Open Thread – Tue 1 Nov 2022


All Souls’ Day, Jules Bastien-Lepage, 1882

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Cassie of Sydney
November 3, 2022 5:15 pm

“Marc Andreessen (one of the funders of Elon’s bid) has been vocal about clear community guidelines and for them to be applied consistently.
That is critical.”

Yes, consistency, which has been missing for the last four to five years, hence my post above. I also think progressives really began to think of Twitter as their own personal fiefdom, that they owned it, and if nothing else the Musk takeover has shattered that delusion.

JC
JC
November 3, 2022 5:16 pm

Calli , I can’t tell the difference.

pic 1

Pic 2

JC
JC
November 3, 2022 5:19 pm

we’re wondering aloud whether what follows his takeover is going to be substantively different from the previous owners.

Consistency would be one as mentioned by others, in terms of applying the rules equally.

What would you like to see? Be specific with some shortened examples.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
November 3, 2022 5:22 pm

No more plastic straws (even in central Australia)

A straw could break a feral camel’s back.
Every kid knows that, they’ve played the game.

bespoke
bespoke
November 3, 2022 5:24 pm

Still need alternatives to prosper. Musk will tire of his new toy one day.

calli
calli
November 3, 2022 5:26 pm

Do I really have to put up with this kind of foul abuse?

No. It reflects more on the typer than it does on you.

Play the ball, not the man. Old fashioned, I know.

Razey
Razey
November 3, 2022 5:33 pm

auto-moderation

How very conservative of you.

Johnny Rotten
November 3, 2022 5:35 pm

No COVID Amnesty

From Armstrong Economics –

“The Atlantic wrote a piece about declaring pandemic amnesty. “We need to forgive one another for what we did and said when we were in the dark about COVID,” Emily Oster wrote. I will not forgive what was done and the permanent damage the COVID zealots caused to the global economy. This was not a simple misunderstanding – it was a deliberate plot to crush the economy and hand all power over to governments.

This goes for the right and left, although the right finally saw that what they were doing was wrong. Trump failed us by implementing Operation Warpspeed and distributing mass vaccines that were not properly tested. Big Pharma was granted full immunity because they knew the vaccines could present issues down the line. America had a strong economy before COVID lockdowns caused mass layoffs, supply shortages, and simply halted life as we once knew it.

Other countries had more severe restrictions, and many felt the need to flee their home country to avoid tyranny. I do not forgive the politicians who forced the masses to take a vaccine against their will simply to participate in society. The unvaccinated were demonized by the politicians who led the masses to believe that COVID was “a pandemic of the unvaccinated,” when that was a blatant lie. Those same politicians frequently broke their own rules because they knew they were baseless. I do not forgive the health agencies who promoted a false agenda and changed definitions and rules at whim. They forced us to cover our faces to simply walk outside despite knowing that masks did not work. I do not forgive the media who fueled the hysteria and banished anyone who questioned “the science.” The fear that spread across the globe was unwarranted.

There should be a trial to discover what actually happened in 2020. The virus’ origins remain a mystery, although it is widely accepted that it did not come about naturally. Children fell behind in school, small businesses closed forever, countless people lost their livelihoods, and mental health issues became more apparent. People were forced into quarantine camps like prisoners in some countries, while others diminished people to their QR codes that restricted their freedom of movement. People DIED.

Despite our current knowledge, governments have refused to let go of the emergency powers granted to them under COVID. How could they ask for forgiveness when this madness is ongoing?”

https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/corruption/no-covid-amnesty/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS

Chris
Chris
November 3, 2022 5:35 pm

Frontier wars article was very interesting. Thanks.
Quoting Henry Reynolds, after Windschuttle, has not been a big boost for anyone’s credibility.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
November 3, 2022 5:36 pm

Catturd ™ @catturd2 · 7h
The truth is @elonmusk has done some stuff I love and hate, but I have to admit, it’s way more fun around here since he took over.

The bad pussy seems not entirely unhappy!

Dot
Dot
November 3, 2022 5:37 pm

266,031,472 in the US have had least one shot of the mRNA injectables and 385,000 unexplained excess deaths so far which began after the rollout. The final death toll may not be know for years, since many are cancers that have yet to be discovered and the numbers are not slowing.

The virus has infected 97,329,787 and caused 1066351 deaths according to cdc. We have to take these figures with a grain of salt since many if not most infections are not reported and the cdc has lumped many dying with covid into the dying from covid bucket.

Early to draw comparisons but not out of the bounds of reality to suggest the injectable is closing in on the lethality of the virus and may even surpass it if we could get sensible numbers from the government.

This is good writing Zippy.

We can be critical of the forced immunisation programme without being a hysterical, rude lunatic.

Johnny Rotten
November 3, 2022 5:40 pm

No, you don’t. I’ve shied away from having a set of words that lead to auto-moderation but the alacrity with which some people use foul language is changing my mind.

And you know who they are but you keep on allowing it to go on.

JR

calli
calli
November 3, 2022 5:43 pm

Dover ain’t Solomon, guys.

Learn self control.

Dot
Dot
November 3, 2022 5:44 pm

No, you don’t. I’ve shied away from having a set of words that lead to auto-moderation but the alacrity with which some people use foul language is changing my mind.

Does this mean linking to Andrew Anglin is socially acceptable?

My passive aggressive vindictiveness means any behaviour I am accused of gets magnified, beep boop!

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
November 3, 2022 5:44 pm

On the old Cat I always felt sorry for the town of Scunthorpe.

Winston Smith
November 3, 2022 5:45 pm

Salvatore:

Using real names would save a helluva lot of confusion.

That’s why he uses them – to create confusion and give plausible deniability.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
November 3, 2022 5:45 pm

My contact at the DoE says there have been no instances of multiple deaths of students, teachers, parents, contractors or anyone on any DoE site this year.
Over to you Razey-san.

feelthebern
feelthebern
November 3, 2022 5:53 pm

Twitter must have spent so much of shareholder money on suppression over the past 5-6 years.

calli
calli
November 3, 2022 5:54 pm

I told you I had hall monitor tendencies! 😀

Johnny Rotten
November 3, 2022 5:56 pm

Bruce of Newcastlesays:
November 3, 2022 at 5:44 pm
On the old Cat I always felt sorry for the town of Scunthorpe.

And likewise for the town of Cleethorpes…………………..Such sweet names………….lol

Winston Smith
November 3, 2022 6:01 pm

JC:

JCsays:
November 3, 2022 at 4:10 pm
Isn’t Chris Bowen Turtlehead? It sure suits him.
I swear, Wonston Smyth once put up a pic of himself with a link and the first thing that came to mind was a Caribbean Turtle.

Strange, isn’t it? That -IIRC – was when JC first started to get stuck into me with the hate stuff.
Is that it JC?
A bit light on top?
Is that why you try to put shit on me every time I post? It reminds you I’ve a full head of hair and you haven’t?

rosie
rosie
November 3, 2022 6:01 pm

Thanks Dover.
I’m not going to be a whipping person every time someone makes a completely unsubstantiated claim regarding a vaccine related death.

It’s an excuse, not a reason.

amortiser
amortiser
November 3, 2022 6:02 pm

The embarrassment to Labor became such that they sold John Curtin House. The political embarrassment went away, but the cost to the taxpayer didn’t. I wonder if ANAO is still there, and what any lease re-negotiated at the end of the initial term looked like?

The Audit Office has moved a bit further up the street. It had to vacate its former premises as the building became unsafe. It is going to be demolished if it has not already been.

Johnny Rotten
November 3, 2022 6:03 pm

callisays:
November 3, 2022 at 5:43 pm
Dover ain’t Solomon, guys.

Learn self control.

Well, tell JC (Jerky Crunt) that and that St Ruth and Head Case and Montypox Virus and Mrs Stencho Pantyhose loads of others then. I like to say Fuck Off but I calm down and just say Fark Orf……………….lol

Top Ender
Top Ender
November 3, 2022 6:03 pm

That’s nothing – imagine living in Cockfosters or Brown Willy in the UK.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
November 3, 2022 6:05 pm

Be fair. JC has been quite good so far today. He has asked fair questions and made adult comments.

So he can do it when he tries.

Boambee John
Boambee John
November 3, 2022 6:09 pm

amortisersays:
November 3, 2022 at 6:02 pm
The embarrassment to Labor became such that they sold John Curtin House. The political embarrassment went away, but the cost to the taxpayer didn’t. I wonder if ANAO is still there, and what any lease re-negotiated at the end of the initial term looked like?

The Audit Office has moved a bit further up the street. It had to vacate its former premises as the building became unsafe. It is going to be demolished if it has not already been.

Hmmm. The monitors of Australian government departments’ expenditure paid over the top rental for a jerry built building, owned by the party in power in Canberra, said building now due to be demolished. Move along, nothing to see here.

Johnny Rotten
November 3, 2022 6:11 pm

DrBeauGansays:
November 3, 2022 at 6:05 pm
Be fair. JC has been quite good so far today. He has asked fair questions and made adult comments.

So he can do it when he tries.

You are way too kind. The Bloke is a Tosser and a Pompous Windbag. Well, that’s what his Wife told me in the Pub……………………….lol

JC
JC
November 3, 2022 6:14 pm

That’s why he uses them – to create confusion and give plausible deniability.

Really Turtlehead. I’m attempting to create confusion and give myself deniability by renaming you turtlehead?
You’re as good at mindreading as you are “fabulizing” a Chinese invasion and stacking up on iodine.

Winston Smith
November 3, 2022 6:19 pm

HBBear:

Actually I got busted by the customs beagle who realised I had been using my briefcase as a lunchbox for a couple of weeks while we in Melbournibad.

The Child Bride caused a bit of a ruckus about ten years ago when she had a bag of some really popular caramel popcorn in her carry on baggage.
The way she told the story (and she’d never lie, no way) the beagle thingy leaned on her bag, looked up at her with sad and imploring eyes and nearly howled when the boss dragged it on to the next case in line…

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
November 3, 2022 6:22 pm

minsays:
November 3, 2022 at 7:01 am

I remember the Dan incident and was just as suspicious. Wouldn’t be surprised in the least if there was a Belinda Neal Iguanas moment there.

However where I had a whoa moment is when the Mayor of Townsville (A long time member of the ALP, apparently installed and gifted preselection a couple of times by the AWU faction) killed a motorcyclist in a traffic accident. Deja vu with Dan include irregularities in the investigation, no breath test, no blood tests etc but at least charges were laid. This time strong rumour is someone in the Police Ministers office was calling the district inspectors office shortly after the incident. The court bent over backwards to her lawyers demands and at best everyone thought she would get off but with lesser driving charges. What I am told was the amount of raised eyebrows even among silks up here was the acquittal on all charges. Young deceased guys family can’t sue. Hmm. However the point is how often does this happen when politicians are involved. Bet you it isn’t as uncommon as we’d like to think.

As for the poor kid from WA who was beaten to death. This will happen more unfortunately with bints like Stanley stirring the pot. I mentioned we needed leadership to calm this down last weekend, we’ve seen precious little of this, this week a parade of race baiting grifters have been throwing petrol on a fire. Now Stanley should know better with her background so either she is stupid or wilfully blind when in the communities, I’ll wager the latter. For context we have had a week where two suburbs on the northern beaches of Townsville have had repeated break ins/car thefts by said dysfunctional turds who know the judges won’t touch them. I have had a number of nights this week waking up to check the house when local dogs are barking at someone (distinct note to barking at the air).

H B Bear
H B Bear
November 3, 2022 6:23 pm

How very conservative of you.

I don’t think you get it.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
November 3, 2022 6:25 pm

Sneakers is a grub.

Western Australia didn’t ‘sell off’ electricity assets like NSW: Mark McGowan (3 Nov)

Western Australia Premier Mark McGowan says since his state didn’t “sell off” electricity assets the government can help families with cost of living relief.

He said Western Australia is in a “far better position than the eastern states” on gas.

“In New South Wales they sell their electricity assets, it was all meant to mean there wouldn’t be any debt,” Mr McGowan told Sky News Australia.

NSW Labor sold off the electricity sector, not the Libs that he’s smearing with this piece of hypocrisy on stilts.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Winston Smith says: November 3, 2022 at 5:45 pm

Using real names would save a helluva lot of confusion.

That’s why he uses them – to create confusion and give plausible deniability.

More likely to be emotional immaturity. (Based upon the lived experience of seeing the creature verbally ejaculate in real time, on this blog)

Johnny Rotten
November 3, 2022 6:33 pm

Once upon a time there was a king who wanted to go fishing.

He called the royal weather forecaster and enquired as to the weather forecast for the next few hours. The weatherman assured him that there was no chance of rain in the coming days.

So, the king went fishing with his wife, the queen. On the way he met a farmer on his donkey.

Upon seeing the king the farmer said “Your Majesty, you should return to the palace at once because in just a short time I expect a huge amount of rain to fall in this area”.

The king was polite and considerate, he replied “I hold the palace meteorologist in high regard. He is an extensively educated and experienced professional. And besides, I pay him very high wages. He gave me a very different forecast. I trust him and I will continue on my way”.

So, he continued on his way. However, a short time later a torrential rain fell from the sky. The King and Queen were totally soaked and their entourage chuckled upon seeing them in such a shameful condition. Furious, the king returned to the palace and gave the order to fire the weatherman at once!

Then he summoned the farmer and offered him the prestigious and high paying role of royal forecaster.

The farmer said “Your Majesty, I do not know anything about forecasting. I obtain my information from my donkey. If I see my donkey’s ears drooping, it means with certainty that it will rain”.

So the king hired the donkey.

And so began the practice of hiring asses to work in the government and occupy its highest and most influential positions.

Johnny Rotten
November 3, 2022 6:34 pm

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

– Albert Einstein

Indolent
Indolent
November 3, 2022 6:35 pm
Indolent
Indolent
November 3, 2022 6:36 pm

Do you get the feeling that they’re confident they know WHAT the result will be?

BREAKING: White House declares GOP are ‘not going to accept’ election results

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
November 3, 2022 6:36 pm

Elon has a new nickname: Zorg.

Elon Musk To Fire Half Of Twitter On Friday (3 Nov)

Taking a page out of Thanos’ playbook (or is that Zorg), in two days Elon Musk will finally do what he has repeatedly warned he would do: unleash mass layoffs at the company he just acquired.

According to Bloomberg, the world’s richest man will eliminate 3,700 jobs at Twitter – roughly half of the company’s entire workforce – in a bid to drive down costs following his $44 billion acquisition; Musk will inform affected staffers Friday, said the Bloomberg sources. Oh, and all those masked snowflakes who previously raged against the previous management’s “draconian” demand to come back to the office, you’re out of luck too: Musk intends to reverse the company’s existing work-from-anywhere policy asking what few employees remain to report to offices.

The wailing is going to be quite entertaining. Cue the “what’s best in life?” memes.

Zipster
November 3, 2022 6:37 pm

Canadian doctors encouraged to tell patients about medically assisted death

soylent green!

H B Bear
H B Bear
November 3, 2022 6:39 pm

NSW Labor sold off the electricity sector, not the Libs that he’s smearing with this piece of hypocrisy on stilts.

Sneakers just engaging in a bit of East Coast bashing which always goes down a treat. In reality WA taxpayers are holding billions of dollars in assets which are going to zero.

Ed Case
Ed Case
November 3, 2022 6:40 pm

As for the poor kid from WA who was beaten to death.
There’s been a few photos of him in the papers.
He wasn’t a “poor kid”, he appears to have been about 6’3″ and 16 stone. This will happen more unfortunately with bints like Stanley stirring the pot.
You’re promoting a NewsCorp narrative now.
Being part aboriginal is unlikely to be the reason he was belted with a shopping trolley handle.
You blokes [CornHolio is another one] are desperate to find an aboriginal Emmitt Till to beat Australians over the head with for the next 70 years, but this ain’t it.
You could look up John Pat, though?

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
November 3, 2022 6:42 pm

How very conservative of you.

Big man.

Swears at old women from the comfort of the internet, once again confusing free speech with decorum and basic manners.

Yet another chest-beater who refused to put his cash where his trap is. No better than all the fainting couch enthusiasts who swore to move overseas if the government changed, then suddenly didn’t move overseas, and who forgot to close their rice holes after backing down hoping it would be forgotten.

Yap yap yap yap.

Delta A
Delta A
November 3, 2022 6:42 pm

I told you I had hall monitor tendencies!

I was the one being dobbed on by hall monitors.

calli
calli
November 3, 2022 6:45 pm

Well, tell JC (Jerky Crunt) that and that St Ruth and Head Case and Montypox Virus and Mrs Stencho Pantyhose loads of others then.

I thought I just did. The comment was general, not particular.

And why would calling people stupid names convince me to pick them out especially? It tends to have the opposite effect.

Also, I’m not that influential. You tell them.

Ed Case
Ed Case
November 3, 2022 6:45 pm

While we’re talking about The Brucester, how about getting his legal costs Pro Bono?
I wonder if the investigator who found out Higgins wasn’t wearing panties
went pro bono?
Or Brucey’s previous Legal reps, were they Pro Bono too?:

Zipster
November 3, 2022 6:45 pm

its november and I have to turn the bloody heating on

cohenite
November 3, 2022 6:46 pm

The pervert biden’s latest speech lays the ground for electoral fraud; he speaks about how people should expect delays in posting the results of the mid terms as part of orderly counting and as a feature of democracy. The fix is on and massive fraud will give the mid terms to the demorats.

Indolent
Indolent
November 3, 2022 6:46 pm
Ed Case
Ed Case
November 3, 2022 6:49 pm

Mrs Stencho Pantyhose
That’s genuinely funny, Rotten
but
fuck off
anyway.

bespoke
bespoke
November 3, 2022 6:51 pm

Why did the toilet roll roll down the hill?
It wanted to reach the bottom.

HT: 4 year girl

Why didn’t the toilet roll reach the bottom?
It fell into a crack.

HT: same 4 year old girl.

Winston Smith
November 3, 2022 6:51 pm

Cassie:

I also think progressives really began to think of Twitter as their own personal fiefdom, that they owned it, and if nothing else the Musk takeover has shattered that delusion.

I’ve mentioned that odd behaviour of millenials (Currently 20 – 40 year olds? Please correct me if wrong.) some of whom seem to believe that as soon as they are employed by an organisation that they own and can set policy for the workplace. I’ve no idea how this concept arises or who told them so, but it’s there and it’s inexplicable.

rosie
rosie
November 3, 2022 6:52 pm

I might be a grandmother but I’m not an old woman, I don’t think even my mother likes to be called that.

Ed Case
Ed Case
November 3, 2022 6:54 pm

In an industry of fakes and inch-deep celebrities, Tucker Carlson is authentic – one of the reasons the left hates him: he has a wife and four kids and isn’t miserable like his enemies.
Well, he isn’t a partisan hack like yourself, but his old man was career CIA and the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.

rosie
rosie
November 3, 2022 6:54 pm

Which reminds me, my two year old grandson had a visit with great grandma and grandma today, said something and corrected himself, “Not great grandma, normal grandma”.
Yep that’s me, normal grandma.

Indolent
Indolent
November 3, 2022 6:55 pm
calli
calli
November 3, 2022 6:56 pm

I’m not an old woman

I have been dividing irises today. My body now registers as 102. So watch it!

bespoke
bespoke
November 3, 2022 6:58 pm

Is senior citizen OK?
Or exceptionally aged?

Zipster
November 3, 2022 6:58 pm

Catch up on the Actuaries Institute’s COVID-19 Mortality Working Group’s latest analysis of excess deaths.
Total excess mortality for the month of July 2022 is estimated at 16% (+2,600 deaths), relative to expected mortality at pre-pandemic levels.

Total excess mortality for the first seven months of 2022 is 14% (+13,700 deaths).

Around half of the excess mortality for the first seven months of 2022 is due to COVID-19 (+7,100 deaths) with remaining excess of +6,600 due to the remaining causes.

October 2022 has the lowest COVID-19 surveillance deaths of any month in 2022.

We estimate that COVID-19 deaths will result in excess mortality of around 6% (+2,800) for August to October 2022, with overall excess mortality likely to be higher than this.

We continue to expect that COVID-19 will be the third leading cause of death in Australia in 2022.

cohenite
November 3, 2022 6:58 pm

Well, he isn’t a partisan hack like yourself, but his old man was career CIA and the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.

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

Dot
Dot
November 3, 2022 7:01 pm

Zipstersays:
November 3, 2022 at 6:45 pm
its november and I have to turn the bloody heating on

LOL

It was a one dog night last night. Could have used at least one more.

Zipster
November 3, 2022 7:02 pm

Catch up on the Actuaries Institute’s COVID-19 Mortality Working Group’s latest analysis of excess deaths.

they were releasing these monthly until july then they stopped… why?

Zipster
November 3, 2022 7:03 pm

Well, he isn’t a partisan hack like yourself, but his old man was career CIA and the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.

and what are you?

m0nty
November 3, 2022 7:03 pm

Bruce, Kash Patel is one of custard’s heroes, a glorious revolutionary warrior for the resistance. Poor old custard, he must be crying in his porridge. If not his custard.

Zipster
November 3, 2022 7:05 pm

I’ve mentioned that odd behaviour of millenials (Currently 20 – 40 year olds? Please correct me if wrong.) some of whom seem to believe that as soon as they are employed by an organisation that they own and can set policy for the workplace. I’ve no idea how this concept arises or who told them so, but it’s there and it’s inexplicable.

what happens when you outsource education to the state

Dot
Dot
November 3, 2022 7:06 pm

His 100k tests a day challenge worked. He got the need to go early and go big on vaccines. He faced down the ‘lockdown sceptic’ view that actually led to longer lockdown

You meant the two weeks to flatten the curve that was about two years, if we did a year, it would have been a month?

Utterly incredulous. Who is wedded to the authoritarian narrative so much they are even shunning the “COVID amnesty” meme now?

cohenite
November 3, 2022 7:06 pm

Kash Patel is one of custard’s heroes, a glorious revolutionary warrior for the resistance.

What’s wrong with Kash dickless?

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
November 3, 2022 7:11 pm

Ed you are being a pest again and speaking in tongues.

Winston Smith
November 3, 2022 7:13 pm

Doc Beaugan:
November 3, 2022 at 6:05 pm

Be fair. JC has been quite good so far today. He has asked fair questions and made adult comments.
So he can do it when he tries.

Yes he can, but these are aberrations, not routine acts of good manners. And he’s probably just realised that he lifted the curtain on his manipulative behaviour with SP overnight and this morning.
He needs a lot of Brasso to get that halo shining again.
(You will need to go to the dueling thread where most of his comments were sent – he didn’t put them there himself.)

rosie
rosie
November 3, 2022 7:15 pm

Your irises must be doing very nicely Calli.
I love them.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
November 3, 2022 7:17 pm

As for the poor kid from WA who was beaten to death. This will happen more unfortunately with bints like Stanley stirring the pot. I mentioned we needed leadership to calm this down last weekend, we’ve seen precious little of this, this week a parade of race baiting grifters have been throwing petrol on a fire

Lidia Thorpe for one.

Next time an Aboriginal woman is murdered by another Aboriginal in an outback community, do we witness a similar parade of grief?

JC
JC
November 3, 2022 7:24 pm

Zipster says:
November 3, 2022 at 7:05 pm

what happens when you outsource education to the state

Zip,These days, private schools are as woke as the state systems. My kids were at NYC private schools in the freaking 90s and they were as woke then as the wokest in the present day with the exception of shoveling Critical Race Theory down their throats. Not because they didn’t want to, but because they hadn’t thought of it then. One of my kids had a teacher who told the kids he was a “recovering racist” and the reason why he decided to live in black Harlem. How racist is that? 🙂

Stephen Williams
Stephen Williams
November 3, 2022 7:25 pm

“Winston Smith says: November 3, 2022 at 5:45 pm

Using real names would save a helluva lot of confusion.’

Sounds fair enough, so I’m switching to my real name – Stephen Williams, most call me Steve but Mum always calls me Stephen, I really don’t care what I’m called. I’ll possibly be doxxed or have shit hung on me by my intellectual superiors here, but fuck them!

H B Bear
H B Bear
November 3, 2022 7:28 pm

I think Winston Smith might not be his real name. Just a hunch.

Winston Smith
November 3, 2022 7:29 pm

Salvatore:

More likely to be emotional immaturity. (Based upon the lived experience of seeing the creature verbally ejaculate in real time, on this blog)

Ewww.
DB please ban Salvatore for that mind picture.
Double ewww!

calli
calli
November 3, 2022 7:30 pm

Lol! I thought you were an abbreviation of “Safe For Work”!

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

so I’m switching to my real name – Stephen Williams

Er… what are you switching from?
If we’ve known you for years as Custard or Ed Case or Rosie or somesuch, it’ll be somewhat difficult to get used to this new name.

Btw, remember when about 7 people on the Cat were various iterations of “Stephen” & to avoid confusion they switched to other names?

JC
JC
November 3, 2022 7:33 pm

Stephen who were you before?

Also, please don’t take us for mugs. The idea that anyone could be doxxed out of the blue with a name like Stephen Williams is quite comical. What, there would be 70 million Steve Williams’ in a population of 26 million Australians? Please.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
November 3, 2022 7:33 pm

but the alacrity with which some people use foul language is changing my mind.

“Use of obscenity is the hallmark of one who is incapable of intelligent self expression. ”

Guess who had to write that out, two hundred times, at school? Strange what sticks in the mind over fifty years later?

sfw
sfw
November 3, 2022 7:34 pm

Sorry Calli, my real initials. I don’t care if Winston and everyone else likes an alias, that’s fine. I’m happy to be who I am, relatively almost unknown and just love my country and family and despise our major parties for their destruction of Aussie culture and society and loading us with debt at the same time.

Stephen Williams
Stephen Williams
November 3, 2022 7:35 pm

Obviously none of you ever look at the avatar pics.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Obviously none of you ever look at the avatar pics.

We’re all intellectuals. We don’t need pictures.
We can read.

JC
JC
November 3, 2022 7:36 pm

Oh it’s you sfw. Stick with sfw as it’s easier to write. Seriously, it’s no real biggie.

Ed Case
Ed Case
November 3, 2022 7:37 pm

Stephen Williams, eh?
Sounds like a made up name.

JC
JC
November 3, 2022 7:38 pm

Stephen Williams says:
November 3, 2022 at 7:35 pm

Obviously none of you ever look at the avatar pics.

I went up the screen for a few scrolls and then gave up. Stick with sfw as it’s easier. Capitalize too.

bespoke
bespoke
November 3, 2022 7:41 pm

I’m happy to be who I am, relatively almost unknown and just love my country and family and despise our major parties for their destruction of Aussie culture and society and loading us with debt at the same time.

Ya not alone, sfw.

JC
JC
November 3, 2022 7:41 pm

What do you think happens with the cheating, Dover? What’s your punt?

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
November 3, 2022 7:42 pm

ZKTA

Much as I hate to say I expected nothing less from Thorpe.

As for Cassias, sad but worn path of wrong place at wrong time. The blokes who did this were too stupid to realise the ones doing the B&E/Burgs generally don’t bother attending school and certainly aren’t overweight. Generally they are very skinny 10-15 yo and very fast/agile. I scared some off a neighbours house about 10 years ago, they were off like a rocket and over a 6ft fence like lightning. I was fit but there was no chance I’d catch them if I tried. Anyone I know who has caught them in their house at night says same, very quick when startled.

Seems the family’s calls for the violence to end has taken a back seat now too. Pity, more of this is needed.

H B Bear
H B Bear
November 3, 2022 7:45 pm

mUnty is still out trick or treating for Muellerween.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Anyone I know who has caught them in their house at night says same, very quick when startled.

Not as quick as Zeus & Apollo, or Captain & Romulus before them, or Ceaser & Butcher before them, or….. etc. (dogs only have a working life of Six years or so)

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
November 3, 2022 7:50 pm

Lord and lady Macbeth in more trouble as a woman who was right behind the accident at Blairgowrie breaks her silence.

She doesn’t remember the Andrews or his wife helping much with an obviously injured teen. Andrews drive his kids home and wasn’t on his hands and knees attending to the kid like this woman.

Practised compassion is not a known trait amongst socialist progressives.

Ed Case
Ed Case
November 3, 2022 7:53 pm

As for Cassias, sad but worn path of wrong place at wrong time. The blokes who did this were too stupid to realise the ones doing the B&E/Burgs generally don’t bother attending school and certainly aren’t overweight.
Uh huh.
Doubling down, eh?
The name is Cassius, after Cassius Clay, Jr., Light Heavyweight Gold Medalist at the 1960 Olympics, and known after 26/9/1964 as Muhammad Ali.
Why anyone would name a baby Cassius beats me, but here’s a guess:
Being handy with your fists runs in the family and this bloke was no exception.
Like I said, Rockdoctor, you ain’t finding your aboriginal Emmitt Till here.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
November 3, 2022 7:54 pm

Not as quick as Zeus & Apollo, or Captain & Romulus before them,”

One of the wheat growers I know handed over the farm to his sons, and retired to town. The local indigenous kids were quite a nuisance until Simba and Satan took up residence…

Winston Smith
November 3, 2022 7:55 pm

HBBear:

I think Winston Smith might not be his real name. Just a hunch.

On my police/ASIO records, it’s listed as an official Alias.
Or so I’m told.

H B Bear
H B Bear
November 3, 2022 7:55 pm

Whoever does the court lists will have some explaining to do.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
November 3, 2022 7:57 pm

LOL Salvatore,

They have a new tactic up this way as nearly every house has large male unneutered dogs. They go through the front screen doors, pair of vice grips to bust the door handle and viola in. They don’t give s$#@ the dogs in the yard are going nuts just s long no one wakes up while they snatch the keys. Don’t seem to care every second house now has CCTV either.

At the first sign of trouble they are gone. House in my street got hit 2 nights ago but they skedaddled before getting anything. Next street over not so lucky for one resident. They got a car. Apparently another 9 residences close got hit that night as well.

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
November 3, 2022 7:58 pm

From Daily Mail article about Kerry Chant and latest Covid beat up.

“There are 25 people in intensive care nationwide with Covid – while there are almost five times that number in ICU due to influenza”.

Oops !

Winston Smith
November 3, 2022 7:59 pm

sfw:

. I don’t care if Winston and everyone else likes an alias, that’s fine.

No problems from me. I did change back to my real name years ago but multiple posters on OldCat got the shits with me for complicating things… So you’re stuck with WS even if I would like to use my real name.
🙂

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
November 3, 2022 8:00 pm

Ed again if I wanted to hear from the proverbial I would have broken wind. Go away.

Now go regurgitate some names to show us allegedly how smart you are.

Ed Case
Ed Case
November 3, 2022 8:03 pm

You wanna give the Australians are racists Narrative a rest?
It doesn’t look like it.

Indolent
Indolent
November 3, 2022 8:05 pm
JC
JC
November 3, 2022 8:07 pm

Huh, Gorbachev was Ukrainian origin.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Rockdoctor: There value in an anti-burglar mastiff is only if they are inside the house.
It may take a while, but that’s the only thing that will prevent (or at least slow down) the incursions.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
November 3, 2022 8:15 pm

She doesn’t remember the Andrews or his wife helping much with an obviously injured teen. Andrews drive his kids home and wasn’t on his hands and knees attending to the kid like this woman.

They were practicing the politicians’ mantra:

‘How does this affect me?’

m0nty
November 3, 2022 8:16 pm

On my police/ASIO records

Ooooooh, look at Winston the big man.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
November 3, 2022 8:18 pm

my police/ASIO records

Yeah righto.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Ooooooh, look at Winston the big man.

It would seem M0nty doesn’t have a Special Branch file on him, coz isn’t considered capable of being a threat to “the man”

How beta.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
November 3, 2022 8:19 pm

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupiditysays:
November 3, 2022 at 8:08 pm

Indeed but I am from a generation where dogs live outside. Only thing that stops them apparently is a deadbolt which I have, they haven’t worked out how to get round that yet so move to the next house.

I think another thing too is air con, I choose not to use it unless we are in the depths of the monsoon with min temps of 28 deg and 90% humid but even then with the door open. Most up this way sleep with the air con going and door closed, they would likely sleep through any B&E if they were quiet. The other night when all the shenanigans were on was very humid for October.

feelthebern
feelthebern
November 3, 2022 8:20 pm

The Hoover Institute has spent the last month beclowning itself on a range of issues.
They really all live in a bubble.

JC
JC
November 3, 2022 8:21 pm

It’s not your concern Driller. You’re 90% the cause of stoushing here because you’re always stoush trolling – particularly in the evenings when you’re drunk. STFU and mind your own business. Go wash the filthy sheets in the trough.

Ed Case
Ed Case
November 3, 2022 8:23 pm

On my police/ASIO records
Was that your Employment Record, Winston?

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

STFU and mind your own business.

Heed thine own advice.
Your comment is stupid.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Rockdoctor says: November 3, 2022 at 8:19 pm
Indeed but I am from a generation where dogs live outside. Only thing that stops them apparently is a deadbolt which I have, they haven’t worked out how to get round that yet so move to the next house.

I think another thing too is air con, I choose not to use it …. Most up this way sleep with the air con going and door closed, they would likely sleep through any B&E if they were quiet.

Agree & totally understand it all.

I’ve had the experience of the little rats gaining entry something like 10 days in a row (i.e. consecutive nights) After that learning experience, serious mastiff horsepower is let inside when the lights go out.

& I’m from a generation that didn’t even allow dogs inside the houseyard. You can imagine the niggling feeling I get at bringing a couple of man-eaters inside at night.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
November 3, 2022 8:31 pm

xMuch as I hate to say I expected nothing less from Thorpe.

The “Stolen Generations ” card has just been played.

JC
JC
November 3, 2022 8:31 pm

There’s the supreme court case currently before the SCOTUS about racial profiling for college application.

Listen to justice Alito go after the colleges with questions.

Alito always go after Pocahontas Warren

feelthebern
feelthebern
November 3, 2022 8:35 pm

Sotomayor has embarrassed herself again during the arguments.

Zipster
November 3, 2022 8:36 pm

“Use of obscenity is the hallmark of one who is incapable of intelligent self expression. ”

fuck that

Zipster
November 3, 2022 8:37 pm

Sotomayor has embarrassed herself again during the arguments.

yeah but she has the right qualification, poc with a vagina

Dot
Dot
November 3, 2022 8:37 pm

The Hoover Institute has spent the last month beclowning itself on a range of issues.

I would like to know more.

feelthebern
feelthebern
November 3, 2022 8:38 pm

Colleges want 100% discretion to construct the classes they deem worthy.
They should be open & honest about it.
Meaning they don’t want the best academically gifted students.

H B Bear
H B Bear
November 3, 2022 8:39 pm

The “Stolen Generations ” card has just been played.

Currently the right Bower. Or the “Get of gaol free card” if you prefer.

MatrixTransform
November 3, 2022 8:40 pm

The game plan had zero to do with keeping cars affordable to the poor embattled consumer. Please . Enough.The game plan had zero to do with keeping cars affordable to the poor embattled consumer. Please . Enough.

and only yesterday didn’t you say that price decides …

lithium wasn’t it?

feelthebern
feelthebern
November 3, 2022 8:41 pm

Dot, check out their YouTube channel.
I’ve listened to two of their election episodes (there are 6).
It’s pure fantasy.

m0nty
November 3, 2022 8:41 pm

It would seem M0nty doesn’t have a Special Branch file on him, coz isn’t considered capable of being a threat to “the man”

Special Branch lol, you watch too much British TV Sally.

Given I was a co-editor of a student union rag at RMIT on a platform with a collective of communists and anarchists in the 90s, I probably have some short entry in a file somewhere. Plus I have been accused of being a hacker in my later days, albeit erroneously. If they have looked at my file in the last 25 years I would be surprised.

rosie
rosie
November 3, 2022 8:44 pm
Dot
Dot
November 3, 2022 8:46 pm

“Saliency of Election Denial”

That’s all I need to know. I saw the ballots delivered and the totally unnatural trajectory of Biden’s “votes” myself pretty much live on TV. All “81 million” of them!

H B Bear
H B Bear
November 3, 2022 8:47 pm

Tonight on The Young Ones the part of Rick will be played by mUnty.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
November 3, 2022 8:50 pm

Given I was a co-editor of a student union rag at RMIT

Haha, knew it. A Honi Soit drone. Those rags were detested even when I was at uni, since we knew we had to pay for the wretched things though the fees we were forced to pay. Which was hard since I was poor.

Always fighting for poor proles by making them even poorer. So typical of the Left.

Indolent
Indolent
November 3, 2022 8:52 pm
Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Special Branch lol, you watch too much British TV

Special Branch, under Sir Johannes Bjelke-Petersen in Qld is not recognised by M0nty.

Handy to know. All those whining about Joh keeping tabs on them can now just stfu, coz M0nty says it is a figment of UKTV.

feelthebern
feelthebern
November 3, 2022 8:54 pm

Poland building three nuclear power plants at 20bill a pop.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Winston was correct. It cracked only 68 minutes after he posted that it was an aberration. The pressure cooker had built up too much steam trying to hold it in.

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
November 3, 2022 8:55 pm

Reminder for those interested that Graham Hood on Rowan Dean tonight.

feelthebern
feelthebern
November 3, 2022 8:55 pm

Sunak reintroducing the “on-line safety bill”.

JC
JC
November 3, 2022 8:57 pm

MatrixTransform says:
November 3, 2022 at 8:40 pm

The game plan had zero to do with keeping cars affordable to the poor embattled consumer. Please . Enough.The game plan had zero to do with keeping cars affordable to the poor embattled consumer. Please . Enough.

and only yesterday didn’t you say that price decides …

lithium wasn’t it?

Mergatroid, I don’t know how I can untangle this for you.

Old SC argued that the Australian government has always tried to make cars affordable. I argued that it wasn’t true.

How the fuck did you tangle up this discussion with the lithium one? Price is very much important.
You really are an idiot. Not just an ordinary idiot, but a full blown retard. Go away please.

H B Bear
H B Bear
November 3, 2022 8:59 pm

Haha, knew it. A Honi Soit drone

Ah yes. Guild bludgers on compulsory student guild fees. I despised them but couldn’t be bothered going through the conscientious objector rigmarole. So the anarchists weren’t much help on the Econs 101 tutes? Figures.

Boambee John
Boambee John
November 3, 2022 9:00 pm

Zipstersays:
November 3, 2022 at 7:03 pm
Well, he isn’t a partisan hack like yourself, but his old man was career CIA and the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.

and what are you?

Richard Cranium dreams of being a spook, in reality he is probably a flamer.

Zipster
November 3, 2022 9:01 pm

Why is NO ONE stopping this? NATO readies MASSIVE attack, Putin sounds alarm | Redacted
American troops are in fact on the ground in Ukraine, according to several U.S. media reports. A Pentagon official says that U.S. troops are “monitoring NATO arms deliveries.” That’s a fairly vague description of what we were assured would not happen. We talk about this major mission creep with Col. Douglas MacGregor.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
November 3, 2022 9:01 pm

Back copy of the “Brisbane Times”

Civil libertarians and activists are scathing of the Special Branch’s role in the 1970s and 1980s as Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen’s conservative government tried to stop street marches and quell dissent.

Lawyer Terry O’Gorman says the Special Branch was a “thoroughly insidious organisation” that kept files on some students who never committed any violence, hindering their public sector job prospects.

“The Special Branch was used in an overt political manner by the Bjelke-Petersen government,” O’Gorman says.

“It was not a police unit that in fact looked at the prospect of political violence; rather it was used to ruin the careers of young students who did nothing worse than protest against many of the policies of the then Bjelke-Petersen government.”

Aboriginal socialist activist Sam Watson says he helped establish indigenous community organisations and political parties in the late 1960s and the 1970s, prompting monitoring by the Special Branch.

“They raided our place every couple of weeks,” Watson says.

“In 1970, we were running a very active anti-Vietnam campaign with regular rallies and marches and protest meetings; the Special Branch were always there in the background.”

Watson says officers tried to infiltrate some of the leadership groups.

“There were clandestine officers dressed in hippy gear,” he recalls.

H B Bear
H B Bear
November 3, 2022 9:02 pm

No surprise Frank Kelly’s only other job was a guild bludger before a six figure job at the hive.

rosie
rosie
November 3, 2022 9:02 pm
Boambee John
Boambee John
November 3, 2022 9:04 pm

Stephen Williamssays:
November 3, 2022 at 7:25 pm
“Winston Smith says: November 3, 2022 at 5:45 pm

Using real names would save a helluva lot of confusion.’

Sounds fair enough, so I’m switching to my real name – Stephen Williams, most call me Steve but Mum always calls me Stephen, I really don’t care what I’m called.

To avoid confusion at the switch-over, what was your previous screen name?

MatrixTransform
November 3, 2022 9:05 pm

How the fuck did you tangle up this discussion with the lithium one?

what do subsidies do to price?

do you need to hire a digger

or will you continue using your own mouth?

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
November 3, 2022 9:06 pm

Sunak reintroducing the “on-line safety bill”.

Yah, you can see why the members voted for an ex-LibDem over him when they were given a Hobson’s choice. And why the elites in control were so keen not to give the members even that much of a choice after they pulled off their coup.

Bye, Tories. Your WEF elites have killed you. The next election is going to be brutal, but I know you don’t care since you are Labourites in sheep’s clothing anyway.

Rishi Sunak Caves In: Flying to COP27 Climate Talks After All (2 Nov)
WEF-linked Sunak Planning ‘Years’ of Tax Hikes in Big Government Push (2 Nov)
Sunak Backtracks on Plans to Cut Woke Deep State Civil Service Despite Cost of Living Crisis (2 Nov)

cohenite
November 3, 2022 9:08 pm

Given I was a co-editor of a student union rag at RMIT

Bullshit; RMIT has a no dick, no entry policy.

Bear Necessities
Bear Necessities
November 3, 2022 9:10 pm

Tonight on The Young Ones the part of Rick will be played by mUnty.

It is actually spelt ‘Prick’ but the P is silent.

JC
JC
November 3, 2022 9:16 pm

what do subsidies do to price?

do you need to hire a digger

or will you continue using your own mouth?

Jeez lord.. Domestic car production was hugely expensive and the government subsided the carmarkers to make up for some of the inefficiency. In addition, there were import quotas and tariffs on imports in order to try to equalize the price of domestically produced cars vs imports. There was never any attempt to make cars cheaper for consumers. The objective was to hold onto a domestic car industry first and foremost.

Subsidizing an inefficient industry and imposing choke points on imports through tariffs is NOT an attempt to make cars affordable.

Stop thinking as it’s upsetting to see you in such pain. Enuff.

Razey
Razey
November 3, 2022 9:16 pm

DEATH BY VAX: Excess mortality up 17% among the fully vaccinated

https://www.naturalnews.com/2022-11-02-excess-mortality-up-17-percent-fully-vaccinated.html#

Suck it up Vaxtards.

Boambee John
Boambee John
November 3, 2022 9:17 pm

Farmer Gez

Practised compassion is not a known trait amongst socialist progressives.

As witness m0nty-fa’s reactions to the attacks on Tony Abbott and Andrew Bolt, the attack on Rand Paul causing GBH, and the shooting of Steve Scalise, who almost died.

Yet only a few days after he was gloating on the severe health problems suffered by another conservative, he appeared on the Sinc Cat, trolling for sympathy over his kidney stones. He didn’t get much.

JC
JC
November 3, 2022 9:18 pm

whoops
Subsidizing an inefficient industry and imposing choke points on imports through tariffs and quotas is NOT an attempt to make cars affordable.

MatrixTransform
November 3, 2022 9:19 pm

jokes for the steam-shovel

Zipster
November 3, 2022 9:21 pm

SpaceX Falcon Heavy launches classified Space Force satellites, nails landings

the landing at 8:00 from 1300kph to zero in about 10 seconds. unbelievable

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
November 3, 2022 9:21 pm

Suck it up Vaxtards.

Yip yip yip.

‘I’m off to Japan’

Yip yip yip.

‘No I’m not’

Boambee John
Boambee John
November 3, 2022 9:22 pm

dover0beachsays:
November 3, 2022 at 8:30 pm
What do you think happens with the cheating, Dover? What’s your punt?

Hard to engineer result in individual races apart from Presidential.

The senate is similar to the presidency, with only one race in each state. Could the same techniques be used there?

Dot
Dot
November 3, 2022 9:22 pm

Advice for a family member please.

Anyone know of a beginner’s guide to value/income investing that isn’t too dry or awkwardly self deprecating?

Hardcopy, paperback preferred.

JC
JC
November 3, 2022 9:25 pm

Dot

Peter Lynch, it’s old but a goody from what was said about the book in the 90s.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
November 3, 2022 9:26 pm

On This Day:

1954 – The first film featuring the giant monster known as Godzilla was released nationwide in Japan.

Dot
Dot
November 3, 2022 9:26 pm

Suck it up Vaxtards.

No I cannot abide by this, it is ridiculous.

You’re like a Jew who left Germany early, who would have been after a while laughing at murdered Jews and calling them Nazis.

Your anger is understandable, but you are destroying any support you ought to have.

Mater
November 3, 2022 9:28 pm

Given I was a co-editor of a student union rag at RMIT on a platform with a collective of communists and anarchists in the 90s, I probably have some short entry in a file somewhere.

Sorry Monty, just checked.
Nothing in any of the files of the State Security apparatus. Don’t feel bad, they were well practiced at recognising true threats and discerning them from bratish attention seekers. They abhorred wasting pixels or paper on the later.

However, something did pop from the Weight Watchers archives:

“Did Not Finish.”

Does that ring a bell?

Dot
Dot
November 3, 2022 9:29 pm

This

This item: Learn to Earn: A Beginner’s Guide to the Basics of Investing and Business
$20.32

+
One Up On Wall Street How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In The Market
$17.24

+
Beating the Street
$23.09

I’ll take them all.

Boambee John
Boambee John
November 3, 2022 9:29 pm

Boambee Johnsays:
November 3, 2022 at 9:04 pm
Stephen Williamssays:
November 3, 2022 at 7:25 pm
“Winston Smith says: November 3, 2022 at 5:45 pm

Using real names would save a helluva lot of confusion.’

Sounds fair enough, so I’m switching to my real name – Stephen Williams, most call me Steve but Mum always calls me Stephen, I really don’t care what I’m called.

To avoid confusion at the switch-over, what was your previous screen name?

OK, I caught it on the previous page.

JC
JC
November 3, 2022 9:30 pm

And I think it was called Learn to Earn.

m0nty
November 3, 2022 9:33 pm

Honi Soit is not even the right state, lol. Catalyst is the RMIT one.

I was doing the journo course there, after transferring from Melbourne Econ. Do keep up.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
November 3, 2022 9:37 pm

after transferring from Melbourne Econ

*after failing at Melbourne Econ*

Fixed.

JC
JC
November 3, 2022 9:40 pm

Fatboy, Melbourne’s dept was Commerce not “Econ”, you fat lying idiot. Econ was Monash’s dept, which is where you failed as you once told us.

Zipster
November 3, 2022 9:41 pm

American troops are in fact on the ground in Ukraine, according to several U.S. media reports

This is a dramatic escalation and put Russia in a no win position with its original mission statement. The original Russian intent was to neutralise the Ukrainian army and liberate the donbas. By drastically inflating the ukrainian army with conscripts and flooding it with western weapons and intelligence it is no longer a short term possibility. This has left putin no choice but to raise a million man army to crush ukraine.

Wihtout western boots on the ground, Ukraine is basically now a failed state. NATO/US and russia are now in a game of nuclear chicken.

These people are all madmen and we are the ones that will pay.

Dot
Dot
November 3, 2022 9:45 pm

Thanks JC

I bought all three and they will be delivered to them.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
November 3, 2022 9:46 pm

JCsays:

November 3, 2022 at 9:40 pm

Fatboy, Melbourne’s dept was Commerce not “Econ”, you fat lying idiot. Econ was Monash’s dept, which is where you failed as you once told us.

To fail at Melbourne?
OK. No shame. Move on with life.
But to fail at Monash?
How is that even possible?

Zipster
November 3, 2022 9:46 pm

Congressman’s Aide Fired Over China Ties; Twitter Ousts China-Based Political Accounts
00:54 Congressman’s Aide Fired Over China Ties
01:57 Twitter Ousts China-Based Political Accounts
03:23 Twitter Director Allegedly Tied to China Leaves
04:20 U.S. Chipmaker Marvell to Cut China R&D Operation
06:26 Netherlands Orders Chinese Police Station Closures
07:57 U.S. to Send Six B-52 Bombers to Australia
09:34 U.S. to Pull Military Jets from Japan Amid Pushback
10:33 EU Industry Chief Issues China Warning
11:40 N. Korean Missile Lands Off S. Korean Coast
13:46 $715M Michigan Tax Money to Go to Chinese Company

Boambee John
Boambee John
November 3, 2022 9:46 pm

m0ntysays:
November 3, 2022 at 9:33 pm
Honi Soit is not even the right state, lol. Catalyst is the RMIT one.

I was doing the journo course there, after transferring from Melbourne Econ. Do keep up.

Anyone with an ounce of brains or common sense would have recognised that BoN was using his local rag’s name as a proxy for all such rubbish

PS, you spelled “j’ism course” incorrectly.

JC
JC
November 3, 2022 9:47 pm

Dot

I never read any of them, but Lynch was a huge name after writing those books and were supposed to be excellent.

Cassie of Sydney
November 3, 2022 9:50 pm

“God bless them. Never let it be said all Jews are demonrats. Hasidim will win out on demographics alone.

Thanks JC, nice to see, Zeldin is Jewish. The Orthodox and Haredim are not Demonrats. They are on the front line of out of control anti-Semitism in large US cities, they are daily being attacked and assaulted in NYC and other cities because they’re Jews….oh but I forgot, according to one here, their attackers have “legitimate grievances”.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
November 3, 2022 9:52 pm

I suppose, when you think about it, that it’s a natural progression to go from economics to journalism where you fail at both before entering fantasy football – which is pretend economics and a bit of typing.

Dot
Dot
November 3, 2022 9:56 pm

From the bio and extract:

… He ran a flagship fund and had double the rate of return than that of the market index.

His foreword is easy to read and he had a school investment club that did well. …

Good enough.

cohenite
November 3, 2022 9:59 pm

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

From the turdball times.

If Kari Lake does not win the US is done. She’s the key.

Zipster
November 3, 2022 10:24 pm

the neocon perspective

Frederick Kagan on Ukraine: Where Things Stand—and the Stakes for the Future
Conversations with Bill Kristol

JC
JC
November 3, 2022 10:25 pm

The dude is a good read on twitter.

Ethical Skeptic ?
@EthicalSkeptic
·

A reminder, 970 K have died to date as result of our solutions to the pandemic:

• 138 K overdose, accident, assault, suicide, etc.
• 391 K primarily Factor \/
• 440 K from denial of treatment

That is 76% of all pandemic excess death. Let that sink in…

Does anyone understand what Factor \/ is?

JC
JC
November 3, 2022 10:29 pm

Hard to see how you replicate 1 and 3 in individual races, possible in some, even if 2 still obtains.

Why would it be difficult when senate races are almost identical to a presidential race strictly in terms of the fact that both types of races are state based. It’s most certainly hard to replicate it for the house, but for the senate I’m not so so. Fetterhead has won in Penn just though cheating.

Barry
Barry
November 3, 2022 10:35 pm

JC says:
November 3, 2022 at 10:25 pm


• 391 K primarily Factor \/

Does anyone understand what Factor \/ is?

Factor \/ for Vaccine.

Zipster
November 3, 2022 10:35 pm

Frederick Kagan on Ukraine: Where Things Stand—and the Stakes for the Future

these people are utterly delusional

JC
JC
November 3, 2022 10:37 pm

Oh okay. It’s just a fancy way of saying vaccine then. Jeez.

Top Ender
Top Ender
November 3, 2022 10:38 pm

Well, just watched Sharpe’s Rifles, the first of the series.

Not that impressed, really. Nice work on the uniforms and firearm detail, and the light cavalry weren’t bad, but the plot and characterisation were rather feeble.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
November 3, 2022 10:39 pm

Fetterhead has won in Penn

Really?

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  1. I have all my aircons on. A few widespread blackouts – while bloody inconvenient – are a damn sight less…

  2. I don’t think your heart is in the right place that the idiots in Canberra have put us in. 🙂

  3. Well, the zap didn’t correct my AFib, so off for a pacemaker. I’m expecting to feel 200% in three hours…

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