Nightly Walk of the Monks to the Mountain Monastery Athos, Hermann Corrodi, 1888
1,634 thoughts on “Open Thread – Weekend 7 Jan 2023”
Pogria sounds a bit like Sue Grafton.
She spent months after being dumped devising devious ways to kill her second? husband then turned her hand to writing mysteries instead.
She made millions.
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Am building up a garden bed for the better half
*sound of whipcrack*
Is she planning on kicking you out once it is finished? Women can be sneaky like that.
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*sound of whipcrack*
mUnty has been watching those Andrew Tate Tik Tocs again.
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Mole.
Well I had a bobcat for that part of the digging, and they are serious fun …
Are they what!
I had reason to use one a while back and am looking for an opportunity to hire one again.
I have a little demolition job coming up as part of an insurance job, and I think a little Bobcat or Dingo or whatever is the go.
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Garrison’s toon is my pick today, cannot go past “Gulag Archipelosi” for unconstitutionally detained J6 tourists.
Re: Blackball on Rowe on Dutton
> It’s like Rowe has Dutton as the villain for askingalways unconditionally.
FIFY.
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Monty’s wife had a nice garden bed till the day he collectivised it for the good of the neighbourhood.
It now resembles an outdoor cat latrine.
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Their real fear is the shitfight that would erupt among the 300 “nations” when the detail is exposed and 271 nations perceive that they will be disadvantaged.
It is…shall we say, interesting…that representation is geo-politically based on state boundaries and not “first nations” boundaries. Obviously the latter method would be more than a bit unwieldy, not to mention the difficulty that those boundaries can be the subject of dispute. But yes, one can already anticipate the howls of protest over representation and favouritism.
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Teh question no one asks
“Luigi, why don’t you put legislation through establishing the Voice right now this very minute? You do not need a constitutional amendment to do so. Then at the at next Federal election hold the referendum at the same time so we can get an idea of what we will be making permanent.”
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Mole.
I think the most satisfying thing about mini excavator type kit is that you go from being clumsy and stilted in your inputs, to quite fluid and fast in working the controls within a few hours.
Inputs become almost intuitive very quickly.
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Remember the first rule of bobcat safety – always, always, always drop the bucket to the ground. Never, ever leave it raised. Never.
Have I made myself clear? And don’t ask me how I know.
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Cassie:
Don’t you just love the journalistic screams of “far-right”, “far-right”, “far-right”.
Yes. It never fails to point out the leftist journo credentials.
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Also, if you’re a novice, please make sure the site is clear of people. And vehicles. And buildings.
Because it soon will be.
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Yes, Diogenes.
Legislation passed “pending ratification via referendum” exposes the precise detail voters are entitled to.
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Legislation passed “pending ratification via referendum”
Doesn’t need a constitutional amendment. All the amendment will do is make it ‘unremovable’
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callisays:
January 9, 2023 at 1:01 pm
Also, if you’re a novice, please make sure the site is clear of people. And vehicles. And buildings.
Yes.
Taking it slow and steady and familiarisation with the controls is a good idea.
Although, from memory, the one I used was operated from a standing platform at the back, and the controls were kind of “dead man switches”, where it would stop without positive inputs.
Obviously a fail-safe in case of the driver being bucked off.
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Have I made myself clear? And don’t ask me how I know.
And no showing off on two wheels!
(Of course we would never dream of doing that)
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callisays:
January 9, 2023 at 12:59 pm
Remember the first rule of bobcat safety – always, always, always drop the bucket to the ground. Never, ever leave it raised. Never.
Yep.
I used the trenching tool and the bucket, and it was on a slope.
I always left the bucket buried in the gravel I was moving when I got off.
And I liked the idea of operating from the platform at the back – really easy to abandon ship if things get hairy.
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Actually just thinking on it, the amendment will say “there will be a body etc etc”. There is absolutely no problem if I were appointed PM , putting through legislation(assuming I have control of both the houses) dissolving whatever Luigi puts in and saying the Voice will consist of 3 members appointed by the GG in Council, and appointing say Jacinta Price, her mum and her niece as the members
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The new, angry, “meatsuit” m0nty=fa is as wet as an old dishrag.
smutley puts on his meatstick and takes out his anger with it… a revolutionary act
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OK…confession time; I cliked on some Harry bait:
“…when asked about the Prince of Wales’s possible reaction to his autobiography or conversation with ITV host Bradby, Harry said he didn’t think “my father or brother will read the book”.
He continued: “I don’t know whether they’ll be, you know, watching this or not, but, what they have to say to me and what I have to say to them will be in private, and I hope it can stay that way.”
I don’t think William or Charles will be writing tell all books exposing family secrets, if that’s what you mean, Harold.
He has all the self-awareness of an inebriated wombat.
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What is it with right-wing idiots starting insurrections that end in failure in early January?
Teh question no one asks
“Luigi, why don’t you put legislation through establishing the Voice right now this very minute? You do not need a constitutional amendment to do so. Then at the at next Federal election hold the referendum at the same time so we can get an idea of what we will be making permanent.”
Mmm…I’d say the last thing politicians want is voters getting the idea of having a veto over legislation.
“What will they want next….recall elections? Harrumph!”
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He continued: “I don’t know whether they’ll be, you know, watching this or not, but, what they have to say to me and what I have to say to them will be in private, and I hope it can stay that way.”
Translated:- “Please give me more material for the sequel!”
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Their real fear is the shitfight that would erupt among the 300 “nations” when the detail is exposed and 271 nations perceive that they will be disadvantaged.
There are two clans, in this part of the world, who have been feuding since 1968, and cannot even agree on what day of the week it is.
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What is it with right-wing idiots starting insurrections that end in failure in early January?
Very low energy, monts.
Where’s the meatsuit?
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I feel that’s why Albo is walking around with ants in the pants.
There’s no funding for the ‘no’ campaign because they know it’s bollocks on stilts. So you get the feeling that Albo has whispered in the ear of Facebook and asked to have advertising pulled from pages like Advance Australia.
And this is his big ticket item. It isn’t energy, it isn’t inflation. If this referendum is defeated, Albo is gone.
Now was early this morning when I first posted, morning tv was on. Was there a call for the Liberal Party to have a conscience vote? Who is calling for it? The Labor/Green coalition or Aboriginal advisory bodies?
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Monty – Weren’t they mostly peaceful protests? Oh wait that was those BLM and Antifa ones.
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Mole, climate-compatibility taken into consideration, Friesia (yellow) and Just Joey (burnt orange) are good re. perfume.
And this is his big ticket item. It isn’t energy, it isn’t inflation. If this referendum is defeated, Albo is gone.
Yep…he’s nailed his colours to this mast.
Was there a call for the Liberal Party to have a conscience vote? Who is calling for it?
I heard it was Ken Wyatt.
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Sussan Ley it looks like. Dutton himself?
Diogenes mused…
so we can get an idea of what we will be making permanent.
The Aboriginal Voice to Parliament either receives special attention, weight, and privileges, or it does not. If it does not, what is the purpose in creating it that is not already served by current MPs?
If it does receive special treatment, it is a racist institution. We already know everything important about the Aboriginal Voice to Parliament by theory alone, there is nothing important to be gained by establishing it first and asking referendums later. The idea itself is wrong headed. Any further “detail” is revealed mainly to distract the plebes from this fundamental problem with it.
“We will condemn our nation and our indigenous Australians to continue living the level of disparity that we have seen for decades,” he said.
“I would urge the Liberal Party to support the Voice but if there is dissension within the party then at least give members a conscience vote.
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thefrollickingmole says:
January 9, 2023 at 12:50 pm
Get David Austin roses
Ill check them out, want to go heavy on scent.
What you need are Mr Lincoln roses. Strong, robust growth, large red blooms and a strong heavenly scent.
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Read that first paragraph. FMD what codswallop
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All the amendment will do is make it ‘unremovable’
If you can change it by referendum now, then you can remove it by a new referendum.
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Read the article in the ABC about the Carbon Credit Scheme Review chaired by the aptly titled Mr. Chubb who continues to be wheeled out whenever Labor needs a scientific opinion in line with its politics. Well it seems there will be more of the same with a couple of tweaks. Couldn’t help but notice this statement buried down towards the bottom of the text; ” While the review panel noted the potential use of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) to limit the “pace and extent” of climate change, it also said it had been told during the inquiry period that it was not economic.”
So in other words its a bloody waste of money and effort but let’s go ahead anyway. Of course nothing about the fact that Australia is already a natural net carbon sink and the scheme was never needed in the first place. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-01-09/australian-carbon-credit-units-review-report/101836478
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A few stems of the white freesia (garden-grown) could fill a room with scent.
Not so much now.
Maybe going the way of carnation perfume.
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Three contractors bid on repair to the White House fence. One is from Chicago, another is from Kentucky, and the third is from New Orleans. All three go with a White House Official to examine the fence.
The New Orleans contractor takes out a tape measure and does some measuring, then works some figures with a pencil. “Well” he says “I figure the job will run about $9,000. That’s $4,000 for materials, $4,000 for my crew and $1,000 profit for me”.
The Kentucky contractor also does some measuring and figuring, then says “I can do this job for $7,000. That’s $3,000 for materials, $3,000 for my crew and $1,000 profit for me”.
The Chicago contractor doesn’t measure or figure, but leans over to the White House official and whispers “$27,000”.
The official, incredulous, says “You didn’t even measure like the other guys!! How did you come up with such a high figure??”
The Chicago contractor whispers back “$10,000 for me, $10,000 for you, and we hire the guy from Kentucky to fix the fence!” “Done!” replies the Government Official.
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If you can change it by referendum now, then you can remove it by a new referendum.
So, will the Voice to Parliament be in the position where they may have to approve a referendum to remove that voice?
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Is Wyatt another one of John Howard’s ideas?
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No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.
– Niccolo Machiavelli
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TrevorG says
If you can change it by referendum now, then you can remove it by a new referendum.
They are both acts of popular consent. But your model of the people’s psychology is incomplete if you think they will both be judged fairly on merits in the same way, first to install and then to remove.
Because it is easier to fool a person than to get them to admit that they were fooled.
The best time for removing bad political installations is before they are installed.
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“We will condemn our nation and our indigenous Australians to continue living the level of disparity that we have seen for decades,” he said.
Having 24 elected reps, most or all of them aboriginal industry hacks, in Canberra will remedy that?
I think the term “electoral trust” has just met its use by date.
There cannot be too many elections lately that have delivered a non leftist result.
This is why I believe the Squark will get through.
Voting will only give Lefty results otherwise they wouldn’t be held.
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ABC ran a story this morning about a kid who’s just been released from custody for break and enter offences. He listed the reasons he got into trouble from an early age – surprisingly a lack of a Voice was never mentioned.
Not from the Canburra mob.
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The best time for removing bad political installations is before they are installed.
It’s a nice thought, though the human race tends to take a more “suck it and see” approach.
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Going through a pitch deck for a US education business.
Quotes a study that a says a third of US public school kids think that Gandalf & George Washington lived at the same time.
I’ve heard this line quoted a few times over the past month.
I wonder where it really originated from.
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Is Wyatt another one of John Howard’s ideas?
He entered parliament the term after Howard lost and was later appointed to a ministry by Turnbull. He was the minister responsible, under Morrison, for the inception of an indigenous voice to parliament and, under his direction, Calma & Langton were appointed to co-chair the special advisory group which produced the model Albanese proclaims himself to be so enamoured with.
So we can’t blame Howard for this one.
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Alwaysright:
What a ^Horrible time to be alive.
The adults are in the position of having to watch helpless while being locked out of the room, the kids are sticking forks in every powerpoint they can find and chanting out loud to themselves “We’ll get it right this time”.
I may just start producing T Shirts “We warned you, you stupid, stupid, bastards.”
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Cassie:
“next time you decide to interrupt me, contradict me, rebut me, disprove me, and try to prove me wrong make sure you get all your facts right or preferably, keep your mouth shut.”
Do you do videos, Cassie?
And how much are they?
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Here is a list of the toughest of the tough when it comes to roses. Many will just keep on flowering throughout the year. All good for disease resistance (bearing in mind that any humidity here will give you black spot).
Tall – Graham Austin
Lorraine Lee
Medium – Mary Rose
Heritage
Iceberg
Chaucer
Golden Celebration
Touch of Class
Ground – Green Ice
Little White Pet
Climber – Mutabilis up a wall
Zepherine Drouhin on an arch (AgathaChristie style)
Lots of different colours and types. My personal favourite is the glorious old Alistair Clarke “Lorraine Lee”. She can be found in old gardens across the country. Don’t bother with the once a year bloomers, get the hybrid “remontant” types.
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I’d just like that on an audio tape. Forget a video.
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123andBush reckoned:
It’s a nice thought, though the human race tends to take a more “suck it and see” approach.
Yes indeed, evolutionary approach generally good, and that is still besides the point that I was making.
Firstly, what are the chances that an institution that is racist in theory will turn out to be good in practice, and so why do we need to try it out to determine the answer to that?
Secondly, why do you think we will be able to see everything that happens as a result of the AVP?
Finally, a cancellation via 2nd referendum does not require the people to “see” the results of their assent, it requires them to admit what they have seen. A subtle but potentially significant difference.
Also I admit to mistaken wording in my comment above “If it does receive special treatment, it is a racist institution.” It’s racist by definition of its eligible constituency (and possibly direct membership) regardless of what special policy influence it is granted.
Some of the questions I posed above are not necessarily rhetorical but I’ve been unable to imagine what good answers they have.
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Sorry. That was “Graham Thomas” by David Austin.
He’s tall, full blown and golden with strong canes and beautiful, glossy, dark green foliage. Hard to kill.
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I think The Voice will get up.
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feelthebern says: January 9, 2023 at 2:28 pm
I think The Voice will get up.
Up like the Hindenburg?
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After winning the 2025 election, the Labor Green coalition will introduce an estate tax.
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feelthebernsays:
January 9, 2023 at 2:28 pm
I think The Voice will get up.
That will happen in spite of there not being one shred of evidence it will help indigenous people. It is infuriating. I wouldn’t be surprised if the Voice starts presenting bills to Parliament. Has anyone else noted how often “always was, always will be” is being trumpeted in these days?
Bruce O’Newk:
There are two dictionaries in use in the world today – The Standard, and the Woke. All the day to day words are defined in the Standard, but the Woke Dictionary has many expanded meanings to these words that are referred to in legislation. That’s how “Love is Love” means you have agreed to support “Minor Attracted Persons” when it comes to laws etc.
Verbal sleight of hand, and you’d better believe the Left is damn good at it.
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After winning the 2025 election, the Labor Green coalition will introduce an estate tax.
applied retrospectively. of course
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via m0ntifa and Breitbart:
Thousands of opponents of socialist convicted felon President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva stormed his offices and the headquarters of the Congress and Supreme Federal Tribunal (STF) of Brazil on Sunday, reportedly demolishing the facades of two of the three buildings and causing “irreparable” damage to priceless artifacts in the chambers.
… what began as a peaceful protest on Sunday against Lula veered out of control as “nearly 100” buses from around the country drove into the capital, overwhelming the number of police in the streets. The protesters tore down a barricade keeping them off of the Congressional building’s esplanade and climbed atop it, storming its roof while hundreds of others destroyed the glass facade below. The mob succeeded despite police attempting to hold back the wave of people with tear gas.
I look forward to a video from yesterday eventually being uncovered showing one Raul Epps in a red Bolsonaro cap telling people “to enter the capital…” 😉
A continuation of political exports from USA to Brasil.
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Test
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Has anyone else noted how often “always was, always will be” is being trumpeted in these days?
It’s a religion but without sins or accountability. Just pursuit and exercise of power. Reminds me of something …
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Robert Sewellsays:
January 9, 2023 at 2:41 pm
Bruce O’Newk:
There are two dictionaries in use in the world today – The Standard, and the Woke. All the day to day words are defined in the Standard, but the Woke Dictionary has many expanded meanings to these words that are referred to in legislation. That’s how “Love is Love” means you have agreed to support “Minor Attracted Persons” when it comes to laws etc.
Verbal sleight of hand, and you’d better believe the Left is damn good at it.
In human behavior we think in terms of a distribution. We recognise that some individuals at the tails of a distribution are often not in the best of health, demonstrate various pathologies and behavioral quirks regarded as not being within the normal range and are problematic qualities. Woke has confused treating all people with respect as being equivalent to regarding all people being in the normal range of behavior.
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bespoke says:
January 9, 2023 at 2:39 pm
White House not satisfied with Facebook’s efforts to do something about Tucker Carlson’s COVID posts
They will be even less satisfied in future, Tucker is devastating when he starts on an issue. To stop him they will have to go after the Murdochs or lean on Paul Ryan.
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Has anyone else noted how often “always was, always will be” is being trumpeted in these days?
You couldn’t defend that land..
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Zulu Kilo Two Alphasays:
January 9, 2023 at 2:57 pm
Has anyone else noted how often “always was, always will be” is being trumpeted in these days?
You couldn’t defend that land..
Give ’em a chunk of undeveloped dirt to live their culture and tell them to go for it without appropriating any of our cultural achievements. See how that works out. Ya’ know, just like remote communities. Always was, always will be … stuck in the neolithic.
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Give ’em a chunk of undeveloped dirt to live their culture and tell them to go for it without appropriating any of our cultural achievements
Make a great reality TV show..
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Knuckle Dragger:
Hair testing also absolves the company of its need to make sure the employees aren’t using the fake cocks with tubes leading to somebody else’s piss in a bag under the armpit, and which delivers the non-genuine wee when squeezed.
You can also get devices* that allow urine in your bladder (A) to be transferred via a connecting catheter to another persons bladder (B). The urine is then able to be stored for a short period of time before it is contaminated with person B’s kidney output.
Delivered at the right temperature as well.
*Available at certain selected Adult specialty shops which cater for certain self selected adults.
No. Don’t ask.
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I just read a wonderful proposition arguing that contemporary universities display all of the destructive characteristics of medieval monasteries: non-accountable, opaque, grasping, murderously ideological, entitled, corrupt, purposeless and so on.
Did you read this insane trash in the Unz Review?
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m0nty-fa
What is happening in Brazil is, by BLM standards, a fully peaceful demonstration.
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Bluey:
Despite the tenants of their religion most of them have the same cultural issues as many of the other Indians I’ve dealt with. Quite happy to screw you over for a short term gain, but longer term loss. Glad I’m not having to make the deals.
There was a famous quote written by a Pakistani that their kids were brought up to lie, steal, and manipulate their way through life because you were going to be ripped off anyway and if you didn’t behave like a crook then you were stupid. And no one wanted to be taken as stupid.
A template for a low trust society, so to speak.
Wish I’d kept a copy – did anyone else?
These days, I just assume if a subcontinental appears honest, then he’s a thieving bastard, and I keep a firm grip on my wallet and passwords.
It seems to work.
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feelthebernsays:
January 9, 2023 at 2:28 pm
I think The Voice will get up.
I think WA and Queensssland will be a No.
I think NSW and Afdanistan will be a Yes.
SA and Tasmania?
Who knows?
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I may be wrong, but … the words that will be inserted into the Constitution will not say anything at all about the detail of the constitution of the advisory body, or of its powers, or staff, or remuneration, and so forth. The first statute that does so cannot be entrenched and may be changed from time to time.
It may be that the High Court will “read in” an obligation on parliament to make some minimal detail, but this cannot require appropriation of money, and in any event, how is the Court going to enforce any obligation?
The one substantive thing the HC could do is elaborate on what ‘consultation’ requires, but this won’t be too stringent because it won’t be happy if it has to constantly hear cases that allege a failure to consult.
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“The Voice” is like “climate change” and BLM and trannie “rights” and so on.
They are all weapons for the Left to beat everyone around the head, and when they object, the Left can scream “racist” or”climate change deniers” or whatever to get objectors to shut up.
They also have lots of useful idiots who have been suckered into the debate as willing foot soldiers, even though half the time they have been deceived by mantras of being fairer, or whatever. Think your easily-manipulated teenager, or your change-the-world uni student as examples.
Underneath it all is an agenda to transform individual or family wealth into government coffers to continue to fund their pet ideas, be it Light Rail, or public housing, or whatever scheme they’ve dreamt up to pursue their idea of nirvana. They won’t be happy until we are all wearing grey clothes and eating 1500 calories a day of government-decreed tofu equivalent, while spying on each other and tattling to the authorities. Who will have access to Party-only shops with nice stuff.
Woke societies look more and more like the beginnings of the Soviet system every day. Orwell’s 1984 was a warning, not an instruction manual. But the Woke haven’t read it – they just have been trained to obey its dictates.
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Their real fear is the shitfight that would erupt among the 300 “nations” when the detail is exposed and 271 nations perceive that they will be disadvantaged.
An unavoidable result regardless of the constitutional wording is a monopoly on Aboriginal views. Whoever gets on The Voice committee gets all the Smarties, again emphasising that this is all about power and little else.
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If you can change it by referendum now, then you can remove it by a new referendum.
So, will the Voice to Parliament be in the position where they may have to approve a referendum to remove that voice?
The Government that allowed that particular referendum through would achieve international Taliban status – and never get another Christmas card from the UNHRC.
Never, ever going to happen.
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I have a little demolition job coming up as part of an insurance job, and I think a little Bobcat or Dingo or whatever is the go.
Anybody know if insurance companies pay bounties for tip offs?
Asking for a feind.
You do know you cant wreck it with the bobcat and then claim insurance?
Thanks for the rose suggestions, the Mr Lincolns are ones I do like, I might give the rose suppliers a call and see about area suitability.
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Yep…he’s [ Albo] nailed his colours to this mast.
Some Kid-in-Short-Pants has forgotten (or more likely never knew) The Golden Rule. Albo should know better but at heart is is still an 18yo Trot being lead around by the nose by The Greens.
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NDIS officials are wasting countless hours and taxpayer funds fighting dubious claims for everything from infra-red saunas to sex therapy because Labor has been slow to reform the system, shadow social services minister Michael Sukkar has said.
An analysis of claims originally knocked back by the NDIS and brought to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal reveals participants in the program have sought everything from tai chi lessons to infra-red saunas to sex workers to airplane tickets for carers to help them attend interstate sporting matches.
In one case, a family successfully claimed nearly $58,000 to complete renovations to build an “independent living area” in their home including new kitchen, bathroom, and timber flooring for their 26-year-old son with cognitive impairments.
In another case, one Sydneysider who “lived independently” with her disability sought $6,745 for a Sun Stream Evolve Infrared Sauna. That claim was knocked back.
A Melbourne man also successfully appealed to have the NDIS fund plane tickets, taxi fares and “participation fee(s)” covered by the taxpayer so he could attend interstate sporting events twice a year, at an unspecified cost.
One Sydney woman, who suffered from an unspecified disability, sought taxpayer funds to engage the “services of a sexual therapist, specifically trained in treating disabled persons”.
The outcome of that decision was withheld from the public though the tribunal did suggest that “funding for a specialised sex therapist” would be in keeping with NDIS legislation.
Other claims that have been made to the NDIS but ultimately knocked back after time consuming and expensive appeals have included demands for tai chi and singing lessons, equine horse therapy, and nearly $4,000 for a home water filtration system.
Last month, the government said that it would abolish the tribunal, which handles disputes over decisions by government departments, and replace it with an as yet undetermined body.
The one substantive thing the HC could do is elaborate on what ‘consultation’ requires, but this won’t be too stringent
Of course it will be because the Parliament will essentially have to consult those idiots on almost everything they wish to pass. Furthermore, placing ” a voice” in front of the parliament will be like a second guessing exercise. It’s like a tripwire.
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Has anyone else noted how often “always was, always will be” is being trumpeted in these days?
It is a slogan that allows people to avoid a less amenable truth.
Imagine if, instead of saying ‘always was, always will be’ they said ‘arrived 60,000 (or whatever) years ago’, or ‘got here first’ (around which point there is some debate) or ‘here for a long uninterrupted time’ – each of which point can be approached rationally.
The original slogan itself is anti-rational, relying on magical mythical origin stories.
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Top Endersays:
January 9, 2023 at 3:37 pm
NDIS officials are wasting countless hours and taxpayer funds fighting dubious claims for everything from infra-red saunas to sex therapy because Labor has been slow to reform the system, shadow social services minister Michael Sukkar has said.
They had more then enough time to reform the system.
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Also, who decides “the voicees”? If it comes to a vote, who will be eligible to be a candidate and who can vote?
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123andBush reckoned:
It’s a nice thought, though the human race tends to take a more “suck it and see” approach.
Not sure that applies to Consititutional change referenda. Not many of them have got up. Even poofta marriage was a plebiscite, arguably attracting lower scrutiny and allowing palimentarians the luxury of vacating the field through a conscience vote. Albo has stuck his head in the lion’s mouth.
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FiL had Dublin Bay climber rose. Grew over 4m, absolutely magnificent. Snagged himself on several thorns, arm turned purple. Took ages to heal and colour to go away.
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If you can change it by referendum now, then you can remove it by a new referendum.
No. Once the Voice is enshrined in the Constitution, it will be a permanent fixture. Impossible to remove even if demonstrated to be an absolutely corrupt shitshow – the Government of the day will only attempt ‘reform’, but abolition will not be considered.
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NDIS officials are wasting countless hours and taxpayer funds fighting dubious claims for everything from infra-red saunas to sex therapy because Labor has been slow to reform the system, shadow social services minister Michael Sukkar has said.
LOL, nine years of neglect under blokes like Sukkar and they think we will forget.
I think WA and Queensssland will be a No.
I think NSW and Afdanistan will be a Yes.
SA and Tasmania?
Who knows?
Probably correct. I just can’t see how it can get up as a Constitutional amendment. Would the poofta marriage plebiscite made the Constitutional hurdle? I can’t remember.
“Before we become too optimistic, let me also warn that if a NO case is formalised, as Cory Bernardi threatens, and funded by the government, and included in the question papers to be put to a referendum, constitutional recognition of indigenous people will almost certainly fail.”
And Elbow obliges.
They don’t like informed democracy much, do they?
Yeah, let’s have a referendum, but let’s make it a one horse race!
Oddly, at 10:34 in that same video, she states:
“But first, let me make it clear that I believe that any idea of race and the ability of the parliament to use race in its law making, should be removed from our constitution.”
How times have changed since 2015.
They seem to now want a special body to advise on law making, specifically based on race.
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I have Alister Clarke’s Lorraine Lee in a climber also Black Boy.
Both at the front door.
I used to be a bit fussy with pruning but now it’s the hedge clippers.
I think they’ve both been there as long as the house.
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LOL, nine years of neglect under blokes like Sukkar and they think we will forget.
That’s reasonable, but now Tits needs to fix it and fast.
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Monty objects to the opposition doing their job.
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In the referendum, would this mean ACT and NT don’t get to vote?
How do we amend the constitution? The Australian Constitution can only be altered by referendum. In a referendum, all Australians of voting age vote yes or no for the proposed changes. To succeed, a majority of voters nationwide and a majority of States (four out of six) must approve the changes.
I’m not certain the yes vote would get all six.
Said it before, requiring ndis participants to co pay whatever crap they think they are entitled to would considerably cut back claims.
What private insurance scheme doesn’t have an excess?
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LOL, nine years of neglect under blokes like Sukkar and they think we will forget.
That’s not how it works. Yes voters will forget. LOL.
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Not sure that applies to Consititutional change referenda. Not many of them have got up. Even poofta marriage was a plebiscite, arguably attracting lower scrutiny and allowing palimentarians the luxury of vacating the field through a conscience vote.
The suggestion up-thread (Diogenes?) that the legislation should be passed, subject to confirmation by a referendum, might not be workable, but putting it to a plebiscite might be successful, with the big-city voters in the big states having the numbers for a simple plebiscite. This would require only an absolute majority of votes, which would be more easily “rigged” than a majority of voters in a majority of states.
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Chainsaw works well for pruning roses.
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m0ntysays:
January 9, 2023 at 3:51 pm
NDIS officials are wasting countless hours and taxpayer funds fighting dubious claims for everything from infra-red saunas to sex therapy because Labor has been slow to reform the system, shadow social services minister Michael Sukkar has said.
LOL, nine years of neglect under blokes like Sukkar and they think we will forget.
LO, an unmanageable shitshow set up under Gilliard, and they think we will forget.
H B Bearsays:
January 9, 2023 at 4:05 pm
Boambee John at 4:01 – surely if the Liars tried that Dutton and the Lieborals would be obliged to act?
Possibly, but to use that process would require a double backflip with pike and a bounce back onto the diving board by AnAl and the aboriginal “industry”, as it would NOT provide Constitutional recognition.
Doing it would also be a recognition that the referendum was doomed to fail, another blow to AnAl’s pride.
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Howard got labelled “mean and tricky” for a lot less (from his own side in the Lieboral tradition from memory). I’m not sure the public would wear it if they thought someone was pulling a swifty. Abbott had always said poofta marriage would be by plebiscite and took it to an election before being rolled by Waffleworth.
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I object to the opposition trying to pretend it’s Labor’s fault.
Not sure the problem is all that big though. The tribunal did some test cases, that is what it is supposed to do.
m0nty says:
January 9, 2023 at 4:23 pm
I object to the opposition trying to pretend it’s Labor’s fault.
You object? Who gives a shit if you object? The Liars are the government and it’s now their problem.
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I object to the opposition trying to pretend it’s Labor’s fault.
Oh mUnty, that is so sweet. The NDIS is KRuddy’s idea and a Gillard and Peanut Head lovechild. The Lieborals should have opposed it but it’s too late for that. Over to you Peanut Head …
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Gee I wonder how long before Teats would have been on his hind trotters at the first inkling the Libs were going to rein in the spending on the NDIS?
Nano or pico seconds
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On our way south after visiting mother Jugulum in Bundy and stopping at Tenterfield tonight.
My God this place is dead, nothing open, no one walking around the main street, very odd.
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Chainsaw works well for pruning roses.
Bobcats.
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Robert Sewellsays:
January 9, 2023 at 3:13 pm
There was a famous quote written by a Pakistani that their kids were brought up to lie, steal, and manipulate their way through life because you were going to be ripped off anyway and if you didn’t behave like a crook then you were stupid. And no one wanted to be taken as stupid.
A template for a low trust society, so to speak.
Wish I’d kept a copy – did anyone else?
These days, I just assume if a subcontinental appears honest, then he’s a thieving bastard, and I keep a firm grip on my wallet and passwords.
It seems to work.
No doubt when Aus completes it’s devolution into a low trust society the usual suspects will be wondering how we got there.
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JC says:
January 9, 2023 at 3:44 pm
Also, who decides “the voicees”? If it comes to a vote, who will be eligible to be a candidate and who can vote?
It’s all a secret at the moment JC…..but, the the government is using two primary reports to make a decision (he said laughingly). One report is from Pat Dodson and Julian Leeser whilst the other is from Professor Marcia Langton and Professor Tom Calma.
The reports offered different scenarios but it appears that 24 members will be appointed from the various States and Territories. The States will be divided into regions and some States must have a one member from a remote region. Thus:
WA: 7 regions, 3 members in total inc. 1 member from a remote district
QLD: 7 regions, 3 members, (1 remote)
NSW: 7 regions, 3 members, (1 remote)
NT: 6 regions, 3 members, (1 remote)
SA: 3 regions, 3 members, (1 remote)
VIC: 2 regions, 2 members
ACT: 1 region, 2 members
TAS: 1 region, 2 members
TSI: 1 region, 3 members with (likely) 1 appointed from a remote Torres Straight area.
So, who gets on this gravy train? Well, that is decided by State or Territory indigenous Councils/Assemblies (like the First Peoples’ Assembly of Victoria) at either local or State level. Given there are supposedly >200 aboriginal ‘nations’, some of whom can’t stand the sight of the others, this has all the makings of a clusterf**k of epic proportions.
Of course, that’s not all. The Voice will supposedly only give ‘advice’ on matters such as indigenous incarceration, child removal, housing, health and education….. but we all know that’s not true. The tentacles of the Voice will reach into every detail of any legislation because any law, no matter how obscure, could be argued to impact indigenous persons just as it impacts every citizen of the country to a greater or lesser extent.
What’s more, the version I’ve seen requires the government to attest to the Parliament that the Voice has been consulted BEFORE legislation is presented for debate AND, once passed, will carry a ‘notation’ that the legislation was accepted by the Voice on (whatever) date as part of the normal preamble that heads every piece of legislation.
To be fair, some of what I’ve seen and read on the subject could be bullshit because of the obvious problem that the government hasn’t yet decided on the details and in any event, those that it has decided upon are secret. So, we the people are being asked to vote ‘on trust’ that the government will come up with a workable model. Bear in mind that there will likely be a whole new government department created to administer all this and the opportunity for corruption, bias and subversion is beyond calculation.
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So, who gets on this gravy train? Well, that is decided by State or Territory indigenous Councils/Assemblies (like the First Peoples’ Assembly of Victoria) at either local or State level. Given there are supposedly >200 aboriginal ‘nations’, some of whom can’t stand the sight of the others, this has all the makings of a clusterf**k of epic proportions.
If they want a voice in a democracy the individuals should be chosen by the relevant communities voting for their voice. The activists will fight that tooth and nail.
Would love to here from Augusto Zimmerman on this. His earlier take in Quadrant on events last month was excellent.
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Yacht claimed by Michael Mansell and Co is salvaged anyway:
…a spokeswoman for the Huntress confirmed the yacht had been successfully removed from the beach on Monday.
Too slow bro!
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> [To assemble The Voice] The States will be divided into regions…
In the bowels of Canberra…
Bureaucrat 1: You know what, Smythe-Peters?
Bureaucrat 2: What’s that, Rogers-Carrington?
Bureaucrat 1: I do love our gerrymandering, but there’s just not enough places and opportunities to do more of it.
Bureaucrat 2: Well, Rogers-Carrington, you are going to love our newest project! If you thought moving votes between two main blocs without being obvious about it was tricky, get ready to level up.
Bureaucrat 1: How many sides does it juggle?
Bureaucrat 2: About 200.
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From 7:24 am Shame Dutton was asleep at the wheel over the industrial relations bills.
Labor had a Mandate for those IR Bills from the last Election.
Try to keep up.
Just had a look at the 76 comments under the article about Mike Mansell’s yacht.
Two like him and “the Voice” and the rest don’t.
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The NDIS has always been a Frankenstein’s monster since it was conceived as an act of programmatic specificity amid the motherhood statements and crayon word clouds of KRuddy’s 2020 summit. Gillard welcomed it as the Fabian wet dream it has duly proved to be.
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Bureaucrat 1: I think I love you Smythe-Peters.
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Double Delight has a heavenly fragrance as well as being stunning to look at. I have a standard one, also a Mr Lincoln. Another
wonderfully fragranced as well as beautiful.
I am bringing back to life the roses that were at my farm when I moved here. Visually stunning but, sadly no fragrance. There is one old timer with gorgeous apricot shaded blooms. That bush is huge and surrounded by Blackberries. When the time comes to lift it from its current place it will probably be a job for a digger. Woo Hoo! I love heavy machinery and power tools.
Senator Bragg has an article in The Australian‘s business section arguing that Labor is beholden to vested interests and that’s a bad thing.
On the other hand, he’s a supporter of The Voice without seeing any detail, so he mustn’t think that The Voice could be taken over by vested interests pretty smartly?
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John H.says:
January 9, 2023 at 4:57 pm
So, who gets on this gravy train? Well, that is decided by State or Territory indigenous Councils/Assemblies (like the First Peoples’ Assembly of Victoria) at either local or State level. Given there are supposedly >200 aboriginal ‘nations’, some of whom can’t stand the sight of the others, this has all the makings of a clusterf**k of epic proportions.
If they want a voice in a democracy the individuals should be chosen by the relevant communities voting for their voice. The activists will fight that tooth and nail.
Appointed or voted in, who will be recognised as an “aboriginal”? There was a report a day or so ago about some “aboriginal” producer at Their ABC, demanding that the Voice be “feared”, plus a bit more on reparations. She also complained that a high proportion of those identifying as “aboriginal” were fakes.
A link to her bio disclosed a blonde woman with very pale skin and fine features, who would undoubtedly defend her “aboriginality” to the death.
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Steady on, Speedbox, that’s for a different plebiscite.
Japan has about 1,400 ammunition storage facilities nationwide, but 70% are located in the country’s northernmost main island of Hokkaido, more than 2,000 km away from Japanese islands in the East China Sea.
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Topender
Oh, I’m tempted, I admit, to try just a simple one, a Tiger Moth, say, but I know where that would lead. Like most early loves, it probably shouldn’t be revisited.
As a kid I once spent weeks making a model sailing ship. It was very complicated.
The cocker spaniel destroyed it with one bite.
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Tom says: January 9, 2023 at 11:14 am
Ask any of the Cat farmers: weather cycles are in their bones.
That all people have weather cycles imbued in their bones is something I took for granted.
It was years after I moved to town that I started to grasp that when it comes to weather many people are complete ingenues. (Just as many have no grasp of distance, area, volume of rainfall, or how to change a flat tyre, & so on)
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French President Emmanuel Macron has agreed to become the first Western leader to supply Ukraine with tanks following talks with Zelensky.
I look forward to reading Catallaxy’s comments on the French tanks!
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On our way south after visiting mother Jugulum in Bundy and stopping at Tenterfield tonight.
My God this place is dead, nothing open, no one walking around the main street, very odd.
Nup. Normal. Everything shuts at 5
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So, who gets on this gravy train?
Mrs Phatty Adams would be a shoo-in. The whole thing would resemble a Tasmanian family tree or the ALPBC org chart.
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Pogria, I love Mr Lincoln too. It’s great for cutting, having long stems (like his namesake). Back of the border for him!
Another beautiful, fragrant monster is “New Dawn”. She’ll climb over anything, and some growers do her as a tall weeper, grafted onto a long trunk of either Dr Huey or multiflora.
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Bragg also claims that the UAP fell over in 1941 because it was seen as beholden to vested interests and Menzies made a point of the Liberal Party legislating without regard for the vested interests.
Is that true though?
There’s at lest 25 Labor Shills here who claim the Liberal Party represents the Big End of Town.
I look forward to reading Catallaxy’s comments on the French tanks!
Lol!
Guns n’ Roses!
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GreyRanga says:
January 9, 2023 at 4:03 pm
Chainsaw works well for pruning roses.
A lot of truth in that.
Bush roses, for example – exactly. Just cut them down almost to the ground. They love it.
There was a lot of mystique about pruning roses, which I suspect came from England, where the climate makes growing them a lot harder than here (except for in the tropics – too wet and humid).
Well established roses in non-humid areas are pretty much unkillable. You certainly can’t kill them by pruning too hard. There are a few tricks to maximise flowering, but if you’ve got a good one, it will flower pretty much no matter what, as long as it has food and water.
Must admit I have never much liked the neat rows of almost bare standard rose stems you would see after flowering in Australian gardens when I was growing up. Very English, but not necessary here. A lot of them have attractive foliage and I usually just treat them like shrubs.
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Calli, I hope to be breaking ground for my rose garden this winter. I have sketched exactly what I want. I have seen it in my mind for years. Fingers crossed.
A couple of the roses that are here already are absolutely lovely. A peachy pink variety with very thick petals that opens slowly. It makes a great cut flower. I worked for a couple of rose growers in the eighties. That’s where my love affair with them began. One nursery was cut flowers for market. The other was a grower who budded and grew bare rooted plants for retail. That was where I learnt to bud and graft.
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Joh, you have to work out whether the rose is growing on its own roots or a graft. That will determine your mode of mutilation.
Grafted roses are easy for commercial producers, but you can grow roses from cuttings . If they’re cutting grown you have many more options on pruning as the entire rose is the one variety. I mentioned the common grafts up thread – they’ll often pop a shoot from the base (Dr Huey is red, multi is pink). Cut the buggers off pronto.
Never cut below the graft. You have just murdered your rose.
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I look forward to reading Catallaxy’s comments on the French tanks!
Already discussed. Not a MBT so calling it a tank is misleading.
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Oh Calli, forgot to mention I have kept a copy of the rose varieties you have mentioned so far. Also any mentioned by other commenters.
Last week I lucked out and bought Botanica’s Roses Encyclopaedia and Stirling Macoboys’ Roses. Second hand, only ten dollars each! I love a bargain.
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Peru’s defense minister Jorge Chávez announced on Thursday that, according to intelligence reports, five Bolivian foreigners entered the country to incite violent leftist riots and promote separatism in the nation’s south.
What is it with left-wing idiots starting insurrections that end in failure in early January?
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Heh. I still have my Victorinox budding knife. Swiss excellence.
Sadly, no roses here. The old garden had over 100 varieties, some of the antique persuasion. Always wanted a set of chainmail for the yearly “big prune” especially for Albertine on the front fence who stopped the traffic for her annual show.
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calli says: January 9, 2023 at 12:59 pm
Remember the first rule of bobcat safety – always, always, always drop the bucket to the ground. Never, ever leave it raised. Never.
Basic rule of all machines with blade, stickrake, comb, whatever.
Let the pressure off the hydraulics. (Likewise for cable lift blades). Don’t leave machine under load strain when it is not being used.
The council (who else) dug up the street in front of me & left a digger bucket in the air overnight – directly over the water main (4″ poly pipe) into my place.
Yep, the street was “Lake Salvatore” by 4am.
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We had a yellow climber that could not be identified. Didn’t do any good at all. Whacked it with the chainsaw but missed a small shoot. Passed the second storey and onto the roof in a short time. Never looked back. Old rose planted by original owners about 1910.
He sums it up well. Though there’s nothing in there that we don’t already know.
Those who’re completely uninformed and have paid no attention, would benefit from that 10 minute video – which could easily be condensed into about 4 minutes.
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Japan has about 1,400 ammunition storage facilities nationwide, but 70% are located in the country’s northernmost main island of Hokkaido,
Brilliant strategy. Anyone hanging around the depots who does not love snow or crab will have had to have been an enemy agent.
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We had Alberic Barbier along the drive. Even when not in flower looked great. Friends and family all took cuttings.
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What is it with left-wing idiots starting insurrections that end in failure in early January?
They need something like Australia Day to keep them occupied.
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Colonel Crispin Berkasays:
January 9, 2023 at 5:26 pm
French President Emmanuel Macron has agreed to become the first Western leader to supply Ukraine with tanks following talks with Zelensky.
I look forward to reading Catallaxy’s comments on the French tanks!
AMX-10s, IIRC.
Wheeled 6X6 armoured vehicles, with a 105mm main gun. The design dates back to the 1970s/early 1980s. Not exactly M-1s.
At what point does support from an outside nation become so overt that it can only be counted as that country being at war.
I know the US has gotten pretty far claiming they have only supplied Zelensky with $100 bn worth of tight, muscle enhancing T-shirts, which seems credible to the bare-chested equestrian Vlad, but come on.
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Magnificent summer’s day in Sydney today, Cats – 27 degrees max and not a cloud in the Azure sky. 🙂
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and not a cloud in the Azure sky.
♬ Is it as blue as your blue goodbye? ♬
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$100 bn worth of tight, muscle enhancing T-shirts
In that very fashionable shade of “Olive Drab”. Rates alongside the German Feldgrau and of course, my personal favourite, Soviet Grey.
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rickw:
If you allow governments to break the law in times of an emergency, they will create an emergency in order to break the law. Which is precisely what they just did with the 2020 Flu Season.
Lisa Simpson.
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Appointed or voted in, who will be recognised as an “aboriginal”?
I’ll bet good money that any board, appointed or voted in, will be all fair skinned, blonde haired, blue eyed “Aborigines”.
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Then, who will police the police?
I dunno, the Coast Guard?
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I watched the movie ‘Unthinkable’ last night.
I don’t particularly like Samuel L Jackson, but he has an unerring talent for sniffing out ‘Samuel L Jackson movies’, and he is perfect in this one.
It was made in 2010 when the War on Terror was at its peak, and the morality of ways such a war might be fought was capricious, to say the least.
The version on Netflix, which foregoes a final scene, is I think the better of the two. Ends without a satisfying final resolution that would allow ‘good’ and ‘bad’ to fall into place – which would be kind of flat.
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Scott Adams-Vaccine Shill, eh?
From the link: He has a self-image that is based on the belief that he is right about everything,…
Yeah, that’s good ole Scott.
Yellow Banksia Rose?
I went to open garden of a gardening identity in Maldon I think. Had a magnificent one
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For those who have been wondering, I’ve been able to track down Potassium Permanganate from Gold Cross Chemists in 50g lots. It’s a powerful antioxidant and WILL burn skin at dilutions even as low as 1:100,000.
Read the instructions from the manufacturer to treat fungal/bacterial growths in rain water tanks, and for the wound care stuff.
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Magnificent summer’s day in Sydney today, Cats – 27 degrees max and not a cloud in the Azure sky.
Better get out there and enjoy it. In Perth that would be a cool change and a chance to get some gardening done. You can put the umbrella away from September till May.
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I’ll bet good money that any board, appointed or voted in, will be all fair skinned, blonde haired, blue eyed “Aborigines”.
What about me? I have brown and white hair, olive complexion and brown eyes. I identify as Aboriginal and will be applying as soon as the Voice is law!!!!
Now for you doubters my mother was a pom, my father was aussie, my fathers parents were white australians and their parents were white Australians BUT my great grandmother had a fling with a quarter caste aboriginal, so I’m in.
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Extreme gardening.
I planted a couple of Robinias (mop-tops) in an enclosed garden walled containers.
The brick and stone containers were broken and cracked anyway, but I put root barrier in.
Bzzzt.
I now have dozens of Robinias popping up everywhere.
I need to renew the garden walls and containers, but it has to be Robinia Roundup time before I re-build any walls.
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Of course, by March you are wondering if you will ever feel cool again.
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MoLo,
I rented that movie when it first came out. Tried to talk a lot of people into watching it. No go. I thought it was great. The rental also had an ambiguous ending.
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US frequently surprises on the upside.
Ohio Judge tells the bureaucracy, Don’t make laws and courts don’t care a wit about your interpretation.
Judges across the country are rethinking their deference to regulators who stretch the law, and the latest example is thunder out of the Ohio Supreme Court. The Dec. 29 decision deserves more notice as a powerful statement of judicial principles in dealing with an unrestrained bureaucracy.
TWISM Enterprises v. State Board of Registration is a prosaic licensing case by usual standards. TWISM challenged a decision by Ohio regulators denying its application to provide engineering services in the state. The court ruled 7-0 that the regulatory board had essentially rewritten Ohio law by insisting that anyone providing engineering services must be an employee, and not an independent contractor. The statute says no such thing, and the court ruled for the company.
But the court didn’t stop there. Writing for himself and three other Justices, Justice Patrick DeWine used the case to step back and examine the doctrine of judicial deference to regulators under Ohio law. That doctrine, embedded at the federal level in the Supreme Court’s 1984 Chevron decision, is getting a much-needed re-examination in legal circles.
Justice DeWine swept away competing lines of previous Ohio deference cases to make clear that “the judicial branch is never required to defer to an agency’s interpretation of the law.” The agency’s view “is simply one consideration a court may sometimes take into account in rendering the court’s own independent judgment as to what the law is,” he writes.
Adios, Chevron deference.
While the ruling applies only in Ohio, Justice DeWine’s opinion is notable for taking a broader look at deference and the rethinking taking place across the U.S.
“It is worth noting that we are not alone in recalibrating our approach to agency deference,” he writes. “Roughly half the states in the Union review agency interpretations of the law de novo.” High courts in Arkansas, Delaware, Kansas, Michigan and Mississippi “have similarly revamped their deference doctrines lately, returning to de novo review.”
This is a welcome trend as it restores the proper constitutional understanding of the separation of powers. Whatever the original intention of Chevron deference, it has become a license for regulators to find entirely new meaning in statutes years after they were written. They can do so safe in the knowledge that courts will let them do it.
But as Justice DeWine notes, courts have the final say in interpreting whether agency actions are consistent with the law or usurp it. And courts have a duty to overrule agencies when they exceed their proper legal authority.
Far more is at stake than judicial theory. As Congress has ceased to do its job of writing clear and limited laws, Presidents and many governors have imposed their policy preferences by agency diktat. Then when they are challenged in court, they cite Chevron as an all-purpose get-out-of-judicial-review card. This is tyranny by bureaucracy.
The Biden Administration has pulled this gambit more than any in modern history. Think vaccine and climate mandates and a nationwide eviction moratorium. The U.S. Supreme Court has reined in some of these excesses, and we hope it will do the same on the President’s illegal student-loan cancellation this year.
Meantime, the Ohio Supreme Court has provided a constitutional guide that other judges can follow and a necessary warning to willful regulators everywhere.
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My God this place is dead, nothing open, no one walking around the main street, very odd.
Carpe, is there a bio-lab near by?
This is how Resident Evil began.
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the 2020 Bat flu Season
the 2021 Bat flu season
the 2022 Bat flu season
the 2023 Bat flu season …
They will not be able to help themselves, Cats. Expect the hysteria to start being whipped up from early to mid March, with incessant braindead lamestream meeja screeching (supplemented by the profoundly profound pronunciations of “wrong, yet again” “public health experts”, as loudly and incessantly trumpeted on the ALPBC) demanding everything from immediate schlockdowns to face nappie mandates everywhere, immediately.
“GreyRangasays:
January 9, 2023 at 5:50 pm
We had Alberic Barbier along the drive. Even when not in flower looked great. Friends and family all took cuttings.”
Grey Ranga,
do any of your family and friends still have an Alberic Barbier they wouldn’t mind sharing cuttings from? Asking for a friend. ;D
Sancho Panzer:
Their real fear is the shitfight that would erupt among the 300 “nations” when the detail is exposed and 271 nations perceive that they will be disadvantaged.
What Luigi the Unbelievable hasn’t thought through is that this level of jostling and scrapping will increase ten-fold when he wheels out the blank whiteboard afterwards.
Aboriginal Australia doesn’t yet realise – although the thought has started to throw it’s malignant shadow across the political landscape – it just handed a chalice poisoned by the Canberra Mob to its biggest supporters, and no one is going to trust them with something of this magnitude for another 100 years.
And the ones who are going to become unmentionable?
The Canberra Mob.
The cleverest and most cunning people in the hypothetical bark gunya have just done a “Welcome to Country” on their own dicks.
I planted a couple of Robinias …
Big mistake. There is a golden acacia they have used as a street tree on a rootstock that is suckering everywhere. Best wait 20 years and let others make these mistakes.
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Yes calli, should have said about the grafts.
Speaking of roses, years ago I lived in a townhouse that had a problem with the local yoofs doing bad things and then hopping over the fences to escape. I happened on a few slips of briar rose (the feral stuff that grows along railway lines) at a market and planted them along the fence. With a bit of attention, which they don’t usually get, they covered the fence and hung over the other side in a couple of years.
Fence leaping yoof problem solved. They have millions of thorns, and they don’t let go. It was a bugger to control, through. Chainsaw material. 🙂
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Actually, if it wasn’t for the $1 billion+ pa tab (and knock on costs), I’d be all in favour of the Voice clogging up the process of government in Canbra.
If they could do it for, say, $300 million, I’d probably go for it.
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A couple of feet of bougainvillea usually discourages fence jumping. Little birds love it for nesting in it.The Australian thing is to grow a passionfruit which will do the same thing for a few years while providing topping for the pav.
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JCsays:
January 9, 2023 at 6:20 pm
US frequently surprises on the upside.
Ohio Judge tells the bureaucracy, Don’t make laws and courts don’t care a wit about your interpretation.
The EPA has been the most prolific perpertrator of this sort of over-reach.
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I planted a couple of Robinias …
I’ll finally be going nookular on the Frangipani this winter. Extirpated, root and branch it will be – and the stupid bloody clown council won’t be able to do a thing about it. The Photinias are now just about at the right height to provide some actual cover and by Spring they’ll be energised by the absence of that sucking monstrosity.
Only two more months of putting up with its very brief flowering, not to mention all the daily cleaning up.
How on earth I ended up loving the seemingly banal activity that is “gardening” is a mystery, Cats.
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H B Bearsays:
January 9, 2023 at 6:23 pm
I planted a couple of Robinias …
Big mistake
Well, I know that now!
But I am confident that, between me and Monsanto, I’ll see the back of them.
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Ohio Judge tells the bureaucracy, Don’t make laws and courts don’t care a wit about your interpretation.
That would come as news to a few at the ATO.
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Dr Faustus says:January 9, 2023 at 6:28 pm
Actually, if it wasn’t for the $1 billion+ pa tab (and knock on costs), I’d be all in favour of the Voice clogging up the process of government in Canbra.
If they could do it for, say, $300 million, I’d probably go for it.
That’s $100 million cheaper than the Covid Quarantine Centre at Perth, built for $400 million, and has never been used.
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Yellow Banksia Rose?
Likely. My first thought was “Mermaid”.
Edna Walling for the Maldon garden I think.
One of the many admirable traits of American democracy that puts it far ahead of ours is that it seems more built from the ground up, while we have (inherited) a top-down style.
Decisions by an Ohio court reverberates outward and up.
In Australia a government, without missing a beat, would fly to the support of bureaucracy and amend existing laws granting bureaucrats the power to make such determinations without recourse.
How many Australians think that the Federal government is ‘senior’ to the states. Not that they have differing jurisdictions, but that the states must do whatever the Feds want. Any unpalatable decision by a state government has people demanding the Feds to overrule them. Any disaster in a state demands Federal action.
Flood in Victoria? Where is the Prime Minister?
And few look to their community any more.
Top-down.
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Rabz…with the frangi…
Contact a few big landscrapers. They might remove it for free.
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But I am confident that, between me and Monsanto, I’ll see the back of them.
Not unless you’ve got some of the good stuff that was banned in the 70s. A couple of years should see them gone.
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Rafiki:
It may be that the High Court will “read in” an obligation on parliament to make some minimal detail, but this cannot require appropriation of money, and in any event, how is the Court going to enforce any obligation?
I’d bet a levy on the money mines pay out to the Big Men as Danegeld will be taken to support the day to day running of the voice – about 50%.
There’s an awful lot of it, just have a look next time you’re in one of the settlements when “Other Sit Down Money” comes around. Rolls of fifties that’d choke a racehorse.
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Edna Walling for the Maldon garden I think.
No it was a he and he was there.
Peter something maybe?
My garden is clearly a Edna Walling inspired layout, gone to rack and ruin now.
H B Bearsays:
January 9, 2023 at 6:42 pm
But I am confident that, between me and Monsanto, I’ll see the back of them.
Not unless you’ve got some of the good stuff that was banned in the 70s. A couple of years should see them gone.
Yeah, I need to demolish the old planter boxes anyway, so I will totally Rabz them, rootstock and all.
I guess then just nuke anything which pops up.
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calli says: January 9, 2023 at 12:59 pm
Remember the first rule of bobcat safety – always, always, always drop the bucket to the ground. Never, ever leave it raised. Never.
More than 30 years my dads mate has been a quad because of this.
Dad and him were building some tennis courts on a scorching hot day. Place is all flat and level without an ounce of shade.
So the dodgy brothers decide to make some by putting the earthmover bucket into the air.
Dad went off for a minute and thats when the bucket came down because of burst hydraulics. Caught his mate right across the back of the neck.
Has about 20% use of one arm and 50% of the other.
Before the accident he was the pin up “solo man”, diving, rockclimbing, surfing, hangliding cocksman.
Afterwards, not so much.
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Not unless you’ve got some of the good stuff that was banned in the 70s
It might affect the kid’s grades and they could grow an extra head but everybody needs to do their bit eh?
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Sorry. On Walling, I was thinking Markdale.
Rabz, try Alpine Nurseries Dural also. They have an advanced tree nursery.
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I guess then just nuke anything which pops up.
And up. And up. And up till one of you gives up.
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Terrible story, mole. I know it by second hand, not first praise God.
Building sites are extremely dangerous and I have almost come to grief myself. A few times.
My guardian angel demanded a shift change because exhaustion. In the Palace of Casserta in Italy there’s a decorative lintel with an angel resting on a shovel. That one was mine.
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Was Peter Cuffley I’m pretty sure.
Would the poofta marriage plebiscite made the Constitutional hurdle? I can’t remember.
I’d need to revisit by State but, from memory, only ~78% of Australians turned out to vote so the national vote for YES to SSM was around 47% of all eligible voters.
Meaning it wouldn’t have passed a referendum.
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The Chicago contractor whispers back “$10,000 for me, $10,000 for you, and we hire the guy from Kentucky to fix the fence!” “Done!” replies the Government Official.
Wasn’t this the basis for Krudd’s BER?
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Contact a few big landscrapers. They might remove it for free.
Thanks, Calli – after all the grief it’s caused me over the years, I’ll be happily removing it myself, with extreme prejudice. Getting the stump out may provide some sort of temporary challenge until my mighty self righteous rage will prevail (again).
Ah, good ol’ gardening. I never let on to the hot chicks (all erstwhile one of them) that it is an activity I enjoy immensely. 🙂
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We’ll never know Lysander. A plebiscite at an election, would it be compulsory or not to vote?
What is funnier is the indignation lefties had at the time that it was put to a vote.
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Quick quiz: name the Australian higher education institute (HEI) which makes the following proclamation (which I have made generic as part of the quiz)
“The HEI acknowledges the XXX people of the YYY Nation, upon whose stolen land which we operate, gather as employees and live. We recognise this land was never terra nullius — the land belonging to these peoples was never ceded, given up, bought or sold. We pay our respects to Aboriginal Elders past, present and emerging, and we extend this acknowledgement to any other Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.”
our future is indeed in safe hands, wot with so many severely educated young ‘uns ready to take the reins
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Rabz…by all means burst a foo-foo valve. But make a couple of phone calls first.
Is it a white one, or coloured? You might be surprised.
Calli rule – Never pay retail. Never do work others will do for free.
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For those who have been wondering, I’ve been able to track down Potassium Permanganate from Gold Cross Chemists in 50g lots. It’s a powerful antioxidant
It’s a powerful oxidant. Not antioxidant. It’ll also stain your skin brown for a week.
You can do all sorts of fun things with KMnO4. I won’t detail them as ASIO would be unhappy.
I was amused that my old mum bought a bottle of conc nitric acid one day by mail order, since she is an artist with an etching press. Out of the blue she got rung up by someone seriously official asking why she needed conc nitric? She explained. And then I explained to her what you can do with concentrated nitric acid…
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Regarding the whole concept of the “Voice.”
ATSIC was said to stand for Aborigines Talking Sh!t In Canberra, it will be interesting to see if the Voice is any improvement.
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Ignore the over the top heading. This is a longer, more detailed interview with Sasha Latypova from a couple of months ago. I linked a shorter one recently which was hair raising enough but this is really extraordinary. I think it goes a long way towards explaining what is actually going on and why there seems to be no redress, however much evidence of harm and actual malfeasance there may be.
I remember Michael Yeadon saying some time ago that large drug manufacturers were highly experienced and capable of producing large batches of vaccines to a uniform standard, which was why he thought the variances between batches were unlikely to be accidental. However, if there is no liability by the manufacturers then what need is there to maintain standards. Just look at the lack of proper handling and arbitrary extensions of use by dates, without any testing at all.
I’ve been toing and froing about who might be the most evil person on the world but Obama is fast climbing that list. He was put there to destroy America and did a bang-up job of it, and continues to do so to this day.
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Quick quiz: name the Australian higher education institute (HEI) which makes the following proclamation
Sydney, Monash, Melbourne, Latrobe, Macquarie, UQ, Curtin, ANU and UWA. Probably also UWS, JCU and UCQ. Have I missed any out?
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Some may be aware of the Drs Against Mandates group who were some of the ones who did not take the vax in Qld. They started a Supreme court case which was dropped by the Government soon after they had submitted their paper submissions. Also after submission the mandates that affected them were mainly dropped so there was little point to continue the case.
However as part of the preparation the CHO Qld did provide 2,000 pages of information. The Dr’s had a expert witness, Dr Andrew Madry, and he prepared a 111 page submission which covers a huge amount of subjects. For example there is a lot of reference to NSW figures.
The below is his summary but note compiled mid 2022.
11 SUMMARY
As a data analyst, I have been astounded during this review by the lack of attention to detail for data
collected in what is the most important health emergency in living memory. When looking at the
performance of vaccines, based on real world public health agency data reports, it is clear no
attempts have been made to control for confounding variables. At the current time it appears that the majority of unvaccinated deaths are occurring in frail elderly people. It is possible an informed
conscious decision may have been made not to vaccinate. Those younger people (under 65) dying
with COVID typically have severe comorbidities.
It is now widely accepted, in the Omicron period, that vaccination does not prevent COVID infection.
From my investigation of data in the Australian context (for NSW and one limited dataset across
three Australian states) it is apparent that vaccination can increase the rate of infection in the
population. The term Negative Effectiveness refers to when an intervention makes a person more
likely to catch a disease. This concurred with what was found in data from the UK.
An issue found in the Australian data was an overestimation of the proportion of the vaccinated
population. Counts of doses were found to be greater than the population in certain age groups in the government data. This creates a large error in the calculated rates of COVID adverse outcomes (infection, hospitalisation, death) in the unvaccinated population, particularly when that population is small, as it is in Australia. This is unacceptable.
Health data reporting in Australia is deficient. It is inconceivable that with the resources being applied during the pandemic that data quality issues, albeit complex, could not be sorted out. On the other hand, I found that the Australian Bureau of Statistics data was of an exemplary quality and professional.
When looking at Australia’s performance, in the context of the world, it has performed poorly during
the Omicron period despite having one of the highest vaccination rates in the world. There has likely
been a worse impact of Omicron, relative to other countries, due to the strict lockdowns in Australia
and no natural immunity built up in the community prior at the onset of the Omicron wave. The
second wave of Omicron has been exacerbated by coinciding with the Southern Hemisphere Winter.
A question that never appears to have been considered by public health authorities is the risk
entailed while vaccinating in the midst of a dominant wave of infection.
An analysis of adverse event reports following vaccination is worrying. The TGA adverse event reporting system is deficient, although a beta updated version has been available from June 2022. The only way to find relevant information has been through Freedom of Information requests to the TGA. Currently there are over 900 deaths reported following vaccination.
Myocarditis, heart inflammation, is observed as an adverse outcome following vaccination in young
people. Young males are the hardest hit. The incidence of myocarditis in young males in Australia
was found to be consistent with what has been observed overseas.
I have investigated “all-cause mortality” in Australia. After taking into account the COVID deaths
across Australia this shows worrying trends, with a signal of unexplained deaths in the age groups
from 60 upwards. There has been suggested that this is linked with a dose dependent response to
mRNA vaccines with the older population more likely to be “boosted”. The mortality data in
Australia is 3 months behind real time, so unfortunately the signals will appear before it is too late to
take appropriate action.
The main consideration in mandating vaccination by Dr Gerrard in his Affidavit (for previous Health
Directions No 2) was “mitigating the risk of spread of COVID-19” in Queensland, as reported in
Section 5.1. This appears to be based on legacy data and publications that do not reflect the
effectiveness of vaccines in the Omicron period.
I found no relevant data to justify vaccination mandates for workers in healthcare in the over 2,000
pages of information in Affidavits provided. No risk/benefit analysis for the individual or the
healthcare setting appears to have been performed. This is concerning. Based on data publicly available in Australia the imposition of mandatory vaccination appears to provide no benefit to the stated aim in the Queensland Health Direction to “reduce risk of exposure
to staff, patients and clients at the healthcare setting”
The full 111 pages can be seen in the resources section of Drsagainstmandates web page.
This one broke me. Two years old. Moderna and a flu shot.
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Magnificent summer’s day in Sydney today, Cats – 27 degrees max and not a cloud in the Azure sky.
Pity, the place is generally in need of a good wash.
Pity, the place is generally in need of a good wash.
I think you’ll find that is mould.
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Over Christmas, I spoke to a relative who was at Ascham with Allegra Spender.
Stupidly I sought her views on Allegra’s election and on her old school mates maintaining an ongoing election campaign in her support.
I’m such an idiot. The surgeon suggests that a couple more operations will restore my foot following the damage inflicted by my dear wife during this conversation.
I actually know Allegra. Not well, but well enough. She is likeable but her political stunt is arrogant and a class based outrage.
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Currently there are over 900 deaths reported following vaccination.
and most don’t even get reported or were discouraged from reporting.
Dr Faustussays:
January 9, 2023 at 6:28 pm
Actually, if it wasn’t for the $1 billion+ pa tab (and knock on costs), I’d be all in favour of the Voice clogging up the process of government in Canbra.
If they could do it for, say, $300 million, I’d probably go for it.
$1 billion? Cheap, we are already being done for around $33 billion pa, plus whatever is being screwed out of mining companies.
“I actually know Allegra. Not well, but well enough. She is likeable but her political stunt is arrogant and a class based outrage.”
Quite so, I would also add vacuous, that’s not saying she’s dumb, she isn’t. However Spender’s privilege has made her unable to think outside the eastern suburbs’ bubble. She doesn’t give a toss about anyone living outside a Teal electorate.
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Davey Boy
Melbourne Uni?
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They will not be able to help themselves, Cats. Expect the hysteria to start being whipped up from early to mid March, with incessant braindead lamestream meeja screeching (supplemented by the profoundly profound pronunciations of “wrong, yet again” “public health experts”, as loudly and incessantly trumpeted on the ALPBC) demanding everything from immediate schlockdowns to face nappie mandates everywhere, immediately.
If this shit is going on. I won’t be coming back.
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Lysander said:
Meaning it wouldn’t have passed a referendum.
Asking whether it “would have” passed as a referendum presupposes it is conducted as a poll in which voting is mandatory, so the relevant comparison is the percentage of voters who voted yes. On the numbers all States (6) voted for it and 61% of voters voted for it, so yes it may have passed as a referendum.
But there is another difference between the way referendums are run and the way ABS ran the SSM plebiscite. Like elections, AEC runs referenda in such a way to credibly protect the privacy of the voter’s cast ballot, ensuring it is about as free a choice as one could get. Not so much for an online poll which piggy-backed off an earlier system used for Census which needed to know who was answering the questions. They changed how that system was operated to separate the voter names from the mailout addresses so that matching response to respondent later could not be done. Or that’s what they said. With referenda there is no such leap of faith required, you can see your physical ballot is confidential.
Difficult to know how much this difference biased the results.
Class warfare Cassie. The Eloi are too stupid to understand what gives them a high standard of living.
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Bruce of N
And then I explained to her what you can do with concentrated nitric acid…
Make that heart medication now tactfully relabeled as “glyceryl trinitrate”?
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AMX-10s, IIRC.
Wheeled 6X6 armoured vehicles, with a 105mm main gun. The design dates back to the 1970s/early 1980s. Not exactly M-1s.
I hope they send one example to the Cairns armour and artillery museum. Will be a rare machine by the time the Ukies have finished with them.
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Just tried to copy and paste a bit more from the 111 pages. Section 6 on Stats. It is about Simpson’s Paradox where data can been misleading. Have never heard of the term before but the examples given show how stats can be used to give totally different perspectives.
It was obvious early on the virus affected the elderly and that most had comorbidities. Yet most times we were just told how many had died. Interestingly he does have graphs showing ages of deaths and obviously older age groups higher. The graphs for vaccine death reports to TGA are heavily weighted to the young.
Page 75 is interesting :
8.2 QUEENSLAND DATA
Data is provided in the Affidavit Volume 7 of 8 regarding Queensland deaths from 27 December
2021 to 4 Feb 2022. An analysis of this data is provided.
What is apparent is the progressive lack of attention to detail. For the first deaths in Queensland there is some detail provided, then less and less is provided as more deaths occur. This could be because it was considered too much work or resources not provided. This reviewer notes that these are not large numbers (ie 200) and there is no reason that the appropriate detail should not be
available.
The only evidence I find of any investigation of COVID deaths is on page 1755 (vol 7), in two emails
from Dr Gerrard (19 Jan 2022) to his team. In the initial correspondence he requests information on
patients dying who had 3 doses, and what “unknown” status means.Dr Gerrard follows up by asking for detail on date of last dose of vaccine for those dying. This is a very relevant question. There is no response provided to these questions.
There is a death of a teenager in the list. Apparently, Dr Gerrard has knowledge that this death was a result of a car accident.
This one page is the only evidence I find of specific investigation by Qld Health of data related to
COVID health and vaccination.
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If this shit is going on, I won’t be coming back
Oh it will be, Ricky, it will be …
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Over Christmas, I spoke to a relative who was at Ascham with Allegra Spender.
The Teals strike me as a bunch of Stepford Wives, selected against type carefully for purpose. Kate Chaney was knocking around UWA law school at the same time I was – mid 90s. Don’t remember her as overtly political but getting on for 30 years ago.
Could you restrict yourself to specific agreed times to lay down your barrages of vapid links so those of us who are more circumspect can huddle in our bunkers and sit out the grotesque pantomime-horse cavalry charges?
Ten or 12 of the damn things at a time. Sweet cheeses! We used to make fun of the ridiculous numbers from the covidists before. Being as sloppy in opposition now does not help.
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Jeffrey Epstein Speaking Footage
Commencing with: “I’m a really big believer in the wondrous concept of Arkancide, I tells ya …”
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H B Bear says:
January 9, 2023 at 6:50 pm
I guess then just nuke anything which pops up.
And up. And up. And up till one of you gives up.
Reminiscent of my battles with bloody privet in Canberra.
It’s a declared noxious weed, but there are many privet hedges in Old Canberra and the allegedly environmentalist ACT gubbmint is too gutless to take on the well connected locals. The birds eat the berries, and if you live in any of the old suburbs you will get privet coming up on your property all the time. A little plant will have a root three times its size, and a big one requires multiple applications of the pathetic poisons we are allowed these days. No doubt they are springing up all over the nearby bushland.
Just one example of how pissweak and dishonest the commitments of virtue-signalling public officials are.
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I was on record as saying Chaney couldn’t get up in Curtin, which was wrong. It was easy to underestimate the strength of the anti SloMo feeling. We currently have a Liar representative in the State seat of Nedlands which jars me every time some gumph appears in the letterbox.
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Make that heart medication now tactfully relabeled as “glyceryl trinitrate”?
BJ – Amyl nitrite, which is used for heart disease. Nitroglycerine seems to me to be overkill.
I’ve made nitrobutane in the lab for an experiment (which worked nicely: there’s a paper). I can’t remember the conditions off hand but it did require conc nitric.
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Colonel Crispin Berkasays:
January 9, 2023 at 5:26 pm French President Emmanuel Macron has agreed to become the first Western leader to supply Ukraine with tanks following talks with Zelensky.
I look forward to reading Catallaxy’s comments on the French tanks!
It’s not the tanks themselves but the inability to obtain spare parts when the Frogs decide they don’t agree with how you are using them.
Hence the Israelis making their own Mirages (Kfir) from purloined plans and the Indians using a mix of Rafales and Russian jets, just in case.
Adam Rich, star of ‘70’s TV show “Eight is Enough”— “died suddenly” at age 54.
Nothing to see here folks, just your normal 50x increase. Move along!
Paging Rosie, paging Rosie! We urgently need another “this is totally normal” broadcast!
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The NDIS”
In 2013, after being elected, the new Abbott government’s first agenda should have been to disband the NDIS. It didn’t, one of many failures. The Liberals failed on many policy fronts, but one of its biggest and catastrophic failures was not disbanding the NDIS or at least reining it in. It’s now out of control and will continue so, choking government budgets.
I remember getting potassium permanganate in my chemistry set in the 1960s. Also, it being widely available from chemist shops for use on wounds. It was in many first aid kits.
Has it suddenly become haram?
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Page 75 is interesting :
Anything not in the Executive Summary is dead to me.
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“H B Bearsays:
January 9, 2023 at 7:56 pm
I was on record as saying Chaney couldn’t get up in Curtin, which was wrong. It was easy to underestimate the strength of the anti SloMo feeling. We currently have a Liar representative in the State seat of Nedlands which jars me every time some gumph appears in the letterbox.”
Bear, I didn’t think Spender would get up, I didn’t think Josh would lose his seat. I was wrong. I believe some of the “teal” seats will be won back in 2025….maybe not all but some of them.
Scumbag was loathed and rightly so.
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In 2013, after being elected, the new Abbott government’s first agenda should have been to disband the NDIS.
Second. After sacking Martin Parkinson.
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Media Blackout Over Terror Incident At Vegas Power Plant
…
Mohammad Mesmarian, 34, rammed his car through the gate of a solar power generation plant outside Las Vegas on Wednesday and set his car on fire, intending to damage a massive transformer, 8 News Now reported.
… “Mesmarian clarified he burned the Toyota Camry,” police said. “Mesmarian said he burned the vehicle at a Tesla solar plant and did it ‘for the future.'”
Indolentsays:
January 9, 2023 at 7:36 pm
Adam Rich, star of ‘70’s TV show “Eight is Enough”— “died suddenly” at age 54.
Long history of off the rails drug abuse and mental illness.
Topped himself, unfortunately.
FFS, do you read anything in depth.
Just for once, could you make a vague attempt at validation before jumping in?
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Cassie of Sydney says: January 9, 2023 at 7:39 pm
I would also add vacuous, that’s not saying she’s dumb, she isn’t. However Spender’s privilege has made her unable to think outside the eastern suburbs’ bubble. She doesn’t give a toss about anyone living outside a Teal electorate.
Sometimes I’d love to drop someone like that into the shearer’s quarters & see if she even understands what the smoko conversation is about.
Pogria sounds a bit like Sue Grafton.
She spent months after being dumped devising devious ways to kill her second? husband then turned her hand to writing mysteries instead.
She made millions.
Is she planning on kicking you out once it is finished? Women can be sneaky like that.
mUnty has been watching those Andrew Tate Tik Tocs again.
Mole.
Are they what!
I had reason to use one a while back and am looking for an opportunity to hire one again.
I have a little demolition job coming up as part of an insurance job, and I think a little Bobcat or Dingo or whatever is the go.
Garrison’s toon is my pick today, cannot go past “Gulag Archipelosi” for unconstitutionally detained J6 tourists.
Re: Blackball on Rowe on Dutton
> It’s like Rowe has Dutton as the villain
for askingalways unconditionally.FIFY.
Monty’s wife had a nice garden bed till the day he collectivised it for the good of the neighbourhood.
It now resembles an outdoor cat latrine.
It is…shall we say, interesting…that representation is geo-politically based on state boundaries and not “first nations” boundaries. Obviously the latter method would be more than a bit unwieldy, not to mention the difficulty that those boundaries can be the subject of dispute. But yes, one can already anticipate the howls of protest over representation and favouritism.
Teh question no one asks
“Luigi, why don’t you put legislation through establishing the Voice right now this very minute? You do not need a constitutional amendment to do so. Then at the at next Federal election hold the referendum at the same time so we can get an idea of what we will be making permanent.”
Mole.
I think the most satisfying thing about mini excavator type kit is that you go from being clumsy and stilted in your inputs, to quite fluid and fast in working the controls within a few hours.
Inputs become almost intuitive very quickly.
Remember the first rule of bobcat safety – always, always, always drop the bucket to the ground. Never, ever leave it raised. Never.
Have I made myself clear? And don’t ask me how I know.
Cassie:
Yes. It never fails to point out the leftist journo credentials.
Also, if you’re a novice, please make sure the site is clear of people. And vehicles. And buildings.
Because it soon will be.
Yes, Diogenes.
Legislation passed “pending ratification via referendum” exposes the precise detail voters are entitled to.
Doesn’t need a constitutional amendment. All the amendment will do is make it ‘unremovable’
Yes.
Taking it slow and steady and familiarisation with the controls is a good idea.
Although, from memory, the one I used was operated from a standing platform at the back, and the controls were kind of “dead man switches”, where it would stop without positive inputs.
Obviously a fail-safe in case of the driver being bucked off.
And no showing off on two wheels!
(Of course we would never dream of doing that)
Yep.
I used the trenching tool and the bucket, and it was on a slope.
I always left the bucket buried in the gravel I was moving when I got off.
And I liked the idea of operating from the platform at the back – really easy to abandon ship if things get hairy.
Actually just thinking on it, the amendment will say “there will be a body etc etc”. There is absolutely no problem if I were appointed PM , putting through legislation(assuming I have control of both the houses) dissolving whatever Luigi puts in and saying the Voice will consist of 3 members appointed by the GG in Council, and appointing say Jacinta Price, her mum and her niece as the members
smutley puts on his meatstick and takes out his anger with it… a revolutionary act
OK…confession time; I cliked on some Harry bait:
“…when asked about the Prince of Wales’s possible reaction to his autobiography or conversation with ITV host Bradby, Harry said he didn’t think “my father or brother will read the book”.
He continued: “I don’t know whether they’ll be, you know, watching this or not, but, what they have to say to me and what I have to say to them will be in private, and I hope it can stay that way.”
I don’t think William or Charles will be writing tell all books exposing family secrets, if that’s what you mean, Harold.
He has all the self-awareness of an inebriated wombat.
What is it with right-wing idiots starting insurrections that end in failure in early January?
Mmm…I’d say the last thing politicians want is voters getting the idea of having a veto over legislation.
“What will they want next….recall elections? Harrumph!”
Translated:- “Please give me more material for the sequel!”
There are two clans, in this part of the world, who have been feuding since 1968, and cannot even agree on what day of the week it is.
Very low energy, monts.
Where’s the meatsuit?
I feel that’s why Albo is walking around with ants in the pants.
There’s no funding for the ‘no’ campaign because they know it’s bollocks on stilts. So you get the feeling that Albo has whispered in the ear of Facebook and asked to have advertising pulled from pages like Advance Australia.
And this is his big ticket item. It isn’t energy, it isn’t inflation. If this referendum is defeated, Albo is gone.
Now was early this morning when I first posted, morning tv was on. Was there a call for the Liberal Party to have a conscience vote? Who is calling for it? The Labor/Green coalition or Aboriginal advisory bodies?
Monty – Weren’t they mostly peaceful protests? Oh wait that was those BLM and Antifa ones.
Mole, climate-compatibility taken into consideration, Friesia (yellow) and Just Joey (burnt orange) are good re. perfume.
Another Postcard from Barsoom:
https://barsoom.substack.com/p/the-blade-the-flame-and-the-word
Yep…he’s nailed his colours to this mast.
I heard it was Ken Wyatt.
Sussan Ley it looks like. Dutton himself?
Diogenes mused…
The Aboriginal Voice to Parliament either receives special attention, weight, and privileges, or it does not. If it does not, what is the purpose in creating it that is not already served by current MPs?
If it does receive special treatment, it is a racist institution. We already know everything important about the Aboriginal Voice to Parliament by theory alone, there is nothing important to be gained by establishing it first and asking referendums later. The idea itself is wrong headed. Any further “detail” is revealed mainly to distract the plebes from this fundamental problem with it.
No it was Wyatt Roger.
“We will condemn our nation and our indigenous Australians to continue living the level of disparity that we have seen for decades,” he said.
“I would urge the Liberal Party to support the Voice but if there is dissension within the party then at least give members a conscience vote.
What you need are Mr Lincoln roses. Strong, robust growth, large red blooms and a strong heavenly scent.
Read that first paragraph. FMD what codswallop
If you can change it by referendum now, then you can remove it by a new referendum.
Read the article in the ABC about the Carbon Credit Scheme Review chaired by the aptly titled Mr. Chubb who continues to be wheeled out whenever Labor needs a scientific opinion in line with its politics. Well it seems there will be more of the same with a couple of tweaks. Couldn’t help but notice this statement buried down towards the bottom of the text; ” While the review panel noted the potential use of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) to limit the “pace and extent” of climate change, it also said it had been told during the inquiry period that it was not economic.”
So in other words its a bloody waste of money and effort but let’s go ahead anyway. Of course nothing about the fact that Australia is already a natural net carbon sink and the scheme was never needed in the first place. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-01-09/australian-carbon-credit-units-review-report/101836478
A few stems of the white freesia (garden-grown) could fill a room with scent.
Not so much now.
Maybe going the way of carnation perfume.
Three contractors bid on repair to the White House fence. One is from Chicago, another is from Kentucky, and the third is from New Orleans. All three go with a White House Official to examine the fence.
The New Orleans contractor takes out a tape measure and does some measuring, then works some figures with a pencil. “Well” he says “I figure the job will run about $9,000. That’s $4,000 for materials, $4,000 for my crew and $1,000 profit for me”.
The Kentucky contractor also does some measuring and figuring, then says “I can do this job for $7,000. That’s $3,000 for materials, $3,000 for my crew and $1,000 profit for me”.
The Chicago contractor doesn’t measure or figure, but leans over to the White House official and whispers “$27,000”.
The official, incredulous, says “You didn’t even measure like the other guys!! How did you come up with such a high figure??”
The Chicago contractor whispers back “$10,000 for me, $10,000 for you, and we hire the guy from Kentucky to fix the fence!” “Done!” replies the Government Official.
So, will the Voice to Parliament be in the position where they may have to approve a referendum to remove that voice?
Is Wyatt another one of John Howard’s ideas?
No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.
– Niccolo Machiavelli
TrevorG says
They are both acts of popular consent. But your model of the people’s psychology is incomplete if you think they will both be judged fairly on merits in the same way, first to install and then to remove.
Because it is easier to fool a person than to get them to admit that they were fooled.
The best time for removing bad political installations is before they are installed.
Having 24 elected reps, most or all of them aboriginal industry hacks, in Canberra will remedy that?
Surely even he doesn’t believe it.
Zipster:
I think the term “electoral trust” has just met its use by date.
There cannot be too many elections lately that have delivered a non leftist result.
This is why I believe the Squark will get through.
Voting will only give Lefty results otherwise they wouldn’t be held.
ABC ran a story this morning about a kid who’s just been released from custody for break and enter offences. He listed the reasons he got into trouble from an early age – surprisingly a lack of a Voice was never mentioned.
Not from the Canburra mob.
It’s a nice thought, though the human race tends to take a more “suck it and see” approach.
Going through a pitch deck for a US education business.
Quotes a study that a says a third of US public school kids think that Gandalf & George Washington lived at the same time.
I’ve heard this line quoted a few times over the past month.
I wonder where it really originated from.
He entered parliament the term after Howard lost and was later appointed to a ministry by Turnbull. He was the minister responsible, under Morrison, for the inception of an indigenous voice to parliament and, under his direction, Calma & Langton were appointed to co-chair the special advisory group which produced the model Albanese proclaims himself to be so enamoured with.
So we can’t blame Howard for this one.
Alwaysright:
The adults are in the position of having to watch helpless while being locked out of the room, the kids are sticking forks in every powerpoint they can find and chanting out loud to themselves “We’ll get it right this time”.
I may just start producing T Shirts “We warned you, you stupid, stupid, bastards.”
Cassie:
Do you do videos, Cassie?
And how much are they?
Here is a list of the toughest of the tough when it comes to roses. Many will just keep on flowering throughout the year. All good for disease resistance (bearing in mind that any humidity here will give you black spot).
Tall – Graham Austin
Lorraine Lee
Medium – Mary Rose
Heritage
Iceberg
Chaucer
Golden Celebration
Touch of Class
Ground – Green Ice
Little White Pet
Climber – Mutabilis up a wall
Zepherine Drouhin on an arch (AgathaChristie style)
Lots of different colours and types. My personal favourite is the glorious old Alistair Clarke “Lorraine Lee”. She can be found in old gardens across the country. Don’t bother with the once a year bloomers, get the hybrid “remontant” types.
I’d just like that on an audio tape. Forget a video.
123andBush reckoned:
Yes indeed, evolutionary approach generally good, and that is still besides the point that I was making.
Firstly, what are the chances that an institution that is racist in theory will turn out to be good in practice, and so why do we need to try it out to determine the answer to that?
Secondly, why do you think we will be able to see everything that happens as a result of the AVP?
Finally, a cancellation via 2nd referendum does not require the people to “see” the results of their assent, it requires them to admit what they have seen. A subtle but potentially significant difference.
Also I admit to mistaken wording in my comment above “If it does receive special treatment, it is a racist institution.” It’s racist by definition of its eligible constituency (and possibly direct membership) regardless of what special policy influence it is granted.
Some of the questions I posed above are not necessarily rhetorical but I’ve been unable to imagine what good answers they have.
Sorry. That was “Graham Thomas” by David Austin.
He’s tall, full blown and golden with strong canes and beautiful, glossy, dark green foliage. Hard to kill.
I think The Voice will get up.
feelthebern says: January 9, 2023 at 2:28 pm
Up like the Hindenburg?
After winning the 2025 election, the Labor Green coalition will introduce an estate tax.
That will happen in spite of there not being one shred of evidence it will help indigenous people. It is infuriating. I wouldn’t be surprised if the Voice starts presenting bills to Parliament. Has anyone else noted how often “always was, always will be” is being trumpeted in these days?
White House not satisfied with Facebook’s efforts to do something about Tucker Carlson’s COVID posts
Bruce O’Newk:
There are two dictionaries in use in the world today – The Standard, and the Woke. All the day to day words are defined in the Standard, but the Woke Dictionary has many expanded meanings to these words that are referred to in legislation. That’s how “Love is Love” means you have agreed to support “Minor Attracted Persons” when it comes to laws etc.
Verbal sleight of hand, and you’d better believe the Left is damn good at it.
applied retrospectively. of course
via m0ntifa and Breitbart:
I look forward to a video from yesterday eventually being uncovered showing one Raul Epps in a red Bolsonaro cap telling people “to enter the capital…” 😉
A continuation of political exports from USA to Brasil.
Test
It’s a religion but without sins or accountability. Just pursuit and exercise of power. Reminds me of something …
In human behavior we think in terms of a distribution. We recognise that some individuals at the tails of a distribution are often not in the best of health, demonstrate various pathologies and behavioral quirks regarded as not being within the normal range and are problematic qualities. Woke has confused treating all people with respect as being equivalent to regarding all people being in the normal range of behavior.
They will be even less satisfied in future, Tucker is devastating when he starts on an issue. To stop him they will have to go after the Murdochs or lean on Paul Ryan.
You couldn’t defend that land..
Give ’em a chunk of undeveloped dirt to live their culture and tell them to go for it without appropriating any of our cultural achievements. See how that works out. Ya’ know, just like remote communities. Always was, always will be … stuck in the neolithic.
Make a great reality TV show..
Knuckle Dragger:
You can also get devices* that allow urine in your bladder (A) to be transferred via a connecting catheter to another persons bladder (B). The urine is then able to be stored for a short period of time before it is contaminated with person B’s kidney output.
Delivered at the right temperature as well.
*Available at certain selected Adult specialty shops which cater for certain self selected adults.
No. Don’t ask.
Did you read this insane trash in the Unz Review?
m0nty-fa
What is happening in Brazil is, by BLM standards, a fully peaceful demonstration.
Bluey:
There was a famous quote written by a Pakistani that their kids were brought up to lie, steal, and manipulate their way through life because you were going to be ripped off anyway and if you didn’t behave like a crook then you were stupid. And no one wanted to be taken as stupid.
A template for a low trust society, so to speak.
Wish I’d kept a copy – did anyone else?
These days, I just assume if a subcontinental appears honest, then he’s a thieving bastard, and I keep a firm grip on my wallet and passwords.
It seems to work.
I think WA and Queensssland will be a No.
I think NSW and Afdanistan will be a Yes.
SA and Tasmania?
Who knows?
I may be wrong, but … the words that will be inserted into the Constitution will not say anything at all about the detail of the constitution of the advisory body, or of its powers, or staff, or remuneration, and so forth. The first statute that does so cannot be entrenched and may be changed from time to time.
It may be that the High Court will “read in” an obligation on parliament to make some minimal detail, but this cannot require appropriation of money, and in any event, how is the Court going to enforce any obligation?
The one substantive thing the HC could do is elaborate on what ‘consultation’ requires, but this won’t be too stringent because it won’t be happy if it has to constantly hear cases that allege a failure to consult.
“The Voice” is like “climate change” and BLM and trannie “rights” and so on.
They are all weapons for the Left to beat everyone around the head, and when they object, the Left can scream “racist” or”climate change deniers” or whatever to get objectors to shut up.
They also have lots of useful idiots who have been suckered into the debate as willing foot soldiers, even though half the time they have been deceived by mantras of being fairer, or whatever. Think your easily-manipulated teenager, or your change-the-world uni student as examples.
Underneath it all is an agenda to transform individual or family wealth into government coffers to continue to fund their pet ideas, be it Light Rail, or public housing, or whatever scheme they’ve dreamt up to pursue their idea of nirvana. They won’t be happy until we are all wearing grey clothes and eating 1500 calories a day of government-decreed tofu equivalent, while spying on each other and tattling to the authorities. Who will have access to Party-only shops with nice stuff.
Woke societies look more and more like the beginnings of the Soviet system every day. Orwell’s 1984 was a warning, not an instruction manual. But the Woke haven’t read it – they just have been trained to obey its dictates.
An unavoidable result regardless of the constitutional wording is a monopoly on Aboriginal views. Whoever gets on The Voice committee gets all the Smarties, again emphasising that this is all about power and little else.
The Government that allowed that particular referendum through would achieve international Taliban status – and never get another Christmas card from the UNHRC.
Never, ever going to happen.
I have a little demolition job coming up as part of an insurance job, and I think a little Bobcat or Dingo or whatever is the go.
Anybody know if insurance companies pay bounties for tip offs?
Asking for a feind.
You do know you cant wreck it with the bobcat and then claim insurance?
Thanks for the rose suggestions, the Mr Lincolns are ones I do like, I might give the rose suppliers a call and see about area suitability.
Some Kid-in-Short-Pants has forgotten (or more likely never knew) The Golden Rule. Albo should know better but at heart is is still an 18yo Trot being lead around by the nose by The Greens.
NDIS officials are wasting countless hours and taxpayer funds fighting dubious claims for everything from infra-red saunas to sex therapy because Labor has been slow to reform the system, shadow social services minister Michael Sukkar has said.
An analysis of claims originally knocked back by the NDIS and brought to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal reveals participants in the program have sought everything from tai chi lessons to infra-red saunas to sex workers to airplane tickets for carers to help them attend interstate sporting matches.
In one case, a family successfully claimed nearly $58,000 to complete renovations to build an “independent living area” in their home including new kitchen, bathroom, and timber flooring for their 26-year-old son with cognitive impairments.
In another case, one Sydneysider who “lived independently” with her disability sought $6,745 for a Sun Stream Evolve Infrared Sauna. That claim was knocked back.
A Melbourne man also successfully appealed to have the NDIS fund plane tickets, taxi fares and “participation fee(s)” covered by the taxpayer so he could attend interstate sporting events twice a year, at an unspecified cost.
One Sydney woman, who suffered from an unspecified disability, sought taxpayer funds to engage the “services of a sexual therapist, specifically trained in treating disabled persons”.
The outcome of that decision was withheld from the public though the tribunal did suggest that “funding for a specialised sex therapist” would be in keeping with NDIS legislation.
Other claims that have been made to the NDIS but ultimately knocked back after time consuming and expensive appeals have included demands for tai chi and singing lessons, equine horse therapy, and nearly $4,000 for a home water filtration system.
Last month, the government said that it would abolish the tribunal, which handles disputes over decisions by government departments, and replace it with an as yet undetermined body.
Daily Tele
Of course it will be because the Parliament will essentially have to consult those idiots on almost everything they wish to pass. Furthermore, placing ” a voice” in front of the parliament will be like a second guessing exercise. It’s like a tripwire.
It is a slogan that allows people to avoid a less amenable truth.
Imagine if, instead of saying ‘always was, always will be’ they said ‘arrived 60,000 (or whatever) years ago’, or ‘got here first’ (around which point there is some debate) or ‘here for a long uninterrupted time’ – each of which point can be approached rationally.
The original slogan itself is anti-rational, relying on magical mythical origin stories.
They had more then enough time to reform the system.
Also, who decides “the voicees”? If it comes to a vote, who will be eligible to be a candidate and who can vote?
Not sure that applies to Consititutional change referenda. Not many of them have got up. Even poofta marriage was a plebiscite, arguably attracting lower scrutiny and allowing palimentarians the luxury of vacating the field through a conscience vote. Albo has stuck his head in the lion’s mouth.
FiL had Dublin Bay climber rose. Grew over 4m, absolutely magnificent. Snagged himself on several thorns, arm turned purple. Took ages to heal and colour to go away.
If you can change it by referendum now, then you can remove it by a new referendum.
No. Once the Voice is enshrined in the Constitution, it will be a permanent fixture. Impossible to remove even if demonstrated to be an absolutely corrupt shitshow – the Government of the day will only attempt ‘reform’, but abolition will not be considered.
LOL, nine years of neglect under blokes like Sukkar and they think we will forget.
Probably correct. I just can’t see how it can get up as a Constitutional amendment. Would the poofta marriage plebiscite made the Constitutional hurdle? I can’t remember.
Professor Marcia Langton whilst giving the Lowitja O’Donoghue Oration (15:12) in 2015:
And Elbow obliges.
They don’t like informed democracy much, do they?
Yeah, let’s have a referendum, but let’s make it a one horse race!
Oddly, at 10:34 in that same video, she states:
How times have changed since 2015.
They seem to now want a special body to advise on law making, specifically based on race.
I have Alister Clarke’s Lorraine Lee in a climber also Black Boy.
Both at the front door.
I used to be a bit fussy with pruning but now it’s the hedge clippers.
I think they’ve both been there as long as the house.
That’s reasonable, but now Tits needs to fix it and fast.
Monty objects to the opposition doing their job.
In the referendum, would this mean ACT and NT don’t get to vote?
I’m not certain the yes vote would get all six.
Said it before, requiring ndis participants to co pay whatever crap they think they are entitled to would considerably cut back claims.
What private insurance scheme doesn’t have an excess?
That’s not how it works. Yes voters will forget. LOL.
Not sure that applies to Consititutional change referenda. Not many of them have got up. Even poofta marriage was a plebiscite, arguably attracting lower scrutiny and allowing palimentarians the luxury of vacating the field through a conscience vote.
The suggestion up-thread (Diogenes?) that the legislation should be passed, subject to confirmation by a referendum, might not be workable, but putting it to a plebiscite might be successful, with the big-city voters in the big states having the numbers for a simple plebiscite. This would require only an absolute majority of votes, which would be more easily “rigged” than a majority of voters in a majority of states.
Chainsaw works well for pruning roses.
m0ntysays:
January 9, 2023 at 3:51 pm
NDIS officials are wasting countless hours and taxpayer funds fighting dubious claims for everything from infra-red saunas to sex therapy because Labor has been slow to reform the system, shadow social services minister Michael Sukkar has said.
LOL, nine years of neglect under blokes like Sukkar and they think we will forget.
LO, an unmanageable shitshow set up under Gilliard, and they think we will forget.
What’s America’s Russian Nuclear War Plan?
Boambee John at 4:01 – surely if the Liars tried that Dutton and the Lieborals would be obliged to act?
LOL, an unmanageable …
Interesting.
Looking at NYK line shipping containers and looked up the company while I’m waiting.
https://www.nyk.com/english/news/2023/20230105_01.html
H B Bearsays:
January 9, 2023 at 4:05 pm
Boambee John at 4:01 – surely if the Liars tried that Dutton and the Lieborals would be obliged to act?
Possibly, but to use that process would require a double backflip with pike and a bounce back onto the diving board by AnAl and the aboriginal “industry”, as it would NOT provide Constitutional recognition.
Doing it would also be a recognition that the referendum was doomed to fail, another blow to AnAl’s pride.
Howard got labelled “mean and tricky” for a lot less (from his own side in the Lieboral tradition from memory). I’m not sure the public would wear it if they thought someone was pulling a swifty. Abbott had always said poofta marriage would be by plebiscite and took it to an election before being rolled by Waffleworth.
I object to the opposition trying to pretend it’s Labor’s fault.
Not sure the problem is all that big though. The tribunal did some test cases, that is what it is supposed to do.
You object? Who gives a shit if you object? The Liars are the government and it’s now their problem.
Oh mUnty, that is so sweet. The NDIS is KRuddy’s idea and a Gillard and Peanut Head lovechild. The Lieborals should have opposed it but it’s too late for that. Over to you Peanut Head …
Gee I wonder how long before Teats would have been on his hind trotters at the first inkling the Libs were going to rein in the spending on the NDIS?
Nano or pico seconds
On our way south after visiting mother Jugulum in Bundy and stopping at Tenterfield tonight.
My God this place is dead, nothing open, no one walking around the main street, very odd.
Bobcats.
No doubt when Aus completes it’s devolution into a low trust society the usual suspects will be wondering how we got there.
JC says:
January 9, 2023 at 3:44 pm
Also, who decides “the voicees”? If it comes to a vote, who will be eligible to be a candidate and who can vote?
It’s all a secret at the moment JC…..but, the the government is using two primary reports to make a decision (he said laughingly). One report is from Pat Dodson and Julian Leeser whilst the other is from Professor Marcia Langton and Professor Tom Calma.
The reports offered different scenarios but it appears that 24 members will be appointed from the various States and Territories. The States will be divided into regions and some States must have a one member from a remote region. Thus:
WA: 7 regions, 3 members in total inc. 1 member from a remote district
QLD: 7 regions, 3 members, (1 remote)
NSW: 7 regions, 3 members, (1 remote)
NT: 6 regions, 3 members, (1 remote)
SA: 3 regions, 3 members, (1 remote)
VIC: 2 regions, 2 members
ACT: 1 region, 2 members
TAS: 1 region, 2 members
TSI: 1 region, 3 members with (likely) 1 appointed from a remote Torres Straight area.
So, who gets on this gravy train? Well, that is decided by State or Territory indigenous Councils/Assemblies (like the First Peoples’ Assembly of Victoria) at either local or State level. Given there are supposedly >200 aboriginal ‘nations’, some of whom can’t stand the sight of the others, this has all the makings of a clusterf**k of epic proportions.
Of course, that’s not all. The Voice will supposedly only give ‘advice’ on matters such as indigenous incarceration, child removal, housing, health and education….. but we all know that’s not true. The tentacles of the Voice will reach into every detail of any legislation because any law, no matter how obscure, could be argued to impact indigenous persons just as it impacts every citizen of the country to a greater or lesser extent.
What’s more, the version I’ve seen requires the government to attest to the Parliament that the Voice has been consulted BEFORE legislation is presented for debate AND, once passed, will carry a ‘notation’ that the legislation was accepted by the Voice on (whatever) date as part of the normal preamble that heads every piece of legislation.
To be fair, some of what I’ve seen and read on the subject could be bullshit because of the obvious problem that the government hasn’t yet decided on the details and in any event, those that it has decided upon are secret. So, we the people are being asked to vote ‘on trust’ that the government will come up with a workable model. Bear in mind that there will likely be a whole new government department created to administer all this and the opportunity for corruption, bias and subversion is beyond calculation.
If they want a voice in a democracy the individuals should be chosen by the relevant communities voting for their voice. The activists will fight that tooth and nail.
Would love to here from Augusto Zimmerman on this. His earlier take in Quadrant on events last month was excellent.
Yacht claimed by Michael Mansell and Co is salvaged anyway:
…a spokeswoman for the Huntress confirmed the yacht had been successfully removed from the beach on Monday.
Too slow bro!
> [To assemble The Voice] The States will be divided into regions…
In the bowels of Canberra…
Bureaucrat 1: You know what, Smythe-Peters?
Bureaucrat 2: What’s that, Rogers-Carrington?
Bureaucrat 1: I do love our gerrymandering, but there’s just not enough places and opportunities to do more of it.
Bureaucrat 2: Well, Rogers-Carrington, you are going to love our newest project! If you thought moving votes between two main blocs without being obvious about it was tricky, get ready to level up.
Bureaucrat 1: How many sides does it juggle?
Bureaucrat 2: About 200.
From 7:24 am
Shame Dutton was asleep at the wheel over the industrial relations bills.
Labor had a Mandate for those IR Bills from the last Election.
Try to keep up.
Just had a look at the 76 comments under the article about Mike Mansell’s yacht.
Two like him and “the Voice” and the rest don’t.
The NDIS has always been a Frankenstein’s monster since it was conceived as an act of programmatic specificity amid the motherhood statements and crayon word clouds of KRuddy’s 2020 summit. Gillard welcomed it as the Fabian wet dream it has duly proved to be.
Bureaucrat 1: I think I love you Smythe-Peters.
Double Delight has a heavenly fragrance as well as being stunning to look at. I have a standard one, also a Mr Lincoln. Another
wonderfully fragranced as well as beautiful.
I am bringing back to life the roses that were at my farm when I moved here. Visually stunning but, sadly no fragrance. There is one old timer with gorgeous apricot shaded blooms. That bush is huge and surrounded by Blackberries. When the time comes to lift it from its current place it will probably be a job for a digger. Woo Hoo! I love heavy machinery and power tools.
China Militarizes Civilian Ships, Posing Threat to US Shores, Global Trade
Rosie,
I thought about stuffing the Wombat hole but I would rather shoot it quickly than poison it slowly 😉
Are you here all week Groogs? What do you think about the veal?
China launches massive sea, air combat exercise, scrambles jets around Taiwan
“PLA Eastern Theater Command held cross-service joint alert patrol & combat drills in waters, aerial areas around Taiwan island on Sunday focusing on land attack, sea assault.”
Senator Bragg has an article in The Australian‘s business section arguing that Labor is beholden to vested interests and that’s a bad thing.
On the other hand, he’s a supporter of The Voice without seeing any detail, so he mustn’t think that The Voice could be taken over by vested interests pretty smartly?
John H.says:
January 9, 2023 at 4:57 pm
So, who gets on this gravy train? Well, that is decided by State or Territory indigenous Councils/Assemblies (like the First Peoples’ Assembly of Victoria) at either local or State level. Given there are supposedly >200 aboriginal ‘nations’, some of whom can’t stand the sight of the others, this has all the makings of a clusterf**k of epic proportions.
If they want a voice in a democracy the individuals should be chosen by the relevant communities voting for their voice. The activists will fight that tooth and nail.
Appointed or voted in, who will be recognised as an “aboriginal”? There was a report a day or so ago about some “aboriginal” producer at Their ABC, demanding that the Voice be “feared”, plus a bit more on reparations. She also complained that a high proportion of those identifying as “aboriginal” were fakes.
A link to her bio disclosed a blonde woman with very pale skin and fine features, who would undoubtedly defend her “aboriginality” to the death.
Steady on, Speedbox, that’s for a different plebiscite.
TOKYO — Japanese defense officials are weighing a plan to build dozens of ammunition and weapons depots on far-flung southwestern islands in preparation for a potential Taiwan crisis, Nikkei has learned.
Japan has about 1,400 ammunition storage facilities nationwide, but 70% are located in the country’s northernmost main island of Hokkaido, more than 2,000 km away from Japanese islands in the East China Sea.
Topender
As a kid I once spent weeks making a model sailing ship. It was very complicated.
The cocker spaniel destroyed it with one bite.
That all people have weather cycles imbued in their bones is something I took for granted.
It was years after I moved to town that I started to grasp that when it comes to weather many people are complete ingenues. (Just as many have no grasp of distance, area, volume of rainfall, or how to change a flat tyre, & so on)
I look forward to reading Catallaxy’s comments on the French tanks!
Nup. Normal. Everything shuts at 5
Mrs Phatty Adams would be a shoo-in. The whole thing would resemble a Tasmanian family tree or the ALPBC org chart.
Pogria, I love Mr Lincoln too. It’s great for cutting, having long stems (like his namesake). Back of the border for him!
Another beautiful, fragrant monster is “New Dawn”. She’ll climb over anything, and some growers do her as a tall weeper, grafted onto a long trunk of either Dr Huey or multiflora.
Bragg also claims that the UAP fell over in 1941 because it was seen as beholden to vested interests and Menzies made a point of the Liberal Party legislating without regard for the vested interests.
Is that true though?
There’s at lest 25 Labor Shills here who claim the Liberal Party represents the Big End of Town.
Lol!
Guns n’ Roses!
A lot of truth in that.
Bush roses, for example – exactly. Just cut them down almost to the ground. They love it.
There was a lot of mystique about pruning roses, which I suspect came from England, where the climate makes growing them a lot harder than here (except for in the tropics – too wet and humid).
Well established roses in non-humid areas are pretty much unkillable. You certainly can’t kill them by pruning too hard. There are a few tricks to maximise flowering, but if you’ve got a good one, it will flower pretty much no matter what, as long as it has food and water.
Must admit I have never much liked the neat rows of almost bare standard rose stems you would see after flowering in Australian gardens when I was growing up. Very English, but not necessary here. A lot of them have attractive foliage and I usually just treat them like shrubs.
Calli, I hope to be breaking ground for my rose garden this winter. I have sketched exactly what I want. I have seen it in my mind for years. Fingers crossed.
A couple of the roses that are here already are absolutely lovely. A peachy pink variety with very thick petals that opens slowly. It makes a great cut flower. I worked for a couple of rose growers in the eighties. That’s where my love affair with them began. One nursery was cut flowers for market. The other was a grower who budded and grew bare rooted plants for retail. That was where I learnt to bud and graft.
Joh, you have to work out whether the rose is growing on its own roots or a graft. That will determine your mode of mutilation.
Grafted roses are easy for commercial producers, but you can grow roses from cuttings . If they’re cutting grown you have many more options on pruning as the entire rose is the one variety. I mentioned the common grafts up thread – they’ll often pop a shoot from the base (Dr Huey is red, multi is pink). Cut the buggers off pronto.
Never cut below the graft. You have just murdered your rose.
Already discussed. Not a MBT so calling it a tank is misleading.
Oh Calli, forgot to mention I have kept a copy of the rose varieties you have mentioned so far. Also any mentioned by other commenters.
Last week I lucked out and bought Botanica’s Roses Encyclopaedia and Stirling Macoboys’ Roses. Second hand, only ten dollars each! I love a bargain.
What is it with left-wing idiots starting insurrections that end in failure in early January?
Heh. I still have my Victorinox budding knife. Swiss excellence.
Sadly, no roses here. The old garden had over 100 varieties, some of the antique persuasion. Always wanted a set of chainmail for the yearly “big prune” especially for Albertine on the front fence who stopped the traffic for her annual show.
Basic rule of all machines with blade, stickrake, comb, whatever.
Let the pressure off the hydraulics. (Likewise for cable lift blades). Don’t leave machine under load strain when it is not being used.
The council (who else) dug up the street in front of me & left a digger bucket in the air overnight – directly over the water main (4″ poly pipe) into my place.
Yep, the street was “Lake Salvatore” by 4am.
We had a yellow climber that could not be identified. Didn’t do any good at all. Whacked it with the chainsaw but missed a small shoot. Passed the second storey and onto the roof in a short time. Never looked back. Old rose planted by original owners about 1910.
He sums it up well. Though there’s nothing in there that we don’t already know.
Those who’re completely uninformed and have paid no attention, would benefit from that 10 minute video – which could easily be condensed into about 4 minutes.
Brilliant strategy. Anyone hanging around the depots who does not love snow or crab will have had to have been an enemy agent.
We had Alberic Barbier along the drive. Even when not in flower looked great. Friends and family all took cuttings.
They need something like Australia Day to keep them occupied.
Colonel Crispin Berkasays:
January 9, 2023 at 5:26 pm
French President Emmanuel Macron has agreed to become the first Western leader to supply Ukraine with tanks following talks with Zelensky.
I look forward to reading Catallaxy’s comments on the French tanks!
AMX-10s, IIRC.
Wheeled 6X6 armoured vehicles, with a 105mm main gun. The design dates back to the 1970s/early 1980s. Not exactly M-1s.
At what point does support from an outside nation become so overt that it can only be counted as that country being at war.
I know the US has gotten pretty far claiming they have only supplied Zelensky with $100 bn worth of tight, muscle enhancing T-shirts, which seems credible to the bare-chested equestrian Vlad, but come on.
Magnificent summer’s day in Sydney today, Cats – 27 degrees max and not a cloud in the Azure sky. 🙂
♬ Is it as blue as your blue goodbye? ♬
In that very fashionable shade of “Olive Drab”. Rates alongside the German Feldgrau and of course, my personal favourite, Soviet Grey.
rickw:
Lisa Simpson.
I’ll bet good money that any board, appointed or voted in, will be all fair skinned, blonde haired, blue eyed “Aborigines”.
Then, who will police the police?
I dunno, the Coast Guard?
I watched the movie ‘Unthinkable’ last night.
I don’t particularly like Samuel L Jackson, but he has an unerring talent for sniffing out ‘Samuel L Jackson movies’, and he is perfect in this one.
It was made in 2010 when the War on Terror was at its peak, and the morality of ways such a war might be fought was capricious, to say the least.
The version on Netflix, which foregoes a final scene, is I think the better of the two. Ends without a satisfying final resolution that would allow ‘good’ and ‘bad’ to fall into place – which would be kind of flat.
Scott Adams-Vaccine Shill, eh?
From the link:
He has a self-image that is based on the belief that he is right about everything,…
Yeah, that’s good ole Scott.
Yellow Banksia Rose?
I went to open garden of a gardening identity in Maldon I think. Had a magnificent one
For those who have been wondering, I’ve been able to track down Potassium Permanganate from Gold Cross Chemists in 50g lots. It’s a powerful antioxidant and WILL burn skin at dilutions even as low as 1:100,000.
Read the instructions from the manufacturer to treat fungal/bacterial growths in rain water tanks, and for the wound care stuff.
Better get out there and enjoy it. In Perth that would be a cool change and a chance to get some gardening done. You can put the umbrella away from September till May.
What about me? I have brown and white hair, olive complexion and brown eyes. I identify as Aboriginal and will be applying as soon as the Voice is law!!!!
Now for you doubters my mother was a pom, my father was aussie, my fathers parents were white australians and their parents were white Australians BUT my great grandmother had a fling with a quarter caste aboriginal, so I’m in.
Extreme gardening.
I planted a couple of Robinias (mop-tops) in an enclosed garden walled containers.
The brick and stone containers were broken and cracked anyway, but I put root barrier in.
Bzzzt.
I now have dozens of Robinias popping up everywhere.
I need to renew the garden walls and containers, but it has to be Robinia Roundup time before I re-build any walls.
Of course, by March you are wondering if you will ever feel cool again.
MoLo,
I rented that movie when it first came out. Tried to talk a lot of people into watching it. No go. I thought it was great. The rental also had an ambiguous ending.
US frequently surprises on the upside.
Ohio Judge tells the bureaucracy, Don’t make laws and courts don’t care a wit about your interpretation.
My God this place is dead, nothing open, no one walking around the main street, very odd.
Carpe, is there a bio-lab near by?
This is how Resident Evil began.
They will not be able to help themselves, Cats. Expect the hysteria to start being whipped up from early to mid March, with incessant braindead lamestream meeja screeching (supplemented by the profoundly profound pronunciations of “wrong, yet again” “public health experts”, as loudly and incessantly trumpeted on the ALPBC) demanding everything from immediate schlockdowns to face nappie mandates everywhere, immediately.
To paraphrase a certain imaginary angry personage, “if I had a gun, I would use it, I tells ya” and furthermore … 😡
“GreyRangasays:
January 9, 2023 at 5:50 pm
We had Alberic Barbier along the drive. Even when not in flower looked great. Friends and family all took cuttings.”
Grey Ranga,
do any of your family and friends still have an Alberic Barbier they wouldn’t mind sharing cuttings from? Asking for a friend. ;D
Sancho Panzer:
Aboriginal Australia doesn’t yet realise – although the thought has started to throw it’s malignant shadow across the political landscape – it just handed a chalice poisoned by the Canberra Mob to its biggest supporters, and no one is going to trust them with something of this magnitude for another 100 years.
And the ones who are going to become unmentionable?
The Canberra Mob.
The cleverest and most cunning people in the hypothetical bark gunya have just done a “Welcome to Country” on their own dicks.
Big mistake. There is a golden acacia they have used as a street tree on a rootstock that is suckering everywhere. Best wait 20 years and let others make these mistakes.
Yes calli, should have said about the grafts.
Speaking of roses, years ago I lived in a townhouse that had a problem with the local yoofs doing bad things and then hopping over the fences to escape. I happened on a few slips of briar rose (the feral stuff that grows along railway lines) at a market and planted them along the fence. With a bit of attention, which they don’t usually get, they covered the fence and hung over the other side in a couple of years.
Fence leaping yoof problem solved. They have millions of thorns, and they don’t let go. It was a bugger to control, through. Chainsaw material. 🙂
Actually, if it wasn’t for the $1 billion+ pa tab (and knock on costs), I’d be all in favour of the Voice clogging up the process of government in Canbra.
If they could do it for, say, $300 million, I’d probably go for it.
A couple of feet of bougainvillea usually discourages fence jumping. Little birds love it for nesting in it.The Australian thing is to grow a passionfruit which will do the same thing for a few years while providing topping for the pav.
The EPA has been the most prolific perpertrator of this sort of over-reach.
I’ll finally be going nookular on the Frangipani this winter. Extirpated, root and branch it will be – and the stupid bloody clown council won’t be able to do a thing about it. The Photinias are now just about at the right height to provide some actual cover and by Spring they’ll be energised by the absence of that sucking monstrosity.
Only two more months of putting up with its very brief flowering, not to mention all the daily cleaning up.
How on earth I ended up loving the seemingly banal activity that is “gardening” is a mystery, Cats.
Well, I know that now!
But I am confident that, between me and Monsanto, I’ll see the back of them.
That would come as news to a few at the ATO.
That’s $100 million cheaper than the Covid Quarantine Centre at Perth, built for $400 million, and has never been used.
Likely. My first thought was “Mermaid”.
Edna Walling for the Maldon garden I think.
One of the many admirable traits of American democracy that puts it far ahead of ours is that it seems more built from the ground up, while we have (inherited) a top-down style.
Decisions by an Ohio court reverberates outward and up.
In Australia a government, without missing a beat, would fly to the support of bureaucracy and amend existing laws granting bureaucrats the power to make such determinations without recourse.
How many Australians think that the Federal government is ‘senior’ to the states. Not that they have differing jurisdictions, but that the states must do whatever the Feds want. Any unpalatable decision by a state government has people demanding the Feds to overrule them. Any disaster in a state demands Federal action.
Flood in Victoria? Where is the Prime Minister?
And few look to their community any more.
Top-down.
Rabz…with the frangi…
Contact a few big landscrapers. They might remove it for free.
Not unless you’ve got some of the good stuff that was banned in the 70s. A couple of years should see them gone.
Rafiki:
I’d bet a levy on the money mines pay out to the Big Men as Danegeld will be taken to support the day to day running of the voice – about 50%.
There’s an awful lot of it, just have a look next time you’re in one of the settlements when “Other Sit Down Money” comes around. Rolls of fifties that’d choke a racehorse.
No it was a he and he was there.
Peter something maybe?
My garden is clearly a Edna Walling inspired layout, gone to rack and ruin now.
Yeah, I need to demolish the old planter boxes anyway, so I will totally Rabz them, rootstock and all.
I guess then just nuke anything which pops up.
calli says: January 9, 2023 at 12:59 pm
Remember the first rule of bobcat safety – always, always, always drop the bucket to the ground. Never, ever leave it raised. Never.
More than 30 years my dads mate has been a quad because of this.
Dad and him were building some tennis courts on a scorching hot day. Place is all flat and level without an ounce of shade.
So the dodgy brothers decide to make some by putting the earthmover bucket into the air.
Dad went off for a minute and thats when the bucket came down because of burst hydraulics. Caught his mate right across the back of the neck.
Has about 20% use of one arm and 50% of the other.
Before the accident he was the pin up “solo man”, diving, rockclimbing, surfing, hangliding cocksman.
Afterwards, not so much.
It might affect the kid’s grades and they could grow an extra head but everybody needs to do their bit eh?
Sorry. On Walling, I was thinking Markdale.
Rabz, try Alpine Nurseries Dural also. They have an advanced tree nursery.
And up. And up. And up till one of you gives up.
Terrible story, mole. I know it by second hand, not first praise God.
Building sites are extremely dangerous and I have almost come to grief myself. A few times.
My guardian angel demanded a shift change because exhaustion. In the Palace of Casserta in Italy there’s a decorative lintel with an angel resting on a shovel. That one was mine.
Was Peter Cuffley I’m pretty sure.
I’d need to revisit by State but, from memory, only ~78% of Australians turned out to vote so the national vote for YES to SSM was around 47% of all eligible voters.
Meaning it wouldn’t have passed a referendum.
Wasn’t this the basis for Krudd’s BER?
Thanks, Calli – after all the grief it’s caused me over the years, I’ll be happily removing it myself, with extreme prejudice. Getting the stump out may provide some sort of temporary challenge until my mighty self righteous rage will prevail (again).
Ah, good ol’ gardening. I never let on to the hot chicks (all erstwhile one of them) that it is an activity I enjoy immensely. 🙂
We’ll never know Lysander. A plebiscite at an election, would it be compulsory or not to vote?
What is funnier is the indignation lefties had at the time that it was put to a vote.
Quick quiz: name the Australian higher education institute (HEI) which makes the following proclamation (which I have made generic as part of the quiz)
“The HEI acknowledges the XXX people of the YYY Nation, upon whose stolen land which we operate, gather as employees and live. We recognise this land was never terra nullius — the land belonging to these peoples was never ceded, given up, bought or sold. We pay our respects to Aboriginal Elders past, present and emerging, and we extend this acknowledgement to any other Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.”
our future is indeed in safe hands, wot with so many severely educated young ‘uns ready to take the reins
Rabz…by all means burst a foo-foo valve. But make a couple of phone calls first.
Is it a white one, or coloured? You might be surprised.
Calli rule – Never pay retail. Never do work others will do for free.
It’s a powerful oxidant. Not antioxidant. It’ll also stain your skin brown for a week.
You can do all sorts of fun things with KMnO4. I won’t detail them as ASIO would be unhappy.
I was amused that my old mum bought a bottle of conc nitric acid one day by mail order, since she is an artist with an etching press. Out of the blue she got rung up by someone seriously official asking why she needed conc nitric? She explained. And then I explained to her what you can do with concentrated nitric acid…
Regarding the whole concept of the “Voice.”
ATSIC was said to stand for Aborigines Talking Sh!t In Canberra, it will be interesting to see if the Voice is any improvement.
Ignore the over the top heading. This is a longer, more detailed interview with Sasha Latypova from a couple of months ago. I linked a shorter one recently which was hair raising enough but this is really extraordinary. I think it goes a long way towards explaining what is actually going on and why there seems to be no redress, however much evidence of harm and actual malfeasance there may be.
Uncensored: BOMBSHELL Team Enigma Whistleblower! US DoD Plan to Exterminate Population – Sasha Latypova
I remember Michael Yeadon saying some time ago that large drug manufacturers were highly experienced and capable of producing large batches of vaccines to a uniform standard, which was why he thought the variances between batches were unlikely to be accidental. However, if there is no liability by the manufacturers then what need is there to maintain standards. Just look at the lack of proper handling and arbitrary extensions of use by dates, without any testing at all.
I’ve been toing and froing about who might be the most evil person on the world but Obama is fast climbing that list. He was put there to destroy America and did a bang-up job of it, and continues to do so to this day.
Sydney, Monash, Melbourne, Latrobe, Macquarie, UQ, Curtin, ANU and UWA. Probably also UWS, JCU and UCQ. Have I missed any out?
Some may be aware of the Drs Against Mandates group who were some of the ones who did not take the vax in Qld. They started a Supreme court case which was dropped by the Government soon after they had submitted their paper submissions. Also after submission the mandates that affected them were mainly dropped so there was little point to continue the case.
However as part of the preparation the CHO Qld did provide 2,000 pages of information. The Dr’s had a expert witness, Dr Andrew Madry, and he prepared a 111 page submission which covers a huge amount of subjects. For example there is a lot of reference to NSW figures.
The below is his summary but note compiled mid 2022.
11 SUMMARY
As a data analyst, I have been astounded during this review by the lack of attention to detail for data
collected in what is the most important health emergency in living memory. When looking at the
performance of vaccines, based on real world public health agency data reports, it is clear no
attempts have been made to control for confounding variables. At the current time it appears that the majority of unvaccinated deaths are occurring in frail elderly people. It is possible an informed
conscious decision may have been made not to vaccinate. Those younger people (under 65) dying
with COVID typically have severe comorbidities.
It is now widely accepted, in the Omicron period, that vaccination does not prevent COVID infection.
From my investigation of data in the Australian context (for NSW and one limited dataset across
three Australian states) it is apparent that vaccination can increase the rate of infection in the
population. The term Negative Effectiveness refers to when an intervention makes a person more
likely to catch a disease. This concurred with what was found in data from the UK.
An issue found in the Australian data was an overestimation of the proportion of the vaccinated
population. Counts of doses were found to be greater than the population in certain age groups in the government data. This creates a large error in the calculated rates of COVID adverse outcomes (infection, hospitalisation, death) in the unvaccinated population, particularly when that population is small, as it is in Australia. This is unacceptable.
Health data reporting in Australia is deficient. It is inconceivable that with the resources being applied during the pandemic that data quality issues, albeit complex, could not be sorted out. On the other hand, I found that the Australian Bureau of Statistics data was of an exemplary quality and professional.
When looking at Australia’s performance, in the context of the world, it has performed poorly during
the Omicron period despite having one of the highest vaccination rates in the world. There has likely
been a worse impact of Omicron, relative to other countries, due to the strict lockdowns in Australia
and no natural immunity built up in the community prior at the onset of the Omicron wave. The
second wave of Omicron has been exacerbated by coinciding with the Southern Hemisphere Winter.
A question that never appears to have been considered by public health authorities is the risk
entailed while vaccinating in the midst of a dominant wave of infection.
An analysis of adverse event reports following vaccination is worrying. The TGA adverse event reporting system is deficient, although a beta updated version has been available from June 2022. The only way to find relevant information has been through Freedom of Information requests to the TGA. Currently there are over 900 deaths reported following vaccination.
Myocarditis, heart inflammation, is observed as an adverse outcome following vaccination in young
people. Young males are the hardest hit. The incidence of myocarditis in young males in Australia
was found to be consistent with what has been observed overseas.
I have investigated “all-cause mortality” in Australia. After taking into account the COVID deaths
across Australia this shows worrying trends, with a signal of unexplained deaths in the age groups
from 60 upwards. There has been suggested that this is linked with a dose dependent response to
mRNA vaccines with the older population more likely to be “boosted”. The mortality data in
Australia is 3 months behind real time, so unfortunately the signals will appear before it is too late to
take appropriate action.
The main consideration in mandating vaccination by Dr Gerrard in his Affidavit (for previous Health
Directions No 2) was “mitigating the risk of spread of COVID-19” in Queensland, as reported in
Section 5.1. This appears to be based on legacy data and publications that do not reflect the
effectiveness of vaccines in the Omicron period.
I found no relevant data to justify vaccination mandates for workers in healthcare in the over 2,000
pages of information in Affidavits provided. No risk/benefit analysis for the individual or the
healthcare setting appears to have been performed. This is concerning. Based on data publicly available in Australia the imposition of mandatory vaccination appears to provide no benefit to the stated aim in the Queensland Health Direction to “reduce risk of exposure
to staff, patients and clients at the healthcare setting”
The full 111 pages can be seen in the resources section of Drsagainstmandates web page.
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Nashville Angela
@angelanashtn
This one broke me. Two years old. Moderna and a flu shot.
Pity, the place is generally in need of a good wash.
I think you’ll find that is mould.
Over Christmas, I spoke to a relative who was at Ascham with Allegra Spender.
Stupidly I sought her views on Allegra’s election and on her old school mates maintaining an ongoing election campaign in her support.
I’m such an idiot. The surgeon suggests that a couple more operations will restore my foot following the damage inflicted by my dear wife during this conversation.
I actually know Allegra. Not well, but well enough. She is likeable but her political stunt is arrogant and a class based outrage.
and most don’t even get reported or were discouraged from reporting.
Gonzalo Lira
@GonzaloLira1968
A lot of this going around: “Suddenly“, a perfectly healthy young woman started to have symptoms very reminiscent of a stroke.
Elijah J. Magnier ??
@ejmalrai
WOW!
#Ukraine’s Minister of Defence Oleksii Reznikov: Our soldiers fight #Russia on behalf of @NATO.
Finally, a straightforward confession we knew from day one.
So the dodgy brothers decide to make some by putting the earthmover bucket into the air.
Safer than the Indian version with a backhoe loader. Lift whole machine in air. Sit in shade underneath it.
Anybody know anything about an injunction, banning all negative comment about the Voice from social media? My informant wasn’t the most techno savvy…
Adam Rich, star of ‘70’s TV show “Eight is Enough”— “died suddenly” at age 54.
Nothing to see here folks, just your normal 50x increase. Move along!
Have a look at the first reply to the second one.
Dr Faustussays:
January 9, 2023 at 6:28 pm
Actually, if it wasn’t for the $1 billion+ pa tab (and knock on costs), I’d be all in favour of the Voice clogging up the process of government in Canbra.
If they could do it for, say, $300 million, I’d probably go for it.
$1 billion? Cheap, we are already being done for around $33 billion pa, plus whatever is being screwed out of mining companies.
The Proposed Amendments to The International Health Regulations
“I actually know Allegra. Not well, but well enough. She is likeable but her political stunt is arrogant and a class based outrage.”
Quite so, I would also add vacuous, that’s not saying she’s dumb, she isn’t. However Spender’s privilege has made her unable to think outside the eastern suburbs’ bubble. She doesn’t give a toss about anyone living outside a Teal electorate.
Davey Boy
Melbourne Uni?
They will not be able to help themselves, Cats. Expect the hysteria to start being whipped up from early to mid March, with incessant braindead lamestream meeja screeching (supplemented by the profoundly profound pronunciations of “wrong, yet again” “public health experts”, as loudly and incessantly trumpeted on the ALPBC) demanding everything from immediate schlockdowns to face nappie mandates everywhere, immediately.
If this shit is going on. I won’t be coming back.
Lysander said:
Asking whether it “would have” passed as a referendum presupposes it is conducted as a poll in which voting is mandatory, so the relevant comparison is the percentage of voters who voted yes. On the numbers all States (6) voted for it and 61% of voters voted for it, so yes it may have passed as a referendum.
But there is another difference between the way referendums are run and the way ABS ran the SSM plebiscite. Like elections, AEC runs referenda in such a way to credibly protect the privacy of the voter’s cast ballot, ensuring it is about as free a choice as one could get. Not so much for an online poll which piggy-backed off an earlier system used for Census which needed to know who was answering the questions. They changed how that system was operated to separate the voter names from the mailout addresses so that matching response to respondent later could not be done. Or that’s what they said. With referenda there is no such leap of faith required, you can see your physical ballot is confidential.
Difficult to know how much this difference biased the results.
Class warfare Cassie. The Eloi are too stupid to understand what gives them a high standard of living.
Bruce of N
And then I explained to her what you can do with concentrated nitric acid…
Make that heart medication now tactfully relabeled as “glyceryl trinitrate”?
AMX-10s, IIRC.
Wheeled 6X6 armoured vehicles, with a 105mm main gun. The design dates back to the 1970s/early 1980s. Not exactly M-1s.
I hope they send one example to the Cairns armour and artillery museum. Will be a rare machine by the time the Ukies have finished with them.
Just tried to copy and paste a bit more from the 111 pages. Section 6 on Stats. It is about Simpson’s Paradox where data can been misleading. Have never heard of the term before but the examples given show how stats can be used to give totally different perspectives.
It was obvious early on the virus affected the elderly and that most had comorbidities. Yet most times we were just told how many had died. Interestingly he does have graphs showing ages of deaths and obviously older age groups higher. The graphs for vaccine death reports to TGA are heavily weighted to the young.
Page 75 is interesting :
8.2 QUEENSLAND DATA
Data is provided in the Affidavit Volume 7 of 8 regarding Queensland deaths from 27 December
2021 to 4 Feb 2022. An analysis of this data is provided.
What is apparent is the progressive lack of attention to detail. For the first deaths in Queensland there is some detail provided, then less and less is provided as more deaths occur. This could be because it was considered too much work or resources not provided. This reviewer notes that these are not large numbers (ie 200) and there is no reason that the appropriate detail should not be
available.
The only evidence I find of any investigation of COVID deaths is on page 1755 (vol 7), in two emails
from Dr Gerrard (19 Jan 2022) to his team. In the initial correspondence he requests information on
patients dying who had 3 doses, and what “unknown” status means.Dr Gerrard follows up by asking for detail on date of last dose of vaccine for those dying. This is a very relevant question. There is no response provided to these questions.
There is a death of a teenager in the list. Apparently, Dr Gerrard has knowledge that this death was a result of a car accident.
This one page is the only evidence I find of specific investigation by Qld Health of data related to
COVID health and vaccination.
Oh it will be, Ricky, it will be …
The Teals strike me as a bunch of Stepford Wives, selected against type carefully for purpose. Kate Chaney was knocking around UWA law school at the same time I was – mid 90s. Don’t remember her as overtly political but getting on for 30 years ago.
not seen this before
Jeffrey Epstein Speaking Footage
This will piss people off, but did it:
Incoming,
Could you restrict yourself to specific agreed times to lay down your barrages of vapid links so those of us who are more circumspect can huddle in our bunkers and sit out the grotesque pantomime-horse cavalry charges?
Ten or 12 of the damn things at a time. Sweet cheeses! We used to make fun of the ridiculous numbers from the covidists before. Being as sloppy in opposition now does not help.
Commencing with: “I’m a really big believer in the wondrous concept of Arkancide, I tells ya …”
Reminiscent of my battles with bloody privet in Canberra.
It’s a declared noxious weed, but there are many privet hedges in Old Canberra and the allegedly environmentalist ACT gubbmint is too gutless to take on the well connected locals. The birds eat the berries, and if you live in any of the old suburbs you will get privet coming up on your property all the time. A little plant will have a root three times its size, and a big one requires multiple applications of the pathetic poisons we are allowed these days. No doubt they are springing up all over the nearby bushland.
Just one example of how pissweak and dishonest the commitments of virtue-signalling public officials are.
I was on record as saying Chaney couldn’t get up in Curtin, which was wrong. It was easy to underestimate the strength of the anti SloMo feeling. We currently have a Liar representative in the State seat of Nedlands which jars me every time some gumph appears in the letterbox.
BJ – Amyl nitrite, which is used for heart disease. Nitroglycerine seems to me to be overkill.
I’ve made nitrobutane in the lab for an experiment (which worked nicely: there’s a paper). I can’t remember the conditions off hand but it did require conc nitric.
Colonel Crispin Berkasays:
January 9, 2023 at 5:26 pm
French President Emmanuel Macron has agreed to become the first Western leader to supply Ukraine with tanks following talks with Zelensky.
I look forward to reading Catallaxy’s comments on the French tanks!
It’s not the tanks themselves but the inability to obtain spare parts when the Frogs decide they don’t agree with how you are using them.
Hence the Israelis making their own Mirages (Kfir) from purloined plans and the Indians using a mix of Rafales and Russian jets, just in case.
U.S. poised to extend Japan security umbrella into space I English News I Latest WION News I WION
In a bid to protect satellites that are crucial in military surveillance operations, the United States of America is finalizing plans to extend its security umbrella for Japan into space. Watch to know more.
I said ‘sod’ it, but Siri is more genteel.
And dishonest.
Adam Rich, star of ‘70’s TV show “Eight is Enough”— “died suddenly” at age 54.
Nothing to see here folks, just your normal 50x increase. Move along!
Paging Rosie, paging Rosie! We urgently need another “this is totally normal” broadcast!
The NDIS”
In 2013, after being elected, the new Abbott government’s first agenda should have been to disband the NDIS. It didn’t, one of many failures. The Liberals failed on many policy fronts, but one of its biggest and catastrophic failures was not disbanding the NDIS or at least reining it in. It’s now out of control and will continue so, choking government budgets.
Terrorist Attack on the Las Vegas Power Grid is Part of a HUGE Problem
Styxhexenhammer666
I remember getting potassium permanganate in my chemistry set in the 1960s. Also, it being widely available from chemist shops for use on wounds. It was in many first aid kits.
Has it suddenly become haram?
Anything not in the Executive Summary is dead to me.
“H B Bearsays:
January 9, 2023 at 7:56 pm
I was on record as saying Chaney couldn’t get up in Curtin, which was wrong. It was easy to underestimate the strength of the anti SloMo feeling. We currently have a Liar representative in the State seat of Nedlands which jars me every time some gumph appears in the letterbox.”
Bear, I didn’t think Spender would get up, I didn’t think Josh would lose his seat. I was wrong. I believe some of the “teal” seats will be won back in 2025….maybe not all but some of them.
Scumbag was loathed and rightly so.
Second. After sacking Martin Parkinson.
Media Blackout Over Terror Incident At Vegas Power Plant
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Mohammad Mesmarian, 34, rammed his car through the gate of a solar power generation plant outside Las Vegas on Wednesday and set his car on fire, intending to damage a massive transformer, 8 News Now reported.
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“Mesmarian clarified he burned the Toyota Camry,” police said. “Mesmarian said he burned the vehicle at a Tesla solar plant and did it ‘for the future.'”
Long history of off the rails drug abuse and mental illness.
Topped himself, unfortunately.
FFS, do you read anything in depth.
Just for once, could you make a vague attempt at validation before jumping in?
Sometimes I’d love to drop someone like that into the shearer’s quarters & see if she even understands what the smoko conversation is about.