Ha ha, okay GreyRanga. I have been called worse things. 😉
Open Thread – Weekend 10 Sept 2022
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- Bumtree #5
- The beach which banned vanilla ice cream
- Bumtree #4
- Open Thread – Thurs 2 May 2024
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Why doctors aren’t speaking out
Written by a doctor. Everyone should read this. We are headed for a perfect storm with escalating health needs and a shortage of doctors because of how we treat them.
rosiesays:
September 10, 2022 at 7:10 am
ABC relentless
Look, we we wear white coats, that makes us special.
The article begins:
On a May morning in Kaurna/Adelaide, Annie Bond and a colleague put on their lab coats.
It goes downhill from there.
Cheerio, losers!
I will bet anything Lizzie 2.0 issued those very instructions.
Imagine Ranga breaking the news to the Grifter (and the assembled Netflix crew).
“We’re off to Balmoral to see Gran before she pops her clogs.
And when I say ‘we’ I mean the ‘Royal we’.
Me.
Not you.”
Headline.
“Queen sought comfort by surrounding herself by all white faces in her final hours”.
She will have to wait for the next Netflix special.
Jordan Peterson usually speaks about issues in a restrained and considered manner so when he starts swearing and blaspheming about something you know he’s really upset.
He’s on his way to his Peter Finch moment, “I’m mad as hell and won’t take it anymore.”
Jordan Peterson Wants You to Be Prepared!
Probably comes from a common first nations salute of a Friday evening: kaur na Crows!
Bruce Pascoe will have the footy stats from 60,000 years of competition in his next book.
I’ve got some 16BA nuts and bolts.
Best do it properly.
Last word Lizzie!
Yes indeed but his Canadian accent is a liability when one is talking seriously.
Don’t worry JC.
It will be all marine grade stainless steel.
turns up gas soldering iron to 11
Cauterising R us
Nuts and bolts are more appropriate or rivets considering who the patient is.
Hospitals, private or public, appear to be a shitshow with massive under-staffing.
That would be all those Doctors and Nurses they sacked for not taking the vax.
Comment, regarding Adam Bandt shooting off his mouth on the subject of a Republic, five minutes after Her Majesty had gone to God.
If the Dirty Duchess starts selling photos of the queen on her deathbed to Oprah, we will know Harry snuck his mobile phone in while he was visiting.
Emerging SARS-CoV-2 BA.4 and BA.5 Subvariants Have Escaped Immunity
Drbeen Medical Lectures
don’t you mean surgical grade
when you have a cohort of a billion injected people to safely incubate variants, its only a matter of time before this happens
Big_Nambas says:
September 10, 2022 at 9:14 am
Meme;……………………………..substitute ASIO for CIA.
This time I will remember the link.
https://substack.com/redirect/f9805c20-2bee-48ae-9960-0e13e8e1f1d6?r=ho9bj
Same way unconditional surrenders work, Dot, the victors hold them to the terms of their surrender.
Hello JC, I’m Nurse Ratched, I’ve come to tighten your nuts with a non chinese socket.
Some more white supremacists driving around looking for white people to kill; Salty.
No more word games!
Tell us what this would have looked like (what the terms would have been) and why there would be no problems like keeping the death camps secret or stopping a Waffen SS vs “good” Wehrmacht civil war.
“Oh no, they would have just fought Russia”
Why would have the British accepted anything short of Germany’s total defeat?
Germany wanted global domination and overlordship of Europe. A new capital. Demented revival of gladitorial combat games to the death among SS members. What happens to the Vatican and Archbishop of Canterbury, let alone the Lutherans and Orthodoxy?
WARNING-Graphic footage: Fox News host Tucker Carlson looks at Hispanic voters moving over to the Republican Party and rising violent crime on ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight.’ #FoxNews #tucker
It’s a real quandary. How do I check the surgical instruments and the rest of the stuff in theater isn’t Chinese made and if so, do I get a priest to undergo the purification process?
Sancho Panzer says:
September 10, 2022 at 10:06 am
JC at 9:02.
I’ll get a copy of “Surgery For Dummies” and a really good socket set and we’ll give it a go.
Surgical kit.
A Kincrone box cutter (new blade preferably), a can of Glen 20 and gaffer tape.
Liberal supply of Woodstock cans for pre and post operative pain relief.
lotocoti says:
“…16BA nuts and bolts.”
Are you a retired watchmaker?
8BA is about the smallest I have encountered.
Gaia hates lawns.
Why experts say lawns should become a thing of the past (Phys.org, 9 Sep)
Lawns clearly are racist and qwertyest too, lacking holy diversity. On the other hand it’s the perfect excuse not to mow your lawn this Saturday afternoon.
Here’s the Fox News video of what Zipster posted at 11.59am:
The Democratic Party thought it could use its control of 90% of the American news media to ram through its mad ideological agenda while keeping onside latinos – one of the voting blocs that keep the Dems in power. But latinos aren’t buying the destruction of American cities, which the Dems are turning into lawless shitholes. Tucker Carlson Tonight.
Complete rout in Ukraine as Russia’s worthless army of rapists and murderers have to flee in panic! Zippy will be very cross!!
https://twitter.com/SamRamani2/status/1568384715064737792
Oh please, give it a rest. A conditional surrender is simply a surrender on terms the victor finds agreeable. It might have involved the dissolution of the Waffen SS, Nazi Party, that those guilty of ‘crimes against humanity’ (Final Solution, T4 program, etc.) be tried and punished, and so on. You’re going on as if Fourteen Points, Treaty of Versailles, etc. never happened.
What is happening south of Kharkov right now is very interesting.
No.
This would never, ever be accepted.
The Waffen SS had 900,000 men under arms at its peak. Why would they just give up?
So many in the army were complicit as well.
A civil war would happen first, with the army splitting to support the SS and allies backed faction.
Unconditional surrender was suggested to “shorten the war and save lives”.
So what? They went too far, but that doesn’t give the Nazis a pass.
Daily Mail.
Anyone who thinks Versailles went too far needs to consult the terms of the Treaty of Brest Litivosk, imposed by a victorious Germany, on a defeated Russia. It’s also worth consulting Fritz Fischer on the subject – in the event of a German victory, Great Britain was to be stripped of the Empire and fleet, and subject to such crippling reparations, so as to prevent her ever posing a threat to Germany, again.
Good.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11198889/Zelensky-claims-Ukrainian-forces-liberated-30-settlements-Kharkiv-region.html
But it’s about beating the Je….globalists, it’s about the globalists, so Putin needs to win.
Oh, but that salient!
@Eyrie:
This from 2014 is a good intro:
https://www.timesofisrael.com/nazis-vast-secret-wmd-facility-uncovered-in-austria/
Much more has been rounded up by an American “enthusiast” by the name of Tino Struckmann who runs a rolling series called “Lost Battlefields”. Unlike your average docco maker, Struckmann has a serious military background and a sense of humour. He actually goes to lots of “interesting” places with his trusty video camera (not just a ‘phone). Because he is also multi-lingual and military-trained, he can “read between the lines”, as it were.
Check out his stuff.
http://lostbattlefields.com/lost-battlefields-episodes.html
They weren’t at their peak in 1944 and the decision wouldn’t be theirs but HC.
So why didn’t this happen in ’45?
How it does this remains a mystery.
The problem for you is WW1 and I’m sure there are numerous earlier examples as well. Germany and Austro-Hungary accepted very onerous terms in a conditional surrender. To say therefore that it was not a serious option here makes no sense.
Don’t forget the WEF, that’s another code word for the sons of Abraham that they like to use. It always comes back to the Protocols.
What would have been the purpose of a conditional surrender?
Who in Germany would accept a conditional surrender in 1944?
No.
JC can fight off the infection.
He’s quad vaxxed after all.
Why after all this time people still think free speech only goes one way?
Objection is not suppression.
Getting a little close to certain topics there Dot.
Chief Rabbi of Moscow: Jews must leave Russia (8 Sep)
I don’t know very much about the climate of antisemitism in either Ukraine or Russia, although historically it’s been a big problem. Certainly in the 19thC. Also many Jewish people migrated from Russia to Israel as soon as they could after the fall of the Soviet Union. And we know the Ukrainians do rather admire their Azov guys. Israel seems the best place for Jewish people to move to, from both countries.
How crude.
We will be going keyhole on this one, using the following kit:-
– Waiters friend corkscrew;
– Bamix stick blender;
– stainless steel straw;
– Dyson V12 vacuum.
No pain relief required post op, but might need a sedative when he finds out how much it costs to park his sporty Beemer in hospital casual parking for five days.
I haven’t dared to go to the doxxing thread.
Is the summing up for the defence still going?
No one got my the wizard of oz reference, sad.
September 9, 2022
Why ‘Educated’ Liberal Women Are the Real Threat to Our Republic
When last Thursday night Joe Biden told America, “Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans” threaten “the very foundations of our republic,” he missed the mark. The real threat comes from the unlikeliest of suspects: educated liberal females, or “ELFs” for short.
These are the women who will proudly vote Democrat regardless of soaring inflation, rising gas prices, rampant crime in the streets, the unchecked flood of illegal aliens, and oppressive COVID policies that have irreparably damaged all children, the poor most notably.
If NBC’s polling from April is to be believed, this is the only demographic cohort more favorably inclined to Democrats in 2022 than in 2018. Unable to sell these women on his accomplishments — there are none — Biden last week appealed to their paranoia. What made this pitch strategic is his target audience’s proven susceptibility to fear-based propaganda.
At the core of the ELFs’ vulnerability is their ignorance, if not at the top, certainly among the masses.
The ESRC data suggest that formal education may actually increase the knowledge gap between men and women. There are reasons why this is so. Historically, married women have tended to vote more conservatively than their unmarried peers. Spousal influence plays a role in their voting, but so does the added awareness of real issues that comes with raising a family and owning a home.
Today, however, more than a third of college-educated women are childless. Then, too, marriage rates among the educated continue to decline as they have over the past 40 years while the age of first marriage continues to increase. In 2021, the average age for a female’s first marriage was 28.6, roughly nine years more than 60 years prior.
In the not too distant past, women attended college with the expectation of finding a spouse. Today, they would have much better luck hanging out at a construction site. As late as 1970, there were five men for every four women in America’s four-year colleges. By the fall of 2021, there were almost two women for every man.
Through their control of the teachers’ unions, ELFs have outsized influence on Democrat party politics. Deeply misinformed about COVID’s impact, ELFs used their influence to lock down schools as long as they possibly could. Schoolkids, especially the less affluent, will never recover.
In November, Biden needs the ELFs to vote en masse. This will happen only if they remain ignorant of the things that should worry them — the border, crime, inflation — and scared silly of things that need not. Something tells me that the producers of Biden’s Nuremberg-style spectacle knew what they were doing.
winter is coming
Same as unconditional surrender.
Oh great, Monty has just accused everyone here of being antisemites.
Stay classy son.
the west is fucked
Roosevelt made unconditional surrender a war aim unilaterally in 1943. The US and UK hadn’t even taken back Sicily yet.
The Yalta Conference was in early February 1945. This is when unconditional surrender was made policy.
The Morgenthau Plan, which was rejected, was made public in September 1944.
The July plot was in, well, July 1944 and not only failed because there were so few people to carry out the complex task, it had no true popular support.
It is just speculation that Churchill and Roosevelt were “controlled” by Stalinists and prolonged the war.
von Papen was unacceptable as he was the Vice Chancellor of Hitler. Canaris basically had to have his name cleared after the war, he was already under house arrest after February 1944.
The BVP, Centre and SPD leaders and even Kurt von Schleicher had been purged and killed, and the old guard like Hindenburg were dead (as was Ludendorff who was a know nothing nutter); Wilhelm II was dead.
No one in the regime was really acceptable to take over and the military were far too compromised.
LOL
If you think the birthrate is bad now, you haven’t seen anything yet. the west is living on borrowed time
It was Von Stauffenberg’s strategy in ’44. The Schwartze Kapelle were actively trying for this since ’41. Perhaps more a negotiated peace.
Probably some overlap between pool that would have done so and pool that attempted to assassinate Hitler. Germans were suffering terrible losses by ’44, were losing allies, their cities were being set on fire; many reasons to seek a settlement even if it was onerous.
To keep Russian troops out of eastern and Central Europe, JC.
That’s speculation dot. Some more; by ’44 the Wehrmacht was getting mangled badly so I suspect , had the coup came off, it could receive sufficient support. By that time Germany was being bombed flat and starving. The public were in a very bad way.
Zipstersays:
September 10, 2022 at 1:10 pm
What is happening south of Kharkov right now is very interesting.
winter is coming
Interesting 2 Views
UKRAINE WAR: Moscow, We Have a Problem
Trent Telenko is another Twitter user who often has a lot of good data, but I find his spin to be too lopsided towards Ukraine to be of much use. Nonetheless, he makes a good point when he notes that the disabling of the bridge means “Russia’s Izyum salient is now a railway logistical pocket. Russia has no way to evacuate it’s [sic] massive artillery ammunition reserves located there.”
He has more here if you’re interested.
Russia’s situation, I’d say, is serious but not dire. Salients like the one Ukraine has created in Kharkiv can become deathtraps if the other side has the resources and mobility to take advantage. We’ll see.
I came across an even-more panicked-sounding Russian milblogger writing about the bigger picture, but it was only a Telegram screencap and I couldn’t confirm if it was authentic or not. You’ve got to discard a lot of material putting these columns together.
That’s why I hesitate to include this last item from Russian exile and “opposition activist” Mikhail Khodorkovsky because I’m 99% certain it’s a fake. But maybe there’s a lesson to be drawn here in how to spot fakes.
and
Ukrainian counter-offensive had ‘some success’ – Pentagon
Lloyd Austin calls “encouraging” reports of advances near Kharkov and Kherson
US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin cautiously cheered battlefront developments after Ukraine said it had made advances during a counter-offensive in the southern and eastern regions. Russian officials on the ground acknowledged some setbacks but said Ukrainian forces were suffering “colossal” casualties.
“We see success in Kherson now, we see some success in Kharkov and so that is very, very encouraging,” Austin told reporters on Friday during a press conference in Prague.
Kiev claimed to have taken more than 700 square kilometers of territory in the Kharkov Region, advancing up to 50km into Russian-held territory and taking “more than 20 villages,” Reuters reported citing a Ukrainian general whom it did not name.
Reports from the area confirmed heavy fighting around the city of Balakleya and west of Kupyansk, with civilians fleeing eastward to Russia. However, local officials say the Russian reinforcements are turning the tide.
“The Ukrainian armed forces have pulled up all their reserves and now they are trying to claim victory on the corpses of their soldiers. They have colossal losses, in the thousands. They literally throw people into battle to be slaughtered,” military-civilian administration head Vitaly Ganchev told Russia-24 TV on Friday.
Meanwhile, on the Kherson front, Ukrainian forces “made several unsuccessful attempts to attack” but “retreated after taking losses” of more than 270 men, three tanks and 11 armored vehicles, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Friday.
Austin is in Europe to coordinate further deliveries of weapons and equipment to Ukraine. At the meeting of Kiev’s arms suppliers in Ramstein, Germany on Thursday, he announced the US would be delivering to Ukraine some $675 million worth of ammunition, along with armored cars and four howitzers. The US has given Ukraine more than $17 billion in military aid since the 2014 coup, and another $14.5 billion since the conflict escalated in February.
There was never going to be a conditional surrender of Germany in 1944 even if the USA, UK and Germany wanted one. Russia would never have agreed to it, they had suffered way too much from the Germans and they wanted revenge.
At the Tehran conference in 1943, Stalin shocked FDR and Churchill by asking what percentage of the German population they would kill for revenge when the war ended, there’s absolutely no way that Stalin would have let them off with a conditional surrender.
Dotsays:
September 10, 2022 at 12:53 pm
[The problem for you is WW1 and I’m sure there are numerous earlier examples as well. Germany and Austro-Hungary accepted very onerous terms in a conditional surrender. To say therefore that it was not a serious option here makes no sense.]
Who in Germany would accept a conditional surrender in 1944?
Field Marshall Rommel? The 20 July plot was all about gaining control so as to negotiate a surrender to the western allies.
Are Democrats looking to provoke riots by arresting President Trump?
(Is the Pope Catholic?????)
Democrats really, really, don’t like us.
In the past, Democrats fought a war inside the U.S., killing hundreds of thousands of Republican-backed Union soldiers in a grim civil war in order to keep humans as slaves.
Lately, legislation they filed shows they’re for killing unborn babies right up until the moment before birth, or perhaps even after. Most people would say owning slaves and killing babies is evil, so Democrats have shown what they were and are.
Crime and voting maps have a high correlation and usually show Ds in high crime areas, and Rs in low crime areas, which supports the idea that the political parties are fundamentally different and Republicans are mostly the good guys and gals.
The unprecedented raid of President Trump’s home was the first step toward criminal prosecution.
Democrats need an incendiary event to cause normally calm Republicans to riot, so they may arrest the former president and march him in leg irons in front of TV cameras. It is not beyond the realm of imagination to believe that, while transporting him to prison, agents could say he grabbed the steering wheel and they had to shoot him dozens of times. Or while in solitary confinement, the monitoring cameras become suddenly inoperative and the guards fall asleep and he hangs himself.
If you think that’s too far for Democrats, remember they are your opposite, and don’t think like you.
And they are clearly signaling their violent wishes, such as when Kathy Griffin posed for pictures while holding a replica of Donald Trump’s bloody severed head. Biden in public speeches reminded Republicans the government has fighter jets and nuclear weapons that could be used against them. Biden’s recent speech with red lighting and military personnel brought the words: “I ran for president because I believed we were in a battle for the soul of this nation,” which prompted prominent Republicans to say it looked like he was speaking from the gates of hell. It seemed Satanic; the message was diabolical, and the red lighting made him look like the devil.
If the coup was successful is it a certainty they would sue for peace or emboldened by lack of Hitler’s interference?
But latinos aren’t buying the destruction of American cities
The latinos I know in the US had enough of the Dems 6 years ago. One reason Trump got in.
The Dems are going to need to put their cheating and rigging activities into overdrive to stop what’s coming.
Pride and Prejudice continues.
Went for a long walk yesterday, found some old abandoned houses on what would have been a separate island, interesting architecture.
The young blokes had also cordoned off a new section of 4 lane road and were using it as an impromptu drag strip. Pretty cool, they weren’t just mucking around, some serious tweaking had been done.
That was never going to happen. The Allies could never trust the fuckheads.
Joanne Nova on target again………………………………..Jab jab booster………………………die!
It’s a very big deal. Mortality rates in adults have been constant for decades (see figure 1 in this report). A 200% increase is a red flag flapping there. Something was going very wrong for some young working age adults. The Delta wave was hitting the US in Q3 but why would it hit the younger age groups so much more than the older ones? The data here are not specific enough to draw conclusions, but we have the more detailed resolution from the UK and Germany already. We know another piece of genetic code was also circulating then, not self-replicating but factory-made.
https://joannenova.com.au/2022/09/people-in-their-30s-and-40s-more-likely-to-die-in-the-prime-of-their-lives-and-no-one-knows-why/
That is probably true. What would have mattered then was offering US/UK terms that might have satisfied them such that they would break with USSR, although I think that would have been high unlikely.
Russian troops weren’t killing or trying to kill Allied troops. Any commanders on the Allied side telling their troops from that point on, they had to make nice with the Krauts would have likely been assassinated.
Bombshell Report: Dozens of Trump Allies Raided or Served Subpoenas by FBI
BREAKING: FBI has raided dozens of Trump supporters across the country in an apparent political purge. This is an attack on the Constitutional Republic.
#Tucker: “This will wreck the country.”
Dhillon appeared with Tucker Carlson. She said that there had been a reporter reaching out asking if search warrants or subpoenas had been served on some 50 people. Dhillon confirmed to Tucker Carlson that search warrants or subpoenas had been served on three clients of hers — one of whom had their phone seized. The federal grand jury subpoenas were broad asking for any communications from October 2020, a month before the election to two months after the election. The subpoenas sought communications related to certification, fraud in the election, alternate electors, anything related to the rally before the Jan. 6 riot, and any communications related to the Save America PAC.
– Here’s part of what was in one of the subpoenas which has had the name redacted.
– Here’s what that subpoena requested.
This is an incredible escalation by the Biden Administration and it’s going to be hard to justify that this isn’t an effort to go after and shut down political opponents. This would be incredibly out of control and something on a par with Stalinist regimes trying to stifle any challenge to their power.
As Dhillon noted, this raises all kinds of First Amendment questions. She also noted how improper this is that the DOJ is telling reporters about these search warrants and subpoenas even before they are executed. She said she thought this was to instill fear into people right before an upcoming election so they wouldn’t challenge anything. She called it abuse by the DOJ and said it was illegal of them to leak this information.
“This will wreck the country,” Tucker said. That’s about the size of it if Republicans let this go without calling out the abuse.
I really don’t want to look at that thread – haven’t since yesterday around midday IIRC -but I’m going to have to.
Chinese Festival this weekend. I’m working, most of the crew aren’t. In fact they’re chillin walking around in their underwear?!
Jordan Peterson usually speaks about issues in a restrained and considered manner
Yes indeed but his Canadian accent is a liability when one is talking seriously.
He’ll have more authority when his voice breaks.
German troops would have been disarmed.
Zulu Kilo Two Alphasays:
September 10, 2022 at 12:23 pm
Daily Mail.
Pauline Hanson issues a BRUTAL message to Greens senator telling her to ‘p*** off back to Pakistan’ after she attacked the Queen and ranted about colonialism and ‘racist empires’ just hours after Her Majesty’s death
Pauline Hanson tells Greens senator Mehreen Faruqi: ‘P*** off back to Pakistan’
Faruqi said she won’t mourn the Queen as she was a leader of a ‘racist empire’
Hanson: ‘Your attitude appalls and disgusts me’ and told her to ‘pack her bags’
Greens leader Adam Bandt slammed for tweet spent calling for a republic
He wrote Australia must ‘move forward’ now that The Queen was dead
Furious Liberal MP Phillip Thompson told Mr Bandt to leave the country
Outstanding. Our Pauline is great and Malcolm Roberts is great on alarmism.
Huh? They were disarmed under unconditional surrender so what would have been the purpose of conditional surrender. Also, let’s keep in mind that the West didn’t have much of an idea how unspeakably evil the Soviet Union regime was then.
We know that the Red scare in the 1950s was real. Alger Hiss, the Rosenbergs were just the tip of an iceberg.
If it was coming to light then, what about previous decades ? It all started well before the 50s.
The New Deal.
By the 40s the State Dept in Washington had been infiltrated and it was there that unconditional surrender was first mentioned in a footnote to the minutes of a meeting.
In 1991 Soviet archives were opened briefly and the names of many Russian agents in Washington came to light. Not surprisingly, a number were in the sections of the State Dept where unconditional surrender was first discussed.
FBI has raided dozens of Trump supporters across the country in an apparent political purge. This is an attack on the Constitutional Republic.
That’s some fine third world shit hole action right there.
The world’s ‘oldest-known’ RV is up for auction
1914 Ford Model T-based RV still runs
What’s being billed as the “oldest-known motor caravan” is going up for auction on Saturday at the National Motor Museum in the U.K.
The vehicle is based on a 1914 Ford Model T and built on a chassis that was modified by coach builder Baico.
“Caravan” is a British term for RV and is also used to describe a travel trailer.
The vehicle was commissioned by the family that owned the Bentalls department store chain and features sleeping for four. Its body was created by Dunton of Reading, whose history began in the horse-drawn carriage era.
It also has a cast iron stove for heating and cooking and a leather couch style front seat that can be reversed to face the living area when the vehicle is parked.
There’s even a mail slot in the side door.
According to the auctioneer, Bonhams, it sat abandoned for decades until it was purchased and refurbished with help from a cabinetmaker in the 1970s, and it remains fully operational.
Indeed, US industrialists and bankers were investing in the USSR form to ’20’s. With State Dept sanction.
…and Churchill.
The New Deal was always a fascist inspiration. It wasn’t communist.
At the start of WWII, Hitler was sympathetic to the English man.
Towards the end of the war, he wanted to depopulate, exile, enslave (on continental Europe) and exterminate the English.
Same as unconditional surrender but earlier.
So it’s all about the facade and not the substance?
The New York Times, Editorial – ‘The Russian Betrayal’, 18 September 1939
Published the day after Russia invaded Poland from the East and sixteen days after Germany invaded Poland from the west.
They knew what Russia was.
Let me put it another way. Germans would have not been up for conditional surrender in ’43. Probably in ’44. Didn’t matter by ’45. So it might have shortened the war by 6-12 months at least in the West.
Why Hasn’t Mitch McConnell Put America’s Security Interests Ahead Of Ukraine’s?
Besides Democrats, you know who else is wasting billions of taxpayer dollars on causes other than securing America’s borders? Mitch McConnell.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell thinks Democrats should stop splurging Americans’ tax dollars on policies that don’t help with problems such as the U.S.-Mexico border, but it is McConnell who needs to stop pretending he’s powerless to curb the southern border crisis while funneling billions to Ukraine.
“There is nothing compassionate about tolerating or even encouraging anarchy at the border, violence in our streets, and a steady erosion of public safety,” McConnell said in a Senate floor speech titled “Americans’ Top Priorities Are Democrats’ Biggest Failures.” “It is neither fair nor compassionate, not to any Americans, least of all to the vulnerable people Democrats say they’re helping.”
McConnell is not ignorant about the unmitigated calamity that is the U.S.-Mexico border, nor is he unaware of how that is affecting the entire nation. He even mentioned in his speech that it’s President Joe Biden’s “failed border policies” that “have Customs and Border Protection encountering 200 percent more fentanyl and apprehending the most illegal immigrants they’ve seen in more than 20 years.”
You know who else is wasting billions of dollars of the people’s money on causes other than securing America’s borders? McConnell and his fellow swamp creatures who seem to have no qualms with sending endless funds, some of which are designated for U.S. weaponry that will likely end up on the Eastern European black market, to Ukraine. Over and over, McConnell has declined to take legislative action to put America first. Instead, he’s dead set on sticking it to former President Donald Trump and voting to squander Americans’ tax dollars on a foreign nation that is vulnerable to corruption and possible defeat.
The Federalist reached out to McConnell to ask why he hasn’t used his authority to put U.S. border security ahead of Ukraine’s
Congo bridge collapses seconds after being opened.
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German’s admitted that the worst thing they did in 1944 was won the Battle for the Rhine Bridges……
Yea, the NYTimes was credible because it ran an editorial in 1939 when for most of the decade and earlier Walter Duranty was running a protection racket for the Soviet regime on the front page of the NYTimes.
It wouldn’t have worked as the Soviets wouldn’t have accepted it. They were getting ready to rape most of the German women they ran into.
As an aside, has there ever been a study done to figure how many kids were born as a result of the Soviet mass rape fest?
Zyconoclastsays:
September 10, 2022 at 2:15 pm
Congo bridge collapses seconds after being opened.
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– Made by the Chinese?
– Chinese Materials?
But really, Lousy Design – looking at Structure it would pass 2nd year Civil Eng at Sydney Uni.
From memory, there was a particularly active study group in the Dept of Agriculture under the New Deal. Around six of the most prominent were later revealed as Soviet agents.
We might be talking about two different things, JC.
Communists and fascists are so alike.
Oops – Looking at Structure it wouldn’t pass 2nd year Civil Eng at Sydney Uni.
From 2015! (Did not read)
Troops fathered 400,000 children in post-war Germany
Sure. Almost alike but not identical. Throughout the 20s, as Makka pointed out, there was inward investment into the Soviet Union from US investors. It’s the strange period, but if I recall correctly there was a lot of back and forth by Lenin in terms of going full retard commie or allowing private ownership with a gun pointed at the back of the head. I think it was Stalin who went full retard.
To reduce Russian thinking to rape and revenge in 1945 is laughable.
They were getting ready to drop the Iron Curtain.
There was much more than a bit of rape on their minds.
Stalin played Roosevelt like a violin. Not Churchill.
Churchill opposed Overlord. He was right. Overlord place Western forces far away in Normandy, requiring them to fight their way east while the Russians took that time to take Eastern Europe.
Lenin knew the USSR needed massive modernization fast , while he proceeded to kill off all opposition to the Revolution. So he made the terms attractive for Wall St , so he could accomplish both objectives with few questions asked.
Magnificent climate change moment
Ooops… this interview definitely didn’t go as planned…
The climate cultists are going to hate this….
From the Comments
– Dickhead journaille STILL tried to change the narrative and got his arse handed to him on a plate!!
Green heads will be popping everywhere…..I LOVE IT!
– Took the words right out of my mouth. I love it. Can he please go on Q & A.
– And that idiot conducting the interview will not believe a word of what is 100% correct.
– Piers Corbyn Astro Physicist is going to upset so many following the cult of Climate Change. As he stated, “they are on the gravy train”. He is going to be very much maligned now because he is speaking the truth. Well done to Piers I say. By the way, I thought the chap interviewing him was a rude pig. He wasn’t getting the answers he was wanting so he started to become rather hysterical.
Weather and tides dictated that mid year was optimal for a sea borne landing of occupied Europe. Mid ’43 was a no go because the Allies had not sufficiently reduced the Luftwaffe and Germany’s industrial capabilities. The build up for Overlord was still under done. They preferred continued pressure north from the Med while flattening Germany from the air. Between ’43 and mid ’44 The Sovs over ran massive swathes of Eastern Europe. Much faster than than the UK/US expected. So by ’44 it was going to be a race to Berlin with the Sovs having a huge head start.
Churchill opposed Overlord before ’44. He rightly knew the contingencies required for a successful amphibious landing against a well prepared foe across contested water. By which time FDR was frail in both mind and body but being the junior western Allied partner Churchill just had to go along with FDR’s misplaced admiration for Stalin and the Sovs. FDR admired Stalin’s ability to control and mobilise his nation while enduring such enormous loss and hardship.
ZK2A:
Mark Willacy. Now why does that name ring a bell?
🙂
When A Clown Moves Into A Palace, He Doesn’t Become A King. The Palace Becomes A Circus. An Old Turkish Proverb.
-Record-high inflation
-Proxy war with Russia
-Open borders
-Loss of energy independence
-Looming recession
-Reckless spending
-Woke agenda
-Increase in violent crimes
-Polarized nation
-Compromised elections
-America now seen as vulnerable to enemies
The list goes on and on……………..
Albo, are you taking notice of World events? No, I didn’t think so.
Dotsays:
September 10, 2022 at 12:21 pm
Oh please, give it a rest.
No.
It might have involved the dissolution of the Waffen SS, Nazi Party, that those guilty of ‘crimes against humanity’ (Final Solution, T4 program, etc.) be tried and punished, and so on
This would never, ever be accepted.
Then the war would have continued until the offered terms were accepted.
How difficult can it be to understand that?
m0ntysays:
September 10, 2022 at 12:49 pm
But it’s about beating the Je….globalists, it’s about the globalists, so Putin needs to win.
Don’t forget the WEF, that’s another code word for the sons of Abraham that they like to use. It always comes back to the Protocols.
m0nty-fa returns ti his obsession with Da Joos.
The idiot seems unaware that if he can hear the anti-Semitic dog whistle, he is the anti-Semite.
JCsays:
September 10, 2022 at 2:08 pm
It all started well before the 50s.
The New Deal.
The New Deal was always a fascist inspiration. It wasn’t communist.
FDR openly expressed his admiration of both Mussolini and Hitler in the 1930s.
Jorge
We might be talking about two different things, JC.
Communists and fascists are so alike.
Both ugly feathers of the same left wing.
OldOzziesays:
September 10, 2022 at 2:28 pm
Zyconoclastsays:
September 10, 2022 at 2:15 pm
Congo bridge collapses seconds after being opened.
Always good to test a bridge before you get on it.
The Sydney Harbour Bridge had a load of steam locomotives placed on it before being opened to the Public and road traffic.
The Bridge is still standing.
Seemed to me the ribbon was the only thing holding the bridge up. Maybe they should have used a more structural element.
Is mUnty transitioning? Into Bird. LOL
Ond and busted Picketys ‘I have the real communism theory, done right in my book”..
New and hot
Kohei Saito, “No I have the new Communism done right, because marx was a conservationist and year zero hero”…
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/09/a-new-way-of-life-the-marxist-post-capitalist-green-manifesto-captivating-japan
The climate crisis will spiral out of control unless the world applies “emergency brakes” to capitalism* and devises a “new way of living”, according to a Japanese academic whose book on Marxism and the environment has become a surprise bestseller.
The message from Kohei Saito, an associate professor at Tokyo University, is simple: capitalism’s demand for unlimited profits is destroying the planet and only “degrowth” can repair the damage by slowing down social production and sharing wealth.**
In practical terms, that means an end to mass production and the mass consumption of wasteful goods such as fast fashion. In Capital in the Anthropocene, Saito also advocates decarbonisation through shorter working hours and prioritising essential “labour-intensive” work such as caregiving.***
…
“Saito is telling a story that is easy to understand,”**** says Jun Shiota, a 31-year-old researcher who bought Capital in the Anthropocene soon after it was published. “He doesn’t say there are good and bad things about capitalism, or that it is possible to reform it … he just says we have to get rid of the entire system.
“Young people were badly affected by the pandemic and face other big issues such as environmental destruction and the cost of living crises, so that simple message resonates with them.”*****
….
The response to Covid-19 had shown that rapid change is not only desirable, but possible, he says.
“One thing that we have learned during the pandemic is that we can dramatically change our way of life overnight – look at the way we started working from home, bought fewer things, flew and ate out less. We proved that working less was friendlier to the environment and gave people a better life.******
….
“I discovered how Marx was interested in sustainability and how non-capitalist and pre-capitalist societies are sustainable, because they are realising the stationary economy, they are not growth-driven,” Saito said.*******
* Back to the caves plebs!!
** Degrowth: Just enough of me, waaaay to many of you.
*** Its all fun and games till its your turn in the caregiving barrel.
**** yes, because “easy” is a great basis to redesign the global economy on.
***** All of those things are caused by “MOAR GOVERNMENT”, and the answer is simple, cede all the economy to MOAR GOVERNMENT and things will be fine.
****** Urban bugman desires everyone to be compelled to stay urban bugmen.
******* Marx imagined a pre history where there was abundance and communal living. He based this on… absolutely nothing. This sub-spastic thinks the pre history imagined out of whole cloth by Marx is an admirable goal.
Churchill opposed Overlord. He was right. Overlord place Western forces far away in Normandy, requiring them to fight their way east while the Russians took that time to take Eastern Europe.
If not Normandy where were the allies gonna land that many troops & equipment in a short space of time? .. they were already in Italy and making heavy weather of reaching Germany via that route .. which was a sight further from any eastern advance than northern France …!
Churchill wasn’t infallible!.. he also held up the evacuation(s) at Dunkirk for 8 days cos he didn’t want the British public to realise that Hitler was winning in France …..!
test
This is deranged.
What were they going to do, go straight through the Elbe Valley and betray de Gaulle (not liberate France)?
Otherwise, go through the Balkans? Over the Alps? Through Switzerland? Through the marshes in The Netherlands? Parachute into Berlin?
Think, if you can, Bird.
Oh great, Monty has just accused everyone here of being antisemites.
Stay classy son.
Well, the English Football Team that I support is Tottenham Hotspur. Traditionally, some supporters have been Jewish and the Chairman Daniel Levy is a Jew. I’m not a Jew and I have nothing against Jews.
Other Teams supporters call us ‘Yids’ which me makes me laugh.
Now with the French I have a different view………………….lol
Who is this MontyPox Geezer anyway? Anyone important?
A ‘Conservative’, in a wheelchair, entered a restaurant one afternoon and asked the waitress for a cup of coffee. The ‘Conservative’ looked across the restaurant and asked, “Is that Jesus sitting over there?”
The waitress nodded “yes,” so the ‘Conservative’ requested that she give Jesus a cup of hot chocolate, on him.
The next patron to come in was a ‘biden’ supporter, with a hunched back. He shuffled over to a booth, painfully sat down, and asked the waitress for a cup of hot tea. He also glanced across the restaurant and asked, “Is that Jesus, over there?”
The waitress nodded, so the ‘biden’ supporter asked her to give Jesus a cup of hot tea, “my treat.”
The third patron to come into the restaurant was a ‘Labor’ supporter on crutches. He hobbled over to a booth, sat down and hollered, “Hey there honey! How’s about getting me a cold XXXX beer?” He too looked across the restaurant and asked, “Isn’t that God’s boy over there?”
The waitress nodded, so the ‘Labor’ supporter directed her to give Jesus a cold beer. “On my bill,” he said loudly.
As Jesus got up to leave, he passed by the ‘Conservative’, touched him and said, “For your kindness, you are healed.” The ‘Conservative’ felt the strength come back into his legs, got up, and danced a jig out the door.
Jesus passed by the ‘Bob Katter’ supporter, touched him and said, “For your kindness, you are healed.” The ‘Katter’ supporter felt his back straightening up and he raised his hands, praised the Lord, and did a series of back flips out the door.
Then, Jesus walked towards the ‘Labor’ supporter, just smiling. The ‘Labor’ supporter jumped up and yelled, “Don’t touch me …. I’m on a disability pension.”
No stop.
A lot of the hatred against Zelensky is getting is because he is Jewish.*
I brought it up, monty refused to clear his conscience of his position on Palestinian violence against Israelis.
*Tell me what people REALLY mean when they say “globalist” as well. Unfortunately (not here) it is just code for Jews.
Dover.
You might need a dedicated safe space here:-
“Hypersensitive Old Ladies With Even Older Grievances”.
Seems fitting.
Japan is home of square watermelons.
Nothing is so square as a green marxist professor.
He probably has fake leather patches on his coat elbows.
African engineers are nothing if not innovative.
Behold this high tech custom built aeroplane.
Top o’ the mornin’ Cats! Here in Dubrovnik in a breakfast room overlooking the Adriatic. Between my table and the sea is a formal garden dotted with stone pines, pencil cedars and various statuary. And the obligatory negative edge swimming pool.
Tough gig but someone has to do it!
I should rephrase my earlier comment about the Covid “caravan moving on”. The inference was the kabuki aspects of it, not the serious medical implications of very imperfect vaccinations, let alone the social consequences. For instance, in this crowded hotel dining room no one is masked, the breakfast buffet proceeds as per normal. There isn’t even a bottle of the ubiquitous hand sanitiser at the door.
Happy, normal people on holidays. It brings great joy to my heart.
If anyone expects me to add to the “entertainment” on the other thread, forget about it. I should never had commented there in the first place and am rueing the day.
Sometimes it’s best to keep your own counsel. Something I learned the hard way since the travails of the Third Form long ago.
It is starting to read a bit like a “Girls of St Trinians” script.
I hear accents from all over the world this morning. It seems the Adriatic is the “go to” place.
We’re off to re-visit the Old Town this morning. It has been around thirteen years since I was here, day tripping from Queen Elizabeth. It will be interesting to see what has changed, if anything. Speaking of Queen Elizabeth, I received an email from Cunard yesterday, mourning the death of their ship’s namesake. The Brits take these things very seriously.
Good call. To do so would be futile, calli.
Dot
*Tell me what people REALLY mean when they say “globalist” as well.
In my case, I think of a bunch of arrogant dickheads who want to impose fascism on the entire world.
The word “Jews” does not come straight into my mind.
Seemed to me the ribbon was the only thing holding the bridge up. Maybe they should have used a more structural element.
“I told you not to make the main bracing wire red! Someone will cut it!”
I’m killing time waiting for the group, so I’ll whinge instead.
Power “saving” in hotels. All the power goes off when you leave so there’s no chance to recharge devices. Any devices, regardless of USBs or conventional. Drives me NUTS! 😀
https://patelpatriot.substack.com/p/devolution-addendum-series-part-5
Who’s really in control at the WH?
In my case, I think of a bunch of arrogant dickheads who want to impose fascism on the entire world.
Aren’t they mainly Germans and other assorted Eurotards lining up to reorganise the world yet again?
Where? The ‘capture’ of, and subsequent hasty retreat from, that deserted village? The photo-op?
Let’s not pretend the much-ballyhooed Ukrainian counteroffensive in Kherson has been a dud – an extremely bloody and destructive dud, at that.
But, quick, look over there! (And then look away, quick!) Did you see? Did you see? A new Ukrainian counteroffensive in Kharkov region is making absolutely stunning gains and the Russians are falling back in total disarray! It’s true because we say so AND you even saw it, right? Are you saying you’re not a credible witness? Of course you are! It’s happening in Kherson and now in Kharkov. It’s happening! We must send more money and weapons so the Ukrainians can make their final push against the Russian invaders.
Astonishing that people are still allowing themselves to get played in this way.
Power “saving” in hotels. All the power goes off when you leave so there’s no chance to recharge devices.
Fold your cardboard room key holder in half, shove it in the slot!
*Tell me what people REALLY mean when they say “globalist” as well. Unfortunately (not here) it is just code for Jews.
No, just the opposite; for me it’s the jubbery jowled kraut klaus schwab, all the other WEF shitheads, the great re-setters, the UN and assorted billionaires like gates. They’re the globalists. They actually made a movie about them called Kingsman. I wrote this critique of it at the now banned TCS blog:
Some movies are unintentionally anti-AGW because they are so pretentious like Atavar or just plain stupid like Noah.
Some are subtle and sly in their critique of AGW like Interstellar, a great movie or Captain America: The Winter Soldier another great piece of cinema.
But there is nothing subtle or sly about Kingsman: The Secret Service; this movie presents in Technicolour the awful nature of alarmists; they are elitist, narcissistic and misanthropic. And riddled in hypocrisy.
The villain is Valentine, played by Samuel Jackson. Valentine is another tech billionaire who despises his fellow man for causing AGW. His solution is to kill off 99.9% of the human population.
His sales pitch to the rich and famous is classic alarmist agitprop. Valentine tells them that humans are a virus raising the temperature of the living Earth. If the virus isn’t destroyed the planet’s fever will worsen and either the planet will fight back and kill the disease of the disease will kill the planet.
The idea that humans are a disease or parasite has underpinned the AGW narrative and is espoused by all the leading AGW scientists and particularly AGW’s many rich supporters like Bill Gates.
In Kingsman Valentine is seen convincing Obama of his vision which is ironic since Obama’s chief scientist, John Holdren, is an avid supporter of forced reduction of humanity. In real life Obama would have not needed any convincing.
Valentine, as the archetypal rich supporter of AGW, has a tenuous hold on real life. He thinks he is living in a movie and can’t stand the sight of blood even though he is prepared to kill billions.
Valentine is the perfect portrayal of the elitist loon who supports AGW. He has made his vast wealth from his society and now as a matter of vanity will destroy that society. The thought that his lifestyle will cease when the society is destroyed doesn’t enter his thinking. This is cognitive dissonance on a grand scale.
Valentine implants chips in the chosen ones so they can resist the doomsday device he has perfected.
In a delicious twist all the elistists, including Obama (and Prince Charles) literally lose their heads when the device backfires.
The movie wittily portrays the religious nature of AGW belief when Valentine tests his device on a bible bashing Southern Baptist church. The message is plain: when religion claims to be fact trouble is inevitable. This is what has happened with AGW: it is religion masquerading as fact. Armed with the pseudoscience of AGW rich crackpots like Valentine can live out their dreams. At the end Valentine can’t tell reality from his ego generated bubble of fantasy.
The movie offers no formal solution to the blight of public corruption by the AGW scam and relies on a steadfast and very aggressive secret organisation to violently eradicate the AGW zealots and hypocrites.
We should be so lucky in the real world.
One of my grandfathers was a blacksmith who made the rivets which holds it together. Whenever I drove across the bridge, I’d look up at the massive structure overhead and say “thanks Grandpa.”
He was a clever bloke, he borrowed a neighbour’s Victa lawnmower when they first came out (early 1950’s?) instead of using his old push mower, and had a good look at it. He wrote to the Victa mower company and gave them a list of modifications to improve the mower.
He never had a reply but around six months later there was a knock on the door. It was a bloke from the Victa mower company who thanked him for his suggestions, said that they are now incorporated into the latest model, and gave him a free mower.
Three engineers and three accountants were travelling by train to a conference.
At the station, the three accountants each buy tickets and watch as the three engineers buy only a single ticket.
“How are you three going to travel on only one ticket?” one of the accountants asks. “Watch and you will see” answers one of the engineers.
They all board the train. The three accountants take their respective seats, but the three engineers all cram into a restroom and close the door behind them.
Shortly after the train has departed, the conductor comes around collecting tickets. He knocks on the restroom door and says “Ticket please”.
The door opens just a crack and a single arm emerges with a ticket in hand. The conductor takes it and moves on.
The accountants saw this and agreed it was a very clever idea. So after the conference, they decide to copy the engineers and purchase a single ticket on the return journey to save money.
When they get to the station, they buy a single ticket there. To their amazement, the engineers buy no tickets at all.
One of the accountants asks “How are you going to travel without any ticket?” “Watch and you will see” one of the engineers replies.
When they board the train, the three accountants cram into one restroom and the three engineers cram into another one nearby. The train departs.
Shortly after it has departed, one of the engineers leaves his place and walks over to the restroom where the accountants are hiding. He knocks on the door and says “Ticket please”.
Wife: “Look. I haven’t worn this in 8 years and it still fits!” Husband: “For God’s sake woman, it’s a scarf!”
The movie offers no formal solution to the blight of public corruption by the AGW scam and relies on a steadfast and very aggressive secret organisation to violently eradicate the AGW zealots and hypocrites.
We should be so lucky in the real world.
Yeah, I think this one is going to be a DIY job.
He never had a reply but around six months later there was a knock on the door. It was a bloke from the Victa mower company who thanked him for his suggestions, said that they are now incorporated into the latest model, and gave him a free mower.
Cool!
William appears to be getting ten times the coverage of Wingnut III.
Seems people are just wishing Charles away.
Despite his climate loonacy William can have any job that he wants as long as he brings Kate along with him.
Doll of the most dollish dollism.
Dover you motor boating sonofabitch, you had the last word !
Knuckle Dragger:
A pity she didn’t try – the video of a couple of the stable hands dragging her off the property and throwing her onto the public road would have been a UTube hit.
Dovers been nagged into making impossible commitments.
I made a complete dick of self at Sturgis yesterday. Raving about all of the restored early 20th Century Harleys and Indians.
Someone pointed out to me that they all had disk brakes.
The opportunities to be an idiot are endless.
rickw:
When you next look at a group of docs and nurses, notice how high a percentage of the women are of child bearing age. I suspect many of them have done the sums and decided to start their families now, so that means there will be large shortfalls over the next 5 years.
Sturgis has been on my list for some time. My brothers been and had ball riding to a it few times.
If the Germans were not interested in a peaceful settlement that early, what was the whole Rudolph Hess thing about?
If the Germans were not interested in a peaceful settlement that early, what was the whole Rudolph Hess thing about?
Going solo?
By whom?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZ5fIKmn1ok
No apologies from COVID-19 vaccine pushers
New boosters conflate the testing of mice and men
By Editorial Board – The Washington Times
Mistakes aplenty have occurred in the unprecedented battle against COVID-19, but governing in the modern era apparently means never having to explain. As the war against the pandemic dwindles toward the close of its third year, Americans are still pondering the wisdom of shortcuts taken by Washington’s apothecaries in creating their novel vaccines — and whether apologies are appropriate.
With pharmaceutical firms, Pfizer and Moderna receiving approval for their new boosters, the issue of full disclosure as the basis for informed consent returned to the front burner. “We are launching a new vaccine – our first in almost two years – with a new approach. For most Americans, that means one COVID-19 shot, once a year, each fall,” President Joe Biden said Tuesday in a statement.
The apothecary-in-chief did not mention the fresh vaxxes, reformulated to combat the original virus as well as the more recent BA.4 and BA.5 Omicron variants, have not been put through human trials. Rather, the formulas have been tested on intrepid mice.
This nugget of information may be disturbing, but mostly only to individuals who somehow overlooked the fact that customarily performed human trials of the original messenger RNA COVID-19 vaccines were cut short and in 2021, the drugs were granted “emergency use authorization.” Manufacturers argued that injecting vulnerable patients with a placebo rather than their experimental virus-fighting drug could result in their deaths, violating the paramount medical principle: “First, do no harm.”
To be sure, speed versus safety in drug development is a gut-wrenching ethical balancing act when people are suffering. The decision to err on the side of haste, though, has carried a cost: The COVID-19 vaccines have since been associated with more than 900,000 adverse events — 56% of all ill reactions reported for nearly 100 U.S.-licensed vaccines of all sorts since 1990, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System. The most adverse event of all, of course, is death, and the COVID-19 vaxxes have been associated with more than 17,000.
Reasonable Americans may question the wisdom of presenting their arms for new versions of drugs that have proved life-saving for most, but life-threatening for too many. Rep. Thomas Massie, Kentucky Republican, summarized the unwelcome choice in a recent tweet: “Some are saying there are no human trials for the newest COVID-19 boosters being administered this fall. I beg to differ. If you take this booster, you are the human trial.” It’s a jarring – but not untrue — way of putting it.
Americans one and all are relieved that the pandemic is on the ebb. At the same time, they have learned not to put all their trust in the efficacy of medical remedies that conflate the testing of mice and men. After all, despite 84% of the U.S. population having received at least one vaccine dose, more than 70% have nevertheless caught COVID-19, according to the CDC.
Since garnering praise for success is more gratifying, Americans aren’t likely to receive apologies from Washington’s apothecaries for shortcuts that result in shortcomings among their experimental vaccines
Hess was insane.
His flight to the UK was his idea alone with no other Nazis privy to it in either his intent or the flight itself.
Killed by death
?
Comments are closed, so you couldn’t anyway, Calli. And you’re not prone to what Johanna calls ’emotional incontinence’, so would not add to the revolting tone of the site.
for now
Masking now a symbol of COVID-19 pandemic’s mental health toll
Millions may never recover from a virus that won’t ever threaten their lives
Linus had his security blanket. My son had his stuffed puppy dog. Now, for millions of Americans, they have their masks. A salve for the COVID-19 crippled, masks have become a present reminder of the damage the pandemic has done emotionally and psychologically to millions of Americans.
America’s struggle with mental health has been exacerbated by what researchers and the NIH now call Coronaphobia, severe anxiety associated with the pandemic.
A lot of Americans, myself included, find themselves struggling with how to handle and what to think about those mask-clingers in this post-pandemic environment. We look at them and wonder why they hang on to some thin piece of fabric or odd masking practices that run counter to science and common sense. I recoil from watching parents mask their children, who are statistically not at risk from the virus.
We’ve all seen these folks. A woman on a plane wearing a see-through mesh mask. Another who keeps the mask on in the air but takes it off after landing. A child is masked in a pool. The parent who makes their otherwise healthy kid wear a mask but won’t herself. A jogger masked outside in the summer heat. The person driving masked in the car alone.
In just the last month I’ve seen them all and many more. It’s increasingly frustrating and I feel bad about such a visceral reaction.
After more than two years of shifting government mandates and misinformation from politicians, the media, the medical community and Big Pharma, the mask is now an outward symbol of the paranoia many Americans have been conditioned to feel.
The mask didn’t make America sicker, but it has become a symbol of how so sick many have become.
Motörhead:
Lemmy:
Yarks – that’s Rock ‘n’ Roll, Squire.
Wallies die in their sixties and seventies after a life well enjoyed.
To paraphrase Georgie Best – “I spent a lot of money on booze, women and fast cars – the rest I just wasted …” 🙂
https://twitter.com/aidemleoxide/status/1489686628054540290?s=21&t=u6S5z_WbJNGVX1ji8vPPgw
https://twitter.com/aidemleoxide/status/1568368811442585601?s=21&t=u6S5z_WbJNGVX1ji8vPPgw
The first tweet predicted Elizabeth’s parting
The second about a former President.
Has JC gone under the knife yet?
I’ve got some more relaxatratin’ hippie muzak for him if he hasn’t.
..
Yep.
My music listening now consists of mostly the dead.
They’re all disappearing.
The Ox* …
Deceased at 57 after a massive drug induced coronary.
Anyone who claims that isn’t the way he would have liked to have gone out is kidding themselves.
*Clad in a magnifique White Levi’s Jacket
Yet here we are, Squire. 🙂
Grumpy test.
Happy test.
Dover, is there any reason why I can’t post a comment to support P? I’ve been trying for more than two hours.
You have to have two legs to comment.
Delta – comments are closed on that thread.
Hair transplant kit:
Carpet tile, a hammer and four nails.
As prescribed to us by a no longer with us mate. A ranga, a twin, musically and sportingly gifted, the goils all wanted him and the funniest bloke I ever had the privilege to know in my lifetime.
Died several months ago of a brain tumour. Left behind a loving woife and a beautiful young daughter.
We blunder temporarily upon this planet at the mercy of forces greater than we can comprehend, Cats.
How fucking sympathetic was Hitler’s decision to bomb the shit out of London?
The Blitz on London from September 1940 to May 1941 and the V1 flying bomb and V2 rocket attacks in 1944 caused a massive amount of damage. It is estimated that more than 12,000 metric tons of bombs were dropped on London and nearly 30,000 civilians were killed by enemy action. The worst hit places tended to be the poorer districts, like the East End, but all Londoners were affected by German air raids to a varying degree. (Imperial War Museum)
Pardon my French but stupid rubbish needs to be called out.
Especially when they were experiencing “Me Stroogle”.
Looks like it was being held together by the ribbon.
Collectivists – whatever they accuse you of, they are.
U.S Gov. Reports reveal many Children have been Permanently Disabled or Killed by COVID Vaccination & just 4 to 6% of the Vaccine Batches produced are responsible but Medicine Regulators have refused to act
Idea for the next Rabz show: dead rockers.
OSC, were the bridge engineers and builders chosen using racial criteria or ability?
At the start of WWII, Hitler was sympathetic to the English man.
How fucking sympathetic was Hitler’s decision to bomb the shit out of London?
Hitler has only got one ball………………………………………The other is in the Albert Hall –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1DWJQkOJew
LOL………………………..
Duh. Silly me.
There being no shortage of material, Arks.
Sounds very good to me. 🙂
Ideas for next Rabz show:
Country
Blues
Hits from musicals
Girls groups
Family bands/groups
Ban Crossie!
My point, BoN, is that I had been trying to post a comment for two hours before Dover closed it down.
After that woeful live performance, let’s have a Slight Return … 🙂
Who is the woman reading the proclamation?
Jeff Buckley … one of the greatest artists to submerge n the 90’s
Why? What did I do?
AFLW news:
In a game between two well-drilled defensive teams, scores were hard to come by as the Magpies ultimately prevailed 2.3 (15) to 1.5 (11) at GMHBA Stadium.
When I said that Geelong’s round 1 AFLW game “must have been a defensive masterclass” I meant it as satire. I shouldn’t have given them the idea.
You can watch the “highlights” on the AFL website, apparently.
Crossie – this might require a vote – hopefully they will not return one I don’t like.
Which Cats, to their credit, have not. Impeccable taste, they have. 🙂
Kings & queens? Being topical and all. Elvis and Freddy Mercury on the same thread…plus sequins!
About to get taken for arvo beers by the CCP! 🙂
This!
dead rockers in aircraft accidents
… SRV