The Siesta, Camille Pissarro, 1899
Open Thread – Tue 10 Jan 2023
2,386 responses to “Open Thread – Tue 10 Jan 2023”
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So Forrest woke up to the Cannon-brooks weakness?
Sun Cable, have never been anywhere near project finance being in place.The thing that worried me about this project is the 800klm of above ground cable and 4200klm of underwater cable. I am not an electrical engineer but this sounds to be about as practical as living on Mars.
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Probably why hes having a crack at the euros.
He isn’t really.
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The thing that worried me about this project is the 800klm of above ground cable and 4200klm of underwater cable.
Plus a small matter of a 5 km deep ocean trench in the way. Followed by Indonesia, which hates Singapore so much they banned sand exports to them.
Crazy engineering. The proposal to send solar power from Africa to Europe was much more doable in the engineering sense. Not in the project financial feasibility sense though. Both projects are economically nutso.
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Tony Windsor went to Woodlawn College, a Catholic Boarding School in Lismore.
He was looking home and hosed when he ran for New England against Barnaby Joyce in 2016, then 10 days out from Election Day The Australian ran a 3 page Shit Sheet on Windsor’s sadisitic homoerotic activities as a Prefect at the school in the late 1960s.
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Fancy that; lolita biden had classifieds lying all over the place; and odd too that the classifieds were all about the chunks, ukraine and iran, all of which have their fingers up the old perve’s arse. These documents were removed just before Trump came in to blind him and the US and they were only discovered after the midterms.
Compared to Trump’s signed photos of him and rocket man biden’s stuff is the real deal. Biden and several hundred of the closest of the swamp to him should be subject to medieval torture similar to these. I’m partial to the rat one.
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C.L. has the duck’s guts on their form.
I’m sure he has
In one case you can add violent crimes to the list.
Okaaay.
Bad things happen around bad people, it’s just the way the World works.What you and C.L. are claiming, ol’ Sancho, is that bad things never, ever happen around bad people, and if they say that bad things did happen [with regard to the Catholic Clergy], then they’re lying, because they’re Bad People.
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KD,
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I thought the Tony Windsor shenanigans were at an army training facility.
No, it was a Boarding School in Lismore.
A few of his victims later became prominent, they were interviewed by The Australian, and c. 48 years later, they still weren’t happy with Mr T[hug].
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Grigs you dick. Most people went through school, boarding colleges, Catholic Church with no problems at all. I’m one of them and so are 99% of people I know (and I know more than your average Joe).
I recall the NSW Auditor General presenting a report showing you were more likely to be abused in a State, Uniting, Anglican THEN Catholic Church on ratio (in that order).
I have nothing against the CoE, just morons like you.
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I recall the NSW Auditor General presenting a report showing you were more likely to be abused in a State, Uniting, Anglican THEN Catholic Church on ratio (in that order).
I’m very loath to take your word on anything, but, for argument’s sake, let’s give you the benefit of a huuuuuge doubt.
What the NSW Auditor General was saying is that children were sexually abused in Catholic Institutions for children.
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Why am I not surprised that the “if he didn’t exist, Democrats would have had to invent him.. oh wait” “Cue” is all over this very clear Biden document bait?
Is there anything the Qclown has said that didn’t play completely into Democrat hands?
Watch them set up a precedent eith which to beat Trump.
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The NSW Auditor General said it, you linked to it, but now you’re backtracking.
By the way, the weasel words are:… a report showing you were more likely to be abused in a State, Uniting, Anglican THEN Catholic Church on ratio (in that order).
It sounds like this Auditor General rooster hasn’t ranked abuse.
In other words, Priest raping an 11 year old boy in the arse is ranked the same as an old Grade 1 Teacher rousing on a little boy in a State School. -
Here you go moron:
The media focus on the Royal Commission’s coverage of Catholics has led to a distortion of the sad universality of a terrible crime.
Although it spent fifteen days on the Catholic “wrap”, the Royal Commission spent a mere half a day on its Uniting Church “wrap”—hearing only three witnesses in the process. Here’s a quote from the introduction by Counsel Assisting, Angus Stewart SC, concerning the Uniting Church “wrap”:
In the 40 years since the Church’s inauguration, there have been 2504 incidents or allegations of child sexual abuse that have been reported as having occurred at an institution or place of worship of the Uniting Church.
That’s 2504 incidents or allegations in the period between 1977, when the Uniting Church was formed, and 2017. This compares with 4445 claims with respect to the Catholic Church between 1950 and 2015. And the Catholic Church is five times larger than the Uniting Church. Moreover, the Royal Commission did not include allegations in the period 1950 to 1977 with respect to the Presbyterian, Congregational and Methodist communities which folded into the Uniting Church in 1977. This would take the number of allegations beyond 2504, especially since it seems that child sexual abuse was at its worst in the 1960s and 1970s.
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Excess deaths in all age groups
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After work today I got off the bus and went into my local IGA to buy some groceries. I walked in and I could hear a radio in the IGA blaring away loudly with their ABC on. I thought this odd, the store never has either music or a radio on. All I could hear was some man being interviewed and aggressively talking about how Pell moved pedo priests from parish to parish. This is the level of outrageous commentary emanating from a media outlet which we pay for.
I felt sick.
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Report Launch?The First Battle of the Next War: Wargaming a Chinese Invasion of Taiwan
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Richard Cranium
What the NSW Auditor General was saying is that children were sexually abused in Catholic Institutions for children.
Full stop.A very selective reading. What the NSW AG showed that children “were more likely to be abused in a State, Uniting, Anglican THEN Catholic Church on ratio (in that order).”
That is, they were sexually abused in all those institutions, but they were more likely to be abused in a State institution, less likely to be abused in a Uniting institution, even less likely to be abused in a CofE institution, and least likely to be abused in a Catholic institution than in any of the other institutions.
So, avoid State institutions as the worst, then follow down the line of probability.
Full stop.
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feelthebernsays:
January 11, 2023 at 7:35 pm
The giant $30bn Sun Cable project, one of the country’s largest renewable developments, has fallen into administration.
I know a guy involved with this.
He was at a pre-christmas gig.
Seemed happy as Larry at the time.I hope Santa brought him a Plan B.
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That was Mulkearns & the sycophants who Mulkearns surrounded himself with.
One of the most evil cabals in Australian history.Yep.
He condoned it.
No two ways about it.
He and Little were post Vatican II progressives and Pell was an old school conservative.
As to why Mulkearns condoned it and covered for it, who knows?
Interesting that the targets were almost invariably poor and powerless. Rarely did they target kids of wealthy and influential Catholics as far as I can tell.
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What the NSW AG showed that children “were more likely to be abused in a State, Uniting, Anglican THEN Catholic Church on ratio (in that order).
Public schools first.
Hundreds of teachers had sex with students in Chicago alone (8 Jan)
But lets not look at the state school system in case we might find something the Left wouldn’t like found.
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have a good evening and raise a glass to Pell this evening.
I’m going to do something I never thought I’d do: I’m going to raise a glass of Taittinger tonight out of respect for cardinal Pell. He was a completely different kind of man from me, but he dealt with the travesty of his trial and sentence with grace, courage and dignity. I admire that.
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OMG, Brain Bleach, please. I accidentally read an Ed Case comment.
He’s talking of Tony Windsor being a bastard prefect at a boarding school in Lismore.
For once Ed Case is correct. Tony Windsor did attend boarding school in Lismore.
Specifically, the suburb/locality of Lismore known as “Tamworth”, located only Four Hundred & Fifty kilometres southwest of the Lismore CBD.This is likely as accurate as he’s ever going to be.
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Black Ball:
January 11, 2023 at 2:21 pmAccording to Channel Stokes news ad, there was a ‘mixed reaction’ to Pell’s death.
J’ismists really are blinded by their own sense of self-importance.
“Mixed reactions”? They polluted the public perception, then ascribe it to public sentiment.
A bit like their term ‘divisive’. You start with something beyond dispute say, the idea that marriage is between a man and a woman, with the strong concurrent idea of children in a family. (Were there any great stories of marriage that did not promise children?)
Then, some malproportioned fringe group for whom what is 10% of a normal person’s life is 100% of theirs decide to break with normal society.
So we have perhaps 2-3% of society start demanding stuff like SSM, and the 97-98% who are not so moved are the decisive ones. The 2-3% are not divisive, even though they are as divided from their opponents as they claim their opponents are, but only the mainstream is divisive.
A j’ismists with a tiny IQ could see through this but, alas, almost none are that bright.
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That’s 2504 incidents or allegations in the period between 1977, when the Uniting Church was formed, and 2017. This compares with 4445 claims with respect to the Catholic Church between 1950 and 2015.
I’m sure the 4,445 children raped in Catholic Schools and Institutions fell better knowing that, pro rata, the Uniting Church is even more evil.
And the Catholic Church is five times larger than the Uniting Church.
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I felt sick.
How I felt when I got the news this afternoon. Very sad.
This great man , egregiously hounded and victimized to near death in his own country. But happily he some time in comfort and peace in Rome at the end. I’ll not go looking at the scum and filth celebrating this news. It would be as much fun as peering into a turd filled shithole.
RIP Cardinal Pell.
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For once Ed Case is correct. Tony Windsor did attend boarding school in Lismore.
I’m usually right, but go on?
Specifically, the suburb/locality of Lismore known as “Tamworth”, located only Four Hundred & Fifty kilometres southwest of the Lismore CBD.
This is what happens when a Tedious Troll knows nothing about the subject he’s trolling about, so quotes Wikipedia without acknowledgement.
I stand by what I said.
Tony Windsor was a boarder and Prefect at Woodlawn College Lismore in the middle to late 1960s.
Roger:
You’re working hard to confirm
that you’re an idiot in the class of HB Bare and
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Ed Casesays:
January 11, 2023 at 8:23 pm
That’s 2504 incidents or allegations in the period between 1977, when the Uniting Church was formed, and 2017. This compares with 4445 claims with respect to the Catholic Church between 1950 and 2015.
I’m sure the 4,445 children raped in Catholic Schools and Institutions fell better knowing that, pro rata, the Uniting Church is even more evil.
And the Catholic Church is five times larger than the Uniting Church.
See my comment above, apologist.Having stuck his dick out, and made a gross factual error, Richard Cranium tries to act as it everything is OK., while ignoring the reality of child sexual abuse in state institutions.
Somehow, I suspect that his problem is that he is a religious bigot.
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The thing that worried me about this project is the 800klm of above ground cable and 4200klm of underwater cable. I am not an electrical engineer but this sounds to be about as practical as living on Mars.
I’m only a TikTok content producer, but last time I looked, Viking Link (still under construction) was the world’s longest submarine power cable – at 650km underwater.
Amazingly, nobody in Singapore appears to have taken any commercial interest in the SunkCable scheme – probably because uneducated little brown people
who dislike stupid riskswith no vision – and the Singaporean Government is not in the handout business for Australian billionaires.Although, naturally, this all has Infrastructure Australia labelling the project as “investment ready”.
In good hands.
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All I could hear was some man being interviewed and aggressively talking about how Pell moved pedo priests from parish to parish
Why would we expect anything more from people that happily aimed calumnies at the man while he still lived? I just saw Windsor’s remark and they tell you everything about the man himself. I can understand why people engaged in dueling in centuries past.
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I realise today have been a tough day as we mourn the dearly departed. Some are upset whilst others are happy.
Personally I am happy and it was entirely predictable.
RIP Sun cable. May those involved lose squillions.
Currently listening to three AFL guys on Club Grubbery talking about vax mandates. The Adelaide Crows Director actually spoke up about and had to stand down over the mandates. He heard that one of the players got pericarditis through an indirect way although board was not officially informed. He called a special board meeting. On day of that meeting a player collapsed at training and is still not playing. One of the guys was a backroom office guy at Essendon and was surprised they caved so quickly on the vaccine. “Health or the bottom line”.
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No so Zulu. The choice of weapons lay with the one who was challenged.
You probably know this already, but the code of etiquette in the officer’s mess – no talk of “shop”, religion or politics, the port decanter passed to the left, was developed during the days of dueling, when port was the normal drink of gentlemen, and hot tempered young subalterns with no head for liquor were likely to find themselves “called out.”
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Shawn Hart saying Mathew Lloyd got Bells Palsy after the jab and calling him out to talk about it.
All impressed with Carlton player Liam Jones who retired early due to jab but now apparently will be playing again.
Nick Takos says VIC Govt knew if got AFL players taking the jab it helped in getting the community on board. He is encouraging players to stand together and stand up. Takes a big swipe at David Koch of Ch 7 / Port Adelaide over not having unvaxxed around for Christmas.
Hoody talking to the AFL people to might be watching and telling them to show some leadership. Primary thing need to do is stop the roll out.
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Pizza giant to pay $53,000 to former worker after colleague stared at her breasts
Nell Geraets
By Nell Geraets
January 10, 2023 — 7.14pmOne of Melbourne’s biggest supermarket pizza suppliers has been ordered to pay more than $53,000 to a former employee who suffered sexual harassment when a male colleague looked at her breasts rather than her face when he spoke to her.
The Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal ruled on Monday that Della Rosa Fresh Foods – which supplies pizza products and baked goods to Coles, Woolworths and IGA – pay compensation for the injury, loss and damage suffered by Sudesh Kumari.
VCAT ruled Della Rosa Fresh Foods pay more than $53,000 to a former employee who suffered sexual harassment.Credit:Pat Scala
Kumari, who worked in the bakery section for the Campbellfield company, claimed she had been subjected to sexual harassment, discriminated against because of her race, and victimised.
Tribunal member Louise Johnson accepted Kumari’s evidence and rejected Della Rosa’s submission that any penalty should not exceed $500.
“I consider that an award of $500 in damages would trivialise the conduct complained of,” Johnson said.
Kumari claimed that in 2017 a Della Rosa employee looked at her breasts rather than her face when speaking to her, making her feel “uncomfortable, objectified and degraded”.
She reported the incident to management but said she was met with disbelief and racist remarks.
“Ms Kumari’s immediate manager … treated Ms Kumari unfavourably due to her race when he said to her, ‘You are Indian, I don’t like Indians, they always cause problems’,” Johnson said in the order.
Following her report of sexual harassment, Kumari said management told her to take annual leave, even though she said she was saving it to visit family in India.
Her time off work felt like a punishment, she said, triggering headaches and anxiety that made her feel “sad, like a sick person”.
After the complaint, the company transferred Kumari from the bakery site to the pizza-topping site – which was “predominantly staffed by women” – as a precaution to prevent further harassment from happening again. But when she returned from leave, she said she did not wish to shift, refused to accept the transfer and did not return to work.
The company terminated her employment on February 8, 2018 – nearly a month after she filed a complaint to the Fair Work Commission.
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‘You are Indian, I don’t like Indians, they always cause problems’,” Johnson said in the order.
The second part tends to precipitate the first part. In my experience there is indeed a disproportionate amount of trouble. I was informed that everyone came back to the office except for one, I don’t know how this ended but it wasn’t heading in a good direction.
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