Open Thread – Weekend 10 Dec 2022


The Pont de Arts and the Institut de France, August Renoir, 1867


1,485 responses to “Open Thread – Weekend 10 Dec 2022”

  1. Farmer Gez Avatar
    Farmer Gez

    Poms gone

  2. bespoke Avatar
    bespoke

    Here, little kids in remote communities have venereal diseases, and children of all stripes are left in filthy households with the druggo/alky ‘parent(s)’ by useless so-called child protection agencies.

    In my state their are dozens family members trying to get there cousins, siblings and grandkids out of the system but don’t fit the woke agenda.

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  3. lotocoti Avatar
    lotocoti

    Clearly kneeling wasn’t enough to counter the prohibition of rainbow armbands.

  4. Johnny Rotten Avatar

    Farmer Gezsays:
    December 11, 2022 at 7:39 am
    Poms gone

    Still going well in Pakistan. Morocco for the World Cup please……………………

  5. Johnny Rotten Avatar

    Two aliens are flying near Earth. The first one says “The dominant life form here have developed satellite based nuclear weapons”. The second one says “Are they an emerging intelligence?” The first one says “I don’t think so, they have it aimed at themselves”.

    A divorced mum took her young daughter to the zoo. One of the elephants had a huge, huge erection. “Mummy, what’s that?” asked the shocked and confused daughter. “Nothing” replied the embarrassed and flustered mum. The next month, dad took the daughter to the same zoo. The same elephant had the same huge, huge erection. “Daddy!! I saw that with mum. What is that??” Dad, trying to be careful, asked “What did your mum say it was?” Daughter replies “she said it was nothing”. Dad stares at the erection and says “Just like your mother – never fucking satisfied!”

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  6. Johnny Rotten Avatar

    While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

    – Leonardo da Vinci

  7. P Avatar
    P

    The third Sunday of Advent is known as Gaudete Sunday

    Its name is taken from the entrance antiphon of the Mass, which is:
    Rejoice in the Lord always; again I say, rejoice.
    Indeed, the Lord is near.

    This is a quotation from Philippians 4:4-5, and in Latin, the first word of the antiphon is gaudete (Latin, “rejoice”; it’s also pronounced with three syllables: gau-de-te)

    Here are 11 things to know

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  8. Dot Avatar

    johanna says:
    December 11, 2022 at 7:24 am
    What is striking about the ‘anti-catcalling’ laws and other trivia like ‘financial abuse’

    Couldn’t agree more and well said Johanna.

    The IC4 male led abuse scandal in England and remote indigenous communities here were overshadowed by Beech and “Jay” as well.

    It is tragic. Real abuse hidden by political squirrels and outright perjury.

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  9. Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare Avatar
    Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare

    If covid is fully revealed, only then will climate change be realised as the bulldust story it always was.

    Yesterday I put up a kiddie’s guide to how climate change is a cult and not happening.
    Talk it over with your grandies and their parents over Christmas, drawing contrasts to Covid.
    Or sometime soon anyway, when the time is right. We have to provide them with the info.
    The least we can do.

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  10. Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare Avatar
    Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare

    While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

    – Leonardo da Vinci

    Queen Jane, the ten-day Queen of England who lost her head, took solace in her religion at the end.

    ‘Learn you to die’, the seventeen year old advised her loved ones as her execution time approached.

  11. Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare Avatar
    Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare

    Someone noted yesterday that Qantas is now flying direct to Seoul and back from Sydney.

    I know. Hairy has booked us to return with Qantas from the UK in early February on a flight from Seoul; he has taken a Korean Airlines flight from London to Seoul so that we can have a four day holiday in Korea on the way back and he can visit the DMZ, on his bucket list, and the business class fare was competitive. Qantas does the usual gouging, but by that time we will be wanting to sleep our way home.

    I will report back on any hostilities on the border (other than our usual disagreements over timings). 🙂

  12. Dot Avatar

    I’m banned from using my new longbow in a couple of weeks time before Christmas to hunt deer. Mein host insists on using a 6.5 mm Creedmoor.

    Why does the 6.5 mm Creedmoor get so much criticism? Seems like a well designed rifle round to me. Not every can afford more than a couple of centrefire rifles. Most people compromise. Not everyone will own a 22-250, .223, .243, .270, .308, .338, .375 H&H, etc.

  13. Cassie of Sydney Avatar
    Cassie of Sydney

    “The IC4 male led abuse scandal in England and remote indigenous communities here were overshadowed by Beech and “Jay” as well.”

    And now here with the so called Higgins “rape”, which makes a mockery of women and girls who’ve experienced real sexual violence violence and abuse.

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  14. Robert Sewell Avatar

    Zipster:

    ‘New Cold War’?: House Forms Committee on China Threat; US House Approves Bill w/ Military Spending

    I enjoy the way China claims it is surrounded by enemies. It’s a lot like the person who claims clemency for murdering its parents because it is now an orphan.

  15. bons Avatar
    bons

    A
    Pretentious
    Petulant
    Puffy
    Putrid
    Pervert
    Has abandoned Twitter

    Oh dear – devastating.

  16. Knuckle Dragger Avatar
    Knuckle Dragger

    A late charger in the Headline of the Year event from the NT News:

    Bigger problem Aussies have with Bali sex ban

    Some Aussies may still go to Bali despite a sex ban, but there is another reason many will pull out of going to Indonesia

    This is either an inadvertent result of words being glued together, or a deliberate ‘cop this’ by the online subbies. I would like to think it’s the latter.

    In any event, very well played. *golf clap*

  17. Robert Sewell Avatar

    John H:

    Genetic engineering of plants to increase growth. This has already been done but only a few months ago and the results aren’t that spectacular; on a broad scale could be significant.

    Just give the poor bloody plants a bit of their essential nutrients like CO2. Stuff the genetic engineering, pump the CO2 up to 0.1% and give ’em a feed.
    Genetic engineering will only benefit the Bioengineer companies.

  18. Mater Avatar
    Mater

    Why does the 6.5 mm Creedmoor get so much criticism?

    The only criticism I can even think of (or have even heard) is that it wears your barrel out quick, and the ammo isn’t as prevalent (or as cheap) as some of the more traditional rounds.

    A good round, just with some trade offs…like all varieties.

  19. Indolent Avatar
    Indolent

    Goes a long way to explaining why Twitter tolerated child abuse.

    Yoel Roth in 2010

  20. Bruce of Newcastle Avatar
    Bruce of Newcastle

    Slowly the voters are waking up to the scam.

    Rising power bills force renewables rethink (Daily Tele, 11 Dec, paywalled)

    A new survey shows support for renewable energy has dropped as voters weigh up the cost of power price blowouts on family budgets.

    Ipsos: Climate Skepticism Rising Three Years in a Row (WUWT, 10 Dec)

    “… Unexpectedly, climate skepticism has consistently grown over the past 3 years (37%, +6 pts in 3 years), and is particularly striking in France this year (37%, +8 pts in one year) …”

    What they mean is unexpectedly the ordinary people are starting to see through the lies. You can understand how difficult that would be from the Twitter files, where anyone who said anything the Left doesn’t like was shadowbanned and derated. I know the same occurs with Google and Bing from my own checks, and I assume Facebook is exactly the same, as is the MSM which is studiously ignoring the Twitter story.

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  21. Robert Sewell Avatar

    rickwsays:

    December 11, 2022 at 2:37 am
    An interview with the Kiwi parents that rosie believes were rightfully stomped on by The State:

    This would not be happening if the parents were Maori or Muslim, would it? The administrators wouldn’t dare. So as far as I’m concerned this is a race/religion issue, with Christians being denied parental rights that are sacrosanct to others.

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  22. Mater Avatar
    Mater

    This is either an inadvertent result of words being glued together, or a deliberate ‘cop this’ by the online subbies. I would like to think it’s the latter.

    A bit like the Virgin Flight Flap Emergency.
    Is there some sort of back room bet going on, amongst the various media outlets, around who can publish the best double entendres and get away with it?

    Anyone who thinks anyone but NT News can win, is kidding themselves. They just need to dip into their archives.

  23. Boambee John Avatar
    Boambee John

    BBS

    The opening up of what really happened over these last three years, imho is the only way to break the left’s hold. As with the revelations now coming out of Twitter, because of Musk’s takeover, the covid agenda, which used the CCP playbook to control whole populations and stymie any alternative discussion is what could fully bring down the totalitarians. If covid is fully revealed, only then will climate change be realised as the bulldust story it always was.

    And remind them on every possible occasion that the Klimate Alarmists are already moving to base their future Klimate response on the COVID response, which did so much harm.

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  24. flyingduk Avatar
    flyingduk

    Why does the 6.5 mm Creedmoor get so much criticism?

    Not from me it doesn’t! I took a retired Bundeswehr Oberst ‘mile shooting’ last week, and we got him his mile with the Bergara 6.5. That well beyond its real range, but it’s a tack driver to 1000m.

    Agree about barrel wear though, it’s due a rebarrel after about 2000.

  25. Boambee John Avatar
    Boambee John

    John H

    Didn’t an F111 crew photograph in their Canberra office the 2 defense bods who questioned the utility of the F111?

    Story goes that they photographed the wrong window, “getting” instead a senior ADF officer.

  26. Roger Avatar
    Roger

    This short essay (first in a series) is more intriguing than the title suggests:

    The Politics of Masturbation: Was the Sexual Revolution a Government Psy Op?

  27. Indolent Avatar
    Indolent

    Dr. Peter McCullough: Covid “vaccines” are a US military program

    This gibes with the interview with Dr. Mike Yeadon I posted a few days ago where he said that Event 201 was about the 12th such exercise over decades, commencing with the US Military and spreading worldwide and in every case the focus was on population control, not treatment.

  28. Rabz Avatar
    Rabz

    Cats, if you haven’t seen the footage of Shrillary and various other imbeciles screeeching at top note, don’t – and consider yourselves lucky.

  29. Mater Avatar
    Mater

    F-111 buzzes the Evans Head Range Facility.

    Wait for it!

    https://youtu.be/J_Mh3dsln9M

    Broken windows, cracked plasterboard, etc

    Ahhhhhh, the good old days.

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  30. Crossie Avatar
    Crossie

    Chris Bowen has asserted in parliament that Putin cannot stop the generation of power from wind and solar. Bowen has obviously never heard of the concept of a nuclear winter. If he wanted to, Putin could launch all or half of his nuclear arsenal which would blast enough dust into the upper atmosphere and reduce sun penetration for the entire globe.

    It always amazes me how ignorant are the people who presume to govern us.

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  31. Robert Sewell Avatar

    Rosie:

    I’m guessing hundreds, possibly thousands of surgeries have been performed on babies and small children in the last eighteen months involving blood produces from people who have had covid/been vaccinated.
    Is there any evidence from anywhere that blood clots are on the rise post surgery?
    For anyone?

    This is about Parent vs State rights and responsibilities. And as I’ve pointed out, it’s also about White Christian parents being refused choices they are legally entitled to that the Administrators would not even dream of denying other religions/races.
    You may be comfortable with being ruled over by authoritarian governments, I am not. And it would appear these parents aren’t happy about it either.

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  32. alwaysright Avatar
    alwaysright

    Slowly the voters are waking up to the scam.
    Rising power bills force renewables rethink (Daily Tele, 11 Dec, paywalled)

    Can it be?
    Note: When the duped realize that they have been duped they tend to be angry and aggressive.

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  33. Roger Avatar
    Roger

    Putin could launch all or half of his nuclear arsenal which would blast enough dust into the upper atmosphere and reduce sun penetration for the entire globe.

    Why would he do that?

  34. Crossie Avatar
    Crossie

    Roger says:
    December 11, 2022 at 9:30 am
    This short essay (first in a series) is more intriguing than the title suggests:

    The Politics of Masturbation: Was the Sexual Revolution a Government Psy Op?

    If that was the case then it’s been a failure. Why else would they still need to teach it in schools?

  35. Farmer Gez Avatar
    Farmer Gez

    I see all the hype about the 6.5 Creedmoor and go to the gun safe and pat the 243.
    My gun makes short work of kangaroos and shoots far enough and flat enough for anyone hunting. You just need to be far enough away that the roos aren’t too suspicious.
    Too much gun for foxes, not much left to look at after a hit.

  36. alwaysright Avatar
    alwaysright

    I am off to get my flu shots

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  37. Crossie Avatar
    Crossie

    Roger says:
    December 11, 2022 at 9:45 am
    Putin could launch all or half of his nuclear arsenal which would blast enough dust into the upper atmosphere and reduce sun penetration for the entire globe.
    Why would he do that?

    To spite Bowen, of course. Bowen seems to think that he already did so for oil, coal and other power sources. Putin is all kinds of a villain but the energy prices are not his fault, these should be laid at the feet of all green governments and particularly those in western Europe.

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  38. bespoke Avatar
    bespoke

    Rogersays:
    December 11, 2022 at 9:30 am

    Got through two thirds then gave up.

  39. mem Avatar
    mem

    This is a quote from an interview with Dr Malhotra linked below. The reason I’ve highlighted the quote which relates to the Covid 19 response and roll out of untested “vaccines” is that it could equally apply to countering the climate lie and the damaging and potentially lethal roll out of renewables to replace our reliable energy systems.

    My solutions are some very straightforward, simple ones, explains Dr. Malhotra. “Although the drug industry can be involved in developing drugs, they shouldn’t be allowed to test them then and hold on to the raw data. Likewise, the industry shouldn’t fund the regulators. And politicians should not be taking money for campaign donations from big pharma. One of the primary purposes of government is to protect their citizens from external aggressors, but also to protect them from disease and to serve the people’s interests. And they are not doing that if they take money from an entity.”

    Dr. Malhotra also believes that to combat the problem; we must address people’s willful blindness with “cold, hard facts” in a “compassionate but courageous way.” He believes most people turn a blind eye to the truth to feel safe, avoid conflict, reduce anxiety, and protect prestige.

    https://rairfoundation.com/internationally-renowned-cardiologist-turns-anti-covid-vaccine-after-it-kills-his-father-video/

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  40. Pogria Avatar
    Pogria

    Mater,
    that was awesome and funny. As you said, the good old days. If that happened now, everyone on the ground would be suing for “trauma”, connected to said window smash.

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  41. Roger Avatar
    Roger

    Putin is all kinds of a villain…

    Yes, but I just wonder why you think that’s a credible scenario?

    He’s not a mad character out of a Bond film.

  42. Pogria Avatar
    Pogria

    MY favourite Fact Check.

  43. Roger Avatar
    Roger

    Got through two thirds then gave up.

    There’s a bit to digest, but it’s an interesting thesis.

    The sexual revolution of the ’60s has sometimes been linked to Soviet destabilisation/demoralisation of the West, but what if it was driven by European Marxist exiles within Western institutions with an anti-fascist rationale?

  44. Robert Sewell Avatar

    rickw:

    Amazing skill and patience.

    Beautiful work there.
    I wish I had the skills, patience, and kit when I was younger.
    A steadier hand would go a long way as well.

  45. bespoke Avatar
    bespoke

    what if it was driven by European Marxist exiles within Western institutions with an anti-fascist rationale?

    Nothing since the results are the same.

  46. Zulu Kilo Two Alpha Avatar
    Zulu Kilo Two Alpha

    Higgins saga’s unsatisfactory end. Editorial.

    12:00AM December 10, 2022

    The rule of law, including the presumption of innocence and the right to a fair trial, is one of Australia’s fundamental values, along with democracy and free speech. It sets our nation apart from totalitarian regimes in which brutal, opaque courts driven by political power and prevailing ideology break lives without accountability. Australia urgently needs to take stock, however, in light of the shambles surrounding former Liberal staffer Brittany Higgins and the man she accused of raping her in Parliament House in March 2019, Bruce Lehrmann.

    The legal and media-driven fallout from the allegations has been a disaster for both young people, who are still in their late 20s. Alarmingly, it also has been deeply dangerous for the rule of law. What has unfolded needs to be understood and avoided in future. Rather than the law taking its course in a sober, orderly way, the case was overtaken by a frenzy of progressive #MeToo ideology. The result has been a bad outcome all around. And it could be about to cost taxpayers up to $3m, with Ms Higgins seeking compensation, reportedly for past and future economic loss. The claim, set for mediation on Tuesday, is likely to be settled by the Department of Finance and may never reach a courtroom. As Janet Albrechtsen writes in Inquirer on Saturday: “Taxpayers are entitled to assurances from the public servants involved that the department is looking after taxpayers’ interests on at least two fronts. One goes to the processes that will be used to test claims before payments with public money are made. If claims are not tested, taxpayers are entitled to wonder whether integrity standards within the department are open to question. The second issue goes to politics. The Department of Finance will know that Finance Minister Katy Gallagher was central in ­pursuing the Brittany Higgins saga against the former Morrison government when she was in ­opposition. What has the department done to deal with political conflicts, both real and perceived, before it begins mediation on ­December 13?”

    Whether the alleged rape should have been tried in court has emerged as a matter of conjecture. As Albrechtsen and Stephen Rice reported a week ago, the most senior police officer on the case believed there was insufficient evidence to prosecute Mr Lehrmann but could not stop ACT Director of Public Prosecutions Shane Drumgold SC from proceeding. That was because “there is too much political interference”, ­according to diary notes by the ACT Police Manager of Criminal Investigations, Detective Superintendent Scott Moller. In a separate executive briefing last year, Superintendent Moller also advised that investigators “have serious concerns in relation to the strength and reliability of (Ms Higgins’) evidence but also more importantly her mental health and how any future ­prosecution may affect her ­wellbeing”. That concern was prescient.

    Ms Higgins was absent from court in the middle of her cross-examination, reportedly because she had been admitted to a mental health facility for five days. And on Friday last week, Mr Drumgold ­announced he would not run the case again because of the “ongoing trauma” it would cause her. The first trial was aborted due to a juror’s misconduct. Withdrawing the charges against Mr Lehrmann, Mr Drumgold made the extraordinary statement that he had believed there were “reasonable prospects” for a conviction against the defendant. So much for the presumption of innocence.

    It remains to be seen what, if anything, Mr Lehrmann does in response. He is reportedly planning to sue media outlets for defamation. As reported on Saturday, ACT police chief Neil Gaughan wants the planned public inquiry into the rape trial to examine Mr Drumgold’s behaviour.

    During the process, Ms Higgins became an activist, appearing alongside Grace Tame at the National Press Club in February this year, cheered on by journalist Lisa Wilkinson, who was then host of Network Ten’s The Project. Wilkinson had made herself a player in the saga with her Logies speech in June, thanking Ms Higgins for trusting her and The Project with the story and “changing the national conversation”.

    The speech caused the trial to be delayed because, as Chief Justice Lucy McCallum said, “the distinction between an allegation and a finding of guilt has been completely obliterated … The implicit premise of (Wilkinson’s speech) is to celebrate the truthfulness of the story she exposed.”

    Due process and the presumption of innocence are tried and tested pillars of the justice system. In this saga, they were overshadowed by slavish pursuit of ideology. A hefty payout by taxpayers to Ms Higgins, without scrutiny, would add to the bad precedents established. The lessons are clear. Allowing activist politics to overshadow the rule of law undermines justice, at our society’s collective peril. The legal system needs to be especially vigilant.

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  47. Roger Avatar
    Roger

    Nothing since the results are the same.

    That’s like saying the identity of the murderer is of no consequence as the victim is dead.

  48. Roger Avatar
    Roger

    Due process and the presumption of innocence are tried and tested pillars of the justice system. In this saga, they were overshadowed by slavish pursuit of ideology.

    Absent the sexual revolution and all that was set in its train, would we be here?

  49. miltonf Avatar
    miltonf

    The sexual revolution of the ’60s has sometimes been linked to Soviet destabilisation/demoralisation of the West, but what if it was driven by European Marxist exiles within Western institutions with an anti-fascist rationale?

    evil men like Marcuse

  50. miltonf Avatar
    miltonf

    I read a long time ago that it was Weimar decadence that corrupted the US and by extension us

  51. Robert Sewell Avatar

    Bruce O’Newk:

    Catcalling or wolf-whistling is set to become a criminal offence in England with sentences of up to two years in prison, Home Secretary Suella Braverman says.

    This is what happens when you take a nation and suck all the common sense out of it.

    And they wonder why young men are refusing to enlist. Why the Hell should they when shit like this is enforced and the Illegal Migrants pour over the border?
    “Look at me! Look at me! How DARE you look at me!”

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  52. Crossie Avatar
    Crossie

    Roger says:
    December 11, 2022 at 9:55 am
    Putin is all kinds of a villain…
    Yes, but I just wonder why you think that’s a credible scenario?

    He’s not a mad character out of a Bond film.

    I’m not saying it’s a credible scenario though it is just as credible as Bowen’s blame shifting.

  53. Pogria Avatar
    Pogria

    While you guys are on the subject of Big Guns, check out this little ripper.

    Ouchies!

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  54. Big_Nambas Avatar
    Big_Nambas

    The coldest summer day in Australia and nobody notices

    Weatherzone report that Thursday was the equal coldest morning ever recorded anywhere in Australia in summer time. Oddly, there were no preemptive emergency warnings the night before, no news stories announcing the area “might” hit a new record, no camera teams visited the scene and the BOM did not invent a Coldsnap Emergency Alert System to tell Australians to put on a jumper.

    https://joannenova.com.au/2022/12/the-coldest-summer-day-in-australia-and-nobody-notices/

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  55. Tom Avatar
    Tom

    Chris Bowen has asserted in parliament that Putin cannot stop the generation of power from wind and solar. Bowen has obviously never heard of the concept of a nuclear winter. If he wanted to, Putin could launch all or half of his nuclear arsenal which would blast enough dust into the upper atmosphere and reduce sun penetration for the entire globe.

    Chris Bowen is by far the dumbest member of any party to have been commissioned as an Australian federal government minister.

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  56. mem Avatar
    mem

    Slowly the voters are waking up to the scam.
    Rising power bills force renewables rethink (Daily Tele, 11 Dec, paywalled)

    Can it be?
    Note: When the duped realize that they have been duped they tend to be angry and aggressive.

    When people become more scared of the solutions to climate change than climate change itself, they will start to question the validity and importance of the issue to themselves. Faced with power blackouts, out of control energy bills and a crashing economy they might well agree to living with climate change as the lesser of two evils. Many may delve further and discover that they have been lied to and conned on a grand scale. But as with Covid, the great awakening will not occur overnight.

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  57. miltonf Avatar
    miltonf

    I dislike most of our pollimuppetts but Bowen is a standout. I think it’s the smug incompetence

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  58. miltonf Avatar
    miltonf

    As well as the damage the grub is doing to people.

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  59. bespoke Avatar
    bespoke

    That’s like saying the identity of the murderer is of no consequence as the victim is dead.

    No it isn’t. The sexual revolution had many influences one being reaction to largely fake portrayal of family in the media.

  60. Pogria Avatar
    Pogria

    Dover, I came across this beautiful work. Would make Rabz happy as it looks like HOP time.
    Genuinely gorgeous painting.

  61. GreyRanga Avatar
    GreyRanga

    I’m always amazed at the old paintings with the quality of the fabrics and physical form even if I don’t particularly like the painting.

  62. bespoke Avatar
    bespoke

    Absent the sexual revolution and all that was set in its train, would we be here?

    The wars did more to place women in the workforce then then the revolution.

  63. johanna Avatar
    johanna

    Excellent point made by Julius Sanks at WUWT:

    Each natural gas or nuclear worker delivers an order of magnitude more energy than their competitors. I was surprised at where biofuels land. I speculate ethanol is the reason it does that well. Overall, renewable employee productivity is less than 10 percent of non-renewable productivity, so their attendant labor cost per BTU is much higher than non-renewable.

    This is a big reason renewable energy costs so much more than our traditional sources. Of course, labor cost is not the only reason.

    The clean energy advocates might want us to think they are building a power grid. But they are actually running a jobs program. Shovels or spoons? Based on the numbers, I would say shovels for some industries, spoons for others.

    Julius Sanks is an engineer with experience developing weather satellites and weather forecasting systems, among other things.

    A way of mopping up otherwise unemployables?

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  64. Boambee John Avatar
    Boambee John

    The sexual revolution of the ’60s has sometimes been linked to Soviet destabilisation/demoralisation of the West, but what if it was driven by European Marxist exiles within Western institutions with an anti-fascist rationale?

    More like a pro-Marxist rationale, since fascism and Marxism are both feathers of the same left wing. The fascist/Marxist clash is a fight to determine which of the two ideologies will rule.

  65. shatterzzz Avatar
    shatterzzz

    The sexual revolution of the ’60s has sometimes been linked to Soviet destabilisation/demoralisation of the West, but what if it was driven by European Marxist exiles within Western institutions with an anti-fascist rationale?

    Wow! bit more complex than it was for this 1960s teen’s hormones .. my lot, unanimously, thanked the inventor of the “pill” .. LOL!

  66. Bar Beach Swimmer Avatar
    Bar Beach Swimmer

    Indolentsays:
    December 11, 2022 at 9:30 am

    And Michael P Senger has an article to add to that.

    https://michaelpsenger.substack.com/p/drastic-founder-renounces-lab-leak

  67. Bar Beach Swimmer Avatar
    Bar Beach Swimmer

    The sexual revolution of the ’60s has sometimes been linked to Soviet destabilisation/demoralisation of the West, but what if it was driven by European Marxist exiles within Western institutions with an anti-fascist rationale?

    Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America’s Enemies by M. Stanton Evans, shows how European Marxists infiltrated the US State Dept, which led to actual American support for the communists in China.

  68. John H. Avatar
    John H.

    Robert Sewellsays:
    December 11, 2022 at 9:06 am
    John H:

    Genetic engineering of plants to increase growth. This has already been done but only a few months ago and the results aren’t that spectacular; on a broad scale could be significant.

    Just give the poor bloody plants a bit of their essential nutrients like CO2. Stuff the genetic engineering, pump the CO2 up to 0.1% and give ’em a feed.
    Genetic engineering will only benefit the Bioengineer companies.

    GE already benefits us in multiple ways. What do you think has been happening in food production for the last several decades? Simply boosting CO2 is only one component of GE, it needs to be complemented with a range of other changes to maximise plant growth and nutrient value. Eg. Golden rice.

  69. H B Bear Avatar
    H B Bear

    Chris Bowen is by far the dumbest member of any party to have been commissioned as an Australian federal government minister.

    Steven Conroy from Victoria has phoned in.

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  70. H B Bear Avatar
    H B Bear

    Joe Ludwig must get a podium. The R-G-R years was a golden age of morons.

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  71. John H. Avatar
    John H.

    My solutions are some very straightforward, simple ones, explains Dr. Malhotra. “Although the drug industry can be involved in developing drugs, they shouldn’t be allowed to test them then and hold on to the raw data. Likewise, the industry shouldn’t fund the regulators. And politicians should not be taking money for campaign donations from big pharma. One of the primary purposes of government is to protect their citizens from external aggressors, but also to protect them from disease and to serve the people’s interests. And they are not doing that if they take money from an entity.”

    That’s always been obvious. It is why some doctors resent the deep penetration of Big Pharma into every area of their profession. We wanted small government, we wanted privatization, so it was inevitable that Big Pharma would come to be its own regulator. The writing was always on the script. Bit late to be whining about it because his dad died when the problem has been growing for decades.

  72. H B Bear Avatar
    H B Bear

    Want to know who is devoid of talent and just going through the motions? Ask “Who have the Liars made Minister for Agriculture.”

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  73. H B Bear Avatar
    H B Bear

    As a child of a GP you don’t want for useless trinkets.

  74. sfw Avatar

    That WUWT link is interesting but why did the author use BTUs etc, virtually no one involved in science or engineering uses those units nowadays, makes a well reasoned article look I’ll informed.

  75. Bar Beach Swimmer Avatar
    Bar Beach Swimmer

    John H:

    Genetic engineering of plants to increase growth.

    But the Greens won’t have it because genetic engineering of food is so dangerous! It’s got to be organic.

    Yet they’re all for jabbing human arms with something that is genetically engineered.

    So, their logic is that it can go directly into the bloodstream as long as it bypasses the stomach.

  76. Bruce of Newcastle Avatar
    Bruce of Newcastle

    Btw thanks to Dover for all the fine artworks you’ve featured! Alas some sad news today:

    Russia’s main art museum goes up in flames as footage sparks panic in Moscow (10 Dec)

    The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts caught fire this morning, sparking panic in Moscow. Officials revealed that one firefighter was injured while tackling the blaze at the art museum. The Pushkin is the largest museum of European art in Moscow and one of the leading destinations for visitors to the Russian capital.

    The Pushkin holds iconic work from European painters such as Rembrandt, Cezanne, Degas and Vincent Van Gogh. … It is thought that the ceilings between floors caught fire.

    Sounds like an electrical fire in the ceiling. No word in the story on the artworks.
    Since I’m on fire and art though I’ll put up this one I was having a look at just now:

    Volcano Art (Smithsonian/USGS)

    Some interesting artworks, such as of Graham Island which temporarily existed off Sicily and nearly caused a war.

  77. Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity Avatar
    Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

    Robert Sewell says: December 11, 2022 at 9:43 am
    This is about Parent vs State rights and responsibilities. And as I’ve pointed out, it’s also about White Christian parents being refused choices they are legally entitled to that the Administrators would not even dream of denying other religions/races.

    If the same yardstick was being enforced impartially across NZ the big news item would be the whopper “stolen generations” programme whereby the NZ courts declare every ill child of a Jehova’s Witness to be a ward of the state so they may receive lifesaving blood transfusions.

  78. Ed Case Avatar
    Ed Case

    … how European Marxists infiltrated the US State Dept, which led to actual American support for the communists in China.

    European Marxists, eh?
    Yeah, whatever.
    General Marshall wasn’t in the State Dept., but he was still the point man in giving China and half of Western Europe to the Communists.
    Burned all his Papers before he died, too.

  79. Bruce of Newcastle Avatar
    Bruce of Newcastle

    for “defence” they claim

    They’ve just sold a bunch of them to Poland.
    Poland also is taking delivery of Sth Korean tanks.
    Both stories from this week.

  80. Zipster Avatar

    And Michael P Senger has an article to add to that.

    Senger comes across as a bit unhinged, he thinks everything is a double psy ops. wasted time on one his videos telling us the ccp virus can’t cause a pandemic.

  81. Ed Case Avatar
    Ed Case

    But the Greens won’t have it because genetic engineering of food is so dangerous!
    It’s got to be organic.

    You’re perpetuating a Myth there.
    If The Greens ever had a pro Organic Agriculture Policy, it was in the distant past before Bob “My fellow Earthians” took command.
    Since then, the Policy has been that Organic Agriculture is elitist and discriminates against the Poor.
    Presumably, their voters don’t read the Party’s Policies, otherwise they wouldn’t vote for them.

  82. JC Avatar

    John H

    Don’t even bother with Bob Sewage. He’s always been a fucking moron.

  83. Bruce of Newcastle Avatar
    Bruce of Newcastle

    Sfw – the Yanks seem to use BTUs (which is ironic…British Thermal Units). The nat gas contracts are in mmBTU, which is pretty close to but not quite one GJ.

  84. John H. Avatar
    John H.

    Bar Beach Swimmersays:
    December 11, 2022 at 11:27 am
    John H:

    Genetic engineering of plants to increase growth.

    But the Greens won’t have it because genetic engineering of food is so dangerous! It’s got to be organic.

    Yet they’re all for jabbing human arms with something that is genetically engineered.

    So, their logic is that it can go directly into the bloodstream as long as it bypasses the stomach.

    The laughable aspect of the organic movement is the claim it doesn’t use pesticides, it does, and one of their favourites was rotenone because it is naturally derived. They stopped using it circa 2000 because it is a very dangerous chemical that can cause Parkinson’s Disease.

  85. Bar Beach Swimmer Avatar
    Bar Beach Swimmer

    So it’s:
    NAME WHY
    Bowen makes a meal of everything he goes near (fails upward)
    Keneally had been brought in by the faceless men of the Liars (Nobody’s Girl) to be NSW
    Premier & lost in the greatest landslide evah. But was too dumb to understand
    that she didn’t fit the Seat of Fowler (fails upward)
    Turnbull Any port in a storm and any political party to get him to the PM-ship. Brought
    down a government because he thought it was owed him
    Rudd Marketed beautifully, but then, like every other product, reality hit home with
    the consumer – a dud.
    Morrison Managed himself right out of the job by supping with the Liar Devils in Nat Cab
    while turfing out every liberal democratic principal that his party ever had
    Ludwig destroyed an entire industry overnight

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  86. bespoke Avatar
    bespoke

    We wanted small government, we wanted privatization

    This didn’t happen. What we have is highly regulated industry acting as agencies for the government.

  87. JC Avatar

    johanna says:
    December 11, 2022 at 10:56 am

    Excellent point made by Julius Sanks at WUWT:

    Each natural gas or nuclear worker delivers an order of magnitude more energy than their competitors. I was surprised at where biofuels land. I speculate ethanol is the reason it does that well. Overall, renewable employee productivity is less than 10 percent of non-renewable productivity, so their attendant labor cost per BTU is much higher than non-renewable.

    This is a big reason renewable energy costs so much more than our traditional sources. Of course, labor cost is not the only reason.

    It’s good the guy has reminded people. There’s no economic scaling with renewballs. In fact some economists have suggested there’s negative scaling. In other words, the more renewballs more negative economies of scale.

    It’s the worst form of energy production ever devised so of course the green left dive for it.

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  88. johanna Avatar
    johanna

    H B Bear says:
    December 11, 2022 at 11:16 am

    Chris Bowen is by far the dumbest member of any party to have been commissioned as an Australian federal government minister.

    Steven Conroy from Victoria has phoned in.

    It’s a big call, and probably based in ignorance of history. Just like like the ‘worst Prime Minister’ calls, based on those who were in office in the caller’s lifetime.

    Even a cursory delve into the history of State and Federal MPs should bring us back to Earth. Our history is replete with scoundrels, crooks, fraudsters, and worse sitting in State and Federal Parliaments.

    The consistent quality of Henny Pennys is that that have no idea about history.

  89. will Avatar
    will

    “Trickle down” economics would work but people have NFI how much tax they pay.

    even quoting the falsehood of “tickle down” is acknowledging the lies of the left. In reality it “trickles up” as business pays their employees, suppliers, landlords and especially the government before capital is rewarded, if at all, and even if there is no revenue.

    Wealth clearly trickles up.

  90. Ed Case Avatar
    Ed Case

    From the comment at 11:27am:
    Yet they’re all for jabbing human arms with something that is genetically engineered.
    Greens Health Policy is that all Vaccines are Mandatory by law.
    As I said above, their voters mustn’t read their Election Manifesto.

    So, their logic is that it can go directly into the bloodstream as long as it bypasses the stomach.

    Not making sense there.
    One of the criticisms of Vaccination is that injection isn’t proven to be a method to induce an immune response.

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