Open Thread – Weekend 27 Aug 2022


Two Men by the Sea, Casper David Friedrich, 1817

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Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
August 28, 2022 4:24 pm

JCsays:

August 28, 2022 at 3:58 pm

Australia is the 11th happiest nation on earth and the division between the top Finland and is very narrow.

Deport a few maudlin sooking Kiwis and we will be well into the top ten.

feelthebern
feelthebern
August 28, 2022 4:24 pm

Series 12 of Archer.
Takes the piss out of ESG.
How did it get made?

Pedro the Loafer
Pedro the Loafer
August 28, 2022 4:24 pm

Forgot to add to the above: Michael’s site – offline.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
August 28, 2022 4:25 pm

Calli, I repeat for emphasis, do have a good trip and recall that this is just a blog, as Hairy tells me often when he sees me wearing what he calls ‘that face’ again.

It is very hard to be accurate about others or for them to be accurate about you in such fleeting encounters; that comes with the territory. Take the goodwill for you here with you and enjoy it.

areff
areff
August 28, 2022 4:26 pm

JC: Tyson had a penthouse on Second at the corner of 40th. The same pink roller was often out front

JC
JC
August 28, 2022 4:26 pm

Note Russia > Ukraine.

Dogs, I think the Index is crap in the same way I think an IQ test is crap. However, both have their uses. IQ testing can measure extreme stupidity but not high level intelligence. Similarly, I see the Happiness Index being reasonable in measuring extreme unhappiness and that’s about it.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
August 28, 2022 4:27 pm

Drop it Timothy and keep the blog in better shape with your often good contributions.

Take heed, Timothy.
Hyacinth hath spoken.

JC
JC
August 28, 2022 4:29 pm

areff says:
August 28, 2022 at 4:26 pm

JC: Tyson had a penthouse on Second at the corner of 40th. The same pink roller was often out front

Lol. Areff I used to see the Roller parked outside a cigar bar between either 5th&Madison or Madison&Park. I can’t recall the name, but it was a famous cigar joint in the 90s but not sure if it’s still there.

JC
JC
August 28, 2022 4:32 pm

Deport a few maudlin sooking Kiwis and we will be well into the top ten.

Stuphid’s been unhappy going on for two years no. He kept down to 11th place too.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
August 28, 2022 4:34 pm

Didn’t someone say here the other day that Iron Mike is in poor health and blames the vax?
He could be right.
Mike would be my go-to guy on sciency stuff.

JMH
JMH
August 28, 2022 4:39 pm

Timothy has been spot on in his recent posts as Bucket wails, gnashes teeth and pulls at her diamonds. We have had to endure this crap over and over and over again. For the 6 thousandth time, Elizabeth – either become an adult on this forum or do the dramatic flounce yet again hoping for a rerun the ‘please don’t leave Lizzie – we love you’ comments. But we know you will only return, waiting for the opportunity to restart the bullshit and play the victim ad nauseam.

God almighty – JUST STOP.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
August 28, 2022 4:42 pm

Just as the most recent example, declaring your comprehension skills to be “excellent” isn’t “self-aggrandisement”?

A word deliberately chosen, Timothy. I knew it would draw fire, but it is true. For my sins I once headed a university department teaching rhetoric and logic and other skills of comprehension. I was a publisher’s referee for Keith Windschuttle’s excellent book on communication for journalists, and set it for my students. (He didn’t know about that until we met after my Quadrant publications began a few years ago. We were both quite amused.)

Which doesn’t mean to say I can’t make mistakes such as I may have made re Calli’s comment. But it also allows me to pick up sub-texts, such as the ‘accent’ allusion in those comments, more than some others might. Calli may not have consciously made this allusion, of course.

All a storm in a teacup now of course. Which is why I want her to enjoy her travels and write on them.

H B Bear
H B Bear
August 28, 2022 4:43 pm

If one must buy a Rolls, painting it pink is perfectly acceptable although one really have these things done before you take delivery. Iron Mike is an aspiring rapper made good.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
August 28, 2022 4:45 pm

God almighty – JUST STOP.

Learn to scroll. You have drunk the de-legitimizing Kool-aid.

Get a sense of proportion.

Frank
Frank
August 28, 2022 4:47 pm

Mike Tyson had a toad venom DMT phase for a while too. No doubt that in combination with a career in boxing would lead to some odd conclusions about things.

H B Bear
H B Bear
August 28, 2022 4:47 pm

A word deliberately chosen, Timothy. I knew it would draw fire, but it is true

“Anything to declare Ms Beare?”
“Only my genius.”

JMH
JMH
August 28, 2022 4:49 pm

Learn to scroll. You have drunk the de-legitimizing Kool-aid.

Get a sense of proportion.

Do not lecture me, flibbertigibbet.

H B Bear
H B Bear
August 28, 2022 4:50 pm

Bucket wails

I read that as Bucket walls. Not to be confused with word salads.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
August 28, 2022 4:52 pm

hyacinth

*sigh*

Et tu, Sancho?

It’s a tired old meme now.
It never was any good to start with.

Makka
Makka
August 28, 2022 4:53 pm

I just don’t know this kind of thing can be stopped now. With the FBI , Big tech , corrupt judiciary and mass media actively conspiring together, how can elections be fair?

Terming the laptop ‘disinformation’ by the FBI, Intelligence Community, Congress, and the Biden campaign, along with Big Tech, impacted voters,” said Technometrica President Raghavan Mayur, who’s been recognized as the most accurate pollster in recent presidential elections. “A significant majority—78 percent—believe that access to the correct information could have been critical to their decision at the polls.”

In fact, 47 percent said that knowing before the election that the laptop contents were real and not “disinformation” would have changed their voting decision—including more than two-thirds (71 percent) of Democrats.

H B Bear
H B Bear
August 28, 2022 4:56 pm

Is this a pile on? I would hate to be accused of joining one. Ah, what the hell …

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
August 28, 2022 4:56 pm

Do not lecture me, flibbertigibbet.

JUST STOP. Well, that wasn’t a lecture?

Have to say that yelling is simply brute force.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 28, 2022 4:56 pm

Daily Mail

Finally they agree on something! Lidia Thorpe joins Jacinta Price in attacking Anthony Albanese’s meeting with Shaquille O’Neal and demands the NBA legend stop ‘interfering and dividing Australia’ by supporting the Indigenous Voice

Indigenous senators Jacinta Price and Lidia Thorpe both slammed Shaq meeting
NBA legend Shaquille O’Neal met Anthony Albanese and Linda Burney MP
They discussed proposed referendum on an Indigenous Voice to Parliament

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
August 28, 2022 4:58 pm

“Anything to declare Ms Beare?”
“Only my genius.”

lol, HB Bear, you are always worthwhile.

Cross out genius though and write in experience.

I have a lot of experiential baggage to declare.

m0nty
m0nty
August 28, 2022 5:02 pm

Penelope Keith versus the little
man from the village. Not the greatest stoush in the history of the Cats. Handbags at ten paces.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
August 28, 2022 5:03 pm

Finally they agree on something! Lidia Thorpe joins Jacinta Price in attacking Anthony Albanese’s meeting with Shaquille O’Neal and demands the NBA legend stop ‘interfering and dividing Australia’ by supporting the Indigenous Voice

Aha. Methinks Lidia Thorpe may be beginning to feel a wee bit overshadowed and outdone by Jacinta Price. Maybe Lidia’s going to up her game. Won’t be easy as she has a lot of work to do there.

feelthebern
feelthebern
August 28, 2022 5:08 pm

Bruce Campbell pops up in Archer.
Awesome.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
August 28, 2022 5:10 pm

I am off with Hairy for our swim. My regulation 20 laps. Used to be 24 before Covid but time has marched on now. My aim in this coming decade is to maintain now rather than improve.

Have to be fit enough to lift suitcases when we travel. All that experiential baggage, lol.

Hairy is still sticking to his 1km.

Roger
Roger
August 28, 2022 5:16 pm

Lidia Thorpe joins Jacinta Price in attacking Anthony Albanese’s meeting with Shaquille O’Neal and demands the NBA legend stop ‘interfering and dividing Australia’ by supporting the Indigenous Voice

Jacinta at least expressed her view graciously.

Thorpe’s default setting appears to be anger, no matter who she’s speaking to/about.

Anchor What
Anchor What
August 28, 2022 5:19 pm

1. If contributors think it’s riveting stuff to read various people with nothing better to do bagging Lizzie, they are quite wrong.
2. If the management thinks keeping Monty on is good policy, they might as well bring back Bird and SoB.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 28, 2022 5:23 pm

2. If the management thinks keeping Monty on is good policy, they might as well bring back Bird and SoB.

And Numbers.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
August 28, 2022 5:23 pm

Have a nice swim Lizzie! It being Sunday I have a break rather than do miles of walking or bicycle. And some worship to go with the rest, that being a Sunday thing also.

My currawongs mostly vanished last week. Like a signal had been sent out! Suddenly the mince in the fridge was going grey and yucky before I could find a home for it. They’ll return after Christmas when the chicks are ready to forage, then I’ll get a whole bunch of inquisitive young currawongs arrive to learn about the Cafe.

JMH
JMH
August 28, 2022 5:25 pm

To those nasty, vicious, ignorant, maladjusted individuals who are dicklessly upticking my comments with regard to Twatgate, please stop. You know how this will end!

Rabz
August 28, 2022 5:29 pm

Sacré bleu – British Pathe, June 1941 and onwards.

The nayzees march into the Soviet Unionionion and are subsequently swallowed whole, in its vastness.

The same jackbooted shock troops that overwhelmed the western continental allies in barely six weeks in 1940.

Never invade Russia.

Magnificent theatre it may be, but you will be chewed up, spat out and ground into the Rasputitza.

Once it was a grand adventure

Megan
Megan
August 28, 2022 5:30 pm

2. If the management thinks keeping Monty on is good policy, they might as well bring back Bird and SoB.

And Numbers

Oh please, for the love of all that’s holy, just NO!

Tom
Tom
August 28, 2022 5:39 pm

I just don’t know this kind of thing can be stopped now. With the FBI , Big tech , corrupt judiciary and mass media actively conspiring together, how can elections be fair?

I agree, Makka: it’s a long road back from where we are now. But surrendering makes life pointless. Freedom is not a default human setting, but neither is fascist tyranny.

Rabz
August 28, 2022 5:46 pm

I installed a bidet 25 years ago. Toilet paper is redundant in my home.

Yep. Blessed with one in the Cottage. How I managed to exist without one for as long as I did remains one of life’s grate mysteries.

Idiots squabbling over toilet paper can continue to do so.

In the cottage, we do not use the TP words. 🙂

calli
calli
August 28, 2022 5:48 pm

The portmanteaux are packed, the barouche is ordered for the morrow, and my delightful equerry is fully briefed as to my travel requirements. The board is set, the pieces are about to move.

Sounds grand, doesn’t it? The truth is a little more pedestrian – I spent the afternoon making some “face masks” for the plane. Japanese gauze and as useful as tits on a bull, but at least we can breathe through them. A machine needle was the only fatality when it hit the hair tie elastic.

Rabz
August 28, 2022 5:50 pm

The portmanteaux are packed, the barouche is ordered for the morrow, and my delightful equerry is fully briefed as to my travel requirements. The board is set, the pieces are about to move.

Well, are we not just so fancy, Squirette? You’ll be hopping onto a Concorde, on a whim, at this rate. 🙂

calli
calli
August 28, 2022 5:50 pm

And I sent the Beloved out today to buy a couple of big packets of loo paper on the strength of “shortages and rumours of shortages”. The house sitters might deplete stocks.

Vicki
Vicki
August 28, 2022 5:53 pm

I suddenly cannot open the blog on my computer or my husbands computer / but able to open on my iPhone. Any ideas?

Roger
Roger
August 28, 2022 5:53 pm

The nayzees march into the Soviet Unionionion and are subsequently swallowed whole, in its vastness.

Along with the millions of horses an oil poor German military relied on for logistical support.

Fair Shake
Fair Shake
August 28, 2022 5:55 pm

Just arrived back in Melbourne after a road trip to Adelaide to watch the rugby.

I have never seen the country so green out that way. And the canola crops bright yellow what a sight for km after km. Those Farmers are on track for a bumper yield. Hope the weather is kind here on in.

calli
calli
August 28, 2022 5:56 pm

Tahiti looks nice as I bathe in Cashmere Bouquet and asses milk. But alas, Rabz, it is Amsterdam. The weather, fortunately, is set fair there for the first week of Autumn.

First port of call is Den Hahn and Wagonmakers for some sweet, sweet Dutch chintz, then reacquaint myself with Vincent and the Night Watch down at the galleries.

I will be paying special attention to the Dutch farmers and their protests which appear to have centred around Dam Square – hopefully I’ll be the Cat’s Woman on the Spot for a demmo.

Rabz
August 28, 2022 5:59 pm

You can’t negotiate with terrorists

A truism for the yages … 🙂

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
August 28, 2022 6:00 pm

1,300 NYC school staffers must now get COVID vaccine — or will be let go

How odd, then, that this story is on Sky News.

Shortage of teachers across United States (28 Aug)

Unions say the shortage of teachers across the United States has risen to crisis level as more educators leave the profession.

It’s a mystery.

Big_Nambas
Big_Nambas
August 28, 2022 6:03 pm

Can’t remember the last time I said “fuck Monty”. So, Fuck Monty!

Tom
Tom
August 28, 2022 6:04 pm

“Asses milk”, Calli? Wash your mouth out, young lady.

PS: I expect a detailed report on absolutely everything. Bon voyage!

Frank
Frank
August 28, 2022 6:10 pm

2. If the management thinks keeping Monty on is good policy, they might as well bring back Bird and SoB.

The place needs a spittoon.

Frank
Frank
August 28, 2022 6:12 pm

The house sitters might deplete stocks.

Best must, otherwise the deplorable little oiks might make use of the curtains.

Rabz
August 28, 2022 6:12 pm

Hydia Thorpe joins Jacinta Price in attacking the Albansleazey’s meeting with Shaquille O’Neal and demands the NBA legend stop ‘interfering and dividing Australia’ by supporting the indodgeyknee voice

A cavalcade of idiocy, it was. However, the Shaq emerged unscathed (again).

The labore imbeciles*, not so much. 😡

*BIRM

NoFixedAddress
NoFixedAddress
August 28, 2022 6:13 pm

I Love Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare’s comments and have never seen any necessity to deride them or her personally.

Check your own privilege!

calli
calli
August 28, 2022 6:14 pm

Thank you Tom. After two and a half years it will be strange to be a tourist again, but it’s time, particularly for my husband.

I am curious as to what’s happening in Europe…so much of what we see is so carefully curated for our consumption.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 28, 2022 6:15 pm

Oh please, for the love of all that’s holy, just NO!

Reading what’s been written, over the past twenty years, with access to the North Vietnamese archives reveals just how completely the North Vietnamese fooled a lot of people…

Rabz
August 28, 2022 6:20 pm

First blowfly of the season spotted and dispatched

T-shirt weather (finally) here in (redacted).

Been freezing my yartz off for the last three months at least. The days are getting longer, the sun is brighter, the skies are bluer and I’m an increasingly happy li’l vegemoite! 🙂

JMH
JMH
August 28, 2022 6:21 pm

NoFixedAddresssays:
August 28, 2022 at 6:13 pm

I Love Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare’s comments and have never seen any necessity to deride them or her personally.

Good for you. How’s Chilli travelling these days? Well, I hope.

H B Bear
H B Bear
August 28, 2022 6:23 pm

If contributors think it’s riveting stuff to read various people with nothing better to do bagging Lizzie, they are quite wrong

Who would you have me bag?

Rabz
August 28, 2022 6:24 pm

err, except when St Ruth blunders onto this blogue and proceeds to give all and sundry the proverbials.

132andBush
132andBush
August 28, 2022 6:28 pm

The inability to use the scroll function must be inversely correlated to IQ.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
August 28, 2022 6:29 pm

Former head of the CDC Robert R. Redfield confirming the next scam-demic will be bird flu which will kill “10 to 50 percent” of the population.

Chicken Little flu?

(CDC employees donate 99.95% of the time to Democrats. I wouldn’t spit on their graves.)

Arky
August 28, 2022 6:30 pm

This Gonzo Lira fellow.
Maybe take a look at him.
Use the way back machine, on his YouTube channel.( Go to the site you want to research, copy the address from the address bar, go to way back and paste it).
Then tell me, do you think: “Total weirdo”?
Or worth the few individuals non stop posting his pronouncements on here day after day?
Do your due diligence. Do your own research.

Roger
Roger
August 28, 2022 6:31 pm

Reading what’s been written, over the past twenty years, with access to the North Vietnamese archives reveals just how completely the North Vietnamese fooled a lot of people…

Only those already inclined to foolishness.

Rabz
August 28, 2022 6:32 pm

I Love Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare’s comments and have never seen any necessity to deride them or her personally.

OK. Enough. I count Lizzie as a very valued friend.

The shit hurling that has gone down here the last few days is not good.

She’s a lady of a certain age and does not deserve to cop the sort of crap she has recently.

If she is prone to flights of self indulgent fancy, then so am I.

We exist on this planet at the behest of forces allegedly greater than ourselves.

Do not forget that indisputable fact before you scoop up another mound of manure to hurl at any personage that you might conceivably be able to hit*.

*e.g. if they’re dead

NoFixedAddress
NoFixedAddress
August 28, 2022 6:35 pm

How’s Chilli travelling these days? Well, I hope.

Fearless, Peerless and Feisty is Chilli.

Check out Hairy and Lizzies poem in the Music and Poetry section.

Frank
Frank
August 28, 2022 6:37 pm

*e.g. if they’re dead

So what you’re saying is… you killed Lizzie?

Bluey
Bluey
August 28, 2022 6:38 pm

Rabzsays:
August 28, 2022 at 6:20 pm
First blowfly of the season spotted and dispatched

T-shirt weather (finally) here in (redacted).

Been freezing my yartz off for the last three months at least. The days are getting longer, the sun is brighter, the skies are bluer and I’m an increasingly happy li’l vegemoite! ?

Had a lovely hint of spring weather this weekend in Melbourne. Was almost tempted to do a couple of drinks by the river in the CBD

Crossie
Crossie
August 28, 2022 6:39 pm

calli says:
August 28, 2022 at 7:19 am
In three days’ time I will be in Amsterdam. And then on to the Dalmatian coast and back to the UK. I’ve been of two minds about commenting on what I see, particularly in view of Covid, energy squeeze and the general recovery if one actually exists outside the Aussie bubble. The worst thing will be mandatory mask wearing on the plane.

Calli, I’m just catching up on the thread but wholeheartedly wish you would comment on all your travels. For various reasons not being able to travel at present I live vicariously through those of commenters here. Looking forward to the descriptions and details as you go.

Eyrie
Eyrie
August 28, 2022 6:39 pm

I think we’ll need a bigger helicopter for Monty’s ride. Maybe a CH-53K?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikorsky_CH-53K_King_Stallion

Note the external slung load capacity of 36,000 pounds.

Roger
Roger
August 28, 2022 6:42 pm

In the words of the noted American existentialist philosopher, Rodney King:

Can we all just get along.

JC
JC
August 28, 2022 6:44 pm

Look at Hallward piling on.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 28, 2022 6:46 pm

For various reasons not being able to travel at present I live vicariously through those of commenters here. Looking forward to the descriptions and details as you go.

Second that one – haven’t done any serious traveling now for five years.

JC
JC
August 28, 2022 6:50 pm

Hallward is such an aviator – even in the midst of joining a pile-on he offers a running technical account. Such an aviator.

Tom
Tom
August 28, 2022 6:52 pm

Pride not only comes before a fall, but its citation in a news report is a sure sign that you’re being fed disinformational bullshit – particularly by sportsmen.

JC
JC
August 28, 2022 6:53 pm

That didn’t take long. Leadership is telling people what they can read and or link to. Just like the old days, when he reckoned he owned the blog.

Jorge
Jorge
August 28, 2022 6:53 pm

Hell on Earth on SBS

Famine in 1942/43:
Bengal 2 – 4 million perished.
Vietnam 2 million
Russia (occupied area) 9 million.

This will be one of the weapons that will come into play as supply lines and economies are destroyed. It takes only three weeks to have effect.

Vicki
Vicki
August 28, 2022 6:54 pm

Am now able to access The Cats again.

I suspect I ran into block when I attempted to post an article just put up today in The Australian Online by Greg Sheridan on the urgent need for military upgrade in the face of a not-too-distant foray of China. Despite a far degree of derision towards some of Sheridan’s work lately – this article is excellent and TIMELY. The article was behind Paywall – so I suddenly received notification I could not get a secure connection with New Catallaxy.

I have now slipped through the net! As Fawlty would say – “I think I got away with it”!

Vicki
Vicki
August 28, 2022 6:56 pm

This will be one of the weapons that will come into play as supply lines and economies are destroyed. It takes only three weeks to have effect.

And yet life in happy, happy Oz just goes on nonchalantly. Only a few are drawing breath sharply as events unfold.

jupes
jupes
August 28, 2022 6:57 pm

OK. Enough. I count Lizzie as a very valued friend.

The shit hurling that has gone down here the last few days is not good.

Yes, the pile-ons around here are disgraceful.

JMH
JMH
August 28, 2022 7:00 pm

NoFixedAddresssays:
August 28, 2022 at 6:35 pm

How’s Chilli travelling these days? Well, I hope.

Fearless, Peerless and Feisty is Chilli.

Check out Hairy and Lizzies poem in the Music and Poetry section.

I might take a rain-check if you don’t mind. I wouldn’t want to go a-over-tit on the hypocrisy, would I?

calli
calli
August 28, 2022 7:03 pm

Thank you for your kindness guys. It makes the blog worthwhile.

calli
calli
August 28, 2022 7:04 pm

And, believe it or not, it means a great deal to me.

Delta A
Delta A
August 28, 2022 7:05 pm

Have a great trip, calli.

I’m especially looking forward to reading your accounts of the farmers’ protests.

CMD Longtime Lurker
CMD Longtime Lurker
August 28, 2022 7:05 pm

The pile-on against Lizzie has not been this site’s high point.
More than a couple have revealed themselves to be not as polite as they believe themselves to be.

Jorge
Jorge
August 28, 2022 7:05 pm

Vicki, one of the things about those famines that I think is shocking is how deliberate a lot of it was. Authorities knew but sacrificed their own people. That’s where we are.

Crossie
Crossie
August 28, 2022 7:11 pm

Calli, I enjoyed enormously your descriptions of the recent travels through the middle of Australia. Brought back very fond memories of us travelling in the early 80s with two preschoolers in a Datsun 120Y. No air conditioning and the only way we kept the kids cool was to give them wet face washers.

jupes
jupes
August 28, 2022 7:12 pm

I’ve finally taken the plunge into the sewer that is twitter. So far, I have just tweeted to a few Labor (and one Green) politicians and their cronies. My schtick is to agree with them but to use sarcasm e.g. “Yes, because socialism has never hurt or disadvantaged anyone.”

While I’ve had a couple of people block me, you may not be surprised at how much of this goes over the idiot’s heads. Christine Milne even retweeted me! I may need to fine-tune a tad.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
August 28, 2022 7:13 pm

H B Bearsays:

August 28, 2022 at 6:23 pm

If contributors think it’s riveting stuff to read various people with nothing better to do bagging Lizzie, they are quite wrong

Who would you have me bag?

Exactly.
Faulty’s gone.
NFA hasn’t raised his rorting the Aboriginal Industry again.
And whats-her-name has abandoned us to sell bean-bags.
Slim pickings.

JC
JC
August 28, 2022 7:15 pm

Jeez, anyone seeing the flooding in Paki. FMD

Get a load of the vid.

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
August 28, 2022 7:17 pm

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Bearesays:
August 28, 2022 at 4:42 pm
Thank you for that exegesis which clearly refutes my suggestion that you are an inveterate self- promoter.
Incidentally, in your academic work on logic, did you ever consider the proposition that “”self-aggrandising” and “true” are not mutually exclusive”?

Rabz
August 28, 2022 7:18 pm

Frank says: August 28, 2022 at 6:37 pm

No, Frankie – I meant the manure hurlers’ best chance of hitting a target is if the latter is immobile (e.g. pining for the fjords) …

JC
JC
August 28, 2022 7:18 pm

Going to higher ground with respect to the Paki flooding would be heading to the top of Everest.

jupes
jupes
August 28, 2022 7:19 pm

Jeez, anyone seeing the flooding in Paki. FMD

FMD indeed! Allah is not happy.

Rabz
August 28, 2022 7:19 pm

Timbo – enough.

Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
August 28, 2022 7:20 pm

I am curious as to what’s happening in Europe…so much of what we see is so carefully curated for our consumption.

I have had friends recently return from 6 weeks in the Czech Republic and other countries nearby — they said NO-ONE is wearing masks and the matter of COVID is not discussed ANYWHERE. In a number of countries in Europe it is now forbidden to give a child under the age of 18 the COVID vaccine — Health Hazzard is a blight on humanity.

calli
calli
August 28, 2022 7:21 pm

More than a couple have revealed themselves to be not as polite as they believe themselves to be.

You are correct in my case, CMD. I struggle to be polite, and I confess to penning comments that I then delete when I read them. Often.

We say things in the heat of the moment and then think “words come back to me”, but they don’t. The perils of the interwebs. None of us knows the ins and outs of other people’s lives, only what they choose to reveal to us.

Roger
Roger
August 28, 2022 7:24 pm
JC
JC
August 28, 2022 7:24 pm

Jupes,

You can’t rely on the news being truthful. I heard over the radio this water dump is 8 times more than regular.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 28, 2022 7:24 pm

Bengal 2 – 4 million perished.

Figures not improved by the Bengali grain merchant’s practice of hoarding grain, waiting for the price to rise – the Government began forcible seizure of the grain.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 28, 2022 7:28 pm

Churchill & the [Bengali] Genocide Myth.

Interesting post, Roger – thank you.

Boambee John
Boambee John
August 28, 2022 7:31 pm

H B Bearsays:
August 28, 2022 at 6:23 pm
If contributors think it’s riveting stuff to read various people with nothing better to do bagging Lizzie, they are quite wrong

Who would you have me bag?

m0nty-fa is an eminently baggable target.

Roger
Roger
August 28, 2022 7:32 pm

Interesting post, Roger – thank you.

I note 100 000 tons of wheat was sent from Australia, Zulu, perhaps some of it from your region.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
August 28, 2022 7:34 pm

CMD Longtime Lurkersays:

August 28, 2022 at 7:05 pm

The pile-on against Lizzie has not been this site’s high point.
More than a couple have revealed themselves to be not as polite as they believe themselves to be.

How did your 4:00 am hatchet jobs go?
All your targets are still here.
Maybe you should start your own blog and moderate it to death … if anyone turns up, that is.

Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
August 28, 2022 7:35 pm

None of us knows the ins and outs of other people’s lives, only what they choose to reveal to us.

Indeed calli, take care on your travels, buon viaggio and safe return, and hope you enjoy it to the max, September is a good time of year in Europe, not that I’ve ever been in September but the rellies tell me so.

JC
JC
August 28, 2022 7:35 pm

You gotta love NY attitude.

How cool is this dude.

Franx
Franx
August 28, 2022 7:36 pm

One day we might get to hear something wonderful about Pakistan. Meanwhile, we are entertained with images of disasters, interspersed with ads about I don’t know what, probably covid safety.

Jorge
Jorge
August 28, 2022 7:38 pm

Thanks, Roger.
The SBS program suggested that Churchill shipped supplies from Bengal to Holland to relieve dire food situation there.
There is a huge bitterness that has survived in India over such issues as I’m sure you know. Salman Rushdie is one who keeps the fire burning.
Have recently been reading Paul Scott’s The Raj Quartet. It is magnificent and outdoes Midnights Children, though Rushdie is dismissive.

Roger
Roger
August 28, 2022 7:40 pm

There is a huge bitterness that has survived in India over such issues as I’m sure you know.

Myths have their uses.

Rabz
August 28, 2022 7:41 pm

I suspect I ran into (a) block when I attempted to post an article just put up today in The Australian Online by Greg Sheridan

The latter is a classic example of j’ismist mediocrity.

Takes what he thinks is the safe option all the time, which immediately renders him irrelevant.

Yet he keeps getting gigs on that hotbed of right wing reactionaryism, Sky at night.

Unshaven, unkempt and looking like he’s just blundered out of Oscar’s bin after several days of “attempting to understand Monkeypox a bit better”, there is no point, Cats.

What a joke. Thank goodness I ditched the Oz subscription many moons ago.

calli
calli
August 28, 2022 7:41 pm

Thanks Roger. I have read about Bengal and the famine, a smear on Churchill, who was an easy target.

The true facts about food shipments to Bengal, amply recorded in the British war cabinet and government of India archives, are that more than a million tons of grain arrived in Bengal between August 1943, when the war cabinet first realised the severity of the famine, and the end of 1944, when the famine had petered out.

To Churchill must go the credit for appointing the man arguably most responsible for these successes
This was food aid specifically sent to Bengal, much of it on Australian ships, despite strict food rationing in England and severe food shortages in newly-liberated southern Italy and Greece. As detailed in Andrew Roberts’s brilliant biography, far from seeking to starve India, Churchill and his cabinet sought every possible way to alleviate the suffering without undermining the war effort.

Churchill was hated. By all the usual suspects.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
August 28, 2022 7:47 pm

NoFixedAddresssays:

August 28, 2022 at 6:13 pm

I Love Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare’s comments and have never seen any necessity to deride them or her personally.

Check your own privilege!

Probably not in a position to lecture anyone considering what gets served up on the shithole that is the Furniture Store by the three sad-sack occupants.

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
August 28, 2022 7:53 pm

AFLW action: Geelong beat Richmond 15 to 11.
That’s not 15 goals to 11 goals. It’s 15 to 11 total score.
Must have been a defensive masterclass.

jupes
jupes
August 28, 2022 7:53 pm

One day we might get to hear something wonderful about Pakistan.

Back in the day, I flew into I’bad for a few days. My luggage didn’t make it at the same time as me, so I had to buy some basics. The undies I purchased were the most comfortable ever.

So there you have it. Pakistan undies are wonderful.

jupes
jupes
August 28, 2022 7:56 pm

AFLW action: Geelong beat Richmond 15 to 11.
That’s not 15 goals to 11 goals. It’s 15 to 11 total score.
Must have been a defensive masterclass.

Sounds AWFL.

Cassie of Sydney
August 28, 2022 7:57 pm

“Bengal and the famine”

Until recent times, devastating famines were not uncommon across the globe, and India has a history of many deadly famines, the Bengal famine of 1943 being just one. The region of Bengal has endured many shocking famines, the famine of 1770 most likely killed over ten million people and the British most certainly weren’t responsible. Bengal at the time was governed by the Mughuls, the cause of the famine was crop failure.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 28, 2022 7:57 pm

As detailed in Andrew Roberts’s brilliant biography,

Highly recommended. Roberts has just released a work on Lord Northcliffe, “Britain’s greatest Press Baron.” It’s on my “To Read” pile.

Rabz
August 28, 2022 8:01 pm
Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
August 28, 2022 8:08 pm

Timothy Neilson says:
August 28, 2022 at 7:53 pm
AFLW action: Geelong beat Richmond 15 to 11.
That’s not 15 goals to 11 goals. It’s 15 to 11 total score.
Must have been a defensive masterclass.

Cock blockers can’t score.

Frank
Frank
August 28, 2022 8:10 pm

“So there you have it. Pakistan undies are wonderful.”

Still needs a bit more work to make up for that Bin Laden thing.

132andBush
132andBush
August 28, 2022 8:12 pm

You can’t rely on the news being truthful. I heard over the radio this water dump is 8 times more than regular.

Which doesn’t necessarily mean it’s never happened before.

Mater
August 28, 2022 8:15 pm

Churchill was hated. By all the usual suspects.

Churchill was despised because of his role in the Dardanelles campaign. His parliamentary colleagues held it against it against him up until and throughout WW2.

Funny thing is, when asked after the war about “the whole policy of the attack on the Peninsula and the Dardanelles”, General Mustafa Kemal Ataturk responded:

“It was a good, strong idea, and if had not been for the previous naval attack it would have succeeded, but it was a mistake to make a naval first and then go away and then come back again. It made us more cautious, and gave us time to strengthen our defence. The navy and army should have combined together in the first place.”

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/12355626/895432

IIRC, there was a reference to this issue in the movie ‘Darkest Hour’.

If the opposing General is to be believed, it wasn’t a bad idea, just badly executed.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
August 28, 2022 8:16 pm

China has a big drought. They’ll soon back in the market looking for the grain they banned out of juvenile spite.
Suck shit Xi.

Mater
August 28, 2022 8:18 pm

“make a naval attack first”

JC
JC
August 28, 2022 8:35 pm

Farmer Gez says:
August 28, 2022 at 8:16 pm

China has a big drought. They’ll soon back in the market looking for the grain they banned out of juvenile spite.
Suck shit Xi.

They could just buy the stuff off the futures market, no? Not their government – Chinese firms.

Barking Toad
Barking Toad
August 28, 2022 8:35 pm

Yes Calli please keep us posted about your impressions of the populace on your travels.

Energy crisis etc.

Couldn’t give a flying about what ya have for breakfast but you know what I mean. Keep safe.

shatterzzz
August 28, 2022 8:36 pm

Just watched a new, 2022, 3 part documentary on the Dunkirk evacuation .. covers all 14 days from the retreat to last boat .. excellent! 10/10 … doesn’t appear to be listed/reviewed on IMBD yet ..!
https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/158094-dunkirk-mission-impossible

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
August 28, 2022 8:41 pm

Bon voyage calli. Do keep us informed.

Jorge
Jorge
August 28, 2022 8:42 pm

Tonight at 8.30 on SBS we have Mr Jones.

Gareth Jones was the brilliant 27 y o journalist who had been Lloyd George’s secretary, who first realised that Stalin was starving the Ukrainians in 1932, the Terror Famine, or Holodomor.
He and Malcolm Muggeridge were the first to break the story of mass starvation. Other Western journalists in Moscow at the time met together with the Russian censor and began a deliberate campaign of denial and dismissal of the Jones story.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Barking Toad says: August 28, 2022 at 8:35 pm

Couldn’t give a flying about what ya have for breakfast but you know what I mean. Keep safe.

The tucker of offer can be a most accurate indicator of the local financial times.
In retrospect, when backpacking Eastern Europe I should have kept a comprehensive log of the tucker/drink on offer, or available.
Sporadic notes don’t do justice to the differences.

Jorge
Jorge
August 28, 2022 8:46 pm

Oops, SBS 32.

Barking Toad
Barking Toad
August 28, 2022 8:48 pm

Snowy 2.0.

Mick Trumbles brilliant idea to use electricity to push water uphill so it can flow back down again to generate electricity to push it back up again is hitting some snags according to the Oz (paywall).

Love to be able to follow the money to see how much him and his Singapore brat got out of it.

feelthebern
feelthebern
August 28, 2022 8:53 pm

Other Western journalists in Moscow at the time met together with the Russian censor and began a deliberate campaign of denial and dismissal of the Jones story.

The NYT has never apologised.
Malice goes on about it a bit.

Frank
Frank
August 28, 2022 8:55 pm

He and Malcolm Muggeridge were the first to break the story of mass starvation.

I thought Muggeridge was meant to be one of Stalin’s useful idiots, or did he take a while before seeing through it.

shatterzzz
August 28, 2022 8:56 pm

Started reading a biography of Pauline Hanson by Anna Broinowski who is, apparently, an SBS luvvie but knocked out a 2016 SBS TV special .. Pauline Hanson: Please Explain (which I’ve neither heard of or seen) and so scored the writing gig .. to give an idea of where her “sympathy’” lies get a load of this from chapter 1 ..
In 1954, the year Hanson was born, a young Queen Elizabeth, during her wildly popular first Commonwealth tour, met with Prime Minister Menzies in Canberra to sign the Aboriginal Welfare Ordinance. The new law authorised the full-scale removal of the Indigenous people of the Australian Capital Territory to New South Wales. despite the United Nations’ 1948 convention on the crime of genocide being ratified in the Australian constitution in 1951, the systematic persecution of Australia’s First People continued throughout the decade.
No idea about the Welfare Ordinance bill but can’t work out how it ties in with either the UN genocide or the “systematic” persecution theory …. might be a long, read to the finish coming up .. LOL!

feelthebern
feelthebern
August 28, 2022 8:58 pm

It’s nuts to do any form of student loan “forgiveness” with out some form of concession from colleges.
Along the lines of tuition freeze or matching the tax payer contribution with endowment contributions.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
August 28, 2022 8:58 pm

They could just buy the stuff off the futures market, no? Not their government – Chinese firms.

Yes they could secure some grain that way but it wouldn’t cover the need for multi million tonne contracts.
The grain trading businesses are well aware of the oblique operations of Chinese importers. Any move in the market by Chinese entities will soon set of a futures rally and kick current cash pricing to new highs.
Fun times I think.

Jorge
Jorge
August 28, 2022 9:02 pm

Frank, Muggeridge and wife quickly realised the reality after idealistically relocating to Moscow in 1932. After reporting the horrible reality he lost everything, including friendships.
His autobiography is a great read.

Cassie of Sydney
August 28, 2022 9:10 pm

“The NYT has never apologised.
Malice goes on about it a bit.”

Walter Duranty, the NYT correspondence in Moscow during the famine, won a Pulitzer for his soft reporting of the Soviet Union in the early 1930s. The Pulitzer has never been revoked.

Frank
Frank
August 28, 2022 9:11 pm

Thanks Jorge.

miltonf
miltonf
August 28, 2022 9:12 pm

Calli- really enjoyed your impressions of travelling around this wonderful country. You’ve inspired me to revisit Coober Pedy. Therefore, would love to read about your Euro adventures. Rosie’s travelogues were great too.

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
August 28, 2022 9:19 pm

In 1954, the year Hanson was born, a young Queen Elizabeth, during her wildly popular first Commonwealth tour, met with Prime Minister Menzies in Canberra to sign the Aboriginal Welfare Ordinance. The new law authorised the full-scale removal of the Indigenous people of the Australian Capital Territory to New South Wales.

This looks like it might be a product of the customary rigour and accuracy that we’ve come to expect from taxpayer-funded “journalists”. Certainly the official printed copy of the law as made doesn’t support what’s asserted.

The law wasn’t “signed” by the Queen. The official printed copies say “ELIZABETH R by WS Kent Hughes Minister for the Interior”, i.e. it was signed by Kent Hughes in the name of the Queen, which may be where the confusion arose.

More importantly the law didn’t authorise the full-scale removal of Aborigines. It authorised the Minister to apply to the Court for an order that an individual Aborigine be sent to a reserve or back to their home State, but an application could be made only for specified reasons of welfare or safety.

chrisl
chrisl
August 28, 2022 9:21 pm

I love football (AFL) and I love women … but put them together….
No

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

A “biography” of Pauline Hanson delves into what parliament was up to the year she was born.

Right.

Nelson_Kidd-Players
August 28, 2022 9:28 pm

Calli, once you land, just beware of Dutchmen piloting barges

Jorge
Jorge
August 28, 2022 9:28 pm

A meeting between Comrade Umansky (chief censor) and the Moscow press corps in Duranty’s hotel room was arranged to coordinate the campaign to discredit Jones’ report.

Diana West says of it ‘A more morally sordid scene is hard to imagine.’

It finished with vodka and hors d’ouevres and the party broke up in the early hours.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
August 28, 2022 9:28 pm

Timothy Neilsonsays:

August 28, 2022 at 8:41 pm

Bon voyage calli. Do keep us informed.

But post a trigger warning for those who have a thing about Nazi-passes.

duncanm
duncanm
August 28, 2022 9:30 pm

So Dan’s going to fund more nurses…
This bloke understands:
https://twitter.com/mark_bisby/status/1563716444478898178

“Taxpayers will fund the training of health professionals to replace those I have deregistered via arbitrary mandates”

Boambee John
Boambee John
August 28, 2022 9:33 pm

feelthebernsays:
August 28, 2022 at 8:58 pm
It’s nuts to do any form of student loan “forgiveness” with out some form of concession from colleges.
Along the lines of tuition freeze or matching the tax payer contribution with endowment contributions.

It isn’t just students who are one of the DemonRats key support groups . It is also the university academics and administrators. The idea is to consolidate that political support, not annoy the wackademics and administrators, who do the propaganda work on the students, and who might well have a stake in the endowments., via their pension schemes.

rickw
rickw
August 28, 2022 9:40 pm

The undies I purchased were the most comfortable ever.

Broken in by the previous owner?!

Makka
Makka
August 28, 2022 9:42 pm

The operative words here are “we don’t know”. They never do and every time they do this they deliver a recession.

“I think the chair was trying to prepare people for the possibility that as the economy slows down, we might have some job loss and we might have some slow down in business, but we don’t know exactly how much there will be,” Bostic told FOX Business’ Edward Lawrence in an interview on “Varney & Co.” Friday.

MatrixTransform
August 28, 2022 9:47 pm

But post a trigger warning for those who have a thing about Nazi-passes

oh for fucks sake Ferret, give it a rest

JC
JC
August 28, 2022 9:48 pm

Just to repeat what I said a couple of days ago.

One year ago energy cost the German economy 1% of GDP. Today, it’s 8%. I think Europe is fucked and less so the US.

rosie
rosie
August 28, 2022 10:07 pm

Germany had only its own masturbatory green fantasies to blame for it’s predicament.

JC
JC
August 28, 2022 10:10 pm

Sure, Rosie. But that’s the reality and it’s going to be just as terrible for the rest too. This is very, very, “ungood”.

Jorge
Jorge
August 28, 2022 10:16 pm

We know how it worked out last time.

1933)
“The lamps are going out all over Europe, we shall not see them lit again in our life-time”

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
August 28, 2022 10:20 pm

One year ago energy cost the German economy 1% of GDP. Today, it’s 8%. I think Europe is fucked and less so the US.

I don’t think people fully grasp the leverage energy has to economic performance.
How cheap energy can turbo-charge everything and even a slight lift can really grind things to a halt.
1% to 8% is off the charts.
But some of these fuckers would rather go into deep recession than denounce Gaia-power.

rosie
rosie
August 28, 2022 10:22 pm

I know JC.
I’m hoping, in the next round of elections Europeans start tossing out their virescent masters.

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
August 28, 2022 10:23 pm

JCsays:
August 28, 2022 at 9:48 pm
Just to repeat what I said a couple of days ago.

One year ago energy cost the German economy 1% of GDP. Today, it’s 8%. I think Europe is fucked and less so the US.

Brexit should have to some extent insulated (no pun intended) the UK from the EU losing its main, maybe even sole, economic engine. Unfortunately the loons in charge of the UK have more or less replicated the stupidity.

Nelson_Kidd-Players
August 28, 2022 10:25 pm

Some Germans are trying to be ready. From Geek in Pictures. (May be a rerun for the Çat.)

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Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
August 28, 2022 10:33 pm

NBA legend Shaquille O’Neal met Anthony Albanese and Linda Burney MP
They discussed proposed referendum on an Indigenous Voice to Parliament

I know there’s been commentary over the journey about pony-tailed, trash ‘tache-having political advisors being clueless dunderheads, but this is next level. You can picture it:

‘They all look the same don’t they? Black people like basketball and rap music – it’s a walk-up start.’

NoFixedAddress
NoFixedAddress
August 28, 2022 11:03 pm

These Fins are appearing in concert, in Texas, September 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1wqvyBH5Ls

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 29, 2022 12:10 am

Churchill was despised because of his role in the Dardanelles campaign. His parliamentary colleagues held it against it against him up until and throughout WW2.

Others, particularly Kitchener, were just as much to blame, but Churchill, with his “young man in a hurry” image, and the belief that It wasn’t fair to libel a dead man, after Kitchener drowned, meant Churchill wore most of the odium.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 29, 2022 12:33 am

Marles opens ADF ranks to greater diversity to appeal to Generation Z
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Recruiting more women, LGBTI and ethnic minority personnel to the military is at the core of the ­Albanese government’s plan to expand the size of the Australian Defence Force numbers by nearly 20,000 to respond to growing strategic threats.

Defence Minister Richard Marles said the ADF needed to be more “representative of the country” to appeal to Generation Z, and that greater recognition of diversity in the military would be key to hitting the target.

“I think what is really important is that the Defence Force needs to look like Australia,” Mr Marles told The Australian.

“Modern defence forces around the world reflect the country they are defending … and I think that idea is at the heart of meeting the recruitment and retention challenge.”

Labor backed the former government’s plan to recruit an extra 18,500 personnel to the ADF over the next two decades but until now has been quiet on how it intended to do so, given ADF ­recruitment has been static for years.

Mr Marles comments follow his move last week to overturn former defence minister Peter Dutton’s ban on so-called “rainbow morning teas” to support lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex personnel.

theaustralian.com.au03:22
ADF personnel should be a ‘fighting force’ not ‘warriors for wokeness’
ADF personnel are meant to be the “tip of the spear”, they need to be a fighting force rather than “warriors for… wokeness,” according to Sky News host Cory Bernardi. “It was so refreshing to hear former SAS officer and now Assistant Minister for Defence Andrew Hastie air More

Opposition MP and Afghanistan veteran Phil Thomson said the ADF needed “capability, not cupcakes”, saying the government was “fixated on Defence being a petri dish for social engineering and ‘inclusive’ events … Labor is clearly perplexed about the primary role of the ADF, which it obviously thinks is about pursuing a woke agenda that cares more about sexual orientation than ADF capability.”

Mr Marles said strengthening diversity in the ADF was key to expanding its war-fighting capabilities. “I actually think the restoring of the diversity morning teas matters,” he said.

“It is fundamentally core business, because it means that across the board of gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, the works, we are drawing on the full scope of the Australian population to build our Defence Force.”

rickw
rickw
August 29, 2022 1:44 am

Reservation Dogs.

(Pretty funny)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBD-pMDbTqg

rickw
rickw
August 29, 2022 1:45 am

Mr Marles said strengthening diversity in the ADF was key to expanding its war-fighting capabilities.

These people are completely insane.

rickw
rickw
August 29, 2022 1:48 am

Some Germans are trying to be ready.

I wonder what the search frequency looks like for “home made Kar 98k”

rickw
rickw
August 29, 2022 1:50 am

The lamps are going out all over Europe, we shall not see them lit again in our life-time

Hopefully we can’t see the lamps this time because there’s so many politicians hanging from them.

struth
struth
August 29, 2022 2:17 am

oh dear.
KD tries to lie again and claim I spoke of gas pipes.
Totally his invention and by the lack of upticks on his bullshit comments I see others know as well.
The question must be whether or not he has lied so much he now believes them himself or he continues to attempt to put his words in other people’s mouths because he has no argument.
As things get serious and the jabbed die,…the little gang of the fearful sneerers are flailing and wailing.
It isn’t pretty.
Those chickens are coming home …….
You poor deluded fucks.

struth
struth
August 29, 2022 2:20 am

Where’s choo choo?

struth
struth
August 29, 2022 2:28 am

The overall death rate rising a thousand a week in the UK and up 10 000 here over the last few months due to the jab……up 200% in the younger working age group….l believe that although our submissive union mate did no work, he was of working age so concern for his welbeing would only be natural.
C’mon little gang of vacuous sneerers. …email him and get him in here.

JC
JC
August 29, 2022 2:31 am

Hero alert

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Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
August 29, 2022 5:16 am

Trying to catch up — Yesterday I saw comments from miltonf about Chappaquidick and Edward Kennedy, and the filthy old grifter from Delware this comment resonates in relation to both Delaware and Massachusetts _ To think that deadshits in Delaware have actually voted for this piece of human garbage for decades.

I commented about rellies returning from some time in the US they’d been to Chappaquidick had photos on the bridge — BIL and SIL are both so anti-Trump because they mix with wealthy American and only places they went and the only people they saw were lefties – like the guy with the banner outside Trump Tower talking about all the the crimes committed by President Trump BIL maintained Trump was a criminal but could come up with no crime with which Trump is convicted — I said as much and also reminded him of all the slaver states being Demonrat,

Also got in that from 1870 until 1935 all black congressmen had been Republicans and the first Demonrat wasn’t elected until 1935 and that Demonrat had been a Republican until 1932 when he switched because he was ambitious and didn’t want to do his time with the Republican party (a la Whitlam I guess)

I also commented that it was a clear indication of what Demonrats really are since they continued to elect Ted Kennedy for another 40 years after he left Mary Jo Kopechne to die — I couldn’t believe they tried to defend that piece of garbage by saying oh the bridge was different, it dipped and had no side — I said no excuses – and they agreed.

We also agreed to disagree about Trump. We had a nice lunch and they’re going to be grandparents again, which is so wonderful.

Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
August 29, 2022 5:42 am

Other Western journalists in Moscow at the time met together with the Russian censor and began a deliberate campaign of denial and dismissal of the Jones story.

The NYT has never apologised.
Malice goes on about it a bit.

The New York Times (a former newspaper – Andrew Klavan’s description from time to time) was the subject of Ashley Ridsberg’s book The Gray Lady Winked: How the New York Times’s Misreporting, Distortions and Fabrications Radically Alter History published in May last year – I bought it for my lefty BIL – he’s never mentioned it, funny that.

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