The Mansard Roof, Edward Hopper, 1923
Is there a Ms Inman Grant in the house? Daily Telegraph: The federal government body responsible for mediating complaints by…
Open Thread – Weekend 12 Nov 2022
- The Radio Show May 2024 – The Fifties
- Open Thread – Weekend 4 May 2024
- Bumtree #5
- The beach which banned vanilla ice cream
- Bumtree #4
Beautiful. A very bright piece of Starlight in these troubling times.
“Honeycomb” Jimmie Rodgers No 1 in 1957
Dingo lives matter. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-04/wild-dogs-killing-sheep-govt-unprotection-order-lifted-vic/103789146
Hecs story at the abc. 3 billion to be wiped off. “For almost 35 years indexation has been calculated based…
(Contegration shows AGW is at least only half as bad as models make out, and there is a better way than PV solar and pinwheels).
Cointegration shows CO2 and temperature have no causal relationship, but TSI and temperature do.
But look, Rosie. I’m sure everything’s fine. You just wait for Pfizer and Moderna to put out the results of their clinical trials into the safety of their products. I’ve no doubt you’ll be reassured.
Please disperse, nothing to see here
Yeah, you nailed it cohenite.
I didn’t make any claims regarding the martial arts guy, I simply provided his known cause of death.
I don’t know if he was vaccinated or not, or how long he had had cancer before he made his statement around September 2021, so won’t jump to conclusions.
As for Heather Anderson, perhap check the discussion on the Aflw page?
My apologies for not assuming every death post vaccine regimed is vaccine caused.
Duncanm kindly pointed out a few weeks ago Australian is not experiencing excess deaths in the under 50 cohort but is in the over 50, the jury is out on cause (though covid itself accounts for approximately half of those).
I’m open minded on the subject, it is possible but not certain.
Incidentally, dot- pace the denunciations of a particularly irascible yet heavily-upticked commenter here – if I were in your position, there’s a decent chance I would have eventually been arm-twisted into getting the vaxx. And I would have gone with Novavax as the probable least worst option. Hopefully.
Don’t do that. Never tell him he’s right about anything as he invariably gets big headed and becomes totally insufferable
Well, you see…ugh..
…Rosebud.
link to the data?
I am baffled why anyone is even dying from the ccp virus, surely there are sufficient treatments out there that no one should be dying.
I have a lot of respect for Asher Tan.
Australian banks have treated CoinJar like crap whereas CoinJar have been very professional.
I hope their judicious management and early adaptation payoff greatly in the future.
Comorbidities and the straw that broke the camel’s back. Today modern medicine can people alive that 30 years they would have long been dead. The cost being the person is much closer to death from the final straw.
It would be an absolute riot if he was elected to the post. Won’t happen though.
Single women. A group I’ve had lotsa lotsa lotsa experience with in the workplace for decades.
If anyone on the Cat has had more exposure at work to single women than me, I’d love to hear their views on them.
Never would I allow them to vote.
Interesting info Rennick mentioned in clip below based on August info.
$770,000 paid out for 12 vaccine deaths and 43 injuries.
Assuming $50,000 per death that leaves an average of $3,953 per injury.
Seems a British life is worth more than an Aussie as first proven vax death there got 120,000 pounds.
Zipstersays:
November 14, 2022 at 9:06 pm
Thousands of vaccine injuries, hardly anyone compensated – Senate Estimates 9.11.22
Senator Gerard Rennick
“Concerned” eh?
What’s he worried about? That Trump will send lotsa tweets that show him & his ilk up for the time-serving trough-snouters they are?
The smell coming from the FTX scandal is incredible.
You mean how close the Demons are to FTX? But think of abortion though and how the SCOTUS made it illegal. 🙂
Don’t panic the DOJ/FBI will sweep any demonrat involvement into the oubliette
Agreed, but it seems to me to be an organised takedown of crypto.
Dodgy as anything.
I’m not assuming every death is vaccine-related. I am very interested in the deafening lack of media curiosity about all of these people of a certain age dropping dead out of the blue. It’s also odd how people such as yourself rush to defend the institutional narrative, like what’s happening is completely normal.
No, it’s not. Something is wrong – very wrong – and there seems to be an enormous determination to not find out what it is.
Some considered discussion ensued this afternoon and evening on the subject of young women. I offer this, from the Hun – and apropos of schoolgirlypersons, thievery and Singapore:
Ahahahaaaaa. This is brilliant. You could have heard the squeals from the Singaporean cells: ‘Muuuuuummmmmyyyyyyyy…….’
I’ll bet they’re fucking sad, being caught for stealing Crocs*. The only thing that could make this worse is, oh I don’t know, if they were on a netball trip:
$13K, the parents pay for this. Hopefully they’ll fork out just as much for bail.
*Q: Why do Crocs have holes in them?
A: For all your dignity to leak out.
Logging native forests has to stop. They’re not only places of natural wonder, they are critical to carbon capture that protects our climate.
If a tree falls in a forest, where does the carbon go?
If a tree is fallen in the forest, and cut into timber that is used to build a house, where does the carbon go?
These people are zealot lunatics. They don’t even understand basic concepts of their own bullshit theories.
In the comments of the article on shoplifting mentioned by KD:
Singapore is known for many things. Lenient attitude toward thieves is not one of those things.
Did you happen to mention that humans produce at most 3% of CO2 and 97% is natural? And the
implication is that only that 3% affects the climate? If a volcano hiccups, it probably produces more CO2 that we can in years. Don’t you think that might give a smart person pause? Not to mention that it’s essential plant food.
Any crypto cranks who claim this is “real” money against fake “fiat” currency should top themselves now (in fact, many crypto investors are doing that anyway).
They’d be in worse strife had they stolen crocs from someone’s home.
“Theft from dwelling” attracts mandatory imprisonment.
As it is the fine + the legal fees will be heft enough.
Plus they can likely forget ever going near Singapore again.
Funny meme:
Biden / Fetterman 2024 – It’s a no brainer.
Biden / Fetterman 2024 – It’s a no brainer.
Hilarious!
Hairball.
Once upon a time, sport was basically played for the fun of it. An MC who went beyond the pale had his drinks tab wound up- a heckler who used racial abuse was told to pull his head in- and the players were given a slap on the back, win or lose- they were not held up on some teetering totem pole of Role Model Perfection for a wretched underclass of desperately needy constituents.
Then, some bright spark decided Chicks Footy was what the world is waiting for.
Now everyone in its orbit are guilty of sexism and racism and sexual harassment and racist slurs, until maybe grudgingly granted a provisional not guilty in a year or two by their own grifter-run investigation. Well, maybe it’s what they were gunning for with every call for status and funding, now they’re feeling the heat that Hawthorn coaches and Collingwood fans had turned on them… but bugger me, it’s just Sarf Bunhole Bush Footy
I do, M0nty, I do. I worked with many at one time, often nice people, and haven’t always lost touch.
Some are happier than others.
Nor, Mem and M0nty, am I against free choice in how to live one’s life.
But I do question how free it is to be unaware of some of the likely consequences of the choices we make, especially about things such as getting married and putting off or never having children. True freedom requires a good range of information, and today’s ideology for many young women does not offer that. I’d just like to see some balance restored. It is not over-bearingly moralistic nor authoritarian to desire that.
The NSW and ACT Universities Admission Index used to be the ranking of all students in the final year of schooling. It is now called the Australian Tertiary Admission Rank which does the same thing – indicate a student’s position after the yr 12 exams in relation to the Year 7 students they began high school with.
Just a school cleaner here so how they work out the ranking of students who left the system during years 7 to 12 beats me.
Princess Allegra’s UAI of 99.5. tells me she beat 99.5% of the students in NSW in her final year at school.
A DDG search tells me the Victorian Certificate of Education is the actual certificate students get on completion of their secondary education.
I think Hairy and I have had a variant of what my medical sister calls Virus X, a severe gasping koff which landed her in hospital on oxygen for two days, caught down in Victoria when she was on holiday.
We’ve been fortunate to spend two days in this beachfront condo to recover; he far more readily than me. I travel with antibiotics for secondary infections and at last they are kicking in. He doesn’t need them. I started on them after that bad nite on the antibellum bed (at Natchez not Jacksburg). We head back to Miami today to pick up a flight to LA tomorrow and then back to Sydney the day after that. I should be OK for the flights, was touch and go for that up to yesterday, my O2 saturation levels too low on my little finger monitor. Hairy’s fine.
An added concern was Hairy’s stepmother, aged 98, passed away yesterday in the UK, and for the past five days of her pneumonia he’d been thinking he should fly over to the UK and not come straight home with me, which would leave me to handle luggage and airports tout seule. Now his brother tells us the funeral will be a couple of weeks away as her son’s partner (‘Vera’) is busy filming for two weeks, so we’re heading home to reassess what to do. He also mentioned a new variant of Covid which escapes the test (but he’s a Covid worrier and would say that).
It’s been an excellent trip, though. No regrets.
Nice to pop in and out of the Cat during the mid-terms, scroll if you need to.
for the lols
Pouring rain in Melbourne, again.
“It’s also odd how people such as yourself rush to defend the institutional narrative, like what’s happening is completely normal.”
I don’t rush to defend ‘the institutional narrative’ when people claim every death is a vaccine death, I don’t have a narrative, I just want the truth.
At this point it’s quite possible that what is happening is completely ‘normal’ ie the consequence of political decisions around lockdowns not mrna vaccines causing mayhem.
Seems to me people who want to label every death, even those clearly caused by something else, as caused by a vaccine (without even knowing if someone was vaccinated) are the ones pursuing an ‘institutional narrative’.
Save travels and get well soon Lizzie, sorry the tail end of your trip was spoiled by a lurgie.
Safe!
John Spooner.
Mark Knight.
David Rowe.
Bob Moran.
Christian Adams.
Steve Bright.
Morten Morland.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Matt Margolis.
Tom Stiglich.
Al Goodwyn.
Tina Norton.
This is interesting – Fractal Programming technology.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/11/anonymous-wisconsin-heroes-proved-collapse-democrat-ballot-gathering-apparatus/
As I said on the election thread, I suspect the reason the Republicans won big in Florida is that they cleaned up the election rolls.
Republicans currently concentrate on winning the voters. Democrats concentrate on winning the ballots. There’s a big difference.
You can’t harvest phantom ballots if phantom voters aren’t on the election rolls.
From the article.
And.
The US voting system is crooked, always has been.
What we need to focus on is that the AEC (a dumping ground for public servants too incompetent to go to Defence Materiel) is charging ahead with electronic voting, and AFAIK not a single pollimuppet is even asking questions about it.
Does anyone remember the electronic Census debacle? That was bad enough, but just imagine what an electronic election overseen by these morons would be like.
What about the loss of audit trails, the potential for hacking and fraud, the consequences if an election was completely stuffed up? The Constitution, understandably, does not envisage anything like this.
In the US, election fraud is part of the political DNA. We really need to stop taking it personally. Here, while minor fiddles have always gone on, there is a tradition and culture of elections being relatively honest, thanks to paper ballots and scrutineers. The AEC wants to blow that away.
Start writing to your MPs and Senators, Cats and Kittehs. I have.
I also ponder the “non compulsory” voting system. Is it really such a good thing?
In Australia, you know there are 16.4 million voters. Hence you should theoretically receive 16.4 million ballots. If the numbers don’t add up, it’s pretty easy to detect fraud.
In America on the other hand, the voter turnout can vary, and no one really blinks an eyelid. It’s simply put down to “voter enthusiasm”.
My point is this. How can you possibly know if there aren’t tens of millions of ballots out there whereby people might be on the voter roll, but haven’t bothered to vote in years, simply because they couldn’t give a stuff anymore. Who’s to say that someone else hasn’t voted for them.
And at least if you get a fine in the mail for your dead parents not voting, you are going to notify the AEC. The system cleans itself in that respect (yes, I know, the registrar or someone usually notifies the AEC, but that obviously doesn’t happen in the US, otherwise you wouldn’t have evidence of dead people voting).
Am I missing something here? The entire system seems to be a total shit show.
I have doubts that honesty applies in Victoria, given the corruption of every other insitution.
Gray
Tbf the dismal state of the male population in supplying marriageable men drives this … which in turn comes from lack of fathers & male role models
Macquarie River up at Bathurst.
All we need now is for the Flannery Centre to go under.
video of what the cleric turban knock off is a reaction to
Realistically, I could never see the US opting for a “compulsory voting” system, but something needs to be done. Maybe a “opt in” system whereby you present your ID for a voting licence (which is valid for 10 years – like a DL or Passport).
At the end of the day, I’m wasting my breath. They don’t want the system to change. They like it exactly how it is now. In fact, the Democrats would love nothing more than to make it looser, not tighter. In fact, they have already said so. Voter suppression is the latest buzzword.
It’s very sad, but the Republicans only real option here is to jump into the current cesspool and wholeheartedly embrace it. You can’t take a knife to a gun fight and expect to win.
good comment from detransitioner Watson “Then you think we’re a costume. We’re not.”
There’s quite possibly a direct correlation to the proliferation of “man buns”.
From replies, also Grey and I’m going to assume talking about teals
the SMH article is paywalled, ‘moderate’ liberals
#realmenwearhighviz
Not going to happen.
A large proportion of Republicans are Christians and they won’t cheat. The Dems aren’t Christian or are fakes like Biden and Pelosi. So they have no qualms about illegal acts.
Even the Republican officeholders who are nominally Christian are going to be very careful to play straight bats, because if they don’t the Christian base walks away and fail to vote.
Just like the “vaccine”. Roll out first, then examine. It’s only kids after all.
Growing body of evidence disputes claims that puberty blockers are safe, reversible
JAY LENO SERIOUSLY BURNED IN CAR FIRE
I wonder what sort of car. No hint in the article.
Woman says she lost job after declining vaccine for remote work
“Elizabeth (Lizzie) Bearesays:
November 15, 2022 at 1:29 am”
Lizzie, am sorry to hear about Hairy’s mother. I will email you.
Looking forward to catching up with you both upon your return.
Suddenly changed? Personality-changes after mRNA-Injection
If someone is diagnosed with gender dysmorphia it’s assumed that this is a permanent condition repaired only by medical/chemical intervention.
Yet here we are discussing the “reversibility” of puberty blockers as though the condition might just be a “phase” a child is going through.
These vicious Menegele-clowns need to get their story straight. And the use of these chemicals and/or surgery must be banned for minors immediately.
Veteran short-seller Marc Cahodes again..
This guy’s worth listening to, and not just for the FTX scam..
Example:
The San Diego-based “bank” Silvergate Capital Corp., claims one trillion dollars in offshore crypto exchanges off a $14-billion client deposit base.
The depositors have already lost their money, they just don’t know it yet, while the stock is still trading (NYSE: SI).
Brilliant stuff.
“Their seats went from owner-occupier to dominated by landlords and their tenants. No amount of greenwashing was going to save them. Had they put this energy into expanding housing (standfast Tim Wilson) in the 9 years they were in power, they may have had a shot”
I can’t access the original SMH. Am curious about the content and context.
As for the Liberal dripping wets, as much as Teal Da Big Spenda is a waste of space, she’ll do far less damage than the likes of Tim Wilson, Dave Sharma and Trent Zimmerman.
The other thing to watch here going forward will be any attempt to link privatised and digitised driver licence registries (or any other government database) to electoral rolls, a la California.
Putting aside the principle of the thing, to accept that as an argument against non-compulsory voting, one must assume that there’s no administrative measures that a half competent government authority could implement to counter fraud. It’s just not so. I can think of many, just off the top of my head.
If the possibility of fraud exists, in either a compulsory or non-compulsory system, it’s because someone wants it that way. It a feature, not a bug. Look at the personal info the government has on us, they way they communicate with us and the control they could bring to bare on us instantly during Covid (QR codes, etc). It’s a bullshit argument which provides cover for either an incompetent AEC or a malevolent one.
Besides, look at the current system. As long as I know your name and address, and where you are likely to poll, I can currently vote for you at every other polling station in your electorate, and you’d only know when the AEC came knocking days/weeks later. Almost no chance of getting caught, and it’ll scalable. Given me ten names and addresses and I’d likely be able to register 100 fake votes which couldn’t be filtered out after the fact.
As I said, compulsory or non-compulsory, if it can be abused, it’s because someone wants it so.
Cryptocurrency billionaire broke the bank for Dems
4th law – if it can happen it will.
In this case, if it can be abused it will be.
Got to love modern religion.
COP 27 events showcase Green spirituality, new Ten Commandments (14 Nov)
I’m sure they could learn a few rituals from the Aztecs, who similarly worshiped the weather.
Chuck yourself into a volcano love. Placate the Earth-Spirit.
Connect…connect…connect…
Friggin’ zombies.
An Italian grandmother is giving directions to her grown grandson who is coming to visit with his wife. “You come to the front door of the apartment. I am in apartment 301. There is a big panel at the front door. With your elbow, push button 301. I will buzz you in. Come inside, the elevator is on the right. Get in and with your elbow, push 3. When you get out, I’m on the left. With your elbow, hit my doorbell”. “Grandma that sounds easy but why am I hitting all these buttons with my elbow…?” “What… you coming empty handed?”
Looks like we are in the Age of Aquarius again, Bruce.
We all know how that worked out, although it would be a lie not to admit that it was fun and very creative.
As you get older, the pickings get slimmer, but the people don’t.
– Carrie Fisher
Lol Joh. I was imagining the old hippie “Earth mothers” as I typed that. At least they produced kiddies and many finally settled down into suburbia.
These new ones only produce hot air and nonsense. And crummy music.
Armadillo
Voter suppression is the latest buzzword.
The DemonRats engaged in the suppression of Republican voters in Arizona, particularly in Maricopa County. The usual suspects (hello m0nty-fa) did not offer any criticism.
Prepare for Election Promises to Crumble
From Armstrong Economics –
“Now that politicians have secured their positions in the elections prepare for the promises to fade. These people will say anything for our vote with no intention of following through. Biden has already announced that they will no longer accept student loan forgiveness applications. A Texas court barred future applications a day after the election – coincidence?
In fact, there is a website tracking Biden’s political promises, albeit not the most accurate. So far, he has kept only 22% of promises made during his campaign – at most. Many of these promises benefit absolutely no one, such as nominating the first black woman to the US Supreme Court, new fuel standards, increasing COVID testing, and rejoining the World Health Organization (WHO). That’s where his administration has placed their energy as if the entire world isn’t crumbling under their rule.
The website downplayed his broken promises after listing them at only 1%. He certainly broke his promise to “Build Back Better” – well… actually, he is following that plan accordingly. He has handed over America to the World Economic Forum on a silver platter. International objectives far outweigh domestic policies. The domestic policies in place and asinine spending packages have only made America less competitive and have hurt the pockets of not only the American people but the global economy.”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/politics/prepare-for-election-promises-to-crumble-after-midterms/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
The AEC provides plenty of paperwork and inaction.
My Mum’s in care with dementia and didn’t vote in the last federal election. We received a please explain from the AEC.
I wrote back explaining her position and asked that she be removed from the roll.
The form came through with the requirement that it was signed by her doctor. All done and sent away.
Another letter comes and states that Mum has twenty days to contest the request from me as her son and power of attorney.
Still nothing back after a month and the state election looming.
You would think that the doctors affirmation would be more than enough to get the job done. Not so.
BTW, as a Leo. I have always resented the supremacy accorded to Aquarians.
Wishy washy dreamers, I’d like to put them in a pen with Scorpios, no food or drink.
Putting them in a pen with Leos would be too easy. 🙂
FTX & Crypto-Implosion
From Armstrong Economics –
“The collapse of the FTX Exchange is pretty straightforward insofar as this is the same lesson that constantly repeats in finance time and time again. Basically, FTX lent US$10bn of client funds to their trading arm Alameda, which used it for leveraged their own crypto speculation because the crypto market has been collapsing. Typically, someone like Sam Bankman-Fried had his whole life wrapped up in this venture. Lacking financial controls operating from the Bahamas, moving the money from client funds to his trading arm Alameda was possible. Historically, someone in this position sees his world collapsing but is not prepared to see that unfold for it requires admitting that he was wrong on crypto, to begin with. Consequently, such a person is not trying to actually rob clients’ money, they most likely see it as a temporary loan to save the company and the market will bounce back – or so they believe.
The collapse of FTX will now become a contagion for the crypto world. This 20-something group of inexperienced traders has signaled the demise of an industry that was getting all the hype with no substance. This crypto world will be seen as the DOT COM Bubble of 2000. With a recession on the horizon, the collapse of sovereign debt, and the monetary system as a whole, people will be looking for more of the safe bets rather than roll the dice on crypto. Nothing ever goes straight down. But by year-end, the volatility should perk up everyone’s view of the world.”
Much more to read here –
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/cryptocurrency/ftx-crypto-implosion/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
In 1969 I would have joined any cult in the world if invited by those girls from the 5th Dimension.
Texas GOP Primary Poll
Very early but it shows the GOP voters are looking at an alternative to Trump.
Yesterday Rishi Sunak labelled Russia a “rogue state”, yet he and his government remain silent the egregious lack of human rights in Saudi Arabia and China and the UK has strong diplomatic and trade relations with both Saudi Arabia and China. Very selective outrage isn’t it?
As the always measured Peter Hitchens said overnight on GB News, it’s selective outrage and like all selective outrage, it’s phony.
We used to call them “cosmics” back in the day; referring to the dreamers into crystals, “alternative living”; getting stoned off your face on grass, and generally saying they were going to “drop out”. Usually while working in the public service.
My old mum, now departed, went through a phase in the late 1970s where she was going to reject living in the rather magnificent Cape Cod American-style house she and the old man were building 30 k’s out of Hobart. At one stage she was researching “yurtz”, a sort of large hut, which she reckoned she was going to have built very cheaply and simply in the 20 acres she and dad had bought.
Then again, this was in Tasmania, and soon enough the weather grabbed her by the scruff of the neck and convinced her otherwise.
Technology makes life nicer, healthier, and easier – just ask Uncle Bruce Pascoe.
Looking at the Fifth Dimension clip I posted above, I am reminded of a passage from Ion Idriess’ Drums of Mer.
He talks about the Torres Strait Islanders’ religion, and the desire/ambition of the most senior practitioners to connect to the universe, as perceived by looking at the sky.
An ugly row has broken out at Twitter after Elon Musk decided staff that remained at his newly owned company would no longer be offered free lunch.
Instead, the employees that kept their jobs after Musk wiped out about half of the company’s workforce have been informed they will need to start paying their own way, two employees told NY Times.
The world’s richest person doubled down on Monday after he was criticised for the decision by some.
“He fired 3/4 of the employees. Now he’s planning to starve the rest of them. He’s failure incarnate,” a popular tweet responding to his decision read.
Musk fired back a short time later arguing barely any staff fronted up for lunch anyway.
“Especially bizarre given that almost no one came to the office. Estimated cost per lunch served in past 12 months is >$400,” he wrote.
A former employee who claimed she quit Twitter because of Musk challenged him on the cost of providing breakfast and lunch for staff.
“This is a lie. I ran this program up until a week ago when I resigned because I didn’t want to work for Elon Musk. For breakfast & lunch we spent $20-$25 a day per person. This enabled employees to work thru lunchtime & mtgs. Attendance was anything from 20-50% in the offices,” she tweeted.
Musk however said the ex staff member was “false” and the company spent “$13M/year on food service for San Francisco headquarters”.
“Badge in records show peak occupancy was 25%, average occupancy below 10%. There are more people preparing breakfast than eating breakfast. They don’t even bother serving dinner, because there is no one in the building,” he replied.
Musk last week reportedly emailed staff telling them they would be expected to be in the office for at least 40 hours a week.
Herald-Sun. Get him over here!
Exactly what the establishment politicians want. Don’t be surprised if the Democrats fund a DeSantis presidential run.
Divide and conquer.
Yet more details on Samuel Bankman-Fried
Fisher visited Bankman-Fried in the Bahamas, describing a man who does not make eye contact, plays video games all day and is constantly plugged into his computer with a headset. All his meetings are by Zoom — with people in the same room.
A veritable cluster-f@cking freak-show, encouraged by the usual arse-lickers, who never walked past a leftard cause they could ever understand.
Hope his parents bought him a life insurance policy.
Trump has to come up with something new instead ‘I was wronged’ or the GOPe is out to get me.
He looks and sounds old.
“Trump has to come up with something new instead ‘I was wronged’ or the GOPe is out to get me.
He looks and sounds old.”
Worse, he’s angry. The thing is, whilst he’s right to be angry about what happened in 2020, voters don’t and won’t respond to anger.
Amazing stuff.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-41631-1
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Open Access
Published: 26 March 2019
Octacosanol and policosanol prevent high-fat diet-induced obesity and metabolic disorders by activating brown adipose tissue and improving liver metabolism
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Brown adipose tissue (BAT) is an attractive therapeutic target for treating obesity and metabolic diseases. Octacosanol is the main component of policosanol, a mixture of very long chain aliphatic alcohols obtained from plants. The current study aimed to investigate the effect of octacosanol and policosanol on high-fat diet (HFD)-induced obesity. Mice were fed on chow, or HFD, with or without octacosanol or policosanol treatment for four weeks. HFD-fed mice showed significantly higher body weight and body fat compared with chow-fed mice. However, mice fed on HFD treated with octacosanol or policosanol (HFDo/p) showed lower body weight gain, body fat gain, insulin resistance and hepatic lipid content. Lower body fat gain after octacosanol or policosanol was associated with increased BAT activity, reduced expression of genes involved in lipogenesis and cholesterol uptake in the liver, and amelioration of white adipose tissue (WAT) inflammation. Moreover, octacosanol and policosanol significantly increased the expression of Ffar4, a gene encoding polyunsaturated fatty acid receptor, which activates BAT thermogenesis. Together, these results suggest that octacosanol and policosanol ameliorate diet-induced obesity and metabolic disorders by increasing BAT activity and improving hepatic lipid metabolism. Thus, these lipids represent promising therapeutic targets for the prevention and treatment of obesity and obesity-related metabolic disorders.
This is pretty classless (and ignorant), but we’re used to this from you by now.
Maybe you need a well earned break for your own legal protection.
D.C. bares its venomous fangs before Elon Musk
You know, there are people for whom that sensation of being curled up and buoyant in a sac of warm feelings is more compelling than logic and evidence, and it is feelings that rely upon to keep any logic or proof at bay.
Oddly enough I read a line of Nietzsche’s the other day that would cut the legs out from the above nonsense if their feelings did not deploy like airbags in a car:
But perhaps I am being unfair. Perhaps it is not that they are elevating the planet to the level of what most of us would call a living thing. Perhaps it is that these people compare their condition to the unliving. They exist in an unvarying eternal present, they do not strive, they see themselves in the detritus of nature and they see it in themselves.
The only reason they are talking about climate change is because they are under the influence of a sort of field – like a stone falling through gravity, or an iron filing aligning with a magnetic field.
For Lizzie and Cat History Buffs
1,200 Years of British Royalty in 5 Charts
English, Scots, Brits, plus Nordics, Germans, Slavs, Italians, French, and lots of blood
My central goal was to ascertain how (and whether) Elizabeth II was related to every preceding English and Scottish monarch. Pursuit of that goal led me to condense 1,200 years of English and Scottish royalty into five dense charts, all shown below.
[SIDENOTES: My son Jeremy, mindful of the brief, but memorable Edwardian Era, jested that perhaps our own era will one day be remembered as a new Carolingian Era. (“Carolingian” from the Latin for “Charles.” The “Carolingian Era” usually refers to the rule of Charlemagne and others between 750 and 987.) I replied with a fact I’ve not seen written elsewhere: Everyone knows that at 73, Charles III was older upon becoming king than any other English or British monarch had been on his or her first day on the throne. But less well-known is the fact that Charles III was older upon becoming king than almost any other English or British monarch had been on his or her FINAL day on the throne (i.e., the day they died or abdicated). George II died at 76, George III and Victoria at 81, and Elizabeth II at 96. I believe that’s it. Edgar Æthling died at around 75, but he was booted from the throne at 15—if, indeed, he ever sat on it. Edward VIII died at 77, but Mrs. Simpson’s charms led him astray at 41.]
Producing these five charts was a work of casual genealogy, not a scholarly undertaking—so there are bound to be errors. (I would be thrilled for knowledgeable readers to offer additions or corrections in the comments below.) But I also know that I got a good deal of this right, and discovered some intriguing patterns and connections among European royals.
Chart 1: Saxons to Tudors, by Way of the Danes
Chart 2: Tudors and Stuarts and More, Oh My
Chart 3: All Things Scottish
Chart 4: Danish DNA’s European Tour
Chart 5: A Bloody Good Time Was Had by All
Chart 5 was a rather gruesome bonus diagram. After reviewing all this history, Alanna asked, “Exactly how many of these Scottish monarchs died violent deaths?” The quite-striking answer is answered in this chart’s color-coding. Blue indicates a natural death. Red indicates a violent death—the most recent of which was the English/Scottish king Charles I, beheaded at the time of the English Civil War. Suffice it to say that very few Scottish monarchs’ obituaries read, “Died peacefully at home, surrounded by loving family.”
Robert F. Graboyes is president of RFG Counterpoint, LLC in Alexandria, Virginia. An economist, journalist, and musician, he holds five degrees, including a PhD in economics from Columbia University. An award-winning professor, in 2014, he received the Reason Foundation’s Bastiat Prize for Journalism
Now I understand Moran’s toon – thanks Tom.
This is of a piece with the Atlantic “Amnesty” column last week.
This thing is now on I’m a Celebrity…. It’s former job was as Health Secretary in the UK. He oversaw the deaths of thousands and the incarceration of millions while breaking his own “rules”. And let’s not forget the creepy TicTok nurses, “saving” the NHS and the bizarre pot banging in front yards.
There you go
Rassie
GOP primary polls are meaningless at this point. Jeb! Bush was leading at the same juncture in 2014.
Amazon Planning to Announce Layoff of 10,000 Workers This Week
November 14, 2022 | Sundance
Another interesting tidbit I heard last week.
Remember the skyrocketing cost of shipping containers to transport goods (mostly from China)? They went from $3k to $14k over a couple of years, such was the demand.
They can now be picked up for around $1.4k. No one appears to be buying much.
World’s most feminist religion, Shia version.
Arizona’s Elections Will Be Much Worse Next Time Around
Republicans still aren’t taking Secretary of State races seriously.
November 15, 2022 by Daniel Greenfield
One of these things is that Republicans don’t make a serious bid to fight for election rules before an election. There’s a lot of outrage and “how could this happen” afterward and then nothing changes.
The Left has a pretty clear plan.
One of these is to make it Election Month and then write the new election rules into state constitutions and court rulings, eventually at the federal level backed by the DOJ, so that they can’t be overturned.
And a basic element of that plan is electing Democrats as either governors or secretaries of state. This dates back to Soros’ Secretary of State project. Republicans are not even remotely keeping up even though the key to winning the Senate becomes election rule changes in states.
Even after 2020, Republicans still put far less effort into secretary of state races. And this happens.
Adrian Fontes, Maricopa County Recorder from 2016 to 2020, has beat out Mark Finchem in the race for Secretary of State, the Associated Press reports.
Fontes served as County Recorder amid claims of fraud in the 2020 election. He ran for re-election but loss to Republican Stephen Richer. In addition the 2020 controversy, Fontes also faced a lawsuit over signature verification in 2018 when he had to open emergency voting centers after a contractor delayed the opening of some polling places.
You know what’s going to happen next time around. Now you don’t need to wonder. And this will keep happening until national Republicans make winning SOS races a top priority.
Or until the GOP disappears.
More polls
It will be very interesting the next few months.
Our ALPBC is giving Albo a tongue bath as a great Statesman. While completely ignoring a thing Xi says is close to useless. He has agreed to start climate change talks with the purported President of the United States.
Lode, you’re overthinking it.
Belief in hippie shit has never gone away.
In the early C20th, spiritualism was all the craze among upper middle class Brits. Eminent scientists, even the father of scientific detection. Conan Doyle – they were mustard for mediums and communicating with the dead and all that.
It sort of faded away into a fairground act, but the fact that a percentage of the population is attracted by this stuff doesn’t change.
Olympic Athlete Genevieve Florence (24) ‘Barely Functional’ After Pfizer Vaccine: ‘I Wanted To End My Life’ (Video)
https://rairfoundation.com/olympic-athlete-genevieve-florence-24-barely-functional-after-pfizer-vaccine-i-wanted-to-end-my-life-video/
A lot of people are talking about how it is time Trump was led, after these last years of unflagging labour, into a pasture with a lush verdure and under a deep azure sky where he might spend a few days in bovine bliss – and then have his skull staved in with a mallet.
Trump’s presence has enervated the Conservatives in a way not seen before, and his departure would take a lot of energy out of their cause. The rallies and the pugnacity have kept fire burning in people’s bellies. And he has given hope
Yes, hatred would be as loser. And his running again would be pointless while the Democrats are still harvesting and just mass printing ballots. (Remember when Obama appeared and it was explained that he had been a ‘community organiser’, and that had to be explained too? Turned out it was stuff like getting bums to shuffle up and vote Democrat in exchange for a few bucks.)
And lets not forget all the assaults and abuses he has been subject to. It would be just too ungrateful to sump him out on the curb on garbage day.
He will not be content to play a small role, but he might be content to ride the wave of vindication if the Democrat’s litany of chicanery was exposed – a task for sitting Republicans. Then he would get to at least parade about being able to show he did win in 2020. All the stuff since then, the vexatious court cases, the FBI investigations, and the rest, would suddenly change complexion when it was seen to have been thrown at him because he won.
Societies are riddled with cults from Madam Blavatsky to SadGuru, all designed to get cash from believers. Since the invention of taxes, these cults are kind of redundant, just join the party cult and get your free money there.
I think you mean energised, LOL.
When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing. They then become capable of believing in anything.
– Émile Cammaerts
So you fear DeSantis Monty?
Enervated? I think Trump may have energised a vast number of conservatives through the MAGA sloganeering and symbolism. Far more than he disgusts.
Perhaps that’s the reason he needs to be removed…pronto. While he draws huge crowds and focusses conservative thinking it makes them harder to divide and pick off.
The funniest bit is people saying Trump should retire gracefully. When has he ever done anything gracefully? He is the least graceful person on the planet.
Reading about the Twitter lunches reminded me of a client visit to JAG somewhere in Richmond at the height of the 80s. From memory it was only a small exposure, maybe a few million dollars, but every manager kept them on a very short leash. The staff canteen was better than most places you walked past to get there.
m0ntysays:
November 15, 2022 at 8:59 am
GOP primary polls are meaningless at this point. Jeb! Bush was leading at the same juncture in 2014.
Any comment on the blatant suppression of GOP votes in Maricopa County?
If rosie’s around anytime soon…
I’m spending six days in Sicily next year. What do I need to see, keeping in mind that sandy beaches don’t impress me but antiquities and ancient streetscapes do. Everything I see on the web is sending me to the surf resorts which I need like a hole in the head.
DeSantis would be a return to normality. The problem with that is that just before Trump arrived, the Republican Party was wringing its hands about never winning a presidential election again. The whole reason that he had 17 primary candidates to beat in 2015/16 was that the Party was rudderless and disorganised.
DeSantis is just a stunt man. Trump is the real actor.
Wonder why her pfizer story had dropped now, just after she deleted her twitter account.
Genevieve Florence looking very well on instagram
And about to start work on a movie with Kevin Spacey
here
Victor Davis Hanson’s latest thoughts on Trump.
How Wisconsin Streetfighters Disrupted a Democrat Ballot-Gathering System
Ballots and votes.
These two words seem synonymous, yet they imply opposite ways to choose a government.
There is a big difference between “votes” and “ballots.” The Republicans focused on winning votes; the Democrats focused on gathering ballots. The ballots won.
—Conservative Treehouse November 2022
When Election Day became Election Month, mail-in ballots replaced in-person voters, and the electoral world changed forever. It is not changing back.
Democrats, expert in anything government-related, drove states to change laws, increase voting days, loosen voter standards. Republican leadership dozed.
Democrats, leftist non-governmental organizations, Big Tech invented every conceivable way to manipulate the ballot process: collect ballots, drop into streetside bins, fill them out if the voter doesn’t.
That is a ballot-gathering strategy. It works!
Republicans remained stuck in the same “voter strategy” for the last decade: yard signs, fundraising, obscure websites, TV ads.
The raw material of the ballot-gathering strategy is the phantom voter or address. Every ballot needs to tie to someone — even if only a name on a list.
Live, votable ballots accumulate at addresses where the indicated voter does not reside. Those ballots, gathered, are the inventory of electoral victory. He who gathers them can vote them.
The ballot-gathering system was frictionless until 2020. Thousands of phantom addresses inhabited every state’s voter list.
Clever leftists built a national system, ERIC, now used by about 30 states, to make sure voter rolls protected phantoms. Using in-your-face messaging, ERIC claimed it was a resource to keep voter rolls clean.
No friction, no challenge.
After 2020, everything changed.
The once frictionless ballot-gathering apparatus was challenged in every state as voter integrity teams, citizens at kitchen tables, picked apart voter rolls. They quickly found tens of thousands of dead or moved voters. There were innumerable addresses where no voter could possibly live.
For the first time, there was pushback against ballot gathering. Citizens demanded that voter rolls be cleaned, addresses be real. In too many cases, affidavits with photographs of an empty lot where several voters claimed to live failed to convince a judge to action.
Not in Wisconsin.
Again, from the Conservative Treehouse:
Our Wisconsin election heroes applied Fractal Programming technology, funded by Mike Lindell, at scale to find and challenge phantoms. The process is explained at http://www.Omega4America.com.
Amazon Planning to Announce Layoff of 10,000 Workers This Week
This sort of news, usually, turns out to be just “clickbait”.. day after day you read about companies laying off “huge” numbers of workers but the reality turns out to be .. Yes, folk get laid off but the vast majority are casuals/part timers working only several hours a week short term not full-time staff .. lotza businesses employ extra casual staff to deal with temporary uplifts in turnover and relinguish them when the rush is over .. just normal business operation,and, of course, the bigger the enterprise the more on/off numbers you get ……
Men take the crowns from a teen beauty pageant to a women’s cycling race
Leftist women being eaten alive by their own silly ideology — and I’m kinda loving it.
The prettiest girl at the ball is no longer a girl, but an adult male — and frankly a very unattractive one at that. Brian Nguyen, a 19-year-old man in drag just took home the winner’s crown and a $7,500 scholarship intended for young women who fill the traditional role of a beauty queen — “poise” was an explicitly required trait, and one that Mr. Nguyen certainly lacks, but it’s okay, because catering to the men with gender identity dysphoria is the “kind” thing to do. Not sure how a chunky guy in heels fits the definition of “poise,” but what do I know? Take a look at what we’re working with below:
And here’s on more recent example for good measure, just because a photo is worth a thousand words:
ANOTHER case of a biological man, pretending to be a woman because he wasn’t good enough to compete against other men, “wins” a competition. What a bunch of BS
Biological male wins women’s division of US cycling race | The Post Millennial
At some point, if the US electoral system continues on its present trajectory it will become a real problem. Much of what occurs in an orderly society has its basis in (often hardwon) trust, often long forgotten. It is very fragile and its loss or absence is clearly visible around the World.
An acquaintance of mine spent time in Sicily for the Norman historical sites, I suppose I’ll be better placed to advise after I’ve been but this site might help as a starter.
I’ve booked a week in Palermo and will go to Catania to catch ferry to Malta but haven’t booked anything after Palermo, want to play it a bit by ear like I did in Sardinia/Corsica this year.
things to do in Palermo
And another Palermo’s 15 must sees
here
Get a load of the fake account people set up after Dr. Mars took over the site. Funny as.
Accounts
It is seen in the adage “justice must not only be done but be seen to be done” and the tests applied for conflicts of interest. Appearances matter.
Rogersays:
November 15, 2022 at 9:31 am
Victor Davis Hanson’s latest thoughts on Trump.
Trump in his current state is an object of derision. But that he is still standing is a miracle in itself, given the abuse he endured that was predicated on lies, myths, and venom. In the first year of his presidency, partisan House members filed articles of impeachment. Foreign Policy printed an essay 11 days after his inauguration calling for his removal through either impeachment, the 25th Amendment, or a military coup.
It became a progressive parlor game to publicly dream of his assassination by explosion, decapitation, stabbing, incineration, hanging, or shooting. Joe Biden on three occasions bragged of his desire to physically beat him up.
That fisticuffs trope was amplified by everyone from Cory Booker to Robert De Niro. His National Security designate, General Michael Flynn, was framed by the efforts of the FBI and remnants of the Obama Justice Department through an ambush interrogation aimed at reviving the ossified Logan Act.
For nearly three years he was smeared and slurred as a Russian collaborator. That was a false charge and it devoured 22 months of his presidency, until the Mueller investigation imploded. Frenzied leftist hysterics followed this implosion. His first impeachment remains a stain on democracy.
Trump, remember, did not cancel aid to Ukraine. He was prescient in warning about the serial corruption of Hunter Biden and his father’s family syndicate. He was far tougher on Vladimir Putin (greater sanctions, flooding the world with cheap oil, leaving a flawed missile treaty, hammering Russian mercenaries in Syria, sending offensive weapons to Ukraine that Obama-Biden had forbidden, beefing up military spending, etc.) than his predecessor. Putin did not invade other countries under Trump’s tenure, unlike during prior and subsequent administrations.
In its politicized efforts to get Trump, the FBI blew up its reputation as a competent, professional, and disinterested investigatory bureau. A good argument can be made that three consecutive directors, Mueller, Comey, and McCabe, either under oath misled a House Intelligence Committee inquiry or simply flat-out lied. Retired four-star generals systematically violated the Uniform Code of Military Justice with impunity as they slandered their commander-in-chief variously as Nazi-like, a Mussolini, or analogous to the architects of Nazi death camps.
Congressional representatives grew so desperate to end Trump’s presidency that they called in a hack Yale psychiatrist to declare him, quite unprofessionally and without an examination, non compos mentis and deserving of a forced removal from office. Do we remember “Anonymous” who bragged in the New York Times of a covert and concerted effort inside his administration to destroy it?
A common denominator with all his critics—Hillary Clinton, James Comey, Dr. Bandy X. Lee, the CNN cadre, Andrew McCabe, Robert De Niro, Adam Schiff, Howard Stern, Peter Strzok, and a host of others—was that their anti-Trump obsessions either diminished their careers or empowered Trump, or both.
In response to all this, and often in preemptive fashion, Trump became obsessed with the historic injustice of it all. He yelled to high heaven that the Russian collusion charge was an utter hoax. He hammered the message that the COVID pandemic never originated naturally in a wet market but was birthed in a Wuhan virology lab. He screamed that the Hunter Biden laptop was authentic and a window into the Biden family’s systemic and lucrative corruption.
Trump was right on all these counts, but, like mythical Cassandra, the more he rattled off the truth, the less likely he was to be believed given the coarseness of his protestations.
After all, it was not Trump but his enemies who weaponized the CIA, FBI, and Justice Department. Trump, unlike Obama, did not spy on journalists. And unlike Biden, he created no ministry of truth. His supporters did not call to junk the Electoral College, pack the court, destroy the filibuster, or opportunistically add two new states.
They did not radically change the voting laws through means that undermined the authority of state legislatures to end Election Day as we had known it for over three centuries. They did not turn balloting into mostly a mail-in/early voting phenomena that saw the usual rejection rate of ballots plummet even as the number of non-Election Day ballots soared.
So, Kingmaker, Scapegoat, or Outlaw?
Sorry rosie. I thought you’d been there. Perhaps Megan might know more since she’s married to the Sicilian Prince. 😀
Thanks for your reply though.
Rosie
We liked Palermo. It has a hipster part to it that’s kinda fun to walk around.
Spend time at a beach resort in Cefalu. It’s fun.
West Australian Cats will know the family.
Hemingway: Establishment GOP Obsesses Over Trump To Avoid Accountability For Its 2022 Failures
“You’re seeing a lot of people trying to take advantage of the failure on Tuesday night, to go after Donald Trump. And that’s fine, people go after different people, but it seems to be a coping mechanism to neglect to deal with the fact that the Republican Party has failed Republican voters and failed the American people,” said Federalist Editor-in-Chief Mollie Hemingway during an interview on Fox News. “You have 75 percent of the country thinking we’re [going] in the wrong direction, you have a president with horrible approval ratings, you have an objectively poor economy. …
This could not have been more fertile ground, and the Republican Party, the actual people who run the Republican Party, had an obligation to capitalize on it and they didn’t because they don’t have a ground game.”
VDH makes some good points but then he ends his piece with a bunch of questions. No Victor, you’re supposed to answer the questions for us, you’re the expert.
The likes of he and Tucker Carlson have largely ducked the Trump question from what I have seen. Carlson’s line of “it’s too early to assign blame” was rather weak. So much for thought leadership.
We have a car so we’re thinking Palermo, Catania, Syracuse, Valley of the Temples and back to Palermo. With Mt Etna on the way, natch. Can’t miss a volcano!
I can never get enough of old stuff. We go Rome to Naples – I’ll be taking the Beloved to Pompeii first because he has never seen it. He’s so excited to be back travelling, something we put off for years as we channelled all our effort into raising the children.
The real issue is the system. It is a system failure which has not provided adequate services by our people for our people.
Shirley, the “system” is viewed as cultural appropriation? .. unless, of course, the “system” has been around for 60 000 years (or whatever distant past number we is at this week) ..
The one thing that, frequently, stands out in these “tales” is incarceration for crimes is NEVER the fault of the criminal activities of the incarcerated …… maybe we need another RC into why so many 251s are jailed for nuttin’ ..!
Thanks JC that’s a short train ride from Palermo perhaps I will go Palermo cefalu Messina Catania
I understand what you’re getting at, Humphrey, but I prefer the more accurate assignation: the puppet president.
Actually, I meant ‘innervate’.
What great writing by VDH on Trump.
I squirmed down an internet rabbit hole caused by VDH’s In this moment of wishing the wounded Shane would ride off into the Tetons and found this description of Alan Ladd:
“Ladd disliked and was uncomfortable with guns; Shane’s shooting demonstration for Joey required 116 takes….. Later, in the saloon battle, Ladd’s pistol is pointed well away from the man he shoots, especially the final scene where he kills Ryker’s brother”
When that was written it was probably a criticism. Post Baldwin, it resonates as prudence personified.
Calli, do not miss this site in the middle of Sicily, truly the most remarkable Roman villa setting, kept in original condition by a mudslide and now fully excavated. You will not get a better picture anywhere of Roman life in the heart of the Empire. You have probably already seen images of the famous hunting scenes and of the ‘bikini’ girls playing a ball game.
Out of curiosity how do Cats keep up with what’s being commented on the OT post ?
I come to the site about 2-3 times a day and I’m amazed at the amount of comments some Cats are making and/or replying.
It takes me a good 20 minutes plus reach time to read and/or scroll through (I always scroll past Monty and Ed as my life is too short to be bothered engaging with them).
He’s a commenter on the action, not an actor in the drama.
And the play isn’t over yet.
Sounds great calli !
The wife and I planning to travel to Italy next year for 4 weeks.
OldOzziesays:
November 15, 2022 at 9:46 am
Rogersays:
November 15, 2022 at 9:31 am
Victor Davis Hanson’s latest thoughts on Trump.”
Thanks for that OO. You know, when I think about all that Trump endured, it makes me profoundly sad. He has every right to be furious, however I just think that he needs to supress that fury, concentrate on offering Americans a positive alternative and then, if he regains office, he should unleash his fury.
And who can forget creepy porn lawyer, now in prison, Michael Avenatti, who CNN and the Washington Post spruiked as a future “presidential candidate”.
Bother! I need two weeks in Sicily – too many goodies. It’s in November so no crowds to impede my progress. Either we have to get our skates on or miss some stuff. 😀
Hanson isn’t always right, but he’s generally always worth reading.
John Anderson has done a few interviews with him recently.
Another new word for my inner dictionary. Ta.
I have an Aboriginal bloke cut my grass at the coast when I can’t do it. Recently when I was talking to him I invited him inside for a drink. He looks me in the eye which I think Aboriginals don’t like doing and said no thanks I’m too busy. He also said I’ve been in prison. I said I knew before you started and you only did time for getting caught doing what half the population do in stupid moments. He’s a good bloke, looks after his family better than most.
While we kowtow to Gaia the Kiwis have just put a satellite in orbit around the Moon.
Rocket Lab is Kiwi.
Rosie, my lurgi has been controllable when I bought half of a Walgreen’s Pharmacy to whack it once I’d found where the medications were in the mass of other stuff on sale. Plus the antibiotics for a definite secondary infection, which I always carry on trips, really helped. Thanks for the thoughts, in fact the end part of our trip has been made annoying more by what has happened to the at first promising mid-terms here than by the lurgi – although today I did pass on an aligator trip through the Everglades today on our way over from the city of Naples to Miami. Didn’t fancy mosquitos and sunburn and on reflection we both decided against it. Hairy who reacts badly to insect bites has been a trojan driver, even when he was unwell for a couple of days with this clinging lurgi.
Thanks too Cassie for concern for Hairy – the lady who died on Sunday is his Jewish Stepmother not his real mother, who died when he was in his early twenties. Of course he is upset, as we all are, because his long-term stepmother was a most loving and well-remembered granny to the two children we had and who during their childhood had a lot of visits with her and his dad, when they came over or when we went to the UK for Christmasses. I have a terrific photo of her holding our little toddler boy in a big carry bag and giving him a whirl around in it. He loved it. Taking him shopping, she called it.
Phrasing!
calli,
have a look at
https://www.raildiscoveries.com/tours/sicily-mount-etna/?TelRef=RD_EB1&dm_t=0,0,0,0,0
and
https://www.raildiscoveries.com/tours/puglia-all-inclusive/?tc=23PUF
and
https://www.monasterystays.com/?d=Italy/Sicily-accommodation
and we have enjoyed Trip a Deal Tours
https://www.tripadeal.com.au/deals/4090-20-day-sardinia-sicily-and-malta
From memory my wife and I booked tour around Sicily when we were there, but as I had said previously Ferries to Malta were not running so we had to fly Palermo to Rome then Malta
Calli if you’re going to Pompeii you should also visit Herculaneam, better preserved than Pompeii and not as busy, because the tour buses can’t get close apparently.
Aww, and those denialists seemed so credible.
How about embracing Australian citizenship with its rights and responsibilities?
All of us, whether born here or immigrants, have lost our original ethno-cultural identity to some extent and have had to adapt and develop a new one. By all means be proud of your heritage, but your character and the ethos that shapes it is much more defining of who you are.
m0nty-fa
Still nothing to say about the blatant suppression of GOP voters in Maricopa County? Doesn’t fit your ever so precioussss “narrative”?
This is the Woke HomoGlobo LGBT ‘culture’.
Rupert Murdoch urges Donald Trump not to run in 2024, threatening to back a Democrat if he does
h/t @JackPosobiec · 1h
Piss off.
You know that’s not what I was talking about.
Shirley, Rupert can’t make it to 2024? He must be getting a bit ripe.
Yet this is what has happened. They dominate all culture now in the perverted ‘West’.
Bullshit. Don’t tell me I’m capable of believing anything. Religious belief does not confer being right about anything.
When we’ve finished this trip we will only have to do a fortnight in Sri Lanka in order to have caught up with everything booked but missed in 2020!
We have two years of lockdown to make up for, as do many others of our age and generation who need to pack a lot into retirement. Our August 2023 sailing trip in the Adriatic and Greek Islands has been cancelled due to the owners getting a better offer from Qatar, so now Hairy is putting Mark Steyn’s August 23 Adriatic Cruise in front of me for consideration as a replacement.
Mightn’t we get a bit sick of the continual politics? I ask.
Silly question. But it doesn’t go to Corfu, I bleat. I want Corfu.
I am currently taking Hairy’s Rum cure for the Lurgi.
Much better than anything from Walgreens.
That’s always been SOP. The shot is supposed to be framed so it’s not noticeable.
Not only because you don’t want to be blasting people with blanks, but also Hollywood had a thing for avoiding the acts of shooting and being shot in the one camera angle.
Until Sergio Leone.
I am shamed to admit that I was an earth mother with my first baby. Living the dream in the Blue Mountains of Sydney in contact with many similar hippies. We kept tenuous ties to part-time university teaching in Sydney for two days as week as income. I did a lot of marking at home too. In an old photograph I am wearing an open Indian cheescloth blouse, have long dark Joan Baez (dyed) hair, and am suckling the bub with an enigmatic smile.
Well, there is a lot of ruin in one woman. 🙂
We need investment into community projects which keep kids off the street and provide a sense of purpose and belonging. We need government departments to step up and provide adequate housing. Safety and security are core needs. Stability in housing and a reduction of overcrowding will help reduce crime.
They are called families.
I have a suspicion I had this lady in court when we were trying for bail for a kid.
Nice enough, and very frustrated because we could not find a single “responsible adult” or crisis accommodation in Feraldton for the kid (about 11-12 from memory) , we even considered sticking him with a cousin who had just been released from jail.
That poor kid ended up stuck in the lockup.
Everyone in court wanted him out, but there wasnt an option available, all his extended family were drug/alcohol fucked dregs.
Care homes are awful, but 2nd worst thing that can happen to the kids.
Best Ive seen is a handful of older ladies who foster care and give the kids lives structure and positive feedback.
But they were preyed upon by the pisswrecks.
Interesting article, which Dot will NOT like. 😀
The New Gnostics (14 Nov, via Instapundit)
All good, except the author skirts the crazy climate elephant in the room, which is interesting since his thesis is this weird religious stuff started to take off after the 2008 GFC. I’d place the 2009 Hopenhagen climate meeting as when Gaia-luvvin’ really got going too.
The article fits in well with the strange religious stuff at COP 27 which I linked upthread.
Move to town, get a job, be admirably decent and bring up your family as those aboriginal neighbours of mine in the 50’s in Sydney’s western suburbs used to do. They were role models … for us.
Ferrys currently go Catania to Malta six trips a week or via Pozzallo 15 trips a week.
I’m sure much of the traffic is commercial like it was Santa Teresa Gallura to Bonifaco.
Human beings are capable of believing in anything.
There is ample empirical evidence for that all around us, particularly in today’s culture which has long ago slipped loose from its moorings in Judeao-Christian belief.
Depends on the content of the belief, i.e. what is believed.
Morning all,
thanks for well wishes to everyone.
I get so sick of this, lefties creeping into the ‘conservative’ camp with some quite good commentary, but then totally ignoring the major issue that is destroying the world in which we have thrived and need to continue to live – they won’t take on climate change ideology.
Before espousing any sort of conservatism I think it should be mandatory for lefties to show that they have read some of the critiques of the so-called climate ‘science’. They should be chastened by it.
Wow. It’s amazing what a bit of contextual interpretation can do.
Should be more of it here!
Lady that lives in my local town has the Aboriginal children from down the street knocking on her door, asking if they can sleep in her spare room. “Mums out of bed at 7 o’clock, and pizzed by 9, Dad’s out of jail on parole, breached the conditions of his parole in two days, and he’s back inside.” How’s that the fault of the system?
He will not, in fact, back a Democrat.
Now frowned upon because it “denies the kids their culture.”
Some left loonies even regard it as an extension of colonial “genocide.”
Murdoch, like all the MSM, think they are more important than the voters.
The French disposed of most of these presumptuous impostors in a rather graphic and horrible way when it all got too much. Of course these ones don’t think it will ever happen again, and especially not to them.
I’m pretty sure Fox fell in line and backed Biden following the steal.
I don’t pretend to know Murdoch’s world view; but all I know is that he is an opportunist (and his value demonstrates this). Why does Sky News have a whole bunch of left-of-centre presenters during the day? Why conservatives at night? Why does Fox have daytime presenters that belong on CNN and then also Tucker? More diversity at Fox than their ABC.
He’s an opportunist.
Must be almost time for a thread change. Tempus fugit!
Sometimes you win one .. LOL! .. few weeks ago when electric bills were in topic flavour I bemoaned that no one was watching that other utility water as my quarterly water was higher than my electric ..
Just got this quarter’s water in .. Credit of $17.35 .. meter misread last quarter .. so nuttin’ to pay for the next 3 months …….
I do check the meter reads on gas, electric & water but for some reason, known only to the water folk, the meter numbers on the bill are always 2 quarters behind the current date …..!
Jab jab booster…………………………wait!
When we last looked at Indonesia their massive wave in Covid cases had just peaked after ivermectin was approved again on July 15th. Since then the cases have dropped from 50,000 a day to about 900. On a per capita basis today Indonesia is managing Covid about ten times better than Australia. Think about that.
https://joannenova.com.au/2021/10/indonesia-cut-covid-by-98-with-ivermectin-while-australia-grew-cases-500-with-lock-n-vax/
How To Eliminate Democrats’ Massive Single Women Electoral Advantage
In the 2022 midterms, single women voted Democrat by 37 points. Marriage detachment needs to be addressed because it’s not going away.
It is by now well-established that Democrats benefit from increasing women’s misery through increased family chaos. That’s the flip side of yet another election showing that single women are among the most reliable of Democrat voters.
Given that historically unprecedented percentages of young Americans are likely to remain single for their entire lives — more than one-third, according to Brad Wilcox — this dynamic is only accelerating. UnHerd’s Mary Harrington relates the phenomenon partly to the Information Age’s dramatically increased remuneration for work that doesn’t involve hard physical labor:
This is true, but it misses something important, too. Like woke institutions, the bureaucratization of work is in large part a product of political choices, not just technological change. That means it can be altered.
It’s government policies that force companies to siphon off money from making legitimately useful things and solving concrete human problems to parasitic forms of “knowledge work” that are also culturally destructive. These nonproductive forms of non-physical and mentally menial work are often grouped under the heading of “administrative bloat” in academia, and they aren’t exclusive to so-called education institutions at all. They are now endemic to society.
Many, many so-called “knowledge work” jobs are anti-productive. That is, they actually destroy productivity rather than aid, improve, and refine it.
Not coincidentally, either, women do most of these jobs. They comprise the vast army of woke state clerks, which is to say the cultural revolution foot soldiers. It’s not a coincidence that women overwhelmingly populate the government jobs that replace the social responsibilities women used to fulfill out of love instead of for a government paycheck.
Men are a canary in the societal coal mine. Women may be more emotionally fragile, but boys more easily and quickly show the strain of a broken family and society. Girls hide their suffering with compliance. Boys don’t as much. The boys are very obviously hurting and have been for a long time — while virtually nobody with power has paid attention to their decades of painful screams that typically subside into the silence of zombie life online and self-destruction with both legal and illegal drugs.
Boys are the ones given ADHD medications fastest to deal with their parents’ divorce and the plain reality of being male (i.e., active). They are the ones fastest to drop out of school and life, as Harrington points out. And that is not all their fault either. The schools and increasingly the workforce are hostile environments for men. A bureaucratized workplace is an anti-man workplace, as it is men who are quickest to see how stupid, wasteful, and demeaning are jobs that don’t actually accomplish anything but micromanaging other people’s choices.
Yes, we have a messaging problem of big advertisers like Honda encouraging young people to make themselves deeply unhappy by glorifying lifelong loneliness. Yes, we have young women foolishly rejecting both motherhood and marriage because that’s what they’re told to do by our toxic cultural arbiters, and they don’t understand how to encourage men to man up.
It is, in fact, absolutely mandatory to reverse our national decline. For national decline starts in the home, and American homes at this point barely exist.
The real issue is the system. It is a system failure which has not provided adequate services by our people for our people. Nor has it met their needs of our people after we have been taken away from our families, from our culture and been dispossessed of our land and identities.
I’m so sick of this bullshit; after 47000 years of environmental vandalism on a scale never seen before or since, constant warfare and savagery whitee gets the blame for bringing the best social and economic system to their feet. Strip them naked and set them free in the Simpson desert.
New OT up at noon.
See Statistica:
Countries with the largest number of prisoners per 100,000 of the national population, as of May 2021
Number of prisoners per 100,000 population
Australia doesn’t even make the list. Of course, the argument would be it does not distinguish as to whether a prisoner is “indigenous” or not.
https://unherd.com/2022/11/a-sex-war-is-coming/
A few days, ago, answering the question about women’s rights and gas prices, one young woman said:
“Everything in the world has got significantly worse since we gave women the right to vote. So I honestly think we should just lower gas prices.”