Ben Garrison.
Open Thread – Weekend 1 Oct 2022
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- No, it is not all of the above, stupid!
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Al Goodwyn.
Chip Bok.
Tom Stiglich.
Michael Ramirez.
Less time with sharks unless you’re insanely brave and simply don’t care.
The Spectator’s Flat White today refers to the resignation of The Red Bandana as president of the Republican Movement this last sentence is a gem:
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Here’s a tip:
Don’t set assessment items from supplied questions and answers from the textbook study guides which are often even recommended or bundled with the compulsory text. Most of those online “study help” companies just have deals with the publishers anyway.
I stopped caring when tenured academics who would reference themselves started crowing about “self plagiarism”, which is made up nonsense.
Worse still is that boomer tier professional bodies still insist on written exams which teach nothing and you can teach to the exam which is dreadful (possibly worse than useless, actually damaging).
Project based work on real world problems is best. The only “exams” ought to be practical work like moots, residencies or prac teaching.
Then we have the joke of science students (particularly microbiology) not doing lab work during COVID mania.
Did academics go on job seeker or job keeper?
Only temporarily. It’ll be back with a vengeance once Charles starts going the full Karen nagging everyone for climate crimes.
The start of daylight savings is OK. The end date should have stayed at the start of March.
There no excuse for kids going to school in the dark. I amazed that it’s not highlighted as a safety issue.
Daylight saving should be organized so I can complete 18 holes before work.
If it’s good enough for the Navy chaps, chapettes and people of indeterminate whatever at HMAS Cresswell under Captain Blood N Guts Sneath to ban wandering about in anything but full daylight, it should be good enough for Year 4 kids.
Yet again, no-one has thought of the children.
A whole lot of makeup deprived mothers in SUV’s dropping kids off on the dark worries me.
We can’t we just have summer time opening hours instead of screwing with our clocks every six months?
Having lived under all regimes, daylight savings in NSW, no daylight savings in Qld, and total confusion on the Tweed,
I would rather not have it at all.
I don’t have a problem with daylight saving.
I like the end of daylight savings when we get an extra hours sleep.
I don’t like the start.
Someone should do something about that.
This! And summer hours for the noise laws.
Unfortunately I no longer control my work hours, but as an up with sun person, I rearrange what I do to suit weather and daylight, eg I walk before breakfast instead of when I get home from work, I do my lesson prep for the day before I go to work instead of preparing for the next day when I get home.
feelthebernsays:
October 3, 2022 at 5:51 am
Equifax data hack – 143 million users in the US.
Google who they bought in Australia.
Your data aint that safe.
Google has now been renamed as Goolag, Twitter renamed as Twatter, FaceBook renamed as FarceBook and then all the other Anti Social Media Platforms that you can have fun renaming…………….
Google has now been renamed as Goolag, Twitter renamed as Twatter, FaceBook renamed as FarceBook and then all the other Anti Social Media Platforms that you can have fun renaming…………….
Aye, but you pick up that hour in Second Dog’s.
Just make sure the Shark Watch understands the bullets aren’t for the sharks.
NASA was interviewing professionals to be sent to Mars. Only one could go and couldn’t return to Earth. The first applicant, an engineer, was asked how much he wanted to be paid for going. “A million dollars” he answered “because I want to donate it to M.I.T”. The next applicant, a doctor, was asked the same question. He asked for $2 million. “I want to give a million to my family” he explained “and leave the other million for the advancement of medical research”. The last applicant was a lawyer. When asked how much money he wanted, he whispered in the interviewer’s ear “Three million dollars”. “Why so much more than the others?” asked the interviewer. The lawyer replied “If you give me $3 million, I’ll give you $1 million, I’ll keep $1 million, and we’ll give the engineer $1 million and then send him to Mars”.
Scottish Government Orders Investigation Into Recent Spike in New Born Baby Deaths
People are worried about bond market liquidity
Pfizer CEO Bails On EU Testimony After Report Highlights ‘Secretive’ Vaccine Deal
I don’t get hayfever. Never have, but I do know people who get it something turrible. Apparently it can be so severe that regular injections, or some form of surgery is the only fix for some.
A pack of boffins have developed a ‘cure’ for it involving changes to the sufferer’s immune cells. Naturally, they did all the sciency testing stuff first (the Hun):
Four months of pills. Two years or more of ‘immunity’. The bloke running the show said this:
Ohhh. So you repeat the testing process to make sure it works properly. In this case, over three years – and only then you take the next steps. Patience, the man says. Slowly slowly catchee monkey.
Tell you what. Those punters who invented the covid vaccines must have been heaps smarter than the hayfever professor. To get all the testing done, making sure it was good to go for untold millions in… weeks.
I doff me hat. Smartest dudes going around – a combination of Einstein, Tesla, Curie, Newton and that bloke who was Sale of the Century Grand Champion.
GOP Candidate for Senate in Washington State Receives Cease and Desist Letters for Highlighting Democrat Failures and Lawlessness
The Pfizer Effect: Hundreds of Thousands of People are dying due to COVID Vaccination every week according to official Government data
Indeed
In the hope of some pottage perhaps?
Neocons – Climate Zealots – Ukrainian Neo-Nazis
“John McCain, who was the leader of the pack of Neocons, was promoting Nuclear Power for climate change to end the US dependence on oil and that of Europe. McCain used climate change to cut off Russia whose 50% of GDP was energy. Thus, McCain could care less about the climate. He used it as a weapon against Russia.
McCain just simply hated Russians and that was before Putin as Politico documented back to 1996 – three years before Putin. McCain used climate change as a weapon to undermine Russia. We must understand that there are Neocons in America, Russia, and China. They may be small in number, but they tend to be very manipulative. What we have is the Climate Zealots who want to end all fossil fuels, where their goals support the Neocons who want to annihilate their enemies – Russia and China.
The information that is circulating is that the real instigator behind the pipeline destruction was the Ukrainian Neo-Nazis. Putin on September 7th, 2022 threatened to turn off the gas tied to lifting the sanctions. It was certainly not Russia who destroyed the pipeline for they no longer have that threat to turn it off. The Neo-Nazis have been supported by the Neocons from day one. The destruction of the pipelines benefited the Neo-Nazis for now they have eliminated any possibility that the EU will agree and lift the sanctions. Based on their actions in the past, the information pointing to them I believe makes them the most likely actor.
The waters are now polluted and the impact on fishing will be considerable. This was not the brainchild of the Climate Zealots yet it sparks a few champagne toasts in celebration. Russia has come out and said that the slaughter of civilians in Bucha was fake and propaganda. Based upon information and belief, this was also a staged event by the Neo-Nazis. There are even videos confirming that which are in the possession of NATO. It does not end there. The Neo-Nazis shot down the Malaysian Flight M17 using an old BUK Russian missile that was no longer in use in an effort to get the US to send in troops claiming it came from the Donbas. The Neo-Nazis are really willing to do anything to quench their thirst for the hatred of Russians.
The 2014 Massacre of Russian-speaking Ukrainians in Odessa where they killed them grabbing them on the streets was a Neo-Nazi event. That was the turning point. It revealed that the Donbas had to separate for the Neo-Nazis wanted their death, not their submission. That began the civil war. They set fire to the building and burned all the Russian-speaking Ukrainians alive. For the first time in history, an organized massacre of civilians was carried out and even filmed by numerous people. This has been documented in extraordinary detail and the Neo-Nazis did not even fear of any negative consequences in world opinion.”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/war/neocons-climate-zealots-ukrainian-neo-nazis/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
Hayfever isn’t life-threatening.
A lot of people in the US and Europe during 2020 might have thought waiting another three years for a covid vaccine* to be developed would have cost hundreds of thousands of lives.
I blame President Trump and his Warp Speed for thinking developing vaccines was a matter of urgency.
*Professor Ian Frazer though one could be developed in twelve months, but what would he know?
That’s right Lisa Neville, no point in building more dams in Victoria to support the increasing population because the Thomson hasn’t filled since, whenever.
Lake Eppalock begins to spill after spring rain signalling a busy tourist season ahead
The last time Western Australia trialed daylight saving, there was all the usual malarkey about “time on the beaches, or playing sport, as a family, in the evening.” Two weeks after the trial started, the “West Australian” ran a pictorial, shot in the evening, of all the beaches – deserted…
Moderna, eager, but not that eager
Financial Times, might be paywalled
The Massachusetts-based pharmaceutical company turned down Beijing’s request to hand over the recipe for its messenger RNA vaccine because of commercial and safety concerns, said two people involved in negotiations that took place between 2020 and 2021. The vaccine maker says it is still “eager” to sell the product to China.
Can’t say I appreciated the extra hour working in the fields after school,
when they trialled it in QLD.
Oh dear:
Welcome to the SAS. From the creator of Peaky Blinders comes SAS Rogue Heroes, coming soon…
Looks like it’s about the creation of the British SAS in WWII.
“It suffices for an intransigent minority –a certain type of intransigent minorities –to reach a minutely small level, say three or four percent of the total population, for the entire population to have to submit to their preferences.”
He gives a number of examples about how this works ranging from Halal food certification through to disabled bathrooms and peanut allergies.
In these circumstances Taleb refers to the minority as the intransigent ones and the majority as being flexible.
This explains why a substantial percentage of meat products in Australia, the UK and the like is halal certified despite a much smaller percentage of the population actually being Muslim.
The majority of the flexible group don’t care while all of the intransigent group have skin in the game.
In political terms think about it like this.
It appears the Greens Party are basically running the country. Labor are scared of them and the Liberals think aping after their policies will prevent the drift of their supporters.
But the Greens have an intransigent base of somewhere around 8-10%. This is a quarter of the sticky vote of both the Labor and Liberal parties. How is it that the Greens carry more weight?
They do so because the seemingly rational people in the major parties refuse to cooperate.
Plus, some of the flexible people, who are in those major parties will lend their support to the Greens crazy marxist agenda because it makes them feel good.
The Greens also have what is referred to as the power of veto. They can influence the feeble minded minority in other groups outside of their own, giving them greater power.
To provide another highly simplified example, in a group of all men, it’s likely you could get away with serving just beer. But if you add a small percentage of women to the mix, most hosts would also offer wine.
The lazy host might presume that because most men will also drink wine, he could serve only wine and save the expense of providing different drinks and having to wash up two different types of glassware.
Again, the minority have changed the behaviour of the majority.
https://www.corybernardi.com.au/posts/skin-in-the-game/
Rosie at 9:00:-
Gasp!
OMG!
huh?
It disrupts the circadian rythms & leads to an increase in traffic accidents & heart attacks, among other things.
I’m surprised insurance companies haven’t campaigned against it, but I suppose they just factor the extra cost in and pass it on.
Apparently, that was the experience in Canada.
Did he? Or is that just your interpretation?
“…at least a year…”
And he said that because he believed that Covid would have run it’s course by the end of 12 months, as it probably would have without stupid lockdowns.
From another article:
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha says:
October 3, 2022 at 9:26 am
What does Daylight Saving achieve except staying sunnier during the home commute or giving more time for gardening in the evening – or ironing without having to turn on a light?
The last time Western Australia trialed daylight saving, there was all the usual malarkey about “time on the beaches, or playing sport, as a family, in the evening.” Two weeks after the trial started, the “West Australian” ran a pictorial, shot in the evening, of all the beaches – deserted…
Ever been on a beach in WA when the Freemantle Doctor is blowing? Not much fun and very cold.
On the contrary ppl like mutley worship them as heros.
I think we know the answer to that.
70 years research into a vaccine for the common cold with no result. Covid vaccine in two years. Uh huh.
I find it odd all the resources, the media love-in, everything going towards bringing ISIS suckers/brides/terrorists back to Australia at the same time next to nothing is being about Assange.
I see the Russians are having a very bad time in Kherson today. I am sure db and the other vatniks will arrive shortly to tell us that they are merely setting the Ukrainians up for an ambush, like the glorious Russian victories in Izium and Lyman.
Unsurprisingly, given hay fever is an allergic process, it appears that dicking with the immune system via our ever expanding suite of childhood vaxxinations may be a prime cause.
US Paediatrician Paul Thomas analysed the health histories of thousands of vaccinated vs unvaxxed patients in his practice, and discovered, to his surprise, that that the incidence of a whole suite of chronic health conditions (including hayfever) was low to zero amongst the unvaxxed.
His conclusion – even of vaccines ‘work’ for the disease they are supposed to prevent, they cause a much larger burden of other diseases.
https://odysee.com/@ZeeZ:1/ReAwakeningDrPaulThomas:8
The response of the establishment – they pulled his medical licence immediately.
From The Oz….
“Judge to ‘delve into’ links on jury to Brittany Higgins in rape trial
Anyone who follows Brittany Higgins on social media, has listened to her speeches or is a “champion of the cause” is unlikely to be empanelled on the jury in her rape trial.
ACT Chief Justice Lucy McCallum this morning flagged in court that she plans to “delve into” any connections which might prohibit potential jurors from being impartial.
“I think people should seek to be excused if they attended the Women’s March at which Ms Higgins spoke,” she said.
“And I also thought to flush out any person who follows Ms Higgins on Twitter.
“I mean, I’m not going to exclude anyone who’s ever seen Lisa Wilkinson on television but I think anyone who participated in that March or, indeed, I think probably any event at which Ms Higgins has spoken publicly.”
The trial judge was referring to the women’s March 4 Justice rally in Canberra last year.
Justice McCallum said she would also excuse anyone who attended Ms Higgins’ National Press Club address with Grace Tame in February.
“So I think anyone who’s participated in any of those events or who follows her on Twitter should probably come forward and seek to be excused or at least for consideration as to whether they think they can (be impartial),” she said.
Justice McCallum said potential jurors would not automatically be disqualified from empanelment but that it would depend on the person’s reasons for attending those events.
“I suppose if it was a security guard or a journalist they wouldn’t necessarily need to be excused,” she said.
“What I’m trying to flush out is anyone who has effectively indicated that they follow the cause or that they’re a champion of the cause.”
Ms Higgins alleges Mr Lehrmann raped her inside senator Linda Reynolds’ office at Parliament House in March 2019.
The 27-year-old was last year charged with sexual intercourse without consent and has since pleaded not guilty.
Mr Lehrmann’s legal team last year said the ex-Liberal staffer “absolutely and unequivocally denies that any form of sexual activity took place”.
The pre-trial hearing heard that jury members should not “have strong views one way or the other”.
“There are definitely two sides, if not more, to that cause,” Justice McCallum said.
“I guess anyone who went as a protester at the Press Club or against the (alleged victim) … it’s very hard.
“I’m just going to have to ask people to search their souls and say whether they think they can be impartial.”
The trial, set down for seven weeks, is due to start on October 4.”
As with Pell, this whole trial is a travesty.
Unfortunately, Prof. Frazer later changed his tune regarding the vaccines, putting his considerable reputation behind the government’s program.
I suspect he regrets that now.
Even Sneakers “Mr 90%” wouldn’t try to introduce daylight savings to WA. It works well in Melbourne where you could walk out the office and grab a beer in the warmth of the early evening on an alfresco terrace. Luckily we were right next to the Arts Centre on the Yarra.
“I am sure db and the other vatniks will arrive shortly to tell us “
Firstly fuckwit, what’s a “vatnik”?
Secondly fuckwit, I do hope Dover arrives shortly, after all…it’s his blog. I note you take advantage here of his goodwill. Nice that Dover tolerates the intolerant, I wouldn’t.
Thirdly fuckwit, punched any Nazis today?
Covid certainly was deadly for government expert reputations.
Miscarriage of justice coming up because chief justice Lucy McCallum is a fruitcake whose judges evidence on the feelzzzz.
Crossie:
The biological clock argument went out the window when a Lady well conversed in affairs of marriage argued the men would all be getting erections on the bus on the way to work…
Duncanm.
The statement was for 2022 not the entire pandemic.
I don’t know if that’s right either but we’ve certainly had big numbers compared to like countries for that period.
Once they sorted the technical aspects of the new genevaxes, it became a simple matter to create any new or updated version – all you need to do is insert the ‘code’ for the new protein into delivery system.
I suspect this is a major reason for the drive to whitewash the technology – if it worked, and was safe, the future possibilities were endless. Unfortunately, the ‘safe’ and ‘effective’ bits were brushed over in the rush to market.
And no decent woman would be safe in the streets!
“Miscarriage of justice coming up because chief justice Lucy McCallum is a fruitcake whose judges evidence on the feelzzzz.”
Yep.
A bit shortsighted of the Govt going so hard on Optus – merely sets a precedent for the inevitable ‘entire population of Australia’ hack once they’ve forced us all to have their ‘Trusted Digital Identity’, which will no doubt be a key recommendation of whatever independent review they do on Optus.
I’ll bet good money that that case ends up in the High Court.
Here’s one.
If you want to get an hour more daylight.
F’king get up earlier yourself, you authoritarian c.
Ah yes but big brother doesnt actually care about your privacy and security, quite the opposite – the new universal digital IDs are primarily intended for tracking you – loss of privacy is a feature not a bug.
GUARDIAN of TRADITION
TheRemnantVideo
Fatboy
Show a modicum of respect for the blog owner. He’s always 100% polite with those who disagree with him. Go eat those donuts you had delivered by Uber this morning, you oversized lard ball.
Hey JC, at least I don’t waste db’s time by whining to him six times a day like you. What next, an Italian designer jeans thread? You’d be all over that.
Katie Halper has left The Hill after the editors tried to censor a very critical story on Israel.
I am pro Israel, but censorship is bad.
The idea of a someone pulling up stumps because of censorship shows some guts.
Keep in mind, Katie Halper was one of the loudest voices when it came to airing Tara Reide’s allegations against Biden during 2020.
What did she say Bern? All the Israel news I’ve been seeing lately has been pretty ok. Nothing that would be unkosher at all. The Palis have been acting up a bit. Lapid is playing at being a statesman as lame duck PM, so has been trying to get a bit of lefty boilerplate going before the election, but otherwise nothing much except maybe the sea border stuff with Lebanon. Which is meaningless.
Doofus, show a little fucking humility. You’ve been wrong with every single prediction starting with wussiagate and it continued from then on. You oversized lardball.
It’s a Jury Trial, you fucking idiot.
Groogs demonstrating his thorough knowledge of the common law.
Given that, of your average jury, two will be hardly able to read or write, and two more will be barely capable of understanding any but the most simplest of evidence, that fact really fills anyone with confidence.
The greatest criticism of the jury system is that Groogs might be on it.
Jury direction…what’s that?
Good job they don’t hang people in this country any more!
2dogs:
Why not scrap all the different opening and closing times and just let the business open when they want, sell whatever they want, and get off their backs, FFS?
If a corner shop thinks there are sales in selling condoms and bread rolls at 0300, let them.
I’d love to be in charge of this country for a full term – I’d grab the bureaucracy, the unions, and the government by the throat and shake the shit out of them like a terrier with a rat.
Lots of concern for the riders doing the wrong thing, but what about hapless pedestrians struck by scooters?
Police will be empowered to conduct roadside breath testing of e-scooter riders amid mounting concern that lagging regulation is helping drive alarming rates of death and injury.
The four years it has taken to address the drink riding anomaly in Queensland – entry point for rideshare services that kicked off a nationwide boom in e-scooter use and ownership – underlines how lawmakers have struggled to keep pace with the craze.
The toll on life and limb is rising relentlessly, especially among young adults. In Brisbane last Thursday, a man, 37, was killed in an early-morning crash on the city’s southside in the third serious accident this month. It came days after a 19-year-old woman became the first person in Canberra to die when her electric-powered machine and a car collided.
Latest figures show that 952 injured riders have been treated in Brisbane’s two biggest public hospitals since the city embarked on a pioneering trial of rideshare e-scooters in 2018, many for complex and resource-intensive facial injuries or bone fractures.
This equates to nearly a presentation a day at the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital on the northside and Princess Alexandra Hospital south of the river, leaving doctors up in arms over the strain imposed on a stressed health system.
Data captured by the Jamieson Trauma Institute shows that nearly 40 per cent of the cases involved people 25-34 years in age of whom 29 per cent were deemed to be affected by alcohol. This rises to 34 per cent of 18-24 year-olds, who were three times more likely to have sustained injuries requiring admission to hospital than those who had not been drinking.
Frustrated police have been unable to crack down when road rules in Queensland and other jurisdictions classify e-scooter riders as pedestrians who are entitled to use footpaths but few roads.
This means they cannot lawfully be breath-tested with the handheld devices used by police in motor vehicle stops. Instead, they must be deemed sufficiently affected by alcohol to be detained and transported to a police station or RBT van for processing on the more sophisticated breath analysis machines used to confirm over-the-limit roadside readings.
The office of Queensland Transport Minister Mark Bailey confirmed the loophole – applying also to bicycle and horse riders – would be plugged by year’s end as part of strengthened e-scooter regulation and enforcement.
From November 1, speed limits on footpaths would be cut from 20km/h to 12km/h, warning bells or horns made mandatory and fines increased for unsafe riding.
“It’s tragic to see a number of lives lost in e-scooter crashes over the last fortnight and my thoughts and condolences are with the friends and family of those who have died,” Mr Bailey said.
“These tragedies reiterate the importance of riding safely at all times, and in wearing protective gear like helmets on all rides.”
Action can’t come soon enough for Melbourne emergency medicine doctor Sarah Whitelaw, a federal delegate to the Australian Medical Association. She said case numbers had “spiked” this year as life returned to pre-Covid norms.
The injuries could be horrific. “Typically, they’re the sort of thing that happens when someone goes over the handlebars or comes off at speed … quite complex fractures of the wrists and ankles for example,” Dr Whitelaw said.
“We see people losing all their teeth or a lot of them, severe scraping and soft-tissue injuries to the face which for a 20-year-old is particularly significant and will impact the rest of their life.
“And, yes, we are seeing a strong association with alcohol and the time of day when people are having more significant injuries … in the evening and early hours of the morning after they have been out.”
A major concern is the propensity of e-scooter owners to override speed limiters or soup up engines. In Brisbane, where 28,000 privately owned e-scooters dwarf 2000-odd licensed to rideshare services by Brisbane City Council, some have been clocked by police hitting 80km/h.
Oz
Jury direction…what’s that?
It’s obvious that you don’t know.
Once upon a time, allegedly, in a nice little forest, there lived an orphaned bunny and an orphaned snake.
By a surprising coincidence, both were blind from birth.
One day, the bunny was hopping through the forest, and the snake was slithering through the forest, when the bunny tripped over the snake and fell down. This, of course, knocked the snake about quite a bit.
“Oh, my” said the bunny “I’m terribly sorry. I didn’t mean to hurt you. I’ve been blind since birth, so, I can’t see where I’m going. In fact, since I’m also an orphan, I don’t even know what I am”.
“It’s quite OK” replied the snake. “Actually, my story is much the same as yours. I, too, have been blind since birth, and also never knew my mother. Tell you what, maybe I could slither all over you, and work out what you are, so at least you’ll have that going for you”.
“Oh, that would be wonderful” replied the bunny.
So the snake slithered all over the bunny, and said “Well, you’re covered with soft fur; you have really long ears; your nose twitches; and you have a soft cottony tail. I’d say that you must be a bunny rabbit”.
“Oh, thank you! Thank you” cried the bunny, in obvious excitement.
The bunny suggested to the snake “Maybe I could feel you all over with my paw, and help you the same way that you’ve helped me”.
So the bunny felt the snake all over, and remarked “Well, you’re smooth and slippery, and you have a forked tongue, no backbone and no balls. I’d say you must be either a team leader or possibly someone in senior management”.
The Hasids and Lubavitchers were at odds and came to blows in Brooklyn about 25 years ago — if memory serves it was sparked by one or other being spotted riding a bus on Shabbos. There was a near riot which climaxed with the attending police being chased back to the precinct house and besieged. Inevitably there were court proceedings, prompting the New York Post front page ‘wood’ headline:
Trial by Jewry.
Chuckle.
Leftards like Monty have no idea what’s going on in the world — or what will happen in the future — because their filter isn’t commonsense or knowledge or history but an ideology that fantasises about a future with them as the ruling class and the masses brainwashed into subservience by the same ideology.
#Wrongology 101.
The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.
– Confucius
Some coriander in the garden has gone to seed with the onset of warmer weather.
The native bees from the nearby open woodland are feasting on the nectar in the flowers, which would be exotic for them.
It’s amazing how adaptable to their environment humans and animals are.
Dryland farming is another good example.
Are you hinting you’re a lawyer, Roger?
If so, it’s odd behaviour for you to be criticising a Supreme Court Judge in public.
The Hasids and Lubavitchers were at odds and came to blows in Brooklyn about 25 years ago
Lol, good headline.
Aren’t huge parts of NY an eruv now?
Labor Governments, it’s always about the money.
Brazil elections today.
All paper votes.
They don’t stop until the counting is done.
Brazil putting the US & Australia to shame.
Looks like it will progress to a run off.
I’ve been very circumspect in my remarks on Justice McCallum on this blog, Ed.
Now, go away.
“The Hasids and Lubavitchers were at odds and came to blows in Brooklyn about 25 years ago — if memory serves it was sparked by one or other being spotted riding a bus on Shabbos. There was a near riot which climaxed with the attending police being chased back to the precinct house and besieged. Inevitably there were court proceedings, prompting the New York Post front page ‘wood’ headline:
Trial by Jewry.”
There’s nothing quite like a brawl between two Jewish Hasidic sects. I witnessed one such brawl on Shabbat over twenty years ago. The participants were drunk on whisky and they were cursing each other’s rabbis. It was at a shul in Flood Street, the police had to be called. I now laugh about it however it wasn’t funny at the time!
Groogs may think he is performing a 1 1/2 somersault in the tuck position but really he has just stuck his head up his arse.
If so, it’s odd behaviour for you to be criticising a Supreme Court Judge in public.
He’s criticising you numbnuts.
Growing coriander in Perth is a complete waste of time 9 months of the year. Lettuce aren’t much better.
“Aren’t huge parts of NY an eruv now?”
Yes, but you still can’t ride a bus or turn on a stove or light. The main reason for an eruv is that you can carry stuff. It provides a window for women with prams and kids to leave the home.
Roger backed off smartly, bear.
What about yourself, are you prepared to make any egregious comments about a certain Matter commencing tomorrow?
Total collapse for Putin across multiple fronts. A historic rout is brewing!
Developing…
Testink 1 2 3
Aren’t huge parts of NY an eruv now?
Will find out on October 19, when I arrive to inspect my first grandchild. Then down to DC for the midterms.
If JC and the other masters of the markets could do something about the exchange rate, that would be nice.
Oh wow. The Russkies are getting utterly smoked in Kherson now….
You may well be right, Fisky, but the lag time for confirmation is 2-4 weeks. We’ll see.
Groogs safeguarding the ACT justice system. LOL. Fuckwit.
More importantly, have you finished those tapes?
This news clip is just… [spreads fingers away from mouth] *mwah!*
https://mobile.twitter.com/EcommunistForum/status/1576684037069885440
Parody no longer possible, made obsolete by reality.
The international Putinist movement is in a state of complete shock and hysteria! Give Putin everything, they cry. Waaaaah!
It’s all about the money, eh Bear?
Cassie, at the Post we had all sorts of confidential contacts and informants in the various communities. The confidential source who kept the roundsmen informed on the latest passions and feuds in Crown Heights was known around the newsroom as ‘Rabbi Schnotvasser’. It still makes me laugh.
Suspect we won’t be hearing much from mØnty when his pods from Right Sector
get their ethnic cleansing freak back on.
Billings a bit slow Groogs? Maybe time to swap Chambers.
Some funny stories regarding dodging the Theranos bullet.
How Chamath Almost Invested in Theranos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jMXEUEvt5A
Aaaah! the joys of old age and still making silly decisions .. LOL! ..
About a month ago I gazed out at the mini park that masquerades as my back garden and thought, “Enuf, summer after summer I’m out there mowing you once a week and the end result is you look the same after my hour and a half toil .. sooooo NO more” ..
Today, i cracked! .. couldn’t swim, cos pool closed for PH & didn’t feel like riding .. last night’s disaster still too fresh in the mind .. duuuuh! .. sooooo out wiv the mower! … 2, bloody, hours and 2 tanks of petrol I’ve learn’t my lesson, the effort way! … back to the weekly cut! ……
Comment on Thatcher, found at another site:
Interesting:
John McVicar educated himself in prison and wrote about his life of crime
OBITUARY
John McVicar, robber and journalist.
Born March 21, 1940. Died September 6, aged 82.
John McVicar, a notorious armed robber and member of East London’s criminal underworld, escaped from the supposedly escape-proof “prison within a prison” that was the E wing of Durham jail on the night of October 29, 1968.
Aged 28, he was serving a 23-year sentence for assorted offences including trying to hijack an armoured security van, and had prepared for the moment for a long time. He had lifted weights to build his strength, earning the moniker “Mr Muscles” among fellow prisoners including Moors murderer Ian Brady and the infamous Kray twins. He had also spent many months chipping his way through a shower wall, replacing the bricks with papier-mache replicas.
On that Tuesday night he climbed through the hole, crawled along a ventilation shaft, ran across the exercise yard and scaled the prison wall. He made his way through the backstreets of Durham to a graveyard, then swam across the freezing Wear River to avoid using any of the city’s bridges. He was the only man to escape from the jail’s E wing. On the run, he cheekily wrote to James Callaghan, then home secretary and later prime minister, to complain he was being victimised by the police.
McVicar was finally recaptured in November 1970. In jail he studied English, sociology and economics and wrote a memoir, McVicar By Himself, which was published in 1974 and was described by one reviewer as “a cross between Porridge and The Shawshank Redemption”. He had been a “lamentable criminal”, he wrote.
McVicar was released in 1978. Two years later his memoir was made into a successful film, McVicar. He was played by The Who’s Roger Daltrey.
Intelligent, articulate and engaging, McVicar wrote articles about criminals and criminality for various magazines and newspapers, injecting a wry humour into his observations. “Being a criminal was a great life,” he once noted. “The only problem was they put me in prison for it.”
His conversion began after he was recaptured in 1970 and he took a degree from Leicester University and turned to journalism. According to Will Self, a friend and fellow journalist, he went straight – “if, that is, you consider straight-going to be hanging out in West End private drinking clubs, filing scurrilous copy to scandal sheets and occasionally undertaking a bit of vexatious litigation”.
In 1995 he wrote an article for Spiked insinuating that Olympic gold medallist Linford Christie used performance-enhancing drugs. Christie sued and was awarded $70,000. He was later suspended for two years for using a banned stimulant.
McVicar’s son, Russell, was regularly in trouble. In 1998 he was jailed for 15 years for a string of armed robberies. The two became permanently estranged, with McVicar saying: “He has become precisely what I was and now detest.”
In 1992 he married Countess Valentina Artsrunik, a Bulgarian-born Russian beauty 17 years his junior. She had had at least five previous husbands.
The marriage failed. He spent his last years living in a caravan behind a pub in an Essex village. He died of a heart attack while walking his dog, Lucky.
The Times
No it wasn’t just my ‘interpretation’.
It was a reply to a question in a TV interview perhaps on 60 minutes? that is available on YouTube.
I do at least try to be accurate in my representations of past events.
You look at the irreparable damage Thatcher did to England, and wonder why some commenters urge conservative politics for Australia?
It’s like, dude, if we feel like committing economic and political suicide, that’s what the Labor Party is for.
I think we may be being a bit hard on Luigi and his head-lopper repatriation plans! …
We have to consider that after doing the rounds of his Canberra “houso” he’s realised that he has lotza empty rooms and so in his quest to be luvved and regarded as a “man of the people” he’s come up wiv the ‘repatriation” as a way of filling up the, empty, Lodge .. he’ll room all the “neckers” & apprentices at his joint until the novelty wears off and they get fobbed off on dum parrot-head or Dan, both stupid enuf to see some publicity in it for themselves …..
A bonus might be .. after several after dinner chats comparing “camp’ life to “houso” upbringing the “guests” might take it upon themselves to give Luigi a practical demonstration of their, acquired, “skills” wiv the cutlery
Please explain jury nullification and how it works to this simple mind
Within 12 months was a little inaccurate, it was at least a year
I think I was accurate enough. .
ok Frazer said ‘at least a year’ on 24 March 2020
really?
Lathe of the week for VIC Cats:
https://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/clyde/power-tools/workshop-lathe-shen-wai/1302057058
Zipstersays:
October 3, 2022 at 9:52 am
For the first time in history, an organized massacre of civilians was carried out and even filmed by numerous people. This has been documented in extraordinary detail and the Neo-Nazis did not even fear of any negative consequences in world opinion.
On the contrary ppl like mutley worship them as heros.
m0nty-fa is quite happy with neo-Nazis or neo-cons, as long as their actions advance the fascist left “Project”.
And soon after:
m0ntysays:
October 3, 2022 at 9:58 am
I see the Russians are having a very bad time in Kherson today. I am sure db and the other vatniks will arrive shortly to tell us that they are merely setting the Ukrainians up for an ambush, like the glorious Russian victories in Izium and Lyman.
QED.
lol, lmao
Jury nullification?
Don’t be hysterical, old boy, the Trial hasn’t even started.
Are you talking about the obliteration of the Russian army fleeing Ukrainian towns in the middle of a pincer movement?
I am so glad to see this smug little prick get his just desserts.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/10/wow-disgraced-former-fbi-agent-russia-collusion-hoaxer-peter-strzoks-fbi-termination-letter-released/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=the-gateway-pundit&utm_campaign=dailypm&utm_content=2022-10-02
I just hope he dies penniless and alone.
feelthebernsays:
October 3, 2022 at 11:10 am
Brazil elections today.
All paper votes.
They don’t stop until the counting is done.
Brazil putting the US & Australia to shame.
Looks like it will progress to a run off.
In fact, Brazil has electronic voting.
Hey Zippy, if Putin uses nukes against Ukraine, will support him or nay?
Nationals leader David Littleproud says his party is taking responsibility for failing to address female voters’ concerns as it prepares to win them back with a tour of the country starting tomorrow.
The Nationals’ mission, dubbed the ‘regional listening tour’, will commence in Mildura in Victoria on Tuesday before moving up to NSW and Queensland.
“This is about listening, learning, understanding and facing up to what happened in the election. We’ve got to be honest with ourselves,” Mr Littleproud told Sky News.
“There is strong evidence to suggest, through our own polling post election, that women from 18 to 54-year-olds left us in droves.
“To understand why, we actually have to engage at a grassroots level. There is no silver bullet to this.
“There are worrying signs and unless we’re genuine about listening, then there is no reason for them to come back.”
Mr Littleproud said women felt a coalition government was out of touch with their key concerns, particularly after the handling of the Brittany Higgins saga.
How about female voters – like male voters – felt the Liberal/National position was to be just to the right of Labor, and that’s why they didn’t vote for them?
rickw says:
October 3, 2022 at 12:18 pm
Lathe of the week for VIC Cats:
https://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/clyde/power-tools/workshop-lathe-shen-wai/1302057058
I have one just like it and it’s a great lathe, if I lived in Prictoria I would have 2. That’s a bargain.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/10/vermont-girls-volleyball-team-banned-locker-room-objecting-transgender-student-changing-clothes/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=the-gateway-pundit&utm_campaign=dailypm&utm_content=2022-10-02
I did not know that.
Glenn Greenwald has talked about their paper votes for ever, which is odd.
I had to google it as your link didn’t have anything regarding electronic voting.
It’s occurred to me that, if Putin truly has been fighting against transgenderism and the globohomo empire, any post-defeat settlement will logically have to give LGBT people a seat at the table, given they were clearly one of Russia’s declared adversaries. I’d say, at a minimum, a post-war Russia (assuming it still exists) will have to allow Drag Queen Story Hour to be held in every public library as part of a comprehensive peace settlement. That’s not my position of course, but it’s inevitably coming.
Fisk, why are you so personally invested in Ukraine?
But I’ve barely mentioned Ukraine at all.
Monthly cheques from Burisma.
Why are Cats so personally invested in Russia? I mean, apart from the whole Christian dominionist thing. Oh wait, I guess that’s enough.
I’d help but I’m a bit strapped until next Pension day…
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/09/dow-2000-since-bidens-first-day-9-trillion-lost-world-stocks-3q-alone/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=the-gateway-pundit&utm_campaign=dailypm&utm_content=2022-10-01
I heard rumours that car dealers are selling new cars with a long waiting list to people who are prepared to wait……..who then sell at a higher price to another customer when delivery is imminent.
Standby for NATO member, Turkey, condemning the massacre of Armenian PWs.
I have one just like it and it’s a great lathe, if I lived in Prictoria I would have 2. That’s a bargain.
They are very good! Hardened bed to, never seen one with bed wear. Absolute bargain! If I wasn’t away I would have grabbed it!
Monty
Vlad the shirtless defender of Christendom will be victorious any day now.
It’s got nothing to do with me. The only ppl I support getting nuked is the CCP, can’t happen soon enough.
OK, next question: was Putin right or wrong to invade Ukraine in February 2022?
Are you blokes are turning out 50mm stub axles?
Joyce was the reason the Coalition lost so heavily, his private life combined with mixed messaging over NetZero did them in with female voters.
Here’s what the link states:
?Follow
https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses
Perhaps Glenn Greenwald is Controlled Opposition, since Bolsonaro appears to be another U.S. puppet?
The rout of the Russian tankies on Twitter is possibly even more stark than on the real battlefield.
I did a LOT of reading and catching up on the Ukraine situation over the weekend and it is plainly obvious to me that Ukraine can’t win.
A few notes of interest were that Russia only deployed ~15% of its ground force to Ukraine. Ukraine has an army of max of 300,000. Russia is in the process of deploying an additional 300,000 troops to the East to relieve soldiers to help in Ukraine. One report I came across said Ukraine were still losing around 15,000 troops per month and Putin is waiting for winter for their troops to freeze…
(And no, I’m not on Vlag’s side – but nor am I on Zelensky’s – as I’ve said before, it’s baddies Vs baddies).
Quadrant reports on CPAC, where some clown made this decision:
the Conservative Political Action Conference…started with a low light. Yes, you guessed it. They gave us an Aboriginal song and dance routine followed by a ‘welcome to country’. I’d like to say that, at its conclusion, you could have heard a pin drop. Not quite, but the applause was so tepid, it was probably touch and go.
More here
Why are Cats so personally invested in Russia? I mean, apart from the whole Christian dominionist thing. Oh wait, I guess that’s enough.
m0nty-fa
Why are you so personally invested in a state that employs neo-Nazi military units? Do you just like black shirts?
Was the US right in invading iraq or afghanistan? from the point of view of the people starting a war they obviously think they are right. From a moral point view most wars are wrong. Historians hardly look back at wars from the viewpoint of right and wrong. From a strategic point of view, I think Putin had no choice.
UKR has been going all out this last month or so. They are throwing everything at RUS right now, alternating their line of attack south and east across all fronts, exploiting their interior line and manpower advantages. Don’t know if UKR will make it to Berislav though but stopping them means RUS pulls troops out from another front or from their reserve.
Lysander
(And no, I’m not on Vlag’s side – but nor am I on Zelensky’s – as I’ve said before, it’s baddies Vs baddies).
To borrow from Henry Kissinger, why can’t they both lose?
Let’s see the data. The EU has the receipts for Russian forces.
Zelensky isn’t a bad guy for not being a Quisling.
ZERO politicians are saintly, let’s not go nuts.
Russia was fine for 30 years prior and the war pushed Sweden and UKR into NATO.
Indeed BJ.
I’m not going to support NeoNazis in UKR but nor am I going to support a “former” KBG operative and USSR sympathiser who poisons his foes.
The problem with war is that there is always somebody who is winning.
OK, so that’s a yes! Biggest strategic failure of any G5 power since 1945, and you’re all in.
Yeah, I read the same thing on “Geroman’s” Twitter account. Jesus fucking christ, you people never learn do you!
Quisling gets a bad rap.
His “crime” was to be an inept politician who wound up on the losing side.
A Norwegian Malcolm Turnbull, if you like.
Different times and much different circumstances. The overriding difference is that the US had zero intention of occupying those shitholes to permanently annex them.
“Top Endersays:
October 3, 2022 at 1:28 pm
Quadrant reports on CPAC, where some clown made this decision:”
TE…thanks for that. Having attended the full two days (and dinner) I didn’t mind the welcome to country. I also suspect that it was probably part of the contract with the ICC that for any function staged there, there must be a welcome to country. I think the ICC is owned by the state government (although I’m happy to be corrected). Sadly, it’s pretty routine now but it was done well, it was followed by two singing The Seekers’ I am Australian (it was superb) and then we all sang the national anthem. And then the first speaker was Jacinta Price who articulately argued against…The Voice.
DaFisk – lol! totally agree! how many armies have been fucked over by a Russian winter!!
Seriously?
He’s got Nukes, but he decided losing 100,000 soldiers plus was the correct option?
Sweden and Finland joined NATO, Ukraine’s request for membership was rejected.
From about the 13 minute mark.
What happened to never give ground?
I’ve not been to Wyoming before and wouldn’t have come if nor for the trail ride. I expected a wind swept bleak high plain, and that is what it is, but it is fantastic.
Much better views of the mountains than you get of the Himalayas or Alps because the start point is so high.
It must be something in winter though. The property I’m staying on has lots of stock shelters to protect the horses and cattle from freezing to death when a ‘Norther’ kicks in.
The ranch hands’ houses all have wires strung over their yards to protect cats, dogs and toddlers from bald eagles.
The rancher’s principal enemy are the park rangers who let wolves stray onto private property and then become all threatening when they force their way onto the ranch and can’t them. Obviously trained in NSW.
The court cases are never ending apparently.
Fascinating area and great people. I’ve loved it.
Have any Cats had any experience with PCSK9 inhibitors with regards to their ticker?
No seriously, seriously? You reckon Rasputin should’ve trail-blazed his way in by lobbing a couple of nukes at the start?
Don’t ever change, Head.
Barrier Police.
Stalin’s Red Army had ’em, Zelenskyy’s Army’s got ’em,
Vlad’s “Army” don’t.
Russians having a normal one at a government rally in Red Square.
It’s apparently a holy war now, or a “goida”. Mind you, declaring it holy doesn’t mean God is always on your side.
There is a top doco on Stanflix about that, and the pollie on their board (George Shultz?)
This may have completely evaded your attention, but as a matter of fact the war isn’t taking place in Russia. I think, however, you’ve just inadvertently provided a useful insight into the very basic intellectual error that so many Putin-sympathisers have made – you literally don’t believe that Ukraine is a real country, ergo, you have no explanation for how the last 6-7 months have played out.
“(And no, I’m not on Vlag’s side – but nor am I on Zelensky’s – as I’ve said before, it’s baddies Vs baddies).
To borrow from Henry Kissinger, why can’t they both lose?”
Quite so. I find it a tad amusing that DaStink pops up here spruiking his obsession with the war in Ukraine, but note how he only appears here after a Ukrainian victory? Funny that. I suppose if DaStink had been around in August 1942, when the Germans arrived on the outskirts of Stalingrad, DaStink would have been shouting and jumping up and down, like the cartoon figure Muttley, that the Germans had beaten the Russians and that the war on the eastern front was over. Problem was, it wasn’t.
At CPAC on Saturday, Tony Abbott briefly reminded us about how, in 2014, he wanted to shirtfront Putin about the Malaysian Airlines atrocity. Remember how the left left sneered at and smeared Abbott? In fact, because it was Abbott who wanted to confront Putin, many on the Oz left at the time became little “Putinists” themselves.
So, did DaStink and Monty, who now like to smear many here as “Putinists” support Abbott’s desire to confront and “shirtfront” Putin? I suspect not.
George Shultz?
Georgy boy was thinking with this dick, the dirty old man.
So your analysis is that Ukraine is trying too hard?
He’s on point. “A world run by madmen, perverts and satanists.”
Nope! I deliberately laid down markers on this place in early-to-mid March before Russia had even lost the Battle of Kyiv. Since then, sure, it’s fun to show up every time Putin fails bigly, but I haven’t seen much introspection from the likes of yourself as to why I’m able to do that. Don’t think too hard!
Fact, the only reason Monty the Fascist and DaStink support Ukraine is because Biden is in the WH. If Donald Trump was still president, they’d both be…calling for a ceasefire, and making excuses or Putin, and shouting and screaming from the rooftopis about American money propping up Ukraine’s war effort, and saying it’s nobody’s business and that the USA should keep out of it, and if Trump was still president and this was happening under his watch, he’d be accused of being the war criminal, not Putin.
It is now.
I certainly had a laugh at Abbott for being an international joke. I know you conservatives love it when your leader puffs their chest out and acts tough, that’s all you really want from a leader when it comes down to it even if it is all toothless bluster. People with brains prefer someone who actually gets things done, whether loud or quiet.
DaFisk – it’s actually hard sitting on the fence.
I’d like to go full tard against Putes or Zele. But I use an Abbott-ism to reiterate its “baddies Vs baddies.”
Not that my opinion, or yours, makes any difference to world affairs.
“Nope! I deliberately laid down markers on this place in early-to-mid March before Russia had even lost the Battle of Kyiv. Since then, sure, it’s fun to show up every time Putin fails bigly, but I haven’t seen much introspection from the likes of yourself as to why I’m able to do that. Don’t think too hard!”
Yep, you deliberately, from the beginning, come here to crow about Putin’s losses…oh and by the way, did you support Abbott in 2014 when he wanted to shirtfront Putin? Don’t think too hard DaStink.
OK, I’ll rephrase.
Why are you making it so personal?
Sure make fun of gullible westerners thinking Vlad is a saviour. But turning it into a competition on who will win seems a bit tacky.
No, I absolutely supported shift-fronting Putin in 2014, as this comment from Twostix (who has the receipts from 8 years ago) makes clear.
shift-fronting -> shirt-fronting
“It is now.”
Correct.
Cassie, evidently you have not been around here long enough to know who Fisk is… but he’s no lefty.
It is possible to argue from the right and still have a working brain, you know. I have disagreed with Fisk on many occasions, but he’s not stupid.
Not personal, but it’s fucking hilarious to see an ideological movement that started out railing against “endless wars” and “military interventionism” (which I’m totally on side with btw) come round to supporting the least defensible military action by any major power since 1945, up to and including threats of nuclear armageddon!
“No, I absolutely supported shift-fronting Putin in 2014, as this comment from Twostix (who has the receipts from 8 years ago) makes clear.”
You need to check your comprehension Stink. It does no such thing, all the comment does is show that you support overthrowing governments and installing US puppets…but only when Democrats are in the WH.
“It is possible to argue from the right and still have a working brain, you know. I have disagreed with Fisk on many occasions, but he’s not stupid.”
I never said he was stupid, but you are.
So you’re a closet Trumpista.
Markets are opening up slightly to square in Europe. Germany is tiny down but insignificant noise really.
Two stocks that put people on edge over the weekend were Credit Suisse and Deutsche Bank. Both are trading at negligible market caps.
CS CHF 10 billion
DB Euro 15 billion.
DB has been this way for a while and CS just caught up. I’d say that the stocks aren’t here because of risk of failure so much but because they will both need recapitalizations through significant share issues, which means current shareholders are going to be diluted to fuck.
CS, is planning to leave investment bank altogether and just focus on funds management and basic banking in Switzerland. Their restructuring is going to be announced later in Oct.
Get this: The name! Chairman’s name is Lehmann.
The simulation is having a lend.
mUnty, a noble adversary. Bwahahahahaaaaaaaaaa
Fatboy:
No, Fisk isn’t. But how the hell would you know? You’re obese and severely retarded.
It’s instructive that you seem to always try and insinuate a criticism from a complement.
OK, so I DIDN’T support shirt-fronting Putin, but wanted to install a hostile anti-Putinist regime in Kyiv. You’re a real galaxy brain, Cassie!
Trump got one thing done: a tax cut for the rich, for which McConnell should really take the credit. Everything else was ephemeral.
I agree, stupid oppositionism.
LOL, it usually saves time around here. 🙂
Is Colonel Doug Mcgregor a reliable source?
It seems Fox daytime don’t like him but Fox “after dark” do?
(Good on Murdoch for having some media diversity).
But he fucked the rich in the blue states, which really counts. He limited their ability to clawback state and city taxes to no more than 10K (I think). That’s an honest man’s way to shaft the left.
Possibly using the pink-helmeted cerebellum.
FMD, his own grandson was working there and tipped Grandpa off that it was a scam, and told him exactly how it was being done.
So what does George, the dutiful board member do?
Does he confront the CEO with direct questions?
Nup. He disowns the grandson.