Some people evidently find that to be a compelling cause for which they would sacrifice their lives. That’s their choice.

Never said it wasn’t. If they happen to be Australian citizens, however, I don’t see why my tax dollars should go towards shipping their remains back here, or patching them up if they’re wounded, or on their NDIS plan if they return home permanently disabled.

Not our business.

(Let’s forget the rules on handguns > 9 mm in NSW…

You happen carrying a .40 Cal Glock

LDP member:

Rack off, I’m an aesthetic boy and will carry a 10 mm auto.

Adams denouncing Bradman as a “right-wing nutjob”. Kamahl leapt to the cricketer’s defence, pointing out that “he welcomed me at his home’’ every year between 1988 and 2001.

LOL some quality dialogue there. He’s a right wing nut job! No he can’t be because he put up with a brown person visiting his home once a year!

Go change your nappy Ed you’ve wet yourself again.

Adams then responded by calling Kamahl an ‘honorary white’.

Phatty did not read the room at all.

I don’t own any pistols unfortunately ?
Licence is too much of a pain to be worthwhile.

strangling your rights with red tape

Phillip Adams has blocked Kamahl on Twitter.

Popcorn. Mr Adams is a great advertisement for not subscribing to The Australian.
I forgive him though, because of The Adventures of Barry McKenzie. Beut fillum!

Barry Crocker is still with us btw, at age 87. Awesome.

The Donald with some home truths about ideologues and how to win elections:

Social Security, which was developed as part of the New Deal by then-President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the aftermath of the Great Depression, is a very simple program that guarantees Americans who hit retirement age certain income. Throughout the course of their lives, the federal government garnishes Americans’ wages—taking a cut of their paychecks—on the promise that at the end of their lives they will get a check on the regular so they can retire and live out the rest of their lives.

“We have to protect it. It’s a contract with the people,” Trump said of Social Security. “They go in. They work and they do. They put their blood, sweat, and tears into Social Security and then you have a guy like a Paul Ryan or others that want to destroy it. We have a contract. There are plenty of places we can take from where it’s waste. Look at the Green New Deal nonsense. That’s many times Social Security, what they’re doing with the Green New Deal. That is like throwing money out the window. I’m all for the environment. I’m an environmentalist in the truest sense. But the Green New Deal is like the Green New Hoax. It’s a hoax. Then when they talk about Social Security, they’re going to destroy Social Security so they can build more windmills all over the place that don’t work? It’s not going to happen with me.”

Trump warned that Republicans discussing cutting Social Security were falling into one of many “traps” that the Democrats lay for the GOP with the American electorate. Some Republicans had promised to try to tackle “entitlement reform” post-midterms, an issue that Democrat President Joe Biden zoned in on aggressively during the final few weeks of the campaign. That may have tanked several otherwise promising GOP candidates coast to coast, Trump said, arguing that these Republicans “fell into” the Democrats’ “trap.”

and

Trump also warned of another “trap” he said Democrats laid for Republicans that he said too many fell into, which is on abortion in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade. Trump, whose judicial appointments, including the three Supreme Court justices Brett Kavanaugh, Neil Gorsuch, and Amy Coney Barrett, were critical to overturning the controversial Roe decision, was arguably one of if not the most pro-life presidents in history. Even so, Trump argued that Republicans must support what he called “the three exceptions”—for rape, incest, and the life of the mother—to any measures banning abortion, or else they face electoral elimination in most of America. Trump specifically singled out Michigan GOP gubernatorial candidate Tudor Dixon and Pennsylvania GOP gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano, both of whom lost their respective races this year after taking hardline positions without such exceptions.

“Now, I think a lot of Republicans didn’t handle the abortion question properly,” Trump told Breitbart News. “I think if you don’t have the three exceptions, it’s almost impossible in most parts of the country to win. If you don’t have three exceptions—I said to a very nice man running for governor of Pennsylvania, ‘If you don’t have the three exceptions, you can’t win.’ Same thing with Tudor. She didn’t have the three exceptions. I say this to the Republican Party: If you don’t have the three exceptions, because you know the Democrats are radical and they’ll kill the baby at nine months or they’ll kill the baby after the baby is born. Okay? That’s more radical. But, you know a 15 or 16 week period of time, but you have to have the three exceptions. If you don’t have the three exceptions, you’re destined to doom.”

Preach it.

The whole article is worth a read, and reminds us of why he is a master political strategist.

If people feel passionately about something, fine, but mainstream political parties cannot embrace political suicide because it makes some people feel good. The equivalents in Australia are abolishing the age pension and banning abortion across the board. Never going to happen, and very damaging to conservative parties.

Bruce of Newcastlesays:
December 29, 2022 at 6:50 pm
I am seriously impressed that Monty has managed to invoke an actual antisemitic WaPo article to smear Cats for being leary of the Covid vax. Well done son!

Don’t forget, m0nty=fa is the only one here who hears antisemitic “dog whistles”. Think of him as a flea on a large dog.

Moran’s latest piece on the cost of going full renewable with battery back-up

the false assumption is that their is continuity of our current civilisation. the great reset involves depopulation, rewilding our farming sector, de-industrialisation and the elimination of the private car fleet.

‘Ringleader’ in FBI’s Plot to Kidnap Governor Whitmer Sentenced to 19.5 Years in Prison

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/12/just-ringleader-fbis-plot-kidnap-governor-whitmer-sentenced-19-5-years-prison/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=the-gateway-pundit&utm_campaign=dailypm&utm_content=2022-12-28
The FBI is a terrorist organisation.

The author was working for them whilst I was there, and Blackwater was mostly used to guard buildings, escort conveys and body guards for politicians, bureaucrats and NGOs, etc.

Neither the heavy lifting, nor the discrete ops were undertaken by Blackwater. That was around the time of its first Iraq contracts.

What he described were events that occurred in the course of precisely what you mentioned.

It devolved into civil war because Obama washed his hands of it, and gave Maliki a free hand.

Huh? The civil war broke out (and was quelled) long before Obama entered office.

I realise the origins of the Iraqi insurgency cannot be attributed to a single factor, but a significant one was that the US went in light in terms of manpower. That, plus the political imperative to minimise casualties,* necessitated the use of heavy-handed, indiscriminate tactics to hold territory that inevitably resulted in excess civilian casualties. This generated popular resentment of the invading forces.

*also why mercenary forces like Blackwater were needed – they supplemented the inadequate invasion force and their injuries/deaths weren’t included in the casualty counts

Next we’ll have the carlton creep weighing in

Ed Casesays:
December 29, 2022 at 7:19 pm
A confrontation in the house with a burglar usually ends up with a dead householder.
Advising people to carry knives, poke someone in the eye, kick groins is gonna result in dead people and is verging on criminal advice.

Dick Head always leaves his wallet, bank cards with the PIN written on them, and car keys by the unlocked front door, and always carries a white flag.

JCsays:
December 29, 2022 at 7:29 pm
Men, don’t often want to leave a marriage, Fatboy. It’s more often the sheila. When men do leave, it’s often because the sheila has caused it to be so making the poor guy’s life insufferable.

m0nty=fa married his way into the upper middle class, no way he is not the dependent one there. He knows he has to behave himself.

I dunno Ed.

I reckon best advice to a female on the streets these days, is a) run if you can, and b) hit them in the right place if you can’t, preferably with the yawara stick.

Fairly sure they’re not illegal either:
https://www.australianpolice.com.au/prohibited-weapons/

A good rule of thumb is that, whenever you start going down the path of “I’m the only person in the world who has thought of…”, it’s time to stop and check yourself.

It’s ostensibly ridiculous I agree. But I’ve never seen it discussed anywhere other than when I’ve asked (hundreds of) immunologists and virologists. Their responses – obtuseness and insults – tell me that nobody’s thought about it. At least, they don’t want to think about it.

And let’s face it.

Not one person here has thought of it have they?

Certainly not Lizzie. She thought that referencing the first paper she found after googling “immunity chronic infection” would resolve the issue. She had no idea what the issue was.

Still doesn’t I suspect.

I’ll say it again.

Does harbouring a virus make a person more or less susceptible to future disease from that virus?

Whatever answer you give *must* demolish half of what we are taught about disease.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/geoengineering-startup-begins-releasing-sulfur-particles-atmosphere-attempt-stop

What could possibly go wrong? It’s not as though there could be any unintended consequences in messing with extremely complex systems that we have a limited understanding of.

In fact, I say we go the whole hog and block out the sun entirely. Let’s get serious about this cooling business.

This is hilarious as various people find their rice bowls threatened

I worked out in 2006 that geoengineering was the cheapest answer. Although I’d use TiO2 pigment, not sulfates. For only about $20 billion you could offset any warming…except when I looked there wasn’t any. That’s when I gave the idea up. I sort of imagine how rich I’d be if I’d signed up for the scam, give the flood of money which awaits such people. But I am happy and have a sufficiency and am promulgating truth not lies.

Good friends of mine separated and divorced a few years ago, after decades together and two kids.
Sheila was devastated when, year after the fact, he reminded her that she did the initiating, announcing, distancing, wedging, gaslighting, well-poisoning and finalizing. He did all of the reasoning, pleading, appointment booking, and begging for a stay of execution. And their kids new it- the “narrative” they heard from their mum from even before they realized what was happening to their family was “divorce is normal”, whereas their dad told them- and showed them- how to be humble and fight the good fight.
She was particularly gutted when he told her it was a relief, marriage to her was no picnic. But his conscience was clean.

Yesterday I achieved getting some podcasts on my phone. A first.

Tomorrow I will be challenged by how to plug said phone into the ute for travel. Another first, if it works out.

The struggle is real.

A Time for Choosing with Peter Thiel
Reagan Foundation

As a 75-yo ringer was leaving the pub last year the Jacks tried to pinch him for drunk driving, when he tested under the limit they charged him for having a pocket knife on his belt.

It was for his own good, of course.

Civilian casualties were surprising light, and avoided like the plaque. Much effort was expended, and sometimes US lives sacrificed, in order to minimise civilian casualties. The only even vaguely “heavy handed” activity I planned for, was the Second Battle of Fallujah. The reason being was that it was a heavily fortified, largely impregnable strongpoint, by the time it occurred. Civilians had been given every opportunity to leave. Even then, civilians casualties were avoided where possible. It wasn’t indiscriminate.

You cannot invade and occupy and keep control of the population of a country of ~30 million people with an invasion force of 150k (or whatever it was – not an especially high number), keep the body count relatively low (just over 3000 IIRC) and not use heavy handed tactics/strategy to degrade and defeat the existing regime’s forces, and then maintain the peace. Particularly a country with the underlying ethnic and religious divides of Iraq. It’s like saying you can have affordable, high quality, universal healthcare – no, you can have two of those three things. You can’t have all three. To say you can is akin to denying gravity.

I am not saying you were unconcerned with civilian casualties. I don’t doubt that what you’re saying is true based on your metrics. I am saying, however, that the average Iraqi civilian is highly unlikely to share your assessment that civilian casualties were light, as they would be factoring in losses that you are not. For example, the US destroyed a great deal of Iraq’s infrastructure prior to invasion as a part of degrading the Iraqi military’s ability to defend its territory, and minimise US casualties. How many Iraqis suffered because of this? How many died because of this? Would Iraqis that attribute the suffering and death of their countrymen to US action be wrong to do so? I say they would not be.

The Donald with some home truths about ideologues and how to win elections:

Interesting read, johanna. I took three things out of that: Trump thinks Social Security is a vote-winner with seniors, he wants to neutralise abortion as an issue by shifting to the left, and he thinks Paul Ryan is his biggest opponent for the 2024 nomination. No mention of DeSantis.

Sal – here are some more details the Country Caller didn’t bother reporting on. The Courier Mail:

A Chinchilla man known as ‘Cowboy’ was back before court for a weapons offence, but it certainly wasn’t the 72-year-old man’s first rodeo with the justice system.

The well-known elderly man, Michael Wayne McLennan, pleaded guilty to one count of sexual assault in the Chinchilla Magistrates Court on July 22.

And:

While serving a suspended jail sentence for the sex crime, the former rodeo and campdraft rider was back before the court after being caught carrying a pocketknife at a pub on Saturday, August 7.

To get this repeat sex offender back before the courts, the jacks had to pinch him for breaching his suspended sentence. If this elderly sex offender was ‘well-known’, I doubt it was for being the world’s greatest bloke.

Running his mouth as well, the cops saw an opportunity to put him back behind bars and they took it – remembering, IMO, this is not something they would (generally) do with the average punter.

Believe raggedy-ass special interest ‘newspapers’ like the Country Caller at your peril.

Countries Impose Restrictions on China Travelers; China Calls for Scientific Basis to Entry Rules

00:58 Countries Impose Restrictions on Travelers from China
03:12 China Calls for ‘Scientific’ Basis as U.S. Weighs COVID-19 Entry Rules
04:56 Chinese Funeral Home Notice Bans Leaking Info: Report
05:52 ‘Covid-19 Not Responsible for Deaths’: Funeral Homes
06:32 Multiple Chinese Performers, Actors Reported Dead
08:02 House Bans TikTok, Lawmakers Call for Nationwide Ban
09:01 Australia Grants Extradition of Former U.S. Pilot
10:19 Russia, China Hold Joint Naval Exercises near Taiwan
11:10 Indonesian Criminal Code to Ban Spreading Communism
12:29 Japan Plans Ambitious Deep-Sea Mining Project

KD: There’s usually a backstory to a petty charge being laid.

Well, yes. Shit tin vested-interest publications like that produce pieces like that for clickbait, intending to (and creating) ill-informed outrage when in reality he was firmly in Categories (1) and (2) – a loud dunderhead and serial pest, and that was the minimum.

Though 75-yo should be old enough to not be bothering the Jacks much anymore.

Unless he’s on a suspended sentence for sexual assault. Speaking of single-interest clickbait mags, this is how McLennan’s brush with the constabulary was reported in something called Over60, and again without mentioning him being a sex offender:

Grandfather left shocked after police fine him for carrying a pocket knife

My ancestral seat had a Mr McLennan type when I were a young whippersnapper. The local plod paid him a visit, it is said, and after that he had to move to ‘the smoke’* for good.

*Anywhere over 10,000 populaiton.

I will stand up for the right of parents to refuse any vaxxes at all for their kids, but I think that is misguided. If the Covid rush to vaccination as a solution has done anything, it has set childhood vaccination, a useful medical tool, back for a generation. Children will have to die because of this growing ideology, which I find shocking.

The ‘current health emergency’ has caused quite a few people., myself included, to take a closer look at the ‘safety and effectiveness’ of vaccines – a therapeutic we previously accepted as of unquestionable benefit. That ‘closer look’ has caused me and others to seriously question what we were told. One particular revelation for me was that

1) the testing of said vaccines was scientifically questionable
2) even the said vaccines were effective at preventing the particular disease in question, that might still be not worth it *if* they *caused* other diseases – something which the testing regime never addressed.

I for one learned that the fall in *acute* infective diseases with vaccination, was also accompanied by a rise in *chronic* inflammatory/immune mediated diseases and that said rise may well be causal – vaccines might be stimulating the immune sysem to avoid acute illness, but also stimulating it to *cause* chronic immune mediated illness (asthma, sinusitis, T2DM, autism, AHDH etc etc etc.).

This turned me from an unquestioning supporter of vaccines (with over 60 stamps in my needle book) into a sceptic who will seriously question every vaccine in future.

A bit of an ‘own goal’ by the vax industry I think.

Sal, now I’m nostalgic for the Old Timer which my dad bought back from Perth army surplus when I was about ten. Man, that thing could carry a wicked edge.
Lost it for a few decades, found it again, now lost again. Now, like Bilbo, I yearn for it, and the whittlin’ skinnin’ wire strippin’ power it granted me.

How lucky are we on the Cat to have the likes of Mater, who is on a par with Stormin’ Norman Schwarzkopf, and Zulu who is basically the Arnie character from Predator.

I for one learned that the fall in *acute* infective diseases with vaccination, was also accompanied by a rise in *chronic* inflammatory/immune mediated diseases and that said rise may well be causal – vaccines might be stimulating the immune sysem to avoid acute illness, but also stimulating it to *cause* chronic immune mediated illness (asthma, sinusitis, T2DM, autism, AHDH etc etc etc.).

no one had a peanut allergy when I was at school… now its common along with gluten allergies and more

Immunologists I met through family reckoned asthma & peanut allergies were an unintended consequence of cleanliness – no more parasitic worms except in rare and short periods.

I’ll take the allergies thanks.

Schrade now made in Chai-na. Labelled “Schrade U.S.A. Made in China”, stainless steel.
Good Old Timers were U.S.A. high carbon black steel. Big asking price for relics on the e-bays.

Immunologists I met through family reckoned asthma & peanut allergies were an unintended consequence of cleanliness – no more parasitic worms except in rare and short periods.

I don’t buy it. Something has gone wrong and needs to be looked into. Pity the gov is too busy trying to change the weather with taxes.

Pity the gov is too busy trying to change the weather with taxes.

speaking of which not a peep from any gov about excess deaths which continue

The first doctoral degrees ever awarded, from the university of Bologna, were in Law and Engineering.. FYI. Both were considered highly practical subjects at the timetime.

Danno the Destroyer just hauled a fox onto the back lawn. Yow yow snarl, bit of fun as I’d locked all the firearms away, had to hit it with a kid size crickit bat for the mercy stroke. By moonlight.
7kg, allowing for loss of blood.

Article Israel ends pandemic ,covid downgraded to flu.

Infection is different to vaccination.

The purpose of vaccination is to mimic natural immunity. That’s what we are taught right? Immunity comes from the live virus or dead/attenuated virus but the latter, we are told, is safer.

In the case of hepatitis B, the vaccine is a harmless portion of the virus’s genes combined with yeast cells. You do not get infected by the vaccine, thus you are not “harbouring a virus”.

If you have an asymptomatic (chronic) hep b “infection” you also have a “harmless” portion of the hep b virus in you.

Or are you trying to say it’s the yeast that gives people immunity? In which case, why not substitute vaccination with bread?

So your answer Monty destroys the entire concept of immunity.

Well done.

Jo Nova continues to do a sterling job. The piece on USA universities describes a nation in decline. The Frankfurt School came to America to introduce rot, and they succeeded.

Tyranny Down Under: Aussie Cops Demand Public Rat Out Neighbors Who Are “Anti-Government Or Believe COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories”
QLD cops show Victorian standard of totalitarianism.
First take the guns. Lula Da Silva is making noises about gun control. No surprise there.
Gateway Pundit

“it’s arrogance to think everyone wants to live as we do, or that we can make it happen, even if they do.”

Most of the ME and underdeveloped muslim countries in general can probably only be governed by strong leaders (dictators?) or juntas, or in the case of Iran, sadly, by theocracy – hopefully not for much longer.
The world’s mostly left leaning media are ok with this as long as it’s not the former Shah, or Egypt’s al Sisi. Any other dictatorship is “Nothing to see here”, just the culture, no sweat. They were fine with Daffy Gadaffi for decades. Erdogan doesn’t phase them.
But Victor Orban in Hungary, or Bolsonaro in Brazil are hated by the media, and are targeted as horrible right wing beasts when they are sensible, valuable leaders.

ChatGPT has all the answers. Read about it at Jo Nova.
ChatGPT was trained on text culled from the internet and it creates the answer live in seconds — it writes it out in a conversation with you, and in Python code, Norwegian, iambic pentameter, whatever you want. It can do birthday suggestions, business plans, eulogies, speeches — like a personal assistant with a copy of the entire World Wide Web in their temporal cortex.
“Friends, Robots, countrymen, lend me your ears.”

From News website:
Influencer with 1.7m followers reveals face!

From what I’ve seen of these “influencers” they usually reveal a lot more than that.

New visa opportunities for Indian skilled migrants

Maybe Australia wouldn’t need so many skilled migrants if Government didn’t treat skilled Australians so badly? How many skilled Australians lost their jobs as a result of vaccine mandates?

Maybe Australia wouldn’t need so many skilled migrants if Government didn’t treat skilled Australians so badly? How many skilled Australians lost their jobs as a result of vaccine mandates?

I think the idea is to eliminate anyone who objects to government and replace them with willing drones.
Even if they are useless at their job, they will say “yes sir” without question.

Two facts that should make people realise the entire edifice of vaccination is a criminal enterprise.

1) There were only 1,500 iron lungs in all of the US at the supposed peak of polio.

That’s right. 1,500. The Smithsonian actually counted them. And they’re kind of hard to miss as they cost hospitals as much as a house.

That’s 1 per 100,000 people in the US. Remember it was the US that people thought was hit hardest by polio.

All the photos of wards full of iron lungs that you’ve ever seen were staged photo ops.

You were brainwashed into believing polio was everywhere when in fact it was extremely rare.

2) Andrew Wakefield’s retracted paper *never* said vaccines caused autism. Indeed, it explicitly said they never tried to evaluate the question.

So why on earth was it retracted?

The reason of course was pour encourage les autres. “Don’t even report what parents say about vaccine injuries to their children or you’ll be struck off the medical registry like we did to Andrew Wakefield”.

Of course Dot believes it’s because the medical community never ever lied before the covid vaccine came along.

Indeed, Dot actually thinks the old medical practice of ingesting mercury was a good idea.

Immunologists I met through family reckoned asthma & peanut allergies were an unintended consequence of cleanliness – no more parasitic worms except in rare and short periods.

So a *reduction* in immune stimuli (less exposure to infective agents) is the cause of an *increase* in activity of the immune system?, NOT the vaccines, which by their very nature are immune stimuli (they even contain ‘adjuvants’ to make the immune system sit up and take notice).

I hope the immunologists you have met were ‘experts’, otherwise I would find it hard to believe them.