1,378 thoughts on “Open Thread – Weekend 3 Sept 2022”

  1. Great offices of state set to contain no white men

    Liz Truss is preparing to appoint the first cabinet in history in which none of the great offices of state will be held by a white man.

    Though Truss, 47, will not learn if she is to be Britain’s new prime minister until today, her commanding poll leads mean she and her aides have spent weeks discussing the make-up of her cabinet.

  2. Ahahaha! The Beloved just turned on the tv and up came the History Channel.

    Yep. It’s Hitler again.

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  3. cohenite says:
    September 5, 2022 at 5:39 pm
    You should take up Cohenites offer of a hug.

    We could have a group hug. But no funny business.

    Cronkite, you’re starting to worry me now.

  4. Liz Truss is preparing to appoint the first cabinet in history in which none of the great offices of state will be held by a white man.

    It’s Terrie May all over again.

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  5. Rabzsays:
    September 5, 2022 at 5:12 pm
    Never let this mighty achievement be forgotten. Dai Le has finally killed the mad yank cow’s political career (if it could be dignified with such a term) stone cold dead.

    I doubt it. She’ll be parachuted into some other Labor senate seat – to then lose (or fail to win).

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  6. I doubt it. She’ll be parachuted into some other Labor senate seat – to then lose (or fail to win).

    I’m not sure even the Liars would treat their rusted-ons with such contempt. I think KK has run out of IOUs for taking the fall in NSW. See also: Carmen Lawrence.

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  7. “I doubt it. She’ll be parachuted into some other Labor senate seat – to then lose (or fail to win).”

    Oh yes, she’ll be back.

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  8. “I think KK has run out of IOUs for taking the fall in NSW.”

    Nup…KK and her husband are power brokers in NSW Labor.

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  9. In the end, I was so run down and so far behind in the school work I left to start a job.

    Much the same for Granddaughters. Eldest is taking a break from Uni because, although she is doing well in her teaching subjects and received excellent reviews for her prac teaching, she’s refused the Covid ‘vaccine’ and is therefore banned from employment as a teacher. She started after school waitressing at the local pub when she was barely 15 and is now a vice manager (or whatever it’s called) at the top eatery in town. And, her bank account is nudging $25K.

    Similar with number 2, although she was getting very depressed*, egged on by a teacher who encouraged her to make a doctor appointment (without informing parents) where she was introduced to the never-ending world of Big Pharma. She has now left school (at 16 and 1/2) and is working two jobs, happier than ever (no more drugs) and her bank account a shade under $10K.

    The education system is failing our kids big time. Students are overwhelmed with negativity under the guise of wellness lessons: “Are you stressed, victimised, abused, trapped in the wrong body gender-wise? We can help and no, you don’t have to tell Mum and Dad. Trust us.”

    It has always been hard being a young teen, what with hormones, pimples, insecurities etc. The wellness curriculum today, plus myriad social media sites, can crush any youngster.

    *#2 has always wanted to be a midwife. She has passed prelim subjects which practically guarantee her a Uni placement. But she refuses to be ‘vaccinated’. End of her dreams.

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  10. Hahahaha!

    Amazon Blocks Negative Reviews Of Its Woke Lord Of The Rings Series (5 Sep)

    Is ‘The Rings Of Power’ the worst case of leftist propaganda ever created? No, but it is the straw that broke the camel’s back. This time the fandom is in heavy opposition and is not afraid to speak out. … Amazon is currently blocking reviews for 72 hours in order to “weed out the trolls.”

    That bad huh? Maybe Mr Bezos should’ve spent the billion on his penis rockets instead.

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  11. cohenitesays:
    September 5, 2022 at 5:15 pm

    Thanks, cohenite, for this excellent post. Especially for the link. It has clarified many issues for me.

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  12. Blob Johnson, on the eve of his departure as PM, spruiks building more nuclear power stations.
    Fair enough, but where was Boris over the last two and a half years on this? The answer, no where. Instead Blob was doing the bidding of his green renewable obsessed wife and her friends, many of whom are reaping buckets of dosh from renewables.

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  13. Zyco:
    A full copy of your 4:14 comment on European aluminium.

    The industry says it urgently needs government support to survive. However, any measures like fixed price caps to keep power-hungry plants running may be difficult to justify while consumers face soaring power bills and the threat of rationing and blackouts looms.

    Why ask for government support? They caused the bloody problem!
    If I’m right, Biden will start releasing aluminium from the US strategic stockpile in an effort to reduce the US ability to sustain war level manufacturing.

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  14. End of her dreams.

    Not necessarily. They have simply removed themselves from the nightmare.

    Encourage them to rewrite the story of their lives. I wanted to be a vet. All that changed was I went from four legs to leaves, flowers and roots…amongst other skill sets acquired along the way.

    And that corpulent lady still hasn’t turned up yet to sing, so there will be some more stuff to achieve before the end.

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  15. The wails of my family’s cries still haunt me’: Kumanjayi Walker’s cousin tells inquest

    Comments just gone down the memory hole…..

  16. callisays:

    September 5, 2022 at 5:09 pm

    This is our last day of “self guiding” – off to some wineries and a lunch of traditional Croatian delicacies. This gives me a little trepidation – it might be “nose to tail” …

    We employed a driver for a little excursion out of Split on a Sunday.
    When I shook hands with him I knew he wasn’t a full-time driver (hands of concrete).
    Turns out he worked on construction sites and driving was his weekend gig.
    We said to him how great the fish was in Croatia.
    His reply?
    “Fish is a tourist meal now. We can’t afford it.”
    A side effect of tourism which I hadn’t thought too much about.

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  17. Daily Mail. That’s the first I knew Albo grew up in public housing.

    Extraordinary moment Anthony Albanese compares his 40-room taxpayer-funded Canberra mansion with a pool, tennis court, wine room and a chef to PUBLIC HOUSING

    Anthony Albanese grew up in housing commission in inner-west Sydney
    He now lives in The Lodge, a 40-room mansion with a pool in Canberra
    Mr Albanese described the Lodge as public housing in a joke in Question Time
    But Liberal sources said there would be outcry if a Liberal made that joke

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  18. Rabzsays:

    September 5, 2022 at 5:12 pm

    Dai Le defeated Kristina Keneally for the seat of Fowler

    Never let this mighty achievement be forgotten. Dai Le has finally killed the mad yank cow’s political career …

    And I don’t think all the cheering came from one side of the house.

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  19. Mr Albanese described the Lodge as public housing in a joke in Question Time

    A life lived on the public tit. The joke’s on us.

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  20. Extraordinary moment Anthony Albanese compares his 40-room taxpayer-funded Canberra mansion with a pool, tennis court, wine room and a chef to PUBLIC HOUSING

    Classic Black Label Edition Labor.

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  21. I don’t reckon KKK will be back in politics.
    But she will turn up in some cosy sinecure pulling $400-$500k.
    An overseas trade or diplomatic post?
    Chair of the National Headtilt and Hairflick Authority?

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  22. Sancho Panzer says:
    September 5, 2022 at 7:09 pm
    I don’t reckon KKK will be back in politics.
    But she will turn up in some cosy sinecure pulling $400-$500k.
    An overseas trade or diplomatic post?
    Chair of the National Headtilt and Hairflick Authority?

    She was already the Big Basketball Kahuna Chickie.

  23. Mum-of-two accused of running over her husband’s mistress in a BMW after she found out about their affair is found NOT GUILTY

    Christie Lee Kennedy has been not guilty of malicious acts with intent to disable
    Ms Kennedy ran over husband David Larkin and his lover Zowie Noring in 2021
    Court is still deliberating assault occasioning bodily harm while armed charges
    Ms Kennedy has also plead guilty to unlawful assault for attacking Ms Noring

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  24. Hahaha. A Current Affair just described the Australian Institute as as “independent thinktank” –a triumphal victory for a propaganda project of the Australian Greenfilth.

    The Australian media aren’t just useful idiots. They’re willing accomplices in the neutering of Australian democracy.

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  25. ” Australian Institute as as “independent thinktank”

    I bet they wouldn’t describe the IPA as “an independent thinktank”.

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  26. I bet they wouldn’t describe the IPA as “an independent thinktank”.

    The words ‘far right’ would figure prominently and repeatedly.

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  27. Hahaha. A Current Affair just described the Australian Institute as as “independent thinktank” …

    What happened to “leading”? Mr Dennniissssssss won’t be pleased.

  28. The supercilious Dr Richard Dennis (for a PhD he is) of the Australia Institute once told a university alumni audience that the coal miners sacked in his Green utopia could always get jobs as coffee waiters. (I have this from an eye witness.)

    I’ll bet he hasn’t had the guts to say that to an audience of miners.

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  29. “The words ‘far right’ would figure prominently and repeatedly.”

    Indeed, all designed to smear, delegitimise and silence right-wing, libertarian and conservative voices. One Nation is far-right, the Greens are “progressive”.

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  30. Liars gonna lie – the latest federal MP for my electorate (Sally Sitou [Liars Party] who replaced the abominable Fiona Martin [SFL]), in a speech in parliament today, about Samoa:

    “When I was there a decade ago, climate change wasn’t an existential threat: it was very real and it was very present. On this tiny island in the middle of the Pacific there were no climate change deniers, because the effects of climate change were being felt and seen every day. And it’s gotten worse; if we do not act, Samoa will be wiped off the face of the earth. With the help of international assistance, the Samoan government has built sea walls to try to hold back the rising tide. Their efforts, while valiant, may have had some limited success in the short term but will ultimately prove to be futile. By 2030, the island’s surrounding sea level will increase by up to 17 centimetres. Samoa and island nations in the Pacific are on the front line of climate change.”

    (before announcing Australia will give $2B or so to the grifters)

    What she doesn’t say (i.e. conveniently overlooks):
    “A 2009, magnitude-8.1 Samoa earthquake dealt a great deal of damage to the Samoan Islands: Tsunami waves as high as 14 meters (46 feet) wiped out multiple villages, claiming nearly 200 lives and severely damaging water and electrical systems. New research reveals the damage is likely to continue in the island Tutuila, also known as American Samoa. A new study shows the island is now sinking, a product of post-earthquake tectonic shifting that will likely continue for decades.”
    source

    Ignorance or deceit? You decide.

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  31. Poisonous trash old lefty and so stoopid but they’ve been to the uni. Unis incubate and cosset this evil garbage.

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  32. On Saturday afternoon I went to Spotlight with my mother to look at and buy wool for knitting and patterns for a frock. We parked at Eastgate and walked through the parking station to cross the road. Whilst in the car park, waiting for my mother who’s a little slow, a family of four was walking through with a disobedient small boy. The boy shouted at his mother who then smacked him on the bum. That shut him up.

    It was nice to see and I was somewhat comforted….all is not lost in this world.

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  33. Yes Cassie. And the ABC represents the entire spectrum of respectable political opinion: from Bob Brown on the mainstream Tory right to Lee Rhiannon on the moderate social-democratic centre left.

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  34. By 2030, the island’s surrounding sea level will increase by up to 17 centimetres.

    Since the official satellite data, which is already twice as lurid as the tide gauge data, only says 2 centimetres I suspect that 17 centimetres exists primarily in her fevered nocturnal imagination.

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  35. Actually on hindsight she probably has mistaken millimetres for centimetres.
    I’m trying to be charitable. It’s difficult.

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  36. The boy shouted at his mother who then smacked him on the bum.

    Having lunch in a very good restaurant, way back when. The couple on the next table had children with rather fine table manners, indeed. On receiving compliments, they said it was nice that someone had taken notice…..

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  37. Bruce O’Newk:

    Actually on hindsight she probably has mistaken millimetres for centimetres.
    I’m trying to be charitable. It’s difficult.

    Bruce, save the charity for the chooks – at least they’ll be grateful.

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  38. On this tiny island in the middle of the Pacific there were no climate change deniers, because the effects of climate change were being felt and seen every day.

    Pure bullshit. Their only interest in this issue is exactly $ from gullible white idiots. If someone was telling you your island was sinking and was intent on throwing fists full of $ at you regardless of facts, what would you do?

    The vast majority of pacific islands, in particular coral atolls have increased their land area thanks to the availability of engineering and machinery through which this can be done.

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  39. Just wondering if any military history people can help me. I’ve had a pic of my GGFather in uniform, my Mum tells me he served in the Boer War

    Try this aftermarket site (if you haven’t already). The nominal role; ‘Australians in Boer War Database’ in the side bar.

    https://www.bwm.org.au/ancestor_search.php

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  40. Delta A 6.22
    I thought the jab was no longer required for teaching – at least in Vic, I think, where they are sending out sos emails for VCE assessors.

  41. Sally Sitou – She’s another with a resume that had to be talked up.
    She’s only ever been suckled by the public teat, & never held a job where results matter, or can be measured.
    A teacher who never taught.

    IIRC her campaign comments were on the theme that money is free & should be showered onto everybody.

  42. To whoever it was that posted the link to the Soviet Story the other day, thank you.

    You’re most welcome, Diogenes.

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  43. Try this aftermarket site (if you haven’t already). The nominal role; ‘Australians in Boer War Database’ in the side bar.

    There’s one Harry Harbord Morant listed there. Where do I know that name from?

  44. “Sally Sitou”

    The fact that Sitou is the member for Reid is testimony to just how utterly woeful Fiona Martin was as the Liberal member for Reid. Martin was a member who would run a mile from constituents, a member who crossed the floor to vote against religious freedom, a member who, like the unlamented Sharma, Zimmerboy, Foolinsky, Allen, Wilson and co was a dripping wet waste of space. Reid is an electorate the Liberals could easily win back in three years, it isn’t a “Teal electorate” (Sitou is Labor) but this will depend on the following…

    1. whether the Liberal Party of Australia can discover a spine to rebut the progressive narrative on such things as “da climate nonsense”; and

    2. whether the Liberal Party can choose a candidate who, unlike Martin, actually believes in Liberal policies.

    Time will tell.

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  45. thefrollickingmolesays:
    September 5, 2022 at 8:56 pm
    Viceland has a promo for a new “ history” show on SBS.

    Called something like “ the Australian wars”. Lots of pics of noble indiginies hiding in the bush while a line of redcoats looks for them.

    Might be better if they stick to Nazis?

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  46. I’m inclined to think they are doing some creative recasting on the Nazi thing.
    Rex woollen coats and periwigs instead of Hugo Boss and shaved heads.

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  47. Called something like “ the Australian wars”. Lots of pics of noble indiginies hiding in the bush while a line of redcoats looks for them.

    I suppose there’ll be all the usual malarkey about “Warrior Patriots” like Yagan and Jundamurra, without pointing out that few races mounted such a futile resistance, or were conquered so utterly…

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  48. Liz Truss declared British prime minister after Tory ballot win

    Jacquelin Magnay
    Europe Correspondent
    @jacquelinmagnay
    3 minutes ago September 5, 2022
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    Liz Truss has come a long way since the days of chanting “Maggie, Maggie, Maggie, out, out, out” as she marched through the streets of the Scottish city of Paisley with her left-wing parents, furious at Margaret Thatcher’s pro-nuclear policies.

    Now, after she travels to Balmoral Castle to see the Queen on Tuesday, this one time anti-monarchist remainer will be confirmed the 56th British prime minister and leader of the Conservative party – and one of her first duties will be to give a green light to more investment in nuclear power.

    On Monday night Ms Truss was declared as the winner of the ballot of an estimated 200,000 Tory party grass-roots members ahead of former chancellor of the exchequer Rishi Sunak to ­replace the scandal-plagued Boris Johnson.

    Ms Truss has had numerous metamorphoses over the decades to draw upon as she faces dealing with the country’s most extraordinary economic shock: the skyrocketing and eye-watering energy price increases that have begun claiming livelihoods.

    Now, as an uncomfortable and unaffordable winter approaches, the Christmas lights are turned off and vulnerable lives are at stake, Ms Truss may have to perform more of her life’s u-turns.

    Mary Elizabeth Truss is the 47-year-old the mother of two teenage girls. Her marriage to financier Hugh O’Leary survived a publicised affair in 2004 with a fellow Tory MP, Mark Field, although her political career at the time took a brief hit.

  49. had a chat yesterday for father’s day and he was telling me how he was thinking of buying one of those electric vehicles.

    he backed up his decision based on a docco he watched that proved beyond all doubt that the oil companies crushed the original battery flavoured cars in the 60s

    and how some bloke from Melbourne called Pritchard was essentially paid off by Big Oil because he’d solved the steam powered car problems.

    in the sixties !!
    no shit, apparently the guy had worked out how to develop a full head of steam in a Ford XP in only 3 minutes

    my Old Man also thinks Europe is a country.

    just going down the wood-yard before heading to the city
    Fill her up, he says
    Sure mate, you want Red Gum, Yellow Box, or Mallee Root?

    The Old Bloke left school at 14yo and I’ll forgive him for the things he can’t know
    The trouble is my uncle is an accountant, and I’m damned sure he’d agree with his brother

    What do you say? … or do you just say nothing?

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  50. dover0beach says:
    September 4, 2022 at 7:06 pm

    I’m tending to DrBG’s position re monty. I’m not finding much evidence of his arguing in good faith

    I daresay he tends to wear good faith as a skin suit; however it’s not very stretchy and the seams tend to rip.

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  51. Cassie, earlier:

    The boy shouted at his mother who then smacked him on the bum.

    Not ‘broke his nose’ or ‘fractured his collarbone’. And everyone lived happily ever after.

    This is because, despite the floggerati’s best efforts over the past 30 years, humans still rely on instinct borne of thousands of years of parenting, and knowing what works and what doesn’t.

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  52. Douglas Murray was on fire tonight on Rita Panahi, talking about the climate lunacy, the green scam and the power crisis engulfing Europe (and soon to engulf this country) he said something so true…

    “maybe now, that old friend of conservatives, “reality” is going to teach everyone one of her great lessons”.

    Indeed, nothing will change until the reality of blackouts, deprivation and even death hits home, when the people can’t charge their mobiles or computers, when people can’t upload a picture on Instagram, when people can’t go to the their favourite restaurant or cafe and when people gasp for breath when they receive their electricity and gas bills. Bring on the reality.

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  53. “This is because, despite the floggerati’s best efforts over the past 30 years, humans still rely on instinct borne of thousands of years of parenting, and knowing what works and what doesn’t.”

    Yep……and my mother and I smiled when we saw it.

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  54. Finally, Focks Crikkit’s stopped showing English chick matches and is currently running a marathon of one-day international highlights from the mid-80s to late 00s.

    Astounding viewing.

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  55. Indeed, nothing will change until the reality of blackouts, deprivation and even death hits home, when the people can’t charge their mobiles or computers, when people can’t upload a picture on Instagram, when people can’t go to the their favourite restaurant or cafe and when people gasp for breath when they receive their electricity and gas bills. Bring on the reality.

    Funnily enough, I was listening to a Jordan Peterson podcast with Douglas Murray himself, saying how students put a $5 million price on the internet access.

    Oh, it may have been a different podcast, but the rule still stands. The true value of things is far greater than its current cost, demonstrating how filthy fucking rich is modern humans are.

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  56. < < < Indeed, nothing will change until the reality of blackouts, deprivation and even death hits home, when the people can’t charge their mobiles or computers, when people can’t upload a picture on Instagram, when people can’t go to the their favourite restaurant or cafe and when people gasp for breath when they receive their electricity and gas bills. Bring on the reality. > > >

    There’s a wail, a keening, arises from my place whenever the internet goes out & for a couple of hours the staff are unable to access instagram.
    The wail is so loud Tasmanian Cats would hear it.

    One can only imagine the resetting of priorities if the genpop are unable to watch netflix.

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  57. Finally, Focks Crikkit’s stopped showing English chick matches

    Oh, the carnage I could’ve done pretending to be a sheila so I could play cricket against them.

    Headlines: “park cricketer notches third double century in a row”. Fabulous opposition for flat track bullies like myself.

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  58. When the electrickery goes off air and ATM’s don’t work and the tap & pay doesn’t work and the tills don’t work even for those who do have cash – that’s when reality will bite.

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  59. I posted this article this morning in a rush and am repeating it because it’s actually a smoking gun for the corruption surrounding the “vaccine”. It should be spread far and wide. In fact, if anyone has a group email for our politicians, this is the ideal item to see who is and isn’t honest among them.

    Exclusive: Proof that Israel found serious safety problems with the COVID vaccines then deliberately covered it up

    Apparently, someone translated it into Hebrew and posted it there and it was removed within an hour. The only news outlet prepared to cover it was GB News with Neil Oliver (link included). And then there’s this:

    Fox News was notified but declined to cover it (apparently because their advertising contracts with Pfizer prohibits them from covering any negative news about the vaccines).

    We have reached the point where murder can be committed in plain view and our authorities and media simply turn their backs and pretend it isn’t there while penalising anyone pointing it out.

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  60. It is a great tragedy of the human condition that some of the greatest sporting stars to have ever graced a paddock (are were extremely well remunerated for it) were and are also giant, all-consuming flogs. The Hun:

    Footy great Wayne Carey has stood down from Channel 7 and been banned from Crown Resorts premises for two years after being caught with a bag of white powder at its Perth casino.

    Carey has also been “relieved of his on-air duties” on Triple M Footy.

    The 51-year-old was gambling at Crown Burswood last Thursday night when a zip-lock bag containing a white powder dropped from his pocket on to a gaming room table.

    Carey’s gone for the oldest excuse going around:

    Carey admitted to security guards that the bag of white substance was his, though sources close to the Australian Football Hall of Fame member on Monday night insisted it contained “crushed up anti-inflammatory drugs”.

    Crushed up prescription drugs. In a ziplock bag. Uh huh.

    ‘Mental health’ defence, followed by pleas for sympathy coming right up.

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  61. You know, given the times we live in, we conservatives don’t have much but we do have reality….and when that reality hits, the schadenfreude will be sublime.

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  62. Whenever I’m prescribed something by my GP, I take the prescription to the chemist shop, am dispensed a packet, with careful instructions typed on a label:

    Take 1 x pill twice a day with food, or somesuch.

    So I store the packet in a drawer in my house & twice each day I carefully remove a pill from a blister sleeve & swallow it as I eat.
    Nahhh, just joking, actually I shake all the pills out into a ziplock plastic bag & smash ’em all into one big powder and walk around all day with this in my pocket, then at random intervals open the ziplock bag & consume whatever I reckon is a fair thing.

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  63. Mmm.

    crushed up anti-inflammatory drugs

    Perhaps if Carey had been into the anti-inflammatories earlier on, he wouldn’t have been caught getting a polish from Kelli Stevens in Glenn Archer’s dunny.

    Unless……

    Unless they were never really anti-inflammatories.

    Carey! You cad!

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  64. The Duck was a resident of Port Melbourne when I was knocking around there 15 years ago. I was enjoying a hungover hamburger breakfast one weekend when he wandered into the restaurant. He was “between jobs” prior to his most recent rehabilitation.

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  65. Mr Panzer admitted to security guards that the bag of blue substance was his, though sources close to the Australian Football Hall of Fame member on Monday night insisted it contained “crushed up laundry bleach for getting ketchup out of his white shirts”.

  66. dover0beachsays:

    September 5, 2022 at 11:50 pm

    Court makes some excellent points of comparison between her record and Serena’s.

    The arguments used to attempt to diminish Court’s record could so easily be used against any great of a prior era.
    But I doubt you will ever hear such arguments advanced to knock down Jesse Owens or Cassius Clay/Mohamed Ali.

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  67. Dalí factoid of the night-
    Soon after falling in thrall to Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali briefly called himself Cassius X in 1964.

  68. When the electrickery goes off air and ATM’s don’t work and the tap & pay doesn’t work and the tills don’t work even for those who do have cash – that’s when reality will bite.

    I was in Palau once when all the ATM’s shut down because of repeated power outages. Things got quite difficult quite quickly.

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  69. Enrolments will go up:

    Catholic schools have been strongly advised not to assist in ­efforts to affirm gender transitions in students through the use of drugs or surgical interventions and that “a human being’s sex is a physical, biological reality”.

    The Australian Catholic Bishops Conference will advise schools that, for the vast majority of children and adolescents, gender ­incongruence is a psychological condition through which they will pass safely and naturally with supportive psychological care.

    The guidance, to be issued on Tuesday, urges Catholic schools to avoid assisting in the issue of puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones or surgery to limit possible infertility, “unnecessary damage” and “future possibilities for healthy human growth”.

    The nation has more than 1700 Catholic schools educating about 780,000 students.

    Oz with comments open

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  70. Today went a little pear shaped. Just the two of us with our own guide in a golf mini bus. Lots of delicious sparkling sine overlooking a valley, reminiscent of Tuscany, with its poplars and little red roofed farms outlined on the horizon. And local snacks of the cured meat and cheese variety, all made at the farmhouse plus fresh baked bread.

    And a lesson in fermentation timing and sugar levels, and the trend towards amber wines.

    On the road to Samobor we picked up a nail and, on arrival, a flat. No spare, no tools. Lunch became an atomic local version of the snot block and a coffee while we awaited repairs.

    No worries. Sat in the town square watching the passing parade. And we could do without the calories!

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  71. sine = wine

    Just ‘cos. The amber wine was a light tan.

    Now to sit back and see who’s triggered. 🙂

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  72. Training for future careers?

    A Sydney high school is making students who want to visit the toilet present their fingerprints in a bid to track their movements to stamp out vandalism in a move that has upset parents.

    The decision to rollout the tech for toilet access has also shocked privacy experts who say there is no excuse to take biometric data from students which could be vulnerable to hackers who want personal information.

    Moorebank High principal Vally Grego wrote to parents earlier this year telling them that Posiflex Kiosks Biometrics would be rolled out this term.

    “The system will roll out in Term 3 for the external student toilets only,” she told parents earlier this year.

    “We are introducing this system to monitor students’ movement during class time and to reduce the incidents of vandalism. We will then investigate the upgrade to the toilets.”

    Link

  73. Cassie of Sydney:

    Indeed, nothing will change until the reality of blackouts, deprivation and even death hits home, when the people can’t charge their mobiles or computers, when people can’t upload a picture on Instagram, when people can’t go to the their favourite restaurant or cafe and when people gasp for breath when they receive their electricity and gas bills. Bring on the reality.

    Have I made another convert, Cassie?
    🙂

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  74. The hard-left Gleichaltung in Victoria is pulling down yet another once-great and -civilising institution. An email from the State Library of Victoria today announces ‘Counterculture, climate change & creatives on the rise’ as its current agenda. How long before the burning of the books?

  75. Arrived in Great Falls for my two week peak country winter trail ride. Feeling just a little doubtful.
    I’m two weeks early because I’m going to tour the Native American (Northern Souix) war and migration sites, and nip down to Yellowstone while it is still accessible, and not impossibly crowded.
    The trail outfit are serious players. There is a four day, pre start program involving a saddle test and remedial, horsie maintenance and care, and survival training.
    I’m a little worried about the risk of endless green propaganda but there is no evidence of it in the literature.
    I’m excited. Hopefully it will be worth the cost of the outrageously expensive winter gear that I’ve bought and won’t be taking back to SE Qld.
    Having suffered horrible mask tyranny coming over and through the States it’s great to be somewhere the locals would probably horse whip you if you were seen wearing a submission nappie.
    This truely is stunning country.

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  76. This truely is stunning country.

    Yes Bons. It’s gorgeous. I always try to get a window seat traveling West to East and I marvel every single time I do. The desert, the Rockies, the plains and then the forests. Incredible.

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