Her persona as the rambling effete is, I think, a perfect satire.

Who is this “her” of which you speak? I seem to have got lost somewhere in the thread. On account of it beingSaturday night.

Democrat Tim Kaine’s Wife Denounces Declaration of Independence, Constitution as ‘Fundamental in Enshrining Slavery’

Yep, they really really don’t like those documents.

Student appeals conviction for distributing Constitution on public campus (2 Feb)

Tim Tizon, a former Arizona State University (ASU) student, has now appealed his conviction for trespass, filed against him by the university because he had had the nerve to distribute copies of the Constitution to others, without obtaining the school’s permission.

Indicted for handing out copies of one of the most revered documents in America.

I think living in rural France for a year might be on the cards.

The south- west dept 64. Rural but lovely villages and spa towns aplenty. Summer festivals, bull fighting, Pau, Pyrenees, Pays Basque, Biarritz, close to Bordeaux and beaches of the Biscay, nip across to Carcassone for the bouillabaisse, Lyon for awesome quinine. Everything in 1-2 hrs steady drive. I just might do more than a year.

cuisine, not quinine. Bloody hell.

Cassie I was in Thailand on break at the Boxing Day Tsunami time. I was nowhere near the Andaman Sea. I was apparently listed on the DFAT missing list for 3 days. I was actually oblivious to the event till the day before I needed to leave the country where I decided clearing customs would have that removed.

My brother mentions from time to time that he didn’t want to have to get on a plane to try and find out what happened to me. The 40 missed calls and 80 messages when I finally checked my mobile phone as I was completely inattentive to and on silent was telling. I truly wouldn’t wish that situation on anyone.

Just saw Indian guys putting down the new road surface.
The bluestone is bigger than we would use with lots of tar. This is a base and then the final seal with finer crush. No such thing as shoving a thin layer of bitumen on compacted gravel.

But just think, in our own lifetime we’ve seen what happened with the 2004 Boxing Day Indian Ocean earthquake and 2011 Japanese earthquake.

Indeed, I was deployed on an Australian Medical Team to Aceh after the tsunami, and learned to anaesthetise 2 patients at once (Ketamine) in a single operating room with a temperature of 35C and 100% humidity, all while aftershocks in the 7s happened multiple times a day.

6 months later I was working in a USAF tent ICU just out of Baghdad, getting incoming rockets and 50 big trauma cases a day..

I think these 2 events showed me how fragile the world is, and how abnormal the western ‘peace and tranquilty’ was.

I think the 2 events helped prepare me to see what was going on now, and to deal with it.

Crossie:
Just signing back in….

They are, at least all the ones sold in supermarkets and fruit shops. I expect the eggs you buy from farm gate may not.

I hadn’t noticed, there’s a code on the box MCG 366 13 13 L13/14 & a code of MCG ??? on each egg.
Interesting.

Maybe you are comfortable with that for yourself. Maybe you are even happy for your children, who will never know a time when it was different, to live in an Australia where their every moment from birth to death is dogged by the message that there are not one but two peoples that occupy this continent and only one of them has a right to be here.

Mealy mouthed sludge.
He’s Gaslighting the No voters as racists.

Change the CD, we’ve heard it all before.

You have?
That the Morrison Government brought itself down by it’s inept handling of the Higgins Affair?
And that Labor obviously knew what had gone down and didn’t even bother campaigning once Higgins went public?
Whether Scotty lied his head off or not, the perception wasw that he wasn’t telling the truth.

Richard Cranium

Yes, you have repeated it so many times, with no actual evidence to support what you say.

Evidence, or try something else.

I don’t need to be reconciled with aborigines. We get along fine. I’ve never had problems with them. One asked me for a ciggy once and I had to tell him that I didn’t smoke them so didn’t have any. That was accepted.

I have a certain dislike of certain activists, but there’s not much aboriginal about them. If they want to be reconciled with me, all they need to do is stop bugging me with divisive shit.

he reason I’m not really worried about this is because even if the fears turn out to be well-founded, it’s obvious that a future Coalition government will spearhead a campaign for the Voice’s removal from the Constitution.

someone upthread quoting a comedian

They could have a DVI team in Thailand because ‘only’ about 3k people were killed. In Aceh they buried the victims in pits of 10,000. They had to dig a dozen of them.

Correct, the water went fully 1/2 way across Banda Aceh … miles and miles inland. The destruction and the stench was amazing, the dead were being buried in large trenches by excavators. It sounds harsh, but it taught me something useful about disaster response – the injured are a medical problem, the dead are an earthmoving problem.

So, what is the point of a spy balloon when the wind can send it anywhere?

The point is it takes attention away from the build up to major War in Ukraine and people dropping dead from the Vax.

Round the world sailor Jessica Watson’s partner dropped from a catastrophic Stroke and didn’t wake up.
He was 29.

https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/psywars-fifth-generation-warfare

Wow – Robert Malone on 5th gen warfare and how the whole COVID saga was an attack on the citizens by their governments …. amazing to see how far these clinicians and scientists have come now they have been red pilled.

40 minutes, but an amazing expose.

Indolent:
The war on Whites continues, and the Obama shadow lengthens.

This was just after the video you put up earlier, Indolent.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1621536215655661572

These kids are sociopaths. WTF do their parents think they’ll be like as adults?

Indolent:

A book has been released analysing the information reluctantly released by Pfizer, which they wanted to keep secret for some 70 years. It is available on Amazon.

Here.
Not available in Australia?
Couldn’t buy it through my own or the Catallaxy portal.
Damn.

Calli:

Afterwards, one of the men approached me and said how grateful he was that I raised the issue. I guess in these circumstances men have lost their voice in outlining the things they need to be aware of because women have completely occupied and guarded the “victim space” for so long.

Men are awake to the fact the system will gaol, financially ruin them, and cast them out socially if they complain or fight these battles. If they can salvage something from the wreckage, then good luck.
But expect more of the lying flat phenomenon.
And don’t expect them to enlist in their hundreds of thousands if they get called.
Perhaps those synthetic wombs will come in handy for cannon fodder.

Look, I don’t want to stop Catallaxy’s equivalent of the campiest duo since West and Ward donned the polyester in the 70s in full flow, but you’re doing that thing that leftists do where they wilfully misunderstand how big the world is.

A spy balloon is both high enough that a change of position needn’t be very granular, but also low enough (comparatively) to deliver significantly better picture quality.

And in important facts you need to know, there’s a Phat Phuc noodle bar in London.

Flying Duk:

Women comprise many, if not the majority, of parents who murder their children if I remember correctly.

Also noted is the significant presence of a mother (exhibiting major elements of Muchausens by Proxy last seen during the 90’s) doing the hand patting and supporting the poor damn kid who is to be manipulated and mutilated.

Doc Faustus:

If I identified as a betting person, I’d have $20 on the Pentagon hurriedly commissioning R&D into a munition that can reliably shred a loitering balloon.

Perhaps a net with weights on it to drag it down mostly intact, just to have a close look at what it is, how it was manufactured etc.
Just a thought.

cohenite: *slaps roof of research balloon*
These babies can fit so many classified megapixels inside them!

_

(It’s my expired meme and I’ll revive it if I want to.)

Grey Ranga:

Dr F I remember in the early 60’s all of a sudden everything came with so much packaging. It’s worse now. In lots of cases the packaging costs more than the product.

It had to happen just to cut the shoplifting down to a tolerable amount.

South Korean Culture Update:

The Korean nation has an extraordinary history from the time of the first major dynasty, starting in the early C14th. By the 15th Century a very enlightened King, a scholar, created a phonetic alphabet in the local Korean language to replace the writing system inherited from China. -seeing ruler became a revered early cultural influence. He believed rightly) that the pictorial ideograms of Chinese civilisation halted many of his people from achieving literacy. His alphabet had 24 characters, phonetic signifiers, with two more vowels and ours, and consonants that like the vowels were attuned to the local speech phonemes. He also created a mobile sundial, inserted into a half-bowl, which could be carried around to tell the time anywhere.

Today we visited his major palace, the first one of five other royal palaces in Seoul, this one sited at the base of the mountain range that partly encloses Seoul, creating a spacious set of grounds within which are set numerous very fine C14th wooden decorated buildings serving various functions. The king is also claimed to have invented the underfloor heating system for these single story Palace rooms – a system equal to that of the Roman-invented hypercaust.

Every day at this Palace there is a formal ceremony for the changing of the guard, and it is hugely impressive. The medieval costumes recreated for the soldiers depicting various functions and ranks were extraordinary – reminiscent of the flights of fancy seen in some modern fantasy movies. Amazing silken gowns, in deep sky blue, purple, crimson, and some black, with contrasting waistbands and a variety of headgear, some decorated with the single long tailfeathers of marsh birds, some with masks, and with fur decorations, often a balaclava style topped with a roundheaded wide-brimmed hat in black. their shoes were like snowboots with a slight curled upturn. They carried various sorts of percussion instruments as well as large whistles ending in a funnel, and a trumpet quite reminiscent of the Celtic Carnix – long and ferocious in sound. Plus of course drums, a huge one announcing the procession, a thump to the heart and ears as it was soundly hammered by a strongman, and other drums and cymbals. The sound and sight of it made me think no wonder Marco Polo was astounded at the quality and nature of these Asian civilisations he saw or heard about.
One of the sights to go on your bucket list, Cats, cheap and close enough to do: a procession for the ages through the main gates and into the inner sanctum to protect the king. Men in dresses have nevere looked more manly, nor carried more ferocious-looking weaponry on their persons. Also present and contributing to the spirit of the display were young women who attend to show off their glitzy traditional costumes, with bell skirts rather like the famous Cretan snake goddess wore, but with modest tops, some wearing snowy white fur capes against the cold that froze the Palace lake and keeps it frozen daily. The loooked like charming darling dolls as they moved around on their hidden feet as if on rails. Young girls get free admission if they come traditionally dressed.

That’s the High Culture. In the Folk Museum that is nearby to this complex is an intricate display of the lives of the ordinary people as they greeted the seasons and started their daily round, from women in the villages and farmers in the fields, or as poor men gathering firewood bundles, to the local scholar creating his morning mindfulness. Very inventive graphics helped to fill in the cultural gaps: this museum is marble-floor and newly built, and a pleasure to visit.

Before that our tour with a driver and guide (which was a private tour, eschewing the usual markets and ginseng elements of the group tours) gave us plenty of time in the biggest Buddhist temple in Seoul. We didn’t go inside any temple, including the main one, as firstly, it was busy and full of worshippers, who also workshipped outside, and secondly, I didn’t want to take off my snow boots and have the usual struggle hauling them back on. Buddhism here is clearly a very ‘lived’ religion, even though only 20% of the population now call themselves Buddhist. 50% of South Koreans are now Christians, but the traditions of Buddhism and the older ‘Shaman’ religions still run deep in the culture and its countryside. Even Buddhists revere old and sacred trees, and carved tree-root spirit ‘guardians’ still guard some villages, bringing to mind for me the Bronze Age ‘tree root’ worship seen in Britain’s Sea-Henge. As folklorists can tell us, there are common threads in many cultures in what humans chose to see as sacred .

Cohenite:

NYC: Muslim cleric urged Muslims to ‘cut the throats’ of non-Muslims, recruited for the Islamic State (ISIS)
Germany: Muslim migrant rapes woman, tells her ‘We’re f***ing now, or I’ll slit your throat’

These animals were brought here by our governments for the express purpose of terrorising the citizenry. They are doing a fabulous job of it.
No other reason covers all the facts.

Sorry, haven’t proof read, it’s far too late to do so now. It’s time for bed. We are flying back to Australia late tomorrow.

I doubt if Qantas business class attendants will be ‘air hostesses’ as the Korean Asiana ones were. But at least the mask mandate stuff will be obsolete there.
It will feel odd to be in Australian climes and scenes again soon.

rickw:

Will Thailand take on Pfizer?

It’s an interesting scenario. If they do decide to go boots and all and target Pfizzer executives, it could quite easily end up a major embarrassment for the US. The Royal family in Thailand are revered by the people and they just may double down and deliver their own style of justice.

You don’t have to look too hard to see the Bakhmut situation is pretty dire for Ukrainian forces.

I’m only catching up on news that Bob Woodward told the Washington Post that the Steele dossier was a load of shit & the overall reporting on Russia-gate was deeply flawed.

Jewish graves vandalised at the historic Jewish cemetery at Maitland.
https://www.jwire.com.au/jewish-graves-vandalised-in-maitland/

You will eat bugs because that’s all we’re going to sell you.

Great Reset: Supermarket Chain Lidl to Cut Down on Meat Products to Serve Green Agenda (4 Feb)

Major European grocery chain Lidl will seek to reduce the amount of meat products sold in its stores in favour of “alternative” protein sources to promote the global green agenda.

Lidl’s purchasing director for the German market, Christoph Graf, said this week at a Berlin ‘Green Week’ event that the discount supermarket retailer will seek to move away from selling meat because “there is no second planet”.

There may not be a second planet but there are plenty of other supermarket chains, which I’m sure carnivorous Germans will avail themselves of. GWGB.

The next one might float over a major city and detonate an air burst that knocks out every system using microchips – and that’s most systems – via a huge EMP pulse.

Chinese deputy foreign minister was in Russia for the last couple of days.
I wonder what terms of trade he delivered to Lavrov.

Rosie I don’t have to watch every cent, I shop at Aldi so I don’t contribute to the Colesworth rip off. I spend no more than $100 a month at colesworth only because of specific things that Aldi don’t have. Colesworth are having more of their own brands that in the majority are a poor imitation. I have done some work for both companies and thought them both toxic. The sort of people in management would sell their own grandmother.

Thanks for posting those two articles BB. If the referendum fails and I hope it will, it will give them (polllimuppetts and the meja) an opportunity to abuse the electorate- rascist, redneck, unedjucated etc etc. I always vote no in referendums- if the politicians/pubes/meja want it, it must be bad for us.

Anal’s proving it’s possible to be worse than Scummo.

“The Voice won’t administer funding. It will not deliver programs.

“It will not have any kind of veto power over decision-making.”

Then what the hell is it? A payroll for useless moochers?

Probably the safest option, if it wasn’t for inevitable mission creep.

I have done some work for both companies and thought them both toxic. The sort of people in management would sell their own grandmother.

I found Woolworths absolutely horrible to deal with right down to store managers. Coles not so bad.

or call them ‘non core promises’

Mike Rowe on men not wanting dirty jobs & rewarding jobs like oyster pearling, indigenous liaison officer and marine (mammal?) hunting.

https://youtu.be/mDBM8lwVmQo

Swimming with shark food probably isn’t ever a good idea.

Whilst we all hope never to be in the position of responding to an event like this, might I make a few points:

1) CPR is not a magic bullet for ‘waking up dead people’ – its specifically intended to tide people over until a stopped heart is restarted. Despite this, it is reflexively applied in blood loss situations where there is no prospect of success because it does not address the problem (blood loss).
2) We learned in Iraq (again – as per every war) that limb bleeding can kill you and tourniquets work.
3) A promising technique for controlling severe ‘lower half’ bleeding without a tourniquet is to simply kneel with all your weight over the umbilicus of the victim – I published on this previously https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/prehospital-and-disaster-medicine/article/abs/prehospital-external-aortic-compression-for-temporizing-exsanguinating-subdiaphragmatic-hemorrhage-a-promising-technique-but-with-challenges-four-illustrative-cases-including-two-survivors/C0E5100462A937FB6A506627A28C75DB

I dont have a free download link but an google search on ‘External Aortic Compression’ brings up some hits.

Looked at the weather forecast for today on the Elders site which is drawn from BOM. For my area it states,” near zero chance of rain” then on the adjacent icons signifying rain, 40% chance. Then icon showing less than 1mm. And these weather people can forecast climate for decades to come. PS It has now started to rain.

I have an arrangement with sharks.

I don’t swim in the ocean, and they don’t come into my lounge room.

So far, it’s worked out fine.

calli says:
February 5, 2023 at 7:42 am

That was a great WIP Tom. My favourites:

“Opportunist.”

calli,

your links come up with

Error 1011 Ray ID: 794699337c58aaff • 2023-02-04 21:46:20 UTC
Access denied
What happened?

The owner of this website (www.powerlineblog.com) does not allow hotlinking to that resource (/ed-assets/2023/02/Screen-Shot-2023-01-28-at-12.01.31-PM.png).

Interesting to see if my favourite works as just an address rather than imbedded link

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