Open Thread – Weekend 27 Aug 2022


Two Men by the Sea, Casper David Friedrich, 1817

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Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
August 29, 2022 5:43 am

Ashley Rindsberg tried to have it published for a decade – I wonder why the lack of interest?

Dot
Dot
August 29, 2022 6:33 am

If you feel unwell after a COVID vaccine or booster shot, please see your doctor about heavy braking and car fumes. Heart conditions may otherwise be untreated for far too long.

H B Bear
H B Bear
August 29, 2022 6:43 am

Can anyone take Turtlehead Bowen seriously? He is like treading in a remnant of R-G-R and walking on the carpet? Seriously unimpressive, even by Liars standards.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
August 29, 2022 6:47 am

Climate change Dot. It does everything.

European Central Bank Chief Blames Climate-Change For Red-Hot Inflation (28 Aug)

lotocoti
lotocoti
August 29, 2022 6:49 am

History Legends takes a break from the Russo-Ukrainian war to paddle a neo-anticolonialist.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
August 29, 2022 6:59 am

Oh my goodness, Please let this work out (the Hun):

Ian Cook – the man at the centre of the long-running “slug gate” scandal – will run against Premier Daniel Andrews in the seat of Mulgrave on an anti-corruption ticket.

Mr Cook is standing as an independent candidate at November’s state election more than three years after the controversial closure of his family-owned catering business.

The scandal began when a Greater Dandenong Council health inspector was accused of planting a slug inside the I Cook Foods facility, which the council denies.

And:

Mr Cook hit the hustings in Mulgrave on Friday and Saturday in a campaign dubbed by his supporters as “Cook versus Crook”.

And:

Forty-one workers lost their jobs due to the forced closure of Mr Cook’s company in February 2019, ­ordered by then acting chief health officer Brett Sutton.

Mr Cook is continuing to fight in the Supreme Court to prove the closure of the Dandenong South business was unlawful. He is suing the Department of Health and the City of Greater Dandenong for $50m in lost earnings.

His legal team, headed by top silk Robert Richter, QC, will this week seek orders for Victoria Police Chief Commissioner Shane Patton to be held in contempt of court for failing to hand over key documents.

That would be the same Shane Patton who put the Red Shirts investigation into the circular file, and while angling for a shot at the job he now holds. Richter QC is, and has been one of the best going around for quite some time. He doesn’t pick losing teams.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
August 29, 2022 7:01 am

Oh my goodness, Please

Oh my goodness again. In my defence, it’s hard to hit the correct keys in half-light.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
August 29, 2022 7:11 am

Hey JC was that a hero or Zero alert?

miltonf
miltonf
August 29, 2022 7:16 am

Saw your post just now Tinterella- interesting. Thank you.

miltonf
miltonf
August 29, 2022 7:23 am

Best wishes to Ian Cook. Local government really is the dregs- the last card in the pack when you’re too useless to do anything else. A magnet for the untalented and self important.

Eyrie
Eyrie
August 29, 2022 7:26 am

Local government really is the dregs- the last card in the pack when you’re too useless to do anything else. A magnet for the untalented and self important.

If you can’t get into local government just join and fuck up a sporting organisation.

Dot
Dot
August 29, 2022 7:27 am

Local government ought to be the most important.

That said, family, and above that, making decisions for oneself ought to be more important than all of the public sector.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
August 29, 2022 7:28 am

I have a mate who’s a great Broncos supporter. Naturally, I’ve given him all sorts of shit over the past fortnight after the got bent over the ute by the Storm and Parramatta, 60-12 and 53-6 respectively.

In the latter game, 19-year-old Broncos (and Origin) winger Selwyn Cobbo was rested, due to what was described as ‘fatigue’. Fatty Vautin was not impressed (the Tele):

He scored a hat-trick against the Knights a fortnight ago but was quiet in the Melbourne defeat, prompting Broncos coach Kevin Walters to give him a week off.

But that didn’t sit well with Maroons great “Fatty” Vautin, who questioned why Cobbo needed to be rested with Brisbane’s season on the line.

“When I heard that I thought it was a gee up,” Vautin told Channel 9 in the aftermath of the Eels defeat.

“I mean, he is a winger for god’s sake. They just stand out on the sideline and fall over the line to score tries then go back and comb their hair.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
August 29, 2022 7:29 am

GreyRangasays:

August 29, 2022 at 7:11 am

Hey JC was that a hero or Zero alert?

Oh, God!
If that is the new midnight to dawn shift, bring back Faulty and [Snip. Do not mention her name, Sancho. She’s off her meds again.]

miltonf
miltonf
August 29, 2022 7:30 am

If you can’t get into local government just join and fuck up a sporting organisation.

yes voluntary organisations are often like that- never was the infighting so vicious and the stakes so small

Dot
Dot
August 29, 2022 7:30 am

If you can’t get into local government just join and fuck up a sporting organisation.

I found out the other day my sportzball association gave up a generous sponsorship offer a few years ago.

These people are malicious dickheads. The President nor his kids were not involved in the game in any way for over a decade then he popped out of the woodwork to wreck and demand “respect”.

I hope someone buys him a caravan and a new Landcruiser so he buggers off for good.

I hear the Maralinga tour is fascinating.

Dot
Dot
August 29, 2022 7:32 am

“I mean, he is a winger for god’s sake. They just stand out on the sideline and fall over the line to score tries then go back and comb their hair.

LOL

Good chat from the forward pack.

Oh and Up the mighty Redcliffe Dolphins!

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
August 29, 2022 7:34 am

the new midnight to dawn shift

The ‘Sunday jam session’, alternatively marketed as ‘underground freedom rally (no COWS)’ must have been a cracker.

JC
JC
August 29, 2022 7:37 am

Bear

There’s only one turtlehead..

lotocoti
lotocoti
August 29, 2022 7:38 am

Kleo is a bit grimmer than the laff-riot depicted in the promo.
I’m not sure the Federal Republic was quite so diverse, back in the good old days.
Especially the BND.

miltonf
miltonf
August 29, 2022 7:42 am

Bowen, Marles, Sleazy etc etc etc- deeply unimpressive political parasites. Marxist wreckers. Do the ‘academics’ who run the bludge ‘degrees’ these people do ever reflect on how useless and destructive they are?

Frank
Frank
August 29, 2022 7:43 am

Can anyone take Turtlehead Bowen seriously?

Probably not but, in relative terms he floats to the top of the local talent pool.

Barking Toad
Barking Toad
August 29, 2022 7:51 am

Sleazy and Turtlehead are special.

They get an award for participating.

That’s how Labor works.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
August 29, 2022 7:52 am

If you can’t get into local government just join and fuck up a sporting organisation.

As an exemplar of this undeniable truth, I give you Raelene (Ray) Castle.

rosie
rosie
August 29, 2022 7:54 am

Intergenerational public housing rights.
The Guardian critising Andrews from the left, nothing about fine dining with property developers though.
“After his grandmother died, Jason convinced Homes Victoria to allow him and his younger brother, who lives with him, to take over the lease.”

“In our culture, it’s the big thing, the home. It matters, and we all stick together,” Jason says.
They lived in Melbourne public housing for decades; they learned it would be demolished without warning

rosie
rosie
August 29, 2022 7:59 am

And to think Marles went to Geelong Grammar, then, went to Melbourne to do law, where he lived in at Ormond College.
Did he acquire a Slater and Gordon accent during his time there?
(What a pedigree).

shatterzzz
August 29, 2022 7:59 am

Can anyone take Turtlehead Bowen seriously?
Probably not but, in relative terms he floats to the top of the local talent pool.

As someone who lives in the Turtle electorate I can assure you that there is no one in politics on any level in the area worth voting for .. a vomit of Labor time-servers! .. sadly, with no worthwhile competition from any other mob they know that whatever they do/say will have no effect on their jerbs-til-retirement sinecures ….!

Boambee John
Boambee John
August 29, 2022 8:01 am

dover0beachsays:
August 28, 2022 at 10:37 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.

Yep. Crazy that tuition fees have increased 13-fold in the last 50 years. Where is that money going? It can’t all be into administrative bloat. Some group is making a killing here of students and the government.

The big winners are the DemonRats and the oligarchical investment management companies.

.1 College graduates, particularly white college graduates, are a key DemonRat voting demographic.

.2 University faculty and administrators predominantly donate to the DemonRats.

.3 Big Investment is undoubtedly up to its slimy eyeballs in managing the endowments.

So, faculty propagandise the students about the wonders of the Green Nude Eel, WEF, NWO and BBB. The DemonRats and Deep State implement these by stealth or unreadable omnibus legislation, and Big Investment rakes in the dollars, many of which are then donated to the DemonRats.

It’s a marriage made in Hell, with Satan presiding.

rosie
rosie
August 29, 2022 8:02 am

Could be the Victorian version of the Kristina Kenneally loss.
Wooden that be luverly.

Tom
Tom
August 29, 2022 8:04 am

Rory McIlroy (-21) wins the $US58 million US Tour Championship at East Lakes golf club in Atlanta and pockets the $US18 million winner’s cheque after his playing partner Scottie Scheffler (-20) buggers up the last hole, missing the green with his bunker shot from only a few feet from the hole.

McIlroy is the first player to win the Tour Championship three times.

Barking Toad
Barking Toad
August 29, 2022 8:06 am

Michael Smith News is back on air.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
August 29, 2022 8:06 am

Rosie.
There’s about four prime houso sites along there that Dan’s Developers would be after.
The one in the article which is on The Boulevard, one between The Exchange (hi Ted!) and the Pier Hotels in Bay St which double story units, a high rise tower at the beach end of Vic Ave just near our city penthouse, and another medium-rise block further down the Esplanade towards St Kilda.
All at the discretion of Dan and the Planning Minister.

rosie
rosie
August 29, 2022 8:09 am
rosie
rosie
August 29, 2022 8:11 am

Only one on this list I’m interested in visiting
The 10 countries that are refusing to reopen to tourism

rosie
rosie
August 29, 2022 8:14 am

No doubt Adam Bandt is very very angry.
Why are we closing down coal power generation again?
The Queensland government has approved mining leases for a controversial coal mine on the Darling Downs.

Anchor What
Anchor What
August 29, 2022 8:14 am

Joe Stella at Quadrant Online finishes his dissection of the Uluru Statement ( which he says was influenced by various unsavoury characters) with this:

“Stripped of its flummery, the text of the Uluru Statement offers no serious case for constitutional change. It observes that a lot of indigenous people are in prison, out-of-home care or juvenile detention. It promises that an advisory committee of the type that has existed in various forms since 1968 will shortly discover a hitherto-unimagined means to reduce these numbers. (Never mind that criminal justice and child protection are the domain of the states and territories, and fewer than one per cent of indigenous prisoners are serving time for federal offences.) There is only one catch: the sinecures associated with this new committee require the security of constitutional entrenchment.

All Uluru has going for it is a dash of poetry in paragraph 3. And if that poetry is merely the echo of a dead dictator justifying a ruinous policy of expropriation and repression, what response can we offer but ‘No’?”

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
August 29, 2022 8:15 am

The same guy who was in Rome when the Pell interview and subsequently gave the press conference indicating multiple victims. The Pell case ended up 7-0 and no other cases were ever brought before court.

So basically a great choice for Dan Andrews.

“That would be the same Shane Patton who put the Red Shirts investigation into the circular file, and while angling for a shot at the job he now holds. Richter QC is, and has been one of the best going around for quite some time. He doesn’t pick losing teams”

calli
calli
August 29, 2022 8:17 am

Rosie, we cancelled our Japan holiday in cherry blossom season next year for that reason. We’ve been mucked around so badly with this lot of flights that I have zero confidence that the place will be anything like normal for a while.

Coming back through Haneda in October, but transit only. This must be killing Japanese tour operators, but as Carpe said a couple of months ago, the Japanese have their country back to enjoy rather than it being a great bid amusement park for foreigners. I love Japan, but I’m not going to shell out good money to be masked up 24/7 and miserable.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
August 29, 2022 8:18 am

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”?

What it refutes, Timothy, is your particular stated suggestion that I lack comprehension skills. I have every right to reject that suggestion with a reason why I think otherwise. What you read into my statement – your ‘self-aggrandizement’ nonsense et regarding my persona. – is up to you.

As for your egregious suggestion that I nominate people who comment as I do, no-one comments as I do, because everyone is their own person. Some who might have had similar life experiences and who regularly comment on them using personal anecdote include JC, Calli, Vicki, Megan, RickW, both Bruces, Jupes and a whole host of others including, of course, Johanna. People are known here as identities, not as voices from nowhere, and that is what makes this blog work so well. We are all different and sometimes misapprehensions can occur about individuals, what they say, and how they say it. Usually a civilised discourse can iron out some of these difficulties, other times not, in which case scrolling is a satisfactory response.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
August 29, 2022 8:24 am

The local talent pool is a cesspit and we all know what floats in a cesspit.

m0nty
August 29, 2022 8:24 am

I see it has come out that Trump took boxes containing classified documents with him on international travel, leaving them in unsecured hotel rooms.

No word on whether he sold any of them, but it would be irresponsible not to speculate.

rosie
rosie
August 29, 2022 8:27 am

The article does suggest Japan reopening to hoi poloiing travellers is imminent.
As for Japanese enjoying it by themselves, as long as they all reciprocated and stopped making other countries amusement parks for the Japanese, that’s fine.

rosie
rosie
August 29, 2022 8:28 am

Those Canadian doctors just can’t stop boostering themselves to death, can they?

Mater
August 29, 2022 8:29 am

I see it has come out that Trump took boxes containing classified documents with him on international travel, leaving them in unsecured hotel rooms.

So whilst travelling, the hotel room of the President of the United States is unsecured, and a thoroughfare for randoms?

Good to know.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
August 29, 2022 8:31 am

Rosie.
Barak estate is low rise but sits on a yuuuuge tract of beachfront land.
It isn’t in as good position as the others I mentioned but it would accommodate hundreds of apartments.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
August 29, 2022 8:31 am

I love Japan, but I’m not going to shell out good money to be masked up 24/7 and miserable.

One of the joys of our recent five weeks in Britain was the lack of masking everywhere. Covid was so clearly ‘over’. On our Emirates flight and here I go, yes it was in Business Class, we had to mask up for entry and exit but it was masks off for most who just made a personal decision, and there was no comment about it from the masked flight attendants. Airlines probably feel they have to had a mask mandate due to the variable international regulations in places they fly to.

The idea of making fake easy-t0-breath masks was genius, Calli. You should patent it. 🙂

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
August 29, 2022 8:32 am

So whilst travelling, the hotel room of the President of the United States is unsecured, and a thoroughfare for randoms?

Do any of the documents have hooker piss-stains m0nster?

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
August 29, 2022 8:33 am

… oops…. lost an ‘e’ again. Breathe.

calli
calli
August 29, 2022 8:34 am

The other thing with cruises around Japan now is that Vladivostok, a crucial re-fuelling port, is closed. For obvious reasons. So they are re-routing around southern Japan and Taiwan, which is also in the same no-go pickle. In addition, the Cunard trip we had booked was clearly geared towards the Japanese with 80% of the excursions for Japanese speakers.

The upshot is that it will be a journey up to Iceland via the Hebrides preceded by a road trip around Wales and Cornwall and a fortnight in the Dordogne afterwards. Horrid, I know, but someone has to do it.

Personally, I am quite happy to tool around Australia, but the Beloved is 70 in a couple of weeks time and he wants to see a bit more of the world before the insurance costs skyrocket. He’s as tough as teak but the insurance guys don’t look at that.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
August 29, 2022 8:35 am

As an exemplar of this undeniable truth, I give you Raelene (Ray) Castle.

Discussing the Vicar over beers, while watching Marika Koroibete see off the Springboks.

She’s fallen upwards and is now on the public teat as CEO of Sport Unzud. Someone pointed out her glowing accolade on Wikipedia:

…a great contribution to Australian Rugby notably changing the yellow shade on the Wallabies sports colours to improve the actual on field performance and outcomes.

You never know with Wikipedia, but that’s probably a pisstake.

shatterzzz
August 29, 2022 8:35 am

Barak Beacon looks like it was fanatic public housing, three storey walk ups?

Built in 1982 and due for demolition ..?
I’ve lived in my NSW “houso” joint since it was new built in 1980 and never had an major problems and is, probably, good for another 30 years so Barak Beacon must have been either a poor construct or the gummint is looking for an excuse to sell/use the land for something else ……

Boambee John
Boambee John
August 29, 2022 8:37 am

m0ntysays:
August 29, 2022 at 8:24 am
I see it has come out that Trump took boxes containing classified documents with him on international travel, leaving them in unsecured hotel rooms.

m0nty-fa

Now that the “noocular” secrets seem to have disappeared from the “narrative”, I suppose something had to replace them. Was the source the usual “insiders with knowledge, but not authorised to speak”, or is there actual evidence?

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
August 29, 2022 8:38 am

And ‘have’ not ‘had’.

As I am getting older I do notice that my brain to fingers typing is becoming a little disoriented.
Some of it is that my computer inserts in the wrong place, which drives me spare, but also my touch typing (I learned to touch type in my early yoof) can go a bit haywire, and I really should proof everything, even simple line comments which I used to be able to trust once came out ok.

A case study in brain functioning for some intrepid researcher. 🙂

rosie
rosie
August 29, 2022 8:39 am

And by mooted plans, it’s going to Sancho.
Reminds me of The Rocks public housing that some families had managed to hang on to for three generations until Tanya’s husband ruthlessly sold them off.
Port Melbourne might have been a working class poor suburb back in the day, but that’s no longer the case.
The government will make squillions from redevelopment of inner city public housing sites, and the fortunate few will no doubt get first dibs and the replacement social housing, much better than Sunshine, for sure.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
August 29, 2022 8:40 am

Lizzie.
You seem to project an unshakeable air of self-confidence on all manner of subjects.
Why, then, do you give a fat rat’s clacker about who upticks what?
Here’s something to add to your vast experiential baggage. When you over-react (to the point of requiring a fainting couch and smelling salts) to something others see as trivial, you will get teased about it. You do know that, when you highlight opposing upticks, some people will immediately seek out the comment and give it a tick. Not me, mind you, but some people would.
Let the upticks run free and just ignore them.

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
August 29, 2022 8:40 am

shatterzzzsays:
August 29, 2022 at 8:35 am

Well, luckily this is Australia so we won’t see the following scenario…
Public auction with onerous government restrictions in place on the land.
Purchase by maaaaate with the best bid.
Discreet interval of time.
Liberation of the conditions, huge property development, massive profits.

Indolent
Indolent
August 29, 2022 8:42 am

The Man Who Invented Climate Change – Maurice Strong

I had an article years ago which unfortunately I’ve lost, which clearly set out that there was a meeting in (I think) Austria in the early 1960s when then sat down and to decide how they were going to crash western economies. Exactly that. And they settled on CO2.

Pogria
Pogria
August 29, 2022 8:43 am

Teflon Dan has decided to pay Uni fees for anyone wanting to train as a Nurse.

Nursing should be placed back into the Hospital system. It should never have been delivered to the corrupt, grafting Universities. The amount of, and the abilities of Nurses has gone down the drain since then.

When we had training Hospitals, young women and men would receive training on the job, accommodation, and a reasonable starter wage. It was an apprenticeship which included a day a week at Tafe. This gave Hospitals beginners to do the grunt work which freed up the more Senior staff to get on with the job of looking after patients. The trainees received non-stop on the job training. At Uni, they do two years of lecturing, then are sent out to do six weeks free at a place they have to find for themselves to gain “first hand”, experience.
This is where a lot of them start to think nursing is not for them. They haven’t handled bed pans, vomit, blood, piss, shit etc until now. In the teaching hospitals, that was the order of the day from the moment you started. Forking out 10-16 thousand dollars for the dubious privilege of being a nurse these days is also a turn off.

Put nursing training back into the Hospitals where it belongs.

Some time back, the Uni’s were pushing to put all of the trades under their direction. Could you imagine University trained Electricians, Carpenters and Plumbers?

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
August 29, 2022 8:45 am

I see it has come out that Trump took boxes containing classified documents with him on international travel, leaving them in unsecured hotel rooms.

Never ever been done in the whole history of diplomacy, M0nts, and of course anyone at any time can access a President’s hotel room where there would never be a special safe, possibly one carried in Airforce One for just that purpose. Anyway, Trump could have declassified them for the journey, lol, for if such documents did accompany him they were probably of fairly low security status.

This weak little ‘get Trump’ item above has all the appearances of a total beat-up.

rosie
rosie
August 29, 2022 8:45 am

No shatterzzz, it’s simply part of the redevelopment of numerous inner city public housing projects including some on New Street Brighton, into high density. Nothing to do with construction quality.
Walking around say Williamstown it’s surprising how much low rise public housing there is around, I’d love one of those units, just a street back from the fabulous views across the port.

Indolent
Indolent
August 29, 2022 8:46 am
Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
August 29, 2022 8:46 am

Port Melbourne might have been a working class poor suburb back in the day, but that’s no longer the case.

I don’t recall any mention in the article about the employment status of the bruvvers.
Would they qualify if they applied today.
Nice touch that.
Hereditary titles to public housing.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
August 29, 2022 8:47 am

HIllary, meantime, whisked all sorts of classified material freely around the internet.

As the ad says, what’s the password again? It’s ‘Hack Me’.

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
August 29, 2022 8:49 am

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Bearesays:
August 29, 2022 at 8:18 am

What it refutes, Timothy, is your particular stated suggestion that I lack comprehension skills.

What an own goal!
Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to identify any comment of mine where I “stated” that you “lack comprehension skills”.
In fact all my comments that referred to your claim that your comprehension skills are “excellent” were merely inviting you to consider why you frequently wrongly assume others are talking about you, or were saying that the “excellent” claim was self-aggrandising. (And note I expressly said that self-aggrandising and true aren’t mutually exclusive.)
Of course if you fail to identify such a comment by me, that failure may be taken into account by anyone appraising that claim to excellence.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
August 29, 2022 8:50 am

I see it has come out that Trump took boxes containing classified documents with him on international travel, leaving them in unsecured hotel rooms.

No he didn’t Monty.
They were unclassified.
He declassified them, as per his power as US President.
If Biden reclassified them that does not change the fact that they were unclassified at the time.
I’m sure SCOTUS will have something to say about reclassifying unclassified documents.
When they get a round tuit.

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
August 29, 2022 8:51 am

Some who might have had similar life experiences and who regularly comment on them using personal anecdote include JC, Calli, Vicki, Megan, RickW, both Bruces, Jupes and a whole host of others including, of course, Johanna.

Are you seriously suggesting that any of those people parade supposed praiseworthy qualities or accomplishments in anything like the way, and with anything like the monotonous regularity, that you do?
Maybe we can let others judge that, rather than you needing to respond.

lotocoti
lotocoti
August 29, 2022 8:51 am

I don’t know, but I’ve been told Trump took a Trident warhead bus with him on international travel, leaving it in unsecured hotel rooms.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
August 29, 2022 8:52 am

Hereditary titles to public housing.

Used to happen all the time. When I lived in the Rocks area in the early 1960’s while doing my matric at Sydney Tech the whole area was inhabited by people who had inherited their public housing there, either as waterside workers or descendants of them. This whole area was under the control then of the Maritime Services Board who were in bed with the local Labour League, later the Labor Party. Some of the larger houses had to been re-leased and sub-leased so much that it was impossible for an outsider to unravel the connections. I leased a basement room in a terrace that was on a reno show the other day where the properties now go for ten million bucks.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
August 29, 2022 8:54 am

Jaesus, that little brain gremlin is running amok with my typing fingers today.
Sorry for the errors in transmission.

m0nty
August 29, 2022 8:54 am

So whilst travelling, the hotel room of the President of the United States is unsecured, and a thoroughfare for randoms?

Former president. This is all about after he left the office.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
August 29, 2022 8:55 am

Those Canadian doctors just can’t stop boostering themselves to death, can they?

Deaths among doctors recorded in
2019: 35. In 2020, 246. In 2021, a
mind-blowing 393.

Why, why, why that’s an 1100% increase in the death rate!!! Clearly jab related – 2020 is an obvious statistical outlier that can safely be ignored.

Surely that must be repeated in the wider jabbed population. UNLESS the UN/WEF has had its hands on the data…

rosie
rosie
August 29, 2022 8:55 am

Yes Sancho there were interesting aspects to that article.
Grandmother arrived in Australia in the early 80s, yet she clearly lived somewhere else, as well, as they claimed she returned to die there in 2019.

Dot
Dot
August 29, 2022 9:01 am

21 under par to win a major is very good golf.

Interesting to see what z-score that is compared to par and other winners.

Bradman was about six-seven s.d. from average IIRC, the next closest was Babe Ruth, but by only three s.d. from his peers.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 29, 2022 9:02 am

Daily Mail.

Can you believe this shish?! Man ENRAGES animal rights activists by calmly eating kebab in front of them as they spill gallons of fake blood outside Dior, Louis Vuitton and Nike stores during protest

A man was filmed eating a shish kebab in front of the Nike store in New York City on Saturday, where PETA was protesting the use of animal products
A woman then confronted him and called him a ‘coward,’ saying she is not going to do anything to him because ‘you’re going to die on your own’
The video then cuts to another woman berating the man, asking him if it feels ‘f***** good’ to eat the shish kebab in front of vegans
She told him he has ‘all the blood on your face and on your hands’
The video has now been viewed over 564,200 times, garnering more than 16,800 likes on Twitter
Do you know who the kebab man is? Send an email to [email protected]

Dot
Dot
August 29, 2022 9:03 am

I couldn’t break 39 on a par 36 nine hole round. My best ever IIRC was 119 for 27 holes.

Then you have to factor in the pro tees are set far back from the mens tees.

Dot
Dot
August 29, 2022 9:06 am

LOL

Played a while back on school run course. I play maybe once a year!?

IIRC, I got 56-60 on the front nine and ~39 on the back nine. Think I got 95 or 99 all up.

Club pro thought I had MPD or schizophrenia.

Dot
Dot
August 29, 2022 9:06 am

Could have even been 66 and 39!

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
August 29, 2022 9:07 am

vaccine-induced inflammation can cause grave organ damage, especially in vessels, sometimes with deadly outcome.

From Indolent’s link.
It may be worth pointing out that this has been known about Covid vaxxes since their first introduction. Think of the Astra-Zenica issues, with it being withdrawn in Europe for a while. This was always considered part of the ‘acceptable’ death and morbidity rate given the death rate believed to be from Covid. What was ignored was that it was mainly only older people whom Covid knocked off. And the lingering presence of the spike protein was something that was at first denied, and later ignored.

I am still very agnostic on the issue of the death rate balance of vaxxes vs harms. More population studies that disambiguate a range of factors need to be forthcoming and also tested against particular circulating variants of Covid at any given time. My personal experience has been that with two shots of AZ, a very mild dose of Covid, and one booster of Novavax, I have as an eighty year old been well protected and can travel freely. I admit that my protection may simply have been chimeric and I would have been fine anyway. I don’t think the data is good enough yet to tell, although Hairy, watching a lot of Mark Steyn on GB news, wants to disagree with me on that. The fact that the vaxxes themselves cause any deaths at all has always been an issue.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
August 29, 2022 9:08 am

Pogriasays:
August 29, 2022 at 8:43 am

+++

Nursing and paramedic are very much better off with hands on as early and as often as possible. Under guidance but far better suited to an apprenticeship than a book learning process.
My niece swapped from nursing 92nd year0 to becoming a fixed plant fitter partially because of the WA government refusing to grantee graduates a job.
So with a nursing shortage the mongs say to the newest cohort ‘we only might put you on”..
Drs go through a massive amount of practical placements before they are unleashed, and nothing beats knowledge plus experience.

Mater
August 29, 2022 9:10 am

Former president. This is all about after he left the office.

Ever seen the security for a former President?
I have.

rosie
rosie
August 29, 2022 9:10 am

What is particularly pathetic about the Canadian Doctors! nonsense is that it was triggered by a cluster of three deaths at Trillium, only one of whom was an actual ‘young doctor’ and all three after long battles with different types of cancer.
Cluster of Physician Deaths at Canadian Hospital Spurs Misinfo Campaign

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
August 29, 2022 9:11 am

Nursing and paramedic are very much better off with hands on as early and as often as possible. Under guidance but far better suited to an apprenticeship than a book learning process.

Both doctors and nurses who I know agree.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
August 29, 2022 9:14 am

Oh, and on travel, I would just like to make it quite clear that in March 2020 Hairy and I travelled without any expectation of either special treatment or that ‘someone’ would rescue us (which Sancho seems to feel we relied upon; not so). In fact, being dumped in Mexico from our cruise, we forged our own way, and still were unconcerned enough to enjoy a holiday with my rellies in Louisiana (which I hope in October to repeat, sadly sans my lovely old aunt, who checked out just before her centenary party). We returned to Australia within the period nominated by the Australian Government in order to not be locked out, and we paid our own fares (at extortionate rates). Luckily we arrived two days before hotel quarantine was introduced so could go home and relax there.

In June 2020 Quadrant published an article I wrote about that trip and those times. Written in April/May when I was under extreme fire here, it expressed my concerns re the hype around this unfolding ‘pandemic’ as well as standing record for one experience of it.

feelthebern
feelthebern
August 29, 2022 9:14 am

Clearing out the old junk folder this morning.
Somehow this ended up in there.

Moderna Sues Pfizer and BioNTech, Alleging Infringement of MRNA Patents
Moderna is suing rival Covid vaccine makers Pfizer and BioNTech, alleging their shot infringed on key patents involving mRNA technology.

I thought we were all in this together.

struth
struth
August 29, 2022 9:16 am

Look at the denialism.
It’s incredible to witness.
You must be aghast at what you are witnessing indolent.
Jabbed deaths through the roof ALREADY and the jabbed don’t want to know.
Even some of the unjabbed refuse to believe as they obviously have loved ones who took it

miltonf
miltonf
August 29, 2022 9:18 am

Every time the fat creep starts carrying on about Donald Trump, it demonstrates it’s just a shrill for billionaires, big business, the mafia and the Washington war machine. A useful idiot with a barely disguised hatred and contempt for ordinary working people.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
August 29, 2022 9:20 am

Those concerns, btw, turned out to be well-founded.
In October 2020 I signed the Great Barrington Declaration as a qualified person with an MPH.

Rabzie darling, I know I am a little scatty at times, ‘flights of fancy’, lol, but not given to untruths. So all of the kerfuffle about my travels at that time, killing my elderly releatives being on part of it (which Calli later did say were at least paid for with our own money), were well justified by later events.
We took a risk, a gamble, but that is me and Hairy. He was a risk-taker marrying me, lol. And I have always grabbed at life with both hands, and am still clinging on tight. lol again.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
August 29, 2022 9:23 am

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Bearesays:

August 29, 2022 at 8:52 am

Hereditary titles to public housing.

Used to happen all the time. When I lived in the Rocks area

Rosie already cited that example upthread, but it isn’t common.
And nor should it be.
Public housing is for those who can’t afford private rental housing right now.
Not a free ride for second and third generations and beyond.

Big_Nambas
Big_Nambas
August 29, 2022 9:24 am

Hope all the gerbil warming sheeple enjoyed the climate church yesterday, here is their future.

What does the ‘inevitable’ wind and solar transition look like? Try power-starved Britain, where power prices are out of control, with much, much worse to come.

Last October, the average annual energy bill was £1,400 ($2,400). Energy industry analyst Cornwall Insight forecasts that the British price cap will skyrocket and the average annual bill will reach £3,582 ($6,177) in October this year. By January, it predicts it will be £5,000 (almost $10,000) a year.

Boambee John
Boambee John
August 29, 2022 9:25 am

m0ntysays:
August 29, 2022 at 8:54 am
So whilst travelling, the hotel room of the President of the United States is unsecured, and a thoroughfare for randoms?

Former president. This is all about after he left the office.

m0nty-fa

He still gets Secret Service protection.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
August 29, 2022 9:26 am

It’s possible that any of us could be accused of overuse of the perpendicular pronoun.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
August 29, 2022 9:27 am

I’m getting older. Yesterday doing some concreting, mixing by hand. I never would have survived the Gulags. Daughter on the other hand loves it, can’t get enough hard work. Mental during the week, manual in the weekend. She is a slave driver. We always end up doing 3 or 4 times what we, well me, was going to do. She is such a treasure.

Big_Nambas
Big_Nambas
August 29, 2022 9:28 am

Vicki says:
August 28, 2022 at 3:08 pm

Re, I think – Big Nambas – about the ability of foxes to climb:

Not me any fox I see has two legs!

feelthebern
feelthebern
August 29, 2022 9:29 am

If you build the fox boudoir, you won’t have to catch them.
There will be a line up.

H B Bear
H B Bear
August 29, 2022 9:29 am

The verdict in the Chris Dawson murder trial should be interesting. Should never comment unless you have been in the courtroom for the whole trial but from the various media reports there might be a few disappointed people around. Teh Paywallian reports indicated it had been knocked back by the DPP twice.

feelthebern
feelthebern
August 29, 2022 9:30 am

Dawson will be Australia’s OJ.

Franx
Franx
August 29, 2022 9:32 am

Timothy N, upon consideration, Lizzie’s commentaries when they involve herself are very much just that, about herself, free of duplicitous or of allusory subtexts. Not so many of the rest of us who feature ourselves favourably in ways far more subtle, that is to say, subtle as in so thing like shady.

Franx
Franx
August 29, 2022 9:33 am

something

H B Bear
H B Bear
August 29, 2022 9:33 am

It’s possible that any of us could be accused of overuse of the perpendicular pronoun

At the end of the day all you are left with is your personality and experiences. I’ll leave it at that.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
August 29, 2022 9:38 am

Former president. This is all about after he left the office.

M0nts, it has always been a convention of respect for the Office to call any former President by the title of President still. No ‘former’ needs to be added.
As with many things to do with Trump, the MSM and Democrats refuse to follow precedent, all part of their aim to de-legitimate and destroy him.

H B Bear
H B Bear
August 29, 2022 9:40 am

Dawson will be Australia’s OJ.

As Jackie Chiles says,”If the glove don’t fit, you must acquit.”

rosie
rosie
August 29, 2022 9:40 am

“Not so many of the rest of us who feature ourselves favourably in ways far more subtle, that is to say, subtle as in so thing like shady”
Clearly speaking only for yourself.

feelthebern
feelthebern
August 29, 2022 9:40 am

It’s possible that any of us could be accused of overuse of the perpendicular pronoun.

Which one?
Or should I drink more coffee & re-read the thread?

feelthebern
feelthebern
August 29, 2022 9:43 am

The bigger villain(s) with this Dawson case are the plod who did jack shit to pursue the case when it was fresh.

Roger
Roger
August 29, 2022 9:44 am

The UK energy regulator has raised the retail price cap by 80% from October, which will see the average monthly bill rise to c. $600.

As if that wasn’t enough pain for households to bear, economists suggest the move could help drive inflation to 18% by the new year.

m0nty
August 29, 2022 9:45 am

Lizzie, the answer is no, I don’t trust Trump to keep those documents secure. Particularly when he has them in his hands. The story during the Tump administration about how CIA assets were being compromised at an alarmingly high rate comes to mind.

calli
calli
August 29, 2022 9:46 am

The “perpendicular pronoun” is “I”.

Accused of over-using it, had a lot of fun for a few days commenting without it. Dead easy.

Naturally, “we” is already taken by royalty. These days there is a slew of the things to mine. Personal favourite being “xi”.

feelthebern
feelthebern
August 29, 2022 9:48 am

TIL learned that it was Carter in 1978 that deregulated where US carriers were allowed to fly to.
It was on a twitter thread where a chap was blaming Reagan for his current flight delays over the Labour Day long weekend.
The current airline issues have dozens of parents, but I did not know about Carter’s participation.

Rabz
August 29, 2022 9:50 am

A couple of thoughts about electrickery, or the soon to be complete lack of it.

Saw that numbskull bowen on the telly crapping on about nuclear being the most expensive form of electrickery. This was shortly before an ad from the ETU basically stating “the more wind and solar that are installed into the grid, the cheaper electrickery will be”. Clearly, people are imagining that their bills are increasing at a phenomenal rate.

I’m not sure that a lot of people out in voterland have twigged to the real agenda of the greenfilth and the WEF types – that is, there will be no access for the majority to cheap reliable electrickery (or ideally in their view, any electrickery at all). In the meantime, we have labore and those ridiculous turkeys in the gliberal party falling over themselves to destroy what remains of our energy generating capacity.

The ultimate agenda is to impoverish us all, make us completely dependent on the state and reduce us to mere vassals with no ability to ever better ourselves. All the while being tracked by a monstrous new global surveillance apparatus that not even Orwell could have envisaged. A dystopian hell that I want absolutely no part of.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
August 29, 2022 9:51 am

allusory subtexts

Thankx Franx. (I loved saying that with deliberate kisses there!)

Everyone has a few allusory sub-texts here and there, but mostly if I want to say diamonds I say diamonds. That’s because, one, I do have a few, signals of Hairy’s love, and two, because I enjoy a good wind up as much as the next man (even ‘tho I’m a woman and isn’t this where cliches let us down?) and that is very naughty of me I know. Back in the day, at Sinc’s Cat, I used to do it more just to get Johanna riled up – but she started it, the attacks on me, because she was stupid enough to bite. The class envy (a real enough phenomenon) and the attacks re my body (your tits will sag, he’ll leave you as you age etc) were hilarious. As are the hystical attacks on my persona and life-style (which is real enough) continuing on here.

My feeling today is to tell them all to go hit JC about his Real Estate porn and tasselled loafers.
I bet they don’t dare though. Easier to swipe a little old lady for rumaging in her handbag.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
August 29, 2022 9:52 am

You must be aghast at what you are witnessing indolent.
Jabbed deaths through the roof ALREADY and the jabbed don’t want to know.

OK. One quick dive.

Official Government reports prove COVID-19 Vaccination is causing mass Depopulation; & Confidential Pfizer Docs. prove your Government knew it would happen

Evidence of Depopulation
Official Government reports prove 1 in every 73 Covid-19 vaccinated people were sadly dead by the end of May 2022;

The Expose calculation:

All Cause deaths amongst the vaccinated, Jan 2021 to May 2022: 606,537 [ONS]

Therefore, based on the fact that 44.48 million people had received at least one dose of a Covid-19 vaccine in England, and 606,537 deaths among the vaccinated, this equates to 1 in every 73 Covid-19 vaccinated people having sadly died by the end of May 2022.

Evidence “COVID-19 Vaccination is causing mass Depopulation“?
Obvious, deliberate bullshit: unless you pretend to believe that everyone in England has given up dying from old age, cancer, heart attacks, car crashes – anything other than Covid vaccination.

Steve Kirsch: same category.

URGENT: JUST 2 DAYS REMAIN TO SAVE THE EXPOSE AND KEEP US ONLINE – Less than 0.1% of our readers support us…

feelthebern
feelthebern
August 29, 2022 9:55 am

Thanks calli.
“I” is good.
Enjoy your travels.
When I travel I make a note in my phone about every coffee I consume.
Total nerd behaviour.
It’s odd how often when reading through the notes how few coffees I drink when on holidays & how many are are along the lines of “location” cappuccino burnt expensive.

Roger
Roger
August 29, 2022 10:01 am

Saw that numbskull bowen on the telly crapping on about nuclear being the most expensive form of electrickery.

A recent survey of South Australians found >60% were open to nuclear power as they thought the eastern grid would become less reliable in the future.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
August 29, 2022 10:05 am

Saw that numbskull bowen on the telly crapping on about nuclear being the most expensive form of electrickery.

No, no, Rabzie, you’ve got it wrong.
He is talking about something else altogether there.
He is talking about Nookoolar.
Everybody knows that Nookoolar energy is no good.
Those Nookoolar thingos are just like Juliar’s black balloons.
Floating around in the atmosphere full of expensive badness.
He’ll have a pic of them out next to show us, just like Juliar did.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
August 29, 2022 10:08 am

Bear at 9:29.
When you look at it objectively, there is no body, no other physical evidence of any kind and thirty year old circumstantial evidence, none of which involves Dawson fessing up to anyone.
There are parallels with the Pell case here.
– No real hard evidence.
– No credible eyewitnesses.
– Well aged circumstantial evidence.
– A zealous journalist with an enthralled audience.
– An accused who might be considered abrasive and unlikable by some.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
August 29, 2022 10:10 am

Dawson will be Australia’s OJ.

If found not guilty, will he dedicate himself to finding the real killer?

132andBush
132andBush
August 29, 2022 10:11 am

The 11 secret herbs’n spice’s and the Coca Cola recipe are still safe, Monty.

Calm down.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
August 29, 2022 10:12 am

how CIA assets were being compromised at an alarmingly high rate comes to mind.

That would include CIA agents like the moe than forty of the retired ones who barracked for Biden’s laptop as ‘Russian disinformation’ would it, M0nty?

m0nty
August 29, 2022 10:13 am

That would include CIA agents like the moe than forty of the retired ones who barracked for Biden’s laptop as ‘Russian disinformation’ would it, M0nty?

Well no, since we’rte talking about agents in the field.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
August 29, 2022 10:14 am

Saw that numbskull bowen on the telly crapping on about nuclear being the most expensive form of electrickery.

Once built, nuclear generation is comparatively low cost. This cost structure is reflected throughout the world.

Someone slightly smarter than Shitweasel Bowen would recognise that Australia could buy an entire full-cycle nuclear industry – mining/processing/fuel/generation/waste recycling and management – for slightly less that the evil fuckers are planning to spend on renewables and infrastructure that will last ~10-15 years.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 29, 2022 10:14 am

Are you selling McDonald’s’: Albanese’s PR stunt with Shaquille O‘Neal questioned

theaustralian.com.au07:35

By Hamish Spence
NCA NewsWire
8 minutes ago August 29, 2022

Nationals Minister Barnaby Joyce has slammed Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s polarising decision to conduct a press conference with Shaquille O‘Neal over the weekend.

The towering 216cm NBA legend briefly joined Mr Albanese and Indigenous Australians Minister Linda Burney on Saturday to talk about the referendum on the Indigenous Voice to parliament.

The Prime Minister said Mr O’Neal had requested a meeting while in Sydney to learn about the issue.

But the fallout from the press conference has been mixed, with many questioning the four-time NBA champion’s relevance to the debate and the reason for the media call after the star did not verbally lend his support.

Mr Joyce questioned how the move could inspire anything but “cynicism” in Australians.

“Are you selling McDonald’s or changing the Constitution,” the former deputy prime minister told Sunrise on Monday.

“Why have you got an American basketball star standing at the podium about 10 feet taller than Anthony Albanese – what’s this about?

“Why are we having a multi-millionaire American basketball star over here to talk about how we run our Constitution … how could (Labor) possibly think that would do anything but inspire cynicism?

“I saw it as he is their Prince Philip moment.”

The NBA legend only appeared briefly at the start of the press conference and did not take any questions from the media before quickly leaving.

But Labor Minister Tanya Plibersek defended the government’s move, citing Mr O’Neal’s importance as a “strong voice” for the black lives matter movement in the US.

“It’s a sign the referendum for a constitutional recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander is something that is important for Australians and something the world will be observing as well,” she said.

My Joyce was not the only prominent parliamentary figure to criticise the government’s move after Country Liberals Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price called the Prime Minister’s “PR stunt” “clueless and out of touch”.

“If the PM and Minister for Indigenous Australians think Shaq’s experience with “lifting people up who are marginalised” is the answer to winning votes for the Voice then it demonstrates just how clueless and out of touch they both are with what the needs of Aboriginal Australians are,” she wrote on Sunday.

“I’ve no doubt Shaq’s a top bloke but it’s a bit insulting to call on a black American to help with black Australians as if this is all about the colour of one’s skin.”

Ms Plibersek said Ms Price was “entitled to her view”, but again defended the government’s move.

“It’s not surprising that the world is looking at Australia at this important moment in our history and saying it would be great if First Nations Australians were able to speak up about the policies that affect their lives with a constitutionally enshrined voice,” she said.

“I think Shaquille O‘Neal brings a lot of style, power and attention to an important issue.”

Mr Joyce then questioned why the government did not use Patty Mills, a fellow NBA champion who led Australia to its first ever international medal in men’s basketball at last year’s Olympics.

His support for Indigenous issues and advocacy for change is also well known.

Mr O’Neal only gave brief and vague comments at the start of the press conference and did not explicitly address the Indigenous Voice to parliament.

“I’m here in your country, whatever you need from me, just let me know,” he said.

“We all know Shaq loves Australia.”

Ms Burney later said he had told them it was an “important” and “noble task”.

Boambee John
Boambee John
August 29, 2022 10:16 am

m0ntysays:
August 29, 2022 at 9:45 am
Lizzie, the answer is no, I don’t trust Trump to keep those documents secure. Particularly when he has them in his hands. The story during the Tump administration about how CIA assets were being compromised at an alarmingly high rate comes to mind.

m0nty-fa

You don’t trust Trump? What business is it of yours?

Details and evidence on the CIA assertions, or is it the usual “chatter on lefty websites” ?

m0nty
August 29, 2022 10:18 am

“I saw it as he is their Prince Philip moment.”

Good to see Tony Abbott being used as the gold standard against which all other cluelessness is judged.

Eyrie
Eyrie
August 29, 2022 10:18 am

Why, why, why that’s an 1100% increase in the death rate!!!
It is a good idea to read the article before commenting. The 35 was for only part of the year. The real number was 170. Still shows a large increase and the worrying thing is the age profile of the deaths now vs previously.

rosie
rosie
August 29, 2022 10:25 am

Saw a Shaq interview with Ellen a few months aho?
A couple of things.
His children were not allowed to date until sons were eighteen and daughters were twenty-five and there was
‘No cheese* without two degrees’ rule.
Suspect if African Americans fathere followed his example, there might be more African American, for starters.
*money

MatrixTransform
August 29, 2022 10:26 am

The Crazy Old Mole just told me she’ll vote for Dan when he starts giving away free Golden Retrievers

rickw
rickw
August 29, 2022 10:26 am

Put nursing training back into the Hospitals where it belongs.

This is true for a lot of University courses. Half of them shouldn’t exist, the other half should be back at Tafe or specialist colleges with large amounts of on the job training.

struth
struth
August 29, 2022 10:26 am

So sad for you Dr F.

Aggressive denialism isn’t anything against the truth.

The overall death rates of well jabinated countries is through the roof.
Hairy’s starting to clue into it watching Mark Steyn etc while poor Lizzie clutches at straws.

The overall death rates went through the roof…and are climbing….after sheeple got jabbed.
Solid hard fact.
We are only into the first year or so.
And the new deaths are from the working age groups predominately. …as old die anyway.
If you are brainwashed and in denial these hard facts will be scoffed at.
Where’s choo choo?

Roger
Roger
August 29, 2022 10:27 am

Ms Plibersek said…“It’s not surprising that the world is looking at Australia at this important moment in our history…”

Since this is the new Labor mantra on the inVoice, one would have to conclude that the polling shows most Australians either remain unconvinced by the merits of the proposal or are simply uninterested.

Shift to Plan B – exploit the fear of being seen as racist hicks by furriners.

lotocoti
lotocoti
August 29, 2022 10:27 am

I don’t trust Trump to keep those documents secure. Particularly when he has them in his hands.

Any idea how many files he could carry in those notoriously small hands?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
August 29, 2022 10:27 am

The excessive use of the first person singular.
Or the constant reference to the second person plural.
Which is worser, you lot?

Shy Ted
Shy Ted
August 29, 2022 10:29 am

Not quite right about nurses (and others) training. It’s so geared now towards diversity that they take on for training many people who, on paper, have no chance, being short of the 3 R’s, who also have special mentoring programs to assist a pass. In my experience the mentors do the work so the quota is met, even though it isn’t in any practical sense. It’s quite tough these days for the genuine with accommodation, a job to help pay the way, general costs of to and from uni and then the shock of actual nursing, accurately described above. Some of it is just awful. Others get their tuition and expenses paid completely and with many a “deferred pass” until the mentor can get their shot together to do the work. So there’s a “pass” but every man and his dog knows it isn’t really and, so, off to a job in research or academia or other non-clinical position and a lifetime of adding to the CV, creating a complete illusion of expertise. It’s not just Abstudy but a host of similar non-repayable “loans” for drug addicts and the mentally ill (and more).
Some of the capable drop out due to the challenges, the diverse remain on never ending deferments until they “pass” and have a lifelong career in non-nursing nursing and having their vast non-experience influence policy based on their dubious “research”. Good money, too. Drop out rate close to 0%.
No joke but I one day accidentally read a letter from a psychiatrist to AHPRA which basically said “Freddo has a florid schizophrenic illness which does not respond to treatment and is exacerbated by illicit drug use. It is not foreseeable he will ever be able to complete his studies or take up a position in the profession of nursing. As such I feel he should be removed from the register”. AHPRA wrote back, “we value the lived experience Freddo brings to the profession and cannot agree that he will not be able to turn his life around at some point, complete his studies and enter the profession. As such he remains on the register until that time”.
So he’s still on the education and practice register and that means someone who would do well can’t sign up. Back in the day the drop out (kicked out) rate was about 8%. These days, among the genuine, as far as I can interpret the fudged figures, the drop out rate is >20%.
As I remember, back in 1982, having rocked up at the hospital, done 6 weeks prep in “school” and spent my first few hours on the wards doing the absolute basics, thought “WTF have I done?” On day 2 when I emptied my first drain, “I’m not coming back tomorrow”. But I did.

miltonf
miltonf
August 29, 2022 10:30 am

The poisonous grub seems to be a bit of expert on DJT.

Roger
Roger
August 29, 2022 10:31 am

This is true for a lot of University courses. Half of them shouldn’t exist, the other half should be back at Tafe or specialist colleges with large amounts of on the job training.

It would be easier to shut down the ABC than roll back the Dawkins education revolution.

feelthebern
feelthebern
August 29, 2022 10:31 am

It’s good to see Shaq’s business acumen being displayed.
Free advertising for his Australian partners.
His business empire in the US is well known.
Less well know is that he made (allegedly) $US30mill to play with LSU which was what set him up.

MatrixTransform
August 29, 2022 10:34 am

https://michaelsmithnews.typepad.com/.a/6a0177444b0c2e970d02a2eed2c9ab200d-pi

what IS she holding

… I hope it isn’t a replica

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
August 29, 2022 10:42 am

no, I don’t trust Trump to keep those documents secure

Monty is afraid that Trump can’t keep boxes of newspapers secure.

And in 3..2..1 monty will respond with the fun excuse the FBI came up with for this photo… 😀

(via Surber)

Roger
Roger
August 29, 2022 10:43 am

Typical Labor incompetence…forgot to take the price tag off the footy jersey.

lotocoti
lotocoti
August 29, 2022 10:44 am

Hmmm.
Alleged journalist.
Alleged upper middle class.
Alleged deep understanding of the handling of classified materials.
Alleged concern for the security of field agents.
Starting to get Graham Greene-ish Increment vibes.

Delta A
Delta A
August 29, 2022 10:50 am

Ms Plibersek said…“It’s not surprising that the world is looking at Australia at this important moment in our history…”

Tell ‘er she’s dreamin’.

rickw
rickw
August 29, 2022 10:52 am
Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
August 29, 2022 10:53 am

what IS she holding

… I hope it isn’t a replica

As Bill Lawry would say “Got him!”

rickw
rickw
August 29, 2022 10:53 am

looking at Australia at this important moment in our history…

And wondering WTF.

duncanm
duncanm
August 29, 2022 10:53 am

Monkeypox, the pandemic of the unvaginated.

https://twitter.com/MT_Headed406/status/1562277123758338048

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
August 29, 2022 10:58 am

Why, why, why that’s an 1100% increase in the death rate!!!

It is a good idea to read the article before commenting. The 35 was for only part of the year. The real number was 170. Still shows a large increase and the worrying thing is the age profile of the deaths now vs previously.

I was commenting on the mind-blowing Gee Whiz ‘statistics’ – exactly as presented in Kirsch’s piece.

In terms of justifying his strong statement: “Over 30 deaths of young, healthy Canadian doctors cannot be explained any other way than they were killed by the vaccine“, Kirsch doesn’t get that much better:

But the 2019 numbers are misleading because it reflects only part of 2019. The full number was probably around 170 for the year. So the number of doctor deaths in 2021 seems to be about double normal…

So, we’re now working with a new set of statistics: “probably around 170 for the year” (of similarly indeterminate age), presumably plucked from Kirsch’s secret database;

And, ignoring any continuation of the cause of the apparent 45% increase in doctor deaths from 2019 [170?] to 2020 [246?], which presumably also can’t be “explained any other way than they were killed by the vaccine” – despite the fact of no vaccine rollout until mid-December 2020.

This is not a serious analysis.

But, if Kirsch floats your boat as a Trusted Blogger, go with him.
He’s probably better than the scum at the Daily Expose.

H B Bear
H B Bear
August 29, 2022 11:06 am

Ms Plibersek said…“It’s not surprising that the world is looking at Australia at this important moment in our history…”

The second least effective argument after “Won’t somebody think of the children”.

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
August 29, 2022 11:07 am

No joke but I one day accidentally read a letter from a psychiatrist to AHPRA which basically said “Freddo has a florid schizophrenic illness which does not respond to treatment and is exacerbated by illicit drug use. It is not foreseeable he will ever be able to complete his studies or take up a position in the profession of nursing. As such I feel he should be removed from the register”. AHPRA wrote back, “we value the lived experience Freddo brings to the profession and cannot agree that he will not be able to turn his life around at some point, complete his studies and enter the profession. As such he remains on the register until that time”.

Should have told them that Freddo questioned the covid vaxx or said Ivermectin and zinc was worth pursuing.

m0nty
August 29, 2022 11:09 am

Yes lotocoti, I am in deep cover. You rumbled me.

lotocoti
lotocoti
August 29, 2022 11:11 am
Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
August 29, 2022 11:17 am

The overall death rates went through the roof…and are climbing….after sheeple got jabbed. Solid hard fact.

But not.

Aside from Covid deaths, English excess deaths are dominated by cancer and ischemic heart disease. The official analysis is that this is the result of lockdowns and functional shutdown of the NHS.

It goes without saying that this narrative and these statistics have been altered to cover up the fingerprints of Klaus Schwab and the WEF.
Obviously.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
August 29, 2022 11:34 am

Dr Faustus.
Don’t be comin’ in here with your fancy-pants book learnin’ logic and facts.
I have trusted sources on the innernet who seem both convinced and convincing.
And they are bravely fighting on, despite only having [3] days before the money runs out.

Dot
Dot
August 29, 2022 11:35 am

I don’t trust Trump…

Okay chief but Biden is demonstrably senile.

Senility vs personal dislike.

Remember, the President is in charge of the launch codes.

shatterzzz
August 29, 2022 11:37 am

As I am getting older I do notice that my brain to fingers typing is becoming a little disoriented.
Some of it is that my computer inserts in the wrong place,

Happens to me quite often .. LOL! .. usually amazed at how often I spot the problem(s) just as I press “enter” .. and too late to correct ..!

caveman
caveman
August 29, 2022 11:39 am

Elbow the race baiter.

Arky
August 29, 2022 11:44 am

Given the way the data is being tortured, I don’t think you can draw conclusions one way or tother.
E.g, from UK government website, on birth registrations:

Birth registration services in England and Wales were temporarily suspended in March 2020. From June 2020 registration services restarted where it was safe to do so. In 2020, 42% of registrations came in after 42 days (the usual legal limit) and in 2021, 26% came in after 42 days. Therefore, we decided to include all births registered up to 12 August 2021 in the 2020 dataset and all births up to 15 May 2022 in the 2021 dataset, to ensure that our birth statistics are as complete as possible and comparable with previous years. For more information, please see our Births in England and Wales explained: 2020 article and our User guide to birth statistics methodology.

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/livebirths/bulletins/birthsummarytablesenglandandwales/2021

Big_Nambas
Big_Nambas
August 29, 2022 11:45 am

MatrixTransform says:
August 29, 2022 at 10:34 am

https://michaelsmithnews.typepad.com/.a/6a0177444b0c2e970d02a2eed2c9ab200d-pi

what IS she holding

… I hope it isn’t a replica

It’s a dead dingo’s donga!!!

Arky
August 29, 2022 11:47 am

Therefore, we decided to include all births registered up to 12 August 2021 in the 2020 dataset and all births up to 15 May 2022 in the 2021 dataset

!!!

Arky
August 29, 2022 11:50 am

A lot of this stuff is starting to look like the sort of “adjustments” they do to the temperature records.

feelthebern
feelthebern
August 29, 2022 11:56 am

TIL the Swans victory song is from Notre Dame in the US.
I’m not sure if the progressives at the Swans should associate with such a hot bed of toxic masculinity.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
August 29, 2022 11:56 am

A lot of this stuff is starting to look like the sort of “adjustments” they do to the temperature records.

Yes. There’s a similar underlying ideological driving force for both.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
August 29, 2022 11:56 am

The only deep cover for the fat freak is one of Therese Rudds tents. Go have a box or 10 of Krispy Kremes.

Speedbox
August 29, 2022 11:58 am

calli says:
August 29, 2022 at 8:17 am
Rosie, we cancelled our Japan holiday in cherry blossom season next year for that reason. ……must be killing Japanese tour operators,

My eldest daughter and five of her friends have been planning to go to Japan since the beginning of this year. Watching, planning, discussing the trip and covid restrictions etc. Anyway, they abandoned the holiday a couple of weeks ago – going to France instead.

Your changed plans and those of my daughter (and friends) would be just the tiniest tip of a very large iceberg. Being an inbound tour operator not to mention airlines, hotels etc in Japan must be a depressing role at the moment.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
August 29, 2022 11:58 am

Munty is so stupid he thought they were lunch codes.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
August 29, 2022 12:00 pm

Very good look at the energy crisis in the UK.
https://thecritic.co.uk/british-energy-planning-a-horror-story/

Does this mob remind you of any similar Australian ‘institutes”??

At the same time the government was forcing civil servants to fudge the figures, it was also busy channelling money to experts likely to give it the thumbs up. Enter the Climate Change Committee (CCC) — a quango staffed by activists, tasked with advising the government on energy planning.

When figures needed to be found, the CCC was more than happy to supply “independent advice”. Last year, after a lengthy court battle with an activist group, the Committee, was forced to reveal the basis for the wind energy estimates it had supplied the government. As it turns out, they had assumed that annual windless days would drop by 2,000 per cent, even though scientists predict that windless days will become more frequent. When asked for their reasoning, the CCC refused to clarify. In short: the UK Government had based its wind energy strategy on falsehoods.

Shockingly, the revelation didn’t even make the 8 o’clock news. Presumably motivated by a desire to avoid bad PR, the government didn’t pursue any lawsuits and continues to cite the CCC as a model of good governance. In a sign no lessons were learned, the new Energy Bill would give control of energy planning to a CCC-esque “Independent System Operator and Planner” (ISOP), with a statutory duty to promote net zero.

shatterzzz
August 29, 2022 12:02 pm

Hereditary titles to public housing.
Used to happen all the time. When I lived in the Rocks area
Rosie already cited that example upthread, but it isn’t common.

Don’t know where you get your “insight” in to “houso’ from but as someone who lives the life it is extremely common .. more so now than 30 years ago ‘cos the “boat-folk” have learned the tricks of the trade .. LOL!
The most common and easiest method is to move the grown-up kids and family(s) back in .. depending on the age ratio oldest/youngest .. as long as the name on the rent “book” stays the same and payments are on time you ain’t gonna be bothered by Housing .. most “boat-folk” are classed as untouchable and short of a murder conviction will never be queried .. wreck the joint .. HC will fix it .. no probs .. drug dealing equates to HC looking the other way or taking a cut .. no probs .. where I am there are 3 bedroom places with double digit occupation and never a query from HC ..
Back when I moved in the rule was parents .. 1 bedroom .. boys & girls separate rooms which is why our’s was 4 bedroom .. 3 girls, 1 boy but nowadays you, depending on “nationality” just cram as many as you like in …
Example #1 .. NSW HC has just finished a “2 month Amnesty” period .. meaning fess-up and all is forgiven .. ethnic up the street was whingeing to me about being caught out cheating on the rent (forgot to tell ’em he was working .. LOL) .. no eviction just a “naughty, naughty” and being fined the princely sum of $10 a week until the arrears are paid .. it wasn’t being caught or worrying about eviction that annoys him it’s the having to pay arrears after they promised forgiveness! .. LOL!

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
August 29, 2022 12:06 pm

Echo chamber.

Albanese to mark 100 days in office with National Press Club address (29 Aug)

A hundred days of Tory fighting and green sludge should make for a forgettable speech. Good luck writing your columns journo kids, make sure you stock up on double caff expressos and no doze beforehand.

shatterzzz
August 29, 2022 12:07 pm

Ms Plibersek said Ms Price was “entitled to her view”, but again defended the government’s move.
“It’s not surprising that the world is looking at Australia

Methix, it’s time Tanya cut back on using hubby’s product .. “the world is looking at Australia” .. LOL!

Tom
Tom
August 29, 2022 12:08 pm

Thanks, BoN at 10.42am: Don Surber’s column (“Happy Trump Day!”) on the FBI’s Keystone Coppery at Mar-a-Lago is a most entertaining read.

The Dems and their Deep State flunkies like Merrick Garland can’t help making toxic fools of themselves over and over again. It’s Trump’s special power and they’re terrified of him — with good reason.

Bring on the mid-terms!

struth
struth
August 29, 2022 12:09 pm

English deaths can be cancer or heart disease or exploding Pyles ffs.
The age groups dying are people still in the prime of life who never would have seen a doctor if they hadn’t been locked down.
That’s the age group who’s deaths have exploded by 200%.
Your fancy smansy book lernun isn’t helping you anymore

struth
struth
August 29, 2022 12:14 pm

Wondering why you’re hearing so many sirens lately?
I’m sure it’s nothing.
Where’s the heavily jabinated choo choo?

Fair Shake
Fair Shake
August 29, 2022 12:16 pm

Dawson trial. I think old Les gone done her in …but not sure the evidence provided delivered sufficient weight to beyond reasonable doubt.

Speedbox
August 29, 2022 12:21 pm

Petrol and diesel car sales to be banned in Greater Sydney within five years under new proposal

New petrol and diesel cars could be banned from sale in Sydney within the next five years if a radical plan from a think tank is given the go ahead. The Committee for Sydney, an urban policy think tank made up of a highly influential body of business leaders and infrastructure experts, has set out a series of proposals to halve carbon dioxide emissions by 2030.

The committee released its Decarbonising Sydney report on Monday unveiling plans to ban the sale of petrol and diesel cars by 2027, and gas appliances by 2030. ‘NSW’s climate policies are leading the nation, but this research is a wakeup call that Sydney’s not on track for net zero – we’ve got plenty of work to do,’ committee spokesman Sam Kernaghan said.

Diesel and petrol cars are the biggest driver of emissions in the area and should be replaced completely by electric vehicles, according to the report. A blanket ban on the petrol guzzlers would follow in the steps of the ACT, which plans to phase out all emission-producing vehicles by 2035.

Ok, these people are lunatics but we will see more of these ‘proposals’ as time passes. The Green lobby has the money and political clout to push until they get what they want. It won’t happen by 2027 as suggested in the article, but groups like this supported by other NGOs and the media are influencing a pliable political class and the changes over the next decade will be immense.

https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/petrol-and-diesel-car-sales-to-be-banned-in-greater-sydney-within-five-years-under-new-proposal/ar-AA11cOe6

struth
struth
August 29, 2022 12:22 pm

The overall deaths have skyrocketed in the countries most heavily jabinated.
Mark Steyn is of course a truck driving cowpoke from country Qld so you can dismiss him as well.
But if you’re not a snobby little bigot like Sancho of the skid mark, you might like to watch a few of his youtube vids from GB news.

Arky
August 29, 2022 12:23 pm

struth says:
August 29, 2022 at 12:14 pm

..
Again, the reliable data isn’t there.
It might never be. We might never know what happened.
I’d cool it with the predictions, also, some of the stuff being linked is pretty much worthless speculation and fear mongering.
There is enough in the fact that they have apparently now moved from “Safe and effective” to a general air of “Well, it saved many more than it harmed” to counter the idea that it should ever have been mandated.

shatterzzz
August 29, 2022 12:29 pm

Dawson trial. I think old Les gone done her in …but not sure the evidence provided delivered sufficient weight to beyond reasonable doubt.

I’m surprised they got an, actual, trial off the ground based on the “reported facts” it seems they didn’t had anything other than the “hearsay/speculation” that they had way back when ….!

struth
struth
August 29, 2022 12:31 pm

Neil Oliver.
Mark Steyn.
Candice Owens.
Alan Jones.
Rowan Dean.
George Christensen.
Malcolm Roberts.
Thousands of medical practitioners and experts in the field of vaccines.
The former heads of big Pharma.
And on the list goes.
Especially the Joooooooos.
All uneducated Queenslanders.
Dismiss the lot of them
After all…they’re not as smart as you

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
August 29, 2022 12:31 pm

that sound is goalposts shuffling off the field.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/08/26/takeaways-redacted-affidavit-trump-search/

“In addition, the FBI believed that the material contained what it calls “national defense information,” or some of the most guarded secrets. (The Washington Post has reported the government feared nuclear secrets were at Mar-a-Lago.)

Still missing… proof.
If I signed off on a search warrant (as I can as a JP) for, lets say, “1 kg of meth hidden in storeroom as reported by a witness” i could give permission to search Billy Bongsmokes whole house.
If after searching the house they find no meth and say instead “we found something suspicious, and would like to continue searching/investigating for a unspecified length of time” I will send you away and tell you not to be silly.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
August 29, 2022 12:32 pm

Speedbox, calli.
We have had Japan in our sights* since before Kung Flu, and have deferred that because there aren’t any real options apart from really tightly buttoned-up guided tours.
As for the Japanese being delighted to “get their country back”, that will be a phenomenon you see in any tourist destination.
“Good riddance to fucking tourists!” they cry.
Nek minnit … “The pricks laid off my kid from his job waiting/ maintaining holiday lets/ driving tour buses.”

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
August 29, 2022 12:33 pm

* in our sights.
In a tourism kind of way, not in an Enola Gay kind of way.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
August 29, 2022 12:34 pm

Fair Shakesays:

August 29, 2022 at 12:16 pm

Dawson trial. I think old Les gone done her in …but not sure the evidence provided delivered sufficient weight to beyond reasonable doubt.

Les?
Do you mean Chris?

struth
struth
August 29, 2022 12:36 pm

The data from the UK government and the very culprits responsible for this mass murder….this genocide….tell us.

Basically Arky, you’re trying to argue that the murderer admitting the crime should not be believed.

Entropy
Entropy
August 29, 2022 12:36 pm

How many car sales actually happen in the Sydney LGA anyway?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
August 29, 2022 12:37 pm

struthsays:

August 29, 2022 at 12:14 pm

Wondering why you’re hearing so many sirens lately?

I dunno.
People slashing their wrists after half an hour of being hectored over the PA by the troubadour at the local maybe?

Boambee John
Boambee John
August 29, 2022 12:37 pm

miltonfsays:
August 29, 2022 at 10:30 am
The poisonous grub seems to be a bit of expert on DJT.

I think that should read “claims to be”.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
August 29, 2022 12:41 pm

Wondering why you’re hearing so many sirens lately?

No. Any fool knows that’s the signal for punters to line up at the railway station, ready for transport via cattle car to *cough* the Death CamPs *splutter ahahahahaaaa*.

A reminder – here’s the immortal line, the actual quote issued forth when proven wrong (again):

Well what else would you have concluded.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
August 29, 2022 12:43 pm

Snap Mr Panzer.

Although, the sirens could also be a direction for all cows to return home and make their men sandwiches, goddamit.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
August 29, 2022 12:44 pm

Dr Faustus.
Don’t be comin’ in here with your fancy-pants book learnin’ logic and facts.

Actually, it’s the last drops of the morning flagon of McWilliams.

struth
struth
August 29, 2022 12:44 pm

Sancho the mental pygmy with another deep and thoughtfully constructed , well researched comment so typical of the uppa clarses.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
August 29, 2022 12:47 pm

First time in months idly had a look at The Australian’s website whilst eating lunch sandwich.
Erk, why would anyone bother? Inanity mixed with obsequiousness.

struth
struth
August 29, 2022 12:48 pm

Can somebody please give the mental breakdown comments of KD an uptick.
Remember. ….the little gang of sneerers. ..minus one now…..speak for all of you .
It’s the least you can do.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
August 29, 2022 12:52 pm

Can somebody please give the mental breakdown comments of KD an uptick.

Just gave you an uptick St. Ruth. That’s how it works, right?

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