Is Ponting in hospital with heart problems ?

Ed Case says:
December 3, 2022 at 11:00 am

So, he’s not suing now over damage to his reputation?

In the current situation, even you could see how it would go.
Sue and you are a heartless bastard after money, regardless of damage to the damsel.
Don’t sue and you admit guilt.

You, as an all knowing arbiter, tell us what should he do?

JMH says:
December 3, 2022 at 11:07 am

I should have mentioned I’m on Win 7.

I’m using VB6 Pro on both Win10 and Win 11, that was supposed to be unusable after XP, works fine.
MS has a lot of stuff we can complain about, but they do maintain backward compatibility unlike Apple.

But I had to go out and buy some Twinings Russian Caravan tea

Heh. A samovar is next on the list !

In the current situation, even you could see how it would go.
Until 10:43 am, the unanimous sentiment was that he was the greatest victim since
Lindy Chamberlain, and he should sue until the cows come home.

Now, it’s
In the current situation, even you could see how it would go.
What changed in the last 51 minutes?

Jorge says:
December 3, 2022 at 11:32 am
But I had to go out and buy some Twinings Russian Caravan tea

Heh. A samovar is next on the list !

Have one, glorified tea kettle don’t bother.

the Devil has popped up through the trapdoor in the stage. And he means business.

Yep.

United Nations Adopts Resolution Calling Israel’s Founding a ‘Catastrophe’ (1 Dec)

“The UN General Assembly this week passed a resolution to characterize the founding of the modern state of Israel in 1948 as a “catastrophe,” in what has been heralded as a major victory for pro-Palestinian activists.”

It’s how the Left rolls. They hate God, Jews and Christians.

It’s how the Left rolls. They hate God, Jews and Christians.

Everything in the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State

English Class

vs

American Slag

JR
here is one for you
“Better to be pissed off than pissed on.”

Tea is disgusting.

Goodbye my love, well it’s time to go …

Trevor G:

Unbelievable, that it has gone the way it did, despite all that police recommendation and Ms Higgins’ reluctance to hand over evidence.

Social Justice in action.
Right and wrong don’t come into it.
Welcome to our Radiant Future.

Whinging

Translation…….you’re right and we have nothing left than to accuse you of other than “whinging”.

Where’s choo choo?
Is it time to add RIP when speaking of the self confessed liar and coward, Sancho of the Skidmark?

Tick tick tick.

As I say, you were told.

I’m here to remind you of your responses when you were told.
Disgusting and pathetic.
(remember I’m not talkijng to everyone here, they know who they are)
Now you want it all forgotten.
Of course.
Except it’s all coming true.
Struth, Indolent, and many others openly mocked were right all along.
I hope Sancho Panzy is still alive.
So the truth can smack him in the face as well.
Dying now gets him out of it too easily.

Ed Casesays:
December 3, 2022 at 10:58 am
Such things are suppressed for good reason, monty…
Yeah.
He might as well of pled Guilty first up if a Jury had known that he had form.

…
Have any charges been laid?
Have any prospective complainants been paid off to keep mum?

Richard Cranium floundering, trying to construct a semi-believable “narrative”.

Cassie of Sydneysays:
December 3, 2022 at 12:04 pm
“the narcissistic metoo crowd want a piece of the action.”

They want flesh.

Bulk Britaneeeeee has copious amounts of flesh.

St. Ruth:

Struth, Indolent, and many others openly mocked were right all along.

He’s referring to himself in the third person now.

Bahahahahaaaaaa. Ahahaaa. Openly mocking. Haha.

Senator Rennick Goes NUCLEAR on WEF Globalist ‘S-Hanson Young’ for Taunting Vaccine Injured People

Is Ponting in hospital with heart problems ?

Don’t mention the you know what.

What? that he is aged 52?

“Ginger” is probably mentally ill. Unwise to choose the giddy gusher for a wife.

h/t (again) to Roger for highlighting Larry Siedentop’s Inventing the Individual (the Origins of Western Liberalism), got the Kindle version.

Here, in a grand narrative spanning 1,800 years of European history, a distinguished political philosopher firmly rejects Western liberalism’s usual account of itself: its emergence in opposition to religion in the early modern era. Larry Siedentop argues instead that liberal thought is, in its underlying assumptions, the offspring of the Church.

Informative, enlightening and thought-provoking. Highly recommended.

There’s also some recent YouTube videos (like this one) of Mr Siedentop. A much better use of time than watching FTA TV or some Hollywood shite.

Our dear friend has an article over at Quadrant.

Worth a look.

Darren Lehmann is 52, saw him in the street last year, he looked terrible.

Poor bastard probably got told his recent heart attack was due to ‘cholesterol’ (it wasnt) and ciggies (quite likely was), and that he needed to cut down real healthy ancestral food (beef. butter, bacon and eggs) and now exist off grains, carbs and seed oils. No wonder he looks like crap, he is malnourished now as well.

The Twitter Files are a complete fizzer.

Sure they are.

“Walking around in the rain”?

Anyone checked the BOM for that date?

Anyone interested in the finally the Vic Liberal party is gone party?

re: The Twitter Files
Taibbi’s tweets on that are collected here.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1598822959866683394

Unfortunately it is not displaying pictures inline, you have to click the little hyphen links to see them.

re: m0ntifa’s enfizzerizing of the story…
It’s only a fizzer if you were expecting it to be about the contents of the HB Laptop and how far the inappropriate tendrils of it reached. That’s not the focus, the relevant issue for Twitter is whether (and since the answer is yes, then why and how) the story was suppressed by Twitter.

I await a specific allegation of impropriety from the Twitter Files which is not just “Twitter employee doing their job”.

“Doing their job” aka nothing to see here.

The same abhorrent propaganda strategy that Goebbels deployed (and Nazis defended ) ’33-’45. Quite an effective tool while murdering 6 million plus Jews.

It’s not really illuminating that mOron thinks the strategy actually a good thing.

m0ntysays:
December 3, 2022 at 12:32 pm
The Twitter Files are a complete fizzer.

Sez m0nty=fa, after reading the first few dozen comments. But all of his fingers are still crossed.

m0ntysays:
December 3, 2022 at 1:01 pm
I await a specific allegation of impropriety from the Twitter Files which is not just “Twitter employee doing their job”.

Since “their job” seems to have been to suppress anything that might reflect badly on DemonRats, then it might be a while.

Did you read as far as the DemonRat Congresscritter raising the 1st Amendment, and her point being completely missed by the Twatter responding? She had to rub their nose in it, and even then, she did not seem to get the message across.

m0ntysays:
December 3, 2022 at 1:19 pm
“Doing their job” aka nothing to see here.

Uh Makka, are you aware of Godwin’s Law? You just lost the argument.

Does this mean that you completely and utterly lost the argument when you brought up the “88 million years” quote a couple of days ago?

Another bundle of rakes in Aisle 35 please, urgent customer requirement.

Uh Makka, are you aware of Godwin’s Law? You just lost the argument.

hahahahhaha mutley here is the first to jump on the nazi bandwagen, zero self awareness.

I have landed some serious body blows against old mutley over the years and best he can come back with is jumping head first into gdowin’s law every single time.

not very smart our old mutley.

Zippy obviously hasn’t read the Taibbi thread. Or he’s too dumb to understand it. Or both!

Stunning Takeaways From Twitter’s Censorship of Hunter Biden’s Laptop

Taibbi then returned to the matter at hand: the Hunter Biden laptop story. “Twitter took extraordinary steps to suppress the story, removing links and posting warnings that it may be ‘unsafe.’ They even blocked its transmission via direct message, a tool hitherto reserved for extreme cases, e.g. child pornography,” Taibbi noted before reminding that White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany got locked out of her Twitter account for tweeting about Hunter’s laptop:

25.You can see the confusion in the following lengthy exchange, which ends up including Gadde and former Trust and safety chief Yoel Roth. Comms official Trenton Kennedy writes, “I’m struggling to understand the policy basis for marking this as unsafe”:

Despite the fact that Taibbi was told “everyone knew this was f***ed,” Twitter continued to restrict talk of Hunter’s laptop, citing “lessons of 2016” and deciding to keep “preventing this content from being amplified.”

Twitter’s former VP of Global Comms Brandon Borrman asked in another communication shared by Taibbi, “Can we truthfully claim that this is part of the policy?” Twitter’s Deputy General Counsel Jim Baker — formerly general counsel for the FBI — said it was fine because “caution is warranted.”

What’s more, Taibbi explained that the “hacked materials” designation — which that Twitter claimed enabled its censorship of the Hunter Biden story — “normally required an official/law enforcement finding of hack.” But the internal documents led Taibbi to the conclusion that “such a finding never appears throughout what one executive describes as a ‘whirlwind’ 24-hour, company-wide mess.”

Amid Twitter’s internal, flawed decision making, Capitol Hill was growing heated about what Twitter was plainly doing. Additional emails show warnings to Twitter that “a ‘blood bath’ awaits in upcoming Hill hearings, with members saying it’s a ‘tipping point,’ complaining tech has ‘grown so big that they can’t even regulate themselves, so government may need to intervene.’”

Even Democrats, who may have liked the censorship of the Hunter Biden laptop story, were upset — but because they wanted even “more” content moderation to further stifle online expression by conservatives:

While all that was going on inside Twitter, supposedly serious and trusted former intelligence officials signed onto a letter declaring Hunter’s laptop to be “Russian disinformation.” But of course, it wasn’t a foreign op to influence an election, but their letter was allowed to circulate freely on Twitter despite the obvious truth that Hunter Biden was a bumbling mess.

Over on National Public Radio, their managing editor for news Terence Samuels said in October 2020 that the partly taxpayer-funded outlet did not “want to waste our time on stories that are not really stories, and we don’t want to waste the listeners’ and readers’ time on stories that are just pure distractions.” Journalistic malpractice much?

Take a Bex and lie down, mOron.

The game is up. Elon wins.

Makka, you don’t have to go straight to Auschwitz to argue against m0ntifa’s dismissal of these “Twitter Files”. It’s a more general argument than that.
Until the creation of various Environmental Protection Acts and accompanying Agencies (in various countries) there was quite a bit of pollution created by company employees “just doing their job”. m0ntifa surely would agree that “just doing their job” would not imply the result of that job was good nor absolve the employees from their burden in it, at least in the environmental pollution dimension. But the reasoning is not specific to the environment, of course.

What is actually quite amazing is that you can get away with doing just about anything, up to and including murder, these days, as long as you can *truthfully* claim that you were “just doing your job”. Because somebody somewhere is paying someone to do anything and everything.

I think where your Nasty Germany example adds new substance to the argument is in addressing what to do about this behaviour. The Nuremberg trials were very much a case of the judges deciding a line had to be drawn somewhere, in particular that medical experiments carrying risk required informed consent, and that to deprive future tyrants of their power base it would be necessary to punish their followers and workers, not just their institution or the tyrants at the top. As Britannica summarises:

it rejected the contention that only a state, and not individuals, could be found guilty of war crimes; the tribunal held that crimes of international law are committed by men and that only by punishing individuals who commit such crimes can the provisions of international law be enforced.

Having said that, only 24 high ranking members were tried this way, not the run-of-the-mill camp guards and Gestapo officers.

It would be another 20 years before Solzhenitsyn’s works would propose a singular origin of such evils and remind us that a bad society is simply the aggregate of bad individuals – the governments and corporations of the day are incidental to the process. Groups in hierarchies grant more influence to some individuals relative to the majority, but this is useful as an economic prioritisation for reform, not an absolution for every Johann Q Public. The tyrant with no followers is just one cranky guy. It’s the masses willing to follow their orders that make tragedy possible.

Well said Colonel.

Pip pip!

Makka, you don’t have to go straight to Auschwitz to argue against m0ntifa’s dismissal of these “Twitter Files”.

My theory Colonel is that seemingly benign pleasant leftist grubs like mOron harbor within them a true evil at their core that occasionally presents itself publicly. And when I see evidence of that I want to draw immediate attention to it, and them. Like mOron’s love of propaganda and blanket censorship of ideals that don’t conform to his leftism.

So I wasn’t going “straight to Auschwitz”. I was identifying the “Auschwitz” residing within the likes of mOron.

US Embassy Warning: Do Not Travel to China; US Senators Warn China Against Violent Clampdown
00:47 U.S. Embassy Warning: Do Not Travel to China
01:50 U.S. Senators Warn China Against Violent Clampdown
02:56 Residents in China Forced into Quarantine Camps
04:40 Chinese F1 Grand Prix Cancelled 4th Year in a Row
05:20 China State Media Censoring World Cup Crowd
06:11 ‘Anonymous’ Hacks CCP-Run Website, Aids Protesters in China
07:24 Huawei CFO’s U.S. Fraud Charges to Be Dismissed
09:01 U.S.: Beijing Can’t Control COVID-19 w/o Western Vax
10:21 Afghanistan Pullout Used as CCP Propaganda: DOD
12:26 Canada Ready to ‘Challenge’ China: Minister
13:11 UK Delegation Talks Cooperation with Taiwan
14:24 Brazil’s Record Trade Surplus Boosted by China

Might as well have been titled “About Munty”:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ww47bR86wSc

the minor detail that the US gov used private companies to subvert the 1st amendment seems to have escaped his small brain

It’s much worse than that. The left has lost one of it’s very big levers pulling propaganda. And they really don’t like that. Subverting the 1st amendment is the left’s core strategy.

mOron’s wailing here is millions of times repeated globally. He knows exactly what’s at stake.

Makka,
Yep, I getcha, fair enough. You never actually mentioned concentration camps, I was just filling in some blanks there with the cliche.

Probably you know (and are alluding to?) the well known statement by Solzhenitzen about the good/evil divide going down each human “heart” (or mind essentially). Therefore there must be a little bit of Auschwitz-aping inside everyone which threatens to emerge occasionally (not just from m0ntifa) so the challenge for everyone is to always tame that nasty aspect of the human being.

Nothing to see here;

Chinese energy companies have been found to be the fastest-growing customers of U.S. natural gas exports, buying up nearly half of all gas that companies agreed to ship in the past year.

According to a new Politico report, this is sparking worries among some Washington lawmakers.

Meanwhile…..

“Documents obtained by Committee Republicans show that the Biden family received millions of dollars from a Chinese business closely affiliated with the Chinese Communist Party, and therefore the Chinese government, to ship American natural gas to China. According to additional information provided by a whistleblower, Joe Biden was involved with this arrangement as a business partner, and documents reveal he even had office space to work on the deal. This comes to light at a time when the cost of natural gas is at a 14-year high and Americans struggle to pay their energy bills. The President has not only misled the American public about his past foreign business transactions, but he also failed to disclose that he played a critical role in arranging a business deal to sell American natural resources to the Chinese while planning to run for President,” wrote Ranking Member Comer. “We are concerned that the President may have compromised national security in his dealings with the country most adverse to U.S. interests—China.”

Goody! mOron will be having seizures by then. WABOL.

Elon Musk
@elonmusk
Tune in for Episode 2 of The Twitter Files tomorrow!

Looks like Cains has pickedbup from the COVID lows. Still not many backpackers though, mostly locals.

Picture of the future though, just about every EFTPOS attracts a charge from 40c to a % of transaction. We’ve been using cash everywhere to avoid. Another charge I have never seen but did today at Stocklands Earlville, Asian noodle outlet charging for the plastic containers. Profit margins must be horrible.

Itinerants everywhere round Cairns Central but early start to wet season probably flished them out of the parks…

Aviation firefighters cancel plans to walk off the job at 27 airports, following employer agreement

Hmm. An aviation firefighter. When I think about it, that would be a boring job. Necessary but mostly boring. I wonder how many times the average aviation firefighter working in Australia extinguishes a fire on a plane in a genuine emergency situation.

How baggage handlers smash the stuff in your bags….

I was on a flight that arrived in Dubai with various subcontinentals on board. Subcontinental baggage handlers proceeded to throw boxes of electronic goods onto the carts, objective being to maximise air time. Subcontinentals on board spotted this and there was a audible roar on board.

Deplaning via steps, hostesses did an amazing job of preventing pax going around and sorting them out.

Until now we haven’t been able to report that Bruce Lehrmann was accused of sexually assaulting and/ or harassing “a number of other women,” after Brittany Higgins went public in 2021.

After she went public? Mmmmmnah not buying it. #metoo drama seekers and copycats. If there were accusations that predated Brittany sliming him, that’d be more compelling.

Take one of those accusations at random. What are the odds that, after some cursory investigation, you’d find out that the accuser had never met – let alone worked with or spent significant time with – Lehrmann?

I wonder how many times the average aviation firefighter working in Australia extinguishes a fire on a plane in a genuine emergency situation.

Don’t get me wrong – I’m glad this number is low!

I spose it you wanted some excitement in this line of work, you could take a job in Africa (or Indonesia).

It’d be interesting if a few people called up the ABC claiming they’d been out on the piss with Brittany and she’d drunk way too much, spewed everywhere, ripped her dress off and then passed out.

I wonder if they’d report these allegations.

I wonder if they’d report these allegations.

An easy no. The MSM pursues a narrative not the truth.

It’d be interesting if a few people called up the ABC claiming they’d been out on the piss with Brittany and she’d drunk way too much, spewed everywhere, ripped her dress off and then passed out.
Have no fear, Lehmann’s pro bono legal team searched hither and yon,but couldn’t locate the mythical critter.

I wonder if they’d report these allegations.
Well, they still employ Norman Swan, why wouldnae they?

Does Twitter have Publisher status now? I thought the argument was that it’s a platform. Did it change?

Anvil d’ACME

Here’s twelve minutes worth.

Funny…most people would never have seen, let alone used one. Yet it remains a potent motif of…mayhem and severe punishment.

another test

Hmm. An aviation firefighter. When I think about it, that would be a boring job. Necessary but mostly boring. I wonder how many times the average aviation firefighter working in Australia extinguishes a fire on a plane in a genuine emergency situation.

They usually take every opportunity to get involved in anything vaguely related. We used to do regular tours at MEL JUHI with the ARFF guys. We’ve had the ARFF guys here on standby during the initial receipts.

dover0beachsays:
December 3, 2022 at 3:01 pm
That hospital is, on the surface, an ordinary public hospital in a big city. But like 20 other public hospitals around the country, it runs by a Catholic code of ethics.

It’s actually a Catholic run hospital. As Gray notes, the crucifixes and the statutes are the tell, but the ABC has to continue its jihad against Christianity so facts be damned.

Meanwhile in Real Private Hospital World

HCF patients to lose cover at major Sydney hospitals

A breakdown of negotiations between a health insurance provider and the operator of several of Sydney’s major private hospitals will see patients paying higher fees for treatment from February.

Patients in the Hills District and northern beaches will be particularly affected, with each region’s largest hospital operated in part or full by Healthscope.

yet another test

then it appeared that an audience was required

Oh yes. We are all mummers on the stage. But some take their craft more seriously than others.

I’m extremely reluctant to do the Report Comment unless the comment could be used against the blog. It always feels like tattle tale-ing and wasting your time. So my finger hovers…and freezes! 😀

The preferred method should be to remonstrate personally with an abusive person and appeal to their better angels. Or..this works well too.

it appeared that an audience was required

Yep.

When the rubber met the road St. Ruth (for one) wouldn’t duel. He needs an audience to lecture, in an hilarious manner, because in the end it’s all about him and one can only monologue in front of the mirror for so long.

Lets see if this works