Open Thread – Weekend 8 Oct 2022


The Battle of Lepanto, Paolo Veronese, 1572

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feelthebern
feelthebern
October 8, 2022 12:00 am

Q is retarded.

Nelson_Kidd-Players
Nelson_Kidd-Players
October 8, 2022 12:02 am

Greetings.

feelthebern
feelthebern
October 8, 2022 12:02 am

My work here is done.

feelthebern
feelthebern
October 8, 2022 12:05 am

Q is the Tim Cappello of theories.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cj-cYIi97X8

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 8, 2022 12:17 am

This thread dedicated to Q’s fourth symphony, recently and authentically covered by Bucks Fizz.

Fair Shake
Fair Shake
October 8, 2022 12:23 am

God bless this thread and all who sail in her!

Fair Shake
Fair Shake
October 8, 2022 12:26 am

Brit neighs trial is turning into a shit show. No wonder pirates skank did a Logies preachathon. She may have had some inside scoop on what proper legal process may turn up.

feelthebern
feelthebern
October 8, 2022 12:26 am

Now Audioslave will send me to sleep.

Barking Toad
Barking Toad
October 8, 2022 12:33 am

Top 10 for a change

calli
calli
October 8, 2022 12:34 am

Ben Nevis was wearing his kilt today. The three commandos watching him were fully trewed.

Rabz
October 8, 2022 12:35 am

the book’s “Idiotisms “:

“I am mUtlley, hear me bore!”

“There will be no carbon tax while my genitalia resembles mussels in a jar, I tells ya!”

“The rain that never falls will never fill our dams!”

“Gerbil worming is real and has been happening for over 34 years!”

Rabz
October 8, 2022 12:37 am

Dusty:

The look of love

Again – the sparseness … 🙂

calli
calli
October 8, 2022 12:37 am

Interesting anniversary, Dover.

Here it’s still mid afternoon on the 7th.

Zyconoclast
Zyconoclast
October 8, 2022 12:41 am

Another

Look of love

Rabz
October 8, 2022 12:45 am

The Battle of Lepanto

My ol’ man told me that we were descended from those mighty Venetians that vanquished the islamists in that battle. He was a WW2 veteran who served with distinction in New Guinea.

We continue to haemorrhage important first hand historical knowledge as if it was utterly irrelevant.

But yeah, pronouns and pooftahs.

rickw
rickw
October 8, 2022 12:58 am

he declined to bake a gender transition cake

What’s one of them look like? Rainbow sponge with frosted spare parts on top?

rickw
rickw
October 8, 2022 1:02 am

Having dinner at the Cabana restaurant, sand floor, restaurant music selection is often neglected.

They’re playing this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhOPVlHupAg

rickw
rickw
October 8, 2022 1:09 am

The CCP were on fire today, got a lot done.

Using Google translate to do direct coms with the crew. They were doing some epoxy painting today. Stuffed if I know how it’s going to work out. 2:1 mix ratio, pretty sure they’d been mixing it one to one. Nor do I blame them, the instructions were shit enough in English.

Zyconoclast
Zyconoclast
October 8, 2022 1:21 am

What’s one of them look like? Rainbow sponge with frosted spare parts on top?

That’s sounds more interesting.
This is what they want

Autumn Scardina requested a cake blue on the outside and pink on the inside

rickw
rickw
October 8, 2022 1:37 am

Cross dressing freak requesting the nuking of the Poot:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgO6sodPYgA

Gabor
Gabor
October 8, 2022 2:28 am

Sara Lee, former WWE ‘Tough Enough’ winner, dies at 30
“As a former “Tough Enough” winner, Lee served as an inspiration to many in the sports-entertainment world,” WWE said in a statement.

Tom
Tom
October 8, 2022 4:00 am
Tom
Tom
October 8, 2022 4:01 am
Tom
Tom
October 8, 2022 4:02 am
Tom
Tom
October 8, 2022 4:03 am
JC
JC
October 8, 2022 4:03 am

feelthebern says:
October 8, 2022 at 12:00 am

Q is retarded.

Q is also very gay.

Tom
Tom
October 8, 2022 4:05 am
Tom
Tom
October 8, 2022 4:06 am
Tom
Tom
October 8, 2022 4:07 am

Michael Ramirez. Spot on.

Tom
Tom
October 8, 2022 4:08 am
Tom
Tom
October 8, 2022 4:09 am
Tom
Tom
October 8, 2022 4:10 am
Tom
Tom
October 8, 2022 4:11 am
Tom
Tom
October 8, 2022 4:12 am
Tom
Tom
October 8, 2022 4:13 am
Tom
Tom
October 8, 2022 4:15 am
Tom
Tom
October 8, 2022 4:16 am
Winston Smith
October 8, 2022 4:36 am

P:

Winston, how is it going for your sister these days.
Every time you post a comment I say a prayer for her.
Forgive me if this is an intrusion into your privacy. Is so just disregard.

She got the lump removed and a course of radiotherapy which finished a fortnight ago.
Everything looking good.
Unfortunately her best friend died week ago from breast cancer but the terminal stage was really quick – up and about one day and died 48 hours later. Painfree, at home with family and the standard SC Morphine/Midazolam/Maxolon therapy.
So she’s a bit fragile but doing OK.
And yes, survivor guilt is a thing.
Ta for the prayers…

Winston Smith
October 8, 2022 4:57 am

Salvatore:

You’ll be sorry!
A goat will mow the lawn, the rosebushes, the orchard, & just about anything else you’ve got. Everything remotely edible will be stark from ground level to about 7 feet up, possibly higher.

I had a sheep at the clinic in McKinlay. Did a marvellous job of trimming the undergrowth from the trees – the place looked manicured.
Yes, goats are more trouble than they’re worth. I don’t like goats.
I don’t think I’m allowed sheep – which is why I’m tempted to get one.

Winston Smith
October 8, 2022 5:00 am

OCO:

I don’t pay attention to any of the corporate media coverage of the war. Their propaganda is strikingly similar to WW1-era stuff. Amazing that people buy into such absurdities.

I admit I have been waiting for one side or the other to do the ‘catching thrown babies on their bayonets’ and ‘nuns with hobnail boots’ stories, ‘kittens nailed to doors and connected to booby traps’.
None yet, so I’m a bit disappointed.

2dogs
October 8, 2022 5:39 am

Regarding the Starlink shutdown, I suspect this is on Musk’s orders.

Either way, it is clear that supporting Ukraine made Starlink a Russian target.

miltonf
miltonf
October 8, 2022 6:31 am

Koch filth
Chip Le Grand
@Melbchief
This is a great example of the new bully pulpit. David Koch invites the pastor at the centre of the Thorburn scandal on his program, verbals him, refuses to let him finish an answer and doesn’t acknowledge anything he says anyway.

Anchor What
Anchor What
October 8, 2022 6:38 am

BBC is part of the swamp.
Reported on OS program overnight:
Shady conservative election deniers are promulgating disinformation concerning the half term elections. They are sending letters out which make allegations about election fraud and alert people about what to watch out for.
This is happening despite there being no evidence of election fraud in 2020.
The BBC spoke to a “disinformation specialist” about this.

Ed Case
Ed Case
October 8, 2022 6:41 am

The real problem is outta control funding of Footy by Governments.
Bread & Circuses.
If Andrews pays the piper, why can’t he call the tune?

calli
calli
October 8, 2022 6:49 am

BBC is part of the swamp.

I’ve had the dubious delight of watching it for over two weeks now.

CNN with posh accents and bad teeth.

rosie
rosie
October 8, 2022 6:51 am
bespoke
bespoke
October 8, 2022 6:54 am
rosie
rosie
October 8, 2022 6:56 am

“The GWW spokesperson said the Romsey Recycled Water Plant was undergoing upgrades, including increased storage to support the region’s growing population.”

recycled water, thanks no point no new dams Lisa Neville

rosie
rosie
October 8, 2022 7:02 am
rosie
rosie
October 8, 2022 7:06 am
Anchor What
Anchor What
October 8, 2022 7:07 am

Pro-life people in Tennessee arrested by heavily armed FBI agents while Joe speaks about funding for abortions. The protest outside a clinic was a year ago, but the arrest of 11 stands in stark contrast to the treatment of violent protesters in numerous cities during the “get Trump” summer of 2020.
Link

Anchor What
Anchor What
October 8, 2022 7:09 am

The Australian says, in effect, never mind the crime wave and the wayward local government, New York is all fresh and welcoming for tourists!
The city famous for reinventing itself has evolved yet again with a string of designer hotels and attractions ready to welcome visitors back.

calli
calli
October 8, 2022 7:10 am

From rosie’s HK link:

Incoming international travellers must submit a pre-flight vaccination certificate, as well as a negative PCR test and rapid antigen test, before entering.
Once they’ve been permitted to enter, visitors are required to undergo a three-day self-monitoring period, during which time they’re prohibited from eating in restaurants or visiting bars.
Visitors also need to complete PCR tests on days 2, 4 and 6 after arrival, and a rapid antigen test every day for seven days.

I am not given to swearing (in print anyway).

But I’m sorely tempted.

rosie
rosie
October 8, 2022 7:17 am

Well it is part of China.

min
min
October 8, 2022 7:19 am

Rosie ever noticed that those prone to conning others are often conned themselves.

calli
calli
October 8, 2022 7:19 am

Poor buggers who still have businesses there. The ‘96 escapees to Oz must be thanking their lucky stars.

rosie
rosie
October 8, 2022 7:20 am

Indeed Min.

rosie
rosie
October 8, 2022 7:25 am

One pleasing thing post covid is qantas using Singapore as a hub again for Australians travelling to Europe, I didn’t particularly like it, bristling as it did with armed security but infinitely preferable to the cattle run schemozzle that is the UAE.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 8, 2022 7:29 am

From rosie’s HK link

I fink I can see why they’re having a bit of trouble getting tourists to visit.
Yech, who’d want to suffer through all that.

rosie
rosie
October 8, 2022 7:38 am

There won’t be hurricanes anymore when everyone has switched to an electric vehicle.
Right?

struth
struth
October 8, 2022 7:39 am

For those of you who aspired to be the privileged class in an apartheid system. ………..

Tick, tick, tick.
Who’s next?

bespoke
bespoke
October 8, 2022 7:41 am

The final take on the disastrous Mar-a-Lago raid and its noxious aftermath – the latest in a series of “killing blows” aimed at Donald Trump and the movement he created — is that Trump must run once again for president and must win. The logic behind this is simple: the Deep State, in its slow, dull-witted, and utterly inept way, is making its big move, and Trump is the only visible figure who can stand against this. The Left is well aware of this, and is terrified.

Dot
Dot
October 8, 2022 7:44 am

What they did to the women was unspeakable, what they did to the animals really upset me.

rosie
rosie
October 8, 2022 7:49 am

I know one person who flies domestic who’s prepared to catch a bus/train to the CBD then get local train to the burbs, no idea what a premium fare would be, presumably more than SkyBus but less than a taxi?

“Victoria’s auditor-general last month said the economic analysis surrounding Melbourne’s proposed $8 billion to $13 billion airport rail link lacked “transparency” and that the methodology used created risks that the project’s economic value had been overstated.

Now it has been revealed that the project will only be viable if “premium” fares are paid and the popular SkyBus service into the CBD does not directly compete with the new trains:”
Surprise!

P
P
October 8, 2022 7:49 am

All over the world, men to gather for Our Lady

For the first time, tens of thousands of men from around the world, including Australia, will unite at the same time to recite the Rosary.

Inspired by an international Catholic movement, the men from more than 40 countries including Argentina, Portugal, Ireland, the United States, Lebanon, India, Mexico and Malaysia, will gather on their knees in public prayer … to honour the Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary.

Instituted by Pope St. Pius V in 1573 for the Christian victory at the Battle of Lepanto on October 7, 1571, the feast reminds us of the victory solely attributed to Our Lady’s intercession.

Held traditionally on the first Saturday of the month, the October event is a one-off uniting the men from all over the globe, to celebrate the Month of the Holy Rosary.

Sydney’s Worldwide Rosary Crusade at St Mary’s Cathedral will start Saturday, October 8, with 11am confession, Mass at midday and the Rosary Crusade at 1pm.

Dot
Dot
October 8, 2022 7:50 am

I cannot say the Commonwealth dept. my friend works, but this is true. All I can say is where he works, the Deakin telephony switchboards.

TE may be a WH.
KD could be a GG but we can’t confirm.
Suspect that JC and Thancho are globalists.
Is monty a BG or a crisis actor?
DB is probably the “big guy” around here.
Durham will sort them out after the IBA inducts them all for China virus complicity.
Can we trust Durham? He’s moving too fast!

Dot
Dot
October 8, 2022 7:53 am

struth says:
October 8, 2022 at 7:39 am
For those of you who aspired to be the privileged class in an apartheid system. ………..

Tick, tick, tick.
Who’s next?

I got vaccinated to keep my job but a well earned promotion I was told about in confidence was denied by a zealous (now sacked) a C suite douche, then put into the forgottery.

Did you not get vaccinated anyway, this morose jeering is just an act?

Right?

bespoke
bespoke
October 8, 2022 7:53 am

Dot is Q.

Dot
Dot
October 8, 2022 7:53 am

INDICTS!

FUCK YOU, AUTOCORRECT!

Tom
Tom
October 8, 2022 7:54 am

A decade ago, Australia was recovering from what has become known as the millenium drought. Now that the averages are recovering, it hasn’t stopped raining in much of Eastern Australia since February.

In the runup to the world’s richest race on turf, the the $15 million Everest on October 15, Randwick racecourse is a bog – a heavy 10 – and racing this weekend will be called off if it keeps raining. Randwick has had four inches of rain in the past week.

Meanwhile, Melbourne’s Caulfield is a soft 6 for this weekend’s group 1 Caulfield Guineas meeting – a prelude to the Caulfield Cup on October 15. Caulfield has had less than two inches of rain in the past week.

Caulfield isn’t far from the Melbourne sandbelt, whose golf courses are famous for their sand base which makes them super-absorbent of even rare heavy rainfall.

The weather and the respective climates of Sydney and Melbourne are a major reason that Peter V’Landys and Racing NSW are having little luck trying to upend the Melbourne spring racing carnival with the megabucks they’re throwing at Sydney’s new popup races like the Everest.

Trainers worry they could wreck the racing careers of young horses by letting them run in Sydney’s racing bogs.

duncanm
duncanm
October 8, 2022 7:54 am

Someone in the last OT pointed out it’d be interesting to know who the line-up of Higgins supporters were.
Michael Smith identified PR and political messaging advisor Emma Webster, a former Kevin Rudd staffer and these days a big bucks Hawker Britton Labor-aligned spin artist

Here’s another; that dashing young lezzo is “support worker” Heidi Yates.

Ah – support worker. You know, some lowly functionary from the local women’s shelter.
Oh contraire!
That would be Heidi Yates, ACT Victims of Crime Commissioner and alphabet and social justice law reform champion.

Eyrie
Eyrie
October 8, 2022 7:58 am

A military intervention would have to come from the Colonels Ranks – the O’Biden/Harris stacking and purging of the upper echelons has been incredible.
Followed by treason trials, convictions and mass hangings of Generals and Admirals. Should be amusing.

Eyrie
Eyrie
October 8, 2022 8:05 am

Either way, it is clear that supporting Ukraine made Starlink a Russian target.

Just turn it off over the whole area, Elon. You don’t need the grief. I wondered what would happen after the Ukes trashed Elon over his peace proposal.

bespoke
bespoke
October 8, 2022 8:05 am

Wish it was a drought so I can get on with grafting.

Eyrie
Eyrie
October 8, 2022 8:07 am

Dot, Struth told us he is unvaxxed.

Still no real answers from anyone over just what was done to make a corona virus vax that was “safe and effective”. Throwing billions at it doesn’t count. If it did we’d have cheap commercial nuclear fusion by now.

Mater
October 8, 2022 8:09 am

Throwing billions at it doesn’t count. If it did we’d have cheap commercial nuclear fusion by now.

…And a perpetual motion machine.

bespoke
bespoke
October 8, 2022 8:11 am

I haven’t forgotten St Ruth’s Freudian slip about being vaxed a few months ago.

rosie
rosie
October 8, 2022 8:11 am

P is Q.

Cassie of Sydney
October 8, 2022 8:12 am

“Michael Smith identified PR and political messaging advisor Emma Webster, a former Kevin Rudd staffer and these days a big bucks Hawker Britton Labor-aligned spin artist

Here’s another; that dashing young lezzo is “support worker” Heidi Yates.

Ah – support worker. You know, some lowly functionary from the local women’s shelter.
Oh contraire!

That would be Heidi Yates, ACT Victims of Crime Commissioner and alphabet and social justice law reform champion.”

As Tom alluded to two days ago on the old fred, the Higgins tale IS a conspiracy, a most fabulous, fantastic and mythical concoction of lies and nonsense all designed from the beginning to derail and terminate the Morrison government, and because the stupid fucking Liberals were (and remain) so craven, so spineless and so useless, it worked.

A woman friend I spoke to last night, someone who’s usually quite circumspect in her analysis, described Higgins as “bloated dumb bimbo”.

By the way, remember how Senator Linda Reynolds last year, when confronted by the fantastic Higgins story, said of Higgins that she was a “lying cow”. For that accurate description, she was forced to apologise by that fraud Scumbag, who was never one to side with his own. But there’s one thing that already clear, Reynolds was right.

Bar Beach Swimmer
October 8, 2022 8:12 am

Rabz:
“There will be no carbon tax speech on misogyny while my genitalia resembles mussels in a jar, I tells ya!”
FIFY

rosie
rosie
October 8, 2022 8:14 am

“Reynolds previously said she had made the comment in response to claims Higgins did not feel supported after coming forward with her allegation – not in response to the claim of having been raped.”
She would have been bending over backwards to support her.

CrazyOldRanga
CrazyOldRanga
October 8, 2022 8:21 am

Q is Major Boothroyd.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 8, 2022 8:24 am

Q is Warwick Capper.

Johnny Rotten
October 8, 2022 8:24 am

The other night I was invited out for a night with the “girls”. I told my husband that I would be home by midnight “I promise!”

Well, the hours passed and the margaritas went down way too easily. Around 3 am, a bit loaded, I headed for home.

Just as I got in the door, the cuckoo clock in the hallway started up and cuckooed 3 times. Quickly, realising my husband would probably wake up, I cuckooed another 9 times.

I was really proud of myself for coming up with such a quick-witted solution, in order to escape a possible conflict with him.

The next morning my husband asked me what time I got in? I told him “MIDNIGHT”… he didn”t seem pissed off in the least. Whew, I got away with that one! Then he said “We need a new cuckoo clock!” When I asked him why, he said “Well, last night our clock cuckooed three times, then said “oh shit” cuckooed 4 more times, cleared its throat, cuckooed another three times, giggled, cuckooed twice more, and then tripped over the coffee table and farted”.

Johnny Rotten
October 8, 2022 8:25 am

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

– Leo Tolstoy

Mater
October 8, 2022 8:26 am

Still no real answers from anyone over just what was done to make a corona virus vax that was “safe and effective”.

Professor Ian Frazer from April 2020:

Professor Frazer was involved in the successful development of the vaccine for the human papilloma virus which causes cervical cancer — a vaccine which took years of work to develop.

He said the challenge is that coronaviruses have historically been hard to make safe vaccines for, partly because the virus infects the upper respiratory tract, which our immune system isn’t great at protecting.

…There are several reasons why our upper respiratory tract is a hard area to target a vaccine.

“It’s a separate immune system, if you like, which isn’t easily accessible by vaccine technology,” Professor Frazer told the Health Report.

Despite your upper respiratory tract feeling very much like it’s inside your body, it’s effectively considered an external surface for the purposes of immunisation.

“It’s a bit like trying to get a vaccine to kill a virus on the surface of your skin.”

Your skin, and the outer layer of cells in your upper respiratory tract act as a barrier to viruses, stopping them getting into the body.

And finding a way to neutralise the virus “outside” of the body is very difficult.

This is partly because only the outer layer of cells (the epthelial cells) get infected, which, compared to a severe infection of internal organs doesn’t produce the same immune response, so is harder to target.

It’s hard to produce a successful vaccine if the virus isn’t activating a strong immune response.

And if a vaccine elicits an immune response that misses the target cells, the result could potentially be worse than if no vaccine was given.

“One of the problems with corona vaccines in the past has been that when the immune response does cross over to where the virus-infected cells are it actually increases the pathology rather than reducing it,” Professor Frazer said.

We’ve never made a successful vaccine for a coronavirus before. This is why it’s so difficult

At best what we got was Codral equivalent which worked on a particular strain, and at worst, a concoction which made things worse, caused heart problems, and might have greater detrimental medium and long term effects.

Either way, it had the desired political effect, so all’s good. Let’s keep injecting it.

rosie
rosie
October 8, 2022 8:28 am

Two drunks in a cab, one decides he just has to call in at work, for reasons that only made sense to the drunk, the other follows him inside for reasons.
Drunk two passes out on in an office while drunk one fiddle faddles about, what to do? Can’t think so he leaves her to it.
Drunk two does what drunks do, throws up, takes clothes off, eventually wakes up and makes an exit.
State of office means explanation required.
Drunk one gets the sack, drunk two mumbles something about unwanted sexual behaviour, employers see trouble brewing, and no doubt are genuinely concerned, offer services, opportunity to make formal report, drunk two mumbles reasons and does nothing, keeps job of course.
Down the track career trajectory not going as well as planned, new ‘partner’ cobfabs, opportunities present themselves, narrative constructed, dossier prepared, political and media vultures primed, snowball starts gathering speed, and here we are.
It really must have happened, after all.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 8, 2022 8:29 am

“Reynolds previously said she had made the comment in response to claims Higgins did not feel supported after coming forward with her allegation – not in response to the claim of having been raped.”

Reynolds was forced to say that by Morrison.
I think the intent of her original statement was that Britnah was a serial fantasist and liar.
Plenty of examples have surfaced during this trial of her inventing tall tales to avoid scrutiny or advance her cause.
The best illustration was her telling her boss she had a three hour PTSD episode in the dunny when, in fact, she was out on the piss at a long lunch.

custard
custard
October 8, 2022 8:30 am

Virginia’s Fairfax County Office of Elections has stopped using Konnech’s PollChief election officer management software, said director and general registrar of the county’s electoral board, Eric Spicer.

Among the PollChief products purchased by the county was the PollChief Worker Management System, PollChief Worker Self-service Portal, PollChief Asset Management System, and the PollChief Help-Desk Management System.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/exclusive-virginia-county-stops-using-konnech-election-software-following-ceos-arrest_4780364.html

@KanekoaTheGreat

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 8, 2022 8:30 am

Throwing billions at it doesn’t count.

Still no vaccine for HIV despite literal billions thrown at that.

flyingduk
flyingduk
October 8, 2022 8:31 am

I don’t pay attention to any of the corporate media coverage of the war. Their propaganda is strikingly similar to WW1-era stuff. Amazing that people buy into such absurdities.

Stefan Molyneux discussed the reasons why war propaganda does not just paint the enemy soldiers as fellow humans who are on the ‘on the wrong side’ but rather as evil subhuman nun raping baby killers – its to help overcome one human beings natural aversion to killing another – its easier to do if they are regarded as animals.

They went some way down that track with the unvaxxed – painting them as idiots and granny killers.

rosie
rosie
October 8, 2022 8:31 am
rosie
rosie
October 8, 2022 8:34 am
Cassie of Sydney
October 8, 2022 8:35 am

“Sancho Panzersays:
October 8, 2022 at 8:29 am”

Yep.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 8, 2022 8:35 am

Rosie at 8:28.
Your jokes are far better than Rotten’s recycling of Benny Hill.

132andBush
132andBush
October 8, 2022 8:38 am

Mater
What happened to Marter?

bespoke
bespoke
October 8, 2022 8:40 am

What do you call a skinny feminist?

Photoshopped.

Mater
October 8, 2022 8:40 am

What happened to Marter?

Marter was a little too ‘rough and tumble’. It’s a Jekyll and Hyde thing!
He’s safely back in the bottle…for now.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
October 8, 2022 8:41 am

From the SMH piece.

On the Tuesday after the alleged incident, Lehrmann was sacked summarily for his role in the security breach of their after-hours visit to parliament.

On Wednesday Higgins went the assault story.

132andBush
132andBush
October 8, 2022 8:42 am

They went some way down that track with the unvaxxed – painting them as idiots and granny killers.

As much as many will deny it the stench of that remains, particularly in a small town.

132andBush
132andBush
October 8, 2022 8:44 am

Just over 50mm all up, Gez.

How did you go?

Dot
Dot
October 8, 2022 8:44 am

Drowning in pools of blood in their lungs…!!!

Geez, cool it with the rhetoric, Hitler.

Mater
October 8, 2022 8:45 am

mRNA to the rescue?
NIH launches clinical trial of three mRNA HIV vaccines

Are you seriously posting that as a response?

1. “The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, has launched a Phase 1 clinical trial evaluating three experimental HIV vaccines based on a messenger RNA (mRNA) platform—a technology used in several approved COVID-19 vaccines.”

2. “Finding an HIV vaccine has proven to be a daunting scientific challenge,” said Anthony S. Fauci, M.D. NIAID director. “With the success of safe and highly effective COVID-19 vaccines, we have an exciting opportunity to learn whether mRNA technology can achieve similar results against HIV infection.”

Dot
Dot
October 8, 2022 8:46 am

The best illustration was her telling her boss she had a three hour PTSD episode in the dunny when, in fact, she was out on the piss at a long lunch.

Far out.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 8, 2022 8:48 am

Rosie at 8:28.
That is a fair summary of what probably happened.
Once the box of half-digested Roses choccies was discovered on the Minister’s carpet in a pool of vodka, she had to think fast.
Bruce was for the high-jump anyway, so why not invent a little #metoo tale to save her career?
What’s the harm?
It’ll stay in-house among three or four people and she might even score a pity promotion out of it.
But the story doesn’t stay in-house.
It leaks.
By now Britnah is quite enjoying the attention and recounts the story time and again. But no names, so no harm done, right?
Her new friends intimate that the already half-written book won’t fly unless she talks to the cops. No biggy. They aren’t going to lay charges, are they?
And here we are.

Bar Beach Swimmer
October 8, 2022 8:51 am

rosie says:
October 8, 2022 at 8:34 am
mRNA to the rescue?

If Fauci’s (+ his main men, Collins, Dazak & Baric and his many PIs – principal investigators) previous decades long “search” for the “Great Vaxx Panacea” is anything to go, not in any of our lifetimes. So don’t hold your breath.

(Having read Kennedy’s book, any research, including clinical trials with the backing of Fauci and the NAIAD, are not worth the paper they’re printed on.)

Roger
Roger
October 8, 2022 8:52 am

This is a great example of the new bully pulpit. David Koch invites the pastor at the centre of the Thorburn scandal on his program, verbals him, refuses to let him finish an answer and doesn’t acknowledge anything he says anyway.

True, but the pastor should have anticipated that when he received the invitation to be interviewed.

Koch is hardly a disinterested journalist seeking the truth. The pastor was invited on for sport.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
October 8, 2022 8:53 am

The soft soap SMH piece about the trial highlights to me the extremely lax nature of security at Parliament House.
How or why did they allow drunk people inside the building and into ministerial offices?
Drunk people do stupid things and familiarity with Lehrmann and Higgins is no excuse for not exercising caution and proper process.
Lehrmann said he wanted to get his keys. Security could have performed that task without the couple setting foot in the building.
Is security at parliament union protected?

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 8, 2022 8:54 am

I suspect mRNA vaccines for HIV will be even more dangerous than the Covid mRNA ones. HIV mediates cell fusion, which is where AIDS comes from – the T cells all clump together and stop working. So lining one’s blood vessels with HIV coat spikes is likely to strip the T cells out of your blood and glue them onto you blood vessel lining cells. Not good.

duncanm
duncanm
October 8, 2022 8:58 am

extremely lax nature of security at Parliament House.

exactly.

Lehrmann apparently “broke security protocols” when an officer escorted them inside and opened the office for them.

Are the officers not privy to the protocols? Do they have no authority over lowly political functionaries?

Maybe that’s by design.

Megan
Megan
October 8, 2022 8:58 am

From rosie’s HK link:

Incoming international travellers must submit a pre-flight vaccination certificate, as well as a negative PCR test and rapid antigen test, before entering.
Once they’ve been permitted to enter, visitors are required to undergo a three-day self-monitoring period, during which time they’re prohibited from eating in restaurants or visiting bars.
Visitors also need to complete PCR tests on days 2, 4 and 6 after arrival, and a rapid antigen test every day for seven days.

Not actually a free ticket then.

Roger
Roger
October 8, 2022 9:00 am

How or why did they allow drunk people inside the building and into ministerial offices?Drunk people do stupid things and familiarity with Lehrmann and Higgins is no excuse for not exercising caution and proper process.

“I’m a very important person in the government. Do you want to keep your job?”

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
October 8, 2022 9:02 am

34mm here bush and lucky we didn’t cop more in a very heavy storm that clipped us. Next week looks poor.
We’re hoping we can get back onto beans before the next event. Beans that missed a spray are basically stuffed. Lentils do not like wet feet. Every hollow or mixed soil patch has died.
Apart from that the rest is still OK and will do well if it ever stops raining.

Bar Beach Swimmer
October 8, 2022 9:03 am

From Rosie’s link on a trial of a new HIV Vaxx:

…the HVTN 302 study will enroll up to 108 adults ages 18 to 55 years at 11 sites in: Birmingham, Alabama; Boston; Los Angeles; New York City; Philadelphia; Pittsburgh; Rochester, New York and Seattle. Each participant will be randomly assigned to one of six groups each receiving three vaccinations of one of the experimental vaccines.The first three groups (18 participants each), called Group A, will receive intramuscular injections of 100 micrograms (mcg) of their assigned vaccine candidate at the initial visit, at month two and again at month six. Participants in Group A will be evaluated two weeks after initial vaccination to ensure safety criteria have been met. If so, the remaining three groups of 18 participants each (Group B) will be vaccinated with 250 mcg of the assigned investigational vaccine, followed by injections two and six months after the initial vaccination.

Like so many failed NAIAD Fauci sponsored trials, there is no control group (or, in the case of the covid jabs, the control group is unblinded and asked if they want the jab).

#nocredibilityleft

Johnny Rotten
October 8, 2022 9:04 am

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

– Every Climate Alarmist

Roger
Roger
October 8, 2022 9:04 am

We’ve no shortage of evidence that parliament house is full of psychopaths, narcissists and entitled assholes whose behavior in the workplace would not be tolerated elsewhere.

Security is basically there to protect them from the public, not to protect the institution.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 8, 2022 9:07 am

Security at Parliament House is designed to keep out the great unwashed, not to regulate the comings and goings of those with passes.
As Roger says, the phrase most commonly heard would be “Do you know who I am?”

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 8, 2022 9:07 am

Snap Roger.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
October 8, 2022 9:09 am

Rosie. It will end up like the Sydney Airport rail link. Cheaper for a taxi load of a family of 4 to get from Central to Domestic Terminal than the train.

The Sydney Rail link has more than paid for itself so why the fares so expensive. Apparently a private railway from what I am led to believe, who’s the consortium involved in the Melbourne link? If Transurban is anywhere near it expect to be ripped off for generations.

m0nty
m0nty
October 8, 2022 9:09 am

Replying to Bluey on the old OT:

Cassie, it’s pretty much the one thing I’ve been trying to get through to people from the start. Putin IS the moderate everyone is dreaming of. The idea it’s going to be rainbows and fairy floss is he was killed or otherwise disappeared is completely unrealistic.

I keep getting the same sort of reactions though, get called a vatnik, Russia supporter etc. etc. Very few people admit there might be a legitimate concern for the Russians, or that they might actually have decided diplomacy was achieving nothing and done something about it.

It’s the difference between how people want the world to be, and the reality of what the world is.

Putin may have been a moderate before he started the war, but he’s not one now. What more could a replacement do, apart from drop a nuke? He’s already started a mobilisation and devoted 20% of Russia’s GDP to it, it’s not as if there is a cigarette paper’s difference between him and some random Mad Pyotr.

Any thought of Putin having a legitimate beef with Europe about their moves to discourage him from invading countries were snuffed out when he started the invasion. He kind of proved them right, didn’t he? Turns out he actually was a threat that they should have made moves to counter.

Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
October 8, 2022 9:10 am

I doubt the bdb* had thought that there were those in the know who did not want to see the railroading of a man by a serial liar and fantasist – the dbd didn’t want to go the way of the bloke who’d breached security so made up the sexual assault out of whole unsullied cloth

*bdb: bloated dumb bimbo

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 8, 2022 9:11 am

Going to be pretty smelly in Europe in a couple months time.

Polish Households Burn Trash To Stay Warm As Sanctions On Russia Backfire (7 Oct)

Bloomberg spoke with one Polish resident by the name of Paulina Mroczkowska, who said she’s already noticed people burning trash to heat their homes as a shortage of the NatGas worsens and the cost of living spirals out of control.

“It’s so bad this season that you can smell trash burning every day, which is completely new.

“Rarely can you smell a regular fuel. It’s scary to think what happens when it really gets cold,” Mroczkowska said, a resident of Warsaw, the capital city.

To think if they had clean HELE plants or nuclear plants, not only would be cities smell nicer but the net emissions would be much lower too.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 8, 2022 9:12 am

Rogersays:

October 8, 2022 at 9:04 am

We’ve no shortage of evidence that parliament house is full of psychopaths, narcissists and entitled assholes whose behavior in the workplace would not be tolerated elsewhere.

I seem to remember in the aftermath of the Great Chocolate Regurgitation, there were “growing calls” for Parliament House to become a “dry” workplace (like 93.1% of other workplaces around the country).
That proposal seems to have gone down the back of the filing cabinet with the empty Roses Choccy box.

Indolent
Indolent
October 8, 2022 9:13 am
flyingduk
flyingduk
October 8, 2022 9:13 am

NIH launches clinical trial of three mRNA HIV vaccines

So, a delivery method with increasing evidence of causing immune system damage is to be used to ‘vaxxinate’ against a disease that causes immune system damage?

Good way to hide the side effects I suppose.

Indolent
Indolent
October 8, 2022 9:16 am
Indolent
Indolent
October 8, 2022 9:17 am
Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
October 8, 2022 9:17 am

Has it come to far for the bdb to pull the pin on the whole thing and egg-in-the-face the entire conspiracy and all the players therein? How historic would that be? to be remembered for playing a part in bringing down a government, whilst also bringing down the bestiary behind her BS.

There are options for her – still a great book deal in the offing, she could write it whilst in gaol for her crimes against the course of justice, with the proceeds thereof to fund compensation at civil law to the man she so wronged, and the truth would metaphorically set her free whereupon release there would be an option to join an enclosed order as repentance.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
October 8, 2022 9:20 am

Higgins high status Labor support team are there to make sure she doesn’t crack and the truth comes out.
They don’t really care about you sweetheart.

Indolent
Indolent
October 8, 2022 9:21 am

Better late than never, I guess, but pretty pathetic.

Doubts increasing in scientific circles on Big Pharma’s beastly mRNA jab claims…

We can already predict the new narrative talking points coming out of Big Pharma and their complicit lackeys in the incestuous government Swamp:

Well the vaccines didn’t work, but we had to try something because the novel coronavirus was OH SO DEADLY. The vaccines were a noble failure! We did our best!

duncanm
duncanm
October 8, 2022 9:21 am

Indolentsays:
October 8, 2022 at 9:11 am
Government reports confirm 1 in every 110 COVID Vaccinated people had died by January 2022, compared to just 1 in every 187 Unvaccinated people

sampling bias – vax rates are higher in the more elderly and vulnerable/sick.

Indolent
Indolent
October 8, 2022 9:22 am
duncanm
duncanm
October 8, 2022 9:22 am

sampling bias — this is the wrong term to use. But there’s a correlation in there which explains the different death rates.

Rabz
October 8, 2022 9:23 am

extremely lax nature of security at Parliament House

Lehrmann, BDB and the two “security” idiots should have all been summarily sacked as of 9:00am the following Monday morning. Guess which of the four was the only one that suffered that fate?

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
October 8, 2022 9:24 am

OK I have no dog in the Ukraine vs Russia fight, as an Aussie I prefer we stayed focused locally in Asia Pacific. The below is through an ex Army mate.

He’s heard through his network big counter offensive going on in Kherson. Ruski’s are levelling grid squares and mopping up with armour later. Same round Khakiv. Nothing really concrete in media yet except a News.com article alluding to it.

https://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/russianbacked-forces-claim-gains-near-bakhmut-in-east-ukraine/news-story/7fef5d53127aec4b3303f47ca37de282

Rabz
October 8, 2022 9:25 am

make sure she doesn’t crack and the truth comes out

Not much chance of that, given the preposterous lies she’s been spraying around like vomit in a ministerial office at 2:00am on a Saturday morning.

Black Ball
Black Ball
October 8, 2022 9:25 am

For a place where Flannery said we would get bugger all rain, sure is a lot of water about.
Between Pyramid Hill and Bendigo a lot of dry creek beds aren’t dry anymore. And I also notice that the Loddon River will flood.
And we pay for this man’s work.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 8, 2022 9:25 am

Tintarella di Lunasays:

October 8, 2022 at 9:17 am

Has it come to far for the bdb to pull the pin on the whole thing and egg-in-the-face the entire conspiracy and all the players therein?

I think so.
What started as an ill-advised career saving strategy is now in the realms of serious perjury.
At every step she thought it wouldn’t go any further.
Make a police statement, but expecting no charges.
Oops, charges laid, but the DPP will probably chuck it out.
Oops, maybe it won’t survive a committal hearing.
The good news is, it looks like Britnah is having no trouble keeping her Roses chocolates down these days.

Makka
Makka
October 8, 2022 9:29 am

“Victoria’s auditor-general last month said the economic analysis surrounding Melbourne’s proposed $8 billion to $13 billion airport rail link lacked “transparency” and that the methodology used created risks that the project’s economic value had been overstated.

Boy oh boy, does he miss the mark.

The economic value isn’t the point of this project. It’s to get the fat overpriced contracts done, keep the backhanders going, keep the maaates employed and kicking back, keep the factions sweet for the coming election, maintaining all the snouts in the trough. Victorian taxpayers will be getting fleeced long after these parasites have left office.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
October 8, 2022 9:31 am

Black Ball.
There’s some very poor soil types from Pyramid Hill back towards Bendigo.
Do the crops look healthy or yellow and sodden?

H B Bear
H B Bear
October 8, 2022 9:33 am

Are the officers not privy to the protocols?

Don’t mention the protocols. It sets mUnty off.

Black Ball
Black Ball
October 8, 2022 9:35 am

They look ok Gez but noticed water in some of them. Hopefully they aren’t ruined.

Boambee John
Boambee John
October 8, 2022 9:39 am

Matersays:
October 8, 2022 at 8:09 am
Throwing billions at it doesn’t count. If it did we’d have cheap commercial nuclear fusion by now.

…And a perpetual motion machine.

We already have the perpetual motion machine. It involves an EV, solar panels and a household battery. the electricity seems to cycle between all three with no losses and perpetual availability.

lotocoti
lotocoti
October 8, 2022 9:40 am

Been watching Norman Stanley Fletcher run rings around the screws at HMP Slade.
These days, the trigger warnings for Ronnie Barker’s gentle humour
would run longer than the show.
Hey Fletcher, what’s he mean by a practising homosexual?
One who ain’t got it right yet.

Razey
Razey
October 8, 2022 9:45 am

Victoria will never recover from the damage caused by the Hunchback fascist.

Roger
Roger
October 8, 2022 9:45 am

And we pay for this man’s work.

Not sure what what Prof. Flim Flammery is up to these days.

The sustainability institute at Melbourne Uni listed as his employer on his Wiki page closed last year.

At that time he was unrepentant; we know that because disinterested seeker of truth Peter FitzSimons interviewed him for the SMH. Seems the narrative needed bolstering in the midst of La Nina.

Zipster
October 8, 2022 9:46 am

Healthy 23 Yr Old EUTHANIZED As INSANE Trend Grows, The Great Reset Leads To Population Reduction
tim pool

. In Canada Euthanasia is becoming more common with the government even making recommendations that sad people die.

struth
struth
October 8, 2022 9:46 am

Yes dot
You submitted to be part of the privileged class letting others do the dirty work.
Many still are.
We are a divided society.
Those who submitted made it so.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 8, 2022 9:46 am

Historians clash over frontier wars exhibit
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Nicholas Jensen
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9:29PM October 7, 2022
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The nation’s leading historians are locked in a heated debate over the Australian War Memorial’s pledge to recognise frontier warfare in a new exhibit, following a decision by its governing council to acknowledge the violence perpetrated against Indigenous Australians in its galleries.

AWM chair Brendan Nelson last week vowed to present a “much deeper depiction” of the history of Australia’s frontier wars and the ­violence perpetrated against Indigenous people “initially by the British, then by pastoralists, then by police, and then by Aboriginal militia”.

Minister for Veterans’ Affairs Matt Keogh, who joined Mr Nelson to make the announcement, said the memorial’s $550m expansion would allow for greater recognition of the frontier wars, adding that it was the responsibility of every cultural institution to acknowledge the conflict.

But historian Geoffrey Blainey blasted the memorial’s governing council, saying such an exhibit belonged in the National Museum in Canberra, not in an institution devoted to commem­orating Australia’s overseas military service.

Professor Blainey, who twice served on the memorial’s governing council, told The Weekend Australian that frontier warfare between Indigenous groups and European settlers should be recorded in the National Museum in Canberra, as well as other state museums, but would not be appropriate in the Australian War Memorial.

He said it was essential Australia’s frontier wars be treated “more impartially” than Mr Nelson was proposing if they were to be properly recognised in any museum.

“I believe that conflict between Aborigines and Europeans, especially in the century after 1788, was often extensive and should be recorded in museums … (but) not in the AWM,” Professor Blainey said.

“Warfare between Aboriginal groups was on a large scale in traditional times and this should (also) be on record … the Aboriginal way of life had many merits but the peoples and ‘nations’ did not necessarily live in harmony with one another, nor their environment,” he said.

“The Prime Minister has been a strong advocate of the Dark Emu theory that the traditional Aboriginals formed a peace-­loving democracy, the oldest in the world. Will this be part of the new exhibit?”

Professor Blainey – whose ­pioneering book Triumph of the Nomads was one of the first ­histories to address violence on the frontier – insisted any exhibit should display the massacres of Indigenous peoples by Indigenous peoples, as well as British peoples massacred by Indigenous peoples.

Fellow historian Henry Reynolds – who has long advocated an AWM exhibit on Australia’s frontier wars – agreed with Professor Blainey that any display of frontier warfare should include conflict between Indigenous Aus­tralians as well as violence perpetrated against white settlers.

But Professor Reynolds said the memorial was best placed to present the “richness and complexity of this history”.

“This issue has been debated for a long time now, and I understand it’s controversial and many people disagree with it, but the memorial is the best-resourced and most well-placed institution in this country to tackle this ­subject,” he said.

Professor Reynolds said ­debate over Australia’s frontier wars had advanced dramatically in the past two decades, and there was now widespread agreement that Indigenous people and white settlers were engaged in large-scale conflicts.

“What makes it war, and therefore relevant to the Australian War Memorial, is not how it was fought, but what it was fought about,” Professor Reynolds said.

“Once the Mabo decision established that Aboriginal land was occupied under their own laws, there was no question this was a war about land.”

Professor Reynolds said the memorial’s pledge to build was now unequivocal, adding that both the AWM’s governing ­council and the Albanese government could not afford to back away from last week’s commitment.

Australian War Memorial director Matt Anderson told The Weekend Australian the new pre-1914 gallery would be opened in 2028 and be guided by several groups, including an ­Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander advisory group which had already been established.

The curatorial team for the new exhibit will be established in late 2024.

shatterzzz
October 8, 2022 9:48 am

extremely lax nature of security at Parliament House

From what I’m told security at Parliament House only applies to “outsiders” .. ie: keeping the vote-herd & tourists in check .. security guards that question/intrude on any “member” or parliamentary staff, generally, have short careers …. “we is all equal, except!” ………

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
October 8, 2022 9:49 am

From the radar images it look like the poor buggers in Central Western NSW are going to cop it again.

Zyconoclast
Zyconoclast
October 8, 2022 9:51 am

National Math Conference Trains Teachers to Push Anti-Racism, Social Justice in Classrooms

“Much is lost when we do not politicize Black girls’ math education. Centering Black girls as knowledge producers through a critical analysis of their experiences is necessary,” Nicole Joseph, an associate professor of mathematics education at Vanderbilt University, wrote in her pitch to attendees.

shatterzzz
October 8, 2022 9:52 am

AWM chair Brendan Nelson last week vowed to present a “much deeper depiction” of the history of Australia’s frontier wars

“Frontier Wars” brought to you by the same folk that cannonized “welcome to country” into the 251 mythology .. LOL!

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 8, 2022 9:52 am

Confirming that tonight’s gala dinner for the Privileged Class will be held at the club.
The foie gras has arrived on a private flight from Lyon this morning, and Klaus Schwab is bringing the Maine lobster on his jet this afternoon.
Until then … toodle-pip!

Boambee John
Boambee John
October 8, 2022 9:52 am

Putin may have been a moderate before he started the war, but he’s not one now. What more could a replacement do, apart from drop a nuke? He’s already started a mobilisation and devoted 20% of Russia’s GDP to it, it’s not as if there is a cigarette paper’s difference between him and some random Mad Pyotr.

Any thought of Putin having a legitimate beef with Europe about their moves to discourage him from invading countries were snuffed out when he started the invasion. He kind of proved them right, didn’t he? Turns out he actually was a threat that they should have made moves to counter.

m0nty-fa moves on from failed economist, through j’ism, to fantasy football, and finally to fantasy international relations.

But avoids the path to fantasy soldier in the war he wants so desperately to see start.

shatterzzz
October 8, 2022 9:56 am

“Much is lost when we do not politicize Black girls’ math education. Centering Black girls as knowledge producers through a critical analysis of their experiences is necessary,”

What a “woke” world we live in when such a gobbleygook word salad,actually, gets accepted & publicised ..!

The Beer whisperer
The Beer whisperer
October 8, 2022 9:56 am

Colorado baker who won Supreme Court victory over his refusal to bake a gay wedding cake challenges new ruling against him after he declined to bake a gender transition cake

As benign as a cake blue on the outside and pink on the inside is, if you can demand someone make it for you, then you can demand a depiction of agiant cock and arse on a cake, or a disemboweled puppy.

If it’s not on the shelf, you cannot demand it.

Eyrie
Eyrie
October 8, 2022 9:59 am

I haven’t forgotten St Ruth’s Freudian slip about being vaxed a few months ago.
You possibly could read it that way but I think you misinterpreted it.
Struth could settle the matter.

Zipster
October 8, 2022 10:00 am

Dr. Fauci: A new, more dangerous Covid variant could emerge this winter

it’s almost done cooking in the lab

Bear Necessities
Bear Necessities
October 8, 2022 10:01 am

AWM chair Brendan Nelson last week vowed to present a “much deeper depiction” of the history of Australia’s frontier wars

Will General Custer make an appearance? I heard he came over to fight the Frontier Wars after he fought at the Alamo.

You know it makes sense!

Zyconoclast
Zyconoclast
October 8, 2022 10:04 am

As benign as a cake blue on the outside and pink on the inside is, if you can demand someone make it for you, then you can demand a depiction of agiant cock and arse on a cake, or a disemboweled puppy.

Based on recent monkey pox stories, the three decorations you described are very factual options.

Zipster
October 8, 2022 10:04 am

Nicole ‘deep cretin’ Joseph, an associate professor of

big endian logic as applied to Mr potato head.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
October 8, 2022 10:05 am

Higgins high status Labor support team are there to make sure she doesn’t crack and the truth comes out.
They don’t really care about you sweetheart.

Their handiwork is evident in Mz Higgins’ revealed terror of a late night visit from Nosferatu:

She became emotional as she recalled then-home affairs minister Peter Dutton knowing about her intention to reopen the case before she had given evidence to police.

“I was seeking legal advice to know my rights because I was terrified.”

Quite so.
As everyone knows, she could so easily have become just another bloodless corpse found discarded in a ditch.

duncanm
duncanm
October 8, 2022 10:09 am

Coming out cake ?

Difficult when you’re a species who is all* male

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmzGfSDeqME

* – ok, not all.

Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
October 8, 2022 10:10 am

the poor buggers in Central Western NSW

What does that mean for the Hardie-Ferodo 500? King of the Waterslide!

Zipster
October 8, 2022 10:10 am
The Beer whisperer
The Beer whisperer
October 8, 2022 10:11 am

What a “woke” world we live in when such a gobbleygook word salad,actually, gets accepted & publicised ..!

“Lived experience” has nothing to do with maths (we pronounce it right and the Yanks are wrong, period), but worse, demonstrates a fundamental ignorance of what maths is, which is at its very core objective. Lived experience is subjective by definition, so belongs anywhere but in maths.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
October 8, 2022 10:11 am

rosiesays:
October 8, 2022 at 7:02 am
Fin review, paywalled.
‘Headed for failure’: Alinta CEO on energy transition

Australia has almost run out of time to head off an energy transition “train wreck” with action on policies to spur investment in firming capacity and achieve emissions targets lagging ever further behind what is needed, according to one of Australia’s leading energy bosses.

Alinta Energy chief executive Jeff Dimery said announcements last month of earlier coal power station closures by AGL Energy and the Queensland government and higher but sometimes “hollow” targets for renewables and storage have him worried, with consumers to pay the price.

“I’m sure I’m not the only one just observing the gap that’s really opening up between the certainty of what’s coming out and the uncertainty of what’s replacing it and going in,” Mr Dimery said ahead of his participation in The Australian Financial Review Energy & Climate Summit on Monday in Sydney.

“I personally don’t believe we can achieve the transition based on what we’re seeing to date that is going to be delivered; I think we’re headed for failure unless things change significantly.”

Mr Dimery’s concerns will be largely echoed by EnergyAustralia CEO Mark Collette and Origin Energy boss Frank Calabria who will also speak at the summit.

“I am more concerned about a smooth energy transition than a year ago,” Mr Collette told The Australian Financial Review on Friday, describing the challenge as “enormous”.

“In eight years, we need to build roughly three times the renewable capacity we built in the last 20 years, plus grid to connect the renewables and flexible capacity and storage to make sure the system works in all weather conditions.

“And all this needs to happen at a time there is limited capacity for new infrastructure delivery amid record-low unemployment and an international landscape of rising energy prices.”

Mr Collette said Australia’s rapid energy transition was still possible if the transition was made “one of Australia’s national priorities” but that without the needed policies in place to support efficient new investment at scale the transition would be “slow and disorderly”.

While some say the bosses of traditional power generators are only talking their book, Grattan Institute energy program director Tony Wood said the concerns were justified: “Yes there’s a real risk, and yes, it’s got worse,” he said, describing the looming price increases for customers as “really scary stuff”.

“I don’t think it’s impossible to get this moving in the right direction, but this is not going to happen they way we are going now,” Mr Wood said, urging federal and state energy ministers to absolutely commit to the partnership they agreed to in August to support the transition, and for action to implement the policy framework.

Mr Dimery said that despite the warnings from the Australian Energy Market Operator of potential supply gaps opening up in some states from 2023, the message still was not getting across about the urgency of putting in regulatory settings to spur investment in firming capacity to support rising renewable energy.

Work around the controversial “capacity mechanism” that would improve the economics of investments in batteries, pumped hydro and other on-demand generation appears to have lost momentum over the past few months, pointing to delays of six months of more that the market cannot afford.

Meanwhile, the policy tools to back up the targets and aspirations on clean energy announced by state governments are mostly lacking, while progress on the grid build-out is slow.

‘Red lights flashing’

“I’ve got red lights flashing, and that’s against the backdrop of consumer energy prices escalating rapidly,” Mr Dimery said.

“And if we look ahead, based on the regulatory tests that have been done to determine tariffs, the increases next year are going to be much larger than the increases [this] year. It’s a massive issue.”

AGL, under huge pressure from its largest shareholder, tech billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes, last month brought forward the closure date for its newest coal power station, Loy Yang A in Victoria, by up to 10 years to 2035. The same week, the Queensland government pledged to end its use of coal power by 2035, also up to a decade earlier than planned, as part of a $62 billion plan to connect 22 GW of new renewable projects.

Mr Dimery named numerous hurdles to the many aspirational projects that companies want to build, including local community issues, regulatory settings and tests, and the build-out of the grid.

“If you were to go through and look at the Australian energy market, and think about all the aspirational projects that people and companies want to build, there are so many impediments under the current broken regulatory settings for the development of those assets,” he said.

“There’s been a lot of talk about that changing, but there’s been absolutely no action. So you’re seeing lots of action on the closing and no action on the development. It’s kind of stuck.”

He said every day was critical, let alone months that added rapidly up to half-year periods of delay given the months are counting down to reach 2030 targets.

“The clock is absolutely ticking here. And again, all we’re getting is more and more closure announcements, and less and less clarity around a future operating environment so that the replacement program can get on with it,” he said.

That means the new Labor government cannot afford to sit around but needs to push forward on the critical policy settings to achieve decarbonisation goals.

“The new government have bold aspirations. They’ve made a number of announcements around investing in transmission, etc. Rubber on the road, unfortunately, at the moment, not much traction. But, you know, to be fair, it’s early days,” he said.

The comments come after energy ministers in August took back control of work to redesign the National Electricity Market from the Energy Security Board as some stakes baulked at any measures that may support coal-fired power.

But since then, there has been no evidence of any progress on the reforms.

“Unfortunately, for the new government, they don’t have any time; They’re out of time,” Mr Dimery said, voicing doubts about the decision by ministers to take responsibility for the reforms.

“I’m not sure that a bunch of bureaucrats are going to be able to add anything other than politics to the discussion,” he said.

Mr Dimery has consistently supported the ESB’s proposal for a capacity mechanism, but critics point out that it would favour Alinta’s portfolio, which includes the Loy Yang B coal-fired power station in Victoria. Loy Yang B has a rated life through to about 2047 but Mr Dimery said it would close earlier than that.

Still, Victoria absolutely still needs its coal power plants, he said, pointing to them as the reason the state’s wholesale electricity prices have not risen as high as elsewhere.

Alinta also has an offshore wind project on the drawing board, and a pumped hydro project, but without policies such as the capacity mechanism in place, the economics do not add up.

Mr Dimery called for policies to support the state energy targets to get those sorts of projects off the ground.

“It’s important that we get to the next level of detail in the discussion, and we need to get there quickly, in light of what is can only be described as a looming catastrophe,” he said.

Zyconoclast
Zyconoclast
October 8, 2022 10:12 am

Nicole Joseph

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The Beer whisperer
The Beer whisperer
October 8, 2022 10:13 am

What does that mean for the Hardie-Ferodo 500? King of the Waterslide!

I expect this year’s shenanigans to be the most entertaining ever. I’m popcorn ready!

Vicki
Vicki
October 8, 2022 10:13 am

From the radar images it look like the poor buggers in Central Western NSW are going to cop it again.

Gez – I can’t imagine how they are coping. We are on the NSW Central Tablelands & the paddocks are as saturated as I have ever seen them. Husband and I attempted to do a walk this morning & examine the damage. To start with, we had to drive the Gator a way up the driveway from the house, as it was running like a creek. Dams are overflowing and contributing to the saturation. Got down to the creek at the boundary of our property in the Gator and found it raging in rapids. Don’t know how the feral pigs are crossing it, as there is evidence of their nightly visits in uprooted turf on some slopes. The damn fox that got our chooks a few weeks ago was stalking one dam as it is harbouring quite a few ducks which are loving the weather. Didn’t have the gun. The grass is growing like crazy and it will be weeks of good weather before we can get the tractor and slasher out. A month or so ago the tractor went right down on the side of a paddock where the water lay under the ground like a cushion. Wouldn’t dare take it anywhere near there now.

Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
October 8, 2022 10:15 am

you can demand a depiction of a giant cock and arse on a cake

You have reminded me of the giant phalluses in the windows of chocolate makers in Bruges.
I had to quickly explain to Mrs OSC that they were representations of reality, not actual re-creations.
There was a far away look on her face for days.

shatterzzz
October 8, 2022 10:17 am

“Frontier Wars” .. a stunning diarama recreating Ayres Rock circa 1789.. the “Masada” of the 251

Boambee John
Boambee John
October 8, 2022 10:18 am

Razeysays:
October 8, 2022 at 9:45 am
Victoria will never recover from the damage caused by the Hunchback fascist.

Tri-Continental, State Savings Bank, Mother Russia and Stairman Dan. Alongside that lot, reconstructing Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Hamburg and Dresden was but a moment’s work.

Roger
Roger
October 8, 2022 10:20 am

“And if we look ahead, based on the regulatory tests that have been done to determine tariffs, the increases next year are going to be much larger than the increases [this] year. It’s a massive issue.”

Perhaps a power bill strike might inject a dose of reality into the brains of our political leaders?

At least in QLD it’s the state government that will be directly impacted.

Big_Nambas
Big_Nambas
October 8, 2022 10:20 am
GreyRanga
GreyRanga
October 8, 2022 10:21 am

Rosie and Thancho description of the young and innocent britknee, summarised what really happened. Any thing else is spin.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
October 8, 2022 10:21 am

duncanm says:
October 8, 2022 at 9:22 am

sampling bias — this is the wrong term to use. But there’s a correlation in there which explains the different death rates.

Correct on both counts.
The appropriate technical term to use is deliberate misrepresentation. But you’ve correctly picked the sleight of hand.

On the bright side, the Exposé is now back to 28 days to live.

JC
JC
October 8, 2022 10:22 am

Throwing billions at it doesn’t count. If it did we’d have cheap commercial nuclear fusion by now.

Hallward, you really are too stupid for this blog and that’s saying something with some of the competition. Fusion is no longer a scientific dream, you clown. The scientific side of fusion has been bedded down and it’s now an engineering problem, which appears to be systematically solvable. Go play with your model plane and pretend you’re flying (inside) it, you dickhead. Every single engineering/scientific discovery is a function of the resources thrown at it. You fucking idiot, if only you kept the promise to fuck off over to the Lollipop blog where you go to denigrate this place. You’re despicable.

Big_Nambas
Big_Nambas
October 8, 2022 10:23 am
bons
bons
October 8, 2022 10:26 am

I bought one of the beautifully crafted Bruges sets of chocolate boobs for a ‘he he ha ha ‘ raffle prize at our outfit’s Paris office Friday night drinks.
A visiting Australian HR thing stacked on a monumental tanty and loudly demanded my dismissal.
She was howled down, but the fuss went on for a while.
For me it was the first inkling of what was happening to Australia.

Roger
Roger
October 8, 2022 10:30 am

Ted Cruz: Everything the Biden administration has touched has gone to garbageshit

The Left cannot create; it can only destroy.

Eyrie
Eyrie
October 8, 2022 10:31 am

JC, take it to the abuse thread.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
October 8, 2022 10:32 am

My math knowledge, its accepted 1+1=2. Woke math, 1+1/life story = whatever I want it to.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 8, 2022 10:32 am

Eyriesays:

October 8, 2022 at 9:59 am

I haven’t forgotten St Ruth’s Freudian slip about being vaxed a few months ago.
You possibly could read it that way but I think you misinterpreted it.
Struth could settle the matter.

Probably one for the Duelling Thread.

Makka
Makka
October 8, 2022 10:33 am

Shit, meet the fan.

https://twitter.com/SamanthaLaDuc/status/1578413935128023040/photo/1

Unless interest rates fall sharply in the coming months, the interest expense on Public Debt will soon surpass $1 trillion on an annual basis and become the largest line item in the budget.

shatterzzz
October 8, 2022 10:37 am

How easy do we get conned ..? Is it just me? .. a week ago I’d never heard the phrase “frontier wars” in relation to the never-ending, more-money-pleeeze, whinge-ing of the 251s yet now we have the War Museum extolling the virtues of adding a display to to ‘commemorate” these, must’ave ‘appened cos we sez so, “battles” ..

Black Ball
Black Ball
October 8, 2022 10:39 am

Hold on, is Nelson suggesting that a separate arm of the War Memorial be dedicated to the ‘Frontier Wars’?

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