Open Thread – Weekend 17 Sept 2022


The Shores of Dalmatia, Ivan Aivazovski, 1848

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Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 17, 2022 6:08 pm

Franksays:

September 17, 2022 at 6:06 pm

I thought he went quiet when JC started talking about lawyering up over doxing.

Googlery wasn’t my #1 suspect.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
September 17, 2022 6:09 pm

The SCG is a shit place to play AFL finals.
One kick from the centre gets you to full forward. You can’t do that at nearly all other grounds in the comp.
That said, I think the Pies are sunk unless Buddy does a groin. The umps should wipe the grease of the bugger before the game starts like a boxing referee. It’s a low grade form of cheating.

Zatara
Zatara
September 17, 2022 6:10 pm

Russia did Crimea before Trump and the Ukraine after Trump but didn’t try anything during the 4 years he was President.

Kind of speaks for itself I’d think.

bespoke
bespoke
September 17, 2022 6:10 pm

Who is Buddles?

Frank
Frank
September 17, 2022 6:12 pm

It didn’t turn out to be much of a holiday, Monty just expanded to fill in the gaps.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
September 17, 2022 6:12 pm

Who is Buddles?

You need a welcome to country and mental elf training.

bespoke
bespoke
September 17, 2022 6:14 pm

Shut up Gez!

Rabz
September 17, 2022 6:16 pm

The umps should wipe the grease of the bugger before the game starts like a boxing referee. It’s a low grade form of cheating

Reminds me of Ellery Hanley and Andy Gregory coating the ball in vaseline before the kick off of a Rugby League Ashes Test.

If Buddles is guilty of anything, it’s using some common sense – and within the rules, it would seem.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
September 17, 2022 6:23 pm

Watch out Bespoke.
I’ve got my teeth out and a can of Woodstock in hand.

Rabz
September 17, 2022 6:25 pm

The SCG is a shit place to play AFL finals. One kick from the centre gets you to full forward.

Gez – that last time I was in Perth (Jan 2020) as a guest of Jupes and his better half, he took me to a suburb in Perth where the Weagles training grounds were – to meet his son and girlfriend before heading off to a nearby Cafe for breakfast.

Looking at the training grounds I noticed (it was very difficult not to) a massive, empty and very flat oval next to the main ground that appeared to have been installed recently and with a very particular purpose.

Me: “So who plays cricket there, Squire?”
Jupes: “It’s a purpose built replica, dimension wise, of the MCG, Rabz.”

Constructed purely so the Weagles could train on a ground the size of the MCG, as they rarely played there during the season and if they made the important finals, they’d be playing there.

The Turkeys presumably don’t have that sort of looxury.

bespoke
bespoke
September 17, 2022 6:26 pm

So have I.
Watching WestWorld the original.

Rabz
September 17, 2022 6:29 pm

I thought Eddles went quiet when JC started talking about lawyering up over doxing

Yeah, no.

Bit unfair to accuse Eddles of low acts like doxxing, BTW.

He’s had a break, he may have been unwell, for all we know.

Johnny Rotten
September 17, 2022 6:32 pm

A woman goes to the doctor and says “Doctor, my husband is an animal in the bedroom. He wants sex five, six, seven times a day. I love the man and the sex, but it’s just too much. Can you help me?” The doctor replied “Well, medically, I can’t really think of anything. Theoretically, this might work. From now on, whenever he demands sex, demand money. $10 in the kitchen, $30 in the living room, $50 in the bedroom. The man isn’t made of money, that should slow him down”. She agrees and thanks the doctor. Excited, she goes home ready to use his advice. She starts to prepare dinner. Her husband comes home, doesn’t even ask about dinner, but immediately sneaks up behind her, brushes up against her and plays grab ass. She turns to him and says “Honey, I have a new rule regarding sex”. He replies “Okay hon, shoot!” She continues “From now on, I demand money for sex. $10 in the kitchen, $30 in the living room, $50 in the bedroom”. He looks at her and says “Okay, I think you deserve that, you do so much, no problem”. He reaches for his wallet and sees he has a $50 bill in his wallet and hands it to his wife. She says “Okay let’s go up to the bedroom”. He shouts “NO! FIVE TIMES IN THE KITCHEN!!”

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 17, 2022 6:32 pm

Zatara, the Georgia defensive line looks brutal this year.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
September 17, 2022 6:39 pm

Tokyo Rise was actually innocent and an Australian POW officer (Major Cousens) helped write her scripts, they were meant to be so over the top they’d actually boost allies morale.

That worked and Ford eventually pardoned her for the one crime she was convicted of in a crooked trial.

Ford pardoned d’Aquino when it became clear she was set up by the FBI in 1948 to boost Truman’s re-election chances. The principle witnesses that gave evidence that sent her down for treason were essentially kidnapped from Tokyo:

“The FBI and US occupation police told us we would have to testify against Iva or else Uncle Sam might arrange a trial for us too – or worse,” Oki told Mr Yates in 1976.

“We were flown to San Francisco from Tokyo… we was told what to say and what not to say two hours every morning for a month before the trial started.”

The FBI: a proud tradition of political policing for the Democrats.

Rabz
September 17, 2022 6:40 pm

Turkeys are off to the Gee next Saturday.

Funnily enough, this well padded idiot was unable to be reached for comment (again) …

Trigger Warning: Fat Ugly Braindead Lamestream Meeja ALPBC Imbecile

Roger
Roger
September 17, 2022 6:43 pm

If Trump was President – okay he still is – and was still in the White House and the short, Russian grub had attacked Ukraine – what would have been the American response?

I’m given to understand that Trump told Putin if he played up Moscow would be nuked.

Trump may have been bluffing, but Putin wasn’t sure.

Johnny Rotten
September 17, 2022 6:45 pm

Putin & October

From Martin Armstrong –

“Despite all the propaganda that was put out by John McCain, Putin was selected by Yeltsin because he was being blackmailed on the one side by the oligarchs in July 1999 and the communists on the other who introduced a motion in the Duma to impeach him for corruption that was related to the Bank of New York scandal.

Putin NEVER sought to resurrect the old USSR. In fact, he was the ONLY Russian leader to even criticize Lenin as just a bolshevik who destroyed a great empire of the Tsars. Lost in the pages of history, Russia at the time in 1917 had the largest gold reserves of any nation. Those gold reserves vanished and to this day have not been found. It was believed that they were hidden to prevent the Communists from seizing them.

Putin was there to restore Russia after the oligarchs plundered it and the Harvard boys who advised Russia on how to make the transition from Communism to Capitalism utterly never understood the most basic element of such a transition – the people. Putin’s most important achievement of his 20 years in power was restoring normalcy and stability to Russia. He went after the oligarchs and told them they could keep their money, but to stop interfering in politics.

The unwritten history that has been omitted from all books on the subject is that in 1991 when the USSR collapsed, NATO solicited Russia to join NATO. That was one of the reasons there was a coup for the hardliners saw this would be a surrender of Russia to the USA. That is when Yeltsin stood on the tank and became President. Yeltsin was himself corrupt and he actually facilitated the rise of the oligarchs.

When Yeltsin turned to Putin out of desperation, the people cheered for Putin was neither an oligarch nor a communist. Despite the propaganda from the West, Putin truly enjoyed a 70%+ approval rating for the people neither wanted to lose all freedom to the communists and the oligarchs exploited the people to gain wealth.

Putin has refused to institute a draft to shore up Russian forces. However, despite all the propaganda that pours out of Ukraine, removing Putin will turn Russia very hard right and they are already criticizing Putin for being too soft.”

More here –

https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/politics/putin-october/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
September 17, 2022 6:46 pm

Turkeys are off to the Gee next Saturday.

Just hang on a minute there Rabz. 22 points in it.

Ed Case
Ed Case
September 17, 2022 6:47 pm

… trying to push the workload onto those who challenge his position.
Hang on a flash.
I didn’t make the original comment re Pope, though I do support the gist of it.
This guy is the first Pope to be Pope while the previous Pope is still[?] alive.
So, like Joe Biden isn’t really Prez, he’s not really Pope, though how he got there is fairly well documented.
So, rather than play attack the messenger for meaningless brownie points, find out some basic info about Pope Jorge Bergoglio before hurling abuse.

Rabz
September 17, 2022 6:52 pm

KD – another quarter, with many many Turkeys goals. 🙂

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
September 17, 2022 6:52 pm

This guy is the first Pope to be Pope while the previous Pope is still[?] alive.

Wrong.

Rabz
September 17, 2022 6:54 pm

This guy is the first Pope to be Pope while the previous Pope was alleged to have gotten it on with some HBOTs.

Wrong (again).

Ed Case
Ed Case
September 17, 2022 6:54 pm

Putin NEVER sought to resurrect the old USSR. In fact, he was the ONLY Russian leader to even criticize Lenin as just a bolshevik who destroyed a great empire of the Tsars.

Strike 1 against Putin.
Lenin was the great man who established the Soviet Union.
Lost in the pages of history, Russia at the time in 1917 had the largest gold reserves of any nation. Those gold reserves vanished and to this day have not been found. It was believed that they were hidden to prevent the Communists from seizing them.
Okaaaay.

Putin was there to restore Russia after the oligarchs plundered it and the Harvard boys who advised Russia on how to make the transition from Communism to Capitalism utterly never understood the most basic element of such a transition – the people.
Rubbish.
Putin was a Communist, a career KGB officer and the successor to Yeltsin, who was a Flamer [and a Drunk].
The achievements of Putin were absolutely Nil up to 24/2/2022, but since then he’s managed to get maybe 50,000 Russian soldiers killed for no good reason.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
September 17, 2022 6:55 pm

3/4 time. 23 points down.

Given the Pies have been right here plenty of times before in the back half of this season, I am very comfortable with that.

Roger
Roger
September 17, 2022 6:57 pm

Putin was there to restore Russia after the oligarchs plundered it

Er…Putin made his first fortune ripping off the people of his home town, St. Petersburg, on a deal that was supposed to supply them with cooking oil.

Ed Case
Ed Case
September 17, 2022 6:58 pm

Pope Ratzinger was likely a Flamer, but did he have a history or promoting and protecting pederasts?
The evidence just isn’t there.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
September 17, 2022 6:59 pm

Tic Tac dick umps are once again parading their inadequacy in big games.

Rabz
September 17, 2022 7:01 pm

KD – a Cats V Maggies Grand Final may still be a possibility, but the Turkeys have dominated this contest.

Have the maggies been in front at all during the game?

No.

Do they look like pulling off some miracle victory?

Possibly (invoking the evil spirits of that loathsome grotesque hitlerist jug eared imbecile might do it for them).

When you’re covered in twattoos, blessed without teeth or a brain and lerving centrelink long time, you presumably have nothing else to exist for.

Plasmamortar
Plasmamortar
September 17, 2022 7:01 pm

The most important part of the Russia/Ukraine war (the economic war) is currently being won by Russia…

Ruble is the strongest performing currency this year, Russian gas companies have shipped less product and turned a greater profit than last year.

Add to that, they are securing new gas and oil trade contracts with China and India.

Europe gets to have the fun of people freezing to death this winter.

As for the kinetic war, the West underestimated Putin.
NATO tried to push too far and now the Ukrainian people suffer.

This could all be over tomorrow if the West stops trying to bully Russia…

Cassie of Sydney
September 17, 2022 7:02 pm

“Russia did Crimea before Trump and the Ukraine after Trump but didn’t try anything during the 4 years he was President.

Kind of speaks for itself I’d think.”

Yep……I think Putin and Xi respected Trump. With the Sniffer, there’s no respect which is probably why Putin has gambled.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
September 17, 2022 7:03 pm

Do they look like pulling off some miracle victory?

Keep sucking those Woodstocks and it’s all possible.
Is that Munty running on?

Rabz
September 17, 2022 7:06 pm

Pope Ratzinger was likely a Flamer, but did he have a history (or, sic) of promoting and protecting pederasts? The evidence just isn’t there.

Gee, thanks for that, Eddles.

“Albansleazey is likely an Alpaca farmer, but did he have a history of promoting and protecting Thai massage providing chickees*? The evidence could be alleged to be there.”

*Who were later revealed to possess a “middle leg”

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
September 17, 2022 7:08 pm

Have the maggies been in front at all during the game?
No.

16 points Rabz.

Roger
Roger
September 17, 2022 7:08 pm

This could all be over tomorrow if the West stops trying to bully Russia…

We’re well past that point.

Russia has again reiterated that this war won’t be over until they achieve their objectives.

It seems they’ve adopted a crash through or crash posture.

Or they could reassess their objectives over the winter. We’ll see.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
September 17, 2022 7:09 pm

Mihocek needs to step up, and step up hard.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
September 17, 2022 7:10 pm

Ed-mongs brain surgery binned the wrong bit again?

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
September 17, 2022 7:10 pm

15.

Tom
Tom
September 17, 2022 7:12 pm

Tic Tac dick umps are once again parading their inadequacy in big games.

AFL umpires are pimps for whichever home crowd they’re officiating in front of. The AFL trains them to be mentally weak so they’re receptive to this week’s narrative. AFL umpires are good little Germans.

MatrixTransform
September 17, 2022 7:13 pm

omg … make it stop.

Rabz
September 17, 2022 7:13 pm

Ah, that ol’ saying “Never go the gloat until it is actually all over”.

😕

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
September 17, 2022 7:14 pm

14.

Missing chances though.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
September 17, 2022 7:16 pm

Tom, events have just proven your point.

Push in the back and a dropped mark, but let’s give it to the bloke anyway. 20 points.

Rabz
September 17, 2022 7:19 pm

And the lead blows out twenty, peoples!

KD – “How soon is now?”

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
September 17, 2022 7:19 pm

Tic Tac dick does it again,
Push in the back and the ball hits the ground. Mark payed naturally.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
September 17, 2022 7:20 pm

Daily Mail

Wellwisher gives King Charles a pen ‘just in case’ after first days of his reign are beset by ink disasters

This follows a string of ink mishaps during the King’s visit to Northern Ireland
In Belfast, the King complained he ‘couldn’t stand’ leaky pen when signing book
The monarch also vented frustration at an ink pot when singing his Proclamation
The public clearly caught wind of his frustration ahead of his visit to Cardiff

Ed Case
Ed Case
September 17, 2022 7:21 pm

MSM is telling the truth [that the Ukesters are winning] but don’t tell you it’s because:
1. Putin is either incompetent to manage a War, or an outright traitor; and
2. The U.S. is pouring weapons into Ukraine.
Yeah, the weapons are being operated by U.S. Troops and the Uke side of the War is being managed by the Pentagon, while the bucolic Ukes are providing the cannon fodder, but, contrary to the popular opinion, managing Wars for their own interests is the United States reason for being and they’re very good at it.

Roger
Roger
September 17, 2022 7:22 pm

Is there a football game on?

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
September 17, 2022 7:23 pm

Mihocek! By popular request!

15!

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
September 17, 2022 7:23 pm

Piss off Roger.
This is serious.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
September 17, 2022 7:25 pm

Hossssssskin-Elliott!!!

9!

Roger
Roger
September 17, 2022 7:25 pm

Piss off Roger.
This is serious.

AFL is not a serious game.

You get a point for missing the goal, for heaven’s sake.

Rabz
September 17, 2022 7:27 pm

managing Wars for their own interests is the United States reason for being and they’re very good at it

Eddles – you’re purveying the “Masters of War” viewpoint.

‘stan – twenty years of blood and treasure and zero to show for it, except a newly equipped and emboldened bunch of goat pleasurers.

The place should have been handed over to the Covenant for a full glassing after 9/11.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
September 17, 2022 7:28 pm

Go you GOOOD BOYS!!!!!

THREE POINTS!

Rabz
September 17, 2022 7:28 pm

Sacré bleu! 🙁

Eyrie
Eyrie
September 17, 2022 7:32 pm

Woke is basically part of the old USSR demoralisation campaign and one does not get to be a KGB colonel like Putin without a hatred of capitalism and America/the West.

As a KGB Colonel he would have had access to real intel about the true state of the USSR and the capitalist West. Professional intel officers don’t do hatred. It’s just a job. Do your part to hold it all together as long as possible. In SF see Dominic Flandry by the late, great, Poul Anderson.

bespoke
bespoke
September 17, 2022 7:32 pm

omg … make it stop.

What?
Did somebody’s put icecream there Crêpes Suzette.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
September 17, 2022 7:33 pm

Ah, fuck.

Rabz
September 17, 2022 7:33 pm

Those mighty Turkeys! 🙂

Rabz
September 17, 2022 7:34 pm

One point – might as well have been seventy.

Tom
Tom
September 17, 2022 7:34 pm

Victory for the theatregoers!

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
September 17, 2022 7:35 pm

Despite being a Pies man, I enjoyed that.
I think Cats will flog Sydney next week.
BTW
Piss of Roger.

Roger
Roger
September 17, 2022 7:35 pm

The thing about Russia-Ukraine and Trump is that unless you actually solve the problem all you’ve done is kick the can down the road.

The POTUS, even a Trump, can’t solve eastern Europe’s problems.

He can only keep a lid on them.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
September 17, 2022 7:36 pm

I’m reporting Roger every time now.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 17, 2022 7:37 pm

The Pies win the close ones.
Mostly.

Tom
Tom
September 17, 2022 7:37 pm

Stupid Channel 7 floozie interviewing Buddy. Sweetie, he’s not a match-winner — he a marketing device in a city of gullible theatregoers.

Rabz
September 17, 2022 7:38 pm

Mostlee …

Roger
Roger
September 17, 2022 7:40 pm

I’m reporting Roger every time now.

AFL contends with soccer for silly game status.

Blows raspberry.

MatrixTransform
September 17, 2022 7:40 pm

Did somebody’s put icecream there Crêpes Suzette.

do you live with a Collingwood supporter?

No.

this noise won’t die until she sleeps

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
September 17, 2022 7:41 pm

The Sydney Mancravers didn’t win. They escaped.

They escaped, and they know it.

However. From 17th at the end of 2021 to going within a point of the GF the next – I’m not happy with it, but I’m satisfied with it.

Rabz
September 17, 2022 7:41 pm

err, Tommy – he was out there doing the hard yards early on, including being belted mercilessly by the maggies’ players handbags.

The oil on the shoulders and upper arms was pure Sydneystan.

Get a grip, the Eddie McGuire todger inhalers could not.

bespoke
bespoke
September 17, 2022 7:41 pm

LOL..

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 17, 2022 7:43 pm

I am sayink naffink.

bespoke
bespoke
September 17, 2022 7:43 pm

Who or what is Collingwood?

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
September 17, 2022 7:46 pm

Reported again Roger.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
September 17, 2022 7:46 pm

Tic Tac dick does it again,
Push in the back and the ball hits the ground. Mark payed naturally.

Papley.

Cost the Pies a goal they had to get back. Almost up there with the Great Wayne Harmes Fit-Up of 1979.

The struggle is real.

Tom
Tom
September 17, 2022 7:46 pm

Roger, it’s OK if you don’t understand why Australian Rules is a $4.7 billion sports rights goldmine in the only country on earth with four professional football codes.

It’s the only game that didn’t come from somewhere else.

MatrixTransform
September 17, 2022 7:48 pm

Who or what is Collingwood?

throw all yr hopes and dreams into a 44 gallon drum along with all your money

wait 5 minutes for your neighbour to set fire to it

…that’s Collingwood

Megan
Megan
September 17, 2022 7:49 pm

The Pies win the close ones.
Mostly.

Not mostly enough in the ones that matter.

Rabz
September 17, 2022 7:50 pm

err, KD – if it’s any consolation, a man much wiser than me once observed:

Football fans should be herded into shipping containers and bulldozed off a high cliff into the sea”.

🙂

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
September 17, 2022 7:51 pm

throw all yr hopes and dreams into a 44 gallon drum along with all your money
wait 5 minutes for your neighbour to set fire to it

Listen to Kid Rock while you wait.

Arky
September 17, 2022 7:53 pm

“Football fans should be herded into shipping containers and bulldozed off a high cliff into the sea”.

..
Your humanitarian impulses do you no credit.
Why wouldn’t you set fire to the containers first?

Megan
Megan
September 17, 2022 7:53 pm

this noise won’t die until she sleeps

Indeed. I am preparing for a 90 minute sobfest from my Sunday morning walking partner. I may be indisposed given the gloating I copped after my mob were eliminated last weekend.

Razey
Razey
September 17, 2022 7:53 pm

Geelong will thrash Sydney.

Roger
Roger
September 17, 2022 7:54 pm

Reported again Roger.

Go ahead…make my day.

I secretly love the attention, don’t you know.

It’s the only game that didn’t come from somewhere else.

Seems to me it owes a lot to Gaelic football, Tom.

Roger
Roger
September 17, 2022 7:55 pm

So….who won?

CharlieP
CharlieP
September 17, 2022 7:57 pm

We always know when Collingwood loses because they tend to break the trees on the way home. If they win they only break a few.

Tom
Tom
September 17, 2022 8:00 pm

Seems to me it owes a lot to Gaelic football, Tom.

Gaelic football is a retarded version of soccer.

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
September 17, 2022 8:01 pm

Seems to me it owes a lot to Gaelic football, Tom.

History says otherwise.
The first games were played between Protestant schools.
None of the early clubs had particularly Irish connections, colours etc. (Green didn’t form part of the colours of any VFL/AFL club till the Dockers were formed.)
The first rules were written by two Cambridge University men, Tom Wills from Rugby School, and a teacher from Scotch College who was Irish but from the “Protestant Ascendancy”. There’s zero evidence that any of them (except perhaps the teacher at Scotch) had ever even heard of Gaelic football – not surprisingly since Gaelic football wasn’t codified into anything like a uniform game till well after Australian Rules was established.

Ed Case
Ed Case
September 17, 2022 8:02 pm

‘stan – twenty years of blood and treasure and zero to show for it, except a newly equipped and emboldened bunch of goat pleasurers.

The stated goal was to bring OBL to justice, so Mission Accomplished.
All the gear they left there didn’t matter, Australia lost many men at the tail end of Vietnam trying to salvage and repatriate tanks & c. to what end?
The Yanks did the same in Australia in 1944/45, there were still Blitz Trucks running round on farms in the 1980s.

Rabz
September 17, 2022 8:02 pm

Why wouldn’t you set fire to the containers first?

Arks, you’d set fire to the containers after they’ve thudded onto the earth.

Just to be sure, to be sure … 🙂

DaFisk
DaFisk
September 17, 2022 8:04 pm

Putin’s counterparts are just openly humiliating him at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation meetings.

https://twitter.com/skazal_on/status/1570824858401116161

Ed Case
Ed Case
September 17, 2022 8:12 pm

Yeah, and some say China reckons the Russian Far East is theirs.
While I wouldn’t predict Putin’s Downfall just yet, his SMO has been a colossal blunder.

Rabz
September 17, 2022 8:13 pm

Gaelic football is a retarded version of …

OK, Cats – as the saying goes – I’m not having it (again).

Football is the world’s greatest game.

A simple game, with simple rules, for simple personages.

Which is why “The Show”, commencing in November will be the greatest sporting event since mid 2018, when the last Show was held.

The Schlockeroos have been at every Show since 2006, after that mighty revenge victory against Uruguay in 2005*.

If that makes me a bad personage, then so be it. 🙂

*Thanks to the Schwarzer, like the Redmayne – incredible saves.

Frank
Frank
September 17, 2022 8:13 pm

But what about hurling? It has the same goals and the far more manly approach involving clubs.

Frank
Frank
September 17, 2022 8:15 pm

Gaelic football is a retarded version of soccer.

Retardation is what they do. They do it very well. My people.

bespoke
bespoke
September 17, 2022 8:17 pm

If that makes me a bad personage,

Yes it does.
It’s so boring you have to riot.

Rabz
September 17, 2022 8:18 pm

From 17th at the end of 2021 to going within a point of the GF the next

That’s sport, Squire. Blood, sweat and tears. They did well.

Tom
Tom
September 17, 2022 8:19 pm

It’s OK, Rabz. Aussie Rules fans will never demand that everyone call their game futbol — unlike chauvinistic soccer fans.

Rabz
September 17, 2022 8:19 pm

Watch a thrilling game and then get into a bit of rioting.

Not seeing a downside.

RuthM
RuthM
September 17, 2022 8:20 pm

Commiserations to the Collingwood supporters.

The Fly has done well to get them to a prelim in his first year.

I am happy Sydney won, but Collingwood being beaten by a point doesn’t have the same impact now that Nathan Buckley has gone. Sigh.

Rabz
September 17, 2022 8:24 pm

A brunette, clad in a gingham tea towel while wielding a Telecaster …

“and I knew it was all an act, I tells ya!”

Rabz
September 17, 2022 8:25 pm
Eyrie
Eyrie
September 17, 2022 8:25 pm

Watch a thrilling game and then get into a bit of rioting.
Not seeing a downside.

see Norman Spinrad “Combat Football”.

Top Ender
Top Ender
September 17, 2022 8:29 pm

Here at Martha’s Vineyard, everyone is so rich they hire other people to wear masks for them.

Speaking of Obama, how did he afford a house like this – scroll down – on a salary of $400k a year?

Bar Beach Swimmer
September 17, 2022 8:30 pm

On the OT the other day, Rosie put up a link to a report that young people were getting heart problems from supplements. I can’t find the comment now so I did a search and found the actual report.

The article – A cardiologist says she’s seeing a rise in 20-somethings with heart arrhythmias caused by herbal supplements – is from Sept 8, 2022 and was published by Insider.com.

https://www.insider.com/cardiologist-supplements-causing-heart-arrhythmias-in-young-people-2022-9

Despite the headline, the doctor, California-based cardiologist Dr. Danielle Belardo, acknowledges that ‘trying to find evidence to support the benefits or risks of a supplement is tricky,’ because there are ‘…few robust studies to go by.’ So the connection she makes is based on her ‘…probing her patients on what over-the-counter pills they take.’

Even so, after tweeting out to her followers (70k)

that she was seeing young people sickened by supplements, she had other cardiologists, ER doctors, and internists around the country say they’ve experienced the same phenomenon.

Given that Belgardo has already noted that studies concluding that a link exists are negligible her tweet and those supposedly supportive responses from other doctors that a definite link exists seems a bit premature especially considering the possibility of the involvement of the Covid-19 vaccines in the time frame of interest.

The entire report is basically designed as a warning to consumers to follow the advice of the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association – organisations that would have very strong connections to the NIH, the CDC and Dr Anthony Fauci, so prompts more questions than it answers.

Why, now, after decades of large sections of the American public taking vitamin and herbal supplements – the report notes that the industry is worth US$1.5 trillion – should this be a recent phenomenon. Of course, there may be some new fashionable supplement that has taken the place by storm, but nothing like that was mentioned. (According to healthline.com bitter orange, one of the supplements referred to in the article, has been used for more than ’20 years in supplements for weight loss, athletic performance, skin care, appetite control, and brain health, as well as perfumery.) https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/bitter-orange#compounds-nutrients

So whatever adverse action may result from its use, it’s not a novel supplement in California in 2022.

Of the other supplements listed, one – ephedrine alkaloids – has been banned in the country since 2004, though one case study showed that in 2021 a patient with arrhythmia took a supplement which had that ingredient. The remaining two supplements – fish oil and ashwagandha – of which the latter one, researchers have not found a link, while the former was concerned with the interaction with blood thinners. So nothing of novel concern there.

But what really is new is the reference to “young people having heart problems,” yet no mention of the many cases of heart problems, including in the young, that have occurred since the covid jabs rolled out – the one thing that is novel during the time frame.

As to Dr. Danielle Belardo:

Dr Belardo is a Californian based cardiologist. Her website states her

‘…practice focuses on cardiovascular disease prevention, cardiometabolic health, nutrition and medical weight loss interventions, lipidology, hypertension, and general cardiology. She is the co-chair of the American Society for Preventive Cardiology Nutrition Committee, the Communications Catalyst for the California Chapter of the American College of Cardiology, and a member of the American College of Cardiology Nutrition and Lifestyle Sub Committee

Listed on her website is a select peer-reviewed original publications numbering seven, only one of which lists her as the prime author, while the majority has her listed well down in the order of authors.

The one paper that does stand out and for all the wrong reasons is A Look Back, A Path Forward: Moving Toward Diversity and Inclusion in Cardiovascular Society Presidents and which was published in February, 2022, in Voices in Cardiology – a subject matter well up there for the “woke community” and the bureaucratised medical establishment.

I think I’d rather take note of Dr Peter McCullough as my “go-to” cardiologist.

Tom
Tom
September 17, 2022 8:31 pm

Speaking of Obama, how did he afford a house like this – scroll down – on a salary of $400k a year?

The same way Joe Biden did.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
September 17, 2022 8:31 pm

I’ve only read one or two of Norman Spinrad’s. I remember The Iron Dream. Rather naughty, but probably a good prediction of our current WEF-led priapic wankers.

I’m reading tonight a SF that Glenn Reynolds mentioned a couple days ago:

SO I’M REREADING RIC LOCKE’S TEMPORARY DUTY. It holds up very well; entertaining, vaguely reminiscent of early Heinlein. RIP, Ric. (14 Sep)

Straight onto ancient Kindle and off I went. A quarter way in and it’s very good.

Boambee John
Boambee John
September 17, 2022 8:38 pm

ROFLMAO. The Collywobbles wobble again.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Speaking of Obama, how did he afford a house like this – scroll down – on a salary of $400k a year?

The same way Joe Biden did.

The same way Bob Hawke did.

Rabz
September 17, 2022 8:41 pm

Peoples – you heard it here first – I’ve fallen in lerve with a blonde* (again).

She’d never heard of Miss Ellie, like a whole lot of other supposedly “cool” young people at my work.

Hopeless. They need a cultural consultant, engaged at great expense.

What if it is not meant for me

*Same goil, different decade

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
September 17, 2022 8:42 pm

ROFLMAO. The Collywobbles wobble again.
Reported!

Tom
Tom
September 17, 2022 8:44 pm

The same way Bob Hawke did.

The same way Paul Keating did.

Indolent
Indolent
September 17, 2022 8:45 pm
Razey
Razey
September 17, 2022 8:47 pm

dover0beachsays:
September 17, 2022 at 8:41 pm
Rag?p Soylu
@ragipsoylu
Erdogan and Putin are walking arm-in-arm

Yep, the SCO meeting has been terrible for Putin.

USA HomoGlobo(TM) is being openly challenged. Expect the Russia/Ukraine war to escalate.

rosie
rosie
September 17, 2022 8:48 pm

For the record; I merely linked that heart article that popped up, apparently randomly, on my google front page, with zero views, then or now, on the author, or the issues being discussed in the article.

As people may have noticed over the last many years, I regularly link articles on a wide variety of subjects.
And my trusted internet medical advisors are numbered in the zeros.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

[No. Reason below @11.08am.]

Indolent
Indolent
September 17, 2022 8:53 pm
Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

And my trusted internet medical advisors are numbered in the zeros.

In my experience diagnosis via Reader’s Digest is much more accurate anyway.

Ed Case
Ed Case
September 17, 2022 8:55 pm

The same way Bob Hawke did.

The same way Paul Keating did.

Has there ever been a Labor PM that didn’t sell it’s arse to Washington.

Bar Beach Swimmer
September 17, 2022 8:59 pm

Rosie @ 8:48pm.
I’m so glad you cleared that up.

MatrixTransform
September 17, 2022 9:02 pm

I regularly link articles on a wide variety of subjects

yeah

not even the car-boot sale of common-sense

yr the supermarket of ideas

and the loss-leader is a well merchandised display of incredulity

we noticed

2dogs
September 17, 2022 9:05 pm

Erdogan and Putin are walking arm-in-arm

The mainstay of the West’s confidence against SCO used to be the brittle relationships between its members.

No more.

local oaf
September 17, 2022 9:08 pm

I’ve only read one or two of Norman Spinrad’s.

I remember Bug Jack Barron, but that was like 50 years ago. Not read any more of him since then.

Indolent
Indolent
September 17, 2022 9:18 pm
rickw
rickw
September 17, 2022 9:39 pm

the transition from Communism to Capitalism utterly never understood the most basic element of such a transition – the people

The old bloke across the road used to regale us with stories of Russians in Melbourne attempting to adapt to capitalism. The one I remember was Russian on building site filing a protruding nail down. His mate informs him: “that’s the communist way, we need the capitalist way”, shoves him aside and trims the nail with the snip of a bolt cutter.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
September 17, 2022 9:40 pm

Broome pub The Roebuck Bay Hotel to hold wet T-shirt contest to ‘celebrate’ the life of Queen Elizabeth II
Kellie Balaam
The West Australian
Sat, 17 September 2022 6:25PM
Comments

Broome’s oldest pub have defended their decision to hold a wet T-shirt contest to “celebrate” the life of Queen Elizabeth II ahead of a national day of mourning.

The Roey— a popular venue in the northern WA town— has encouraged partygoers to attend “The Queen’s Wet T” on Wednesday night at the hotel’s Oasis Bar.

“Join us Wednesday night for a special Wet T in Oasis Bar to celebrate the life of Queen Lizzy,” a Facebook post about the event said.

“Enter the Wet-T for your chance to win $750. With DJ Sam T on the decks from 8pm party with late into the night!”

Several people took to social media to criticise the event, labelling it distasteful in the wake of the late monarch’s death after a 70-year reign.

rickw
rickw
September 17, 2022 9:41 pm

Employment contract with vax clause?

I would have put a neat little line through it and then signed the thing. 99% chance they would never pick it up and would make for an interesting time come any mandate.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Broome pub The Roebuck Bay Hotel to hold wet T-shirt contest to ‘celebrate’ the life of Queen Elizabeth II
Several people took to social media to criticise the event, labelling it distasteful in the wake of the late monarch’s death after a 70-year reign.

Criticise all you like social media prudes, you’re not customers & your opinion does not count.

Indolent
Indolent
September 17, 2022 9:46 pm
Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
September 17, 2022 10:00 pm

Josh Hawley To Biden Nom: Should We Be Concerned That China Will Use Nukes In Taiwan Conflict?

Well, yes. Especially if Taiwan uses nuclear weapons in response.
Which they just might, given their illicit nukes program since the sixties.
I hope Xi has a full set of lead underpants: he might need them.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
September 17, 2022 10:09 pm

Well, the 2022 SCO Summit has certainly been a Golden Triumph for Emperor Xi.

The Chinese economy is wearing wobbly boots and struggling with Covid – but the Samarkand Declaration ticks all of China’s political boxes – and formalises China’s leadership of a massive, resource rich, win-win-win, explicitly Central Asian grouping.

Xi can go into the 2022 National Congress of the CCP confident that his opponents are underwater – and that reunification of Taiwan is a goer in Xi’s Third Quarter.

Whether Russians appreciate becoming the Eurasian Chinese satrapy remains to be seen.

Indolent
Indolent
September 17, 2022 10:15 pm

12th Street Rag

The best version I’ve ever heard. Can really get you moving.

Zipster
Zipster
September 17, 2022 10:15 pm

DECLARATION OF INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CRISIS DUE TO THE DISEASES AND DEATHS CO-RELATED TO THE “COVID-19 VACCINES”
We, the medical doctors and scientists from all over the world, declare that there is an international medical crisis due to the diseases and deaths co-related to the administration of products known as “COVID-19 vaccines”.

We are currently witnessing an excess in mortality in those countries where the majority of the population has received the so called “COVID-19 vaccines”. To date, this excess mortality has neither been sufficiently investigated nor studied by national and international health institutions.

The large number of sudden deaths in previously healthy young people who were inoculated with these “vaccines”, is particularly worrying, as is the high incidence of miscarriages and perinatal deaths which have not been investigated.

A large number of adverse side effects, including hospitalisations, permanent disabilities and deaths related to the so-called “COVID-19 vaccines”, have been reported officially.
The registered number has no precedent in world vaccination history.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
September 17, 2022 10:16 pm

Criticise all you like social media prudes, you’re not customers & your opinion does not count.

I’d like to think the shades of the late Prince Phillip were looking on, with a quiet chuckle.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
September 17, 2022 10:32 pm

Germany, Jewish groups reach deal on Holocaust compensation

By Bojan Pancevski
The Wall Street Journal
5:07PM September 16, 2022
55 Comments

Germany and Jewish groups reached a final agreement on Thursday over compensation to the last survivors of the Holocaust, almost eight decades after the end of World War II.

Berlin will pay €1.3bn ($1.9bn), for home care for survivors – including 8500 Jews from Ukraine forced into exile by the Russian invasion – according to the agreement announced at a commemorative event attended by Chancellor Olaf Scholz.

For the first time, Berlin also agreed to invest nearly €100m in Holocaust education for the next three years, after polls found that the majority of young people across Europe were largely ignorant of the Shoah.

Germany has been paying restitution and compensation to Holocaust survivors represented by the Jewish Claims Conference and the state of Israel since 1952. The Luxembourg Agreements that unlocked the payments marked the first time a state had agreed to provide perpetual compensation to individual victims of a genocide it had perpetrated. Since then, Germany has paid more than €80bn to survivors following regular negotiations with the Claims Conference.

At the event commemorating the anniversary of the agreement, Mr Scholz said that supporting education about what happened to the Jews at the hands of Nazi Germany and its allies was gaining importance as fewer and fewer Holocaust survivors were around to tell their stories.

“The Luxembourg Agreement was the moral basis for the building of the new German federal republic … its passage back into the fold of civilised nations,” Mr Scholz said.

The event at the Jewish Museum Berlin was attended by German Finance Minister Christian Lindner, who negotiated the last tranche of aid, and Israeli Social Equality Minister Meirav Cohen.

The negotiations haven’t always been easy. Germany’s post-war governments included former Nazi party members – among them key aides to Konrad Adenauer, the first post-war chancellor, who signed the agreement with Israeli foreign minister Moshe Sharett. Adenauer had to rely on votes from the centre-left opposition to pass the agreement through parliament after his own ministers and MPs rebelled against it.

In Israel, too, there was mass rejection of any German compensation, which became known as “blood money”. At the time, only 11 per cent of Germans were in favour of any compensation for the Jews, and the business community lobbied against the agreement for fear that it would harm exports to Arab nations. But the country has since grown to see the reparation and support of Holocaust survivors as a moral responsibility, said Claims Conference president Gideon Taylor.

The government is considering how to reshape its activities for an era when there are no longer any Holocaust survivors, Mr Lindner said, adding that it would focus on funding education efforts. “We bear no individual guilt today but we have a moral obligation and a historic responsibility for what was done in the name of Germany and the name of the German people … Our responsibility is also to preserve the memory of the Shoah,” Mr Lindner said.

Any guidance here, as to the issue of reparations to the “First Nations?”

Barking Toad
Barking Toad
September 17, 2022 10:34 pm

Collingwood almost get up from way behind.

Lose by a point in front of girlie take it in the bottom swans occasional followers.

Victoria will thrash NSW in the Grand Final.

Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
September 17, 2022 10:40 pm

Mater says: September 17, 2022 at 7:56 am

Not the hundreds of thousands who I matched with in the CBD streets.

Your index finger must be sore after swiping right that many times.

rickw
rickw
September 17, 2022 10:57 pm
Wally Dali
Wally Dali
September 17, 2022 11:24 pm

…how is the dog shopping Barking T?
If you’re anywhere in SW WA, there’s a litter of kelpie x whippets who look verrrrry good…

Rabz
September 17, 2022 11:33 pm
Rabz
September 17, 2022 11:35 pm
Barking Toad
Barking Toad
September 17, 2022 11:56 pm

Wally D @ 11:24pm

Made some local contacts with groups.

Biggest problem is ‘er indoors.

Mood from Collingwood losing won’t help.

Wally Dali
Wally Dali
September 18, 2022 12:05 am
Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Rural Cats & Italian heritage Cats; Many will recall Riccardo Pisaturo, of Mandalong Park station at Penrith. (& the “Mandalong Specials”)
Has passed on aged 100 yrs.

One of Australia’s most influential beef pioneers has died, bestowing the nation with a legacy of fine cattle and, later in life, fine horses.

Riccardo ‘Rick’ “The Boss” Pisaturo OAM, aged 100, had a rags-to-riches story that would be the foundation of any good movie, beginning with his arrival in Australia as an Italian prisoner of war who the Allies captured at Benghazi, Libya, in 1941.

After three-and-a-half years in a prisoner-of-war camp, he volunteered to go and work on a farm, and for 18 months, he worked for the Badgery family at Wongonbra, Sutton Forest.
Mr Pisaturo’s dream and ambitions were to one day become a cattle breeder like his mentor, Rheay Badgery.

In 1964 he showed the first Poll Shorthorns Bull at the Sydney Royal Easter Show, winning a blue ribbon. Within four years, Mr Pisaturo’s Poll Shorthorns were acclaimed as the best in the world. Overseas visitors and buyers continuously visited Mandalong Park, and cattle and semen were exported to most countries of the world.

Mandalong Poll Shorthorns broke almost every record in Australia. In 1968, he formed the Charolais Cattle Association of Australia and had the first Charolais Sale in Australia at Mandalong Park. Again, with the Charolais, he had broken many, many records.

Mr Pisaturo had developed three new breeds of cattle called the Mandalong Specials, Square Meaters and the Tropicana.

He had the pleasure and honour of judging all cattle breeds in Australia, Canada, and Zimbabwe.
In 1990, Mr Pisaturo received an A.M., the Order of Australia by Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth, for his service to the cattle industry. In 1991, he received an Ethnic Business Award by the National Bank, awards from the City of Penrith, Australia Day Association as an Australian Achiever and many other awards and certificates for contributions to the community. In 1994 he received L’Ordine Al Merito Della Republica Italiana Onoreficenza Di Cavaliere.

A complete obituary will be published at a later date.

Wally Dali
Wally Dali
September 18, 2022 12:17 am

One of my mum and dad’s dogs lost to snakebite today- the second one for them gone by snake in recent history. They’d inherited the mutt from when my grandmother went into hospice last year, it had taken on the tiger snake in the garden- dodgy spot on the riverbank this time of year when they break out into new territory. I kinda fear for my mum getting nipped while gardening now- poor old girl recently ran over and killed her fourteen-y-o dog she’d inherited when my brother left for albion, and also earlier clipped the five year old who was meant to replace the dugite-bitten thirteen year old- nearly lost its leg, it was only in-house med care which saved its leg, tho the structure of the foot has collapsed.
Bloody dogs.. you love them, but the very things which make them almost human also make them live a life of risk.

Rabz
September 18, 2022 12:31 am

Epic

Rabz
September 18, 2022 12:37 am
Johnny Rotten
September 18, 2022 12:48 am

Wally Dalisays:
September 18, 2022 at 12:17 am
One of my mum and dad’s dogs lost to snakebite today- the second one for them gone by snake in recent history. They’d inherited the mutt from when my grandmother went into hospice last year, it had taken on the tiger snake in the garden- dodgy spot on the riverbank this time of year when they break out into new territory. I kinda fear for my mum getting nipped while gardening now- poor old girl recently ran over and killed her fourteen-y-o dog she’d inherited when my brother left for albion, and also earlier clipped the five year old who was meant to replace the dugite-bitten thirteen year old- nearly lost its leg, it was only in-house med care which saved its leg, tho the structure of the foot has collapsed.
Bloody dogs.. you love them, but the very things which make them almost human also make them live a life of risk.

Get a Jack Russell Terrier. They kill snakes.

Wally Dali
Wally Dali
September 18, 2022 12:55 am

Every terrier will go at snakes.
Every terrier will go at snakes until one day, they’re too slow.
Having said… i had a terrier (cross poodle, before it was ubiquitous) who dragged his first pulverized five foot gwadir onto the verandah when he was four months old, and he eventually only died of being seventeen.

Wally Dali
Wally Dali
September 18, 2022 1:03 am

Life’s not all bad.
Had the heartwarming good times of being in the supporters’ stand while the twelve-y-o’s hockey team went down 1-0 in hockey final. They were so genuinely thrilled to hold off the winners, who had not had a goal scored against them all season, and who had pounded them 5-0 in the prelim.
Our team is the best, our parents and friends is the best, our breast cancer fundraising round is the best. Even though I’m the wrong age and sex, we feel part of something big and eternal and traditional.

Johnny Rotten
September 18, 2022 1:11 am

Finding one of her students making faces at others on the playground, Ms. Smith stopped to gently reprove the child. Smiling sweetly, the Sunday School teacher said “Bobby, when I was a child, I was told that if I made ugly faces, it would freeze and I would stay like that”. Bobby looked up and replied “Well, Ms. Smith, you can’t say you weren’t warned”.

calli
calli
September 18, 2022 1:33 am

Arrived in Opatija in the pouring rain – not quite the Monte or Cannes of Croatia…yet. Very quaint and noisy – there was a wedding and a great procession of cars with bouquets on the side mirrors, draped in flags and ribbons with horns blaring ran up and down the main drag.

I love weddings! And as we walked back up the hill to the hotel, there was the adorable couple at one of the hotels complete with all their guests. The rain had stopped, the sun tried to come out and all was well with the world.

The hotel itself is one of those re-furbished Habsburg villas so loved by the Austro-Hungarians. Flash, but no kettles in the rooms. 😀

calli
calli
September 18, 2022 1:34 am

Sorry about the derg, Wally. I have lost my heart to too many canines. No more for me.

Tom
Tom
September 18, 2022 4:00 am
DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
September 18, 2022 4:13 am

Thanks, Tom.

calli
calli
September 18, 2022 5:09 am

You have to love it

Ahahaha!

Made my day. Thanks Tom.

Gabor
Gabor
September 18, 2022 5:15 am

Trivia quiz last night.

Did you know that Columbo, the TV series ran for 35 years?
Hardly watched any, not my genre, but 69 episodes were made and Peter Falk got 300K/episode for the first half and 600K thereafter. (Approximately)
Nice little earner.

rosie
rosie
September 18, 2022 5:18 am

Had to search one of those powerline headlines
shock as don’t shop goes out of business

Barking Toad
Barking Toad
September 18, 2022 6:07 am

Good and sad stories Wally about the dogs.

Love the video with the limping lurcher. Could just see one stumbling home like me after a sip at the local.

rosie
rosie
September 18, 2022 6:37 am
rosie
rosie
September 18, 2022 6:41 am

Another fine ABC example we can all strive to emulate
more super safe batteries

rosie
rosie
September 18, 2022 6:43 am
Dot
Dot
September 18, 2022 6:47 am

As a KGB Colonel he would have had access to real intel about the true state of the USSR and the capitalist West. Professional intel officers don’t do hatred. It’s just a job. Do your part to hold it all together as long as possible. In SF see Dominic Flandry by the late, great, Poul Anderson.

You are completely dismissing the ideology of the USSR to shit on Obama and his surrogates. This is incredibly naive.

Putin was not only in the KGB and hence a party member. He was a commissioned officer, that of a colonel stationed in East Berlin. He was almost the rank of a general in a political secret police force in an occupying force of a regime that propped up the most brutal political secret police force in any of its satellites.

Professional intelligence officers don’t do ideology? Why the hell did you make this nonsense up?

Here are two very notable examples of why your presumption is wrong:

.1 Admiral Canaris otherwise would not have had the sense to betray Hitler.
.2 General Clapper would not be a poisonous, treacherous, utterly partisan toad.

A KGB colonel in East Berlin is by virtue of their position a party fanatic who hates the West and capitalism.

Make no mistake that he is an ally of China and North Korea.

Chinese rhetoric by their general staff openly discusses how they would brutally rule a conquered America.

No. They would not be better. They would not allow dissent. They would not allow the wokism they have intentionally infected the West with.

Wokism is just as insidious as communist funded and dubious “peace” movements that sought to disarm the West and let the USSR run their evil empire unabated.

All you need so is see what the CCP compromised byte dance allows on Western and Chinese til tok.

rosie
rosie
September 18, 2022 6:48 am
2dogs
September 18, 2022 6:57 am
rosie
rosie
September 18, 2022 6:58 am
Dot
Dot
September 18, 2022 6:58 am

Andrew Wilkie is probably a good Australian example of professional intelligence officers being unable to have the “it’s just a job, ma’am” mindset and stay out of politics.

bespoke
bespoke
September 18, 2022 7:01 am

Caravan shopping today, at least 20ft under 7 years and light proof so the Mil can rest during the day.

Dot
Dot
September 18, 2022 7:04 am

Only a Dodge Ram or GMC Sierra with truck nuts can tow anything heavy.

Also, get it on an interest free loan with reward points.

Don’t worry about the 29.99% after the interest free period.

You’re a male male man aren’t you?

YEAH, NOW YOU’RE A MAN!

bespoke
bespoke
September 18, 2022 7:32 am

Karen VonSchnitzel

Chuckle!

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 18, 2022 7:47 am

What is Pelosi doing in Armenia ?

lotocoti
lotocoti
September 18, 2022 7:48 am

I bet nobody had Bumming for Madge on their bingo card.

Johnny Rotten
September 18, 2022 7:57 am

A blonde who had been unemployed for several months got a job with the council.

Her job was to paint lines down the centre of a rural road. The supervisor told her that she was on probation and that she must stay at or above the set average of two miles per day to remain employed.

The blonde agreed to the conditions and started right away.

The supervisor checking up at the end of the day, found that the blonde had completed four miles on her first day – double the average!

“Great” he told her “I think you’re really going to work out”.

The next day, however, he was disappointed to find that the blonde only accomplished two miles. The supervisor thought “Well she’s still at the average and I don’t want to discourage her, so I’ll just keep quiet”.

The third day however the blonde only did one mile and the boss thought “I need to talk to her before this gets any worse”.

He pulled the new employee in and said “You were doing so great. The first day you did four miles, the second day two miles, but yesterday you only did one mile. Why? Is there a problem? An injury? Equipment failure? What’s keeping you from meeting the two-mile minimum?” The blonde replied “Well, each day I keep getting farther and farther away from the bucket”.

Johnny Rotten
September 18, 2022 7:59 am

feelthebernsays:
September 18, 2022 at 7:47 am
What is Pelosi doing in Armenia ?

That’s because she really has amnesia and doesn’t know where she is.

Zipster
Zipster
September 18, 2022 8:01 am
Crossie
Crossie
September 18, 2022 8:14 am

So David Beckham lined up with QEII mourners but I didn’t see Victoria with him. I take it Posh thinks she is above royalty, probably resents that a third rate actress precedes her in the official rankings.

Zipster
Zipster
September 18, 2022 8:20 am

US, Mass disabling event
Dr. John Campbell
7.5% of US adults are currently reporting Long Covid, is the a mass disabling event?

Nearly One in Five American Adults Who Have Had COVID-19 Still Have “Long COVID”

More than 40% of adults in the United States reported having COVID-19 in the past

Of this 40%

19% are currently still having symptoms of “long COVID”

Miltonf
Miltonf
September 18, 2022 8:31 am

Excellent article by Bruno Waterfield in Spiked about Orwell. Well worth reading.

custard
custard
September 18, 2022 8:38 am
GreyRanga
GreyRanga
September 18, 2022 8:41 am

Back to the NRL. Just heard Craig Fitzgibbon complaining his (overpaid) players forgot footy fundamentals. Quelle surprise.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
September 18, 2022 8:47 am

In Two Fists of Iron news:

Ukraine war: Biden warns Putin not to use tactical nuclear weapons

In an interview with CBS’ 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley in the White House, President Biden was asked what he would say to President Putin if he was considering using weapons of mass destruction in Ukraine.

“Don’t, don’t, don’t,” was President Biden’s response.

Mr Biden was then asked what the consequences would be for Mr Putin if such a line was crossed.

“You think I would tell you if I knew exactly what it would be? Of course, I’m not gonna tell you. It’ll be consequential,” Mr Biden responded.

“They’ll become more of a pariah in the world than they ever have been. And depending on the extent of what they do will determine what response would occur.”

Fkn take that!
Clear, precise, unequivocal information that everyone can use.

The ball belted through the covers, just when the Poot signed up to the Xi Co-prosperity Sphere.

MatrixTransform
September 18, 2022 8:48 am

FMD
as i cough and splutter to consciousness this morning
the missus wakes, “GO Pies” she says
and then falls asleep again

there’s not enough coffee to fix this problem

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