Open Thread – Tue 27 Dec 2022


Cabins along the Loing Canal, Sunlight Effect, Alfred Sisley, 1896


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Hugh
Hugh
December 28, 2022 9:32 am

Rosie getting stuck into the poor old straw man again. 😛

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
December 28, 2022 9:32 am

Have we been called traitors and cock-smokers recently?

There seems to be a bit of a lull the whirlwind of caustic abuse and self-declared invincible heroism

Cassie of Sydney
December 28, 2022 9:35 am

“. Brisbane residents have raised concerns about youth crime
. It comes as Emma Lovell, 41, was killed during a home invasion
. Two 17-year-old boys were arrested and have been charged”

And what will be the punishment? They’ll be walking the streets in ten years.

Miltonf
Miltonf
December 28, 2022 9:37 am

I’m still so so angry about the murder of that old couple in their home. Brought to you by Canbra the parasite robber state on the fake lake.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
December 28, 2022 9:41 am

Guess the Ethnicity – “Hint – Think Amish”

Shocking moment two women brawl inside Oxford Street clothes store Pull&Bear while shoppers hunt for bargains during Boxing Day sales

. Two women are seen hurling items at each other at Pull&Bear on Oxford Street
. A shop worker who stepped in to break up the fight received a head injury
. Shocked shoppers could be seen running out of the way as the pair brawled

Pogria
Pogria
December 28, 2022 9:44 am

Hey Rabz, if you are around. I have just read an interesting essay by Tal Bachman, the singer of the song I linked for you, She’s so High. It’s an excellent read regarding the changeover from Big Stadium Rock to Disco and then Punk. I thought you may find it interesting.
Have to wait for part 2 unfortunately.

Boambee John
Boambee John
December 28, 2022 9:46 am

Matersays:
December 28, 2022 at 9:00 am
Today our society extends adolescence so as to excuse bad and reckless behaviour, and there are never any consequences that ensue from this bad and reckless behaviour.

And yet, they want to lower the voting age.
When people suggest that the voting age should be lowered, I always agree (sarcastically) and add that the age for owning and using firearms, without supervision, should be likewise lowered.

And the age for enlistment in the armed forces.

Roger
Roger
December 28, 2022 9:46 am

And what will be the punishment? They’ll be walking the streets in ten years.

Or less; they’ll be tried as juveniles and sentenced to youth detention rather than imprisonment.

Cassie of Sydney
December 28, 2022 9:49 am

“. Two women are seen hurling items at each other at Pull&Bear on Oxford Street
. A shop worker who stepped in to break up the fight received a head injury
. Shocked shoppers could be seen running out of the way as the pair brawled”

Ahhhhhh yes….scum, peasants, trash. Multiculturalism in all its glory!

Pogria
Pogria
December 28, 2022 9:50 am

And what will be the punishment? They’ll be walking the streets in ten years.

Cassie, it will be less than that. I would also predict that they will be out on bail under “strict conditions”, haha, because some family members will put their hands up to look after the poor little precious’. The fact that said family members will receive payment for “keeping an eye on them”, had never entered their mind!
Also, their brief will argue that the couple whose home they invaded should never had defended themselves. Stupid people should have rolled over and showed the scum where they kept the really good stuff. sarc/

Tom
Tom
December 28, 2022 9:52 am

And what will be the punishment? They’ll be walking the streets in ten years.

The official culture of rewarding violent criminals for injuring and killing the innocent is now rampant throughout the English-speaking world whose governments are so consumed by guilt and self-hatred that national suicide is now the default setting.

No-one voted for any of it. Voters are the enemy.

Roger
Roger
December 28, 2022 9:52 am

And they can apply for a stay of transfer to an adult prison later on.

Pogria
Pogria
December 28, 2022 9:56 am

This is an awesome analogy.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
December 28, 2022 9:57 am

KD at 7:10 re socca ‘ooligans.

Oh no, Alex. No no no. You appear to be one of those hard as nails young blokes as long as there 20 others around you. In typical socka handbag dog fashion.

Kind of like a bloke who threatens to drive 3,000 kms to “sort someone out” who has upset him on an anonymous blog?

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
December 28, 2022 9:58 am

2022 Land Rover Defender
110 P525 V8 Wagon

Price (MRLP) $227,146

Pogria
Pogria
December 28, 2022 9:59 am
Zipster
Zipster
December 28, 2022 10:01 am

Where do young men meet young woman nowadays?

dating apps

Pogria
Pogria
December 28, 2022 10:04 am
Roger
Roger
December 28, 2022 10:04 am

What victims of violent youth crime in QLD need is a Voice to parliament so they can detail to lawmakers the negative impact Ms. Palaszczuk’s youth “justice” policies have had on them.

Zipster
Zipster
December 28, 2022 10:04 am

The Aseem Malhotra lecture isn’t what you think it is

bullshit on stilts. the claim that the vax has been rigorously tested are false. the dual vax was tested on 8 mice for gods sake.

Morsie
Morsie
December 28, 2022 10:05 am

Fair dinkum one hot day in Melbourne and its like the crickrtrrs crossed the Simpson Deserft with no water

Zipster
Zipster
December 28, 2022 10:12 am

No-one voted for any of it. Voters are the enemy.

western democracy has degenerated into useless conservatives vs ideology representing leftists.

the voter is just a means to an end. nobody represents the voter anymore.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
December 28, 2022 10:13 am

There seems to be a bit of a lull the whirlwind of caustic abuse and self-declared invincible heroism

He’ll be ferreting away for Big Corporate, working for The Man he spent the last two years exhorting everyone else to ‘rise up’ against.

Kind of like a bloke who threatens to drive 3,000 kms to “sort someone out” who has upset him on an anonymous blog?

Exactly that bloke. Because his online persona will be entirely different to his actual circumstances. Guaranteed he’s a ‘yes dear’ doormat at home, and – in the manner of the socka bucket bloke – only garners courage out and about when in a crowd.

In short, he’s a fake. A suburban Adelaidian with delusions of quintessential Australiana. Probably got the hyphenated name, the lot.

Vicki
Vicki
December 28, 2022 10:13 am

Malone said he got the vax as he needed to travel with his work commitments. This was early on, before the safety issue was known.

I will be honest, Duk, this has always been a problem for me re Malone. He, of all people, knew the history of research trials (on animals) of mRNA vaccines over the last 20 years. Good grief – he knew the vaccinology profile – having himself discovered (as I understand) the the lipid capsule technology in the 1980s (when he worked for Salk?).

But, I guess, he is human like the rest of us. So many intelligent people I know decided to be vaccinated, despite misgivings, because they wanted to travel to see family. HOWEVER, I’m sure I can recall Malone saying to Steve Kirsch (in the famous interview with Kirsch and Weinstein) that he thought the vaccine might help with the “brain fog” he experienced in his recovery from Covid early in 2020. I thought that strange at the time, because he also said that his blood pressure soared when he had Covid – and it did the same when he was vaccinated. Didn’t he think the spike protein was the culprit? Obviously not, initially.

Having said all of that, I think that Robert Malone is a brilliant man and has put his career and financial (and personal) security on the line over the past 2 years in fighting the acceptance of the genetic “vaccines”. I have followed him from the beginning on Twitter (until he was cancelled) and then on his substack. He has extended his commentary on global directions far beyond Covid and the vaccines. Cometh the hour, cometh the man.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
December 28, 2022 10:13 am

Kevin Rudd and Stephen Smith to keep part of their pensions plus six-figure salaries as ambassadors

Australia’s new US ambassador will be double-dipping on the taxpayers’ dollar, cashing in a hefty six-figure salary on top of his post-parliamentary pension.
US Correspondent
@tminear
2 min read
December 28, 2022 – 5:00AM
News Corp Australia Network
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Kevin Rudd will replace Arthur Sinodinos in Washington DC as Australia’s Ambassador to the United States. The posting is set to begin in early 2023.

Exclusive: Kevin Rudd will be double-dipping on the taxpayers’ dollar in his new role as Australia’s US ambassador, putting his income almost on par with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

The former prime minister and his ex-Labor colleague Stephen Smith – appointed as Australia’s new High Commissioner to the UK – are the latest retired MPs to cash in lucrative six-figure salaries as diplomats on top of their post-parliamentary pensions.

While the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade would not confirm their individual wages in the prestigious overseas posts, it is understood the pair will be paid at the top end of a public service executive salary band ranging from $292,000 to $441,000.

They will also be entitled to continue receiving about half of their pensions, under a generous scheme available to MPs elected before 2004, meaning both are likely to take home at least $500,000 when they start work in Washington DC and London early next year.

Mr Albanese earns $564,000 in the nation’s top job.

“The working class can kiss my arze

I’ve got the foreman’s job at last.”

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
December 28, 2022 10:16 am

Who is going to be more careful building one, you or Joe Sixpack nailing a Cessna together that he knows neither he nor his family are ever going to fly in?

Except Joe Sixpack might just possess more skills and knowledge than a retired pen-pusher when it comes to assembly.
And the thing is, our intepid amateurs speared in, likely due to pilot ineptitude or assembler incompetence.
Same bloke.

Vicki
Vicki
December 28, 2022 10:22 am

the claim that the vax has been rigorously tested are false.

You are right, Zipster. Anyone who has investigated the extent of the Pfizer “testing” will be outraged – as is Australia’s Dr. Phillip Altman, who ran an RCT operation for many of the 40 years that he was in the pharmaceutical industry. The data is there for anyone. It is outrageous.

On the other hand, genetic technology was tested by Professor Kariko & others for many years. My understanding is that it failed continually.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
December 28, 2022 10:22 am

“The Red Flag” is the official anthem of the British Labour Party. Sung to the tune of The Internationale, it’s a pean to the Red Flag of socialism and all that it represents.

There have been a number of parodies of The Red Flag produced over the years, including “The Foreman’ Job”, the origins and writer of which are unknown. The lyrics are as follows…

The working class can kiss my arse,

I’ve got the foreman’s job at last.

You can tell old Joe I’m off the dole –

He can stick his Red Flag up his hole.

Then raise the Workers’ Bomb on high!

Beneath its shroud we’ll gladly die!

Though all our critics do shout “Balls!”

They’ll be beneath it when it falls!

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
December 28, 2022 10:28 am

Rosie seems very concerned that Dr Malhotra is anti Vax.

miltonf
miltonf
December 28, 2022 10:30 am

Rudd and Smith- grotesque, obscene parasites. Smith I particular loathee. Labor? They wouldn’t know the meaning of the word.

He was Principal Private Secretary to the Western Australian Attorney-General, Joe Berinson 1983–87 and State Secretary of the Western Australian Labor Party 1987–90.[1] From 1990 to 1993 he was an adviser to Paul Keating, first when Keating was Treasurer, then when Keating was Prime Minister.

These people are a blight and a menace

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
December 28, 2022 10:32 am

Google apologizes for controversial definition of ‘Jew’ on search engine

Google apologized after the definition of ‘Jew’ that appeared first was listed as an offensive verb

Google responded to controversy surrounding the definition of “Jew” that appeared as a result on the popular search engine on Tuesday, offering its apologies.

When the word “Jew” was searched on Google on Tuesday morning, the word was defined as an offensive verb, at least until about 1 p.m.

Specifically, the top definition that appeared in Google’s search results described the word “Jew” as to “Bargain with someone in a miserly or petty way,” with the origin being “in reference to old stereotypes associating Jewish people with trading and money lending.”
Search Liaison Danny Sullivan took to Twitter to say sorry on behalf of the search engine company, while also offering an explanation.

“Our apologies,” Sullivan tweeted. “Google licenses definitions from third-party dictionary experts. We only display offensive definitions by default if they are the main meaning of a term. As this is not the case here, we have blocked this & passed along feedback to the partner for further review.”

miltonf
miltonf
December 28, 2022 10:32 am

No-one voted for any of it. Voters are the enemy.

correct and I’d say the 1975 election was the turning point, the manifestation of the uniparty.

Roger
Roger
December 28, 2022 10:33 am

Rudd and Smith- grotesque, obscene parasites. Smith I particular loathee. Labor? They wouldn’t know the meaning of the word.

Elbow’s biography suggests he’s never worked a day in his life unless it was in an air-conditioned Labor Party or parliamentary office.

I suppose they can’t afford to waste “the talent” on the shop floor.

Ed Case
Ed Case
December 28, 2022 10:36 am

. Two 17-year-old boys were arrested and have been charged”

And what will be the punishment? They’ll be walking the streets in ten years.

If they were Abos, 20 years.
But they’re not, they’re the Sudanese, so maybe 2 years if they’re unlucky.

miltonf
miltonf
December 28, 2022 10:38 am

They’re really kicking dirt in our faces- just like the old thief, princess Justine and the Sunak-Hunt duo.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
December 28, 2022 10:41 am

Dotsays:
December 28, 2022 at 9:27 am
Funny how these adolescent gangs avoid:

Similar in detention/prisons.
People who just cant control their feral impulses around the weak and defenseless can manage years at a time restraining their basest impuilses.
Its a mystery.
(not a turducken one, but similar)

Ed Case
Ed Case
December 28, 2022 10:44 am

All these guys, Malhotra, Malone, Mickey Mouse, they’re all limited hangout shills for the KillerVax.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
December 28, 2022 10:46 am

The FBI Has No Business Trying To Suppress Free Speech

COMMENTARY
By Charles Lipson – RCP Contributor

We are beginning to find out just how bad it was. The FBI and other government agencies worked hand in glove with Twitter’s old management to suppress legitimate speech they didn’t like and shape a narrative they did. They did so repeatedly and secretly. So did the Biden presidential campaign and the Democratic National Campaign Committee. They institutionalized their close relations and communicated so often that Twitter executives could reply to their complaints with a single word: “handled.” We only learned how extensive this collusion was after Elon Musk bought the company.

The attacks on Musk for exposing the connections tell us just how much those on the left side of the political spectrum hate open discourse and transparency when it includes views they dislike. They regularly smear those views with hyperbolic terms such as white supremacist, transphobic, racist, fascist, or whatever comes to mind. They substitute name-calling for rational argument.

Today, sadly, the label “progressive” not only encompasses almost all universities and many woke corporations, it also includes much of the media, which is spewing vitriol at Musk instead of investigating the now-obvious malfeasance by Twitter’s previous management and the government agencies that worked so closely with the social media giant.

Why would an honest media be interested in this growing scandal? How about because it includes the following:

. A vast overreach by federal law enforcement,

. Improper interference in domestic politics by multiple federal agencies, which they naturally kept secret to protect their meddling, and

. A concerted effort by government agents and retired CIA officials to stop the spread of inconvenient information under the phony guise of “national security.” That included damaging information about Joe Biden’s family, which they suppressed just before the 2020 election. We now know that story, published by the New York Post, was true, and efforts to discredit it as “Russian disinformation” were false, perhaps knowingly so.

In the old days, when the American left was liberal instead of progressive, it would have been outraged by every aspect of this scandal. No more. The left’s tectonic shift shows us just how far progressive values have departed from older liberal ones.

The media, so proud of its progressive credentials, was happy to skip these stories when they first appeared, and they are happy to skip them now, even as the evidence accumulates.

The media’s reticence is revealing. It underscores how they are willing to override their journalistic responsibilities when they conflict with their political preferences and ideology.

That’s a scandal in its own right, and it’s why Musk had to turn to outsiders like Bari Weiss, Matt Taibbi, and Michael Shellenberger, not the New York Times or Washington Post, to review Twitter’s documents.

Roger
Roger
December 28, 2022 10:56 am

People who just cant control their feral impulses around the weak and defenseless can manage years at a time restraining their basest impuilses.

A Mafia bagman doing his rounds could walk the meanest streets of Chicago or NYC without fear of being mugged by a hood. Funny that.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
December 28, 2022 10:58 am

Health Officials and Other ‘Experts’ Worried About DeSantis Grand Jury Probing COVID Vax ‘Wrongdoing’

DeSantis in early December petitioned the Florida Supreme Court to “impanel a statewide grand jury to investigate any and all wrongdoing in Florida with respect to Covid-19 vaccines.”

The petition read, in part:

The pharmaceutical industry has a notorious history of misleading the public for financial gain. of COVID-19 vaccines, particularly with respect to transmission, prevention, efficacy, and safety.

An investigation is warranted to determine whether the pharmaceutical industry has engaged in fraudulent practices. The people of Florida deserve to know the truth.

As my colleague Bob Hoge reported, the court last Thursday approved DeSantis’s petition to impanel a grand jury to investigate COVID vaccine manufacturers Pfizer and Moderna and claims that the mRNA “vaccination” caused myocarditis and whether the pharmaceutical giants were aware of the issue.

Now, as reported by the Blaze, a number of health officials and so-called experts are worried about the impact that the grand jury probe may have on “vaccine hesitancy and the public’s faith in the medical establishment.”

Hang on. If the probe finds no wrongdoing by Pfizer and Moderna or problems with the mRNA vax, wouldn’t that increase the public’s faith in the medical establishment?

In addition, Joshua Sharfstein, a former U.S. Food and Drug Administration principal deputy commissioner, told The Hill:

This is turning a matter of health and science into a political wedge issue, with the likely consequence that many people will be misled into placing themselves and their families at risk of serious illness and death.

Here’s more, via the Blaze:

Methinks these health officials and “experts” protest too much.

Regardless of the grand jury’s eventual findings, “to vax, or not to vax” is a personal decision, and that decision — as with all decisions about what we choose to put into our bodies or not — remains a personal choice; pressure from those who disagree be damned.

rickw
rickw
December 28, 2022 11:03 am

Replacement starter motor for JD 760A located in Wangaratta of all places. Shout out to Auto 8 who seem to carry a huge variety of starter motors and alternators at good prices. (Had previously brought an alternator and starter for a Yanmar without realising where they were located.)

rickw
rickw
December 28, 2022 11:06 am

Regardless of the grand jury’s eventual findings, “to vax, or not to vax” is a personal decision, and that decision — as with all decisions about what we choose to put into our bodies or not — remains a personal choice; pressure from those who disagree be damned.

Except in F’cking Australia.

miltonf
miltonf
December 28, 2022 11:07 am

Yeah well give Canada a try.

Fair Shake
Fair Shake
December 28, 2022 11:10 am

Yesterday we drove from Canberra West to Yorke Peninsula SA. I thought it would be quite a boring trip as I am familiar with most parts over the years. The drive was spectacular. The Murrumbidgee and the Murray Rivers in full flow are a sight to behold. So much cleanish water moving swiftly. As it was 40c the dog and I even got a dip in.
As evening fell we were going thru the Barossa to Yorke …surreal sights of fully litup harvesters and dust moving across the dusk landscape. Awesome.
The final part down the Yorke Peninsula we had front row seats to a lightening storm.
A beautiful country.
Great drive.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
December 28, 2022 11:11 am

First time for nearly 3 years I put the irrigation on for the garden.

Figures
Figures
December 28, 2022 11:12 am

Malone remains that the biggest name in the vax business , he’s anti covid vax while having been vaxed. This isn’t a problem to you?

No. Look up “statement against interest” JC.

To reinforce the stupidity of your argument just ask yourself if you accept the equivalent argument against you, ie if there was someone who argued *for* the vaccine but never got one would you accept that as proof the vaccine was a bad idea?

Of course you wouldn’t.

Your argument is complete lunacy. You desperately want to believe the shit that now runs through your veins is good for you. If a “scientist” told you that the vaccine must be sound because they stood on their head and counted to a thousand you would think you were hearing the world’s best argument. You’ll rationalize your action in every possible way.

rickw
rickw
December 28, 2022 11:13 am

And what will be the punishment? They’ll be walking the streets in ten years.

Stupid questions like this only need to be asked when the auto-correct feature has been deleted by big government and big police.

“Two 17 year old home invaders are dead after having been shot multiple times by a 41 year old woman defending her children and her home.”

In a sane country, if you’re in someone’s house with criminal intent of any sort, you’re basically f’cked.

Robert Sewell
December 28, 2022 11:20 am

Dover Beach:

How does it impact you personally if a couple of queers want to tie the knot? It has none and the world hasn’t ended.

It affects me personally because it undermines one of the major supports for the society I live in.
How is this difficult to understand? And how is it not a deliberate act to weaken the support necessary for our society to remain healthy?

Plasmamortar
Plasmamortar
December 28, 2022 11:20 am

And what will be the punishment? They’ll be walking the streets in ten years.

Stupid questions like this only need to be asked when the auto-correct feature has been deleted by big government and big police.

“Two 17 year old home invaders are dead after having been shot multiple times by a 41 year old woman defending her children and her home.”

In a sane country, if you’re in someone’s house with criminal intent of any sort, you’re basically f’cked.

Yep.

In a few years, once the firearm registry is ‘hacked’ we will see organised home invasions where the owners are forced at knife point to open their safe for criminals because they followed all the rules, only to have the stuff stolen and their family murdered.

If they do survive, they get a “please explain” from the police as to why they opened their safe and handed their weapons over …

Ed Case
Ed Case
December 28, 2022 11:23 am

In a sane country, if you’re in someone’s house with criminal intent of any sort, you’re basically f’cked.

Don’t be an idiot all your life.
If you suspect someone is in the house, the first thing to do is open both doors so they can get out.
They’ll be armed with a large screwdriver at the very least, so bailing them up is a mugs game.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
December 28, 2022 11:30 am

A Mafia bagman doing his rounds could walk the meanest streets of Chicago or NYC without fear of being mugged by a hood. Funny that.

Government seemingly is just the organized crime cartel with the most muscle these days.

Robert Sewell
December 28, 2022 11:33 am

Vicki:

They will allow the powers that be to monitor your electricity usage and to cut off those whose social credit score is not up to scratch. In renewable-energy newspeak, it’s called demand management. You’ll find it in the AEMO report.
Oh, this will never happen, some might say. What, the same healthy people who obediently complied with orders to stay at home because of a mild pandemic that seriously affected only the old and sick. Governments learnt a lesson from that.

One of the Rels is a Shoppie for the electrical producers. I spoke with him during the Christmas dinner. Even though I tried to get him to understand the issues with the lack of rolling reserve, he was convinced the system of Ecocrucifixes and Solar Power was enough to provide backup.
The blackouts are going to be a nasty shock.

Hugh
Hugh
December 28, 2022 11:34 am

From the Tal Bachman article that Pogria linked up-thread:

As the ’70s approached ’80s, many of the top rock acts disappeared, temporarily or permanently. The odd anomaly popped up in that period—Van Halen and Def Leppard being the most notable examples

That certainly does not reflect my experience growing up in suburban Canberra in the nineteen-eighties, where rock was very much the dominant style of music and Van Halen was anything but an anomaly. On the contrary, I think it fair to say that Van Halen’s self-titled album (1978) was essentially the template for a great deal of popular music of the subsequent decade: short (~3 min), bright, catchy songs; monstrous hot-rodded guitar tone; shredding guitar licks. That epitomises eighties music for me, but clearly not for everyone.

Dot
Dot
December 28, 2022 11:35 am

They’ll be armed with a large screwdriver at the very least, so bailing them up is a mugs game.

That’s a sick name for Ricky Slater to give his bepis. After all, he was a convicted vice offender and had been attempting to misappropriate a little one.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
December 28, 2022 11:39 am

Chapter heading from the cheating houso ranga’s new book:-
“The Day I Nearly Died at the G”.
It will be full of military analogies – “courage under enemy fire” and “in the trenches” – and lots of hyperbowl about the cheat’s epic effort.
He was obviously trying to project a comparison with Dean Jones at Chennai in 1986/87.
There is a massive difference between 37 degrees on a clear day in Melbourne and 42 degrees and 80% humidity in Chennai.
Pure histrionics.
The Saffie bowlers put in a greater physical effort in the heat without retiring to the fainting couch.

Eyrie
Eyrie
December 28, 2022 11:40 am

In a few years, once the firearm registry is ‘hacked’

More likely sold by a bent copper or pubic serpent working for them.

H B Bear
H B Bear
December 28, 2022 11:47 am

2022 Land Rover Defender110 P525 V8 Wagon Price (MRLP) $227,146

The price of dual cab Landcruisers and troopies is pretty full too. Buying 2nd hand doesn’t help much.

Ed Case
Ed Case
December 28, 2022 11:52 am

Kathy Whitworth, winningest golfer in LPGA history, died suddenly on Christmas Eve.

Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
December 28, 2022 11:56 am

Bruce of Newcastle says: December 28, 2022 at 11:30 am

Government seemingly is just the organized crime cartel with the most muscle these days.

Hey, hey, back off, man! Systematically violating people’s rights in a politically biased manner is a civil law case not a crime.
Get it right, BoN.

H B Bear
H B Bear
December 28, 2022 11:59 am

Systematically violating people’s rights in a politically biased manner is a civil law case not a crime.

Not if they keep voting for it.

Dot
Dot
December 28, 2022 11:59 am

Bear

Had a look, the most expensive one is 275k for a Land Rover Defender.

Let’s say you wanna buy one for cash, you and your wife are both surgeons.

One year’s salary (without income splitting): $447,000 before tax.

You have just enough for the car plus your first refill of diesel.

The price isn’t full, it’s crook.

Or you could be a mug paying literally $1,000 a week on a chattel mortgage for seven years!

Zipster
Zipster
December 28, 2022 12:03 pm
H B Bear
H B Bear
December 28, 2022 12:06 pm

Dot – better to get an F150 or something through the business and make use of all that depreciation.

Zipster
Zipster
December 28, 2022 12:07 pm

Ecocrucifixes

bingo!

H B Bear
H B Bear
December 28, 2022 12:08 pm

It will be a while before we see Alby Mangels types in the latest series Land Rovers. Especially the V8s.

rickw
rickw
December 28, 2022 12:09 pm

In a few years, once the firearm registry is ‘hacked’

More likely sold by a bent copper or pubic serpent working for them.

NSW experience an increase in break and enters targeting firearms when the introduced registration. So it would seem to be a well worn path.

If you’re going to collect the data then you need to think about the ramifications from when it is stolen or misused. Of course such realities never cross the mind of Australian bureaucrats or politicians.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
December 28, 2022 12:17 pm

Don’t be an idiot all your life.
If you suspect someone is in the house, the first thing to do is open both doors so they can get out.

Backpackers, not so much.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
December 28, 2022 12:18 pm

They’ll be armed with a large screwdriver at the very least, so bailing them up is a mugs game.

Bring a screwdriver to a gunfight…

Ed Case
Ed Case
December 28, 2022 12:21 pm

Yeah, CornHolio, I get the impression you’d know a lot about that.
Ever considered volunteering a DNA sample to Perth CIB?

Pogria
Pogria
December 28, 2022 12:22 pm

When good people who own firearms are attacked and/or killed for said firearms, the headlines will read, “See, being Gun owners kills!

I reckon we all go back to keeping a softball/baseball bat beside the front and back doors, bedrooms, anywhere you would need to pick up a weapon in a hurry. While I would prefer shoot on sight, we only provide reams of sympathy for the baddies and cause grief for ourselves. A bat is easily wielded by the weakest person and gives you good arms length range. Also, it gets around the “if you had time to unlock your weapon case, you had time to call the police”. A bat is a piece of sporting equipment, it doesn’t have to be locked away.

Ed Case
Ed Case
December 28, 2022 12:23 pm

Bring a screwdriver to a gunfight…
Firing a gun inside a house.
It must take a special kind of stupid to consider that as an option.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
December 28, 2022 12:24 pm

Am heading to Bangkok Airport soon. Chinese numbers very much down here, only spotted single families. No tour groups like you used to see a few years back. No Russians too.

Indians/sub continentals through the roof however. Saw more of them than western Europeans.

As for Africans, I avoid check in or customs lines with them. Like Chinese always seem to have problems…

Plasmamortar
Plasmamortar
December 28, 2022 12:24 pm

Firing a gun inside a house.

We have hollowpoint ammunition for this very reason, doesn’t go to far if it hits something.
Also causes plenty of damage to squishy people.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
December 28, 2022 12:28 pm

Whats the odds of the Gruiniads go to ecocatastrophist being completely ignorant of basic combustion and the merits of, lets say. switching from burning dung to cook vs using gas?

My burning shame: I fitted my house with three wood-burning stoves
George Monbiot

In 2008 I was refitting my house. It was a century old and poorly built.*

At some expense, I fitted three wood burners and the steel flues required to remove the smoke. I would buy the wood locally, from a contractor I knew.**

Then I found that the stoves, when I opened them, made me cough, and seemed to exacerbate my asthma.*** Worse, when I shut down a stove to trickle some heat through the house at night, the chimney released a cloud of black smoke and soot.**** I knew it couldn’t be healthy, but imagined it was less harmful than the smoke from fossil fuels, especially car engines.
….
I now know, thanks in large part to the dedicated reporting of the Guardian environment editor, Damian Carrington, that I couldn’t have been more wrong. Wood smoke is astonishingly harmful. Though only 8% of households in the UK (mostly wealthy ones) have a wood-burning stove, they release more small particulates (the most dangerous pollutants) than all the vehicles on the road. Even a modern, approved, “eco-friendly” wood burner produces 750 times as many fine particulates as a heavy goods vehicle.*****
….
I am now convinced that the sale of wood-burning stoves and pellet boilers should be banned, and their use phased out (with help for the very few people who don’t have an alternative source of heating). Let’s face it, if wood burning were mostly a working class habit, it would probably have been banned already.******

*Because century old houses are shoddy things, dontchaknow.
** Its ok to ravage Gaia if you use a “local contractor”..
*** Noodle armed nancy boy gets a wheeze from a woodfire.
**** Noodle armed nancy boy doesnt know how to “drive” a fireplace.
***** If only there was some sign a woodfire was polluting a signal of some sort, visible, possibly even produced as a byproduct of the combustion itself..
****** Monopod is close to realizing why gas was the fuel of choice for plebs… so close… but cant quite make the leap to acknowledgeing poor people can make rational decisions to choose low cost (at the time, theyve “fixed” that now) options. His “solution”, ban it..

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
December 28, 2022 12:31 pm

Firing a gun inside a house.
It must take a special kind of stupid to consider that as an option.

Who says you have to discharge any weapon?

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
December 28, 2022 12:31 pm

Wretchard the Cat writes a ripper:

Alone at the End Of History (26 Dec)

Pondering the end of the world turns out to be a 21st-century preoccupation. Doomsday has never seemed nearer than now. “Polls conducted in 2012 across 20 countries found over 14% of people believe the world will end in their lifetime… The general public believed the likeliest cause would be nuclear war, while experts thought it would be artificial intelligence. Only 3% of Britons thought the end would be caused by the Last Judgement.” People who proclaim they “trust the science” are especially sunk in gloom. For example, Greta Thunberg’s message to young people is “you are not going to reach adulthood because of climate change.”

That’s just the first paragraph, his article ascends like a SpaceX rocket into veritable orbit. Well worth enjoying. One of the things I think is fun is the panic which occurred in 1000 AD, when excitable types thought the end of the world might be about to manifest. That gave the name to millenarianism. The fun bit is that the 2000th anniversary of Jesus Christ’s crucifixion is due around Easter 2029…

(I’m not into numerology. When I have conversations with people who are, I point out Deut 7:9 which suggests Armageddon won’t occur until roughly 17,800 AD. It gives them conniptions. 😀 )

Robert Sewell
December 28, 2022 12:33 pm

Lizzie:

If this green dream is put forward as a total change of lifestyle, under a social credit system of usage of power, too many people wouldn’t stand for it. I suspect they’ve had near enough already and voted on feelz for an energy miracle, which won’t happen.

“How does one go bankrupt? Slowly at first, then all of a sudden.”
How does a Nation go energy bankrupt? Same way.
Just a few minor ‘supply issues’, then the entire system goes tits up. Just like the New York Blackout 1977
Northeast blackout of 1965
New York Blackout of 2003.
The claims are they are spending billions to safeguard the syste, but I don’t believe the electrical power system is the beneficiary of those billions – just the corrupt city administration.

hzhousewife
hzhousewife
December 28, 2022 12:34 pm

Google licenses definitions from third-party dictionary experts.

We are entitled to know specifically what third party expert did the definintion.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
December 28, 2022 12:35 pm

Ed spack off and tend to mummies mouldy minge again, it hasnt recovered from your last session of “the white suuuub”!

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
December 28, 2022 12:36 pm

Firing a gun inside a house.
It must take a special kind of stupid to consider that as an option.

Or you could always fire a grenade launcher inside a police station crib room. Reminds me of this fine movie scene.

JC
JC
December 28, 2022 12:39 pm

Good thinking, figures.

I put up a real life example and you come back to me with a hypothetical, which somehow proves your argument. It doesn’t because I would be dubious as well.

I told you before what I think about these vaxes, yet you barrel on like a retard trying to handle an out of control truck down going down hill.

Malone is problematic no matter what silly argument you put up.

JC
JC
December 28, 2022 12:45 pm

Turtlehead

It affects me personally because it undermines one of the major supports for the society I live in.
How is this difficult to understand? And how is it not a deliberate act to weaken the support necessary for our society to remain healthy?

That’s the exact mirror argument leftwingers put up. If it has no direct impact then F off and think about your advocacy to shoot people in the back of the head if they disagree with your organisational skills for “society”. You dickhead.

Frankly, you impact me the same way. I find you repulsive and it would be great never hearing from you.

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
December 28, 2022 12:47 pm

JC,
I thought I told you to read Totality of Evidence site. Malone is just one of many but you seem to be fixated on him despite information others put up.
It’s lucky you probably don’t know much about Dr Peter McCullough as his views might also be too much to handle. Like many others he is pro vaccine but not this particular one.

Pogria
Pogria
December 28, 2022 12:48 pm

I am not a Gamer, have never been interested, but I understand the zeal, the fandom of gamers. They spend heaps of time, huge chunks of their lives on their favourite games. Nothing gets past them and they have an Encyclopaedic knowledge of their favourite games. Netflix are on a fast descent into loserville cashwise because they do not, will not, absolutely refuse to understand what makes a fan tick.

Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
December 28, 2022 12:54 pm

Sancho Panzer says:
December 28, 2022 at 11:39 am
Pure histrionics.
The Saffie bowlers put in a greater physical effort in the heat without retiring to the fainting couch.

Um, no.
The bowlers get every second over off, retire to a safe fielding position, and recover. That’s before they get rotated out of bowling for the next say 20 overs.
Our Davey was there through thick and thin for all of his 200 runs, 124 which were run, not boundaries. His achievement was extraordinary.
Shame about his return to the crease though!

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
December 28, 2022 12:56 pm

Look I am sympathetic to standing your ground but caution is needed.

Talking weapons in house. Came from an ex cop mate and I believe KD has touched on it too. Have reason for it being there. In car the example I got was have a dirty great big shifter for the tow ball. Same in the house. The a reason for grabbing it, it was dark there were more than one, I thought he was armed with a knife.

Look in this day and age police are likely to try and bring charges with a weapon against you for defending your patch than the perps (if found). I believe even the fat useless Cornelius said run away.

That said an observation, the Brisbane home invasion sounds African and not aboriginal. The violence is unlike the modus operandi of joy riding teens who generally still try to avoid contact in Queensland.

Lastly check your area for these halfway houses, usually NGO’s who don’t care what they are putting into sleepy suburbs. Councils are complicit too by allowing the cloak & dagger with zero consultation. Some NGO tried dumping a heap of NT aboriginal juvenile offenders in house they had bought in Annandale in Townsville recently, locals got wind of the plan & objected. NGO CEO from Lismore threw all the usual cliché along racism lines but was silent on why it wasn’t put in Lismore then to break the cycle? Not like Townsville doesn’t have it’s own problems. Shout out to a former mayor on blowing the lid off that one whom I had little time for, Tony Mooney.

Arky
December 28, 2022 1:02 pm

The gayest place on Earth:
..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRTPH_npLwY

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
December 28, 2022 1:03 pm

Old School Conservativesays:

December 28, 2022 at 12:54 pm

Sancho Panzer says:
December 28, 2022 at 11:39 am
Pure histrionics.
The Saffie bowlers put in a greater physical effort in the heat without retiring to the fainting couch.

Um, no.

Ask any cricketer anywhere.
“On a hot day, would you like to …
(a) bat all day?; or
(b) bowl 20 overs of pace?”
… the answer will always be (a).
Truth is, it was pure PR designed to pad out his book with “tales of my epic bwavewy”.
He’s a flog.
A cheating, houso, ranga flog.

JC
JC
December 28, 2022 1:04 pm

Rooster

You don’t tell me or anyone here anything. I hope that’s clear.

Malone is by far the most prominent individual to be talking against the dangers of the vax. Yet, he himself is vaxxed. Obviously that’s a problem to you because you’re not very bright.

JC
JC
December 28, 2022 1:04 pm

Not a problem.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
December 28, 2022 1:05 pm

I forgot midget.
A cheating, midget, houso, ranga flog.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
December 28, 2022 1:05 pm

Extremely dead birds.

Researchers identify bird species depicted in ancient, finely detailed Egyptian painting (27 Dec)

A masterpiece of ancient Egyptian art found in a palace is so finely detailed that researchers have been able to pinpoint the bird species it depicts. These images of the natural world likely created a space for relaxation and recreation in the palace.

The artwork was discovered at Amarna, the location of the capital city of Pharaoh Akhenaten (1347–1332 BC). Excavations in 1924 uncovered a palace belonging to Meritaten, daughter of the pharaoh and Nefertiti, with several lavishly decorated rooms. One of these, the so-called Green Room, has a rare depiction of birds in a wild papyrus marsh with no signs of human activity.

They identify wagtails, kingfishers and pigeons, which is fun since I encounter these often. My crested pigeons are doing well, and the overgrown kingfishers in the Cafe nestbox are bringing all sorts of dead critters for their chicks. In a few weeks I might get the ladder out and take a photo like this one from the 2020 season. The single chick from 2021 is doing well, saw her this morning. She’s in the process of being told to piss off by mum and dad.

Diogenes
Diogenes
December 28, 2022 1:08 pm

I am not a Gamer, have never been interested, but I understand the zeal, the fandom of gamers. They spend heaps of time, huge chunks of their lives on their favourite games. Nothing gets past them and they have an Encyclopaedic knowledge of their favourite games.

For a different perspective have a read of JK Rowling’s latest CB Strike book. She has been on the receiving end of rabid fandom, and yes I mean fans, not the twitter mobs that pursue her for being the alphabet people.

rickw
rickw
December 28, 2022 1:12 pm

Serbia orders ‘full combat readiness’ of its security troops as tensions rise with neighbour Kosovo

Who’s side are we on in this round of Slav V Slav?!

JC
JC
December 28, 2022 1:13 pm

Diogenes

I think you mean

For being against some alphabet folks, no?

Diogenes
Diogenes
December 28, 2022 1:13 pm

Look in this day and age police are likely to try and bring charges with a weapon against you for defending your patch than the perps (if found). I believe even the fat useless Cornelius said run away.

Reintroduce the “castle” and “stand your ground” doctrines. If somebody is in your house you may use any and all force necessary, if the scrotes are hurt in the process, that is on them. Ditto if you are being attacked.

Diogenes
Diogenes
December 28, 2022 1:14 pm

For being against some alphabet folks, no?

Sorry yes for being against the alphabet people

Zipster
Zipster
December 28, 2022 1:14 pm

Netflix are on a fast descent into loserville cashwise because they do not, will not, absolutely refuse to understand what makes a fan tick.

they exist in their own echo chambers and assume the rest of the world is in agreement when it is not

Top Ender
Top Ender
December 28, 2022 1:15 pm

When the word “Jew” was searched on Google on Tuesday morning, the word was defined as an offensive verb

The research I’m doing at the moment for The Steel Ship throws up regular diary entries from naval sailors referring to “jewing firms” and the like:

Many sailors took the opportunity to make money by operating a “firm” which washed or repaired others’ clothes for money: these operations were known as “dhobying” and “jewing.” The “firms” were officially regulated: a sailor had to ask his divisional officer if he could start one up, but in reality it looks as if that was often ignored.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
December 28, 2022 1:16 pm

Porgias link has this little nugget.

Cavill is now set to work on producing a “Warhammer 40,000” series for Amazon. If Amazon is wise, they’ll let the fan do what he wants. If they do, then they can sit back and count the cash as fans flock to its streaming service to watch Cavill do his thing, and even create new fans in the process.

https://gizmodo.com/warhammer-40000-explained-amazon-henry-cavill-1849925383

Tom
Tom
December 28, 2022 1:16 pm

A cheating, midget, houso, ranga flog.

Sancho, you got the order wrong. It’s midget houso ranga cheat. GreyRanga owns the patent.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
December 28, 2022 1:17 pm

Swimming is misogynist and elitist, unless you are an apeman.

The earliest humans swam 100,000 years ago, but swimming remains a privileged pastime (27 Dec)

This year the OECD reported that only one in four people in low-income countries can swim. Low to middle-income countries report more non-swimmers than swimmers, and a majority of those not able to swim are girls and women.

Access to natural waterways has decreased world-wide through the privatization of foreshores and beaches, and the building of dams, roads, ports, the development of wetlands, and larger cities.

The earliest humans swam. Neanderthals living in Italy about 100,000 years ago swam confidently.

Obviously neanderthals were early communists. Here’s who the author is:

Jane Messer
Honorary Associate Professor in Creative Writing and Literature, Macquarie University

We Australians really do overachieve in silliness.

Pogria
Pogria
December 28, 2022 1:17 pm

Farmer Gez, 132 bush, rickw and any farming Cat I have missed,
is this true?

rickw
rickw
December 28, 2022 1:18 pm

Firing a gun inside a house.
It must take a special kind of stupid to consider that as an option.
Who says you have to discharge any weapon?

Exactly, usual result of producing a firearm is instant civility, option after that is to unload it into them, with the right calibre and ammo selection, the whole deal ends there.

Hot top for Australia’s police farces. .223 is not the right choice for indoors, lest you kill someone with ricochets, shrapnel or over penetration….. like you did last time.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
December 28, 2022 1:18 pm

For being against some alphabet folks, no?

Not even that. She was not actively opposing them. She merely said out loud something QWERTY’s have decided no one is allowed to think.

JC
JC
December 28, 2022 1:19 pm

Duk

Were you vaxxed?

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
December 28, 2022 1:20 pm

JC,
Firstly I would not say Malone is by far the most prominent. McCullough certainly equal to him.

There are three types of “anti vaxxers” : Those who have been anti Vax long before Covid, those who were happy with Vax but not the Covid ones and those who had one or more Covid Vax and then as more info known changed their minds.

If a Dr took one or more Covid Vax and then changed his mind based on his own patients experience or other knowledge then can hardly be labelled anti Vax. Likewise those who were happy to take the Vax but got injured and now against this vax.

The label anti Vax is very misleading. In fact could more accurately be said to be pro research. For me personally there have just been too many signals things not right and absolutely no way I will be taking another.

rickw
rickw
December 28, 2022 1:20 pm

Farmer Gez, 132 bush, rickw and any farming Cat I have missed,
is this true?

Modesty precludes an answer!

bespoke
bespoke
December 28, 2022 1:21 pm

Pogriasays:
December 28, 2022 at 9:59 am
Now THIS is how it’s done!

Chuckle!

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
December 28, 2022 1:23 pm

Farmer Gez, 132 bush, rickw and any farming Cat I have missed,
is this true?

Modesty precludes an answer!

Sheepishness?

Roger
Roger
December 28, 2022 1:23 pm

That said an observation, the Brisbane home invasion sounds African and not aboriginal. The violence is unlike the modus operandi of joy riding teens who generally still try to avoid contact in Queensland.

The alleged perp on the news footage looked indigenous.

That they used a knife is not the usual m.o. of such types, I agree. It’s possible they took it off the homeowners in the struggle.

Whatever the case, such an escalation was only a matter of time.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
December 28, 2022 1:25 pm

Reintroduce the “castle” and “stand your ground” doctrines. If somebody is in your house you may use any and all force necessary, if the scrotes are hurt in the process, that is on them. Ditto if you are being attacked.

+1000

Diogenes
Diogenes
December 28, 2022 1:26 pm

The alleged perp on the news footage looked indigenous.

One of the 2 looked much lighter than the other, but still darker than the average aussie, the skin tone of the darker one was very much more African.

shatterzzz
December 28, 2022 1:28 pm

The alleged perp on the news footage looked indigenous.

They are both 251s …..

Boambee John
Boambee John
December 28, 2022 1:29 pm

Ed Casesays:
December 28, 2022 at 12:23 pm
Bring a screwdriver to a gunfight…
Firing a gun inside a house.
It must take a special kind of stupid to consider that as an option.

Yessss. Much better to end up on the floor with a screwdriver in your liver.

Have you ever in your whole life fired a gun?

Plasmamortar
Plasmamortar
December 28, 2022 1:30 pm

.357 mag hollowpoint for indoor use?? 🙂

Zipster
Zipster
December 28, 2022 1:34 pm

Who’s side are we on in this round of Slav V Slav?!

albanians are not considered slav and are moslem

Roger
Roger
December 28, 2022 1:35 pm

…the skin tone of the darker one was very much more African.

Thanks Dio…I only saw one.

That might explain the knife then.

What are the odds they only met up in the “half way house”?

Plasmamortar
Plasmamortar
December 28, 2022 1:36 pm

Also, something to think about.

We are not allowed to defend ourselves or our homes.

However, money, physical cash is transported in armoured vehicles, protected by armed guards.

Remember, the government considers the value of your life far less than fait money used to conduct transactions :/

Black Ball
Black Ball
December 28, 2022 1:36 pm

Tim Blair:

Rudd’s new role largely requires him to shut the hell up. Ambassadors are bound by all manner of protocols and conventions that limit their public commentary.

That’s why we never heard much of anything from Arthur Sinodinos, Joe Hockey or Kim Beazley during their US ambassadorial terms.

Judicious silence, at least outside of private confidences, is a condition of the job.

This is also a practical matter. Nobody in the US government would be inclined to deal at senior diplomatic levels with anyone viewed as a loose cannon – for example, by leaking discussions to the media, publicly obsessing over perceived slights or routinely alienating political and business allies.

So that’s the end of ranty, whiny, look-at-me post-parliamentary Kevin Rudd, then. At a stroke, Albanese has satisfied Rudd’s ego by bestowing upon him a fancy title and also subtracted him from Australia’s political conversation.

It could be a genius move, if it works. But we’re talking about Rudd here, a fellow whose ego simply won’t allow him to let anything slide. Kevin must have the final say.

Several of his former Labor colleagues commented on this at length following Rudd’s removal as prime minister. The broader public caught a telling glimpse of this character flaw when footage emerged from the G20 summit of 2009.

That brief clip, still kicking around on YouTube, shows Rudd, US president Barack Obama, US Treasury secretary Tim Geithner and a bunch of other G20 types chatting amiably at some kind of social function.

The mood becomes friendlier still when Obama greets the Brazilian president Lula da Silva.

“This is my man, right here,” says Obama. “Love this guy.”

Rudd happily joins in at first, placing an arm around the Brazilian leader. Then Obama adds further praise, describing da Silva as “the most popular politician on earth”.

Our Kevin, at the time barely a year into his term and riding high in Australia on 74 per cent approval, is instantly crestfallen. His smile vanishes. He removes his arm from da Silva and steps back a foot or two.

Rudd’s mouth opens and closes soundlessly as he struggles to compose a rejoinder to this brutal indignity. Aiming to correct the US president and restore himself as the world’s most beloved leader, Rudd eventually decides on a strategy of durational specificity.

Da Silva is, Rudd announces, merely “the most popular long-term politician on earth”.

He couldn’t let it slide. If even a trace of that Rudd remains, Washington is in for a style of international diplomacy with which it is ?hitherto unfamiliar.

Rudd may encounter other difficulties in the US capital.

Like many politicians, Rudd is occasionally prone to biographical embellishment. In 2007, for example, he attempted to ingratiate himself to? cricket fans by claiming to have witnessed England veteran Colin Cowdrey batting against Australian fast bowlers Jeff Thomson and Dennis Lillee at the Gabba in 1974.

But Cowdrey didn’t play in that Test. He wasn’t even in Australia, only being called to the England team for subsequent games.

Brace for hilarity if Rudd tries any kind of inventiveness in the presence of President Joe Biden. Rudd may fancy up his history a little, but Biden’s entire life is basically a lie. If matters come to a storytelling showdown, Rudd is toast.

Rudd limits his sporting tales to observation. Biden, by comparison, puts himself in the action. In 2012, he claimed to have played in a winning game back in 1963 for the University of Delaware against Ohio University.

But he wasn’t on the team.

In July 2021, Biden told Los Angeles Dodgers players visiting the White House that he’d hit a 368-foot home run during a congressional baseball game during the 1970s.

There are no records of this.

Biden also claimed to have worked as a truck driver – “I used to drive an 18-wheeler, man” – when visiting a Mack truck factory and said he was “a hard coalminer” when meeting members of the United Mine Workers.

His fictions are always crafted to suit his audience. Imagine what Biden will come up with if Rudd starts talking about how he saved the Australian economy by putting us in deficit during the global financial crisis of 2008.

We may suddenly discover that Biden ran a Bunnings hardware store on the Central Coast, and that the business was saved only by Rudd’s timely economic intervention.

What a test of Rudd’s diplomatic resolve it will be if the Biden administration starts loading up our man in DC with falsehoods. Or, even worse, if the administration rejects any of Rudd’s overtures or declines to follow his advice.

We all know what happened when Chinese delegates at the 2009 Copenhagen climate summit behaved a little sneakily during their negotiations with the Australian prime minister.

“Those Chinese f–kers are trying to rat-f–k us,” Rudd is famously said to have remarked to journalists and aides, in exactly the measured manner you’d expect from a career diplomat.

Still, at least Rudd will be out of our hair for a while. Thanks, Albo.

Zipster
Zipster
December 28, 2022 1:37 pm
will
will
December 28, 2022 1:39 pm

Many sailors took the opportunity to make money by operating a “firm” which washed or repaired others’ clothes for money: these operations were known as “dhobying” and “jewing.” The “firms” were officially regulated: a sailor had to ask his divisional officer if he could start one up, but in reality it looks as if that was often ignored.

Probably forgot 10% to the Big Guy

Boambee John
Boambee John
December 28, 2022 1:40 pm

Jane Messer
Honorary Associate Professor

Does that translate as “jumped up lecturer”?

Johnny Rotten
December 28, 2022 1:40 pm

An Irish priest was transferred to a parish in Florida.

Father O’Malley rose from his bed one morning. It was a fine spring day in his new Englewood Mission Parish. He walked to the window of his bedroom to get a deep breath of the beautiful day outside. He then noticed there was a jackass lying dead in the middle of his front lawn. He promptly called the local police station. The conversation went like this:

“Good morning. This is Sergeant Jones. How can I help you?” “And the best of the day te yerself. This is Father O’Malley at St Ann ‘s Catholic Church. There’s a jackass lying dead in me front lawn and would ye be so kind as to send a couple o’yer lads over to take care of the matter?”

Sergeant Jones, considering himself to be quite a wit and recognising the foreign accent, thought he would have a little fun with the good Father replied “Well now Father, it was always my impression that you people took care of the last rites!”

There was dead silence on the line for a long moment. Father O’Malley then replied “Aye, ’tis certainly true, but we are also obliged to notify the next of kin first. Which is the reason for me call”.

Black Ball
Black Ball
December 28, 2022 1:40 pm

The video Blair alludes to

Boambee John
Boambee John
December 28, 2022 1:41 pm

rickwsays:
December 28, 2022 at 1:18 pm
Firing a gun inside a house.
It must take a special kind of stupid to consider that as an option.
Who says you have to discharge any weapon?

Exactly, usual result of producing a firearm is instant civility, option after that is to unload it into them, with the right calibre and ammo selection, the whole deal ends there.

Shotgun with saltpetre or birdshot?

Johnny Rotten
December 28, 2022 1:43 pm

I remember the time I was kidnapped and they sent a piece of my finger to my father. He said he wanted more proof.

– Rodney Dangerfield

Zipster
Zipster
December 28, 2022 1:44 pm
Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
December 28, 2022 1:45 pm

Farmer Gez, 132 bush, rickw and any farming Cat I have missed,
is this true?

Remember we’re self employed.

Vicki
Vicki
December 28, 2022 1:48 pm

Look, just a few remarks on this argument re those who are anti-vax, but who nevertheless got vaccinated.

Please cast your minds back to 2020 and early 2021. The informal info coming out of China and then Northern Italy (through Twitter etc) was incredibly frightening. I, for one, thought “Holy Shit, this is another Spanish Flu!” As a result, quite frankly I was hoping “they”would come up with a vaccine ASAP. I believed Nassim Taleb re the need for the “precautionary principle”, rather than Prof. John Ioannidis who reckoned the early mortality figures did not warrant an overreaction.

Fast forward to early 2021, when Astra Zeneca arrived in Australia before Pfizer or Moderna. Wow, I was lining up for it – UNTIL the mother of my grandson’s friend died immediately after an AZ vaccination. At that time, the medical authorities had no trouble in attributing the death to the vaccine (boy, did that soon change!). Me? Hell no – I immediately wanted to investigate the research and development of the genetic vaccines. I did not like what I read. Twenty years of research on animals & no real success for corona viruses. So, instead of waiting for Pfizer vax to arrive in Oz, husband and I decided – no thanks to any of them.

Almost none of our friends or family similarly investigated anything to do with the development of mRNA vaccines. They trusted “the science” – or what the government and the pharmaceutical companies put forward as “the science’. To this day, it bedevils me that even GPs (& specialists like cardiologists) did likewise – with some exceptions. It seems only retired virologists and similar specialists (like Prof. Clancy & Dr. Phillip Altman and a few others) did so in Oz. Sorry – yes there WERE some GPs et al – but they risked their careers to make this public. One GP, when asked by a friend to prescribe Ivermectin said, “They are watching me.”

So – most of these medical professionals were vaccinated eventually. With families to look after, maybe they reckoned the risk/benefit analysis favoured the risk. Do I blame them? I don’t honestly know. It was their decision. But I do know that they left the unvaccinated to the wolves – that is to the often vicious accusations and social isolation that followed the decision. So be it. But I do understand the quandary and the decision.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
December 28, 2022 1:49 pm

I don’t think Bush and me got the survey form but it looks like rick did.

Top Ender
Top Ender
December 28, 2022 1:51 pm

I’m gonna put in on this one.

Shooting a perp who breaks into your house is outrageous.

It’s definitely too much too far.

Won’t someone think of the young ones?

It’s time for this insanity to stop.

A .45 is just not on. Use a .38 please.

Plasmamortar
Plasmamortar
December 28, 2022 1:52 pm
Johnny Rotten
December 28, 2022 1:57 pm

Summer has finally arrived in Sydney after 3 years of being away somewhere else. Was it Climate Crawling or somefink’ else like that?

I must contact the UN again and maybe Mr KRudd. Wot’ a great Diplomat he will not be. Will he support the recent initiatives to have Nuclear Submarines, Hypersonic Missiles, Computer Hacking and all that stuff against his Mandarin Friends. KRudd is the Manchurian Candidate…………………….Wot’ a Tosser. Leave him NY.

And this is the best that Elbow can offer to the USA?

https://www.google.com/search?q=kevin+rudd%27s+rant+when+on+youtube&rlz=1C1CHBF_en-GBAU906AU906&oq=kevin+rudd%27s+rant+when+on+youtube&aqs=chrome..69i57.28400j1j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:ccc06442,vid:CyTCKoiYk7w

Arky
December 28, 2022 1:58 pm

Please cast your minds back to 2020 and early 2021. The informal info coming out of China and then Northern Italy (through Twitter etc) was incredibly frightening. I, for one, thought “Holy Shit, this is another Spanish Flu!” As a result, quite frankly I was hoping “they”would come up with a vaccine ASAP.

..
Yes, we were really sold and manipulated by masters of the art.
The very fact that you, me and everyone else connected it to the Spanish flu wasn’t random. The Spanish flu isn’t something permanently in my brain data base. Those ideas came from somewhere.
We were sold fear. Deliberately.

Johnny Rotten
December 28, 2022 1:59 pm

A .45 is just not on. Use a .38 please.

Rule 303………………….

Diogenes
Diogenes
December 28, 2022 2:01 pm

in local news, the Nazis are coming for us…

I suppose I had better dob myself in.

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
December 28, 2022 2:03 pm

Good points raised by Vicki regarding early days of virus / Vax.

It should never be forgotten that in March 2021 Dr’s and nurses were effectively silenced against speaking up about the Vax. A subject hardly commented upon by the media who were all in on the coercion that followed.

There have been a number of police who were willing to give up their careers over this but the most senior I have come across was a Sergeant. Am guessing for others the financial cost of resistance was too much. Another disgraceful aspect of the Vax program.

JC
JC
December 28, 2022 2:04 pm

Lode

To be accurate she is against blokes in women’s toilets and playing women’s sport.

Johnny Rotten
December 28, 2022 2:06 pm

And this is the best that Elbow can offer to the USA?

https://www.google.com/search?q=kevin+rudd%27s+rant+when+on+youtube&rlz=1C1CHBF_en-GBAU906AU906&oq=kevin+rudd%27s+rant+when+on+youtube&aqs=chrome..69i57.28400j1j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:ccc06442,vid:CyTCKoiYk7w

I will give the KRudd a simple sentence. 99 years in the Slammer.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
December 28, 2022 2:09 pm

Shotgun with saltpetre or birdshot?

Rock salt served quite well.

Dot
Dot
December 28, 2022 2:13 pm

albanians are not considered slav

Only a filthy Bosnian Croat would say that.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
December 28, 2022 2:15 pm

Tom although the accolades are warmly received I took the lead from KD. Any adjective that suitably describes the flog is welcome. Many more flowing from the observant or an acronym should be in the offing. That silly moustache makes him look like a weasel looking out of the rushes. I had one in the 70’s, made me look handsome and debonair, never silly until a few days later when it was wild and unruly bordering on a mad man. Took more looking after than clean shaven.

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
December 28, 2022 2:16 pm

I think one of the major clues to there being something odd going on is that early on it was obvious that the virus was mainly killing the elderly. Even then they were average age mid 80’s with co-morbidities. Even now you will hardly see a CHO, radio host or news article mentioning this inconvenient truth.

Not sure if News com au still got article up but yesterday read that 65,000 died from all causes in aged care in past year. The article was saying 100 had died with Covid in aged care in past week. So average 5,200 in a year out of 65,000. I emphasise “with” Covid.
A close examination of the stats and how they are reported shows we are being fed misinformation designed to scare people into taking the next vaccine.

This includes the kids who are at very low risk from the virus. Unless of course you are of the belief a 5 year old should be vaccinated to protect 80 year olds.

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
December 28, 2022 2:17 pm

I can’t be the only one who realizes Rudd’s “ratf#ckers”, “economic sh#tstorm” and sweary translator video were all carefully released outbursts by the famously micromanaging control freak, designed to bring his image into a tough-guy man of the people zone, while still stroking his codpiece as a diplomat, polyglot and economic genius.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
December 28, 2022 2:18 pm

Dotsays:
December 28, 2022 at 2:13 pm
albanians are not considered slav

Only a filthy Bosnian Croat would say that.

Call him a Turk rape baby, go oooorn!

Johnny Rotten
December 28, 2022 2:18 pm

This morning, around 7AM, I went for my stroll around the marina. I noticed a man with a long blade knife running down the dock towards me, dressed in Islamic clothing who shouted “Allah be praised!” and “Death to all Infidels!” when suddenly he tripped and fell into the water.

He was struggling to stay afloat because of the weight of all the explosives he was carrying, and I knew that If he didn’t get help he would surely drown!

Being a responsible citizen, and abiding by the moral code that requires a person to get help to those in distress, I tried contacting the Police, the Coast Guard, Homeland Security and even the Fire Department.

It is now 11AM, the terrorist has drowned, and none of the authorities have responded.

I’m starting to think I just wasted four stamps.

Miltonf
Miltonf
December 28, 2022 2:20 pm

Nothing good comes out of foreign affairies and krudd is exhibit A. Consider also dolly Downer, tony Kevin and Allen Renouf

Johnny Rotten
December 28, 2022 2:20 pm

My wife’s jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my calendar and wanted to know who May was.

– Rodney Dangerfield

shatterzzz
December 28, 2022 2:21 pm

The Queensland duo … pixilated .. of course!
https://ibb.co/pzq738k

Johnny Rotten
December 28, 2022 2:22 pm

economic genius.

Try Pink Batts…………………..

rosie
rosie
December 28, 2022 2:23 pm

Aseem Malhotra said that his father had a clean cardiac bill of health only months before his heart attack.

Sounds to me there were known heart issues otherwise why why all those tests?
In fact if you read the article by Frank Han I linked you would know Dr Chand already had ‘significant coronary artery disease’

Dr. Malhotra’s father, Dr. Kailash Chand, was a physician himself. He was also a patient known to have significant coronary artery disease and was at risk of heart attacks.

Dr Malhorta is an anti statin advocate, published on the subject.
Maybe he’s wrong that diet and exercise are the only things that prevent heart attacks.
Wondering if he discouraged his father from taking medication.
the link again, see claim 20 at the end.

calli
calli
December 28, 2022 2:25 pm

If you’re going to have a firearm in the house to ward off intruders, you have to be prepared to use it. Because, sure as eggs is eggs, it will be used against you.

Spending weeks on end sleeping with one eye open, weapon under the pillow and all between my little children and marauders was two dergs, a somnambulant “security guard” armed with bow and arrow…and me. How to grow up fast.

Johnny Rotten
December 28, 2022 2:28 pm

Yes, we were really sold and manipulated by masters of the art.
The very fact that you, me and everyone else connected it to the Spanish flu wasn’t random. The Spanish flu isn’t something permanently in my brain data base. Those ideas came from somewhere.
We were sold fear. Deliberately.

It didn’t scare me though. And not many others as well.

bespoke
bespoke
December 28, 2022 2:29 pm

Arky
We had a contract to remove a disused vineyard at the time. Diving though empty towns that had signs saying “stay in your own post code” was like being in zombie apocalypse movie.

calli
calli
December 28, 2022 2:30 pm

If claim 20 is true, it could be something as simple as guilt, rosie.

Take dad off his medications, dad carks it…hey, it must be something else.

Figures
Figures
December 28, 2022 2:32 pm

“Holy Shit, this is another Spanish Flu!”

Yes. But a tiny minority of us knew that the Spanish flu was actually caused by mass vaccination and had nothing to do with contagious disease. This is borne out when you look at the symptoms and demography.

Even the Black Death is a lie. Rats and fleas took the blame for an iatrogenic holocaust.

The point is, we’ve never learned because we are so emotionally dependent on doctors and always allow them to gaslight us.

bespoke
bespoke
December 28, 2022 2:37 pm

If you’re going to have a firearm in the house to ward off intruders, you have to be prepared to use it.

Never gave my aunties cheek. Some careful short jokes at a safe distance.

Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
December 28, 2022 2:37 pm

Miltonf says: December 27, 2022 at 12:14 pm

Don’t old turds like Adams ever go away?

Nah, they just get drier and whiter.

calli
calli
December 28, 2022 2:38 pm

I’m not easily frightened, but I was worried. And continued to be worried well into 2020, mainly for my parents and husband. It was clear early on that the young, fit and healthy were at little risk despite the lurid headlines.

I also find 20/20 hindsight and revisionism ridiculous. And I have an excellent memory, right back to the first stirrings of trouble in January 2020.

local oaf
December 28, 2022 2:41 pm

We were sold fear. Deliberately.

They used our money to pay for the sales campaign too.

Dot
Dot
December 28, 2022 2:46 pm

Anyway

Albania is Macedonian.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
December 28, 2022 2:51 pm

To be accurate she is against blokes in women’s toilets and playing women’s sport.

Thoughts so obvious, axiomatic, and commonsensical that until a scant few years ago no one thought they even needed to be said.

Now all of us who did not flip the switch in our thinking when a few people emerge from nowhere demand we do have to endure the stern censure and coercion from moral colossi such as politicians, j’ismists, Twitter influencers, and the freaks.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
December 28, 2022 2:51 pm

I forgot midget.
A cheating, midget, houso, ranga flog.

Cack-handed, also. Like Hitler.

Johnny Rotten
December 28, 2022 2:55 pm

Scene: A courtroom in Oklahoma where a person is on trial for murder.

There is strong evidence indicating guilt however, there is no corpse.

In the defence’s closing statement the lawyer, knowing that his client is guilty and that it looks like he’ll probably be convicted, resorts to a clever trick.

“Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I have a surprise for you all” the lawyer says as he looks at his watch.

“Within 1 minute, the person presumed dead in this case will walk into this courtroom” he says and he looks toward the courtroom door.

The jury, somewhat stunned, all look on eagerly. A minute passes. Nothing happens.

Finally, the lawyer says: ‘Actually, I made up the previous statement. But you all looked on with anticipation. I, therefore, put it to you that there is reasonable doubt in this case as to whether anyone was killed and insist that you return a verdict of not guilty”.

The jury, clearly confused, retires to deliberate. A very few minutes later, the jury returns and a representative announces a verdict of guilty.

“But how?” inquires the lawyer. “You must have had some doubt. I saw all of you stare at the door”. Answers the representative “Oh, we did look… but your client didn’t”.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
December 28, 2022 2:57 pm

But a tiny minority of us knew that the Spanish flu was actually caused by mass vaccination and had nothing to do with contagious disease.

Aspirin may have been a likely killer of those treated.

The high case-fatality rate—especially among young adults—during the 1918–1919 influenza pandemic is incompletely understood. Although late deaths showed bacterial pneumonia, early deaths exhibited extremely “wet,” sometimes hemorrhagic lungs. The hypothesis presented herein is that aspirin contributed to the incidence and severity of viral pathology, bacterial infection, and death, because physicians of the day were unaware that the regimens (8.0–31.2 g per day) produce levels associated with hyperventilation and pulmonary edema in 33% and 3% of recipients, respectively. Recently, pulmonary edema was found at autopsy in 46% of 26 salicylate-intoxicated adults. Experimentally, salicylates increase lung fluid and protein levels and impair mucociliary clearance. In 1918, the US Surgeon General, the US Navy, and the Journal of the American Medical Association recommended use of aspirin just before the October death spike. If these recommendations were followed, and if pulmonary edema occurred in 3% of persons, a significant proportion of the deaths may be attributable to aspirin.

In short, they were giving doses well over what was needed to kill a healthy person.

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
December 28, 2022 2:57 pm

First part of the News com au article I mentioned. Naturally no mention of age or co-morbidities. Total drivel as far as reliable information.

“More than 100 aged care residents killed by Covid in just one week
A shocking new Covid statistic has emerged from the federal health department, raising concerns about one sector’s response to the rising cases”.

Johnny Rotten
December 28, 2022 2:58 pm

A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.

– Max Planck

Perplexed of Brisbane
Perplexed of Brisbane
December 28, 2022 2:58 pm

Boambee Johnsays:
December 28, 2022 at 1:41 pm

Shotgun with saltpetre or birdshot?

I read once on a forum discussing the best weapons for home defence that if you have a pump-action shotgun that holds five rounds, the first is salt, then increasing gauge of lead pellets until the last one is a solid.

I think then, they started talking about calibre and velocity of sidearm projectiles with your AR15 style weapons a last resort.

The main problem for us is that weapons have to be locked away, which is no good when you need them now. I guess you could claim insomnia and happened to be checking them just as an intruder broke in…….

You have to give the Americans credit where due. They do take into account that they don’t want to put a round through their neighbours house while taking down an intruder.

Johnny Rotten
December 28, 2022 3:01 pm

“More than 100 aged care residents killed by Covid in just one week
A shocking new Covid statistic has emerged from the federal health department, raising concerns about one sector’s response to the rising cases”.

And they all wore masks and did not kiss and cuddle each other or their relatives and had xx number of jabs/boosters. And they still died. FMD.

calli
calli
December 28, 2022 3:06 pm

“More than 100 aged care residents killed by Covid in just one week
A shocking new Covid statistic has emerged from the federal health department, raising concerns about one sector’s response to the rising cases”.

Is there a link for that? I just did a doc search and came up with nothing.

Dot
Dot
December 28, 2022 3:07 pm

The main problem for us is that weapons have to be locked away

So you need to spend a little more and get a surveillance set up and decent locks, gates etc.

If you could buy yourself an extra few minutes…

Ed Case
Ed Case
December 28, 2022 3:08 pm

Nope.
The “Spanish Flu” was entirely Vaccine caused Mortality.

Dot
Dot
December 28, 2022 3:09 pm

Even the Black Death is a lie. Rats and fleas took the blame for an iatrogenic holocaust.

You’re an irrepressible fruit loop.

What did doctors do back then that killed people? Or are you making shit up again?

Ed Case
Ed Case
December 28, 2022 3:10 pm

If you could buy yourself an extra few minutes…
… to kill someone?
These are some sick fantasies.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
December 28, 2022 3:10 pm

2 hours ago
Welfare payments to increase from January
Amaani Siddeek
AMAANI SIDDEEK

Almost one million Australians are in line for welfare payment increases starting January 1.

The Department of Social Services’ January 2023 Indexation Rates report provides data to show the increase to be paid to people on a variety of Centrelink welfare plans.

Singles with no children, who are under 18 and living at home, would have a fortnightly rise of $19.10 to their Youth Allowance payment, while single people with children would receive the highest fortnightly increase of $41.40, according to the report.

For those on the Disability Support Pension, payments to dependent singles under 18 would rise by $27.40 a fortnight.

Independent singles aged under 18, independent singles aged 18-20 and a member of a couple would receive fortnightly payment increases of up to $40.70.

The report indicated people receiving Austudy would receive a payment increase of $32.40 for singles. Singles with children would see the highest increase of $41.40 a fortnight.

Carer payments, mobility allowance and single parents payments were also expected to see increases.

Albanese shoring up his support base…

Dot
Dot
December 28, 2022 3:13 pm

Ed Casesays:
December 28, 2022 at 3:10 pm
If you could buy yourself an extra few minutes…
… to kill someone?
These are some sick fantasies.

Hold up kokksmokker.

Normal people do actually have fantasies about dispatching vile and unrepentant criminals.

Especially ones that threaten them or their families.

“Normal people”

Hence why you are incapable of understanding this.

Perplexed of Brisbane
Perplexed of Brisbane
December 28, 2022 3:13 pm

callisays:
December 28, 2022 at 2:25 pm
If you’re going to have a firearm in the house to ward off intruders, you have to be prepared to use it. Because, sure as eggs is eggs, it will be used against you.

I read the biography of G. Gordon Liddy – FBI agent of Watergate fame. He recounts how his firearms instructor asked him to draw his revolver and then asked him if he wanted him to file off the sight at the end of the barrel. Liddy asked why and he replied, “If you draw this on a man and ain’t fixin’ to shoot him he’s gonna shove it up your ass.”

I guess if you feel so threatened by an intruder that you would draw a firearm, you would want to get the first shot in, even if they aren’t armed likewise (and several shots after that too). May as well use the whole magazine while you’ve got it.

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
December 28, 2022 3:14 pm

Calli,
It is still showing on News com au under a category titled Health Problems.

Article does mention most are quadruple jabbed. As J Rotten points out no hugging, masks etc and still dying. Whilst trying to scare us with the dying stats they are also showing does not prevent dying. At the very least 80% in aged care must have had the virus and yet less than 10% dying with it. Oops with multiple co-morbidities!

Johnny Rotten
December 28, 2022 3:15 pm

Still, at least Rudd will be out of our hair for a while. Thanks, Albo.

No he will not. The RKudd is a menace. He will not be a Diplomat as he is an ArseHole of the first degree.

Just look at those youtube videos and you will see the measure of the TWAT.

JR

Leon L.
Leon L.
December 28, 2022 3:16 pm

Steven Novellas is the guy who set up the Science Based Medicine site. He is from Yale, a lost cause. This critique of Novellas is from wattsupwiththat titled Steven Novella’s Junk Science About Climate Change Acceleration.

The Daily Expose isn’t my kind of site, but it has way more going for it than Novellas’ propaganda site.
Dr Mahlotra was on the Beeb pushing covid vaccines at the start of the mass jabbings.
He had the integrity to admit he was wrong following his father’s sudden death.

JC – Duk, like me, is not vaxxed.

Johnny Rotten
December 28, 2022 3:20 pm

Bourne1879says:
December 28, 2022 at 3:14 pm
Calli,
It is still showing on News com au under a category titled Health Problems.

Article does mention most are quadruple jabbed. As J Rotten points out no hugging, masks etc and still dying. Whilst trying to scare us with the dying stats they are also showing does not prevent dying. At the very least 80% in aged care must have had the virus and yet less than 10% dying with it. Oops with multiple co-morbidities!

Thankyou Bourne1879. They are trying to scare us Big Time. Well it won’t work with me and many other people like yourself.

Johnny Rotten
December 28, 2022 3:22 pm

I have not had the Jab either. And I will never have the Jab.

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
December 28, 2022 3:23 pm

Bourne1879says:
December 28, 2022 at 2:16 pm
I think one of the major clues to there being something odd going on is that early on it was obvious that the virus was mainly killing the elderly. Even then they were average age mid 80’s with co-morbidities. Even now you will hardly see a CHO, radio host or news article mentioning this inconvenient truth.

Remdesivir and Midazolam was front and centre for knocking them off.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
December 28, 2022 3:24 pm

Ohh, ALP HQ mouthpiece Courier Mail on it’s hind trotters about Aboriginal/African/Ferals crime.

Sorry spare us your faux outrage. Like the ALP you have run dead on it or published puff pieces on aspiring rapper/poor me stories of loosers since well before the last election. You own it as well.

Eyrie
Eyrie
December 28, 2022 3:25 pm

Remdesivir and Midazolam was front and centre for knocking them off
Not to forget the ventilators

Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
December 28, 2022 3:25 pm

JC blurted:

Malone is by far the most prominent individual to be talking against the dangers of the vax. Yet, he himself is vaxxed.

Maybe if you stopped imagining Mr Malone’s beliefs and actions and instead read what he says about his beliefs and actions, you might stop sounding absurd.
e.g. in https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/how-bad-is-my-batch from Malone:

I knew in the beginning of April, 2021, that I had to travel overseas and the word on the street was that the European Union was going to require full vaccination before entering any EU country by summer (that actually never happened BTW). I knew that a full vaccination protocol was a process of weeks – and that i had better get started!
[…]
I know to read the literature, do my own due- diligence, etc before taking an experimental product or any vaccine. That is what I thought I did. The government assured us that these vaccines were very safe. I could never imagine that clinical data would be corrupted and even falsified – as we now know it was.

My interpretation of his account is that he assumed he had to get jabbed for travel and that the study he did of the Moderna vaccine’s provenance and effectiveness was cursory (not in-depth) because the initial reported figures and government advice had been reassuring.
I also find it surprising that the kind of decision-making process he went through appears similar to the one done by the rest of us – despite him having more knowledge of mRNA vaccines in his little finger than I do in my whole noggin.

A couple of weeks later Malone admitted more:

The biomedical world that I thought I was living in has been revealed to be a sham. The legitimacy of the industry and discipline that I have committed my entire professional life to is in shambles. I am now embarrassed to call myself a vaccines and biodefense expert, because the fundamental corruption inherent in those domains has been so clearly revealed. I cannot unsee what I have seen. I cannot recapture all of those years spent in a profoundly corrupt academic system, spent supporting a deeply compromised discipline which appears primarily driven by financial interests rather than by what I had naively believed was a commitment to saving lives. I chose to not pursue the careers of my father and father in law, which were spent building weapons of war. Only to find that I had inadvertently played a significant role in enabling one of the most tragic medical follies in the history of man.

Having good intentions and knowledge of the general techniques is of no use when you are deceived about the facts of their application in the present instance.

Eyrie
Eyrie
December 28, 2022 3:26 pm

And withholding the antibiotics that cure the consequential bacterial pneumonia that killed a lot.

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
December 28, 2022 3:29 pm

J Rotten,
One of the biggest failures of the vaccine was that it did not prevent the oldest Aussie, aged 110, dying ! In fact the article about his death implicated Covid which he had several weeks earlier.
One Courier Mail article had a 102 dying of Covid.

They could both have made it to at least 115!

If you look at most state Government health web pages you will find little info of ages of dying.

Johnny Rotten
December 28, 2022 3:29 pm

Dover. How come other people can use the C word and we can’t?

Dot
Dot
December 28, 2022 3:31 pm

IIRC the average age of those dying from COVID was higher than the life expectancy age?

Hardly a matter of vaccinated or not. They were old and deprived of human contact and sunshine (vitamin D3).

Arky
December 28, 2022 3:31 pm

It is rational to defer to authority in specialist matters you do not and never have any hope in having enough expertise therein…
unless one of the principles of persuasion is to sell using appeals to authority and you get an inkling that is what is occurring.
Then you have to resort to other means to ascertain what is going on.

Arky
December 28, 2022 3:36 pm

Dover. How come other people can use the C word and we can’t?

..
Diplomatic immunity.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
December 28, 2022 3:38 pm

Don’t all you firearms owners clean your weapon in the middle of the night coz you can’t sleep. Every night.

Vicki
Vicki
December 28, 2022 3:38 pm

My interpretation of his account is that he assumed he had to get jabbed for travel and that the study he did of the Moderna vaccine’s provenance and effectiveness was cursory (not in-depth) because the initial reported figures and government advice had been reassuring.

I must first say that my admiration for Malone is almost boundless. He has sacrificed much for his conviction that the genetic “vaccines” are so dangerous that they should be instantly withdrawn. However, there is the mark of special pleading in his rationale for being vaccinated, and I do vividly recall him saying to Steve Kirsch that he thought it may counteract the lingering effects of the Covid infection he contracted early in 2020. He also must have known about the failure of the trials on animals over two decades. All of this does however indicate, as you say, the frailty of human beings when they have to make decisions that are very inconvenient.

None of this, however, detracts from our debt to this man in pursuing, like McCullough, Cole, Kory, Rowe, Ionnides, Fenton, Kuldorf, Yeodan (and so many others) the evidence against these vaccines.

Plasmamortar
Plasmamortar
December 28, 2022 3:43 pm

Don’t all you firearms owners clean your weapon in the middle of the night coz you can’t sleep. Every night

Yeah, same here, it’s always loaded while cleaning too 😉

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