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All Souls’ Day, Jules Bastien-Lepage, 1882

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m0nty
November 3, 2022 10:42 pm

Technically it was called Economics & Commerce back then.

JC
JC
November 3, 2022 10:43 pm

KD

No, I’m just being pessimistic that Philadelphia’s cheating will seal the deal for the stroke victim. I read they sent out 240K postal votes that weren’t requested. If that’s true the retard will win.

Polls are showing it’s neck and neck on Real Clear Politics, which means Oz is likely ahead by 5. They will manufacture 5% of the votes in Philly.

Top Ender
Top Ender
November 3, 2022 10:44 pm

Story 3 in one day:

A witness to the Daniel Andrews family car crash has detailed the traumatic moments in the aftermath of the accident.

Jane Crittenden, now 66, was first on the scene when the Andrews’ family Ford Territory struck teenage bike rider Ryan Meuleman in Blairgowrie in January 2013.

She spoke out for the first time on Thursday, as Mr Andrews refused to answer more than 15 questions related to the incident after the Herald Sun revealed that Ryan had engaged lawyers and was disputing the Premier and his wife’s claims about the circumstances surrounding the crash.

“I’ve canvassed these matters in great detail and I’ve got no further comment to make,” Mr Andrews said, shooting down suggestions his refusal to address Ryan’s concerns made him look unsympathetic.

Ms Crittenden said she almost drove into the back of the Andrews’ family car after turning the corner and seeing the then 15-year-old Ryan lying on the road.

“I came around the corner and almost drove into the back of them,” Ms Crittenden recalled on Thursday.

“They had hit this child who was lying on the road and my instinct was just to go straight to that child, so I got out and ran over.

“A local resident had come out, too, because it was a big hit. His bike was smashed up. The wheels were all bent, it was a mess.

“I grabbed a towel from out of my car and put it under his head because it was a burning hot day. And I had a black umbrella over him just to shield him and give him some comfort and care when you are lying on burning hot asphalt.”

Ms Crittenden recalled Mr Andrews, the then Opposition Leader, telling her that his wife had been driving the car and that she was “traumatised”.

“I had no idea who Dan Andrews was, he meant nothing to me in those days, but he must have told me the number of the house where they were staying down the road … because later, I found their house and I knocked on the door,” Ms Crittenden said.

“I said, ‘Listen, I just want to tell you – I think he’s going to be okay and I can’t imagine how traumatised you must feel’ and she (Cath) came up the passageway and gave me a big hug and said thank you so much.”

Ms Crittenden said she returned to Ryan’s home in Blairgowrie about three weeks later to “see how he was going”.

“And I got the inference that after all the trauma had settled down that possibly they had spoken to friends and thought, ‘Oh my god, this should have been dealt with differently’. And that was the last I ever had to do with it.”

Asked about Ryan’s claim that Mr and Mrs Andrews were “yelling at each other” and slow to assist him, she said: “I don’t think they were down on their knees helping, no, but I was only concerned about the child. I was focusing on him. That’s where my zone was.

“His (Ryan’s) sister appeared because that’s how I got his address and she was screaming and yelling.”

After Ryan was taken away in an ambulance, Ms Crittenden said she placed the smashed up bicycle in the back of her car, along with his helmet and backpack, and drove it to the family home.

Pressed on whether Mr Andrews and his wife had assisted Ryan at the crash scene, she said: “No. I don’t remember them helping … they were probably quite clearly concerned about their kids … I don’t ever remember them being down on their hands and knees doing too much. I think he (Andrews) would have been focusing on his children and his wife.”

She also recalled the car being moved from the scene.

JC
JC
November 3, 2022 10:45 pm

m0nty says:
November 3, 2022 at 10:42 pm

Technically it was called Economics & Commerce back then.

Technically you’re a fat idiot. It’s always been known as a B. Com at Melbourne. On the other hand, Monash is B. Econ.

m0nty
November 3, 2022 10:48 pm

Geez the Hun is desperate if they are dredging up something from 2013 on Andrews. Gutter journalism at its finest.

Indolent
Indolent
November 3, 2022 10:52 pm
Indolent
Indolent
November 3, 2022 10:53 pm
JC
JC
November 3, 2022 10:54 pm

m0nty says:
November 3, 2022 at 10:48 pm

Geez the Hun is desperate if they are dredging up something from 2013 on Andrews. Gutter journalism at its finest.

Small edit suggestion

Geez the Age is desperate if they are dredging up something from 1996 (?) on Pell. Gutter journalism at its finest.

Indolent
Indolent
November 3, 2022 10:54 pm
Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
November 3, 2022 11:00 pm

No, I’m just being pessimistic that Philadelphia’s cheating will seal the deal for the stroke victim

Are we sure it’s not ‘meth victim’?

cohenite
November 3, 2022 11:02 pm

Technically it was called Economics & Commerce back then.

Technically, you’re a eunuch.

JC
JC
November 3, 2022 11:03 pm

Could be too.

The wife is certainly a meth victim. She said in an interview that knowing how to swim is racist. No kidding, look it up.

Zipster
November 3, 2022 11:08 pm
Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
November 3, 2022 11:14 pm

She said in an interview that knowing how to swim is racist.

What about treading water in a cage pulled along with ropes by breaststroking slaves? That’s all right, surely.

JC
JC
November 3, 2022 11:20 pm

But you need (1) to generate intense hatred of the candidate such that people would consider committing a felony.

You print up postal vote slips and complete them. Also loads of machines are attached to the internet and their software can be compromised.

Can you think of a single R candidate in Senate race where they managed to achieved similar stigmitization as with Trump?

Similar but not identical… Cruz

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
November 3, 2022 11:20 pm

“The Guy Who Showers With His Daughter Is Telling You You’re a Bad Person” – Tucker Carlson Roasts Joe Biden after Disgusting Union Station Speech

Tucker Carlson:

They’re vicious, they’re intolerant, and they are utterly corrupt. And above all they are incompetent. In less than two years it is not an overstatement to say they have run this country into the ground. Wrecking our economy, desecrating our military, and opening the borders of the United States to 5 million lawbreakers. The destruction they brought is so profound it’s hard to describe.

So of course there will be consequences for that… How could this party stay in power?

Tonight Joe Biden traveled across the City of Washington to Union Station… Built by Teddy Roosevelt more than 100 years ago, Union Station was for generations one of the most beautiful public buildings in this country. Under Joe Biden it has become a homeless encampment. A place that is too filthy and too dangerous for Starbucks.

Standing at this monument to his own failures Biden proceeded to do what he commonly does, bark at the rest of us for our moral failures. The guy who showered with his daughter is telling you, you’re a bad person .

Tucker then proceeded to break down Joe Biden’s demented speech including his signaling that the election fix is in.

Perfidious Albino
Perfidious Albino
November 3, 2022 11:24 pm

Andrews being pressed on his old hit and run in print and in press conferences now, the victim and eye witnesses speaking out all of a sudden. I doubt the Libs have the ticker to ‘play the man’ like this, could it be Labor attempting to ditch him?

JC
JC
November 3, 2022 11:29 pm

They need names, postmarks, signatures.

The also raid nursing homes trawling for votes. Someone mentioned that vote harvesting takes a few hours for demons to collect votes compared to Repubs taking a week for equal. Think the projects vs burbs with regular spread out homes.

JC
JC
November 3, 2022 11:30 pm

Look Dover, believe me, I hope you’re right.

Real Deal
Real Deal
November 3, 2022 11:33 pm

Iran Khan shot in the leg. Lots of jihadis in Pakistan must be unimpressed with the Duckworth Lewis system and want to tske it out on someone.

Real Deal
Real Deal
November 3, 2022 11:37 pm

Imran Khan.

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
November 3, 2022 11:39 pm

The bint’s bike bingle
Slug-gate
Redshirts
Batflu panic
Live Fire at The Shrine
Cuffing mums for facebooking
Pepperspraying prone pensioners
$15 mil for wimmins league whingers
……..
Jesus I could write a half-decent campaign from the other side of the country armed with little more that Cat knowledge and alliteration.
Why hasn’t anyone shot down Andrews? He should have been bleeding out for three years now. Same goes Albanese, Palaszchckc, McGowan. And the phenomenon that Labor can run a commission into Robodebt which Plibbersek and Shorten have no fear of is so sang-froid it’s almost cruel.
There’s only one possible explanation.
The Liberal Opposition has long time been infiltrated by Lizard People, who have no concerns so long as the binary party pantomime plays. We all know they have exactly the same policies on all the important stuff, like digital identities, the end of cash, endless immigration and endless war.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
November 3, 2022 11:41 pm

Monty outraged about Dan being asked about an incident a decade or so ago.

Cast your mind back to the fat tards response to “ Tony Abbott punched a wall at uni”. If it wasn’t terminally without a dick it wouldn’t have been able to leave the house for a week.

Zipster
November 3, 2022 11:41 pm
Zipster
November 3, 2022 11:47 pm
H B Bear
H B Bear
November 3, 2022 11:53 pm

The Chairman does seem to run into problems down on the Peninsula. Best to stick to safe Metropolitan areas.

H B Bear
H B Bear
November 3, 2022 11:56 pm

Geez the Hun is desperate if they are dredging up something from 2013 on Andrews. Gutter journalism at its finest.

For a failed economics student you’re a pretty ordinary j’ismist too.

MatrixTransform
November 4, 2022 1:05 am

No man ever steps in the same sewer twice, for it’s not the same sewer and he’s not the same man.

–apologies to Heraclitus

feelthebern
feelthebern
November 4, 2022 3:21 am

NATO/US and russia are now in a game of nuclear chicken.

Where have all the peaceniks gone?

feelthebern
feelthebern
November 4, 2022 3:32 am

Another difference between 2020 & 2022 is the lack of money.
Harvesting costs money.
All the records are still there.
Project Veritas needs to have someone inside Venmo.

Tom
Tom
November 4, 2022 4:01 am
Tom
Tom
November 4, 2022 4:03 am
Tom
Tom
November 4, 2022 4:04 am
Tom
Tom
November 4, 2022 4:05 am
Tom
Tom
November 4, 2022 4:06 am
Tom
Tom
November 4, 2022 4:07 am
Tom
Tom
November 4, 2022 4:08 am
rosie
rosie
November 4, 2022 4:09 am
Tom
Tom
November 4, 2022 4:09 am
Tom
Tom
November 4, 2022 4:11 am
Tom
Tom
November 4, 2022 4:12 am
Tom
Tom
November 4, 2022 4:13 am
rosie
rosie
November 4, 2022 4:13 am
Tom
Tom
November 4, 2022 4:14 am
Tom
Tom
November 4, 2022 4:15 am
Tom
Tom
November 4, 2022 4:16 am
Tom
Tom
November 4, 2022 4:17 am
Tom
Tom
November 4, 2022 4:18 am
DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
November 4, 2022 4:24 am

Thanks Tom. Some good ones from the US.

rosie
rosie
November 4, 2022 4:37 am

Sorry Tom, wasn’t looking at the clock.

rosie
rosie
November 4, 2022 4:39 am

The crash allegations getting lots of coverage on Twitter, of course who I follow means I’m going to see more than #istandwithdanners

Dot
Dot
November 4, 2022 4:50 am

THERE IS BUT ONE SCORING SYSTEM MY BROTHERS!

miltonf
miltonf
November 4, 2022 5:21 am

Montypox again demonstrates what a nasty piece of work it is.

Mater
November 4, 2022 6:29 am

I guess whilst Dan’s past is coming back to haunt him, it’s about time to remind people of his hypocrisy by re-linking to this little gem of his.

It got a pretty good run on Twitter after I posted it here on the Cat.

And yes, Monty, he posted it six years ago.

Zatara
Zatara
November 4, 2022 6:34 am

An Ex-Leftist Reacts to Biden’s Speech About ‘Democracy’

Powerful stuff.

But people aren’t being manipulated now. And that has nothing to do with “election deniers.” It has nothing to do with MAGA Republicans. They can see what you and your party have done to them. The kitty or perhaps the donkey is out of the proverbial burlap. You and your party failed us, just like you failed me twelve years ago. But instead of apologizing and maybe listening, you doubled down, you dug in. And the rest of us paid for it.

People have figured out something about you and the rest of your ruling class, sir. You are everything you accuse conservatives of being. And you were able to hide that. Until now.

Anchor What
Anchor What
November 4, 2022 6:36 am

The way to World Peace?
Miss Argentina and Miss Puerto Rico announce that they just got married.
Link

Anchor What
Anchor What
November 4, 2022 6:43 am

Another two women that the BBC featured on their OS program overnight perhaps illustrate a few things about politics in the USA and the way the lefty media organise their daily agitprop chook feed for the unwary.
Instead of acknowledging that even Democrat women are pissed off with the Biden regime, particularly in respect of scandalous education revelations, and cost of living explosions, they found two women who were married to Republican voting men, but remained dedicatees of the Dems.
They said things like “the conservatives don’t give due consideration to LGBT issues, or abortion rights” and “conservative men like things to stay the same because it favours men”.
Fair and Balanced Beeb Does it again.

132andBush
132andBush
November 4, 2022 6:43 am

The way to World Peace?
Miss Argentina and Miss Puerto Rico announce that they just got married.

Both look to be in desperate need of a decent feed.

Anchor What
Anchor What
November 4, 2022 6:50 am

“The backlash against Obama’s leftist policies brought us the unabashed patriot, Donald Trump. But by the time Trump was inaugurated, the cancer from Obama’s eight years in office had done its damage, and many in the federal government had become fully engaged members in the cult of progressivism.”
Yep. It’ll take a lot more than the midterms to fix the deep rot. They will only be a turning of the tide, but like the election of Trump they will not stop the zombie left.

feelthebern
feelthebern
November 4, 2022 6:56 am

Jimmy unloads on the Atlantic amnesty column.

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

Zatara
Zatara
November 4, 2022 6:57 am

Atlantic’s COVID Amnesty Request Was a Massive Political Blunder

Democrats are about to get wiped out in large part by suburban mothers in blue states and cities where the COVID tyranny and human rights abuses were the worst. The Atlantic’s request for an amnesty was a direct, election-eve appeal to these suburban voters to forgive, forget, and vote Democrat. It doesn’t get any more cynical or dishonest than that, but that’s what the Atlantic was aiming for.

Without apologizing or even admitting they did anything wrong, without promising never to do it again, without any contrition or remorse or consequences, these monsters are requesting amnesty.

feelthebern
feelthebern
November 4, 2022 7:00 am

Via Trafalgar & Baris, they are making a big thing about Miami-Dade being a GOP flip.
But according to Wikipedia, there are 3 GOP representatives in the area already.
I’m not sure if they are saying it will be GOP running the board or not.
More coffee needed.

feelthebern
feelthebern
November 4, 2022 7:06 am

zatara post worth 100 upticks.

rickw
rickw
November 4, 2022 7:10 am

I doubt the Libs have the ticker to ‘play the man’ like this, could it be Labor attempting to ditch him?

You can only tolerate your own dogs shit on your shoe for so long….

feelthebern
feelthebern
November 4, 2022 7:11 am

The Atlantic’s request for an amnesty was a direct, election-eve appeal to these suburban voters to forgive, forget, and vote Democrat.

When Taibbi spent time in Virginia post their 2021 election he found groups of people who voted Obama, Obama, Hillary, Biden who voted GOP because of what DNC was doing to school districts.
The swings within first generation Americans was so great it swung the state with the lowest amount of children per household in the US.

Razey
Razey
November 4, 2022 7:13 am

COVID booster may lower protection against omicron reinfection, study finds. Here’s why

https://www.yahoo.com/news/covid-booster-may-lower-protection-161839527.html

2dogs
2dogs
November 4, 2022 7:14 am
Cassie of Sydney
November 4, 2022 7:15 am

“election-eve appeal to these suburban voters to forgive, forget, and vote Democrat.”

Too late.

feelthebern
feelthebern
November 4, 2022 7:17 am

“election-eve appeal to these suburban voters to forgive, forget, and vote Democrat.”

Of all the issues to raise.
Fire, meet kero.

calli
calli
November 4, 2022 7:20 am

I’m becoming dyslexic. I mentioned Biden and SOTU yesterday. Correction – Union Station speech.

Station of the Union is just…wrong.

feelthebern
feelthebern
November 4, 2022 7:21 am

I think they’ll be at least one run-off election for a Senate seat.
They are incredible fund raising exercises especially when the DNC wants to fleece CA & NY libtards into funding some race in Georgia or some state they’ll never visit.

feelthebern
feelthebern
November 4, 2022 7:29 am

A lit of GOP donors that the IRS will be targeting.

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/biggest-donors-2022-midterm-elections/

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
November 4, 2022 7:34 am

They should receive manslaughter convictions.

Woman Whose Ambulance Was Blocked by Climate Extremists Declared Brain Dead by Doctors (3 Nov)

A woman involved in a traffic accident in Berlin has been declared brain dead, a tragic end to an episode which included emergency services travelling to give aid being delayed by road-blocking climate protesters.

And now they demanding action from the UK PM, or else.

Clock’s ticking! Eco protesters warn Sunak he has just 24hrs to meet their new demands (3 Nov)

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has just 24 hours left to meet the demands of eco protesters from Just Stop Oil laid out earlier this week.

A statement read: “If, as we sadly expect, we receive no response from ministers to our demand by the end of Friday 4 Nov, we will escalate our legal disruption against this treasonous Government. Our action will be proportionate to the task of stopping the crime against humanity which is new oil and gas.”

I suggest the UK arrest them all and then drop them off in Somalia so they can study the effects of climate change in action.

Rishi won’t do that though, since he’s a Gaia acolyte.

feelthebern
feelthebern
November 4, 2022 7:35 am

List, not lit.
Sam Bankman-Fried (the second biggest DNC donor) is one of the funders of Elon’s twitter bid.
Only for a half a bill, but still, he’s there.

Cassie of Sydney
November 4, 2022 7:40 am

“When Taibbi spent time in Virginia post their 2021 election he found groups of people who voted Obama, Obama, Hillary, Biden who voted GOP because of what DNC was doing to school districts. The swings within first generation Americans was so great it swung the state with the lowest amount of children per household in the US.”

The school board issue, with it’s focus on LGBTQI+ perversions, such as books in the school libraries explaining to children the technicalities and joys of anal sex and how to use the app “Grindr”, has hit Dearborn Michigan in a big way. Dearborn has the biggest community of Muslim Arabs in North America. The Muslims of Dearborn aren’t turning the other cheek to this indoctrination of their children and are taking on the school districts. It’ll be interesting to see how this effects their votes.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
November 4, 2022 7:40 am

The Hun reports that the former Junkyard Dog, Dean Laidley (and now plain old Dog, Danielle Laidley) is suing the State of Victoria because ‘people associated with the police who I don’t know’ took pictures of her dressed as a woman at the Geelong races a year ago.

Laidley reckons the photos were taken in order to treat her as a ‘ridiculous spectacle’ for identifying as a woman.

That would be 100% correct Laidley, you ridiculous spectacle.

calli
calli
November 4, 2022 7:40 am

I love the way Bok’s Biden is slowly disintegrating with each cartoon. Clever stuff.

calli
calli
November 4, 2022 7:44 am

Also, Leak’s caricature of Luigi the Unbelievable is far superior to Knight’s.

And I see the Treasurer, Leo Wanker, has jetted off abroad.

They do love their overseas travel, don’t they?

flyingduk
flyingduk
November 4, 2022 7:51 am

A COVID-19 booster, specifically a third vaccine dose, may lower protection against getting infected with the omicron variant again for some people — and there’s a reason why, new findings suggest. In contrast, two vaccine doses, followed by an initial omicron infection, may protect more against a second omicron infection than an extra jab,

Bolding is mine – no further questions your honour, these things don’t work.

calli
calli
November 4, 2022 7:51 am

Here’s a tip, Deano.

Don’t wear your slinky little party frocks and size 12 stilettos to the races. Kindly people might think you crave attention and take your photo.

Mean of you to turn on them so.

Fair Shake
Fair Shake
November 4, 2022 7:55 am

Working for a European brand, it’s budget time for the next calendar year. Word is HO predicts a significant recession in Eu and most markets. Sales expected to be down and with that budgets will be slashed globally.

We all predicted this shit show driven by QE, green hysteria and COVID panic. A little shove from Putin and away we roll. Hold onto something this might get rough.

Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
November 4, 2022 8:00 am

Geez the netballers are desperate if they are dredging up something from 1984 on Gina. Gutter sportsmanship at its finest.

Cassie of Sydney
November 4, 2022 8:11 am

“Geez the netballers are desperate if they are dredging up something from 1984 on Gina. Gutter sportsmanship at its finest.”

The thing is, it wasn’t even Gina, it was her miserable old git of a father.

Speaking of gutter journalism and endless hypocrisy from the left and our resident fat fascist fuckwit, I remember how the MSM and particularly their ABC, prior to the 2013 election, dredged up a lie about how Tony Abbott supposedly punched a wall back in the 1970s at university?

Tom
Tom
November 4, 2022 8:25 am

Which day of the Flemington spring carnival is Britnah Higgins attending this year? All four days, winding up with tomorrow’s Champions Day, are just made for horse-faced attention seekers in the crowd while their equine cousins provide the actual entertainment on the track.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
November 4, 2022 8:29 am

The supposed racist killer Jack Brearley is pictured in the media wearing his Gangsta clobber, complete with gold chain.
Are they seriously trying to paint this weedy nobody as the essence of white Australian racism?
Facts will catch up with the narrative.
The real story is probably a sad brutal snapshot of gang youth violence in dead end suburbs.

duncanm
duncanm
November 4, 2022 8:40 am

rosiesays:
November 4, 2022 at 4:09 am
Elon 1 Aoc 0

AOC:

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
@AOC
Lmao at a billionaire earnestly trying to sell people on the idea that “free speech” is actually a $8/mo subscription plan

Best response:

Nicholas Engleman ??
@eternallogos
·
2 Nov
Replying to
@DocEgonSpengler and @AOC
Did you have to pay $8 to say that?

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
November 4, 2022 8:42 am

Is Biden Senile or a Pathological Liar?

George Will savages Joe Biden in the Washington Post:

Meeting recently with some progressive activists, Biden said his $426 billion student loan forgiveness was accomplished by “a law” that he had “just signed”: “I got it passed by a vote or two.” No. He. Did. Not.

Biden was not merely again embellishing his achievements. This is not just another of his verbal fender benders. There is no less-than-dismaying explanation for his complete confusion. What vote? Who voted?

Will’s conclusion is that Biden is senile:

It is frightening that Biden does not know, or remember, what he recently did regarding an immensely important policy. He must be presumed susceptible to future episodes of similar bewilderment.

That’s one possibility. The other is that Joe Biden is a pathological liar.

There is no third option.

Yes there is – Joe Biden is Senile & a Pathological Liar

From the Comments

– Why does it have to be one or the other? Biden is obviously both!

– Embrace the genius of “AND”

– There is a third option. He is a senile pathological liar.

– Manchurian Joe, no friend of Corn Pop, Sniffer in Chief, looking to take down Trump behind the bleachers, should have been locked in his basement after the election. Afghanistan may not have happened, oil prices lowered, border secured, Ukraine not invaded, progress on crime, fentanyl problem addressed, etc.. Will go down as the most divisive president in history with the worst management of the country imaginable.

Miltonf
Miltonf
November 4, 2022 8:43 am

Yes the meja love to set up hate figures. Remember how they were painting Cubby Station as being evil. As if growing cotton is bad. The human garbage that is the meja is not worth feeding. Enemies of the people.

duncanm
duncanm
November 4, 2022 8:43 am

Miss Argentina and Miss Puerto Rico announce that they just got married.

Jelly themed wedding ?

Zipster
November 4, 2022 8:43 am
flyingduk
flyingduk
November 4, 2022 8:48 am

https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2022/11/03/ethical-eating/#comment-1702744

7 minute clip on Rogan with a reformed vegan who shed 130lbs after going back to an animal based diet.

Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
November 4, 2022 8:49 am

zatara post worth 100 upticks.

The grandma video was distressing.
Anyone who has a heart will be reminded that full retribution is required, not amnesty.

Zipster
November 4, 2022 8:50 am

Without apologizing or even admitting they did anything wrong, without promising never to do it again, without any contrition or remorse or consequences, these monsters are requesting amnesty.

without wide spread prosecutions its all hot air

Rabz
November 4, 2022 8:54 am

Can’t even begin to describe how annoyed I am about the decision by those labore deadshits to dump those stinking ISIS slags in various outer suburban areas – including areas with significant numbers of people who were among those persecuted by those monstrous medieval imbeciles.

The braindead lamestream meeja’s water carrying for labore is also both embarrassing and infuriating. Here’s two snippets from chipple jay news this morning:

– Bringing the ISIS slags and their progeny back decreases security risks for Australians (yes, that stupid labore bint O’Neill actually said this)
– The ISIS slags were tricked into going to the muddle east

Absolutely bloody disgusting and infuriating. There is no excuse for this appalling act of bastardry.

flyingduk
flyingduk
November 4, 2022 8:59 am

Speaking of weight gain/loss, the caustic Kiwi commentator Bart Kay (who likes to savage the vego gurus) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChi5M3k_K4yuRpWAp00xBQA gave me an interesting insight about *why* you can, somewhat paradoxically, revert to a healthy weight by eating calorie dense foods – its because the ‘stable weight = balance between calories in and calories out’ argument is a lie.

Calories are *heat* units, they are what you get if you burn fuel. Problem is, your body does not burn food, it chemically dismembers it, and makes use of it as it will. It turns some of the resultant raw materials into fat, some into protein, some into carbs, and some is used to generate ATP, which is the body’s energy currency.

It is the metabolic pathway that turns carbs into fat which is the principle reason why high carb diets (correction – anything other than very low carb diets) tend to cause fat gain. This is why you *can* lose weight by starving yourself (sorry – ‘dieting’) but this will be regained when you stop. Kay makes the point that longterm starvation is NOT a recipe for weight control, but consuming the right food is.

In my case, largely eliminating carbs and going to a carnivore diet resulted in a 16kg weight loss, moderation of most of my chronic inflammatory ‘co-morbidities’ (eczema, irritable lungs, achy muscles and joints, hypertension) and NO HUNGER.

Worth considering.

lotocoti
lotocoti
November 4, 2022 9:05 am

Anyone who has read The Journeyer will find Al Goodwyn’s cartoon extra saucy.

Tom
Tom
November 4, 2022 9:07 am

Absolutely bloody disgusting and infuriating. There is no excuse for this appalling act of bastardry.

Take it to the bank: leftwing governments — Liars, Filfth, Democrats, whatever — always make where you live unsafe.

For lefwing governments, society is where you dump your trash.

Frank
Frank
November 4, 2022 9:08 am

Care of Samizdata, Japanese Revolutionary Fascist Koichi Toyama Runs for Tokyo Governor. It is billed by them as “quite possibly the greatest political broadcast ever” and perhaps they are right.

Top Ender
Top Ender
November 4, 2022 9:11 am

Following on from Cassie’s comment about US school boards, in the States recently driving through five states, it was interesting to see the numerous signs – big, small, and with many varieties – in many places for the local board elections.

They are powerful entities, and from my vague understanding could be constituted as the replacement for the state curriculum organisations we have here in each state.

Apparently they have a lot of control over content, and many are becoming energised by a pushback against the radical subject-matter which has been pushed into them by the “alphabet people” – as one local scornfully categorised the radicals to us.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
November 4, 2022 9:31 am

Where do I find the current Ostrayin annual excess death count ?

Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
November 4, 2022 9:36 am

cohenite says: November 3, 2022 at 9:59 pm

‘A really dangerous candidate’: Kari Lake, the new face of Maga Republicanism

You know how SCUBA has become such a regular accepted part of vocabulary and maritime activities that people don’t even capitalise this acronym any more, it’s just “scuba”?
Look what has happened to MAGA in the headline. In the Guardian no less.

Arky
November 4, 2022 9:36 am

In my case, largely eliminating carbs and going to a carnivore diet resulted in a 16kg weight loss, moderation of most of my chronic inflammatory ‘co-morbidities’ (eczema, irritable lungs, achy muscles and joints, hypertension) and NO HUNGER.

..
When I was growing up almost every bloke from middle age on had a beer gut. No one seemed to give a damn, least of all the owners of the beer guts. It was just the general shape of older men.
Slim older men were either dying from cancer or some species of fairie.

Big_Nambas
Big_Nambas
November 4, 2022 9:44 am

One Australian Senator says that there should be an immediate stoppage of the continuing vaccine roll out and calls for a Royal Commission into the whole saga.

Transcript of Speech to Australian Senate by Senator Malcolm Roberts (1)

“As a servant to the people of Queensland and Australia, I note that at the European parliament inquiry into COVID two weeks ago, Janine Small, the President of International Developed Markets for Pfizer, revealed that the Pfizer vaccine injection was never tested to see if it would prevent transmission—never tested. Small went on to say this was because Pfizer had to work at the speed of science. Well, it seems the speed of science and the velocity of money are the same thing. Shameful decisions were taken deliberately to facilitate big pharma getting their injections to market in time. The mouthpiece media have the same large investment funds on their share register as big pharma. It’s no surprise the mouthpiece media amplified the COVID scare, doubling down on fear porn and demonizing anyone who clung to ‘my body, my choice’, just so the media’s shareholders could line their pockets with tens of billions of dollars in windfall profits.”

https://www.trialsitenews.com/a/small-support-from-australian-politicians-to-challenge-covid-health-narrative-baf3020b

cohenite
November 4, 2022 9:46 am

Bongino notes (first 12 mins) how scumbag biden’s speech is a declaration that the fix is on with delayed and postal voting. I still maintain the mid-terms are lost. If I’m wrong and the GOP takes both houses what will the demorats do. They cannot allow the flood of impeachments and new committees to go ahead. Biden and his fellow swamp have shown they’re capable of anything; so how will they respond.

Miltonf
Miltonf
November 4, 2022 9:50 am

If they can, they will. Let’s see what next week brings.

Miltonf
Miltonf
November 4, 2022 10:03 am

Yes they are capable of anything. No lie too great, no action too evil. Dirty old wimmin like ‘dr’ Jill and Pelosi cadaver still trying to look like dolly birds.

Roger
Roger
November 4, 2022 10:03 am

British PMs need a sign in their office, “No U-Turns Permitted”.

rosie
rosie
November 4, 2022 10:14 am

“The ISIS slags were tricked into going to the muddle east”
So much for strong independent muslimas, in Islam the most feminist religion hey Yassmin?
No, just a bunch of poor little naive victimas.

Miltonf
Miltonf
November 4, 2022 10:17 am

Notice too how the British establishment has made brexit meaningless. These people won’t go away without a fight.

Johnny rotten
November 4, 2022 10:18 am

Typical of SBS……………A programme about what the British stole …………How about a programme about what the Spanish and Portuguese stole from South America and left a mess behind. How about giving that money back. At least the Brits left behind railways, bridges, Institutions, etc, etc, etc.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
November 4, 2022 10:20 am

Democrats Turn 2022 Into ‘1984’

From the Comments

‘I’ve always been clever. I recently got a jigsaw puzzle that said 3-5 years on the box, but I finished it in only 6 months.’ – AOC

– Biden’s speech, last night, was crafted to set the stage for Democrat Election Fraud.

He said that the results in some races might not be known for several days and that we are not allowed to exercise our RIGHT to question the results.

If the results aren’t known for several days, it will be because it will take that much time for democrats to create the fictitious votes they need to overcome their losses.

– The real 1984 part of all this is the Intercept’s story about government colluding with social media to spread their narrative and suppress any challenges. I’m sure the Dems have been coordinating with the MSM for decades, but the ability to erase dissent is a new level. The spin and gaslighting becomes more outrageous because they know they can just delete any challenge.

johanna
johanna
November 4, 2022 10:20 am

First I’ve heard of it. Another example of turning ordinary punters into criminals:

However, Mr Barnden is concerned that not enough of the industry is aware of the looming legal requirement for DINs.

All directors need to be signed up for the scheme by November 30. This includes people who head up local companies, overseas entities carrying out business in Australia, trustees, people who run charities, and the one-in-four small businesses set up with a company structure.

The only exception is company directors of Indigenous corporations, who have been given an extra year, until November 30, 2023, to apply for a DIN.

As of this week, just 1.14 million DINs had been issued, the ATO said.

It estimates there’s 2.5 million directors overall.

+

And, why the exception for directors of indig corporations? If anything, they have much more contact with gubba than your average director of a mom and pop company.

There are heaps of small family companies which were set up to manage, for example, a small property portfolio or a single shop/restaurant. There are heaps of people (especially oldies) who are directors of forgotten, dormant companies. The ATO is about to be in a position to slug them with fines because of this obscure (in the sense that it is not well known) new requirement.

No doubt they will assure everyone that they will not be heavy handed in enforcing this rule.

Yeah, right.

As usual, the socialist bureaucracy punishes everybody to hide their poor performance at prosecuting the few. The identities of those behind phoenix builders and developers should not be difficult to find, given a passable degree of smarts and diligence. But no, all must suffer and more jobs are created for bureaucrats.

They never learn – or perhaps they do. Empire building rools, OK?

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
November 4, 2022 10:22 am

cohenitesays:
November 4, 2022 at 9:46 am
Bongino notes (first 12 mins) how scumbag biden’s speech is a declaration that the fix is on with delayed and postal voting. I still maintain the mid-terms are lost. If I’m wrong and the GOP takes both houses what will the demorats do. They cannot allow the flood of impeachments and new committees to go ahead. Biden and his fellow swamp have shown they’re capable of anything; so how will they respond.

Biden and his fellow swamp have shown they’re capable of anything; so how will they respond.

NuclearWar?

johanna
johanna
November 4, 2022 10:27 am

Oh, and:

Why haven’t many directors signed up?

Liquidator Andrew Barnden says many directors have not signed up to the scheme because of the hurdles required — including sending in paperwork, authenticated ID and other processes that are similar to applying for a passport.

The process can all be done online, and takes about 15 minutes if you have a passport and driver’s licence.

However, Mr Barnden said that was still a barrier for some, and there are lots of directors that are not tech-savvy.

“It has to be done by the individual. A lot of people rely upon their accountants or lawyers to do all the paperwork for them,” he said.

“I’ve heard of the issues with elderly people with old flip phones — that don’t meet requirements to allow them to download the document — having [no] storage space to do it.”

Yet another example of forcing technology on people if they want to participate in society. And, at a time when hacking is in the news, yet another compulsory database being created with hacker’s dream information, using people whose only ‘crime’ is being a company director.

$&£X%!

rosie
rosie
November 4, 2022 10:28 am

The next release of mortality statistics by the ABS is on 16 November.
Btw
Why are their mortality figures considered reliable by some but their vaccination statistics are not?

Leon L.
Leon L.
November 4, 2022 10:29 am

Alex Gutentag sets the record straight about covid on Tablet.

Conclusion:

In the case of COVID, while claiming that it was the dissenters who caused harm, it was in fact the censors and enforcers of speech restrictions who caused immense damage to the social fabric and to the lives of individuals. The excuse that medical segregation was once necessary but is no longer necessary because “the facts changed” or “the science changed” is demonstrably false. The facts didn’t change. They were just banned.

The “speed of science” indeed.

flyingduk
flyingduk
November 4, 2022 10:32 am

Why are their mortality figures considered reliable by some but their vaccination statistics are not?

Fair point, who really knows what the *total* number of deaths was? How could you check it?

OTOH, but its easier to classify someone as vaccinated when they are not, than to classify them as dead when they are not (or vice versa, in the case of Weekend at Bidens)

Dot
Dot
November 4, 2022 10:33 am

It estimates there’s 2.5 million directors overall.

???!

ASIC has a list. There is no need for “estimates”.

Just pathetic.

feelthebern
feelthebern
November 4, 2022 10:34 am

Fascinating the pilgrimages world leaders are making to Beijing.
Since the Congress ended, Pakistan, Vietnam, Tanzania & now Germany all have made the trip.
I’m reading this thing where China effectively invites you but then puts you in a holding pattern and then only locks it in a couple of weeks out.
Apparently there are currently 20 world leaders in this holding pattern.
Kinda the opposite of being diplomatic.

Jorge
Jorge
November 4, 2022 10:35 am

Sydney police photos from 50s and 60s.
Lots of dim, faded, interiors, kitchen ranges (there was a spate of rat poison in meals), laneways, streets. Edward Hopper down under. One snapper seemed to favour the view of a room facing the window out to the front or back yard. Very evocative of the time. The Kingsgrove Slasher. Graham Thorne. Peter Doyle – Suburban Noir

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
November 4, 2022 10:40 am

British PMs need a sign in their office, “No U-Turns Permitted”.

And mandatory sex-change ops upon taking office. The women lately seem to turn into men, and the men into women.

feelthebern
feelthebern
November 4, 2022 10:40 am

Dot, when you lodge your accounts with ASIC it actually says something along the lines “You do not need to do anything with your director ID at this time”.
So all directors needs one.
But nothing needs to be done with it at this time.
Good ol’ ASIC.

feelthebern
feelthebern
November 4, 2022 10:42 am

Jorge, yours & my avatar are almost identical.
Freaks me out.

lotocoti
lotocoti
November 4, 2022 10:42 am

How about a programme about what the Spanish and Portuguese stole from South America and left a mess behind.

Or the Asiento.
Tendering out the slave trade so the Spanish Crown could pretend
that nice little earner had nothing to do with them.
Or torturing theology to declare los Negros didn’t have souls and thus didn’t count,
slavery-wise.

Zipster
November 4, 2022 10:44 am

Scientists Increasingly Can’t Explain How AI Works
AI researchers are warning developers to focus more on how and why a system produces certain results than the fact that the system can accurately and rapidly produce them.

what you need is the AI to watch the latent space of itself. Oh look self awareness.

areff
areff
November 4, 2022 10:45 am

A programme about what the British stole

One recent episode covered the Benin bronzes and how the Poms made off with them

Mentioned barely and only in passing was the Benin despot who killed a British delegation for no good reason whatsoever other than that, presumably, they were tasty.

Zipster
November 4, 2022 10:47 am

Why are their mortality figures considered reliable by some but their vaccination statistics are not?

they are not. they cant hide the total numbers but they will shuffle the buckets around.

Zipster
November 4, 2022 10:49 am

Repost. CDC massaging the data to hide vaccine deaths

Houston, The CDC Has a Problem (Part 2 of 3)
Posted on October 24, 2022 by The Ethical Skeptic
As we survey the sizeable array of loose-end and speciously categorized data, it becomes readily apparent that the CDC is exhibiting all the symptoms of an organization which is constrained under the burden of a set of Kuhn-paradigm walking dead theories regarding Covid mortality.

Official data compromised so as to portray disinformation, is the warning sign that an entity, ostensibly one granted a government-authorized monopoly, under joint action to serve the American Public, is no longer serving science nor their fellow citizen – rather only social doctrines and out-of-control politics.

lotocoti
lotocoti
November 4, 2022 10:49 am

Rapidly approaching Lesbian Pole Smokers for Palestine territory.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
November 4, 2022 10:53 am

Trump now leads in Michigan

Fits with Rosie’s comment about strong independent muslimas and our Yassie.

Michigan Muslims Rock the Casbah Over Gay Porn in Schools, Jumping En Masse to the GOP (3 Nov)

Quite amazing if true. Bankstown/Lakemba peoples voting for the Coalition? Yassmin might have conniptions if she reads stories like this, but I doubt the ABC would bother to report such things.

dopey
dopey
November 4, 2022 10:53 am

Imran shot in the leg…..leg before wicket?

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
November 4, 2022 10:57 am

Imran shot in the leg…..leg before wicket?

Sandshoe crusher.

A senior leader from Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party said Khan was shot in the foot, for which he’s currently undergoing surgery.

Probably a wicked reverse swing 9mm yorker.

Khan Undergoes Surgery After Surviving Assassination Attempt, Shooter Confesses (4 Nov)

Roger
Roger
November 4, 2022 10:58 am

Also suggests that news of its decline are exaggerated.

Nope.

China’s public debt is edging towards 300% of GDP.

Much of it was misallocated into non-productive sectors like local government, state “enterprises” and property.

The population is already shrinking and young Chinese women don’t want to have babies.

And then there’s the problem of Mr. Xi.

Zipster
November 4, 2022 11:01 am

They’re definitely going to indict him.

or start WWIII

John H.
John H.
November 4, 2022 11:03 am

flyingduksays:
November 4, 2022 at 8:59 am
Speaking of weight gain/loss, the caustic Kiwi commentator Bart Kay (who likes to savage the vego gurus) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChi5M3k_K4yuRpWAp00xBQA gave me an interesting insight about *why* you can, somewhat paradoxically, revert to a healthy weight by eating calorie dense foods – its because the ‘stable weight = balance between calories in and calories out’ argument is a lie.

Calories are *heat* units, they are what you get if you burn fuel. Problem is, your body does not burn food, it chemically dismembers it, and makes use of it as it will. It turns some of the resultant raw materials into fat, some into protein, some into carbs, and some is used to generate ATP, which is the body’s energy currency.

It is the metabolic pathway that turns carbs into fat which is the principle reason why high carb diets (correction – anything other than very low carb diets) tend to cause fat gain. This is why you *can* lose weight by starving yourself (sorry – ‘dieting’) but this will be regained when you stop. Kay makes the point that longterm starvation is NOT a recipe for weight control, but consuming the right food is.

In my case, largely eliminating carbs and going to a carnivore diet resulted in a 16kg weight loss, moderation of most of my chronic inflammatory ‘co-morbidities’ (eczema, irritable lungs, achy muscles and joints, hypertension) and NO HUNGER.

Worth considering.

I went carno and the weight fell off. My sense of hunger very much disappeared, I feel better, and my energy is fine. Reducing carbs works for our culture because we spend so much time sitting down\still. When they look at other cultures for ideas they are making a huge mistake because hunter gatherers are much more active and people who live in the “blues zones”(longevity clusters) are also more active. They consume carbs but burn the carbs before those are converted into fat.

It is chemically more energy expensive to use fats as an energy source. I’m not confident that’s the whole answer. I suspect the appetite loss has something to do with the leptin\ghrelin balance(two hormones that regulate appetite). Fats and proteins having a more favourable impact for hunger management than carbs. I’d also like to see studies on white\brown fat ratios because our bodies can change the fat storing cells to a brown fat mode which is used to generate heat rather than just for energy storage.

For athletes though carbs are a better energy source. It is possible to train and compete on keto\carno but those diets rob the athlete of that final and vital edge of peak performance.

I don’t think a carno diet is something to do all the time because plants provide valuable nutrients but I’m conflicted because the results are so good and I notice that when I indulge in carbs my hunger urge surges. The trick is to go for low carb plant foods. If you’re not moving through the day avoid carbs. If you’re continually on the move, even walking, carbs aren’t that much of a problem.

rosie
rosie
November 4, 2022 11:05 am

“Or torturing theology to declare los Negros didn’t have souls and thus didn’t count,
slavery-wise.”
Do you have a reference for that?
I was under the impression that might have been a widespread excuse for slavery in the west.
I’m reading a pdf titled ‘Catholics and the Negro’ on Jstor originally published in 1917 which claims the Catholic church in the West Indies and South America were the greatest opponents of slavery.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
November 4, 2022 11:13 am

or start WWIII

yeah. Burn it to the ground rather than let him have it.

Eyrie
Eyrie
November 4, 2022 11:15 am

For athletes though carbs are a better energy source. It is possible to train and compete on keto\carno but those diets rob the athlete of that final and vital edge of peak performance.

There are people who have tested that and it is bullshit. See Dr Noakes.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
November 4, 2022 11:15 am

The lefty MSM is really getting quite excitable.

Clay Travis@ClayTravis
White women voting for Republicans are like roaches voting for raid [said The View’s Sunny Hostin]. If a host said this about anyone other than white people they’d be immediately fired.
5:00 AM · Nov 4, 2022 [via Lucianne]

Caleb Howe@CalebHowe
Michael Beschloss on MSNBC warns America is just “six days away” from the end of democracy, historians, and the rule of law. And the start of a brutal GOP dictatorship in which our children could be “arrested and conceivably killed.”
3:18 AM · Nov 4, 2022 [via Instapundit]

Mollie@MZHemingway
Holy bleeping bleep. CBS and @macfarlane assert without reason or sense here that if you want election audits, or use your right to object to a state’s electors, or even if you oppose *unconstitutional* changes to election laws, that makes you an “election denier.” INSANE.
12:58 AM · Nov 4, 2022 [via Instapundit]

Vids at each of the tweets.

feelthebern
feelthebern
November 4, 2022 11:18 am

For athletes though carbs are a better energy source. It is possible to train and compete on keto\carno but those diets rob the athlete of that final and vital edge of peak performance.

Different athletes, different diets.
Amazing how so much is about is about reducing inflammation.

johanna
johanna
November 4, 2022 11:22 am

Jorge says:
November 4, 2022 at 10:35 am

Sydney police photos from 50s and 60s.

Thanks for that.

My childhood, in terms of decor and what they now call ‘lifestyle.’

Not very glam. I grimace when I see these ‘lifestyle experts’ on TV whose grandparents had old jam tins of dripping at the back of a never cleaned stove.

‘Oh, I hate that shade of grey, it just ruins the whole thing’ – wankers.

Jorge
Jorge
November 4, 2022 11:25 am

Don’t worry, bern, you’re more colourful and much smarter than I.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
November 4, 2022 11:25 am

rosiesays:

November 4, 2022 at 10:28 am

The next release of mortality statistics by the ABS is on 16 November.

Will they include the massive death toll from Razey-san son’s school?
That seems to have gone very quiet since details were requested.

feelthebern
feelthebern
November 4, 2022 11:27 am

Colourful, I swear a bit?
Or colourful, I drink rosé?

Roger
Roger
November 4, 2022 11:28 am

White women voting for Republicans are like roaches voting for raid [said The View’s Sunny Hostin]. If a host said this about anyone other than white people they’d be immediately fired.

When did whiteness go from being a synonym for bland & lame to the source of all evil?

Ta-Nehisi Coates’s statement that whiteness was the source of Trump’s power, perhaps?

John H.
John H.
November 4, 2022 11:29 am

Eyriesays:
November 4, 2022 at 11:15 am
For athletes though carbs are a better energy source. It is possible to train and compete on keto\carno but those diets rob the athlete of that final and vital edge of peak performance.

There are people who have tested that and it is bullshit. See Dr Noakes.

I’ve read studies in sports medicine which argue the case. Physiologically it makes sense that carbs are an optimal energy source for high intensity exercise. Carbs promote a faster restoration of muscle glycogen stores. Fat oxidation is more energetically expensive. Athletes and coaches all over the world recognise this and use carb loading a standard practice prior to training and competing to optimise glycogen stores as quickly as a possible. We don’t see athletes stuffing themselves with lard during competitions, they use carbs for that. I’d rather rely on the known physiology and practices of people who are competing rather than one authority figure.

John H.
John H.
November 4, 2022 11:34 am

feelthebernsays:
November 4, 2022 at 11:18 am
For athletes though carbs are a better energy source. It is possible to train and compete on keto\carno but those diets rob the athlete of that final and vital edge of peak performance.

Different athletes, different diets.
Amazing how so much is about is about reducing inflammation.

That relates to the AGE-RAGE nexus. Advanced Glycation products attach to the Receptor for AGE products which create inflammation. Sugar coated proteins and lipids(AGE products) generate a strong inflammatory pulse. Additionally inflammatory mediating cells rely on glycolysis(sugar generated energy apart from mitochondria generated energy) to generate inflammatory producing molecules.

Zipster
November 4, 2022 11:34 am

I don’t think a carno diet is something to do all the time because plants provide valuable nutrients but I’m conflicted because the results are so good and I notice that when I indulge in carbs my hunger urge surges. The trick is to go for low carb plant foods. If you’re not moving through the day avoid carbs. If you’re continually on the move, even walking, carbs aren’t that much of a problem.

you really need to look the evolutionary diet of caucasian or race in question to understand what diet is best. northern european winters are harsh and the seasons dictated what foods are available and how those nutrients where used by the body. imo ppl of northern European decent should follow a seasonal diet rather than one diet year round.

Zipster
November 4, 2022 11:36 am

Will they include the massive death toll from Razey-san son’s school?
That seems to have gone very quiet since details were requested.

might be funny to you sandshoo but ppl are dying, ppl who foolishly trusted and believed government lies and big pharma propaganda.

Roger
Roger
November 4, 2022 11:49 am

Go woke, lose form.

Ricky Ponting has backed calls for an underperforming Pat Cummins to be dropped from Australia’s T20 side.

John H.
John H.
November 4, 2022 11:52 am

Zipstersays:
November 4, 2022 at 11:34 am
I don’t think a carno diet is something to do all the time because plants provide valuable nutrients but I’m conflicted because the results are so good and I notice that when I indulge in carbs my hunger urge surges. The trick is to go for low carb plant foods. If you’re not moving through the day avoid carbs. If you’re continually on the move, even walking, carbs aren’t that much of a problem.

you really need to look the evolutionary diet of caucasian or race in question to understand what diet is best. northern european winters are harsh and the seasons dictated what foods are available and how those nutrients where used by the body. imo ppl of northern European decent should follow a seasonal diet rather than one diet year round.

Across the seasons there are some very subtle changes in our physiology but these are largely offset by lifestyle and dietary considerations. I saw a lecture where a bod argued that continual intake of plant foods can be problematic because of the sustained intake of some problematic agents(eg oxalate). I’m not confident about that argument, it probably comes down to individual differences.

Mater
November 4, 2022 11:52 am

but ppl are dying, ppl who foolishly trusted and believed government lies and big pharma propaganda.

It’s even worse than that.
People are dying who were coerced mercilessly by the government against their wishes, and better judgement.

John H.
John H.
November 4, 2022 11:54 am

However, if the athlete’s focus is on racing and improving performance times, a high fat, low carbohydrate diet restricts that athlete’s ability to train and race and higher intensities [8] and may negatively affect their race outcome [8,12,19].

feelthebern
feelthebern
November 4, 2022 11:56 am

One thing is abundantly clear.
The human brain needs animal fats to function at its best.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
November 4, 2022 11:56 am

Fast bowlers should never be captain. The required mindsets for the two jobs are incompatible.

John H.
John H.
November 4, 2022 12:00 pm

feelthebernsays:
November 4, 2022 at 11:56 am
One thing is abundantly clear.
The human brain needs animal fats to function at its best.

Mostly because of DHA, absent in plants. DHA is a substrate for some endocannabinoids which have an anti-inflammatory effect and is also a substrate for a neuroprotectant molecule. DHA is not used as an energy source. Brains love sugar and even on a carno\keto diet our bodies will maintain plasma glucose levels. If not bad shit happens.

Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
November 4, 2022 12:02 pm

I mentioned recently how powerful teachers are in getting their woke message across to students.
Here is a headline from today’s Daily Telegraph which points in the same direction:

Schools accused of dirty tricks that ‘brainwash’ students
A question to test grammar that asks about ‘dirty’ coal has been accused of trying to brainwash primary school-aged children.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
November 4, 2022 12:03 pm

Following on from Winston’s comment yesterday about The Mutilated.

Outlaw Mutilation (3 Nov)
Townhall, by Kurt Schlichter

We look back on the primitive people of the past and sneer at their bizarre and monstrous atrocities – and rightly so. Even the civilized Romans recorded horrible acts by their elite – Emperor Elagabalus allegedly wanted to castrate himself and do some more cutting in order to become a Romanette, while Nero sliced the bologna off his boyfriend, a kid who was unlucky enough to resemble Nero’s dead wife. But here’s the thing – the Romans themselves wrote about this stuff recognizing that it was an atrocity. The Romans at least has a bit of moral clarity. But our savage elite celebrates the surgical disfigurement of disordered people

Agree 100%. Allowing kids to be surgically rendered infertile before the age of 21 is evil. You can’t smoke, drive or drink but you can be influenced by peer pressure to undergo life-destroying medical changes, and the Left will fall over themselves to help you do it. Hell is going to be a serious surprise for a lot of these enablers.

Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
November 4, 2022 12:07 pm

After many years of reading about weight loss, I can assure you that there are many different methods with one common aspect – medical science supports each different approach.
I am quite confused.

Roger
Roger
November 4, 2022 12:08 pm

might be funny to you sandshoo but ppl are dying, ppl who foolishly trusted and believed government lies and big pharma propaganda.

The Australian stats for the first half of 2022 indicate that cancer, dementia & diabetes account for most of the non-covid related excess deaths. As a few public health specialists have courageously stated (courageous because they risk professional ostracism by doing so), this is most likely due to the effect of lockdowns on cancer screening, the standard of care in nursing homes and isolation.

Mak Siccar
Mak Siccar
November 4, 2022 12:10 pm

Courtesy of Westprint Maps.

Friday Funnies

Why do we press harder on a remote control when we know the batteries are getting flat?

Why do banks charge a fee on “insufficient funds” when they know there is not enough?

Why doesn’t glue stick to the bottle?

Why doesn’t Tarzan have a beard?
Why do Kamikaze pilots wear helmets?

What is the speed of darkness?

If the temperature is zero outside today and it’s going to be twice as cold tomorrow, how cold will it be?

If people evolved from apes, why are there still apes?

If it’s true that we are here to help others, what are the others doing here?

Do married people live longer than single ones or does it only seem longer?

Can you cry under water?

What level of importance must a person have, before they are considered assassinated instead of just murdered?

Why does a round pizza come in a square box?

How is it that we put man on the moon before we figured out it would be a good idea to put wheels on bigger suitcases?

Why do people pay to go up tall buildings and then put money in binoculars to look at things on the ground?

Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
November 4, 2022 12:11 pm

you can be influenced by peer pressure to undergo life-destroying medical changes

Peer pressure, societal pressure, groupthink, going along with the cool kids – all aspects of the elephant in the room that is being studiously ignored by the MSM and the wokerati.
The message of “too young to make such a decision” must get out to more people.

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
November 4, 2022 12:12 pm

In Praise of Carbohydrates

It’s well worth pointing out
that the night before a bout
Rocky Mattioli ate a bowl of ravioli.

IYKYK

John H.
John H.
November 4, 2022 12:12 pm

Old School Conservativesays:
November 4, 2022 at 12:07 pm
After many years of reading about weight loss, I can assure you that there are many different methods with one common aspect – medical science supports each different approach.
I am quite confused.

As am I. One of my longstanding criticisms of the research is that the results are statistical and using very large samples can wash out individual differences. For example, fat utilisation as an energy source may depend on carnitine availability. Carnitines are fatty acid transporters and is often used in so called fat burning supplements. There are the lucky ones who can maintain good weight despite eating lots of carbs and fats . There are people like me who put on weight at the sight of a donut.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
November 4, 2022 12:17 pm

The hacking of ‘Delta’ troop control programme proves that all-technology is not a panacea

Christelle Néan,Translation: Vz. yan
Donbass Insider
Thu, 03 Nov 2022

On 1 November 2022, the Telegram channel Joker DNR announced that it had hacked the ‘Delta’ programme currently used by Ukraine to coordinate its troops in the conflict against the Russian armed forces. This hacking is a perfect example of why relying on technology in military matters may not only be a panacea, but also a potential source of disaster.

A month ago, I published an article on the possibilities of evolution and improvement of the Russian army that I envisaged in the context of the ongoing conflict. After publication, I received many comments, including from my Russian colleagues. While some of them agreed with several of my proposals, I had a lengthy discussion with one of them about the fact that the Russian army lacked the high-tech coordination systems that the Ukrainian army has thanks to US support (see video below).

For him, this lack of real-time interactive maps, plotters, and other electronic systems was a handicap for the Russian army. For my part, I pointed out that these systems are fragile, that their operation can be prevented by multiple factors, that their security is difficult to maintain and that they are therefore a panacea only as long as everything works perfectly.

And the events of the following weeks proved my point. Just a few days after the publication of my article, Ukrainian soldiers reported communication problems with the Starlink system, which is used to coordinate the movements of Ukrainian troops via satellite internet link. As a result, the above-mentioned coordination of troops was already beginning to falter.

The final blow came from the Joker DNR channel, which announced that it had hacked into and taken control of the “Delta” programme used to coordinate Ukrainian troops on the ground. And when I say “taken control”, that’s really what it’s about.

Now this programme contains the positions of Ukrainian troops, their drones, their military equipment, their vehicles, all of which are tracked by GPS through plotters! Need I explain that all the little icons marked as Ukrainian troops on the Delta program turned into targets for Russian artillery, missile system crews, and aerospace forces? Clearly, the Delta programme once hacked turned into an ultra-accurate mega-spy for the Russian armed forces. Now that’s what I call scoring against your side!

And that’s not all. In its first message, Joker DNR also claims to have changed data in the Delta programme, to have access to other programmes used by Kiev, and to have infected all computers connected to the system. Clearly, Ukraine can no longer rely on the data in the Delta programme (friendly troops may have been marked as enemies and vice versa) or in other such programmes, and data leaks can continue even after the security flaws have been fixed, via infected computers. As Joker DNR says in the conclusion of his post, “sometimes it’s better to use paper maps”.

In view of what happened with the “high-tech” coordination of the Ukrainian troops, it is easier to understand why Russia preferred to stick to the good old paper maps that have been tried and tested for a long time, why it was right not to embark on this costly experiment, and why I did not recommend doing so.

Razey
Razey
November 4, 2022 12:17 pm

might be funny to you sandshoo but ppl are dying, ppl who foolishly trusted and believed government lies and big pharma propaganda.

If the ‘adults’ want to poison themselves, I’m all for it. Take as many clotshots as you can, please.

But forcing this shit on children is unforgivable.

flyingduk
flyingduk
November 4, 2022 12:20 pm

Physiologically it makes sense that carbs are an optimal energy source for high intensity exercise. Carbs promote a faster restoration of muscle glycogen stores. Fat oxidation is more energetically expensive. Athletes and coaches all over the world recognise this and use carb loading a standard practice prior to training and competing to optimise glycogen stores as quickly as a possible

There is increasing evidence that whilst being active is healthy and natural, you can do too much – and if you do there are mechanical costs – yes ancient humans were more active than we are now, but that didn’t mean they were ‘training’ at elite athlete level in day to day life. Present day athletes *might* be able to squeeze a little more performance on the day by doing unhealthy and unsustainable things (eg carb loading before a marathon) but that does not mean that is the optimal fuel or optimal metabolism. I would equate it to running your race engine on high octane fuel AND over -revving it – it might go a bit faster on the day, but don’t expect it to last for 70 years.

Nowadays, I try to mimic our eons of genetic programming – I eat mostly meat, mostly in the evenings and little carb. If I do eat carbohydrate, it is a natural fruit or above ground vegetable, and I regard it as an occasional cheat – say once or twice a week. Our ancestors got little carbohydrate at all until they learned to farm, which was only yesterday in evolutionary terms, and even then required lots of hard work to acquire.

Contrast to today where we eat multiple times a day, including very high proportions of refined sugars and seed oils.

lotocoti
lotocoti
November 4, 2022 12:21 pm

“Or torturing theology to declare los Negros didn’t have souls and thus didn’t count, slavery-wise.”
Do you have a reference for that?

IIRC there were a series of conferences between the Portuguese, Spanish
and Papal authorities which culminated in Sublimis Deus.
Deciding Africans didn’t have souls was part of the quid pro quo
to preserve Spain and Portugal’s commercial interests in the New World.
There was a movie made about it, possibly French, but the title eludes me.

flyingduk
flyingduk
November 4, 2022 12:25 pm

After many years of reading about weight loss, I can assure you that there are many different methods with one common aspect – medical science supports each different approach.

Two things seem blindingly obvious to me now:

1) Long term calorie restriction (aka Starvation) CANNOT be the prime method of optimising weight, and if it was, why do so many dieters complain of hunger?
2) Weight balance = calories in – calories out must also be a GROSS SIMPLIFICATION – do you really think all those people who have stable weights can unconsciously balance that equation over years or decades?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
November 4, 2022 12:26 pm

When did whiteness go from being a synonym for bland & lame to the source of all evil?

Fiona Patten is running for the Vic upper house on the slogan “If you’re an old white male, you might have to go to the back of the queue for a while”.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
November 4, 2022 12:27 pm

Sorry.
That is “old white straight male”.

Winston Smith
November 4, 2022 12:27 pm

Farmer Gez:

Practised compassion is not a known trait amongst socialist progressives.

This is the fault line that develops between Socialism and Conservatives:
Under Socialism, the people are an asset to be exploited and under Conservatism, the individual has value in and of themselves.

johanna
johanna
November 4, 2022 12:28 pm

duk, interested to know your views on arthritis, the curse of the elderly.

In one of Agatha Christie’s later books, she laments how she has to sit down and rest.

‘I used to be such a good walker.’

I know how she felt.

flyingduk
flyingduk
November 4, 2022 12:29 pm

In view of what happened with the “high-tech” coordination of the Ukrainian troops, it is easier to understand why Russia preferred to stick to the good old paper maps that have been tried and tested for a long time, why it was right not to embark on this costly experiment, and why I did not recommend doing so.

aka the insurgents maxim – ‘low tech is the cure for high tech…’

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
November 4, 2022 12:29 pm

Urk, the UniSyd alumni mag just arrived in my letterbox. I never asked for this wretched tome, it just started arriving one day, several decades after I attended.

Leafed through. The editorial just loves Albo and the Charles Perkins Centre, and said “we are agile”. The first article is about threatened koalas. Nope, binned.

I’m sure if Monty wants a jerb he could get one writing this rubbish, which I presume is paid for by sucking the necks of impoverished students. On the usual timeline a begging letter will arrive early next week.

Winston Smith
November 4, 2022 12:30 pm

Cohenite:

Your shrivelled nuts don’t fall far either out of your crotchless panties.

OOOH!
Liberty Quote!

johanna
johanna
November 4, 2022 12:32 pm

Oh, and without reading up, it seems that the Diet Wars have broken out again. Only rivalled by the Taxonomy Wars, there’s plenty of action for fans tonight!

Roger
Roger
November 4, 2022 12:32 pm

Fiona Patten is running for the Vic upper house on the slogan “If you’re an old white male, you might have to go to the back of the queue for a while”.

So she’s an ageist, a racist and a misandrist?

She doesn’t sound very reasonable.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
November 4, 2022 12:34 pm

Zipstersays:

November 4, 2022 at 11:36 am

Will they include the massive death toll from Razey-san son’s school?
That seems to have gone very quiet since details were requested.

might be funny to you

What is not funny is people inventing tales of kids dropping like flies at schools.
Tales which can be so easily discredited.
My contact at DoE came back with “Ha, ha. Have you gone over to the dark side? We get a dozen angry emails/calls a day about the non-existent deaths of kids at unspecified schools! …”
By all means argue the case.
But don’t make shit up.

John H.
John H.
November 4, 2022 12:34 pm

flyingduksays:
November 4, 2022 at 12:20 pm
Physiologically it makes sense that carbs are an optimal energy source for high intensity exercise. Carbs promote a faster restoration of muscle glycogen stores. Fat oxidation is more energetically expensive. Athletes and coaches all over the world recognise this and use carb loading a standard practice prior to training and competing to optimise glycogen stores as quickly as a possible

There is increasing evidence that whilst being active is healthy and natural, you can do too much – and if you do there are mechanical costs – yes ancient humans were more active than we are now, but that didn’t mean they were ‘training’ at elite athlete level in day to day life. Present day athletes *might* be able to squeeze a little more performance on the day by doing unhealthy and unsustainable things (eg carb loading before a marathon) but that does not mean that is the optimal fuel or optimal metabolism. I would equate it to running your race engine on high octane fuel AND over -revving it – it might go a bit faster on the day, but don’t expect it to last for 70 years.

Nowadays, I try to mimic our eons of genetic programming – I eat mostly meat, mostly in the evenings and little carb. If I do eat carbohydrate, it is a natural fruit or above ground vegetable, and I regard it as an occasional cheat – say once or twice a week. Our ancestors got little carbohydrate at all until they learned to farm, which was only yesterday in evolutionary terms, and even then required lots of hard work to acquire.

Contrast to today where we eat multiple times a day, including very high proportions of refined sugars and seed oils.

Carb loading is for athletes, especially endurance athletes. It works. Naturally high intensity exercise is not an optimal health choice but they are entitled to that choice. There is a furious debate about endurance athletes and heart problems and “athlete’s heart” is a well documented phenomenon. I know a sports medicine specialist and he told me that they spend a fortune on cardiac testing. It has been known for decades that endurance athletes experienced sudden cardiac related death. Intense exercise also generates inflammation. The interesting thing about that is studies where they administered antioxidants prior to training demonstrate a reduction in exercise related hormesis. The trick is to use antioxidants some hours after the exercise regime.

Nonetheless athletes of all stripes live longer and are healthier. That is perhaps moot given the general population propensity towards bad lifestyle habits.

Genetic programming shifts surprisingly quickly. Looking to our evolutionary history ignores that. Additionally it depends on our genetic heritage. Professor Michael Rose argues that is a cardinal for choosing our diet. The problem with the argument is we are mongrels with many different genetic inputs across the generations. Besides, hunter gatherers do not eat mostly meat, their diet varied according to circumstances and there is ample evidence they also ate plant food on a regular basis. Tubers were an especially important food source. Apart from that they had shorter lifespans than ours, were on the move all the time, and ate foods available in their local environment. They were adapted to their environment, not ours.

Delta A
Delta A
November 4, 2022 12:35 pm

From The Oz:

Billions wiped from Atlassian’s valuation amid results miss
Shares in the software company led by Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar slumped by more than 20 per cent in after hours trading.

Winston Smith
November 4, 2022 12:36 pm

Stephen Williams:

Obviously none of you ever look at the avatar pics.

Under the old regime – *cough* – the Gravatars were about twice the size and detail could be seen when the pointer thingy was hovered over them.
Now they’re just too small to capture detail.

Boambee John
Boambee John
November 4, 2022 12:37 pm

Test

flyingduk
flyingduk
November 4, 2022 12:38 pm

duk, interested to know your views on arthritis, the curse of the elderly.

Broadly speaking, there are 2 forms of arthritis

1) Wear and tear arthritis, aka ‘osteo – arthritis’
2) Inflammatory arthritis – rheumatoid etc

I think the former is inevitable over time as all things wear out – even trees that are hundreds of years old eventually decay and die.

I think the latter is *strongly* influenced by diet because modern diet is a key driver of metabolic stress and inflammation (virtually all our chronic health problems have a strong inflammatory component – heart disease, diabetes, cancer, asthma, hypertension etc etc etc.

And the more I learn about the longterm effects of vaccines on the immune system, the more I am wondering how much this also contributes to auto -immune and inflammatory disorders. Paul Thomas opened my eyes to this (and like me, was hounded out of the profession for his heresy).

https://rumble.com/v1jnr8u-dr.-paul-thomas-shows-powerful-data-on-the-overall-health-of-vaxxed-vs-unva.html

The more I learn about the chronic effects of modern life on our bodies (sedentary lifestyle, artificial light/lack of sunlight/altered sleep wake cycles, diet and vaccines), the more obvious it is to me that our physiology is being attacked by a perfect storm of factors, and the explosion of chronic ill health should be no surprise.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
November 4, 2022 12:39 pm

Fiona Patten is running for the Vic upper house on the slogan “If you’re an old white male, you might have to go to the back of the queue for a while”.

Until the end of the queue becomes fun and relaxed, and they start producing stuff because no one told them that they are entitled to anything from anyone else – and suddenly others start to want to hang out at the end of the queue. Then Fiona will suddenly call that the front and try to banish straight white men to the other end.

Straight white men actually enjoy being straight white men. There was that Twitter site that JC used to link to occasionally. Fiona thinks that she can send these men away and the fun will remain in place so other people can enjoy it, and she thinks it is a conspiracy that they cannot.

duncanm
duncanm
November 4, 2022 12:39 pm

Caleb Howe@CalebHowe
Michael Beschloss on MSNBC warns America is just “six days away” from the end of democracy, historians, and the rule of law. And the start of a brutal GOP dictatorship in which our children could be “arrested and conceivably killed.”
3:18 AM · Nov 4, 2022 [via Instapundit]

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