Canvassing for Votes, William Hogarth, 1755
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This morning, in between fixing a few bundles of Dendrobium kingiunum to some trees and other domestic mooching around, I was reading up on Norman Selfe. I stumbled across the name after seeing a picture of one of his houses – I had done some major work there many years ago.
What a guy! And…he went head to head with the government of the day (and Sydney University) over technical education. Ahead of his times in so many ways. Worth a look to see how far we have fallen as innovators and hard workers.
Clean-up from Halloween festivities? Pulled out of a skip and saved for next year?
Or…
It is NYC after all.
“The generation that’s going to be voting within the next 5 years aren’t going to be taking any of this woke or big government shit.”
I find the younger generation completely enthralled by this woke shit.
Unpaywalled version: https://cdn.newsapi.com.au/image/v1/83ed0ce6d50cdb34d841444a6d5d36d1
Kids used to rebel against the adults. What has happened? Brainwashing techniques are better nowadays?
The electrification thing isn’t going well.
Costs of Wind and Solar Energy Are Skyrocketing | Power Line (22 Nov)
“The average cost of electricity generated by wind turbines has almost doubled in three years, and yet governments continue their irrational policies that can only drive the cost of power higher.”
Report: Used Electric Vehicles ‘Too Expensive’ Compared to Diesel, Petrol Alternatives (22 Nov)
Government to Beg Public to Turn Down Heating as Possible Blackouts Loom (22 Nov)
“UK government officials are set to urge the general public to turn down their heating as fears over possible winter blackouts loom. Britons are to be asked by their government to turn down their heating before Christmas in a bid to save energy, reporting on Monday morning has claimed.”
So Bowen claiming that renewable electricity is the cheapest is wrong. In fact it is more expensive than any other in overall grid terms. Especially as now we’re at the point where the energy companies are turning off people’s solar panels remotely during the day. That make the cost of production even worse since the original capital cost is being paid back by less production.
I know someone who was a candidate in what is now a Teal seat. This person reckons it was the young and the parents – particularly the mothers being hen-pecked by their kids to vote for the Teal because of gerbil warming. I suspect there’s a whole bunch of male and female Gretas in these idyllic burbs scared to death the climate will kill them. These enclaves hold close to the richest people in the world outside of a few other places.
The media reports that the hundred undecided voters narrowly awarded the debate to TaliDan.
Considering that undecided voters are usually heavily peppered with lying leftists it’s not good news for the dictator.
Guy‘s blandness may be appealing to an electorate sick of Andrew’s precipitous actions.
I’m cautiously optimistic.
The four protests lending up to the Pandemic Bill vote saw them increase dramatically in numbers, up to a point where there were undoubtedly several hundred thousand on the street. My first was not that large, but gee, it gathered pace quickly every week.
As I said yesterday, courage is contagious. People saw others doing it, and they stepped up accordingly. It got momentum, and it grew. Dan is getting cruelled by the average Joe on social media. The mainstream media (windsocks) are doing likewise. The smell of Dan’s filthy shit is blowing under everyone’s nose, and the dissent is growing. It has momentum.
Is that momentum going to grow enough before Saturday, and is it going to send the vote in the right direction? As I said, I’m cautiously optimistic. If all the kooks are confined to a couple of inner city, teal electorates, we might have a chance.
Gez
Really tough to beat them I think.
88 seats total
55 Liars
3 Greenscum
21 Libs
6 nats.
They have to turn 18 seats for a majority? Hard push I think.
Here’s a home truth.
Guy might not be any better. He might not have fought against Dan’s ‘Enabling Act’. He may have even done exactly the same thing, under the same circumstances. However, after next Saturday, either Dan or Guy is going to be Premier. Dan did it to us. He is the guilty party. Guy is not. Retribution is good enough for me at the moment. We might wish for more, but it’s a binary (and wholly unsavoury) choice.
change that, 17 seats.
Regarding the fragility of the German power grid, the whole edifice is managed by politicians, people who know next to nothing of how things work. Their first mistake is to rush to decarbonise to feel the green superiority rush. Next they relied on Putin for their alternative source of energy, a man who is capricious and ready to punish any slights. How could supposedly clever people be so stupid?
They finally have some technical people in charge now scrambling to find “alternative” energy sources in the form of going back to good old carbon. This makes me smile. Will it work? We and they are about to find out.
the act of submitting engenders submission
the ethical and psycho-social case for perpetual petty rebellion.
Another great one from Bad Cattitude.
adverse results from adverse selection
navigating our way out of the outrage economy
Tax filing websites have been sending users’ financial information to Facebook
Beyond Meat Gets More Bad News: Leaked Docs Reveal What’s Been Found in Product, Horrid Conditions
The kids will eventually rebel against the current green orthodoxy but it may be too late down the track.
“I know someone who was a candidate in what is now a Teal seat. This person reckons it was the young and the parents – particularly the mothers being hen-pecked by their kids to vote for the Teal because of gerbil warming. I suspect there’s a whole bunch of male and female Gretas in these idyllic burbs scared to death the climate will kill them. These enclaves hold close to the richest people in the world outside of a few other places.”
Correctamundo. I can attest to this living in Wentworth. The Teal fan base was a combination of…
1. Young indoctrinated male and females, children of wealthy parents, at university or university graduates, many of whom would normally vote Green but who thought Allegra was just splendid.
2. Rich uber wealthy females, doctor’s wives, who profess to worry about “da climate” but live in huge houses, travel overseas regularly, are busy planning their next ski trips to Thredbo, Perisher and overseas. Now, walking around the streets where I live, with its big beautiful homes, many had Allegra Da Big Spenda posters festooned out the front. And whilst I think some adult males bought into the Teal cult, I believe many men voted Teal to stop their wives/partners haranguing them. I have some evidence of this.
3. The whole Teal campaign was cult like, it preyed spectacularly on wealthy narcissistic females, who screeched, shouted and screamed about “da climate”.
Back in early May, about two weeks before the election, a close friend rang to say that her elderly mother (aged 88) was being hectored daily by her brother and his wife (both extremely well off) to vote for Da Big Spenda. This close friend was also being hectored to by her brother, to the point where she walked out of a family Shabbat meal. I also know of other stories.
Another friend of mine, with a young newly married daughter, was worried Sharma was going to lose. She asked her daughter who she was going to vote for. Her daughter said Allegra, coz, coz, coz, Mum, Allegra will be sooooo good for “da climate”. This was a a few weeks before the newly married daughter was jetting off on a plane to travel overseas. Note that this very well of young women doesn’t give a toss about a family in say, Penrith, struggling to pay an exorbitant electricity bill, oh no, such concerns are trivial because what matters is “da climate”. All of this selfishness was personified in Da Spenda’s campaign slogan “a better climate for Wentworth”. In other words she and the morons who voted for her don’t give a shit about the rest of Australia.
The disconnect is incredible. You have to admire Svengali Simon, he knew exactly what he was doing, he did his homework, and he cleaned up, big time.
Dr. Mengele has spoken
Anthony Fauci Urges Americans to Get COVID Tests Before Thanksgiving: ‘Everybody Should Be Vaccinated’
and
KJP HAS EXTREME MELTDOWN AT PERSISTENT JOURNALISTS, RAGES THAT THEY’RE WASTING DR. FAUCI’S LIMITED SPEAKING TIME
And
Disclose.tv
@disclosetv
NOW – “God gave you two arms” to get your COVID and flu shot, says the White House COVID Response Director.
They’re doubling down on the clot shot. I think we’ve passed the point of plausible deniability.
The outrage about Twitter is confection. They need an excuse to cut losses and leave before the level of fake likes and followers is known.
CBS News on Twitter for example; 9 million followers, 30 or so likes per story.
A human, singular celebrity with that ratio would be laughed back into small town obscurity.
Crossie says:
November 23, 2022 at 7:44 am
I have no problem with politicians not being experts on technology and stuff, but I do have a problem with them selecting “expert” advisors who are aligned with their own ideology.
Why not get both sides and decide on merit?
sounds like the perfect location for (gulp) – renewballs.
Seriously. This is the only type of place they make sense: remote ($$ fuel), contained (one source of electricity, no complex grid to deal with), plenty of sunlight and wind.
Put a solar array and a battery in place, keep the diesel genset as night/backup, and the diesel consumption can be cut by 50+%.
Its an expensive upfront investment, but pays off at today’s fuel prices.
eg: Lord Howe Island
Diesel consumption was 550,000 l/year. Not sure what their landed price is, but it all needs to be shipped from the mainland and they charge something like $4/l to the public at the servo.
Let’s assume $2.50/l. So about ~$1.4M/yr.
Solar array (1MW) with battery (3.7MWh) cost ~ $10.5M.
It now generates ~70% (annual average) of the power. So that’s saving of almost $1M/year.
http://photonscada.com/data/perspective/client/LHI
(btw – I do realise diesel fuel excise is ~$50c/l and should be taken off the diesel price, but shipping the stuff on a weekly barge from the coast is pretty expensive, so I think the numbers still add up).
I agree, JC, it’s a big ask.
But let’s not forget that between that election and this one, Dan perpetuated the most appalling and disgraceful events in Australian history. Every action creates an equal but opposite reactions. Unprecedented actions with create unprecedented reactions.
Everything’s on the table at the moment, IMHO. Past results can’t be used to model futures ones, when such momentous, life altering events lay in between.
JAMES WOODS OMINOUSLY PREDICTS THAT ‘THE LAPTOP WILL END THIS ADMINISTRATION’ AND BE ‘BIGGER THAN WATERGATE’
A break-in vs. institutional corruption, perversion and utter sleaze. Hmmm.
A national disgrace.
Straya beaten – nay, flogged, in the Falling Over Without Being Touched championships.
By….. the French.
Scientific Study finds Organ Transplant Rejection is being caused by COVID Vaccine-Induced Spike Proteins
White House Announces ‘New Enforcement Guidance’ on COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates
Nursing homes must “educate” their residents.
Elon Musk Sets Mainstream Media Straight: “As is obvious to all but the media, there is not one permanent ban on even the most far left account spouting utter lies”
Is that house on St Helena still available?
Emmanuel Macron Comes Clean: “We Need A Single Global Order” (22 Nov)
South Pole Hits Record Cold November Temperatures
Indolent, at the moment he’s my most favourite African American.
Sure, except he’s being too gentle. Hiden, his son and hiden’s brother should be in jail for many years under current laws.
And everything else.
HHS Report Recommends Mask Mandates for ‘Long COVID’ (22 Nov)
“A new Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) report suggests the need for masking and social distancing mandates to protect people from “long COVID.” “
This is insane. Masks and social distancing don’t work and long covid is probably due to the vaccines making people more susceptible to covid infection after 3-6 months. Persistent infections are just the sort of thing that cause autoimmune diseases.
Rick, that Johnny would be a bit of a roadtrip to get back… looks on the good side of cast-for-age though.
Good tractors, 6000s in spuds and loader work is lovely. I’m wary of the Greenline Services mark-up and the diagnostic interfaces though, I’ve heard some nightmare stories of 20 man hours of separating the front end from the back to replace a $200 sensor… which looked to all intents like a $2 fuse.
Daily newsletter mailout from Rowan Dean’s Spectator Australia:
I’m with Mater. The Melbourne middle class has its baseball bats out, but this weekend’s state election will be a rerun of of the May federal election with the loony left [a.k.a. the Teals] eating the state government’s lunch.
Let’s talk tractors.
The 2020 US Presidential election is still being prosecuted
The 2022 mid term elections are still being counted and disputed
AZ may well have another election and 3 million people are protesting in Brazil.
If Lake becomes governor she is the missile that will destroy the cheating election industrial complex.
RINO Kinzinger takes on Catturd, loses abjectly…
Social Media Conservatives Mock Rep. Adam Kinzinger After He Threatens Catturd over Meme (22 Nov)
RTWT
“Long COVID” is too vague a term, it’s a chum bucket ready to tip any syndrome or sniffle into.
I’m starting to chip in “sounds like Short COVID” as I continuously hear about depressed and dysfunctional kids. “Johnny’s got obstructive disorder, Jo’s got anxiety, Jack’s got diabetes and Jenny’s got school refusal eh? Sounds like they’ve got Short Covid. It’s what you get when you LOCK PEOPLE IN THEIR HOMES, CANCEL ALL SCHOOL AND EVENTS, SLAP ON MASKS, JAB ARMS WITH DODGY NEEDLES AT THE THREAT OF UNEMPLOYMENT AND MAKE EVERYONE SHOW THEIR IRIS SCANS TO THE GAULEITERS JUST TO BUY BREAD.”
Oh yea, Lake as the Arizona gov will ban mail-in voting in Michigan, Pennsylvania and other blue states. Explain how?
Arizona’s problematic counties stopped the off-the-street voting by (convenient)
problems with tabulation. Lots of folks walked off.
That didn’t happen elsewhere, so where’s the Lake-missile heading?
Hahaha Tom.
long covid is nothing to do with vaccine, the symptoms are entirely different
My uber progressive boss told me he wants to have his fifth jab. I said “really, how many jabs are you gonna have, 10, 15, 20?”
He didn’t respond.
Jabba dabba doo.
facebook shows me ads for stuff from google. they all share data without consent and no way to stop it.
And suddenly Shantaram has found a “wifey”.
Funny, for the life of me I can’t recall him talking about anyone other than Shantaram before. Well, apart from 1. posters here he hates, and then later on when he wants to appear “more human” 2. posters here he needs for affirmation.
It’s like his self-authoring book has come to the place where it says “you need to fill in your backstory a bit Karen, you’re starting to look like an egotistical only child with anger issues. Let’s talk about anger issues. Do you hate so many happy people because you hate your own parent so much?”
Well, Obama did say that electing her would be a danger to “their” democracy.
I was thinking something entirely different. A mini-reactor.
They could locate it on one of the smaller islands. Plenty of water.
After what the French got up to in the Pacific, what’s a bit of fallout between friends?
There’s an article in the Oz to the effect that Origin energy fears an anti-green backlash because of rising energy prices – well duhhh! The comments are very entertaining, pretty much 100% against renewables and there is a lot of condemnation of our betters who are doing this to us. One comment I noticed was:
15 of Australia’s most experienced electrical and nuclear engineers are traveling to Canberra this Thursday to educate and inform the 227 mps and their staffers about the failings of the planned electricity grid.
Lead by the firmer CEO of Ansto, Dr Adi Paterson, the politicians will be informed that excessive renewable energy from wind and solar will deliver poor quality electricity at a far greater systems cost than hydro or SMR technology
Does anyone know anything about this? In my experience talking to liars politicians about this issue is like conducting a psychiatric examination of a person with a fixed paranoid psychotic delusion.
Leading by example, like DeSantis. Take no prisoners, with plenty of media experience to deal with the rabble. Also, cleaning up the voting rules and showing how it can be done. Just look at Florida.
good point – a small modular reactor would work well – but needs to be completely idiot-proof and maintenance free for such a situation.
Here we go. Another piece of gobbledy-gook climate propaganda supposedly based on science. It is full of contradictions and speculation. https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/bom-and-the-csiro-state-of-the-climate-2022-report-shows-warming-trends-continue/ar-AA14qsXj
Note the introductory para in the ABC report talks about this being a biannual (bi-annual) report. I think this is incorrect? “Bi-annual” means twice a year, or two times within a 365-day period. So if you hire a heating company to do a bi-annual cleaning of your furnace, they will send someone out once in the summer and once in the winter—of the same year. “Biennial,” on the other hand, means once every two years. The CSIRO website says :
So the ABC can’t even get its first para correct. You do wonder what else is misreported !
Sorry, sorry, sorry Tom. I went to press RTWT on your BB comment and pressed the Report of Doom!
It wasn’t the Taliban wot dun it.
Heh. Like a genset. The horrors I have seen!
It would only be a small “boom” after all.
The blog has been around since 2001.
If you didn’t know X, it doesn’t mean it is untrue.
Anyway, we beat Lavatory Rodeo and their urban bugmen bigots into submission.
I don’t know but in my experience ANSTO had been pretty good…unlike CSIRO which was off with the fairies. I haven’t had any contact with them for a fair while though.
ANSTO was always anathema to greens and lefties, so was somewhat immunized against progressivism since there was nothing they could ever do to make them liked. So they didn’t bother.
Having a flat iphone and the power out is going to be a learning moment.
Most of them, being used to electricity on demand, won’t have thought to have charged power banks to plug in to.
Tom: this weekend’s state election will be a rerun of of the May federal election with the loony left [a.k.a. the Teals] eating the state government’s lunch.
The Teals are just Greens in disguise…
Voy Forums (Jason) —> Typepad (Jason, Andrew, Theresa, Jeremy? Tom V)—> Blogger —> WordPress (Jason, Andrew Tom V) —> Sinc (+Kates, Judith [my infamous last ever comment on the site, “Last.” 🙂 as well as some ripping guest posts about Superannuation is a scam and a bill of rights]) —> Dover (some unpublished rambling about Sortition!). But also monty (hahaha) and almost me or Adam D.
A rich cultural tapestry.
Kind of like a “pile of worms”. :rolleyes:
Then in 2005, we had the great monetary thread of doom.
It made Bird turn full on crypto Wahibbi Moslem, anti semite (as we said on Sinc’s Cat, “anti-cementite”) and against capitalism.
It broke his brain. He couldn’t handle the intellectual pressure of reading von Mises and Rothbard.
BOM and CSIRO State of the Climate out today. Usual bullshit; no good news such as record agriculture or NASA’s greening of the planet. Usual tropes:
1 Temp increase of 1.5C over last 150 years. Ignores metrification in 1972 where faulty conversion added at least 0.4C to Australia’s temp. Plus the temp network has been adjusted 3 times over the last 10 years, each time showing an increase in the modern temp and a cooling of the past. The Australian temp increase is a scandal.
2 Sea level increasing. Contradicted by the Pacific Sea Level and Geodetic Monitoring Project run by the BOM since 1993 which shows no sea level rise, or ocean warming over the last 30 years.
3 CO2 levels highest they’ve been for 2 million years. Debatable because of problems with retrieving ice core data; but even if true, the increase is natural. CO2 increase is not due to human emissions. Figure 7.3 from AR4 clearly shows that. If humans only put out 3.67% of the annual emissions human CO2 can’t be responsible for the increase.
I have some insights into the way the younger generation think due to two daughters, and their bevy of friends.
The boys are normal enough. They want a job, a car, and a good time, usually in that order except for some losers who want it the other way around. They chase girls, and most are sensible enough to want a real job such as being a tradie.
The girls are the Lefties. Particularly if they have been to uni. In the main they believe the seas are rising, we have to “tackle climate change”, and the world can be put right if we “tax the rich” more. They are sympathetic to anything “indigenous” and believe “crime can be fixed”.
This phase seems to last until they are sensible enough – if! – to find a bloke to have kids with. Then the balance turns around as they realise crime is real, and the world isn’t going to end. Their values orientate themselves around a secure home and the ability to bring up the rugrats in a sensible safe way.
“Murpharoo” at The Grauniad is reporting on a survey which has revealed that social cohesion is at a “tipping point” in Australia as economic pressures erode our sense of national belonging and our trust in others, including the government.
The spectre of American-style political tribalism is mentioned.
On a positive note, local communities and neighbourhoods remain resilient.
Under these conditions, alternative political parties should include subsidiarity in their platforms and encourage people to take back control of their lives.
Calli, I don’t know if you have read the original book by Jennifer Worth, a true life story that the initial TV series did well (as you say, before it became the soapie it is now). I came across this book looking for reading on a wet day in my sister-in-law’s bookshelf in the UK in 2002 when it was first published, and was hugely impressed by it. The glossary of cockney terms and the discussion on accents at the end of it was indicative of how seriously she took cockney culture. The singing of the nuns in Nonatus House in the TV series added more tears to the stories. Wiki adds this interesting fact re that name:
It’s a truism:
“Only when the lights go out, will people begin to see.” – Mater
Don’t take this as a defence of the Tea Ladies, please, but…
They may be many things but they’re not hard core Commie ideologues like the Greens.
Great to see the Chinks getting what they deserve after deliberately spreading this virus to the world, closing all domestic flights from Wuhan but continuing international flights.
TrialSite News has been covering the Covid epidemic in China and the nation’s efforts to quell the spread of the virus. China has had a zero tolerance Covid policy, as well as imposed strict lockdowns on the Chinese population. Regardless of the efforts of China’s government, Covid is still spreading in the Asian nation, particularly in large cities. Now, China once again is urging its population to stay home, especially in one city, Chaoyang, but the breakout of new cases isn’t limited.
Rogersays:
November 23, 2022 at 9:25 am
“Murpharoo” at The Grauniad is reporting on a survey which has revealed that social cohesion is at a “tipping point” in Australia as economic pressures erode our sense of national belonging and our trust in others, including the government.
Might I assume that there is no mention at all of the importation of very large numbers of culturally incompatible immigrants over the last three decades? No “elephant in the room” moment from “Murpharoo”?
Whoops missed the link, again.
https://www.trialsitenews.com/a/outbreak-of-covid-in-china-brings-back-lockdowns-734152eb
JC have you not contemplated what the domino effect would be if AZ decertified 2020?
For those who weren’t here, and haven’t already read about it. Yes, it really happened. No, it’s not made up. Yes, it’s parody (or at least slightly tongue-in-cheek), but the outrage and panic was real.
Blackout in Melbourne’s inner-northern suburbs turns into #hipstergeddon
Cohenite, the response usually given to me when I point out the BS from CSIRO and BoM is: “Surely, all of the media, CSIRO and BoM would tell the same lie!” “Would they?”
slavery!
wouldn’t
“They may be many things but they’re not hard core Commie ideologues like the Greens.”
Correct, they’re much, much stupider.
Correct, they’re much, much stupider.
And the Teal policies will have much the same outcomes as desired by the hard core Commies. Lenin had a phrase for people like this ” Useful idiots”.
She does mention that European migrants are favoured over those from elsewhere.
Somewhat paradoxically, given the main take away of the survey, support for multiculturalism reportedly remains high. But then, that can mean different things to people, so a favourable response would not be hard to obtain by putting the question in an innocuous way.
No, until you brought it up. Az would decertify and re-run the elections under court supervision. There’s no domino. Also, I’m not entirely sure you’re barking up the right tree. Once elections are certified, they’re crystalized. Donesky and there’s no coming back.
Waffles, what brought on that anger spasm? Was it something I said?
If the tractor comment triggered you, frankly I’m a little offended as it appears to be racist. Can’t people of my ethnic group discuss tractors? 🙂
And I do have a wifey, for a very long time in fact. She’s not a vet though and I’m not a house-hubbie.
They don’t put the effort into training.
I think it’s been mis-spelled — seeing as it’s the ABfnC — the introduction should have read – Bianal because there’s twice as much shit in the introduction.
New drop Nov 18
Runbeck.
Dominion.
SOS Offices.
Investigators.
Researchers.
Whistleblowers.
Patriots in trusted positions.
Trust yourself.
You have seen the truth.
Time to show the world.
Focus.
FOCUS.
Ascension.
Cue
We are currently watching each night on Netflix an episode of the 5th series of The Crown. The first episode, with us jetlagged on Saturday nite, seemed to us rather stilted and poorly scripted and we didn’t hold out high hopes, but persevered. It soon got a lot better. It has a slightly off-narrative structure, taking the interesting tack of looking intensively at certain often unremarked aspects of Royal matters, straying from the usual timeline path with this timej-umping focus. It seems less sequential than the previous series. For instance, last nite’s episode started in 1917 with a message delivered to King George V and Queen Alexandra, cross-cutting this with the Duke of Edinburgh’s interest in carriage racing and friendship with a bereaved young relative. In a round-about way we become sympathetic to the sadness felt by two old married people feeling they are growing apart, as the Duke becomes more Orthodox in his religious interests (given his ancestry) and the Queen feels somewhat abandonned and keen to protect the actions taken by George V and Queen Alexandra that led to the Czarist slaughter at Ekaterinburg.
I am pleased to report that in this series there is a lot of interpretive guesswork woven into what we know as history, which makes it more interesting, albeit highly contestable, because that is how history eventually becomes written as the living zeitgeist viewpoints fade.
An earlier episode put an unusual spin on the sadness and anger behind Princess Margaret’s alcoholism and tensions with the Queen. And the Prince of Wales’ love for Camilla (the tampon tale) is given a far more sympathetic hearing than usual vs the perhaps now fading view of ‘Diana magic’, with Princess Anne offering sisterly support to Charles vs the patriarch Duke whom Charles always disappoints.
Custard
Runbeck is the one triggering me. It’s very serious by the sounds of it. WTF does it mean?
I was going to offer this broad analogy:
The Greens are Bolsheviks, the Teals are Mensheviks.
Big_Nambas, I’m going to do a bit of speculating here seeing as Covid is not as dangerous to the general population as we were led to believe.
What if there is opposition to Emperor Xi and this is his way of quelling the unrest? Lockdowns serve several purposes, one is no visible protests. Another is everyone is isolated and don’t know there are others who think like them. Third, it shows the world the problem is Covid and not the dear emperor. It also masks any other problems and causes for unease and unrest among the population.
Sadly for us and the rest of the world, our “leaders” are watching and learning.
They both used to be great agony over budgets. Certainly CSIRO was. I think BoM was too. I recall once when CSIRO were told by the government they had to get 30% of the budget from the private sector. It was a lot of fun watching the slightly otherworldly CSIRO people visiting us to try to drum up business. It tended not to work because they weren’t very competent, even though they had good kit. (You could get decent work out of them but you had to scope it carefully, then straightjacket them ruthlessly to keep them from going off on tangents. That sucked so much mental energy from us to do all that it wasn’t worth the effort.)
Then global warming came and solved all their budgetary problems overnight…
I have zero interest in the affairs (!) of the royal family and watch little TV, but I saw it reported that Charles is furious with Harry because there are details in the latest series that could only have come from an insider. I understand Harry & Meghan have a $100m contract with Netflix that has thus far produced little material of note.
I have a small gadget that you can charge via a usual phone charger, so it starts charged, and which you can in an emergency use to charge your phone in daylight hours as it has a small solar panel in it for that. It can also double as an emergency light, but I think the solar phone charge is the main deal.
Being without a phone in an enduring blackout means you can’t call emergency help.
Stupid to waste phone charge during a blackout on anything but emergency matters.
Charging your phone in the car would also be an alternative if you can spare the petrol.
I understand Runbeck prints the ballot papers
Oh , sounded really sinister, Custard.
I have an historical and constitutional interest in the Crown, Roger, so look at various representations in the same way I look at interpretations of Henry the Eighth’s wives, admiring the inventive flexibility of some interpretations for their novelistic claims.
But like most others, I also do it for the sheer gossip value of it re people who are still living or not long dead. 🙂
Thanks for the tip re the author of Call the Midwife, Lizzie. Mrs TE likes the TV series, and also autobiographies, and so I searched the local library for the bio; they have it and I have reserved the first book for her.
I dont know what these Covid bedwetter countries like China are thinking. It is not possible for any vaccine to provide sterlizing immunity for upper respiratory tract viruses. Since this is true, it is not possible to vaccinate out of this pandemic. My observation from data online is that it is not until around 50% or so of the population has gotten Covid does it become a nothing burger. Locking down simply delays this process and stuffs the economy at the same time. Sweden had this right from day one.
No. 1 son is in a relationship with (I believe that’s the term) a young lady with two degrees who refused to get vaccinated. It’s early days so we haven’t really gotten into politics but I suspect she’s a libertarian of sorts. She must be an outlier.
The disclosures of her numerous infidelities did little to help any magic.
Does beg the question what do they know that we don’t, since they engineered the virus. On the other hand it’s quite clear that none of the controls work in the long run, so they’re like someone trying to stop an advancing lava flow from burning their house down. Fairly futile.
Re: Long Covid and vaccine.
Zipster, you are right in that Long Covid is not the product of the vaccine per se. It seems clear enough that Long Covid is just a new nomenclature for Post Viral Syndrome which has been recognised for many years. This syndrome appears to be the result of a dysregulated immune or nervous system. To my knowledge, it has never been systemically investigated and for many years has pooh-poohed by the medical profession. I witnessed my poor mother’s suffering for many years with this syndrome after contracting Ross River Fever.
Very likely, the Covid spike pathogen has a mechanism of dysregulation that we imperfectly understand at this time. No doubt some individuals are more susceptible than others to its effects.
On the other hand, I am strongly suspicious that the vaccines may exacerbate that susceptibility. It would be interesting to see how often, if at all, the unvaccinated succumb to Long Covid. Theoretically, there is no reason why they should not – just as with any similar virus – but I doubt if we have any statistics. Maybe the FLCCC does.
TRUMP v. UNITED STATES
(MAL “Raid” case)
“Plaintiff President Donald J. Trump, through undersigned counsel, respectfully moves this Court for an order requiring the Government to provide him and his counsel with an unredacted version of the August 5, 2022, search warrant affidavit.”
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.618763/gov.uscourts.flsd.618763.189.0.pdf
BTW, Geert Van Den Bossche, who has been so right about the post Covid world, has always insisted that the unvaccinated have little to fear about “immune escape” of the virus in respect to more severe immune responses to further mutations of Covid.
AN AMERICAN BACK FROM ABROAD
Finally, just when you think Europe is finished, you run across something like this—a paper placemat, of all things, in a Florence bistro I stumbled into randomly. The waiter was especially proud of its English-language message, and happy that an American approved of it:
Boom
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/11/breaking-bolsonaros-party-brazil-files-legal-complaint-challenging-lulas-election-steal/
The doco Died Suddenly has already over 1m views. Watch the entire movie on Twitter
https://twitter.com/stefanovp2013/status/1594938245397241856?s=61&t=oaizxTIJ6SzWHtOT756c4Q
Socialists need other people’s money.
You’d have to be an evil Capitalist to think they should be happy to
freely give their labour to throw off the shackles of Capitalism.
Victorian motorist’s anti-Daniel Andrews plates cancelled by Vic Roads
A Victorian motorist has hit out after having anti-Daniel Andrews number plates cancelled by the state’s roads corporation.
A Victorian motorist has expressed his frustration after having anti-Daniel Andrews number plates cancelled by the state’s roads corporation.
The man, who is only identified as Peter, said VicRoads banned him from using plates that spell DANOUT on his Commodore station wagon.
“Freedom of speech obviously not allowed in Victoria,’ he told 3AW on Monday.
“They’ve offered me a refund but I don’t know, I’ll have to do something different. I’m very, very annoyed.”
Peter went on to mention he had brandished registration plates that read RUDDUD, in reference to former prime minister Kevin Rudd, since 2008.
Marriage material.
Now, for the article of the century.
Because she’s the hag Australia deserves, but not the one it needs right now. So we’ll mock her. Because she can’t take it. Because she’s not our hag.
I know many here have woken in the morning and thought themselves impoverished by not reading an article on Jane Caros vagina.
I am a river to my people..
Menstrual and menopause leave would be a win not just for women, but for all of Australia
Jane Caro
Ivividly remember sensing the tell-tale wetness between my thighs that signalled the need to change my tampon.* I remember how horrible it was if it happened in the middle of an important meeting.** The dread of leaving a stain on my clothes, or worse, the chair – why must they be upholstered in cream?*** I remember the impossibility of concentrating as I obsessed over impending mortification. I knew that the meeting that would laugh at a fart would gasp in horror at a spreading red stain.
It’s been 13 wonderful years since I last had a period. I call this stage of life the sunny uplands of post menopause. It’s why I believe that, contrary to conventional wisdom, ageing is easier for women than men. Some things in our lives vastly improve – for blokes it’s all deficit. It’s amazing how much head space not bleeding every 28 days can free up.****
….
That is why I am so delighted Australian unions are planning a campaign to introduce menstrual and menopausal leave for workers who need it.*****
followed by
I am delighted for all sorts of reasons. Firstly, because – at long last – it recognises the disproportionate price women pay for producing the next generation. When it comes to sexual reproduction, men get all the fun, while women do the work.
then
Cheaper childcare and investing in public education would also help.
….
I dont think this use of figures is helping her as much as she imagined it would.
Given Australian women remain No 1 in the world for educational participation and achievement according to the World Economic Forum, but have fallen to 70th for economic participation and achievement
…
A ritual abasement at the clay god of progressivism.
Making earning a living easier for women and anyone with a functioning uterus makes it much easier for them to decide to have children.
* Change the bloody thing you disgusting reprobate. It not “bung in for a week and ignore”.
** 30+ years of a bleeding vag and “i have an important meeting today, Ill duck to the ladies and swap out my fanny rag so i dont gush bodily fluids over the table” ever sprang to mind?
*** Da Patri-Archie!!
**** So women are defective men because they obsess about bleeding vages?
***** Magic money economics, where benefits to the ladies dont cost men anything..
I think the media ‘nudge’ units beat this up to push people to get the gene therapy.
Interesting bets on tech. Both Clippy-level epic faceplants. I don’t think Microsoft spent $10 big ones on Clippy though.
Amazon Alexa is a “colossal failure,” on pace to lose $10 billion this year (22 Nov, via Instapundit)
Meta has burned $15 billion trying to build the metaverse — and nobody’s saying exactly where the money went (14 Oct)
If I was Elon I wouldn’t be offering Metaverse or Alexa coders any job at slimmed-down Twitter.
Rejigged to extend the narrative.
I think that’s why my application for the SMH Chief Editor position was not shortlisted.
I spent some down-time getting further into Richard Weavers 1948 classic Ideas have Consequences over the last few days.
Its amazing how spot on it is with regard to the current waves of obsessive psychoses and their destructive influence on a cohesive society.
Most indubitably!
How trans exclusionary can you get!
Haven’t read it, but Orwell wrote his classic in 1948 also. Many people have noted in recent years how the Left seem to be using that novel as a manual rather than a warning.
Erm…and just who, other than a woman, would have a functioning uterus?
Every survey I have seen shows that a majority people with long covid who have the vaccine get worst. the next highest group is no change and some smaller percentage get better. The official narrative is that the vax reduces incidence of long covid by 10% or so, but of course they have plausible deniability as to vax injuries.
The post infection symptoms that are the most severe are usually delayed by months are have little correlation to the severity of the original infection.
Everyone knows what the problem is and that is the toxic spike protein which as been shown to persist in the blood for at least as long as this attack started.
It is absolutely not in Big Pharma’s interest to draw attention to this as the vax is a spike protein factory delivery system. The captured medical establishment play, hear no evil, see no evil, and thou shalt not speak any evil.
Vax injuries are far more destructive than the viral infection, as the immune system will destroy the cells that manufacture the the toxic spike protein. Despite the official narrative that this doesn’t happen. One obvious reason is that the mRNA has been modified to survive for weeks if not months, whereas normal viral mRNA lifetime is measured in minutes. Also likely is a cell that is overloaded with toxic spike protein and may destroy itself, resulting in the immune targeting antibodies to the cells normal contents and developing auto-immune disease.
We were mislead by china into thinking this is a respiratory disease, it is not, it is primarily a vascular disease.
What I find utterly bizarre is people who claim the virus is harmless and rail agains the vaccine or vice versa. Both deliver a toxic S1 payload, the vaccine far more so.
Cassie:
Cassie, how is a spouse going to monitor what the other writes on their vote slip when the voting is done in a booth?
Or is it a postal vote being done at home under supervision by the other?
I must assume that is where it is happening – and that it is illegal.
Crossie says:
November 23, 2022 at 9:54 am
Cant argue with that could be true
This makes sense in evolutionary terms.
The males job was to go out and kill shit and bring it home. They were practical, physical workers who understood ‘if you dont hunt you dont eat’ and for whose genes, survival required competition and winning. (ie conservative traits)
The females job was to stay home, mind the kids and make sure that the food that was brought home was divided up ‘fairly’ so even the smaller weaker kids weren’t out -competed by their siblings. (ie socialist traits).
This is why women are, on average, to the left of men on the political scale – it was their job.
Similarly, it explains why men are generally more interested in secure borders and politics than women: The men were constantly at risk of getting raided and killed by the surrounding competing tribes. The women were not – they were only ‘at risk’ of an upgrade – if the raiding males were superior and killed her husband, she got a new, ‘stronger faster’ model. If they weren’t, she already had him.
It was ever thus.
Seminal.
But you’ve got me perplexed now Duncan; I just went to pull my copy off the shelf and it’s not there. Either I’ve misplaced it among my books or I’ve left it around the house somewhere so inconspicuous that I haven’t noticed it. No peace until I locate it now!
My experience of 2 widespread three day blackouts in the Adelaide Hills was that the mobile phone towers themselves started dropping offline after 48 hours or so. They had some sort of backup batteries/generators but only for a limited time. After that, you got ‘no signal’ even if you could charge your phone.
I also had fun watching the Bunnings staff trying to placate a long line of customers at the single operating checkout in their semi dark store when telling them ‘cash only’ as they tried to buy their generators.
Thanks for sharing, Jane.
Oh, and it’s “sunlit uplands”, you journalist of excellence you.
Lol.
Periods Anonymous.
Let’s give her a round of applause.
I wouldn’t fully dismiss ‘Long something’ (aka Chronic Fatigue Syndrome) as a genuine illness. I had CFS for 2 years in the early 2000s and it damn near killed me. It was like having the flu every day. Brain fog, fevers, sweats, ’empty’ flat battery muscles, painful muscles and joints, sore throat and nausea. It came on *between* back to back deployments to East Timor and I suspected it was an immunological reaction to some bug I encountered over there, although, knowing what I know now, I wonder if it was triggered by one of the multiple vaxxes the military gave me for the trips (Japanese Encephalitis, Hepatitis, MMR, Varicella, Twinrix, Mencevax – I still have my yellow needle book).
The medical profession was useless and dismissive (sound familiar?) and I eventually self cured it with steroids, but it was a real illness and a real bastard.
Zippy – The biggest difference is that the vaccine seems to knock out enduring coronavirus immunity, so that after the antibodies decay for a lot of people the person is more susceptible than if they hadn’t had the vaccine in the first place. That’s based on the large Danish and Israeli studies.
So in that scenario long covid is more likely since the immune system is trying to tackle a recurring infection. There are many stories of vaccinated people getting covid multiple times. When you get such repeated challenges you can get the immune system latching onto an innocent target in its effort to find the interloper.
I have a lot of pollen allergies from that, since I was susceptible to influenza before the flu vaccines came out. Other people get what is effectively long covid after other viral infections – especially glandular fever, which for some people causes CFS. And CFS is long covid as far as I can tell, I having as friends several unfortunate people who’ve had CFS. A seriously debilitating autoimmune disease.
I agree with your comments about the spike protein, it is nasty. Covid is better than the vax though since it is a gradual attack, whereas the vaccine is injected in one big slug. So if you do have some coronavirus immunity it can suppress the virus in the early replication phase.
As far as I can tell I’ve not had covid – or if I have had it has been unnoticeable. I’m not vaccinated.
Eureka!
Misplaced in a pile of “to reads”.
Just opened it to this passage, on the mass media of teh day, newspapers…
‘I have felt that the way newspapers raked over every aspect of Adolf Hitler’s life and personality since the end of the war shows that they really have missed him; they now have no one to play anti-Christ against the bourgeois righteousness they represent.’
The “bourgeois righteousness” of today is left-progressivism, and the media now cast Donald Trump as anti-Christ.
It will be interesting to see if the future children of vaccinated people have an increase in birth defects, compromised immune systems, stillbirth or other problems.
Anyone have any theorizes?
Medical isn’t a strong suit for me.
Had a catchup with a former work mate last night.
Generally a good time was had.
He is usually sensible – in favour of small government, lower taxes, rule of law, secure borders, etc.
He is very aware of the Climate Scam.
He used to post at the old Cat, and usually has very sound views, IMO.
I mentioned to him that I was of the opinion that Trump had the 2020 election stolen from him.
My friend was extremely surprised that I had that view.
Normally I don’t try and correct “wrongthink”, but given this guy is usually very sensible, I would like to show him some evidence that he might like to consider that, maybe the election was stolen.
Can any Cats point me to something(s) that are short(ish) and compelling?
Thanking you in hopeful anticipation.
By 2050, according to the UN, populations will be in decline in more than half Europe’s 52 countries, including Italy, Spain, Poland and Germany. In five – Bulgaria, Latvia, Lithuania, Serbia and Ukraine – they are projected to fall by more than 20%.
2000 Mules, if you can dig it out from behind a paywall somewhere
Hearing about womens plumbing issues helps keep me in touch with my feminine side. Just like mUnty. Thanks Jane, always appreciate your insights.
Can any Cats point me to something(s) that are short(ish) and compelling?
Hunter Biden’s laptop. Over 10% of voters would have not voted for biden if they’d known about it but it was censored. Also get him to look at 2000 Mules. And this:
https://time.com/5936036/secret-2020-election-campaign/
Another episode of series 5 of The Crown opens in the Middle East, with long sequences showing the rise and rise of an ambitous chancer called – da da! – Mahommed al-Fayed. We attend then the birth of his son and heir, Dodi. It’s again a round-about way of introducing the episodic theme of race and ethicity, of Dodi and Diana. Mahommed, shown initially to be an awful skin-colour racist, aims to achieve status in British eyes, status of a very British type, so he then hires the Duke of Windsor’s very dark-skinned African butler whom the Duke had trained in the classic ways of Royal life and dress. Eventually Mahommed manages to purchase the iconic Harrods, which entitles him to sit next to the Queen at Ascot, but he ends up snubbed and seated next to Diana instead, where at the last Dodi gets introduced to her by Mahommed. The episode ends with Mahommed blinking away tears at the death of his African butler who shared all of his Royal ambitions, and Mahommed’s shattered dreams of Royal glory. We don’t know now if this is the last we’ll see of Dodi and Di, but of course as Mahommed also owns the Ritz, either that story is so well know the series will not cover it, or we are in for Mahommed in confrontation with the Duke of Edinburgh.
Peter Greagg – Joanne Nova has had some good articles on it.
2000 Mules: The election was “organized crime” (5 May)
The new battlefront in war is election machines (Apr 2021)
These cover two key videos, if that helps your efforts. Many more if you look at her election corruption category:
https://joannenova.com.au/tag/election-corruption/
Particularly if you go back to the days just after the 2020 election itself. Hammer and Scorecard are especially interesting given that the CIA are clearly as corrupt as the FBI. They sure aren’t going to be adhering to their remit of staying out of domestic stuff, not while they are core assets of the Left.
This ain’t Lavern and Shirley. 1958 homicides = 29
MILWAUKEE — The City of Milwaukee broke its homicide record for the third year in a row on Saturday, bringing the total number of homicides in the city to 194.
More on election stealing Bayou Rennaicance Man had some fine memes this week.
Memes that made me laugh 134 (21 Nov)
A couple of them are on the Dem steal, this one being the most fun.
Thanks.
I will see what he thinks.
Cheers
Thanks BoN.
I used to have one of those. Four speed automatic, V8. A great vehicle.
I had previously commented it was a change for the CIA to be rigging US elections for a change.
H B Bear says: November 22, 2022 at 11:44 pm
Oh, the security cameras above your driveway were off or ran out of storage space? Well I guess you faked the break in to make a false insurance claim. Bailiff, set that man in the black mask and trenchcoat free and slap the cuffs on the plaintiff here.
Be careful about rules made up on the spot to suit the present circumstance, as they may be applied more broadly than you predicted.
It’s getting to the point, as FlyingDuk found, that you almost have to put yourself under your own total surveillance not merely to prove what attacks were attempted upon you, but to prove your alibi about what you didn’t do.
It prompts the question, is the principle of “innocent until proven guilty” fundamentally timeless, or was it merely a pragmatic result of technological limitations that are now obsolete?
Same here, though mine is a donkey … (1HZ Landcruiser)
Betcha The Crown doesn’t have anything about all those sword dances Charlie the Third had been doing with the Saudis, nor that he learned Arabic so he could read the Koran in the original language.
Don’t tell me. The gearbox dropped out.
Who is Larry Romanoff?
A deranged friend keeps on sending us lunatic ramblings about Khazar Jews stealing 321 trillion USD.
This is Russia’s justification to steal Ukraine? Screw Putin.
Zyconoclast, Chinese population will be declining even more due to the one child policy over several generations. I wonder why so little speculation about that circumstance. Is it forbidden?
Jane Caro sooks about tampon leakage? Surely she has heard about panty liners as a backup for important events such as meetings?
No surprise a lot of dashcam footage is Russian. The Rule of Law, a functioning judiciary and the Separation of Powers provides much more protection to everyday life than most people realise.
This song came on in the car on my way to the shops this morning and I realised that is is now more relevant than when it came out forty years ago.
Another brick in the wall, Part 2.
What does this mean in real life on my FB page? They keep putting it up, but I’ve yet to see it make any material difference.
After these couple of messages, I’m reverting to my old nom de blog – Robert Sewell aka Bob the Boozer from Barcaldine.
Surprise!
Berka – if you are concerned about that you could confine it to public officers or people required to maintain video surveillance while fulfilling a public function. CC cameras provide lazy policing and all too often aren’t working when required.
Cassie:
I love the reply:
“It’s not a Vaccine – it’s an IQ test.”
I would think that a lot already occurs, “Oh, he confessed but there is no video record of interview. Mmmm … yes … continue.”
maybe she should transition and have all those annoying female parts cut out, she has no use for them anyway.
I predict that nothing will come of Hunter Biden’s laptop scandal. MSM will cover for him by insisting that it’s an old story, nothing to see here, move along. It always worked for the Clintons.
Lisa Wilkinson is ‘out of touch with reality’: The Project host’s biggest ‘mistakes’ are laid bare by a rival TV host
Rita Panahi on free Daily Mail site
I find the younger generation completely enthralled by this woke shit.
Not in my daughters class. Suicides due to lockdowns and then the LGBT “contact teacher” got binned for being a pedo. I think they’ve worked things out.
I find it odd that Twitter staff are so flabbergasted at being fired while those still there are made to actually be productive. I bet they wish now they had let Elon Musk off the hook when he was trying to back out of the purchase.
Queensland children could be removed from families due to lack of accommodation
Don’t worry, mass immigration will fix that.
Jane Carl’s panties? I think we’ll leave that one up to Groogs.
Re menstrual and menopause ‘leave’ and Jane Caro’s view – what a beat-up that is.
Yes, a bad period or a hot flush night can mean women may miss a day’s work occasionally. So what? A pulled muscle from taking out the garbage or fixing the car can do the same thing to men. Soldiering on is not just for women. Go on HRT for menopause, and take some of the special prostaglandin inhibitors if your period is truly miserable (as can sometimes happen) and see a doc for medical treatment perhaps for a more serious gynae problem such as endometriosis if severe pain continues. Consider taking a less high pressured job if you are getting lots of hormonal problems – women weren’t meant for some of the stress situations they end up with in the workplace when trying to be men (an unfashionable view, but it’s true).
Giving special leave conditions for being female is a backward and expensive step when most women don’t have serious problems with their female functioning and handle matters sensibly and with foresight. Such leave would also work informally to dissuade employers from employing more women. Normal sick leave should suffice to cover the serious female medical problems that can sometimes arise. Pregnancy leave for women is now fairly universal, and that is leave where it is needed. Offering some mandatory ‘parental’ leave to men at the birth of their child seems to me to be enough of a social expense for any society. Leave it at that, and go no further.
Just finished watching Died Suddenly
Pretty gruesome footage of blood clot removal.
This whole thing is pure evil.
Weaver has some real bombshells. I spent much of the time reading a passage and having to take a breather for its impact of obviousness.
Calli:
Great minds etc, etc.
It would be worthwhile just to see the reaction from the Greenies.
Jane Caro 1: Pay equality now!
Jane Caro 2: trans women are women
Jane Caro 3: Menstrual leave, please
This time, 1+2 does not equal 3
It is the “spoiled child” psychology which appears in all urban populations.
There is generally a vast gulf in the thinking and attitude between urban and rural populations.
One is generally pretty deluded.
It does have Charles glowing that his poll numbers went up when he declared himself Defender of Faiths, rather than The Faith. A rather silly thing for him to do, imho. Queen Elizabeth the Second had no concerns about her historical monarchical place and constitutional duties as a Defender of The Faith. The institution of Monarchy as it has developed in the UK has more importantly than anything to stick to its knitting, with all the pomp, circumstance and ceremony that entails. QE11 knew that.
Charles needs to butt out of religious variety or he will get drawn into a swamp about it.
Far better to just exist as The King, a figurehead for everybody, honoured by time.
Such leave would also work informally to dissuade employers from employing more women
ding ding ding…. we have a winner.
Caro and the caromites seem to think the real world adjusts to suit their foibles.
In actual fact they just added another weight to the scale against employing a young lady for a job in the first place.
Climate report. 1910 is the year to start at, as BoN has mentioned here before.
For Western Australian Cats – Carmen Lawrence – remember her?- has weighed into the issue of juvenile detention. Just when you thought things couldn’t get any worse!
Mater:
I have to admit the Hipstergedon bit was quite funny. It reminded me of packs of Hipsters with flat batteries swapping hand drawn pictures of burgers and coffees in an attempt to communicate from a recent novel.
Former Ohio children’s minister, boarding school worker facing 215 child porn charges in Alabama
BREAKING: “SEE YOU IN COURT” – Arizona Attorney General Nominee Abe Hamadeh Files FIRST Lawsuit Contesting Rigged 2022 Election In Arizona
You just know when she typed that she thought she would be shocking people with her unflinching directness.
There is a difference between the daring of articulating an idea so disruptive to individuals and society that there has been tacit agreement to never even acknowledge it exists, and the daring of blabbing out stuff merely distasteful.
Jane cannot see that difference.
For Western Australian Cats – Carmen Lawrence – remember her?
How can we miss her if she never goes away?
Jane Caro’s panties. A wide-ranging discussion for sure.
Dot:
Close enough, but if she has a firearms permit that should clinch the deal.
Aping cats.
Scientists Confirm You Can Communicate With Your Cat by Blinking Very Slowly (21 Nov, via Instapundit)
” “As someone who has both studied animal behavior and is a cat owner, it’s great to be able to show that cats and humans can communicate in this way,” psychologist Karen McComb of the University of Sussex in the UK explained when the results of the study were published.
…
In the first experiment, owners slow-blinked at 21 cats from 14 different households. Once the cat was settled and comfy in one spot in their home environment, the owners were instructed to sit about a meter away and slow-blink when the cat was looking at them.
Cameras recorded both the owner’s face and the cat’s face, and the results were compared to how cats blink with no human interaction.
The results showed that cats are more likely to slow-blink at their humans after their humans have slow-blinked at them, compared to the no-interaction condition.”
I’m sure your cat knows you are faking it though.
The electoral fraud is the icing on the cake for the Democrats.
Their systemic use of early voting.ballot harvesting etc is way more important.
The Republicans are way off the pace and in many jurisdictions are beaten before the they start to campaign.
Eg Katie Hobbs had something like 400000 early votes twice her margin.
The fraud is sexier but is small beer
Blinking at a cat.
That really adds to the sum of human knowledge.
I am enlightened.
They do say that bad pennies come back to haunt.
Fortunately, my earlier visit, from SAPOL, taught me the necessity of ALWAYS filming any interaction with the police,
https://rumble.com/vp8bxl-senior-australian-military-doctor-visited-by-police-after-contacting-mp-abo.html
Its already gone (if it ever existed) – even at my first bail hearing, the magistrate referred to me as the ‘offender’ and the AFP allegations as ‘The fact sheet’.
In case you missed it, we now live in a 3rd world country where everything is corrupt.
Doing that last comment was interesting. While I was typing one of the Cafe kookas decided to nuke an enemy in my backyard. Attacking kookas are very loud, and he’d done this several times this morning. Finally this time I worked out who he was attacking – a large and very handsome bluetongue lizard.
So I collected the bluey who immediately bled on me. Hole poked in his side by the A-10 attack bird. I bribed him with a bit of mince, which he consumed despite pain. Yum. Then he bit my finger and I started bleeding along with lizard.
Back inside with bluey, tissues to sop up the bodily fluids. Then a wash with water, dry with tissues, some Savlon and a couple bandaids. Bribes with mince worked very well at keeping the bluey quiet through all this.
Then off down the street to a place well away from dogs and kookas, a few more bits of mince and he’s off into the undergrowth. Fair well, lizard.
On hindsight I should’ve used duct tape instead of bandaids, as they didn’t stick on that good, but blueys are tough critters and I think he has a chance. My finger had stopped dripping by this time, which also was good.
‘City living’ itself is extremely toxic, and not just for humans:
https://cosmosmagazine.com/science/mathematics/calhoun-rodent-experiments/
I’m a bit late to the party, duk, but hearty congratulations on sticking it up ’em!
Historical note – Weaver was associated with the ‘Southern Agrarians’, a group of writers & thinkers from the South who proposed an alternative vision to Northern industrialism & urbanisation.
It’s an interesting movement to look into.
Taaa Megan – they don’t like it up em!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhWlAKdlQp4
Progressives used to mock cultures that isolated menstruating women, calling them unclean, and now they want to mimic them.
The Liberals are furiously harvesting email addresses. I have just received one from “Matt” Guy begging me for a donation. I have never willingly subscribed to receive emails from the Libs. I have had occasion to email my local member, but unsubscribed from the email list some time ago. Obviously, my addy is still on their database. Unsubscribed – again and email binned!
Where does a fella put the ute when it is leaking oil?
Reminds of your urban bourgeois types outsourcing the risk of the virus to their Uber Eats and grocery delivery drivers from the safety of their inner city apartments while working from home.
“We’re all in this together.”
Must be an election coming.
NSW patients warned to expect delays in hospitals on Wednesday as thousands of nurses and midwives walk off the job (Sky News, 23 Nov)
“New South Wales nurses and midwives staged a walkout on Wednesday calling for understaffing and worker burnout to be addressed and for the three per cent wage increase cap to be removed to match skyrocketing inflation.”
Have they considered if they get a pay rise that the government will close more beds and they’ll be forced to work even harder to cope with the patients in fewer beds?
Colonel Crispin:
That’s why I have installed a car camera.
Resisted for years, but it was actually the Duk episode that changed my mind.
Gee, it took incredible courage.
Crossie:
Jane Caro is 65 years old and still hasn’t got her act together about one of the most distinguishing features of a woman?
Is she stupid or just slow?
Our bluetongues are out and about too. Just found one of the smaller adults on the front path – not good. The kookas are lurking around keeping an eye on any movement.
The enormous one who lives under the aircon unit was out this morning too, soaking up the brilliant sunlight. The one who lives under the pool coping has been doing some tunnelling – it now travels under the concrete slab we poured as a base for the limestone paving and up beside the house. They are handsome devils, but no way I’m putting my finger anywhere near a mouth.