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Boar Lane Leeds, John Atkinson Grimshaw, 1881

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Tom
Tom
August 26, 2022 4:15 am
Tom
Tom
August 26, 2022 4:16 am
Tom
Tom
August 26, 2022 4:18 am
Armadillo
Armadillo
August 26, 2022 4:25 am
feelthebern
feelthebern
August 26, 2022 4:26 am

KD, what’s the goss on the NT copper who was arrested?

Armadillo
Armadillo
August 26, 2022 4:44 am

Sheep shagger.

Win
Win
August 26, 2022 4:45 am

Sorry Tom.

Armadillo
Armadillo
August 26, 2022 4:51 am
Barking Toad
Barking Toad
August 26, 2022 5:05 am

Thanks Tom. Again.

Leak brilliant.

Armadillo
Armadillo
August 26, 2022 5:11 am

10 reasons not to visit Australia.

Arky was at Number 11. He just missed the cut.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jy9R_aP_LfE&t=171s

Gabor
Gabor
August 26, 2022 5:25 am

Dillo, you get these bouts of insomnia and an urge to post, or are you in the doghouse and even the couch is denied?

Armadillo
Armadillo
August 26, 2022 5:29 am

Arkmeister, there is a billion youtube people on the planet.

I suspect about 20 of them are interested in restoring a Model A Ford.

Just a hunch I have. Don’t take it personally. Mate.

Eyrie
Eyrie
August 26, 2022 5:39 am

Armadillo, what does it mean when Youtube starts putting ads before a video that was posted there?

Armadillo
Armadillo
August 26, 2022 5:42 am

you get these bouts of insomnia and an urge to post

Nailed it. Now, lets talk about my alcohol problem.

I’m going to assume this is a FREE consultation.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
August 26, 2022 5:45 am

Eyriesays:

August 26, 2022 at 5:39 am

Armadillo, what does it mean when Youtube starts putting ads before a video that was posted there?

It means YouTube make money from adverts.
The adverts will be tailored to both content and viewer’s previous preferences.
All algorithm driven.
There is no “programming manager” deciding where to put ads.

Armadillo
Armadillo
August 26, 2022 5:54 am

what does it mean when Youtube starts putting ads before a video that was posted there?

I’m guessing that if you don’t “subscribe” to the channel, it’s some sort of punishment. Unless you skip the advertising, which is a common mistake that people make. I have several brands of Tampons I can now recommend to mOnster to attach to his bleeding heart. And several brands of nappies I could attach to his mouth. The advertising is annoying, but also useful in its own way.

Armadillo
Armadillo
August 26, 2022 5:56 am

Knowledge is power. Thank you Carefree.

H B Bear
H B Bear
August 26, 2022 5:58 am

With the exception of Spotify (in certain circumstances) algorithms have basically killed the internet. It is like talking to someone desperate to agree with you. Two people can essentially start on the same page and after a few clicks are seeing something completely different even if they are looking at the “same” page.

Armadillo
Armadillo
August 26, 2022 6:08 am

I think you guys have been a bit harsh on mOnster lately.

I sense he’s on the precipice of declaring his love for Trump, but you lot just keep rejecting him. Deep down, he’s conservative to the core. A capitalist at heart.

That fat fuck isn’t surviving on crickets and beetles.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
August 26, 2022 6:15 am

H B Bearsays:

August 26, 2022 at 5:58 am

With the exception of Spotify (in certain circumstances) algorithms have basically killed the internet. It is like talking to someone desperate to agree with you

And being advertised at for three months for a product you have already searched and bought.

Armadillo
Armadillo
August 26, 2022 6:19 am

“Loaded Dogma” should have been signal to you all. That and “Dearly Departed Doggie”.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
August 26, 2022 6:27 am

Must be an election coming soon.

Facebook Censors Flag Power Line | Power Line (25 Aug)
Facebook blocks GOP account post opposing student loan debt cancellation (24 Aug, via Surber)
ZeroHedge Suspended Again By Twitter For Reporting Facts (26 Aug)

These are just stories I’ve seen so far this morning. Antisocial media sure doesn’t want eyeballs lately. I hope the court cases with Elon turn Twitter into molten slag.

Armadillo
Armadillo
August 26, 2022 6:38 am

Uh Oh. Mrs A just walked out and made herself a coffee.

Tried to implicate me in having an “all nighter” or some bullshit. Even pointed to the beer cans and wine bottle as if it was some sort of “evidence”.

Anyone could have put them there. I’m pleading innocent until the “finger print people” arrive.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
August 26, 2022 6:42 am

Breakfast listening ruined.
ABC western VIC rural radio talking up wearing purple for some gay prancing day of observation.

Entropy
Entropy
August 26, 2022 6:42 am

On your own?

feelthebern
feelthebern
August 26, 2022 6:43 am

Expect the narrative to be tweaked ahead of the noon Friday (US time) deadline for the redacted affidavit release.

Eyrie
Eyrie
August 26, 2022 6:44 am

I’m guessing that if you don’t “subscribe” to the channel, it’s some sort of punishment.

Geez, it’s my own vid and I’m logged in.

Entropy
Entropy
August 26, 2022 6:47 am

At work we have been all complaining about how run down we all are and started to hate coming to work.
The solution is not to stop doing ever escalating batshit crazy risk aversion activities and endless virtue signalling campaigns as management tries to outdo each other in the corporate management stakes, but actually focus on enabling us to focus on the core tasks and recruit staff sufficient to do our actual jobs.

Oh, no, we get people put in to do “Wellness Month” and promote wear purple days. I guess it looks a lovely bullet point on their resume. And gives everyone else the absolute shits.

Mater
August 26, 2022 7:01 am

Oh, no, we get people put in to do “Wellness Month” and promote wear purple days. I guess it looks a lovely bullet point on their resume. And gives everyone else the absolute shits.

Corporations are a bit like the Liberal Party in this respect. When employee satisfaction lags, they think the solution is to double down on the overbearing, woke horseshit which is actually responsible for a goodly portion of the original dissatisfaction and weariness.

Human Resourcing 101: More declarations, flags and acknowledgments under their signature block overcomes all employee malaise.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
August 26, 2022 7:03 am

The mind rot has seeped into all parts of the ABC.
Rural TV show Landline is dedicating an episode to the wonderful opportunities for EV in rural Australia. All the natural resources we have apparently. Same for ICE vehicles and that never was much of a success.
Shut it down.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
August 26, 2022 7:04 am

what’s the goss

Dunno for sure, bern. I’ve actually met this bloke before, when various social circles briefly converged. Only once or twice though. Seemed all right.

Usually, and with the jacks, the charges about accessing and handing out confidential information are one of two things. If they’re a younger bloke a couple of years into that line of work, it’s usually looking up a particularly noteworthy member of the opposite sex*’s number from number plate information or something, and asking them out after contacting them on some pretext or other. Stupid, and doesn’t happen often at all, but there you go.

For blokes married up with kids, it’s usually a sense of untouchability while delving into information systems on behalf of mates – almost never with proper dastardly criminality in mind, but something like (for example) the address of a bloke because his mate wants to go round and tell the young bloke living there to stay the fuck away from his daughter. Or similar.

A charge like conspiracy to pervert the course of justice, without knowing anything more about it could be anything from a speeding ticket to tax-related deception offences to murder.

I do know he was quite tight with a bloke who was squashed by the skids on a chopper a few months ago while collecting crocodile eggs. The dead bloke was hailed far and wide as a quintessential Dundee-type ‘larrikin’, but who in my view was a dodgy fuckwit who was employed by an even dodgier, bigger fuckwit trading on the same theme.

As with most things of this type – without actually knowing the finer details, it’s all speculation.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
August 26, 2022 7:05 am

* There. I said sex.

Armadillo
Armadillo
August 26, 2022 7:06 am

Oh, no, we get people put in to do “Wellness Month” and promote wear purple days.

Sounds like bliss compared to my current situation.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
August 26, 2022 7:12 am

Tried to implicate me in having an “all nighter” or some bullshit. Even pointed to the beer cans and wine bottle as if it was some sort of “evidence”.

Anyone could have put them there.

There’s only one thing to do, and it’s a proven winner. Deny. Deny, and counter-claim.

‘Oh yeah? It was like that when I got here! Who are you hiding? He’s here somewhere, isn’t he?’

P
P
August 26, 2022 7:15 am

Expect the narrative to be tweaked ahead of the noon Friday (US time) deadline for the redacted affidavit release.

Judge orders release of redacted Mar-a-Lago search warrant by Friday noon
Judge Bruce Reinhart approved the search warrant authorizing the raid but said it was “unprecedented” and formally rejected the Biden administration’s argument to keep the affidavit sealed, citing “intense public and historical interest.”

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
August 26, 2022 7:17 am

Oh, no, we get people put in to do “Wellness Month” and promote wear purple days.

Unfortunately I missed almost all of the virtue signaling morning teas when I was working from the office.
Seemed to always clash with an online meeting – which I would organise with a mate on the other side of the office who was equally uninterested.
The events were totally voluntary but the activists made a point of trying interrupt people trying to do real work and press-gang them into turning up, to ensure the photos in the corporate promo showed a big turnout.

Louis Litt
Louis Litt
August 26, 2022 7:21 am

Thanks Dover – that is a beautiful painting of Leeds.
As a Leeds United fan And visited it once There is an attachment to that city.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
August 26, 2022 7:23 am

Society used to self-regulate. Sometimes you still see glimpses of it (the NT News):

A TRIP to the pub came to a brutal and bloody end after three men bashed another man and left him for dead, naked and hogtied on a suburban Alice Springs driveway, a court has heard.

Richie Tomlins, 30, pleaded guilty in the Supreme Court to kidnapping the man and attacking him with two of his cousins because they wrongly believed he had raped and killed an old lady.

Wait for it.

The court heard one of Tomlins’ cousins had told him he recognised the victim from prison and had mistakenly thought he was there for “raping and murdering an old woman”, when in fact, he had raped — but not murdered — a young woman.

And:

Justice Burns said Tomlins’ two cousins then reached around from the back seat and restrained the man from behind while Tomlins started punching him in the face from the driver’s seat.

“The victim has little memory of what happened after this, except being continually punched to the head and face, he then lost consciousness — at least one of you continued to assault the victim after he lost consciousness,” he said.

“The victim was ultimately pushed from the vehicle onto the road surface outside a house in suburban Alice Springs (where) residents provided assistance to him until police and emergency services arrived.

“At that point, the victim was naked, his pants were around his ankles and his feet were tied together.”

It’s a bit of a stretch calling this bloke a victim. Anyway, Mr Tomlins got a bit over five years in the bin.

No downside to this story whatsoever.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
August 26, 2022 7:27 am

“At that point, the victim was naked, his pants were around his ankles and his feet were tied together.”

Just a regular Saturday night at Casa Sancho.
If only Mrs Panzer would join in.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
August 26, 2022 7:34 am

Human Resourcing 101: More declarations, flags and acknowledgments under their signature block overcomes all employee malaise.

There’s been a change. Up until about 2005 when a recession came along companies would ditch this rubbish and sack most of the HR drones. Then we’d have a few years of actually being able to work effectively before the dead wood started to build up again. It was a wonderful feeling of freedom, while it lasted. I can recall three or four such iterations. Then everything would clag up until the next recession.

Now though in recessions the HR drones are kept and the ones who do the work get downsized instead. I think it’s the ESG disease, which has so infected management that they’ve forgotten that they’re running a business not a political party.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
August 26, 2022 7:39 am

I do online Sudoku puzzles. I assume the push advertising is tailored towards what they consider to be their audience. I’m either a fat chick who needs a weight loss regime, an old chook with oversize boozzies hurting her back by wearing the wrong bra or a gorgeous italian woman with great legs, but a crook hip which I don’t think she knows is going to cause her problems as she gets older, selling shoes. As much as won’t believe me, I’m none of those. Strange isn’t it.

Dot
Dot
August 26, 2022 7:39 am

Opposite sexes.

So it isn’t a Ying Yang symbol, but a Pentagram like from Magic: The Gathering.

For example, white allies with blue or green, but opposes black or red.

Also now, it’s LGBTQIAA2+

Dot
Dot
August 26, 2022 7:41 am

A redacted Arthur David.

We’ve seen these before through FOIA requests.

Expect a lot of blacked out redactions and very little content.

Dot
Dot
August 26, 2022 7:45 am

Oh, no, we get people put in to do “Wellness Month” and promote wear purple days. I guess it looks a lovely bullet point on their resume. And gives everyone else the absolute shits.

Wear a purple tie or sash like Caesar, shits and giggles.

Tell them your big five are:

1. Strength of mind and body.
2. Glory of the nation.
3. Advancement of your family.
4. Your reputation; and
5. Traditionalism.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
August 26, 2022 7:47 am

5. Traditionalism.

6. The Salic Law of succession.

Dot
Dot
August 26, 2022 7:48 am

KD

No shit that even bigger fuckwit may have asked me for schpare change one evening near central station Sydney for a train ride back to the airport after telling me a redacted (?) life story. Fuck me that was dumb, forget giving him $10, I could have gotten rolled, it was near the road overpass and fire station and it was quiet and I was alone. If it’s the same bloke I looked into who he was, read his name in a court case and felt sick.

Dot
Dot
August 26, 2022 7:49 am

Let’s stick to Caesar, not the Kaisers.

Anyway, it could have just been one delusional bum talking to another delusional bum. 🙂

feelthebern
feelthebern
August 26, 2022 7:50 am

6. The Salic Law of succession.

Would you like to know more?

feelthebern
feelthebern
August 26, 2022 7:51 am

Thanks KD re the copper background.
Seems like the whole NT plod situation is a bit of a circus.

Dot
Dot
August 26, 2022 7:52 am

Truthiness from Da Laydee Pages today:

When a Furious Guy Confronted His Fiancée About Her Cheating, He Was Surprised to Learn The Truth

*This is a nonfiction piece based on true events as described to me by a friend who witnessed them directly; permission was granted to use them.*

What was that kids show that had the catchphrase : “This is a true story, I heard it from a friend of a friend of mine…”

???

Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
August 26, 2022 7:57 am

wearing purple for some gay prancing day

Colour me confused:
LGBTIQ+ is apparently the latest iteration of “gender” nomenclature.
Each letter appears to identify a unique group.
BUT the Q stands for queer which stands for “all of the above” so why include it in the acronym?

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
August 26, 2022 7:58 am

‘No seat, no job’: Why Jamie Dimon is quietly clamping down on remote work at JPMorgan

Jamie Dimon has grown increasingly aggressive behind the scenes with a clampdown on remote work — and insiders say a major reason is likely a certain skyscraper that’s under construction in Midtown Manhattan.

JPMorgan’s hard-charging chief executive has been quietly telling senior managers he expects the mega-bank’s rank and file to be in their seats at the office five days a week – a more stringent standard than the bank’s official line of three days a week, according to sources close to the company.

It’s also more in line with Goldman Sachs — which demanded well over a year ago everyone return to its offices in downtown Manhattan five days a week. A company spokesman was quick to note the bank has no plans to change its hybrid policy.

Still, there is growing anxiety throughout JPMorgan’s employee ranks as the US economy braces for a “hurricane,” in Dimon’s words. As reported by The Post, whispers of hiring freezes and even layoffs have begun to circulate as dealmaking across Wall Street slows sharply from its red-hot pace during the pandemic

“The worry is if people aren’t in their seats five days a week, those seats could be moved from our team,” a source close to the situation told The Post. “If someone’s not there it makes it a pretty easy decision to fire them first.”

Dimon has emphasized that banking is an apprenticeship model and employees need to be together to collaborate and work together.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
August 26, 2022 8:01 am

Laptop stays in picture

When I was writing “Laptop From Hell,” I often thought what a great movie Hunter Biden’s laptop would make. It takes us from the White House to the opulent haunts of oligarchs in Monte Carlo, Lake Como, Hong Kong and Shanghai, from a Mexican billionaire’s beach villa in Acapulco to the desolate oil fields of Kazakhstan, from a judo competition in Budapest with Vladimir Putin to dinner in Beijing with Xi Jinping. Beautiful Russian escorts and thieving drug dealers float through the Chateau Marmont amid slapstick scenes as crackhead Hunter comes unstuck and his hapless Uncle Jim Biden rides in to the rescue. Sadly, Hollywood never came knocking.

But now, the intrepid Irish American filmmakers Phelim McAleer and Ann McElhinney are about to release their own version of the tale, “My Son Hunter.” You won’t be surprised to hear they had trouble finding anyone in Hollywood to fund or distribute it.

So they crowdfunded the project, starring John James as Joe Biden and Laurence Fox as Hunter, and filmed it in Serbia. Breitbart News came to the rescue on distribution, and it’s all systems go for Sept. 9.

I’ve only seen a 30-second teaser, but glimpses of the first son amid scantily clad babes, oligarchs and menacing drug dealers are suitably sizzling. A longer trailer will be launched in a livestream Thursday night on Donald Trump’s social media platform Truth Social.

Former first son Donald Trump Jr. will appear on a panel after the trailer, presumably to opine on how differently this story would have been treated if that infamous laptop had belonged to him.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
August 26, 2022 8:01 am

Seems like the whole NT plod situation is a bit of a circus.

Looks that way.

It also looks like a Commissioner, who is deeply beholden to the government of the day, and which gave him a lucrative job (and multi-million dollar budget) as head of remote housing when he was an Assistant Commissioner, and who had no knowledge of or background in that work, and which also then gave him the Commish role, and also which then expected some backup when a crook got shot in the desert (and got it) to distract from its appalling performance, and who is now on his last legs, is now going supernova on his own troops to try and stay in his exceedingly comfy contract.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
August 26, 2022 8:04 am

What was that kids show that had the catchphrase : “This is a true story, I heard it from a friend of a friend of mine…”

I can only think of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. During roll call.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
August 26, 2022 8:05 am

GreyRangasays:

August 26, 2022 at 7:39 am

I do online Sudoku puzzles. I assume the push advertising is tailored towards what they consider to be their audience. I’m either a fat chick who needs a weight loss regime, an old chook with oversize boozzies …

Might have told this story before.
I was looking for some little mushroom shaped wooden thingies to cover recessed screw heads in a gate I was making.
Googled “wooden button plugs”.
Whooaaa!
Some of the search results and subsequent advertising were something I did not need to see.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
August 26, 2022 8:07 am

VP Kamala Harris holes up in Hawaii as Biden signs spending bill, reveals student loan plan

Headline and Article not particularly interesting but Comments Great

– Wiley Coyote
1 hour ago

When asked about the student loan forgiveness, VP Harris had this to say: “President Biden takes student loan debt very seriously because it’s a very important issue that is a serious problem for all the students who took on debt to get a serious education. Because of the loans they took, they have a lot of debt and because they have debt, it’s a serious problem when they go to take out more loans because they have so much debt they can’t pay off the loans they have, leaving them highly indebted. So, it’s important that we take this debt seriously. By paying off $10,000 of their debt, their debt is paid off so they can pursue serious careers. “

– VP Camel Ahh Harris responded: I’ve been accused of using word salad. I like salad. Salad is healthy. Words are healthy. I like words. Putting two healthy things – salad and words – together makes word salad which is healthy when asked questions with words in them. So I put the words in a salad which makes a word salad, because a salad made of words is much healthier than just words without a salad.

feelthebern
feelthebern
August 26, 2022 8:08 am

Rogan got Zuckerberg on.
I look forward to listening to.
I wonder if he will just lie like he did on the Lex podcast.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
August 26, 2022 8:11 am

American Rules are for American Peasants and Republicans – NOT for Democraps like me

Paul Pelosi kicked out of California police charity after flashing membership during DUI arrest

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
August 26, 2022 8:13 am

feelthebernsays:
August 26, 2022 at 8:08 am
Rogan got Zuckerberg on.
I look forward to listening to.
I wonder if he will just lie like he did on the Lex podcast.

Mark Zuckerberg criticizes Twitter’s handling of The Post’s Hunter Biden laptop story

Mark Zuckerberg took thinly veiled swipes at Twitter over its decision to ban sharing of The Post’s exclusive report on Hunter Biden’s laptop ahead of the 2020 election, calling the rival social network’s ban overly “black and white.”

The billionaire CEO of Meta defended Facebook’s response to the Biden story during an appearance on “The Joe Rogan Experience” podcast after the host pressed him to explain his views on how tech platforms should handle content moderation on sensitive subjects.

“A lot of people were still able to share it,” Zuckerberg said of The Post’s Hunter Biden scoop. “We got a lot of complaints that that was the case.

“This is a hyper-political issue, so depending on what side of the political spectrum, you either think we didn’t censor enough or censored it way too much, but we weren’t as black and white about it as Twitter,” he added.

Twitter briefly suspended The Post’s account in 2020 after the laptop exposé revealed the existence of tens of thousands of emails between the president’s son and business associates. The emails revealed how Biden’s son leveraged his political access in his overseas business dealings.

When Rogan asked for his view on how the response to The Post’s story was handled, Zuckerberg acknowledged that Facebook had also reduced distribution of the report on its own platform.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
August 26, 2022 8:14 am

In Getting On With the Important Stuff news:

Review clears Morrison government of rorting industry grants, giving a green light to proceed

The review revealed former prime minister Scott Morrison made himself the final decision-maker for some of the grants, which Mr Husic said was “in defiance of usual practice”.

But an examination of the way successful companies were chosen found decisions were supported by an independent committee and the required grant opportunity guidelines.

Strangely, no mention of the hookers pissing on the bed that Bill Shorten once slept on…

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
August 26, 2022 8:16 am

Student who tracks celebs’ flights will stop publishing Elon Musk’s whereabouts — for a price

Elon Musk drew wrath this week for a nine-minute, 35-mile flight from San Jose to San Francisco — but it didn’t have to be this way.

The trip was tracked and exposed by @ElonJet, a Twitter account run by Jack Sweeney, a 20-year-old IT major at University of Central Florida in Orlando.

“If he let me fly with him on his jet, record it and talk about it — and maybe not even pay me the $50,000 [previously asked for] — I would take it down,” Sweeney said of Musk. “That is still up for discussion.”

Sweeney’s high-profile hobby uses public information snagged from the Internet to track the movements of private planes flying the likes of Tom Cruise and assorted Kardashians, a brace of Russian oligarchs and tech titans such as Bill Gates and Musk. He regularly posts their high-flying whereabouts to a series of Twitter accounts. In July his @CelebJets account busted Kylie Jenner for a 17-minute flight, which led to her being called a “climate criminal.”

But he has a particular soft-spot for Musk — even when the inventor makes life difficult for him.

Last November, Musk offered Sweeney $5,000 to take down the account.

P
P
August 26, 2022 8:17 am

Shia LaBeouf converts to Catholicism after studying for ‘Padre Pio’ movie
By Timothy H.J. Nerozzi | Fox News – Published August 25, 2022

LaBeouf told Barron that the traditional form of the Catholic mass — celebrated in Latin — was key in both his conversion and his performance as an actor playing Pio.

When Ferrara asked LaBeouf to use an Italian accent while acting, he refused. The movie had become too personal and too important to wear a “mask” as LaBeouf described it to Barron.

“While we were practicing Latin Mass, I was having genuine emotional experiences, and aside from the fact that as a Neapolitan speaker, [Pio’s] accent wouldn’t have matched Italian anyway, but it felt like that would have taken me out of this thing that felt very personal,” LaBeouf explained.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
August 26, 2022 8:20 am

Nate Silver: ‘Liberal elites’ pressured Pfizer to delay vaccine until after 2020 election

Nate Silver claimed “liberal public health elites” pressured Pfizer to delay fast-track approval of its COVID-19 vaccine until after the 2020 presidential election — thus denying then-President Donald Trump a political win before voters headed to the polls.

The number-crunching data journalist reacted to an article by Politico that cited a House report that claimed the Trump administration sought to expedite approvals for both vaccines and “unproven treatments” for COVID-19.

“‘Trump pushed for vaccine approvals too fast’ is the worst possible critique of the Trump administration’s COVID policy,” Silver, founder of the Disney-owned FiveThirtyEight political news and analysis website, tweeted.

“That probably saved a lot of lives. If anything approval should have been faster.”

In a subsequent tweet, Silver wrote that “liberal public health elites” pushed Pfizer to “change its original protocols” that govern its authorization of vaccines so that the decision would be put off until after Election Day two years ago.

Silver noted that Pfizer’s decision “had the convenient side-effect of delaying any vaccine announcement until after the election” and that the story “deserves more scrutiny.”

The FiveThirtyEight editor-in-chief said most public health officials “tend to be strong [Democratic] partisans” and that their push for Pfizer to take its time in announcing a vaccine “may have been politically motivated in whole or in part.”

H B Bear
H B Bear
August 26, 2022 8:24 am

Anyone who still has autocorrect still on would understand why algorithms are rarely of benefit to the end user. IT “features” and “benefits” through “upgrades” are typically worse than useless.

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
August 26, 2022 8:25 am

That’s Shia “He will not divide us” Leoebueffe, in case you’re tempted to grant him an indulgence.
Probably the frightbat of the messiest viral self-immolation skip bin fire of the online medium. Crowder and co had a spree, piss funny stuff.

Dot
Dot
August 26, 2022 8:26 am

Shoot.

When the Biden White House has lost Nate Silver, they’re very unpopular.

calli
calli
August 26, 2022 8:27 am

“Timber screw covers” would have yielded that for which you sought.

Especially if you added the tell-all…. “Bunnings”.

There’s hardware and there’s Hardwear. So be aware.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
August 26, 2022 8:27 am

https://joannenova.com.au/2022/08/did-they-really-say-punishment/#comment-2581385

Did they really say “Punishment”?

The Queensland government will allow unvaccinated teachers to return to work, but at a lower pay rate for 18 weeks. It has also sent them nasty letters to make sure they feel intimidated. There are only so many words for vindictive, spiteful tyrants.

Do the vaccinated realize that this will bite them soon too? Once bureaucrats can inflict penalties retrospectively, capriciously and with no possible reasoning (they don’t even try) — then anyone can be the next victim.

John Ruddick (@JohnRuddick2)

What’s happening to the unvaxxed Queensland teachers is the opening salvo in a Beijing-style ‘social credit’ system in Australia.

The govt is pointlessly persecuting a minority to enforce conformity. https://t.co/y03tR08oGI

Dot
Dot
August 26, 2022 8:29 am

The Queensland government will allow unvaccinated teachers to return to work, but at a lower pay rate for 18 weeks. It has also sent them nasty letters to make sure they feel intimidated. There are only so many words for vindictive, spiteful tyrants.

Just take stress leave.

Flip it on the government, make the parents (marginal electors) angry, become ungovernable.

calli
calli
August 26, 2022 8:30 am

Those pop-ups can be very useful. I wondered why I was getting some eye-bleach worthy stuff appearing…until I sussed out that someone was using my office computer for something else.

A quick search of History confirmed my suspicions. A few carefully dropped hints were all that was required and it stopped.

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
August 26, 2022 8:35 am

Good as Leak Jr is today- and I love him because he’s even sketchier than his dad, who used to over-egg and put puns into forced labour a bit- he could have sharpened the knives a bit, called it “robo-denial” and include Tits and Plibbers hiding amongst the levers of power, and truly had one for the archival print maker.

H B Bear
H B Bear
August 26, 2022 8:36 am

Tony Burqa can hardly wait for the jobs summit and some long overdue reforms. The Liars – the best parliamentarians you can buy.

flyingduk
flyingduk
August 26, 2022 8:40 am

LGBTIQ+ is apparently the latest iteration of “gender” nomenclature.

Do keep up … its now LGBTIQ+S to include the sheep shaggers

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
August 26, 2022 8:40 am

Judge Orders Mar-a-Lago Search Warrant Affidavit to Be Unsealed

Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart ordered a redacted version of the search warrant affidavit used in the FBI’s raid on Mar-a-Lago to be unsealed on Friday by noon EST.

Judge Reinhart’s order on Thursday came after the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) argued portions of the affidavit should be kept secret.

Judge Reinhart, who approved the search warrant based on the affidavit, determined the federal government “has met its burden of showing a compelling reason/good cause to seal portions of the Affidavit.”

From the Comments

– We’ve obtained a copy of it with redactions : Fauci lied people died, we hate Trump give us permission to legally rob him blind.
Thank you USA.

calli
calli
August 26, 2022 8:45 am

Speaking of over-egging, Katie Hopkins opined that there will be no air travel for anyone but the elites in five to ten years’ time.

I’m not so sure. The travel industry is so entrenched that it would only take a major cataclysm to stop it – like a world war. Even 911 didn’t stop it for long, and many like me were travelling just a few days after.

The one that will be interesting to watch will be the cruise industry. A huge investment has been made in new ships and re-fits.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
August 26, 2022 8:45 am

Cost of living looms as danger area for PM as concerns soar

The cost of living is swamping every other issue as the key concern for voters, including climate change, COVID-19 and the state of the creaking health system, a new survey shows.

In a warning to the Albanese government to stay focused on the economic challenges facing individuals and families, the latest True Issues survey also finds voters have a dim view of how the government is handling the cost of living crisis.

Its release comes as Opposition leader Peter Dutton accused the prime minister of being too obsessed with the previous misdeeds of Scott Morrison by pursuing an inquiry into the former prime minister’s five secret ministries, and announcing on Thursday a Royal Commission into the Robodebt scandal.

Mr Dutton said double-digit inflation and energy rationing in Europe was “all coming for us”.

“The time now is for the Prime Minister to stop this witch hunt and get on with helping the Australian public, who are very worried about what they’re seeing internationally.”

The True Issues survey is a quarterly exercise conducted by JWS Research to gauge the issues which most concern or interest voters, and asks them to rate the government’s handling of the issues.

The latest survey of 1000 voters, conducted between August 12 and August 15, shows that when prompted with a list of issues and asked to rate them in order of importance, 73 per cent mentioned the cost of living which is up from 65 per cent in the previous survey in March.

The figure reaches 81 per cent among those aged between 35 and 54 years, the demographic struggling the most with mortgages and the costs of raising kids.

Hospitals, healthcare and ageing was the next most dominant issue at 59 per cent, followed by two more economic issues – the economy and finances (44 per cent), and housing and interest rates (39 per cent).

The election of a Labor government and its early pursuit of emissions reduction policy has coincided with a reduction in concern over climate change from 42 per cent in March to 36 per cent now, making it the fifth top issue of concern.

On an unprompted basis, when the survey asked participants to name three issues that concern them the most the cost of living again came out on top at 38 per cent, an increase from the 16 per cent in the March survey.

Despite ongoing large case numbers and deaths from COVID-19, just 8 per cent mentioned it unprompted as a concern, down from 15 per cent in March and 47 per cent in July last year.

While the federal government’s overall performance rating has lifted sharply since the March survey when the Coalition was in power, its rating on managing the cost of living came last among the 22 issues presented to those surveyed.

“There’s been promises made. The voters expect delivery,” says JWS Research director John Scales.

Late last year, the survey began to detect a fatigue with both tiers of government, state and federal, due to the pandemic.

The latest survey shows the overall performance rating of the federal government has lifted from an index rating of 47 in March, when the Coalition was in power, to 54 now, following a change of government.

But the states remain on the slide. The collective rating has fallen from 54 to 52 since March, but this is being propped by Western Australia (64) and South Australia (57), both states with popular leaders.

NSW, Victoria and Queensland each have an index of 50.

Optimism in the national economy is also falling. More Australians see the national economy heading in the wrong direction since March (33 per cent up from 30 per cent), and fewer see it heading in the right direction (20 per cent down from 28 per cent).

Phillip Coorey is the political editor based in Canberra

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 26, 2022 8:45 am

Wesfarmers dividend $1 a share – very nice, thank you.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
August 26, 2022 8:48 am

callisays:

August 26, 2022 at 8:27 am

“Timber screw covers” would have yielded that for which you sought.

Well, I know that now.
Actually I found a really good supplier of specialist timber products in Adelaide called Hammersmith.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
August 26, 2022 8:49 am

The AFR View

Why haven’t bank bosses rated jobs summit invites?

At the very least, the Australian Banking Association’s chair and deputy chair, Peter King and Marnie Baker, should be asked to attend the Jobs and Skills Summit.

As The Australian Financial Review reported at the time, business was divided and sidelined at Bob Hawke’s 1983 National Economic Summit. While the result was not overall bad for business, the summit basically endorsed the Prices and Incomes Accord between Labor and the ACTU as the Hawke-Keating government’s economic policy framework.

After seasoned trade union officials Simon Crean and Bill Kelty ran rings around leading business figures, the summit led to the formation of the Business Council of Australia months later.

Nearly 40 years later, Anthony Albanese’s Jobs and Skills Summit will feature leaders of the industry superannuation funds produced by the Labor-ACTU accord.

Incredibly, an economic summit of 100 or so leading figures apparently will exclude the “Team Australia” bank CEOs who helped get the economy through the pandemic, got the jobless rate down to 3.4 per cent, and who dominate the financing of housing, identified by Treasurer Jim Chalmers as a pressing issue.

The banks’ sole representative appears to be their chief lobbyist, former Queensland Labor premier Anna Bligh. At the very least, the summit should include the Australian Banking Association’s current chair, Westpac CEO Peter King, and deputy chair, Bendigo and Adelaide Bank CEO Marnie Baker.

Anything less would smack of churlishness.

Eyrie
Eyrie
August 26, 2022 8:51 am

Student who tracks celebs’ flights will stop publishing Elon Musk’s whereabouts — for a price
This is the problem with the ADSB system. There is a GPS receiver in the aircraft along with a pressure altimeter system and up to twice a second the position, altitude and speed of the aircraft is transmitted to a ground station along with a unique code permanently assigned to the aircraft and its registration. The security flaws in this were pointed out long ago but nothing was done. It would not be difficult to simply remove that code portion and then it would be like the old Mode C/radar system and make sure that data held by ATC was not put out on the internet.
It is also stupid to antagonise the world’s richest man. Elon doesn’t look like a guy who would have the idiot whacked or beaten up but the guy might find his life and career has a lot of “bad luck” if Elon decides he needs a hobby.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
August 26, 2022 8:52 am

Sancho Panzer says:
August 26, 2022 at 8:48 am
callisays:

August 26, 2022 at 8:27 am

“Timber screw covers” would have yielded that for which you sought.

Well, I know that now.
Actually I found a really good supplier of specialist timber products in Adelaide called Hammersmith.

Thanks for that https://www.hammersmith.com.au/ downloaded for future reference

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 26, 2022 8:58 am

Daily Mail.

Not very eco-friendly! Prince Harry sits in idling $9 million private jet for 30 minutes while he waits for staff to arrive in gas-guzzling Range Rover to deliver his forgotten polo kit

Prince Harry was spotted arriving at a Santa Barbara airport in an electric Audi SUV, before boarding the $9 million Bombardier Challenger 600 on Wednesday
He was about to jet off for an annual polo event at the Aspen Valley Polo Club to join his long-time friend polo star Nacho Figueras
Argentinian Figueras, who has played polo alongside Harry many times, attended his wedding to Meghan Markle and he was the first of the royal’s friends to meet his son Archie in 2019
The jet belongs to multi-millionaire US businessman Marc Ganzi, who is a close friend of the Royal Family and a polo enthusiast

Top Ender
Top Ender
August 26, 2022 8:59 am

The loons on the subways in NY seem to have gotten worse.

One stalwart 30 year old male using a walker, stopped and put himself on the floor of the carriage today near us and started begging…one of his lines was “I can stay here for five stops if you don’t give me 10 cents”…

The carriage was half full, and no-one gave him anything, so there is that.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
August 26, 2022 9:00 am

Two Plead Guilty To Stealing Ashley Biden’s ‘Inappropriate Showers With Dad’ Diary

Two Florida residents have pleaded guilty to stealing Ashley Biden’s diary and other belongings, before selling them to Project Veritas in the weeks leading up to the 2020 US election.

Aimee Harris, 40, and Robert Kurlander, 58, admitted they took part in a conspiracy to transport stolen materials from Florida, where Ashley Biden had been living, to New York, according to the New York Times.

“Harris and Kurlander stole personal property from an immediate family member of a candidate for national political office,” said Damian Williams, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York.

And while Project Veritas declined to publish the diary (and were still raided by the Biden DOJ), the National File did publish excerpts on Oct. 24, 2020 – and the full diary two days later. While treated as potentially fake at the time, we now know that the contents are legit – including claims that Joe took ‘probably inappropriate’ showers with Ashley, and that she believes she was sexually molested as a child.

Meanwhile

FBI Sets Sights on James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas with Ashley Biden Diary Conviction

From the Comments

– Love how they confirm it’s her diary but gloss over the facts in it

– Just like Hunters laptop

With More Detail from

Two Florida Residents Plead Guilty in Federal Court in New York to Stealing Ashley Biden Diary

August 25, 2022 – Sundance

The reason the FBI raided the home and office of Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe, was to discover the source of the Ashley Biden diary. The feds then went to work on prosecuting the suspects who “stole” the diary, and a guilty plea in New York was entered today. [Ashley in green shirt below]

[Creepy Joe] Look carefully, everything about this narrative presentation by national media is sketchy; including two Florida residents being prosecuted in New York, when the claimed illegal action, the theft,” took place in Florida.

Also, the “stolen” goods aspect is suspect, despite the plea. As previous wide-spread discussion outlined, the Ashley Biden material was left behind in a rental home and discovered by the next occupant. It looks like the admission of “theft” is a Main Justice pressure angle to support a “stolen” narrative.

The Florida residents, Aimee Harris and Robert Kurlander, plead guilty to “conspiracy to commit interstate transportation of stolen property.” The creepy and disturbing content of the diary is now obscured.

Eyrie
Eyrie
August 26, 2022 9:01 am

I’m not so sure. The travel industry is so entrenched that it would only take a major cataclysm to stop it – like a world war. Even 911 didn’t stop it for long, and many like me were travelling just a few days after.

They will just mandate a cap on flights. The French have banned air travel for relatively short distances. No problem really.
Try this:
https://www.avweb.com/aviation-news/france-wants-eu-to-ban-bizjets/?MailingID=1046&utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=France+Wants+Bizjet+Ban%2C+Compensation+Regulations&utm_campaign=France+Wants+Bizjet+Ban%2C+Compensation+Regulations-Thursday%2C+August+25%2C+2022

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
August 26, 2022 9:03 am

Do sties make pigs?

Geraldton’s social housing program being labelled ‘mini Batavia’ by tenants

Another in the never ending “if we just give the homeless drug/pisswrecks a house they will straighten themselves out series.

The WA government spent $400,000 on refurbishing the six Spalding homes, which reopened in May.

Substance use is banned on site and the Department of Communities has partnered with the WA Country Health Service to provide drug and alcohol counselling through the ICARE program.

But one of the residents, who does not wish to be named, said some tenants were ignoring these rules.

Black Ball
Black Ball
August 26, 2022 9:06 am

I happened upon the Age front page yesterday which said that voters rate Labor ahead of the Coalition on integrity. Because of Guy here in Victoriastan and SloMo and his work.
Since I was at work, didn’t read all of the report but I imagine Andrews and red shirts etc would have rated a mention. Or not, being the Age and all.

Eyrie
Eyrie
August 26, 2022 9:06 am

Not very eco-friendly! Prince Harry sits in idling $9 million private jet for 30 minutes while he waits for staff to arrive in gas-guzzling Range Rover to deliver his forgotten polo kit

Earlier this year David Littleproud, then IIRC Minister for Agriculture had a RAAF VIP Falcon7X sitting on the ground for more than a hour at Warwick so the cabin could be kept cool while he was doing business in town. Arsehole. A Cessna Citation would be more like it for Canberra – Warwick.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
August 26, 2022 9:06 am

The jet belongs to multi-millionaire US businessman Marc Ganzi, who is a close friend of the Royal Family and a polo enthusiast

Suck eggs ginger polo boy.
My mate is putting on a party in the wool shed for the fiftieth of his missus and we’re getting beer, a bbq and a local band. GF day too, so we kick off early and push on as far as we’re able.

Dot
Dot
August 26, 2022 9:11 am

Actually the fact that the diary is stolen is as important as a falsely attested affidavit being sworn to obtain a warrant to search Trump to find any charges on a fishing expedition.

The fruit of the poison tree must not be allowed to be consumed.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 26, 2022 9:12 am

A Cessna Citation would be more like it for Canberra – Warwick.

I’d suggest the oldest DC3 still flying.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
August 26, 2022 9:19 am

Viet rellie is hoping to take her newish bub back to Vietnam to meet grandparents/family.

13 weeks wait for the kids passport so far.

Dad took her into the local pollies office to see if they could assist. Apparently the whole passport/visa system is screwed and this is the “new normal”.

Indolent
Indolent
August 26, 2022 9:21 am
Big_Nambas
Big_Nambas
August 26, 2022 9:23 am

Well worth the time to read this post. Jab jab booster……………………………

3. The COVID-19 vaccines authorized or approved for use in United States do not meet established criteria for establishing their short-term and long-term safety and efficacy. Serious safety signals – red flags – about these vaccines have been ignored, and continue to be ignored, by the FDA and the CDC. The EUAs for the Pfizer-BioNTech, the Moderna and the Johnson & Johnson/Janssen COVID-19 vaccines, and the FDA’s approval of Pfizer’s Comirnaty vaccine and Moderna’s Spikevax vaccine, should be revoked. All of these vaccines should be taken off the market immediately.

https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/covid-19-vaccines-and-informed-consent?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
August 26, 2022 9:23 am

America following QLD? – Mayor Muriel Bowser says there will be no virtual learning option for students who haven’t been vaccinated

BREAKING: According to D.C. @MayorBowser, unvaccinated students will not be allowed in school, nor will there be virtual learning. They will be denied an education.

Dot
Dot
August 26, 2022 9:25 am

Cool, homeschool, become ungovernable.

Indolent
Indolent
August 26, 2022 9:28 am

THIS is how you stand up for yourself. And it helps if you have some accomplishments to point to, which DeSantis most certainly has.

Catturd
@catturd2
I’ll say it again – absolutely love my Governor.

Roger
Roger
August 26, 2022 9:31 am

The latest survey shows the overall performance rating of the federal government has lifted from an index rating of 47 in March, when the Coalition was in power, to 54 now, following a change of government.

54; a post-election bump rather than a ringing endorsement.

As I noted yesterday, the American based Heritage Foundation, taking account of the sliding performance of our governments, has relegated Australia to ‘mostly free’ in their economic freedom index. Some of our states would be best assessed as only moderately free.

calli
calli
August 26, 2022 9:33 am

Caping flights will work short term until the rail and road networks become overcrowded. Once those sweet sweet tourist dollars stop flowing watch the French do an about face.

It will just take a little longer than the prospect of a freezing winter and energy production, but it will happen.

calli
calli
August 26, 2022 9:33 am

Capping, not caping.

Unless you’re Superman.

Indolent
Indolent
August 26, 2022 9:40 am
Dot
Dot
August 26, 2022 9:42 am

Don’t say I don’t do anything for you (especially JC).

https://4043042.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hubfs/4043042/Content%20Offers/2022.Q2%20Commentary/2022.Q2%20GR%20Market%20Commentary.pdf

SECOND QUARTER 2022 — AUGUST 18TH 2022
Goehring & Rozencwajg
Natural Resource Market Commentary

WHY
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DURING A
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Table of Contents
Why Resources During a Recession
The Incredible Shrinking Supermajors Part III
High Energy Cost Hurts Wind & Solar
Natural Resource market Commentary – 2nd Quarter 2022
Hot Mics & Tepid Production
The Freeport LNG Paradox
S&P Global Admits We Have a Copper Problem
A Head Fake in Precious Metals: The Bear Market Drags On
Nuclear Sentiment Continues to Improve
The Temporary Respite in the Agricultural Crisis Won’t Last

Armadillo
Armadillo
August 26, 2022 9:44 am

“At that point, the victim was naked, his pants were around his ankles and his feet were tied together.”

A Police report already? FMD. Fake News. I was clutching a wine bottle at the time.

Oh wait. That’s the NT.

Carry on. Nothing to see here. Move along.

Armadillo
Armadillo
August 26, 2022 9:49 am

Where’s mOnster? I need to apologise about last night.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
August 26, 2022 9:50 am

When the Poms go mad they do it properly.

This is where their green lunacy has got them to.

Energy firms refusing to supply small UK businesses over bankruptcy fears
Hospitality sector in particular is finding it hard to renew contracts, with some asked for £10,000 deposit

….
In the latest sign of the deepening energy crisis, business owners said they were struggling to find a supplier in the run-up to the busy October period for renewing gas and electricity contracts, leaving them facing “extortionate” bills or demands for a deposit.

Teresa Hodgson, landlord of the Green Man pub in Denham, near Uxbridge, was initially told by her supplier SSE that it could not give her a quote for energy because prices were increasing so fast. “When I did pin them down, they said before we can go any further, we want a £10,000 deposit,” Hodgson said.

“When I asked why, because they’ve never had an issue with me, they said: ‘We don’t think a lot of pubs are going to make it this year and we need security.’ There were other suppliers who just wouldn’t entertain it at all because it’s hospitality,” she added.

Elbow and the gang-o-greens will be taking notes.

Armadillo
Armadillo
August 26, 2022 9:52 am

It’s all a bit hazy. I think I might have called him a fat fuck.

My apologies.

I should have inserted the word “really” after “a”.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
August 26, 2022 9:53 am

I was clutching a wine bottle at the time.

Its what you were clutching the wine bottle with that has seen some hardened members of the force taking a mental health break.

Given the plastic piggy nose and apple were at one end and the wine bottle was at the other….

MatrixTransform
August 26, 2022 9:53 am

Where’s mOnster? I need to apologise about last night.

He’s prolly down the chemist asking for a Morning After Pill

Roger
Roger
August 26, 2022 10:01 am

In the latest sign of the deepening energy crisis, business owners said they were struggling to find a supplier in the run-up to the busy October period for renewing gas and electricity contracts, leaving them facing “extortionate” bills or demands for a deposit.

The UK government will have to step in and do something about this [sarc].

feelthebern
feelthebern
August 26, 2022 10:02 am

Zuckerberg can throw the FBI under the bus because his real engagement is with the CIA & DARPA.

feelthebern
feelthebern
August 26, 2022 10:05 am

The narrative generator is a bind today.
They were getting ready to tweak the Trump raid narrative via their surrogates.
Now the Rogan/Zuck clip is out they are wigging out trying to decide how to play this one.

Stay tuned for another Rogan dump of him saying/doing some horrendous things from 20 years ago.

Dot
Dot
August 26, 2022 10:06 am

Have you seen Rogan’s stand up?

He should be cancelled.

feelthebern
feelthebern
August 26, 2022 10:08 am

Rogan’s stand out is just the worst.
You literally don’t laugh at any of it.
I call him the anti Patrice O’Neal.

feelthebern
feelthebern
August 26, 2022 10:08 am

Stand up, not out.

m0nty
m0nty
August 26, 2022 10:11 am

BREAKING: Zuckerberg says Facebook limited distribution of the Hunter laptop story based on a general request from the FBI

Geez, you lot still talking about Hunter’s nine-inch hog? Talk about obsession. Okay, the guy’s got a big unit, get over it.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
August 26, 2022 10:15 am

Hunter went to Georgetown and Yale University.

Yes. In America these ‘schools’ introduce you to the very best types.
You have to learn to avoid some of them.

Truth is, as JC oulines re his child, that prestigious schools and universities (in the right courses) offer an entree into some of the big hitting occupations and social circles. I wasn’t brought up to recognise this, though in life I learned that truth of it as I looked at the world I moved into, but Hairy knew it from the start as he’d been through the lot himself. Thus the two children we had went to elite private schools and elite live-in colleges within elite universities and they now mix with and work with people who are similar in similarly hard-to-gain jobs. They did it on their own merits after this good education, both of them doing Masters Degrees (in Taxation, lol) under their own steam and they paid all of their own HECS debts, as some do, and as some don’t, those ones relying on Daddy’s money and influence to keep them financially afloat (viz Hunter and his ilk) or to give them cushy jobs.
Our kids worked hard and still do. They get the high rewards as very skilled knowledge workers.

All private schooling and university education works in this way by determining who children mix with and what values and role models they obtain. There are hierarchies in schools and universities in Australia, just as there are in the US. As in the US, and the UK, the ‘top’ schools and universities are turning off a lot of parents due to extreme ‘wokeness’. Times are changing. Elites still mainly favour the time-honoured ways, but many less elite parents might be looking elsewhere for educational ROI.

The fascinating Seven Up series showed this class-based social system in action, but it also showed how simple education and class factors only worked in some sectors of the economy, e.g. the ossified public sector and top corporates and even there Britian’s Hooray Henry’s (as Hairy calls them) were less in evidence. The barrister booked to board at Charterhouse after age seven quite rightly, in his successful adulthood, defended his success by saying he’d had to work bloody hard for it too. Educational privilege has to be earned. Some kids of elites go to these schools and universities and fail all the way, slinking off with third class honours into mundane occupations shored up by a social whirl on Daddy’s cash.

As times changed in Britain, 7 Up showed that people with fewer opportunities and less good schooling were still doing well in life due to seizing opportunities when they used their wits to see these chances and that immigration had becomes as important as class background in Britain’s opportunity scales. All of this now is also being pushed in various directions by deliberate ‘diversity’ policies. The pattern is similar here in Australia, where social equality has always been given strong lip service and ‘the fair go’ has been much stronger in the culture than in Britain.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
August 26, 2022 10:16 am

I think there should be a dot and Arky “reactions” youtube channel.

Sort of a Slater and Waldorf for movies, music or current events.

Might have to be some heavy use of filters to negate the fugly factor though. Possibly even stunt heads.

Armadillo
Armadillo
August 26, 2022 10:19 am

Can someone just tell me what Lizzie just said? In Australian English would be preferable.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
August 26, 2022 10:20 am

All private schooling and university education works in this way by determining who children mix with and what values and role models they obtain.

1/2 of the value of a degree is the connections you make from it.

Politicans kids should be automatically enrolled in the worst school in a 100km radius from where they live.
It would be the single biggest boost to standards within one term of government.

duncanm
duncanm
August 26, 2022 10:20 am

You’re right Claire, the most virulent silencing of speech is within the republican party.
(facepalm).

Tyranny of the mob is alive and well in the land of the free

The hallmark of a culture afflicted by political correctness is the gulf between what people say in private and what they do in public. Republicans who dare to criticise Trump are a case in point.

By CLAIRE LEHMAN

Makka
Makka
August 26, 2022 10:21 am

Albo following the scumbag Biden’s lefttard playbook of expending time and resources obsessing over previous Govt entrails.

Distraction squirrels for the punters while avoiding the real issues like our horrible expensive renewable grid and its accompanying energy crisis. Or his backtracking from the I’ll increase every ones wages promises.

Armadillo
Armadillo
August 26, 2022 10:23 am

Geez, you lot still talking about Hunter’s nine-inch hog?

Did Hunter buy a miniature pig?

Roger
Roger
August 26, 2022 10:26 am

Or his backtracking from the I’ll increase every ones wages promises.

Don’t forget “I’ll cap immigration, boost skills and cut your power bill by $275 a year.”

duncanm
duncanm
August 26, 2022 10:29 am

The latest survey shows the overall performance rating of the federal government has lifted from an index rating of 47 in March, when the Coalition was in power, to 54 now, following a change of government.

talk about cherry picking.

The last report, pp 21, shows ‘overall approval’ for the feds after the 2019 election went from about 49% peaking to 63% when covid hit. It’s been on the slide since then, but long-term is down in the low-40’s usually.

H B Bear
H B Bear
August 26, 2022 10:32 am

US tertiary education has long been a country club with assessment. Increasingly Australian private school education is heading down the same path. My old school still doesn’t have an air conditioned rifle range. My annual binning of their glossy brochure to aid giving can’t help.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
August 26, 2022 10:34 am

The more ‘diversity’ in top schools and universities though, where background is more important than competetive entry with demonstrated capacity, the less valuable over time will be the credential issued or indeed the contacts made. First Class Honours and Honours at Level 2/1 used to be the standard ‘quality’ degree. Now Thirds are rarely given and even Firsts can be awarded on diversity rather than proper performance. Thus the system looks set to collapse under this grade-inflation infirmity.
It can eventually descend into outright corruption, with undue favours granted in credentialling and in employment afterwards.

Armadillo
Armadillo
August 26, 2022 10:36 am

Politicans kids should be automatically enrolled in the worst school in a 100km radius from where they live.

I’m not sure this is a wise idea. Epstein Island doesn’t need to be reactivated.

BTW, has anyone else noticed the silence? I get the feeling that a certain book is about to appear. Hundreds of them if necessary.

Roger
Roger
August 26, 2022 10:36 am

US tertiary education has long been a country club with assessment.

While Australian tertairy education has become an immigration agent.

Roger
Roger
August 26, 2022 10:37 am

tertiary

H B Bear
H B Bear
August 26, 2022 10:37 am

Interesting during my B Ec we had an academic from the University of Chicago as a guest lecturer as one of the local faculty had done their PhD there. His view was course material and standards were broadly comparable.

H B Bear
H B Bear
August 26, 2022 10:39 am

While Australian tertairy education has become an immigration agent.

Don’t let Snic hear you say that.

Armadillo
Armadillo
August 26, 2022 10:41 am

My old school still doesn’t have an air conditioned rifle range.

That’s outrageous. Put in a written complaint.

H B Bear
H B Bear
August 26, 2022 10:43 am

My boss did an MBA at Wharton (back when this meant something). He reckoned on the first day you realised you were sitting next to to smartest and hungriest people around and you better start to work.

Armadillo
Armadillo
August 26, 2022 10:48 am

Why do Women do this to themselves?

Don’t rush to judgement. It might be a Halloween costume.

Very cute.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
August 26, 2022 10:48 am

Can someone just tell me what Lizzie just said? In Australian English would be preferable.

Armadillo, you are a smart guy. Learn to read more than betting sheets. Be thankful that Australia is an English-speaking nation. Most other languages lack the directness and thinking power of English.

H B Bear
H B Bear
August 26, 2022 10:49 am

Some bad news today. Bickfords is discontinuing my favourite cordial flavour. Being sui generis has its downside.

Armadillo
Armadillo
August 26, 2022 10:50 am

When’s Halloween in the US?

I probably should have asked that question first.

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
August 26, 2022 10:51 am

Zulu Kilo Two Alphasays:
August 26, 2022 at 9:12 am
A Cessna Citation would be more like it for Canberra – Warwick.

I’d suggest the oldest DC3 still flying.

Why not make all the current lot fly in Lockheed Hudsons?

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
August 26, 2022 10:52 am

Germans warned of toilet paper shortage

The energy crisis could severely affect production, an industry body warns

The crisis on the European gas market could lead to reduced production of toilet paper in Germany, according to Martin Krengel, chairman of the nation’s paper industry association, Die Papierindustrie.

“We are particularly dependent on gas for the production of tissue paper. Without it, we will no longer be able to provide security of supply,” Krengel said in a statement published on Thursday.

According to data provided by Die Papierindustrie, each German citizen uses an average of 134 rolls of toilet paper per year. “In the current energy crisis, our top priority is to provide people with this important commodity,” Krengel stressed.

Last month, the Bavarian Paper Association warned that operating paper plants may become unprofitable if they are forced to work at reduced capacity due to natural gas shortages.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
August 26, 2022 10:54 am

Very good little read at the spectator
RTWT

Never forget their thuggery
There is simply no legitimate defense for Covid authoritarianism and over-reach
James Allan

https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fspectator.com.au%2F2022%2F08%2Fnever-forget-their-thuggery%2F

Last week the front page of the London Telegraph (far more sane through the pandemic, by the way, than the Australian) published a front page piece with a headline ‘lockdown effects feared to be killing more people than Covid’. In fact, the article by the paper’s science editor Sarah Knapton cites excess deaths data from Britain’s Office for National Statistics that make it plain this will happen. Knapton says that ‘over the past two months, the number of excess deaths not from Covid dwarfs the number linked to the virus’. Even some doctors’ organisations, who were all too willing to try to suppress and cancel lockdown dissenters for over two years, are doing about faces – not least the British Heart Foundation. Others, like the man who goes by the moniker ‘The Naked Emperor’ (for obvious reasons) on Substack, have taken this data and drilled down further. For instance, for the week ending 5 August there were 1,350 excess deaths in England and Wales.

Guess what? That is 14.4 per cent higher than the 5-year average. And you’re seeing those noticeably higher excess deaths in Australia too. But the Naked Emperor makes a point the science editor of the London Telegraph still shies away from, a point related to wide-open, honest debate: ‘There is no doubt that lockdowns are one of the major causes [of these really high excess deaths numbers] but it would be stupid to not even consider vaccines. Investigate whether they have contributed to these excess deaths in any way, present the evidence and then say no they haven’t. But don’t just dogmatically say they are safe and not look into it.’

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
August 26, 2022 10:54 am

Sorry, somehow got the wrong link above.

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
August 26, 2022 10:55 am
Bear Necessities
Bear Necessities
August 26, 2022 10:55 am

Some bad news today. Bickfords is discontinuing my favourite cordial flavour. Being sui generis has its downside.

My wife can’t get enough of Bickfords Cloudy Pear juice. Regularly it is out of stock at our local woolies. Hopefully for my spouses sake it hasn’t been discontinued.

Roger
Roger
August 26, 2022 10:56 am

When’s Halloween in the US?

31 October; All Hallows Eve.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
August 26, 2022 10:57 am

In the latest sign of the deepening energy crisis, business owners said they were struggling to find a supplier in the run-up to the busy October period for renewing gas and electricity contracts, leaving them facing “extortionate” bills or demands for a deposit.

Nothing has changed fundamentally in the past 12 months:

What caused the UK’s energy crisis?
From moves by China and Russia to changes in UK regulation, these are the factors that created the perfect storm

Tue 21 Sep 2021 15.00 AEST

The UK’s energy system has been plunged into chaos by a perfect storm of market forces which threatens to rip through the economy from home energy suppliers to heavy industry, and from factories to farmers.

This has stoked fears that a wave of energy suppliers will collapse, and that households will be saddled with unaffordable bills. As the colder weather draws in, these are the factors shaping the energy crisis.

This what happens when you strap your economy to an unplanned trip to NetZero. Even the fucking Grauniad saw it coming.

The UK is the pathfinder for Australia – only it is slightly better placed by having access to EdF’s nukes to manage the renewables swing.

We will be in the same situation in 2023/24 – looking sadly at each other and wondering: ‘How ever did it get to this?’.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
August 26, 2022 10:57 am

Russia and India no longer need US dollar – BRICS president

The two countries have successfully established a mechanism for mutual settlements in rubles and rupees, Purnima Anand says

Russia and India don’t need the US dollar in trade, having turned to national currencies to conduct mutual settlements, BRICS International Forum President Purnima Anand told reporters on Thursday.

“We have implemented the mechanism of mutual settlements in rubles and rupees, and there is no need for our countries to use the dollar in mutual settlements. And today a similar mechanism of mutual settlements in rubles and yuan is being developed by China,” she said.

“That means that the BRICS countries are opening up to Russia, offering the opportunity for the country to overcome the consequences of sanctions,” Anand added, as quoted by RIA news agency.

The BRICS president said mutual trade between India and Russia had grown fivefold over the past 40 years. Moscow supplies a rapidly growing volume of oil to India, and in return gets large quantities of agricultural products, textiles, medicines and other products.

Anand also noted that New Delhi considers itself a neutral party in the current sanctions war between the West and Russia, and despite sanctions pressure, will continue cooperation with Moscow “in any areas where necessary.”

m0nty
m0nty
August 26, 2022 11:00 am

You lot are the ones who keeps posting about it, db. His laptop is full of videos with him showing it off in hotel rooms.

Your obsession continues.

H B Bear
H B Bear
August 26, 2022 11:01 am

Bear Necessities – bad news I’m afraid. Time to start rationing. Always a sad day when a much loved product hits the rotars. Blame IGA. Colesworths never stocked it.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
August 26, 2022 11:02 am

The crisis on the European gas market could lead to reduced production of toilet paper in Germany, according to Martin Krengel, chairman of the nation’s paper industry association, Die Papierindustrie.

Right-o. I’m sending Hairy out today to stock up. Before the Wars in the Aisles recommence over it.

I have been remiss and let stocks fall.

Roger
Roger
August 26, 2022 11:02 am

The UK’s energy system has been plunged into chaos by a perfect storm of market forces

Those damned market forces.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
August 26, 2022 11:05 am

M0nty ‘you lotting’ again.

Sad.

H B Bear
H B Bear
August 26, 2022 11:07 am

The product range in Colesworths is woeful. Like shopping in a free market East Germany. Having attended a meeting with one of their purchasing managers I fully understand why. Let’s just say the consumer didn’t enter the conversation often.

Armadillo
Armadillo
August 26, 2022 11:07 am

Armadillo, you are a smart guy.

Lizzie, you overestimate me considerably.

I sort of got the gist of what you were saying. “Money Talks” would have been sufficient information. It’s only two words.

Just as us plebs understand the other two most important words in the world. Yes or No. There is no “grey” when it comes to decision making.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
August 26, 2022 11:08 am

The latest survey shows the overall performance rating of the federal government has lifted from an index rating of 47 in March, when the Coalition was in power, to 54 now, following a change of government.

54; a post-election bump rather than a ringing endorsement.

Their ABC finds an Expert from Monash U. to give Albo a ringing endorsement:

Narelle Miragliotta says the electorate has “very little reason, at this point at least, to be very disappointed by the current prime minister.

A solid 2/10.

H B Bear
H B Bear
August 26, 2022 11:08 am

Have you tried a prosthetic mUnty?

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
August 26, 2022 11:12 am

dover0beachsays:
August 26, 2022 at 10:54 am
monty appears uncomfortably obsessed with Hunter’s member.

Its a variant on Occasional-Cortexes “you only hate me cos you can date me” deflection.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10361641/AOC-roasted-saying-Republicans-criticize-just-wants-date-caught-maskless.html

“You only call me corrupt because you cant have my hog’….

Low energy.
Sad
Many such cases.

cohenite
August 26, 2022 11:13 am

OldOzziesays:
August 26, 2022 at 8:11 am
American Rules are for American Peasants and Republicans – NOT for Democraps like me

Paul Pelosi kicked out of California police charity after flashing membership during DUI arrest

I really hope that’s a sign; of what I don’t know but a sign.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
August 26, 2022 11:14 am

CAN’T date me…

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
August 26, 2022 11:14 am

Doing Just In Time stocking of toilet paper was never a good idea. Terrible to be caught short on a busy week. Even more problematic given news just in from Germany. Bound to hit Australia over Christmas.

cohenite
August 26, 2022 11:15 am

Your obsession continues.

Nah, we just mention Hunter’s dick because he has one, a slagged out one, but still one; and you don’t.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
August 26, 2022 11:16 am

the raid was an accidental missile launch

The Great Disappearing Raid Story

Did that big news two weeks ago actually happen?

Matt Taibbi

Excuse me for giving a damn, but what happened to the Trump raid story?

Two weeks ago, the FBI raid on Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home was the biggest story on earth and seemingly one of the most consequential American news events since 9/11. The search inspired a few hours of social media jubilation, followed by roughly a week of frenzied leaking as a parade of national security soothsayers unspooled sinister scenarios on TV, and then — nothing. The line went dead. By last week’s end, the cancellation of Brian Stelter on CNN was a top national headline in comparison.

With a caveat that the relative quiet could be upended by a court decision Thursday, could we pause to reflect on the oddness of this episode? Has a story this big ever receded to the back pages this quickly?

Oh come on
Oh come on
August 26, 2022 11:16 am

We shall see. I suspect Dobbs will be far more consequential in November.

He’s right, you know. Dobbs will drive the turnout of millions of Democrat voters who would have voted – and voted Democrat – anyway. Come November, they’ll be able to pull the lever and say they’re voting for the Democrat candidates because they support a woman’s right to choose, instead of whatever other reason(s) they would have cited to justify voting for the Democrat candidates had Dobbs not come along.

It makes all the difference.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
August 26, 2022 11:16 am

lol. Happy Christmas. Did you BYO loo paper? Good-0. And you’ve wrapped your presents in some too.
How lovely. So thoughtful. Thank you so much.

Zyconoclast
Zyconoclast
August 26, 2022 11:17 am

Here is a clue

Black women burdened most by student debt in US

Campbell-Spivey agrees with the Biden Administration plan. She says she will apply for student loan debt relief as soon as an application becomes available. She’s also relying on debt forgiveness to pursue a Master’s degree in the future.
“It will help me tremendously,” Campbell-Spivey said. “My current undergraduate debt has stalled me in getting a future education.
Plus, I have seven years until my daughter will go off to college. So, I want to be able to prepare for that too.”

When it comes to student debt, there’s a racial and gender divide. Women hold nearly two-thirds of the outstanding student debt in the U.S. — close to $929 billion

The report shows women graduates owing almost $22,000 in student debt, compared $18,880 owed by men. Black women graduate with an average of $37,558 in student debt.

Tera Reynolds, who lives in Sacramento, is working to pay off $171,000 in student debt. She earned an undergraduate degree in criminal justice, along with a Master’s degree in social work and a Doctorate in educational leadership and policy administration.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
August 26, 2022 11:17 am

Have you tried a prosthetic mUnty?

Who would want to wear a prosthetic mUnty?

Roger
Roger
August 26, 2022 11:17 am

The product range in Colesworths is woeful. Having attended a meeting with one of their purchasing managers I fully understand why. Let’s just say the consumer didn’t enter the conversation often.

The local Coles has a dedicated Asian foods section with half a dozen different types of noodles but no British imports – no Colman’s mustard, Yorkies mix or HP sauce.

And I’m not exactly in Cabramatta.

JMH
JMH
August 26, 2022 11:18 am

H B Bearsays:
August 26, 2022 at 10:49 am

Some bad news today. Bickfords is discontinuing my favourite cordial flavour.

Which one, Bear? Not the Lemon Juice one I hope!

feelthebern
feelthebern
August 26, 2022 11:18 am

14min of Zuck on the Joe Rogan show.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BN3PIGLDscQ

It’s a little funny as it shows everything his previous guest, Mike Baker deep state swampie, said to be mainly horse shit.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
August 26, 2022 11:21 am

“Money Talks” would have been sufficient information. It’s only two words.

But how, why, and when is the story, Dillo.

That’s called information. From the horse’s mouth. lol.

Boambee John
Boambee John
August 26, 2022 11:22 am

m0ntysays:
August 26, 2022 at 10:11 am
BREAKING: Zuckerberg says Facebook limited distribution of the Hunter laptop story based on a general request from the FBI

Geez, you lot still talking about Hunter’s nine-inch hog? Talk about obsession. Okay, the guy’s got a big unit, get over it.

Envy is one of the seven deadly sins, m0nty-fa.

Also, sloppy attempt at a diversion from the drugs, shonky deals, and 10% for the Big Guy.

m0nty
m0nty
August 26, 2022 11:22 am

a slagged out one

What does that even mean? You think too much about Hunter’s schlong.

m0nty
m0nty
August 26, 2022 11:24 am

db, it’s hard to take seriously a campaign against Hunter Biden from a bunch of clowns who thought Jared Kushner getting US$2 billion from the Saudis was no big deal.

Yes, I am going to make fun of you. Yes, you deserve it.

Zyconoclast
Zyconoclast
August 26, 2022 11:24 am

The youths are at it again

McDonald’s says it is “shocked and appalled” after a gang of around 50 youths piled into the restaurant and began stealing food and drink. The group of teenagers went into the Clumber Street eatery, in Nottingham city centre,

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
August 26, 2022 11:25 am

Which one, Bear? Not the Lemon Juice one I hope!

Nooooooo. I put a made-up glass of that on my bedside table every night.
The sweet tang helps when you wake up thirsty in the small hours.
Left-overs do for me to take my blood-pressure tablet in the morning.

How dare they interfere with our simple habits.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
August 26, 2022 11:25 am

The Cat with vital information turned up to 11:

Forensics of Hunter Biden’s willy;
The international Klopapier market;
Pear juice.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
August 26, 2022 11:26 am

Not fishing for innuendo or gossip, or lurid detail of dolor and hardship, but what does Biden’s daughter do?

The only thing I have heard about her is that she may have been a victim of her father’s, but other than that nothing. She seems not connected to the family business, which is a good sign. Is she closer to normal?

Armadillo
Armadillo
August 26, 2022 11:27 am

Has a story this big ever receded to the back pages this quickly?

Absolutely correct. Raiding of the ex POTUS house should the news headline for at least a year, if not a decade.

They’re fucked. They have got nothing. Zip, Zero, Zilch.

An empty safe and a pair of Melania’s pantyhose on their head.

Roger
Roger
August 26, 2022 11:27 am

It appears that monty thinks

Monty thinks?

cohenite
August 26, 2022 11:30 am

What does that even mean? You think too much about Hunter’s schlong.

There it is: penis envy from dickless. And slagged is the universal prefix of leftism; so it’s actually a tautology to say you’re a slagged out, dickless little turd.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
August 26, 2022 11:32 am

14min of Zuck on the Joe Rogan show.

An analogy.

You have a boxing ring, 2 fighters and a referee.

Every now and then the referee sucker punches the fighter in the red corner in the back of the head.
He continues doing this in every match, day in, day out.

He then claims its just an honest mistake and you shouldnt read anything into the punches always going in one direction.

A little like “reinforcing” democracy by ensuring drop boxes were available for harvesting in Democrat districts just ensured a punch in the back of the head to the right..
Im sure one of these days the referee will punch to the left… it COULD happen…

Boambee John
Boambee John
August 26, 2022 11:32 am

dover0beachsays:
August 26, 2022 at 10:54 am
monty appears uncomfortably obsessed with Hunter’s member.

He felt obliged to research the contents of the laptop thoroughly, to assure himself that there were no political issues.

But he got a bit distracted along the way.

Tom
Tom
August 26, 2022 11:33 am

The faceless scum running the Democratic party’s 24/7 propaganda machine have come up with a new trick to deflect public blowback from the deadly Kung Flu vaccines: they’re all Trump’s fault. Meanwhile, in the past two years, the human death rate around the world from all causes is surging and it isn’t a coincidence. Tucker Carlson Tonight.

m0nty
m0nty
August 26, 2022 11:34 am

Latest on the Mar-A-Lago raid:

WASHINGTON — A redacted version of the affidavit used to secure the search warrant for former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate is set to be unsealed Friday under a judge’s order.

The Justice Department submitted its proposed redactions to the document on Thursday, prompting the judge to agree to unseal the document on Friday by noon.

I guess the redactions will include the name of the mole inside Trumpworld who ratted to the FBI on the whereabouts of all those boxes.

Boambee John
Boambee John
August 26, 2022 11:34 am

m0ntysays:
August 26, 2022 at 11:00 am
You lot are the ones who keeps posting about it, db. His laptop is full of videos with him showing it off in hotel rooms.

m0nty-fa’s obsession continues.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
August 26, 2022 11:35 am

When it comes to student debt, there’s a racial and gender divide. Women hold nearly two-thirds of the outstanding student debt in the U.S. — close to $929 billion

That’s because many women, and especially non-white women, do fairly undemanding non-STEM degrees that don’t return much in the way of salary, and quite often they end up unemployed because they are still unemployable. Then they go on to pile on more debt doing even more degrees of the ‘human services’ type that they hope will land them the high paying boondoggle job they all seek, and when it doesn’t (because so many seek these jobs) they fall back to scratching a non-taxable living doing activist complaints.

Sorry for so many words, Dillo. Shorter (and less effective) me: women do easier degrees

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 26, 2022 11:38 am

Jaye Edwards: ‘Attagirls’ pilot who delivered fighter planes for RAF dies aged 103
Will Humphries
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One of the last two surviving female pilots who delivered fighter planes for the RAF in the Second World War has died aged 103.

Jaye Edwards joined a small unit of women who flew for the Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA) that transported aircraft from the factories to RAF bases across Britain.

She was only 21 when she joined as a pilot and learnt to fly 20 different planes, including Spitfires, Hurricanes and the Boulton Paul Defiant.

After D-Day, she and her fellow ATA pilots were tasked with flying aircraft over the Channel, to and from frontline bases in France.

Over the course of the war, the organisation delivered 309,000 planes.

Edwards worked as a nurse until 1943, when she saw an advert looking for women to join the ATA at Hatfield, Hertfordshire. She was one of 168 female pilots, nicknamed the Attagirls. She received her civilian pilot’s licence in September 1939, the day after Britain declared war on Germany.

Edwards had two accidents during her hundreds of flights. The first was in training when she clipped a tree, jolted the plane and hit her head on the control panel, losing her front teeth in the process. During another flight, her landing gear collapsed.

Edwards died on August 15, a week before her 104th birthday, leaving Nancy Stratford, 103, an American woman recruited to join ATA, as the only surviving female pilot.

Edwards once said in an interview: “To take off, especially a bright day, and then be at 2,000ft, the sun shining, no clouds, just you. It was fabulous. The war didn’t exist . . . it was just ‘wow’.”

She emigrated to Vancouver after the war, became a teacher and married Bill, a lumberjack. She would not fly again until she was in her 80s, when she briefly piloted a small plane over White Rock, British Columbia.

John Webster, secretary of the ATA Association, said: “Without them, all our squadrons would have struggled. They freed up pilots to fight that would have been wasted moving aircraft.”

Lady would have made a damnfine Kitteh….

duncanm
duncanm
August 26, 2022 11:39 am

Narelle Miragliotta says the electorate has “very little reason, at this point at least, to be very disappointed by the current prime minister.“

FMD – Albo’s modelling himself on Ardern’s behaviour.

Fucking grow up, you mong.

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
August 26, 2022 11:43 am

You lot are the ones who keeps posting about it, db. His laptop is full of videos with him showing it off in hotel rooms.

Poor old own goal m0nty does it again.
People on this site say “Hunter’s laptop is real – that proves Biden’s corruption with all the China visit and 10% for the big guy stuff, and proves media corruption the way they banned the story and put out denials even while Hunter’s lawyers were demanding it be returned to him”.
m0nty chimes in with his unrelated claims about Hunter’s dick. [Incidentally, m0nty, how do you know the laptop “is full of videos with him showing it off”?]
“Oh what a giveaway” as the Pythons used to say.
Ever heard of “projection”, m0nty?

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