”
Guy K. Mitchell at American Thinker.
COVID’s had a reasonable shot at the title, and Jo Nova wasn’t initially so awake to that little gem (as her comments to my posts here indicated).
Last comment from the old OT.
” Climate evangelism is a decadent upper middle class phenomenon, a luxury belief which replaces the religious beliefs that this class previously held”
Like Covid it provides meaning to so many people.
Must be good to be in the nomenklatura.
Baldwin Expects No Charges Over Fatal Movie Set Accident (19 Aug)
How cute. He, who was the Producer as well as the guy who pulled the trigger, says it’s a tragic accident. Then blames his armorer and assistant director. Obviously criminal negligence only applies to the little people.
I loved Branco and Benson this morning. Benson captured Gates perfectly. The POS that he is. Why do people think if someone has been successful in one sphere they know about everything else. I used to watch that science program on the ABCLIARS, I know, presented by the blonde Dr sheila. They had some interesting stuff on it. What they never said, the good Dr was a Vet. Passing her off as a scientist. The trophies on the wall by Branco almost brought a tear to my eye.
Great crop of toons for a Saturday. Thanks, Tom.
$20,000.00 each is a hell of a train ticket for us Victorians.
Regarding Lisa Benson’s ‘toon, I’m unsure if she left out famine because it’s too early or she just didn’t try to squeeze in the additional panel…
Always fun to look up these people.
Judge: Prosecutors Cannot Enforce Michigan’s Abortion Ban (19 Aug)
I thought a judge telling prosecutors that they can’t enforce a law is a curious one. Especially when a higher court already said they should. So I went off to see who Judge Jacob Cunningham is.
Which wasn’t easy. No wiki. Then saw that he is an elected judge. Hmm. And finally found this:
https://lgbtqjudges.org/jake-cunningham-elected-oakland-county-circuit-court-judge/
Yep. As you might guess, this guy who is so obscure as to not even have a Ballotpedia entry, is a far-left Dem-elected qwerty. Who has blocked a law from being enforced “for the foreseeable future”. Amazing.
Branco brilliant. Thanks Tom.
Regarding the hot water heater issue of yesterday:
If a 250 liter storage unit is using 47 KW-h a day you have a serious problem. We had a 160 liter old unit in the house when we bought it. To get the lowest rate at night we needed to install a minimum 250 liter unit even though we never ran out of hot water, even with house guests. The old unit used to use about 7 KW-h a day and felt warm when you walked past it. The new unit uses 3 to 3.5 KW-h a day and doesn’t feel warm on the outside.
The first home we had was a Californian Bungalow. The water heater was in the linen cupboard between the bathroom and hallway accessible from both sides. The bottom of the door in the bathroom was cut short and the top cupboard had a vent built in. The heat from the moderately insulated water heater kept the linen and the bathroom slightly warm in winter. The bathroom was always dry. These days the with the water heater outside to save space and cost is counter-intuitive as the costs of energy increase.
They’d probably faint at the sight of a Bunnings sausage sandwich.
Woke Ikea Lectures Customers Not to Eat Fries to Fight Climate Change (19 Aug)
Eat the damned insects. Raw.
Instead of hand wringing about food, they should be concentrating on all the toxic inputs into their throw-away furniture.
Oh…that’s right. What the customer doesn’t see doesn’t really count. And, of course, all the environmental degradation takes place in the third world, so it doesn’t really matter.
I despise these corporate showboaters.
From Westprint Maps. An oldie but a goodie to cheer up our weekend.
I started reading Plimers ‘Green Murder’ last night – he makes the interesting point that, for 80% of its history, there has been NO ice on earth at all, hence we are currently in one of the cooler periods, and retreating glaciers is NORMAL. If I recall correctly, he also observed, in an earlier book, that CO2 levels in the dinosaur era were in the 8000s (and the plants loved it, and grew and rotted and produced all those lovely fossil fuels) hence, the current ‘if it goes over 450 we is doomed’ predictions are hogwash.
Re glaciers, around 15 years ago I looked at the Fox in NZ. There were sings showing it’s extent at different times, way back in the early 1800’s it was almost twice as long but by the 1900’s had receded an enormous amount. It also sometimes grows. Climate change is crap science, not even a science really.
Plus what about the European glaciers that have dead trees pop out of them at times, the trees grew much higher in warmer times, died with cooling and the glaciers move them slowly down the mountains.
I’m surprised with the cable TV ratings data from the US.
The amount of young people watching Fox really dumps the narrative that only old people watch it.
Trafalgar released some polls overnight regarding the midterms.
Their twitter has it all.
I’m not sure what Trafalgar said about Wyoming, but the final wash up looks like a 37 point lost for Cheney.
I think someone here said the generic polling was for a 22 point loss.
Baris is now saying he said 30 points but the last thing he published pre was a 28 point loss.
Wyoming is not an outlier.
The punters are just not happy.
Tim Dillon on Joe Rogan.
12 minutes of a St Ruth style rant without calling people traitors.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqeuS43-69E
Neil Oliver – ‘…hovering between total despair & boiling anger…’
JC
Rich people don’t generally carry much debt. In any event, rental income is business income and therefore like all commercial endeavors , people can charge interest on debt against income to reduce tax. This principle is so strong that being against it is a distinguishing feature between Right and left.
Given that every member of the AnAl Cabinet has at least one, and some up to three, investment properties, I suspect that negative gearing will continue.
These days the with the water heater outside to save space and cost is counter-intuitive as the costs of energy increase.
If the insulation around the tank is REALLY good it probably doesn’t matter if it is inside or outside but if not so good the thermal conductivity of moving air is hundreds of times that of still air and outside location will be much worse than inside.
Bush, earlier:
Yep, on both global warming and covid. Not only has it/did it take the place of more traditional faith-based activity (‘you have to believe‘), but it provided the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for middle-of-the-pack dunderheads who would never have been noticed by anyone to finally throw their weight around. Looking at you, Sutton.
Their places in the sun were temporary, but the impact will last for a generation or more.
It’s not just about profit by the borg. In fact, I’d be surprised if said borg hadn’t factored in this part of the human psyche in their planning.
Janet A great column in the Oz regarding the Voice.
“Whole swathes of the media joined the bandwagon to the point where the ABC will routinely reflect a chorus line of “yes, yes, yes” chanting to the voice, akin to that scene in When Harry Met Sally”.
Note her comments about QC’s being afraid to speak up. Reminds me of the situation regarding the silencing of Dr’s over Covid and the Vax.
rosie
At least Monty who iirc is a landlord himself isn’t bouncing around with progressive talking points on this subject.
See my comment at 0835, addressed to JC. That is why m0nty-fa will probably stay silent on this one (though it is impossible to rule out the chance of a brainstorm hitting him).
Diversityland Paul Joseph Watson
H/T Dan Bongino.
It seems that the FBI and DOJ has grossly overstepped it’s authority, not only from a reading of statute law, but also from case law.
As reported here:
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/all-things-trump/old-case-over-audio-tapes-bill-clintons-sock-drawer-could-impact
WRT Bill Clinton withholding audio tapes from both the National Archives and FOIA requests:
“Under the statutory scheme established by the PRA, the decision to segregate personal materials from Presidential records is made by the President, during the President’s term and in his sole discretion,” Jackson wrote in her March 2012 decision, which was never appealed.
“Since the President is completely entrusted with the management and even the disposal of Presidential records during his time in office, it would be difficult for this Court to conclude that Congress intended that he would have less authority to do what he pleases with what he considers to be his personal records,” she added.
“Because the audiotapes are not physically in the government’s possession, defendant [DoJ] submits that it would be required to seize them directly from President Clinton in order to assume custody and control over them,” Jackson noted. “Defendant [Doj] considers this to be an ‘extraordinary request’ that is unfounded, contrary to the PRA’s express terms, and contrary to traditional principles of administrative law. The Court agrees.”
That defendant was the same Justice Department that authorized the raid on Trump’s estate.
RTWL
Ranga, 7.30:
Indeed.
No matter how bright your star shines as a technical journalist writing advertorial for Floppy Disk Monthly, it does not necessarily translate into expertise on foreign abortion legislation.
Jim Treacher has thoughts on Brian Stelter.
During the railway mania of Victorian England, MS&L was the generic railway company favoured by cartoonists.
At least the investors suckered into the grandiose dreams of the board of
Money Sunk & Lost were private.
Unlike today.
Like a cockroach motel.
Let’s unpack this.
‘Cock’ is what it is.
‘Roach’ is the butt of a joint. What do people do with joints? They smoke them.
So…you are calling out to COCK-SMOKERS!
From memory, the record was five investment properties.
I think it also provided a feeling of excitement and bravery for a society bereft of danger and deprivation. It allowed them to simulate the feelings that they imagine comes with living on the edge and the bravery required to confront a deadly enemy.
They were wrong, of course, but that was why it was constantly compared to The Blitz and/or going to war. It gave the average plodder a way to feel what they imagine the emotions to be, without the associated danger of being hunted by a sentient being. They were all basking in a completely artificial stimulus, which was no more like the real thing than m0nty’s online football.
It was the most expensive adrenaline rush in our country’s history.
Want to escape toxic white masculinity?
Try some cultural enrichment in Pakistan.
Lot of rail lines being built to nowhere in Vic. Huntly is one from Bendigo, as described to me: “be one person that catches the train a day that is a public servant and that will be 3 times a week…” However a couple of mining projects in NW I hear of are struggling to build one eve along old easements, ya know something that actually may make money for the state…
It is easy to understand why Howard does not like Trump. Trump achieved in four short years, more than George W Bush achieved in eight. And Howard is still George W Bush’s Deputy-Sheriff…–I certainly don’t like howard anymore. What a nasty piece of work he’s turned out to be.
Good heavens…ABC still leading with Morrison’s multi-tasking.
And Albanese still thinks he’s Opposition leader…taking on John Howard this time.
He fights Tories!
Land of the free, home of the brave………….well used to be.
According to a Rasmussen poll published on Thursday, 53% of voters now agree with the statement that there is “a group of politicized thugs at the top of the FBI who are using the FBI … as Joe Biden’s personal Gestapo.” The Gestapo were the official secret police of Nazi Germany.
The sentiment resonates with Republicans in particular, with 76% agreeing with the statement. Democrats, on the other hand, mainly (57%) disagree. Among those affiliated with either party, 49% agree with the characterization of the FBI as President Joe Biden’s “personal Gestapo” and 38% disagree.
The statement was originally made by Roger Stone, an adviser to former President Donald Trump, in an November 28, 2021 interview on John Catsimatidis’ WABC 770 AM radio show. In the interview, Stone criticized both the FBI’s raid on the home of James O’Keefe, Project Veritas founder (conducted as part of an investigation into reports of a stolen diary belonging to Biden’s daughter Ashley), and what he argued was “harassment” by the House committee investigating the January 6 Capitol Hill protests. Stone, himself, was subject to a pre-dawn FBI raid executed by over a dozen special agents in tactical gear in January 2019.
https://www.conservativereview.com/majority-of-american-voters-now-think-the-fbi-has-become-biden-s-gestapo-2657887032.html?utm_source=cr-weekly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=CR%20Weekly%202022-08-19&utm_term=ACTIVE%20-%20Weekly%20Daily%20Combined
Hallward
Thanks for posting the comment on choosing the hot water system. It was so interesting and incredibly helpful. Mind blowing.
You’re such a hydrologist, Hallward.
What’s the carbon footprint of a Swedish meatball?
“Note her comments about QC’s being afraid to speak up. Reminds me of the situation regarding the silencing of Dr’s over Covid and the Vax.”
The template was SSM, and it’ll be used again because it worked a treat back in 2017. Scream, shout and silence those opposed to the Voice with smears of waaaaacists and bigots. This could be Dutton’s chance, to provide meaningful opposition and, like out of a western, ride through the screeches, the screams and the attempts to silence and shut down opposition, but the Liberal Party are already showing themselves to be moral cowards. The only meaningful critical opposition to the voice on the conservative side of politics has come from an indigenous woman and an indigenous man…..Jacinta Price and Warren Mundine.
Having said all of that, despite the looming tidal wave of Voice propaganda and despite the moral cowardice of the Liberals and Nationals, my hunch is that the referendum will not get up.
Exhibit A: Receptionists at doctors’ surgeries became ‘frontline heroes’.
Exhibit B: Coffee cups with ‘I go to work so you don’t have to’ on them. Not owned by trauma surgeons, but crotchety nurses in empty ED departments.
The excess energy was bled off via TikTok choreography.
Miltonf
There are lots of people around who just don’t like chaos and fighting all the time and we have to admit Trunp does that. Some people on the Right are pretty genuine about this. It’s okay. In any event Trump has some of the highest recorded support from the right.
While it’s his union maaates , business maaates and faction maaates all benefiting from Vic taxpayers pockets and credit card, Andrew’s isn’t likely to spend our money elsewhere.
When Sicktoria goes to the polls later this year we’ll see if people really give a toss. Oh yeah, Guy will give health workers free public transport. What a champ!
Plenty and chaos and fighting in Iraq thinks to Howard and Bush
A lot of that about.
Is WSJ Quietly Practicing More Balanced Reporting on Climate Change? (WUWT, 19 Aug)
I disagree that WSJ and Newscorp are improving. It’s a guerrilla war from the realists in the opinion ranks vs the Newscorp elite management.
Unfortunately the ESG thing is so powerful and so linked in with the climate scam that nothing short of total collapse is going to get it out of boardrooms. And any employee who says anything is going to be booted out like Kirk was.
Serious question for any of lawfolk.
Have another reletive going through nastiness with CSA. Apparently he has no right of appeal, no right to send it to court. His ex can limit her work to 3 days a week to maximise payments, withold access but they can estimate his potential earnings even if it outstrips his salary.
How is a government arms decisions above judicial review? Doesn’t seem right.
this makes no logical sense. everyone knows S1 is seriously toxic and alpha has disappeared, yet they want to keep injecting ppl with mRNA to make a vascular/neurotoxic spike.
industrial scale corruption and eugenics in plain sight
Makka there is no official opposition in Vicco- just another faction of the uniparty. Steph Ryan personifies this.
news about elevated death rates is leaking out
and we’re running out of excuses to deflect blame
The Decay of Modern Society | Peter Hitchens #CLIP
John Anderson
Roger
What’s the carbon footprint of a Swedish meatball?
Left or right? (It reminded me of an old joke about bullfights and eating meatballs in Spain.)
Meme;
https://substack.com/redirect/eecfda9a-138e-4796-9147-04ec4418745f?r=ho9bj
I’m This Many”, The Globalist Left Imports Our Replacements by Pretending ‘Migrant’ or ‘Refugee’ Adults Are Children
Meme;
https://substack.com/redirect/dbd0f541-763c-41be-b445-b1e803f2ef08?r=ho9bj
No Forgiveness for the CDC’s Cruelty
Let’s check in on modern art. ?
Paul Joseph Watson
social contagion: is “long covid” often just “long parent”?
Meme;
https://substack.com/redirect/a6345ea6-d8af-440c-a6bc-5123e06c2c99?r=ho9bj
Louisiana mom, 22, is charged with murder after ‘leaving baby daughter in a hot car for five hours… three years after doing the same with other child …’
But don’t Black Lives Matter anymore?
@LAPDHQ
‘Flash Mob’ Looters Ransack Convenient Store after Street Takeover
On August 15 around 12:40am a street takeover initiated at Figueroa and El Segundo. The spectators then formed a ‘flash mob’ of looters and rushed a nearby 7-Eleven.
Short video
Trouble in paradise:
‘A representative from a remote Torres Strait Islander community has criticised Prime Minister Anthony Albanese for failing to visit any of the islands identified locally as Torres Strait Islander land.
And in a move that will send shockwaves through Canberra, the community of Mer Island is now open to Chinese investment, arguing it’s been neglected by its own governments.’
Elbow will reportedly send Linda Burney to smooth things over in December.
Finance Miniuster Katy Gallagher better start writing the cheques.
More millennial journalism from the Hun:
Ah, no. No, that is not when the ‘trend first emerged’.
Of course, the obligatory professional uni student is wheeled out:
Associate Professor Ollis doesn’t understand that she is wrong.
Steph Ryan is hooked up with an ALP staffer isn’t she? Says it all, really… Wonder what Pat McNamara thinks of this lot?
Was in Seymour the other day. How that joint doesn’t make shit towns of Australia is beyond me. One other observation. How overgrown the whole place is, bushfire hazzard pops into mind. Also as Farmer Gez mentioned Heathcote to Tooborac and along Tooborac rd full of widow makers growing right by side of the road…
My mate in NZ tells me the health system is completely broken. He went to visit 2 friends who have serious cancer problems. The wards are virtually empty and no staff. Apparently the nurses are coming here.
Managed to report Big Nambas, sorry.
Thancho I noticed last night you got snipped. When I got snipped I lost interest in cars and sold the beemer. Then again Dover didn’t fix me.
Stolen generation………
Moran’s effort today is magnificent in a very macabre way. Our future, whether we like it or not. The little details are what makes it so good – Jamal in a dress, both of them in face nappies, curfews, social credit and various other monstrosities. The bat flu hysteria and attendant fascist idiocy really was a dry run, so to speak.
P.S. NKP – Lisa Benson – did you not mean Tina Garrison?
I used always refer to Michael Mann as Piltdown Mann. Never knew if anyone got, or did and wished they hadn’t.
Seymour shit town? Driving down the Hume Hwy we saw about 5 turnoffs to Seymour and thought it must somewhere important. Ha, locals looking at their next victims, foot to the floor.
Tina Norton, but you knew that.
Leak Snr had the loathsome little shit pegged. Unfortunately I can’t find the cartoon of Howard with his head up GWB’s fundament (both are portrayed as ostriches).
Blah – evidently not.
The Torres Strait communities are demanding a treaty, and “sovereignty.” Take note Australia, this is what you can expect from a “Voice.”
Tooborac rd full of widow makers growing right by side of the road…
Trees so close to the road that it sets the bing bongs off.
To paraphrase Monty, I think the prospect of a court hearing arguments from a government-appointed lawyer arguing on behalf of a baby daughter against its mother is quite chilling. You lot would applaud this because it would lead to women being punished for exercising basic freedoms, which is what this is all about.
Monty will bay at the moon then set his hair on fire screaming how unfair this characterisation is but he has yet to offer any reasons at all why this would be case.
Sack whacking? The girls in my class did that in 66 when I was 13. Of course Bronwyn was much more subtle and did it slowly for quite a while. We talked about the first thing that popped up.
Nelson_Kidd-Playerssays:
August 20, 2022 at 12:00 am
Boom boom
Nah
Crash Craddock much Better
Steph Ryan is hooked up with an ALP staffer isn’t she? Says it all, really
and iirc she ‘worked’ in ted failyou’s office. Only thing missing is a green connection.
flyingduk says:
August 20, 2022 at 8:16 am
I started reading Plimers ‘Green Murder’ last night – he makes the interesting point that, for 80% of its history, there has been NO ice on earth at all, hence we are currently in one of the cooler periods, and retreating glaciers is NORMAL.
Likewise, I have been reading Ian’s monumental work for several weeks – at the end of the working day, by the fire. It is heavy going, because it is SO packed with facts and figures – unlike the expansive assertions of the climate fanatics. The man is a towering figure, yet so despised by the green mob baying for his blood. I feel that this may be his Magnus Opus. We owe him a great deal.
I am simultaneously starting on Jim Molan’s important book on the threat of China. It is all dingy head in – but ESSENTIAL reading in this age of platitudes and horrendous lies from the “scientific” community and their cheer squad who are peddling untruths that could feasibly bring about the demise of the West.
Thanks Mater. My thoughts exactly.
I won’t forget the goggle eyed pseudoterror of friends and family any time soon. And all from the ones who had never, ever been in a long term dangerous situation. The ones who had simply shrugged.
Cosplay with a fauxdemic.
Elbow & Co. clearly have no idea what a rod they’re making for their own backs with this.
The expectations are already incapable of being fulfilled.
It’s a path to more resentment and division.
“Dedicated to Honorary Dr Gina Rinehart, one of the very few prominent business leaders in the world, who has called human induced climate change for what it is:nonsense.”
From the flyleaf.
Rog,
It will get our tax $ into the right hands. That’s all that matters to Elbow.
Nor will I. Our beloved politicians, braindead bureaucrats, meeja imbeciles and corporate cronycrats have so much to be held to account for, I would barely know where to begin. But I would know know where to end. No prizes for guessing where.
The cupboard is bare, says Jim.
Neil Oliver on face nappies. Like him, I will never ever wear one of the stupid f*cking things ever again, under any circumstances.
No problem at all there. Just pile more onto OUR credit card. We can then tax our way to prosperity.
Thanks to the munificence of Goose Morristeen and Joshi Frydchickenberger*.
*Political career as dead as a Norwegian Bleu pining for the fjords, thanks to a performing teal.
Let’s not forget the role of one Neil Ferguson and the epidemiology crowd in this.
They persuaded politicians to jettison perfectly reasonable and proven pandemic plans on the basis of phony numbers.
It’s a path to more resentment and division.
which is what is intended- just like the race baiting in the US since O’bumma’s time.
Yes they were utterly phony. But I don’t buy that politicians were persuaded. Our Govts leapt wholeheartedly at the prospect of locking us down, destroying our economies and creating immeasurable suffering and ruin to gain ever more control over our lives and make us even more dependent on Govt. In a word, I judge their actions as pure evil.
Our politicians saw covid as means to spend mountains of our money and advance their own prospects. Many stupid Australians applauded.
Since I was a kid I’ve generally regarded most of the meja as crumbs and lightweights. They are that but they are also truly evil.
We’re already a high tax nation compared with our competitors.
That’s a recipe for a NZ ztyle brain drain and capital flight.
While demanding a chinese commie response. The insanity of the last two years is still seared into my consciousness as if it was yesterday, especially the hitlerist lunacy of the second half of last year, where I was basically imprisoned in my home for almost six months, because I existed in one of Beryl Gladyschlocklian’s “LGAs of Obsession” .
That these craven fascist monsters expect to be able to slink off into the ether as though none of it happened is yet another example of their overweening arrogance and stupidity. There must be a reckoning.
Yes, yes we are. I believe someone may have written a guest post on the Perfesser’s Cat on that very topic.
Then again, those all encompassing cradle to grave welfare states won’t fund themselves, Rog.
I don’t disagree, but as long as China keeps buying our various dirt commodities I think we’ll avoid the worst of capital flight. IF something goes pear shaped with commodities we are in deep trouble as our debt will be downgraded and the AUD heads toward peso levels. Yes, taxes of all kinds are lifting higher no doubt. Our economic future is finely balanced I suspect especially as interest rates won’t be going lower anytime soon.
There’s evidence that Boris Johnson, who up to that point was talking perfectly sensibly, was panicked by Ferguson’s numbers and changed policy almost literally overnight.
Now we’re getting a window into Morrison’s helter-skelter state of mind as well, with more to come out in the book he’s apparently writing.
But I’ll grant it’s conceivable they were duped by others with agendas.
that’s the marxist way
You have to be evil to get through journalism at university, since the far-left now utterly controls awarding of the credentials. So the only graduates either believe the lies, and thus are allowed to graduate, or have to lie about what they believe and understand, thereby being forced to be evil.
The Left is happy with either route, since if you are able to lie so blatantly through 4 years of a journalism degree you’ve been degraded to their level anyway. And only those who are the top graduates get employed by the MSM, thus being the ones awarded high marks by their far-left lecturers.
It will never have occurred to elbow, or any of his fellows, that when you suck up to a demographic you do not own them, they own you.
All those ravenous demographics that he courts, will present him with demands he either cannot pay or which are contrary to each other.
But remember, the big news is the has-been, ScoMo.
With the benefit of hindsight into all that has transpired and put upon us since covid broke into our lives, the LAST thing I believe on politicians minds was acting for our benefit. Covid presented an awesome opportunity to politicians. Let’s not forget Boris was throwing wild parties while enforcing strict lock downs on the great unwashed. His cabinet nicking away for leg overs during lockdowns. Here, fkwits like Andrews doled out millions in contracts to maaates . Hundreds of millions to build quarantine camps for no-one. To stay elected, Billions were spent buying votes for people to remain at home and vote for their benefactors.
Ferguson’s numbers were a catalyst. He played his part.
How come it takes an American Publication to notice this?
Australian senator makes impassioned case against the globalist agenda
Klaus Schwab’s sycophants occupy elected and bureaucratic positions in governments and cabinets around the world, and as far as I can tell, no politician is more vocal about this insidious reality than Australian senator Alex Antic. Just a few weeks back, Antic delivered a fiery speech against tyrannical overreach before his legislative colleagues:
Aussie senator takes of the “AGENDA” which is happening in every country around the world with the world economic forum fingerprints all over it.
1 Min 50 Secs
The BA (Communications) course was always a blot on the old NSWIT. Otherwise it was everything higher/technical education should have been. That yukkie lezo radio station 2SER FM they had with HERmusic (wimmins music).
I don’t care what else Elon might be up to – but I love his tweets.
Antic is one of a handful of gliberal politicians that aren’t complete suckholes.
The Outlier of the West, Japan Core Inflation Rises 2.4% Year Over Year
August 19, 2022 – Sundance
If you have been following along, you might remember the note we made in July about not every country willing to go along with the western agenda on energy reduction, climate change, and raising interest rates to shrink their economy down to the scale of diminished energy development
In addition to Russia, China, Iran, Brazil, South Africa, Argentina and India vociferously retaining their own economic and monetary independence, Mexican President AMLO literally blasted the program while visiting the White House and the Bank of Japan refused to join the mantra to raise interest rates. Essentially, all of the aforementioned nations see the collective Build Back Better program for what it is, a path to poverty.
As a result of their non-compliance with the global bankers, which, not coincidentally I would point out, coincided with the assassination of Shinzo Abe, the government of Japan has been getting blasted by the proverbial ‘west’ (U.S, Canada, U.K, Europe and Australia).
Japan is attempting to deal with inflation by focusing on increasing energy production and security (the supply side); while the rest of the western group have been chasing the false promise of decreased inflation by lowering the demand side, ie. pretending not to know their energy policy is creating the increases in costs.
Exactly. Craven idiotic Govts restricting supply through determined policies, forcing prices up. Which perfectly suits the green/WEF agenda to make energy affordable, save our green renewable unreliable versions.
It’s absolutely clear- Govt is our worst and biggest enemy.
Edit….
Via Berenson.
4.77% of US children under the age of 5 have been jabbed once.
0.93% have had 2 jabs.
The parents of that 0.93% are the most reliable people in the population as far as the establishment is concerned.
The strongest societal marker we have seen to date.
Two blokes from Lorne drove to Anglesea along the Great Ocean Rd ,a distance of 28 kms , and counted the sins . Including speed signs ,arrows and no standing signs . They counted 464 signs on one side of the road , turned around and counted 560 on the other side of the road.
A total of 1028 signs . Including one corner with seven arrows and 17 signs directed to the lighthouse when it is in plain view at all times.
It works out at 3.6 signs every 100 metres.
Their next project will be to count the potholes
MatrixTransform says: August 19, 2022 at 11:44 pm
Only insofar as it is a common English metaphor to describe a growing problem as like food ingredients cooking together.
Was there some other object of this metaphor you had in mind?
It’s broken alright, and same same here. It’s broken because the people themselves are broken – decades of welfare, reward for failure, resource confiscation from the ever shrinking productive segment, and systemic promotion of unhealthy food via the ‘food pyramid’ has left the majority of the population ‘fat, dumb, sick and lazy’.
Healthcare is a *consumptive* , not a productive endeavour (especially now that it focusses on ‘chronic illness support rather than health), and we can’t afford it anymore.
Just put a new hot water cylinder in, to the accompaniment of Mrs TE saying that when she lived in NZ all of the houses had “drying rooms” where the cylinders lived.
well snap!! I ordered that last week as well!
I met Molan at a military conference a few years back. He contrasted Australia’s stated defence policy ( junior partnership only in high intensity conflicts, and a humanitarian focus in the pacific) with its actual procurement of high end hardware…. F35s, Airwarfare Destroyers, LHAs etc. They know we are going to come to blows with China.
https://hotair.com/jazz-shaw/2022/08/17/astronomers-looking-at-webb-what-if-the-big-bang-didnt-happen-n490341
I was hoping something like this would happen. I never did like the Big Bang theory.
Rita can be sweet and silly.
https://mobile.twitter.com/ritapanahi/status/1560553109222408193
She gets ridiculed in responses.
Think The FBI Deserves The Benefit Of The Doubt? This Laundry List Of Corruption Should Make You Think Again
A look at the FBI’s last six years shows a pattern of irredeemable corruption.
Can the FBI be trusted? A Federalist analysis of agency lies over the last decade is an unequivocal no.
– FISA Warrants
– Misleading Congress
– Misleading DOJ Leaders
– Misleading Trump
– Michael Flynn
– Andrew McCabe
– Clinton Emails
– Weiner Laptop
– Roger Stone
– Jan. 6 Capitol Riot
– Kamala Harris on Jan. 6
– March 4, 2021
– Hunter Biden Suppression
– Gretchen Whitmer Plot
– Ralph Northam Plot
– Sen. Ted Stevens’ Conviction
Likewise, the government concealed evidence that its star witness had suborned perjury from an underage prostitute with whom the star witness had an illegal sexual relationship. And the government concealed evidence that another witness — whom the government flew back to Alaska away from the Washington, D.C., trial after their mock cross-examination of him went poorly — had told the senator that the bills he received and promptly paid included all of the work that was done. Government prosecutors mocked Stevens when he explained that on the stand — all the while knowing that they had a witness who would have supported him, but whom they had removed from the trial.
– Rep. Jeff Fortenberry’s Conviction
– Pulse Nightclub Shooting
– Texas Synagogue Attack
– Congressional Baseball Shooter
– Inflating Extremism Cases
– Ignoring Larry Nassar Abuse
– Kyle Rittenhouse
– Demonizing James Rosen
– Deadly Wrongful Conviction
– Martha Stewart
– Mar-a-Lago Raid
The Department of Justice appears to be following the same playbook agency officials have used for years in the Democrats’ series of manufactured scandals to bring down Trump.
Last week, the FBI executed an unprecedented raid of the former president’s Florida residence ostensibly conducted to enforce the Presidential Records Act. Federal officials confiscated more than a dozen boxes from the 128-room mansion pursuant to the rarely prosecuted law, claiming Trump harbored classified information related to the nation’s nuclear secrets. Leaked claims to the Washington Post that Trump possessed sensitive nuclear records, which came hours after Attorney General Merrick Garland professed the agency’s professionalism, however, showcase the sensationalism crafted by officials desperate to justify the raid, which included more than 30 agents.
At a press conference last week, Garland admitted to personally signing off on the raid he called “narrowly scope[d].” An examination of the warrant, however, reveals that it authorized FBI agents to seize any and every document Trump came into contact with as president. Furthermore, none of the three criminal statutes the DOJ cited in the warrant required the material to be classified, according to Cleveland.
The FBI also attempted to dispel claims that federal officials stripped the president of his passports, telling CBS News that the agency was not in possession of the documents after Trump blasted that they had been confiscated. An email made public by Trump spokesman Taylor Budowich, however, exposed the FBI’s lie. The email from Jay Bratt, the chief of the counterintelligence and export control section in the DOJ’s National Security Division, confirms that “the filter agents seized three passports belonging to President Trump, two expired and one being his active diplomatic passport.”
From a site called Wonkeedonkee Tools:
I like how even primordial rake could perform its important secondary function of being able to give a hapless imbecile a smack in the face.
DemoCrap America Today – Suburban Philadelphia Cemetery: 90 Percent of New Burials Are Victims of Violent Gun Crime
The city has experienced a whopping 1,193 nonfatal shootings and 313 fatal shootings between the start of 2022 and August 18. The Office of the Controller reported that ten percent of these shootings were committed by those younger than the age of 18.
Suburban Philadelphia Cemetery: 90 Percent of New Burials Are Victims of Violent Gun Crime
But…I thought it was the scientific consensus?
😀
And they still vote solid Democrat. They deserve what they get.
A total of 1028 signs
Up country the installed a ton of signs for a single lane weight limited bridge. Almost enough steel in the signs to fix the supposed problems with the bridge.
I remember the road and bridge as a kid. Neat and functional with a decent gravel road. A lack of maintenance caused the road to start channeling water. Now has hardly any gravel left and wash outs 6” deep. Third world.
ALKa STeLTeR
Plop plop, no fizz…
No idea whether the big bang happened or not, but some of those primordial galaxies certainly suggest the universe is far older than the current theory.
Maybe the theory of inflation will be doubted too?
via SkyNews
Dear Sanna has been spotted partying with a singer.
Cruel media. Leave Sanna alone!
It’s still summer and Finns need to use it while they can.
Geez.
Michael Smith News.
I remember seeing the same markers about ten years and asking, “If the ice ebbed and flowed over hundreds and thousands of years before we burnt coal and oil … ?”
Rabz
The insanity of the last two years is still seared into my consciousness as if it was yesterday, especially the hitlerist lunacy of the second half of last year, where I was basically imprisoned in my home for almost six months, because I existed in one of Beryl Gladyschlocklian’s “LGAs of Obsession” .
At CL’s blog, on the Wanes After a Month thread, Homer has been arguing that lockdowns were quite OK. It might have started on another thread, and that one is moribund, but you might like to give him a serve.
The easy gets in the cat decimation campaign have disappeared and now the cunning plan has to be implemented. Nine gone to the big litter in the sky.
A fresh bbq chook will be the bait. The irresistible aroma should lure a few hiding in the haystack.
Dispatching done with a Brno .17HMR at distance and Brno .22 with subsonic pills for stealth at close range.
Dying in with Dignity Canada is now promoting the reduction of the age of consent to euthanasia down to at least 12 years of age, down from 18.
Max Siccar:
Double uptick with Oak Leaves and Diamonds.
Vlad Kerrigan: That one’s goin’ STRAIGHT to the spent fuel storage pool room.
callisays:
August 20, 2022 at 6:52 am
I’ll make sure I leave it tines up for m0nty.
He likes them that way.
Fling Duk:
You recall correctly. I’ve been telling this to people for over 20 years to little avail.
The US nuclear sub fleet continually runs at 1000ppm CO2 without harm to the crews
I do wish the book came out in Kindle though. My eyesight precludes books I can’t embiggen.
dover0beachsays:
August 20, 2022 at 11:55 am
Libs of TikTok
@libsoftiktok
?? GRAPHIC CONTENT ??
Two pro-abortion podcasters discuss having an “abortion fetish” and making an only fans for abortions
No, no, no. The only people asking for abortions are underage wape or incest victims who can’t get an abortion in their home state because of those terrible Repubwickans who are moving to make The Handmaid’s Tale a model for a future America.
Just put a new hot water cylinder in, to the accompaniment of Mrs TE saying that when she lived in NZ all of the houses had “drying rooms” where the cylinders lived.
Growing up in a pit village i County Durham in the 1950s that was the usual place for the hot water “boiler” .. cupboard under the stairs with plenty of room for drying ..
Our hot water system was heated via pipes from the pot-bellied ‘fire” in the kitchen .. excellent in winter but not quite so appreciated in summer .. if you wanted regular “hot” water the kitchen fire had to be lit everyday .. tho coal was supplied free (1 tonne a f/n) to anyone associated with the pit ..
Roger says: August 20, 2022 at 9:34 am
A report from the Torres Strait re Anal’s visit is that when he met schoolchildren it was (allegedly) arranged that it be black children only.
This was (allegedly) done by putting the black kids on a bus & taking them to meet him at a location away from the school.
Allegedly non-white kids who were not Aboriginal were overlooked, & crossed off the list (allegedly) at the last minute & put off the bus.
Allegedly teachers instructed the kids to not tell any grownups what had happened.
I’ve no way of knowing if this is true, the report is hearsay.
LOl
I’ve heard people here say they aren’t voting libs. People, it doesn’t matter.
A report from the Torres Strait re Anal’s visit is that when he met schoolchildren it was (allegedly) arranged that it be black children only.
When President Obama visited Darwin, buses rounded up the two thousand or so itinerants who camp around Darwin CBD and inner suburbs, and took them to the Show grounds. Bribed them to get on the bus.
Last night in AFL a young Melbourne player was reduced to tears by a Brisbane player’s sledge about a family member.
You feel sorry for the young bloke but what the ? Is it a generational thing ? Do they not have fathers to show them how to respond to insults and sledging ? The assistant coach, Chocko Williams, comforted him like a mother or a millennial dad would. Fos Williams, Chocko’s dad would have been more demanding.
As Christianity rapidly declines, these religions are growing faster than ever.
Wood fired ranges served the same purpose here, Shaterzzz.
Saw one still in service -in winter time at least – at a B&B in the Barossa.
Zipster:
Diversityland.
If the Government refuses to look after the people they are responsible for, then the people will have only one recourse – ethnic cleansing.
Is that what they want? Because in the end, if there is no other way the Irish will either leave Ireland, or resort to their own Final Solution.
Nobody in their right mind wants that, but if there is no further choice, that’s what will happen.
And what happened to the IRA who fought against the “English Invaders”? They’re being very quiet about this latest invasion. Are they in favour of it?
In May 2022, people were faced with a choice of the ALP and the Stupid.Fucking.Liberals running on a platform of ALP policies. Why vote for the pretenders? The Australian electorate chose Labor.
In November 2022, Victorian voters will be faced with a choice of the ALP and the Stupid.Fucking.Liberals running on platform of ALP policies. Why vote for the pretenders? The electorate will choose Labor — because they’re not stupid, which the Stupid.Fucking.Liberals think they are.
Ditto NSW in March 2023. The Stupid.Fucking.Liberals are running on ALP policies expecting a different result.
If the Stupid.Fucking.Liberals keep treating voters like idiots, they’ll keep being defeated.
This is not rocket science.
I got so sick and tired of a pot hole on the side of the road that the council haven’t fixed in 5 years but put a 40kph sign there and drivers that didn’t know the road would slam their brakes on, that I threw the sign away. The pot hole is still there and the majority miss it anyway. There’s another sign 55kph on a slight bend that had no sign when the road was 100kph, now it is 80. Time for the chain saw.
The Torres Strait communities are demanding a treaty, and “sovereignty.”
Does that mean that the descendants of the First Nation Peoples of Great Britain who get to set the surrender terms of the treaty?
Power went off in my suburb last night for an hour and a half. I checked on the internet and the status was “Investigation” though when the power came on there was no explanation what happened. Would I be paranoid if I thought it was a planned outage?
BTW, thank God for mobile phones though in the olden times the landlines were on a different power grid and therefore not affected by outages and worked all the time.
Rabz
The Homer discussion I mentioned earlier starts on the Blah-a Lago thread.
Why do you want to live to 95? Ask George Best. I spent all my money on fast cars, loose women and booze, the rest I wasted.
Zulu Kilo Two Alphasays:
August 20, 2022 at 10:12 am
Likewise, I have been reading Ian’s monumental work for several weeks
“Dedicated to Honorary Dr Gina Rinehart, one of the very few prominent business leaders in the world, who has called human induced climate change for what it is:nonsense.”
From the flyleaf.
That’s the problem in a nutshell. Guys like Plimer can eviscerate climate science with their eyes shut. But it means nothing because the media simply don’t report him or any sceptical science; they’ll just focus on fucktards like will steffan or timoh.
Until rich sceptics like Gina buy major media outlets and refocus the narrative Plimer is irrelevant.
Last night in AFL a young Melbourne player was reduced to tears by a Brisbane player’s sledge about a family member.
When I read that earlier I just burst out laffin’! .. how on earth can you play contact sport and sook over “words” .. the options are to ignore or “floor” NOT cry .. and if crying wasn’t bad enuf getting “consoled” borders on ridiculous ….. FFS!
When I was a kid I went to Grammar School the only kid in my area that did .. walking to school & back was an obstacle course of abuse and fights cos I wore a uniform and the other kids didn’t .. I lost a few scraps early on but very few after term 1 .. ya cops it or ya handles it .. there is no middle ground! .. FFS!
Tom the voters anywhere in Australia are the stupidest. Just like General Haig doing the same thing over and over expecting a different result. There is no difference between the Liars and the SFL, as all Cats know.
WokDocter:
Welcome to the Dictatorship of the Bureaucracy!
Top Ender @11:16:
In England these cupboards were/are known as ‘Airing Cupboards’. Very useful. We had them in the houses we lived in over there.
I had to smile about scientists worrying so much about the Big Bang theory being wrong it kept them up at night. You would think they would be delighted to find something a bit unusual and worth investigating, even if it ends up putting previous ideas in the trashcan.
There is a level of overweening pride there that’s hard to fathom. Almost as if adherence to the theory had become faith based.
Personally, I think the stuff coming from Webb is a marvel. And it’s beautiful too.
Haig commanded the British and Dominion Armies during the “Hundred Days” – the longest series of victories in that Armies history, while the German Armies were smashed, broken and retreating as fast as their feet would carry them. Difficult to imagine today’s SFL achieving such a result.
Gez I hope they’re cats your shooting, not Cats.
ZK2A I prefer the BlackAdder version.
Sam Harris’s utter self immolation continues to unwind across the net:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6gDw4T9UM8
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His latest YouTube video and Twtter account comments are a burning wreck of almost universal condemnation.
Good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzFOVXNk4i4
Check this out. Sublime.
Indeed.
To what extent did they choose Labor though? Didn’t Labor get less votes than they did in losing the 2019 election?
There’s been almost no mention of the huge number of non voting people in 2022. Any attention to it would destroy Labor’s “mandate” fantasy that the MSM have willingly swallowed.
Rather than choose Labor, I suspect 10% of Aussies simply went on a vote strike.
Most of them would have previously been Liberal voters.