When push comes to shove, the Islamists will eliminate the communists.
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This:
I fabricated and hand beat new steel floor panels: This and
Is that the line being pushed by the DNC/MSM talking points? Very inventive, but hardly credible.
Oh FFS. I am so over the entitled petals of Sky News at night taking days off and tellling their…
Sounds like a blood bath and I think a lot of people are enjoying what looks like a maniac berserker (is that a tautology) slashing his way through Twitter, but for $40 billion plus, and Elon’s own business nous, this will be not mere slaughter but part of a plan.
It is certainly wonderful theatre, with some breathtaking reveals.
I would think he has a lot of people on the right looking at joining Twitter who were not especially keen before.
Oster is a distraction squirrel.
A scandal bigger than Watergate and the Church Committee is unfolding before your very eyes.
“Accelerating EV uptake is essential to our climate ambitions, fuel security, and easing cost of living pressure. Mandatory fuel efficiency standards are the key piece in this puzzle and Labor need to introduce them now. My consultation response”
Allegra Spender, Ascham educated Eastern Suburbs princess, obsessed with climate change, doesn’t give a toss about “cost of living pressure” for the great unwashed living in the sprawling suburbs and regions of this once great country. Spender wouldn’t know where to find suburbs like Fairfield, Liverpool or Kellyville on a map. Whilst not the worst of the Teals (Ryan and Daniel are far more sinister), Spender is a joke and she’s struggling for relevance, because she and the other Teals truly thought they’d hold the balance of power after 21 May 2022, after all, that’s what they were promised by Svengali Simon.
But you know what? As much as Allegra Da Big Spenda is a vacuous, entitled, hypocritical moron, I have zero expectations of her. She’s no better or worse than Sharma. Sharma would put out similar claptrap. Spender won’t do much damage whilst she’s in Canberra, whereas Sharma and his fellow wets did a a lot of damage, catastrophic damage, to the Liberal Party of Australia.
Here is one for Johny Rotten,
A young actor arrived in Hollywood and was told he would have to change his name from Penis van Lesbian . He did and became famous.
I wonder if Professor Emily Oster, who appears to have accepted that Covid sceptics are correct, will now accept that climate sceptics are correct too? Which we are, as shown by the rare debates where sceptics always run rings around their thermageddonist opponents.
The treatment of climate sceptics is as bad as Covid sceptics – losing employment, being banned from all sorts of services etc. Seems to be a common theme for inconvenient dissidents these days.
Noticed a few advertisements that have screened and nauseum the last half hour.
From the Labor Party, it appears they are appointing Mathew Guy as ‘Minister For Cuts’.
A cursory glance here suggests that Guy has been nowhere near leader of any portfolio.
So what will Guy do about this? I have emailed the slug that this borders on defamation but I don’t expect a response. Andrews will say it was an oversight and Guy will take a double fisting without fightback.
What a supine khunt he is.
Ad nauseum. FMD I’m annoyed
I’m on Melanie Phillips’ email list…..
The jihadi onslaught against Christians
It doesn’t fit the liberal narrative. So the west ignores it
MELANIE PHILLIPS
Last Saturday, there was violence in the vicinity of Bethlehem. You won’t have read a word about this in the mainstream media. That’s because the perpetrators weren’t Israelis but Muslim Arabs, and the targets weren’t Palestinians but Christians.
This was but the latest in a serious of attacks on Christian Arabs in the Bethlehem area. You won’t have read about those in the mainstream media either, just as you will have read hardly anything there about the horrific attacks on Christians that continue to take place in Nigeria and other African countries.
This is what happened on Saturday, according to contemporaneous reports on social media. A Christmas bazaar opened in Beit Sahour, a town near Bethlehem. A young Muslim Arab went to the bazaar and started taking videos of Christian girls wearing western clothes, which to his eyes probably seemed immodest.
A Christian scout leader threw him out of the bazaar. A short time later, he returned with a gang of men. They started stoning the Holy Forefathers Greek Orthodox Church near the bazaar. They smashed up cars parked nearby belonging to Christians and struck the scout on the face. In the absence of the Palestinian police, the church rang its bells — a known danger alert for churches.
Videos of these events started circulating on social media. You can see one here, in a tweet which suggests the perpetrator had tried to enter the church.
Twitter avatar for @DanielGerritsen
Dan??ël Gerritsen
@DanielGerritsen
#Christian persecution in the #Palestinian Authority (#PA) Friday night #Muslim man from a village near Beit Sahour (next to #Bethlehem) tried to break into the #Orthodox #Church during scout rehearsals for #Christmas. The church was attacked with stones and shootings. ? 1
Within a short time, these videos started to disappear from social media. In their place came messages to the effect of: we are all of one blood, we are not enemies, our only enemy is Israel.
Others gave very different testimony.”
Bethlehem was once ninety percent Christian. Now Christians are a minority in Bethlehem and are frequently on the receiving end of Muslim harassment. Christianity is dying across the ME, except for one country….Israel, where it’s growing.
Interesting parallels between the two scams, climate and covid:
– vast amounts of money in play
– highly politicized by the Left
– based on distorted and perverted ‘science’
– persecuting dissidents
– strong totalitarian tendencies
I put the pic up yesterday and not sure if you saw it.
It’s just great to see again and again. Twitter’s Indian bint who hates whitey. Get load how mean and dejected she looks.
Sancho Panzersays:
November 1, 2022 at 4:03 pm
Mother Lode
Remember when the Victorian DPP asked the High Court to send the case back to Victoria so they could (literally) try it again.
Remember how the High Court rebuffed them with, shall we say, extreme prejudice, and then went on to clear the Cardinal completely?
I do remember.
And when the timeline wasn’t working for Ms Judd, she went with, “Can I add in another ten minutes, M’Lud?”
Fuck me dead.
If you wrote that as an appeal strategy in Criminal Law 201 it would come back with a lot of red ink and a yuuuge F-.
Perhaps that need for an extra ten minutes was the “technicality” to which m0nty-fa referred? The physical impossibility of the events as described in the trial, and that after the complainant was allowed to alter his testimony multiple times? Some “technicality”!
Neither issue is genuinely cared about, either are just another Hegelian dialectical to use an excuse to impose communism as a “solution” an an nearly wholly unwilling society.
My lords,
That is typically called perjury.
Sky reports a “powerful show of unity” over the violent, unnecessary, lamentable death of a boy with aboriginal blood.
Wouldn’t a more powerful show of unity be to stop this sort of distinction between people who are often 12% or less aboriginal and those of us who were born here, and often have both parents and grandparents born here as well?
This FB fkg I ;
https://dailycaller.com/2022/10/31/laura-dehmlow-fbi-censorship/
This huge Makka.
Bigger than Watergate and the Church Committee put together.
this is
Things are heating up in Brazil. I saw a map yesterday of which areas went Bolsonaro and which Lula and it was bascially the NE that supported Lula and everywhere else Bolsonaro won. He even won the major cities, Sao Paolo and Rio.
Cassie I would love to see Melanie Phillips on Mark Steyn’s program.
You can expect the media to completely fail to ask the right questions (or any questions really) over this death.
In Teh Paywallian opinion page Noel Pearson is doing the Boyer Lecture this year and raises Irish sook Adam Goodes as an example of Australia’s racism.
Column was by Helen Trinca. Never heard of her.
Sounds like of them couples trips in rural QLD for men from Daylesford.
No sir. I am 9/10 Ted Bullpit.
It seems he and Cairon Maher are a great partnership.
Not their fault, but they were beneficiaries of Darren Weir being shunted out.
And good to see Maher has lost the Tiny Tim haircut.
Might stick with them in the last.
But waiting to see which one has good hailstorm form!
It was great. Not that long ago she felt she was so big she didn’t need to give a shit for how she treated the little people. She revelled in it.
Until someone came along for whom she was a little people.
Zoe’s gone orgasmic.
The fucking stupid former ABC’s Washington correspondent doesn’t seem to realize that Hiden’s chances a zero after the midterm.
Recommendations for travel insurance, Cats?
Particularly as we getting older, like going overseas, and take in the occasional cruise.
are..
Literally Attilla the Hitler and Pol Pot rolled into one.
I have to admit that I didn’t sit there and stare for any extended duration expecting to observe noticeable growth, but, yeah, I’ve seen live coffee trees in the highlands of East Timor. I even experienced the resultant coffee.
Do I win?
Should have followed ‘bern’s advice.
Found an old betting account which had $90 in it.
It now has $35.
Doh!
Indeed.
Impaired Immune Response after Booster in 70+ Years (Cambridge Preprint Study)
drbeen
Incredible.
NYT graphic is very interesting.
LOL WTF has he done to his hair!
What’s the big event Dot?
Eureka, finally got past the server error.
Well, I have just surveyed the allotment, glass of nutritious G&T in hand.
There is nothing…nothing as satisfying as waging a two week war on weeds and winning. Such are the simple victories of life.
2022.10.31 Inflation As A Prelude To War
Top Endersays:
November 1, 2022 at 5:15 pm
Recommendations for travel insurance, Cats?
Particularly as we getting older, like going overseas, and take in the occasional cruise.
https://www.choice.com.au/travel/money/travel-insurance
Huh? Madness. Reduce consumption as it’s unhealthy to go cold turkey on a truly wonderful life enhancing habit.
Twitter is looking to be a cheap buy for Elon.
Imagine having rock solid evidence of what the corruptocrats in the US and worldwide have been up to. Elon is sitting on a goldmine.
Tim Poole….. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7f3hjnQgiI
Data is everything. He now owns the “back and forth” emails. His property. He might not be able to use it in a “court of law”, but he can certainly read it all.
It’s a massive “leg up” when you know exactly “what’s going on”.
Cheap buy.
Incidents of debauchery and fornication at your average Bachelor and Spinsters Ball would make the Emperor Caligula blush…
Don’t bother to let the CDC know about safety issues with the COVID vaccines: they will ghost you
Get a platinum credit card and use the free travel insurance?
Alberto Thomas
@GAlberto
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Another WEF phoney rigged election.
Soros-Funded Group Behind Lawsuit Targeting DeSantis for Flying Illegal Aliens to Martha’s Vineyard
Very much enjoying the Twitter Musk show. Would be great to see him disable New York Times, WaPo etc.
Fuck them. See how much they squeal about freedom of press then.
I have an Amex platinum card for work, ok for business, otherwise it’s just showing off.
The fucking stupid former ABC’s Washington correspondent doesn’t seem to realize that Hiden’s chances a zero after the midterm.
Never underestimate the left’s capacity to cheat. The Brazilian election demonstrates that. Had a friend who went to Brazil in 1993. I never heard from him again. If anyplace can physically resist the left its Brazil. The US or other decadent Western democracies can’t. The mid-terms are going to feature spectacular cheating.
Weeding or G&T?
Every time I’ve gone cold turkey on the former the Triffids appear. Then I have to pay someone to help me clear it all out.
These days I’m a very reluctant employer. 😀
Covid vaccines are the biggest corruption scandal in the history of the world, says MEP
Soooo…have any Cats cleaned up bigtime on the GGs?
DISCOVERED: Facebook and Twitter Private Portals Where Democrats, Government Officials and Corporate Elites Meet to Ban Unwanted Conservative Content
Palestinians: Why Are Attacks on Christians Being Ignored?
by Khaled Abu Toameh • October 31, 2022 at 5:00 am
“Did you see ever a Christian attacked a Mosk [sic] in Christian majority towns in Middle East? Off course No. This shows difference of culture, faith, respect & recognition we hold” — Shadi Khalloul, prominent Christian rights advocate, Twitter, October 29, 2022.
As in previous instances, the Palestinian Authority has failed to take real measures to punish those who attack Christians or Christian holy sites in the Bethlehem area.
The attacks by Muslims on Christians are often ignored by the international community and media, who seem to speak out only when they can find a way to blame Israel.
Another disturbing situation is that the leaders of the Christian community in the West Bank are reluctant to hold the Palestinian Authority and their Muslim neighbors responsible for the attacks. They are afraid of retribution and prefer to toe the official line of holding Israel solely responsible for the misery of the Christian minority.
Sadly, it is safe to assume that the plight of the Palestinian Christians will only intensify in light of the silence of the international community and the all-too-justified fear of retaliation burdening their own leaders.
A series of violent incidents in Bethlehem, the birthplace of Jesus, and the nearby towns of Beit Jala and Beit Sahour, have left Christians worried about their safety and future under the Palestinian Authority (PA).
Many Christians living in these communities are complaining that the Palestinian Authority is not doing enough to punish those who attack churches and Christian-owned businesses. The perpetrators are Muslims who make up the majority of the population in the Bethlehem area.
Earlier this year, Palestinian Evangelical Pastor Johnny Shahwan was arrested by the PA security forces on charges of “promoting normalization” with Israel.
The arrest came after Shahwan, founder and chair of the board of Beit Al-Liqa (House of Encounter) in Beit Jala, appeared in a photo alongside Rabbi Yehuda Glick, a former member of the Israeli parliament, the Knesset.
Beit Al-Liqa is a Christian community and training center. The center, accused of hosting the rabbi together with a group of German tourists, was ordered closed for one week by the Palestinian Authority.
As in previous instances, the Palestinian Authority has failed to take real measures to punish those who attack Christians or Christian holy sites in the Bethlehem area. In April 2002, several gunmen stormed the Church of Nativity in Bethlehem. Three monks who were held hostage by the gunmen managed to flee the church via a side gate. They told Israeli army officers that the gunmen had stolen gold and other property, including crucifixes and prayer books.
Such incidents are the main reason that many Christians no longer feel safe in the areas controlled by the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank. The number of Christians has dropped significantly over the past few decades: from 18% of the population in 1948 to just 2% of the population of the West Bank, Gaza and Israel. In Bethlehem, it has dropped from 80% to 12%. Many have moved to the US, Canada and Europe.
The attacks by Muslims on Christians are often ignored by the international community and media, who seem to speak out only when they can find a way to blame Israel.
dover0beachsays:
November 1, 2022 at 4:46 pm
VISH BURRA ?
@VishBurra
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HAPPENING NOW: Things are developing quickly in Brazil, and not in a good way after the election that was STOLEN from Bolsonaro.
The police are starting to join with the Bolsonarista truck drivers who are protesting the fraudulent results of the Brazilian election.
Things are heating up in Brazil. I saw a map yesterday of which areas went Bolsonaro and which Lula and it was bascially the NE that supported Lula and everywhere else Bolsonaro won. He even won the major cities, Sao Paolo and Rio.
It will be interesting to see what happens. It seems Brazilians know when an election has been stolen. Too bad Americans don’t. Oh well, at least they have lots of guns. They should help when the next one is stolen. Just like they did the last time.
Peter Zeihan “The Complete Breakdown Of China Will Shock The Entire World”
TE, I took my mother on the recent trip to visit our ancestral home in Ireland and she has a few pre-existing conditions. I got a quote with Defence Health, as I have my private health insurance with them, and I was able to get cover for my mother’s pre-existing conditions after answering an online questionnaire. The additional cost was in the order of $200 for 5 weeks and the premium was considerably lower than what Mum had paid for travel insurance excluding her pre-existing conditions.
Oh, I thought you meant cigs (weeds). Never mind.
Blaming Conservatives For The Attack On Pelosi Is A Cynical Effort To Chill Speech
BY: DAVID HARSANYI – OCTOBER 31, 2022
Spare me the national conversation on political rhetoric.
The left’s insistence that every conservative personally “condemn” the actions of the mentally ill man who attacked Nancy Pelosi’s husband Paul has nothing to do with lowering the rhetorical temperature or averting violence, and everything to do with trying to compel Republicans to take responsibility for the incident.
Forget the ugly, transparent cynicism of partisans like Joe Scarborough or David Frum or Bill Kristol. Take The Washington Post, which ran a triple-bylined, reported piece headlined, “Attack on Nancy Pelosi’s husband follows years of GOP demonizing her.” “Years of vilification,” contend the authors, have “culminated” in Pelosi’s husband being attacked with a hammer.
By “demonizing,” the Post means that Republicans run lots of political ads targeting perhaps the most powerful, partisan leader in the nation. Pelosi is demonized in the same manner Mitch McConnell or Donald Trump or Ron DeSantis are demonized. Remember ads depicted Paul Ryan pushing grandmas off cliffs? Is it that kind of demonizing?
All three of the “reporters” involved in writing the Washington Post piece know full well that the person accused of attacking Pelosi with a hammer was mentally unstable, his brain, according to the mother of his children, addled by long-term drug use. This is a former pro-nudist activist, convinced that “he was Jesus for a year,” who lived in a bus on a semi-commune and has embraced conspiracy theories from the left and right.
Even if he wasn’t unstable, of course, it doesn’t mean the GOP has any responsibility to stop pointing out that Pelosi’s policy ideas are bad for the country. Do reporters, columnists, ad makers, or politicians consider the safety of Republicans before saying anything critical about them? I sure hope not. Because neither political discourse nor political reporting should be inhibited by the prospective actions of third-party nuts. If Americans had to ponder the actions of political terrorists every time they took a position, they would only be empowering those nuts.
Yet, this weekend, John Dickerson was wringing his hands on CBS News over the alleged structural and rhetorical pro-violence position of the right. You see the trick, right? Conservatives have a duty to self-flagellate over the Jan 6 rioters, to answer for Alex Jones and white supremacists of Charlottesville, and to condemn the nudists of Berkley, because they’re the ones who have allegedly coddled those extremists in the first place. It doesn’t matter that vast majority of conservative have never supported or instigated any violence, whatsoever.
When a man who volunteers for the presidential campaign of Bernie Sanders attempts to assassinate Republican leadership on a baseball field in Alexandria, Virginia, no one in the major media tells us it’s the culmination of the socialists’ decades-long demonizing of non-socialists. When an assassin brings a Glock, extra ammunition, a knife, pepper spray, and zip ties from California to D.C. to murder a Supreme Court justice — two years after Chuck Schumer warned justices that they had “released the whirlwind” and would “pay the price” — not only did we not have a national conversation about the perils of toxic rhetoric, the story was barely covered, appearing on page 20 of The New York Times.
Democrats have now spent years fueling conspiratorial and paranoid fictions about how Republicans had seditiously conspired to destroy “democracy” or the endless, fact-less effort to convince Americans that their votes are being stolen.
Knock yourself out. But spare me the national conversations.
Wish I had bought more gold in 08′
Tucker Carlson: Without censorship, the Democratic Party can’t continue to hold power
GOP Lawmaker Suddenly Dead at 55 – Found in Home After Complaining of Feeling Unwell
Report: Joe Biden Working on Another $50 Billion Ukraine Aid Package After Midterms
TE.
I have devoted a lot of time over recent years doing exactly what you are doing now – canvassing and researching travel insurance options. I’ve done a few trips that an oldie probably shouldn’t do, so I was focused.
For older people who experience a physical health issue, eg. heart attack or stroke, all of the insurers will attempt to claim “pre existing condition etc”. My research suggests that the bigger outfits are less likely to play these games than the smaller and cheaper ones. At the very least, 24 hour access and at least short term support are the key criteria. Again the big guys are superior.
Similarly, for injury, sickness, theft, travel dramas etc, bigger is better. They will all have a go of course.
For me, in terms of coverage, customer feedback, and access, Allianz appears to offer the lowest risk.
Customer reviews are depressing but in a lot of cases the customers were idiots, or were insured by scammers.
Oh, and buy direct, not through an agent.
PS. Not to put you off; a nephew’s recently took his kids to see the ancestral home in Croatia and died suddenly. His cheap insurance outfit walked away. His ex-wife and sister had to dash over to rescue the kids and do all the official stuff.
Saving a few bucks is not an economy for travel insurance.
Well, I have inhaled…via my open window at Uni.
But never intentionally.
Maybe other people have a platinum card for their business too.
I think diamond has free travel insurance too.
Though annual fee at CBA for platinum is $249 and diamond is $395.
The ‘free’ travel insurance covers travel companions iirc
bons, Defence Health uses Allianz to underwrite its travel insurance, so what you said correlates with my experience.
While walking down the street one day, a high-ranking politician is tragically hit by a truck and dies.
His soul arrives in heaven and is met by St. Peter at the entrance.
“Welcome to Heaven” says St. Peter. “Before you settle in, it seems there is a problem. We seldom see a high official around these parts, you see, so we’re not sure what to do with you”. “No problem, just let me in” says the politician.
“Well, I’d like to but I have orders from higher up. What we’ll do is have you spend one day in Hell and one in Heaven. Then you can choose where to spend eternity”. “Really, I’ve made up my mind. I want to be in Heaven” says the politician. “I’m sorry but we have our rules”.
And with that, St. Peter escorts the politician to the elevator and he goes down, down, down to Hell.
The doors open and he finds himself in the middle of a green golf course. In the distance is a club and standing in front of it are all his friends and other politicians who had worked with him, everyone is very happy and in evening dress.
They run to greet him, hug him, and reminisce about the good times they had while getting rich at expense of the people. They play a friendly game of golf and then dine on lobster and caviar. Also present is the Devil, who really is a very friendly guy who has a good time dancing and telling jokes. They are having such a good time that, before he realises it, it is time to go. Everyone gives him a big hug and waves while the elevator rises. The elevator goes up, up, up and the door reopens on Heaven where St. Peter is waiting for him.
“Now it’s time to visit Heaven”.
So, 24 hours pass with the politician head of state joining a group of contented souls moving from cloud to cloud, playing the harp and singing. They have a good time and, before he realises it, the 24 hours have gone by and St. Peter returns.
“Well then, you’ve spent a day in Hell and another in Heaven. Now choose your eternity”.
He reflects for a minute, then the head of state answers “Well, I would never have thought it, I mean Heaven has been delightful, but I think I would be better off in Hell”.
So Saint Peter escorts him to the elevator and he goes down, down, down to Hell. Now the doors of the elevator open and he is in the middle of a barren land covered with waste and garbage. He sees all his friends, dressed in rags, picking up the trash and putting it in black bags. The Devil comes over to the politician and lays an arm on his neck.
“I don’t understand” stammers the politician. Yesterday I was here and there was a golf course and club and we ate lobster and caviar and danced and had a great time. Now all there is a wasteland full of garbage and my friends look miserable”.
The Devil looks at him, smiles and says “Yesterday we were campaigning. Today you voted for us”.
Carpe Jugulumsays:
November 1, 2022 at 5:43 pm
rosie says:
November 1, 2022 at 5:40 pm
Get a platinum credit card and use the free travel insurance?
I have an Amex platinum card for work, ok for business, otherwise it’s just showing off.
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Another new study – yes, a SECOND one – says the “Omicron-specific” mRNA Covid boosters are worthless
ALEX BERENSON – NOV 1
For the second time in a week, top scientists have reported that “Omicron specific” Covid mRNA boosters are a $5 billion taxpayer-financed marketing gimmick.
The new shots work no better than the original mRNA shots to produce antibodies specifically targeting the Omicron variant.
And the Omicron shots are even WORSE than the original boosters in producing T-cells that target Omicron, according to the researchers, part of a group led by Dr. Dan Barouch, a highly respected virologist. This finding is of particular concern because T-cells, the second line of the immune system, keep infections from becoming too severe.
Boosters using the original mRNA formulation have been largely phased out, because – as public health bureaucrats now admit – they stop working against Omicron infection within weeks. In fact, real-world data from many countries suggest they increase the risk of infection within months.
The “Omicron-specific” boosters were supposed to solve that problem. Regulators approved them in August, despite a lack of any clinical trial evidence they reduced coronavirus infections or serious cases of Covid in people. The Federal government agreed to pay Pfizer and Moderna $5 billion for 171 million doses of them.
But both Dr. Barouch’s study and another last week from Dr. David Ho, another top virologist, found that Omicron-specific boosters work no better than the original boosters against Omicron. Both studies showed the antibodies our immune systems produce after the Omicron shot are more effective against the original and now essentially extinct version of Sars-Cov-2 than against Omicron variants.
This phenomenon is called “original antigenic sin” or “immune imprinting,” and can occur after any vaccination – or infection. But the mRNA shots appear particularly likely to cause it, probably because they stimulate such high levels of anti-spike antibodies when they are first given.
The findings help explain why so many people, including Centers for Disease Control director Dr. Rochelle Walensky, have recently tested positive shortly after being boosted.
But Dr. Barouch’s group went further than Dr. Ho’s, examining T-cells as well. It found the same problem; following both the Omicron and the old booster, T-cells focused much more on the original Sars-Cov-2 than Omicron variants.
T-cells are a crucial second line of immune defense, helping the body keep infections from becoming too severe. Because Omicron is not very dangerous to most people, so a weak T-cell response does not matter much against it. But if a future Sars-Cov-2 variant is more dangerous, the relative lack of a T-cell response could put vaccinated people may be at serious risk.
Any comments on the Roslyn Bowie murder being apparently solved?
Imagine being sent down for life on such weak evidence.
There’s a big gap between well placed suspicion and reasonable doubt.
I smell an appeal that could win and the Court of Appeal ostensibly doesn’t like overturning juries on fact.
Chicago mass shooting: Several children among at least 14 injured in drive-by on city’s West Side
An eyewitness reported that he found at least two children with bullet wounds in the Chicago mass shooting
From the Comments
– It be a puzzle again.
– No, not a puzzle, just your typical 13 %!
– THIS IS JEOPARDY!!
I’ll Take Rock and Roll Bands for $1000 Alex
The clue is: “The Same Old Story The Same Old Song And Dance”
Shanghai Disneyland Closes Due to Covid-19; US Bought Risky Chinese Telecom Gear: Report
China in Focus – NTD
00:57 S. Korea Mourns After Halloween Stampede Kills 153
04:02 132 Dead After Bridge Collapse in India
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07:16 Update: Chinese Police Outposts Around the World
08:22 Shanghai Disneyland Closes Due to Covid-19
09:33 Thousands of Chinese Workers Leave Apple Supplier
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I see this as a feature. Get rid of all the dumb fucker Juicers.
Indolentsays:
November 1, 2022 at 5:43 pm
Soros-Funded Group Behind Lawsuit Targeting DeSantis for Flying Illegal Aliens to Martha’s Vineyard
It won’t come to court, for fear of establishing a precedent. How many illegals have the DemonRats flown around the US?
As incorrect prediction beget wrongologists (aka Munt) but I do love getting predictions correct.
Musk has cucked and Trump isn’t coming back.
The MidTerms are a joke, whoever wins will still keep on sending dosh to Ukraine.
I would say the DeSantis stunt of sending Illegals to Marthas Vineyard won’t go down well with conservative voters and making abortion harder to obtain isn’t a vote winner among any demographic.
Richard Cranium
I would say the DeSantis stunt of sending Illegals to Marthas Vineyard won’t go down well with conservative voters and making abortion harder to obtain isn’t a vote winner among any demographic.
Given that your politics seem to be very close to that of US “liberal” so-called “progressives”, you might not be the best judge of conservative preferences.
Just sayin’.
If you take the “free” credit card travel insurance make sure you read up on exclusions and pre-existing conditions clause.
The media double standard on racism
Mention of race, hate crimes missing from reports on Black mass killer
By Editorial Board – The Washington Times – Monday, October 31, 2022
What Darrell Brooks Jr. did last November was undeniably racist and a textbook case of a hate crime, but you’d never know that if you read about his Oct. 26 conviction in The Washington Post or The New York Times.
That’s because the criminal-and-victim scenario in the case of the Nov. 21 Christmas parade massacre in the Milwaukee suburb of Waukesha, Wisconsin, doesn’t conform to the liberal media’s preferred “racism” narrative.
Brooks, 40, is Black, and his 67 victims were White. He was found guilty on all counts related to plowing his red Ford Escape SUV through the parade itself and its spectators: six counts of first-degree intentional homicide and hit-and-run causing death, and 61 counts of first-degree recklessly endangering safety. (Just as an aside, we still haven’t heard any calls from the left for banning SUVs as an assault weapons, which in Brooks’ case, it clearly was.)
The Washington Post and The New York Times shamefully demonstrated, in their Orwellian “Animal Farm” editorial judgment, that some criminals and crime victims are more equal — and dare we say, more sympathetic — than others.
In their respective Oct. 27 print editions, neither published a photograph of Brooks, a repeat offender with a long rap sheet, in their reports on his conviction (although the Post did so in its online version). Nor did either report cite Brooks’ race or those of his victims. The words “black” and “white” weren’t used in the articles, nor was there any speculation as to whether Brooks would or should face Wisconsin state or federal hate crime charges.
Given the corruptly politicized Biden Department of Justice under Kristen Clarke, the racist Back radical heading the Civil Rights Division, who makes no bones about leveraging the full force of DOJ against only political enemies, Brooks likely has nothing to fear from the feds.
(That’s hardly hyperbole: The Justice Department under Ms. Clarke — presumably with Attorney General Merrick Garland’s shameful, tacit acquiescence — has brought charges against several peaceful anti-abortion protesters under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, but none against pro-abortion extremists who have vandalized and even firebombed dozens of pro-life pregnancy resource centers and desecrated churches in the past six months, since the Supreme Court’s draft opinion in the case that overturned Roe v. Wade was leaked on May 2.)
For the record, however, we have argued on these pages that hate crime laws, which carry enhanced penalties for crimes motivated by, among other things, race and ethnicity, are Orwellian. They make some criminals and crime victims more equal than others. They make a mockery of the concept of equal justice under the law, and as such are arguably unconstitutional, and are absolutely discriminatory in the way they are selectively applied.
Hate crime laws should be abolished, but as long as they remain on the books, they must be enforced evenhandedly. By any measure, what Brooks did was a hate crime on the basis of race.
It’s perhaps a moot point, insofar as Brooks faces what the Waukesha County district attorney said was “six consecutive life sentences plus 859 years of confinement.” Hate crime charges could hardly enhance that punishment unless they were to make him eligible for the death penalty. But it would have to be a federal death penalty since Wisconsin abolished capital punishment 170 years ago in 1852.
But we digress. The Post, in its print edition, ran its story on Brooks’ conviction at the top of page 2, but The New York Times buried its report, unbelievably, at the bottom of page 23. Does anyone really believe that the Gray Lady wouldn’t have put the story, along with the most unflattering photograph available of the perpetrator, on the front page — and likely above the fold — had the racial roles in the case been reversed?
Was buying BHP a mistake?
Jupiter Mines on the same dividend yield is underpriced by about 11 cents, trading at 20, should be 31 cents…
Still a CAD true believer. o7
I’m in good company then.
Given that your politics seem to be very close to that of US “liberal” so-called “progressives”, you might not be the best judge of conservative preferences.
Your comment history indicates a Labor Party Reactionary worldview, not a conservative thinker.
Ed Casesays:
November 1, 2022 at 6:27 pm
Musk has cucked and Trump isn’t coming back.
The MidTerms are a joke, whoever wins will still keep on sending dosh to Ukraine.
I would say the DeSantis stunt of sending Illegals to Marthas Vineyard won’t go down well with conservative voters and making abortion harder to obtain isn’t a vote winner among any demographic.
More BS from Head Case. Australia’s egg spurt on all things USA’n………………LOL
Guess the race?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAcIsVT2AZg&t=132s
This is why we cant have nice things.
Dot:
You have a good point. Nevertheless, anyone who considers any story coming from an establishment and doesn’t consider it both in isolation and with every other factor they can find isn’t doing themselves any favours.
A bit like the old argument both sober and drunk – and I would add a third condition – stoned.
Sounds at least like a good party.
Remembering the outcome next day will be an issue.
Melbourne is trash
Razeysays:
November 1, 2022 at 6:54 pm
Man fighting for life, another dead after separate assaults in Melbourne’s CBD | 9 News Australia
Guess the race?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAcIsVT2AZg&t=132s
This is why we cant have nice things.
The race to save Australia from itself. That’s the race.
Hailing in Sydneystan …
Civilisations rise and fall. The Woke West is in free fall. Razey-san sez ‘sayonara’.
I did pretty well out of the stands I’ve kept part ownership of. The Cup result was a cracker. It’s always good to see a favourite beaten in a big race.
Having said that, copped a bit of a flogging in the later races. It took the gleen off the day. Overall, the “happy index” is in positive territory. I’ve had better days. I’ve had worse days.
Meh.
Thanks, Arma. Everyone was very quiet about it, and I thought they were all searching for comfortable barrels to wear.
😀
The major problem with the social effect of the masking etc, is that it isn’t binary.
In 2022 I had no dependents and was able to choose ‘No’.
In 1982 I had a wife and two daughters and if my employer had said the Vaxxine was compulsory, I would have taken the dose and been grateful for the chance to have a job.
As I’ve said before, if you attempt to stand against the storm then you risk breaking. An adult has to make decisions that make no sense in different circumstances.
We should be conserving our anger and distress for those who put us in this position – the Government and its unelected arms.
Refuse the bloody governments divide and conquer strategy, unite against them instead or you are all just bringing about the social conditions that will let them think they can do it again.
Yes.
I think it depends on China’s RE market and the copper price. Both aren’t looking too flash but maybe the worst is over.
Thanks for the tip re Jupiter mines Dot. Will look into it. You were right about Dreadnought resources.
Maldives former President on Sunak;
None of this is investment advice!
Disavow! Disavow!
Sayonara # 23.
Ed Casesays:
November 1, 2022 at 6:47 pm
Given that your politics seem to be very close to that of US “liberal” so-called “progressives”, you might not be the best judge of conservative preferences.
Your comment history indicates a Labor Party Reactionary worldview, not a conservative thinker.
Can you be a bit more specific about exactly which comments gave you that impression. This should be easy for you to do, since you seem to be maintaining a “history” of my comments.
Of course Dot. Goes without saying.
Very hard to get a line on 2 mile form, particularly with so many overseas ponies involved.
I honestly can’t see “crypto” working in an entire economy. It suits the elite and Government controlled workers. However, at the end of the day, there is a massive amount of the world population that only deal in “cash”. And for good reason. We can all see what the corruptocrats are up to.
Biden and the Democrats are relishing printing money and diluting wealth.
This should be easy for you to do, since you seem to be maintaining a “history” of my comments.
Okey doke.
You’ve been bagging the Liberal Party for at least 10 years.
That indicates that you are not a liberal.
You’ve never criticised the Labor Party, just particular individuals.
That places you on the Far Right of the Labor Party.
You are unable to have a discussion, but you are fond of attacking people.
That indicates a Reactionary.
You sound like a Flamer.
That is also consistent with Reaction.
Calli:
Is that just next door to Heard Island?
It looks Lovely.
Skiing and snowball fights for the kids, lots of healthy exercise for the adults swimming back and forth to the local Colesworth 4000Km in Perth.
And none of those pesky Christians, Hindus, Atheists and others who made life for the family so difficult for them in the Islamic Paradise of the Middle East. In fact there’s nobody there at all to bring out the murderous rages that so bedevils Islam wherever it is.
Very calming.
Enjoy!
Razey has left Australia? Again?
calli says:
November 1, 2022 at 5:34 pm
Well, I have just surveyed the allotment, glass of nutritious G&T in hand.
There is nothing…nothing as satisfying as waging a two week war on weeds and winning. Such are the simple victories of life.
Sorry to rain on the parade..
But are you sure that you have also vanquished the reservoir of weed dormant seed?
Seeds that are prevented from germination by local phyto-inhibitors produced by their parents.
That’s why the gardener’s best friend, Glyphosate, fails, and it can take several seasons to fully extirpate weed infestation.
Use of Bobcats and roll-on lawn is often easier.
I had a coffee tree growing on my former acreage block about 10 years ago. Eventually a few red berries started to appear so I thought I’d better find out what you had to do to get actual coffee out of them.
Can’t remember the full process apart from roasting the beans of course, but suffice to say the end result was: “who the feck thought this was a good idea?” I blame the ex.
Alarmism, renewables, EVs: all bullshit. Alan Moran:
European industry is being forced to downsize due to energy shortages. Fertilizer production was down 35 per cent in August and textiles, auto and other industries are reducing output. Nations are going further into debt to pay for energy, giving rise to concerns over a debt crisis. The UK government, whose debt accounted for 143% of its GDP last year, has paid the equivalent of 178 billion Euros (about 6 per cent of GDP). This includes capping electricity bills at £2,500 at a cost of £60bn which will end in April – meaning bills will rise to £4000-5000. France, whose debt stood at 145% of its GDP last year, has earmarked 71 billion euros, and Germany, whose debt is 77% of its GDP, has approved 300 billion euros.
With the COP 27 climate conference taking place in Egypt, the EU is fast-tracking a law to ban sales of new fossil fuel cars in the EU by 2035, expand Europe’s natural CO2-absorbing “sinks” like forests, and set binding national emissions-cutting goals.
Germany’s Greens economy minister Robert Habeck is to slow the increase of power bills next year by paying just under 13 billion euros towards transmission costs. Defending his government, and standing by his Green values he also said, “Nuclear power and fossil fuels brought us here. They caused this crisis; they are not the solution.” But Chancellor Olaf Scholz has prolonged the life of all three of Germany’s remaining nuclear reactors until April 2023. The Chancellor has also pledged support for reconstructing Ukraine’s energy sector, which “must gradually be re-installed in a climate neutral way.”
Summer on Heard Island would be great after that Syrian heat. You probably want something further north for winter.
Ed Casesays:
November 1, 2022 at 7:46 pm
This should be easy for you to do, since you seem to be maintaining a “history” of my comments.
Okey doke.
You’ve been bagging the Liberal Party for at least 10 years.
That indicates that you are not a liberal.
You’ve never criticised the Labor Party, just particular individuals.
That places you on the Far Right of the Labor Party.
You are unable to have a discussion, but you are fond of attacking people.
That indicates a Reactionary.
You sound like a Flamer.
That is also consistent with Reaction.
Richard Cranium
Thanks for your personal opinions, but I was hoping for specific details to justify them. Or don’t you have any, just your personal prejudices?
132andbush:
I think I may have just rediscovered the family motto.
Can someone translate that into Latin in a way that I can add to the family heraldry?
PS, perhaps you hold a different opinion, but I regularly refer to the Labor Party as the Liars, hardly a term of approbation. Whereas I usually refer to you as a dick head.
Thanks, Gilas. Spoil sport. I know all about annual and perennial weeds, and their horrid propagules. The onion weed has been glypho-ed, but it will return, the mongrel thing.
My victory will be short lived. But it’s still sweet.
Ami Horowitz predicts the dominant form of future terrorism won’t be the towelheads but will by alarmists.
Doesn’t matter. The book never lies.
I’ve never once lost on a Melbourne Cup book. I’m not a punter. It’s merely a calculation of how much I am prepared to lose. I can always “lay off”.
Depends on how greedy the bookmaker next door wants to be.
The Melbourne Cup is one of the few races on the calendar that you are guaranteed a return. Mug punters, numbers, names and “gut feelings”.
The rest of the year, the punters generally read the form guide. Or they know a bloke who’s cousin owns a horse and they reckon it will go OK.
“Hailing in Sydneystan …”
Hasn’t hailed in Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs, must be because of Allegra Spender, she did promise us a “better climate for Wentworth”.
its all monopoly money, just like the end days of the roman empire
I know, right?
More comebacks than Nellie Melba and John Farnham combined.
Travel insurance is a rort world wide.Living in Malaysia and booked a trip to Cambodia.Wife became ill and we gad to cancel the accommodation. Air tickets were open still.Made a claim.Oh no came the reply your trip hasn’t been cancelled it’s merely been postponed so we won’t honour the claim.It sounds like a pre-existing condition anyway the arrogant batch opined.
Well said I I assume as it’s been postponed that you will cover us when we take the trip in a month or so.Oh no,you will need a new policy.
Didn’t take it any further as it was only a couple of hundred dollars but FMD the bastardry was world class.
Malaysian arm of Cover more so not a fly by night
Ah yes, ‘Kopi Timor’. 🙂
The horses I chose to follow, preferred to follow other horses.
Lost $50 on betting and another $20 on sweeps. However, had a lovely lunch at Cas Club, 3 of our group one prizes in the fashion show and one of our group took home the $1000 lucky door prize.
Every year I remove onion weed, it grows in abundance in the neighbour’s garden, in various nature strips and in the local nature reserve, the seeds blow in and it germinates, fortunately the new crop is generally sitting high and can be easily removed, bulbs and all.
Rishi’s upset a climate change grifter already? :d
He will inevitably disappoint, but I did say there was some value to be had in him nonetheless.
Unlike Boris, he was pro-Brexit by conviction, not calculation. That was a clue.
Australia will become like South Africa.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gimU454HN6Q
“Ami Horowitz predicts the dominant form of future terrorism won’t be the towelheads but will by alarmists.”
I wouldn’t be surprised if the two ideologies decide to help each other. The far left has form cosying up with radical Islam.
Arma, I picked the Cup winner.
Trouble was I bracketed it in a trifecta with others which weren’t quite good enough.
’tis our lot.
A very dangerous application of Blair’s Law
Disavow! Disavow!
Lol, Dot is Anthony Cumia.
Indolent:
It doesn’t matter who Elon is upsetting, just the fact he is upsetting someone is good enough after the last few years of twitter blancmange.
Facebook, are you ready?
Perhaps the share price needs to drop a bit further before their arrogant ‘factcheckers’ get the Royal size 12.
$3.81 down to 0.93 cents in 5 years should have a few Millionaires clutching at their pearls.
At some stage in the future someone will put together a stream which will play the Rogan show with Tim Pool, Dorsey & Gadde and stop every time Gadde lies.
It will take a long time because she literally lied non-stop.
Pool has been pretty dignified with his coverage her sacking.
He really should have been dancing like Happy Gilmore.
This pelosi cabbage is a beauty; what we know thus far:
Just to get the media story straight, a nudist hippie that was part of a pro BLM commune walked in only underwear from Berkeley to the ultrarich neighborhood in San Francisco, entered Paul Pelosi’s mansion while predator invisible cloaked to avoid security cameras…
…wrestled with Paul Pelosi while a mysterious 3rd man watched, Paul went to the bathroom, called 911, returned to wrestle the hippie nudist, the unnamed 3rd man let police in, and then the hippie hit Paul with a hammer, because he saw a Kevin McCarthy news conference a year ago
Noticed a couple of ticks with a more than one or two million followers are leaving Twitter because of Musk.
Very
“Where shall I go? What shall I do?”
fuckEd continued his fuckwittery I note ?
Helen Davidson (nmrn)says:
November 1, 2022 at 8:08 pm
Sooo…have any Cats cleaned up bigtime on the GGs?
The horses I chose to follow, preferred to follow other horses.
My grandfather owned a horse, and raced it. My father said it was too much of a gentleman to pass any mares on the course, but it did win one race. Perhaps there were no mares running in that one?
@jc:
“I can’t believe the state is sleepwalking into the election to elect the Hunchback.
60/40 Morgan poll?”
Straight-up “Stockholm Syndrome” on a massive scale.
The experiment seem to be working. Next up: a “National” extension? Kovid imprisonment, Mk 2″??
With teh LSM driving it harder than De Pape.
When the bot clean out is done, we might find they weren’t quite as popular as they might have thought.
rosiesays:
November 1, 2022 at 8:28 pm
Noticed a couple of ticks with a more than one or two million followers are leaving Twitter because of Musk.
Very
“Where shall I go? What shall I do?”
What is good in life Elon?
To see the Blue Ticks run for cover, to sack the chief censor, to hunt the bots to oblivion, that is good in life.
A bastard, along with oxalis. Most of my weeds are blow-in thistles now.
A lot has been made of the Tesla staff that Elon has at the twitter offices.
That’s the tip of the ice berg.
There are resources from all over the cap table being deployed into this.
When you have Andreessen Horowitz & Sequoia as part of the funding, you literally are a phone call & a matter of hours between a concept & having a team of engineers working on it.
did Dan skip the Melbourne Cup too?
Yeah, it’s outta Raymond Chandler alright.
I’d say the stiff left in the ambulance and the hammer story was invented to cover that up.
Comet Pizza, was Paulie a VIP customer there?
Flamers are prone to getting frenzied, though.
Could this be a new term for the Catictionary?
A Frenzy of Flamers.
Alternatively, A Frenzy of FrecklePunchers?
If you think Twitter is bad, look at Twitch or the Tumblr refugees now on Reddit.
Twitch had a trans “deer” “woman” on their “Trust and Safety Council” equivalent who thought any male gamer who disagrees/d with her “is (was) a *Nazi*”…
Many Victoriastanis (not all) would be perfectly happy with the road Chairman Dan has them on. See also: people who look forward to the Melbourne Comedy Festival.
Wont be surprised if the Hunchback locks down again, mandates the clot shot for everyone again, shoots more rubber bullets. Seems to be popular amongst the Sheep.
Bern
What impressed me was that the platform wasn’t scuppered with the news that 1,000s of jobs would be gonesky. There may have been attempts to screw with the software, but Musk and his team were on top of it. No hitches.
Refuse the bloody governments divide and conquer strategy, unite against them instead or you are all just bringing about the social conditions that will let them think they can do it again.
I agree but there were not that many that could do that. I could as I am retired and could not be blackmailed into getting the jab. I remain jab free and healthy at nearly age 70 years with my immaculate immune system. Fark the Guv’ment…………………………..
Heheh, Confessions of Robert Crumb
[10:10; YouTube]
HBBear:
Exactly.
Every ISIS member is a cancerous cell being invited into a healthy body – usually by members of that body that know damn well what they are and what they intend, but have convinced themselves they will never feel the consequences of their treachery.
The patina of ‘caring’ and ‘humanitarian’ labels they can then wear are just part of the payoff.
Every year. It’s a tradition. The best ones are the all female brawls.
google translate is your friend.. though ‘arsehole’ is a bit difficult.
how about “Putabam me esse aliquantulus of iratae cloacae fundo”
The idea of having a self curated, non-bot infested data feed, that doesn’t suppress certain narratives is really attractive.
BREAKING: Youtube has just announced they will actively censor any dissenting content about the election result in Brazil.
Yep.
Musk is no White Knight.
Eddly
Youtube is owned by Google, it has nothing to do with Twitter, you twit.
A teacher asks a boy in her class “If 3 birds are sitting on a fence, and one is shot, how many are left?” The boy responds with “None”. The teacher asks why. “They would all fly away after hearing the gunshot”. The teacher says “The answer is 2, but I like the way you think. Later, the boy asks the teacher “3 women walk out of an ice cream shop. One is eating with a spoon, one is licking it, and one is sucking it. Which one is married?” The teacher says “The one sucking it”. The boy says “No, the one wearing the ring, but I like the way you think”.
One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
– Bob Marley
Mem:
Thank God the hammer wasn’t part of the sexual aspect of the transaction – I shudder to think of the damage that tool would do internally, no matter how much callus had built up over the years.
When your schtick is stupidity but you actually are a moron.
Thankfully they censor the photos. Especially now the G String is the preferred panty of choice.
Despite Musk-rat giving the public impression that he makes billion dollar decisions over a late night spliff, his people would have done stacks of due diligence on all sorts of things.
I’ll bet he has seen macro data on workforce composition and has discovered that the hardcore workforce (software engineers, coders, systems design etc) are vastly outnumbered by “soft skills” types (diversity and inclusion, government relations, content moderators).
Just looking at broad qualification categories, he would have a rough idea how much deadwood he has on his hands.
Is it 5,500 out of 7,500?
Maybe not.
But it will be a lot.
When they start pulling each other’s clothes off…
Incoherent Gambler:
The SFL are assuming they will – if they win – inherit the organisation as a going concern as their enforcement arm.
Zulu – rarely is that a good thing in my limited (Perth Cup) experience. Think Germans and French nude beaches.
Wrong.
Successive Labor governments have spent the best part of 15 years stacking the place with lefties.
If there was a change of government they would have to rip the top 3-4 ranks out of the place.
Without that VikPlod will simply re-discover the principle that police need to be independent of government.
One bloke (Ken Jones) tried to sort it, but was sent packing back to the UK.
My theory is Vikplod has the dirty on various SFL royalty so there’s no chance whatsoever the Libs will upset the stasi.
VicPlod have long been the nations most politicised police forces. They are probably beyond reform, not that there has been any serious attempt at that.
Old Ozzie:
Islam cannot be reformed.
But it can be dealt with.
China will have no problems with drenching Afghanistan and Pakistan with Sarin, then when it degrades (in summer) in a month, flood the countries with a couple of million reservists to round up the survivors and march them off to the Concentration/extermination camps.
India will do jack shit because both have nukes, but China cares not for civilian and military losses.
Xi is a Communist in the same mould as Mao. If he loses an infantry division overunning an Indian Regiment, he won’t care – as long as the cadre remains then it takes just another 12k grunts to rebuild it.
Ed Casesays:
November 1, 2022 at 8:56 pm
BREAKING: Youtube has just announced they will actively censor any dissenting content about the election result in Brazil.
Yep.
Musk is no White Knight.
Musk bought Twatter, not YouTube.
The Tassie plod that handed me a speeding ticket recently was very pleasant. No black uniform either.
Dutch government bill proposes monitoring all transactions over 100 Euros | Eva Vlaardingerbroek
Add Big Tech to the list.
i went all in on Jamie Kah for the Cup. Who won. It may have been two races later but still……..
google owns youtube. google is evil
Dr. Paul Marik: Spike-Related Diseases and the Gaslighting of the Vaccine Injured
It has been [26] minutes since Googlery last beclowned himself.
How 3 Billionaires Pushed ‘Critical Race Theory’ Into America’s Schools
Luciferase!
Wodger:
Yes. But Xi is NOT a rational man.
We continue to make this mistake –
Hitler invading Poland is not the act of a rational man – or woman.
Brezhnev invading Czechoslovakia was not the act of a rational man – or woman.
A rational man doesn’t try to run a country of millions – it takes a man or woman – of overweening arrogance and ability to distance themselves from the man on the six o’clock bus and his cares and priorities.
This is why familial dynasties fail. The children, and their childrens’ children cannot relate to something they’ve never experienced.
There are of course exceptions – Reagan, Thatcher, and perhaps Trump, but they’re few and far between.
Perhaps we should make it a rule that the children of a government employee are refused any government position.*
*Please note that is said with tongue planted firmly in cheek.
Sancho:
Yes. That’s why I asked:
I certainly didn’t mention duellng sabres or pistols.
You did.
I was just curious about why you put the matter up.
So now we’ve got that little distraction out of the way…
Good to hear
Google’s Parent’s Profits Plummet as Search Engine Ad Sales Miss Mark Amid Report Revealing Bias in Campaign Results
There was a movie about a nurse who knocked off patients which prompted a discussion.
Turns out it is not so uncommon, and it appears male nurses have a greater propensity to commit these crimes than female nurses and, in fact, other males.
If we broaden it to the medical profession generally I can throw in Harold Shipman.
As for duelling, it was you who raised that.
All clear now?
Good.
Do I have to run any comments past you for approval Winston?
With complete footnotes as to the rationale and background?
Oldest trick in a bookmakers hat.
Wind in the odds. Everyone wants to back the favourite. It’s the “popular pick”. Everyone wants to “back it” because it’s a “shortner”. Surely someone is “in the know”. Trainer? Jockey? Mafia connections?
It’s amazing how often you see a “favourite” get beaten in a horse race. Often.
Politics is different. But somewhat similar in its “herd mentality”.
It’s a two horse race. Someone once said that “If you don’t vote Democrat, you aren’t Black”. Or words to that effect.
My point is this. Both bookmakers and political parties can manipulate the herd, but in different ways. Everyone wants to be a “winner”.
Nein ewe in WA had the minister in charge of keeping the lights on getting a small grilling over the looming summer blackouts on the way.
We are shutting down Collie coal mines and importing coal from the Easter states to top up the power station they are closing soon.
The Premimong was comparing the looming blackouts caused by their deliberate planning to branches falling on powerlines and bad weather events.
IT has a lot to answer for with his failed election campaign.
More to the point. Twitter uses “bots” to make people feel like they are on the “winning side”. Millions of people agree with this, therefore so must I. Join the herd.
Exactly same as a bookmaker “winding in” the odds on a nag. Herd mentality. Everyone wants to be on the winning side.
Both bots to pump up one side of an argument to make it appear more popular (or generate ad revenue) and banning content to ensure opposing views are diminished or not heard at all.
Hodgetwins
@hodgetwins
A judge locked up the people behind the data in the 2000 Mules movie because they won’t give up their confidential source.
Remember when the media told us that 2000 Mules was all lies and misinformation? I guess not.
Catherine Engelbrecht & Gregg Phillips need to be released.
You often see this in US politics. It’s all about fundraising and who has the most financial support. It’s nothing to do with the candidate themselves.
John Fetterwoman is a prime example. Herd mentality.
At the end of the day, it’s a two horse race. Easily riggable.
I would like to publicly acknowledge Dot’s Roadhouse reference at 2.42 this afternoon.
ROADHOUSE.
Tomorrow, if all goes well, should see a well-overdue Feargal Sharkey revival.
thefrollickingmole..it might be cheaper to retire to a Asian hideaway than retire in Aust.
ewe know its technically a flock, dont you?