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Last time I passed through Dubai, I got a lecture from an immigration official about how it was a sin…
I hope the SFLs are taking note, or is Australia not yet dire enough for this medicine?
We knew that all along. IT WAS ALL A LIE: Former NIH Director Admits There Was No Evidence For ‘Social…
The Washington Post’s Disgrace
I was amused by this one.
‘Desperate war of words’ erupts between Chalmers, Kean over energy bill relief (Sky News, 10 Feb)
Wow, climate hypocrites at 10 paces and me without popcorn! At least it says they’re getting stick from the voters, and are under pressure. They won’t of course blame the people who are the actual guilty parties causing the high energy prices, which are themselves.
As I said earlier, the moment a DA was dispensed with is when I would have run a mile.
Sure.
But this guy didn’t, indicating that he’s dodgy, by his own admission.
And Drumgold has no excuse – he knows when one is required and when it is not.
Hang on a flash, you’re taking the word of a self admitted dodgy builder whose word is worthless, by his own admission.
From Dr Faustus’ link:
Is it normal to send this type of evidence to the defence?
As opposed to a dodgy lawyer?
Please learn to read.
I said that Thompson put himself in a no win situation.
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I think it’s called “disclosure”
If a prosecution wants to table any evidence, the defence are given it before court day. Fresh manilla envelopes and long lost eyewitnesses crashing through the court doors are things that only happen in Hollywood.
Oh noes! They killed Harry Potter.
It’s February so it probably wasn’t Santa Claus.
One less UFO for the Defense Dept to investigate at least.
I’d be interested in the scope of works. “Stone” could mean benchtops, so hard to imagine a DA for a kitchen reno. I wonder if it was retaining walls or the like? Then a DA would come into play, for obvious reasons.
rickwsays:
February 11, 2023 at 11:23 am
The government will seize super the bail itself out of debt and to keep the welfare train going..
Your retirement is cancelled.
Another factor feeding into my exit plans.
I agree. The Superannuation System now has over 3 Trillion Australian Dollars in it and that is the Accumulation Benefit System – the Market value. The Defined Benefit System is quite different. What people seem to forget is that in the 1980s a Superannuation Fund had to have a certain percentage of its investments in Federal Government and Semi-Government Securities (Debt). And now with so much Government Debt you can see how easily that Debt can be plonked into every Accumulation Benefit account with the Guv’ment wiping out its Debt to start all over again. Meanwhile the Superannuation Holders get SFA on their crap investment (Guv’ment Debt).
Nice work Guv’ment. Watch this space as the Communists (LayBore) will do it.
When I retired, I took all of my money out of the Superannuation System tax free. And I invested it a lot of stuff that the Guv’ment will find tricky to touch without a Revolution.
Rogersays:
February 11, 2023 at 11:16 am
The “First Nations” ceded sovereignty when they couldn’t defend those “Nations.”
That will end up being decided by the High Court.
Which has already decided that Australia was settled, not invaded. Reverse that, and the legal basis for Native Title disappears.
Mind you, habeas corpus, in-camera testimony and the right to face an accuser have all gone the way of the dodo, so I wouldn’t be surprised if some “evidence” is given special privilege if it’s tear-stained or something.
I’d say that’s a certainty now.
Simon Benson in yesterday’s The Australian, said that:
Since Frydenberg’s achievements as a Minister were zero, and Dutton has done extremely well as Opposition Leader, the expectation must be that he won’t survive the Sofronoff Inquiry.
Upon a subpoena from the court requesting such documents, yes.
Which has already decided that Australia was settled, not invaded. Reverse that, and the legal basis for Native Title disappears.
The High Court
overturning a decision of a previous High Court?
When did that ever happen?
Ed Casesays:
February 11, 2023 at 11:42 am
As I said earlier, the moment a DA was dispensed with is when I would have run a mile.
Sure.
But this guy didn’t, indicating that he’s dodgy, by his own admission.
And Drumgold has no excuse – he knows when one is required and when it is not.
Hang on a flash, you’re taking the word of a self admitted dodgy builder whose word is worthless, by his own admission.
Richard Cranium
Assuming (a big assumption, I concede) that the Council keeps accurate records, the point is easy to prove or disprove. Is there a DA in the Council records? All your faffing around trying to sound intelligent is just a smokescreen.
I didn’t believe that because I’m not that gullible. But many were. Were you one of those gullible voters who voted for Albanese?
I live in Tanya Plebesuck’s electorate so my vote was swamped by all those left wing nut jobs that live in the Sydney CBD.
Pedro the Loofah:
No, Pedro. It’s the commentators being aware they are the most important thing on the programme and assuming the audience cannot get enough of them.
It doesn’t occur to them that a very large percentage of the viewers are just that – viewers, not listeners.
I did like the detail in Bruce Paix’s Cookerpedia entry that his rumbling stomach from a hunger strike interrupted court proceedings.
The above is one MAJOR reason the mRNA/nanoparticle industry is ‘too big to fail’ – they want to apply it broadly across the vax market, and pharmaceuticals in general.
Ed Casesays:
February 11, 2023 at 11:57 am
Which has already decided that Australia was settled, not invaded. Reverse that, and the legal basis for Native Title disappears.
The High Court
overturning a decision of a previous High Court?
When did that ever happen?
Richard
Congratulations, you got my point. A new achievement for you.
Groogs, you seem to be under the misapprehension I was a family lawyer. That’s because you’re an idiot. Check your notes.
HBBear:
Apart from Capital Punishment, these are all vote getters.
LOL, m0nty=fa believes every word in Cookerpedia. How dumb is it possible for him to be? This dumb? Really!
Has he? Last I heard he was dampening expectations for the Aston by-election, using the code word “difficult” which generally means that internal hopes are pretty piss poor.
The government hasn’t gained a seat in a federal by-election for over a century.
“Stone” could mean benchtops, …
They’re a coupla battleaxe rental houses, so it’s not likely he was putting a rock
retaining wall in.
The guys a bullshitter.
Why put his nailbag on and pose for a photo if he’s legit?
Canberra quinoa belt.
Chortle. (polite golf clap)
Selectively preparing areas of the pitch should increase the popularity of cricket. Luckily the BCCI is unlikely to have an issue with it.
Apart from Capital Punishment, these are all vote getters.
I dunno, I reckon capital punishment for treason is a winner, especially when people realise that potential candidates are primarily politicians and bureaucrats.
Take a little money from Pfizer to the detriment of the National Interest?! Oooopsie!!
Cassie of Sydney:
In one of the few cases of ‘where there’s smoke, there’s fire’, subcontinentals didn’t get their reputations by being truth tellers.
Has he? Last I heard he was dampening expectations for the Aston by-election, using the code word “difficult” which generally means that internal hopes are pretty piss poor.
Here’s the problem:
Tudgey has a strong personal vote in Aston.
That’s gone.
They’re going to run either some career woman with no kids or a Chinese woman to win the Chinese vote.
Both are hopeless propositions.
By the time the By Election is held, voters will have already heard through the Sofronoff Inquiry who was running the Help Bruce Lehrmann Avoid Justice campaign in the Morrison Government.
If it was Scotty, he’ll be punished again.
If it was Dutton, the Liberal Party won’t even have people manning the booths.
I got an email saying “At Google Earth we can read maps backwards!” I thought to myself… that’s just spam.
I called the doctor’s surgery today to get an appointment. “How about ten tomorrow morning?” The receptionist asked. I told her I didn’t need that many. One would do.
Luckily, the Libs have all those other incumbent urban Melbourne MPs to help out in Aston like… um…
The above is one MAJOR reason the mRNA/nanoparticle industry is ‘too big to fail’ – they want to apply it broadly across the vax market, and pharmaceuticals in general.
Would be interesting to test Borla to see if he’s ever taken this shit. Maybe instead of trying to interview him, Project Veritas should instead work on getting a blood sample.
Mysteries of life department: why do north Americans (Americans and Canadians) silence the “h” in the word “herbs”?
I’m tipping someone somewhere once misheard something that made them think the sophisticates of Europe pronounced the word “…erbs” without the “h”.
We talk about Australia’s cultural cringe. America’s cultural cringe says “hold my beer”.
ZK2A:
You’d be at the point of putting up patrolling drones at night.
You’d also be asking why the owner/manager wasn’t doing their water rounds daily. And asking them hard.
Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?
– Douglas Adams
You that’s been a life mystery for me too. Herb is pronounced as in Herbert, while a herb is erb. I think they’re trying to sound frog.
4 hours monty…..
Then there’s the stated reason Tudgey resigned [spend more time with the family], and the real reason [just a guess, Rachelle Miller told him why she got a $576,000 payout from the Commonwealth].
Tom
Particularly NYC – it’s quite frankophile.
Zipster:
I’ve a Google popup every couple of minutes demanding I sign in to one of their accounts and can’t get rid of it.
Any suggestions apart from acceding to its demands?
You’d also be asking why the owner/manager wasn’t doing their water rounds daily. And asking them hard.
That’s the end of career / end of life farming job. Tootle around in the ute and check that everything has water and report on any deaths or other untoward events. Take as many grandkids as will fit in the ute!
His stated reason of stress (of knowing his Robodebt policies led to two thousand suicides) sounds plausible.
Quite so.
Though daily is a bit much of an ask.
Twice a week is the minimum, ideally every 2 days, especially in stinking hot weather.
There’s more things can go wrong than malicious intervention by humans.
Sheep especially require you to do all their thinking for them & then implement that over their robust & obtuse physical non-cooperation.
Sounds like that is flyingduk’s job now too. That’s if he’s not just bludging.
Crows may like a multitool, but cockies like a whole toolbox.
Cockatoos know to bring along multiple tools when they fish for cashews (Phys.org, 10 Feb)
“Goffin’s cockatoos are small white parrots that hail from the Tanimbar Islands archipelago in Indonesia. Captive Goffin’s cockatoos use and manufacture tools, and a previous study of wild-caught cockatoos reported that they can use up to three different tools to extract seeds from a particular fruit. Up until now, though, it wasn’t clear whether the cockatoos considered these tools as a “set”; it’s possible that what may look like a toolset is instead nothing more than a chain of single tool uses, with the need for each new tool appearing to the animal as the task evolves.
Now, a team of researchers have used controlled experiments to clarify that the cockatoos do indeed recognize when a job requires more than one tool.
…
the researchers presented the cockatoos with a box containing a cashew behind a transparent paper membrane. To reach the cashew, the cockatoos had to punch through the membrane and then “fish” the cashew out. They were provided with a short, pointy stick for punching holes and a vertically halved plastic straw for fishing.
Seven of the ten cockatoos tested taught themselves to extract cashews successfully by punching through the membrane, and two of the cockatoos (Figaro and Fini) completed the task within 35 seconds on their first attempt.”
The videos are fun. I especially liked the half-eaten chair in the second one. I’m most certainly not going to introduce the local Cafe cockies to cashew nuts. Had door cockie on my screen door this morning, and that was only for stale bread. One sniff of a cashew and I’d have cockies with chainsaws trying to get in.
(I hope my link to CL’s crow doesn’t cause an outbreak of cute owls from Cohenite.)
No, they hit his car, lied in court and “lost” evidence.
The police and “road worker” are all criminals and are part of a corrupt and evil government.
I for one, don’t approve of this Putin like bull crap.
You’re laughing about this monty.
Pogria:
It could also be that Indians are just butt ugly.
I suspect it goes back to a west country English pronunciation that became standardised in North America before the British added the h.
You’re laughing about this monty.
And he loves Republican representatives taken out. And loves Drag Queen Story Time. And he defends depravity in the Yoel Roth thesis. And laughs at someone who chose to go to real war and serve.
Outstanding monty. Outstanding.
He’s had seven deployments to the sharp end Monty.
How many have you done?
Not all of them.
She however, is ugly in both character and visage.
SO WHY DIDN’T THEY DO THIS LAST TIME?
US shoots down unknown ‘high-altitude object’ over Alaska, White House says. “President Joe Biden ordered the shootdown, spokesman John Kirby said, adding that the origin of the object has yet to be determined.”
What, Gen. Mark Milley didn’t overrule him?
But I hope we don’t start an interstellar war, because it sounds like a flying saucer:
ABC News Chief Global Affairs Correspondent Martha Raddatz first reported that when fighters were scrambled, the pilots did visuals, got images and said there was no sign the object had propulsion.
It was described as “cylindrical and silver-ish gray” and seemed to be floating, a U.S. official said.
Asked if was “balloon-like,” the official said, “All I say is that it wasn’t ‘flying’ with any sort of propulsion, so if that is ‘balloon-like’ well — we just don’t have enough at this point.”
“It came in, inside our territorial waters, those waters right now are frozen, but inside territorial airspace and over territorial waters. Fighter aircraft assigned to U.S. Northern Command took down the object within the last hour,” Kirby said.
Klaatu barada nikto.
UPDATE: From the comments: “So US government and Gibbering Joe shot an object out of the sky without first identifying what the object was? That’s highly irresponsible.”
Boambee Johnsays:
February 11, 2023 at 11:49 am
Rogersays:
February 11, 2023 at 11:16 am
The “First Nations” ceded sovereignty when they couldn’t defend those “Nations.”</em
There never was/were any 'First Nations' on this Continent. They were many, many tribes. Not in any way a Nation. That term of 'First Nations' was pinched from the Canadian natives just recently around the 1970s. Cute stuff but nothing to do with Sovereignty.
There was no sovereignty to 'give up'. As no one had sovereignty. What Nation was here when the British arrived on the 26th of January, 1788? Please provide an answer Mr Albasleasy. And the Attorney General? And anyone else in this shambles of a LayBore Guv'ment. Where was the King or Queen of this Continent and 'Nation' when the British turned up?
No where to be seen. Game over.
Just as the North American accent preserves a strong rhotic pronunciation that went out of fashion in most of England sometime after North America was settled. It’s not American English that has changed in this regard, but British English (and the versions of it spoken in the colonies established after North America).
A very good comment from an old fella I know after a chat about our trip to India.
“Why aren’t we arming India instead of Ukraine? They’re country that’ll have to fight China for us.”
Why do Americans pronounce “solder”, “sodder”?
All leftists are cowards who hate their country.
So of course they contribute nothing and look to the government to give them (endless) Free Stuff.
Monty in a foxhole somewhere defending Australia? Even if he wanted to, he’d never live it down among his coward mates.
Gez – India has nukes. They can look after themselves.
We have no nukes. We therefore should be arming ourselves not anyone else.
Likewise they mispronunce; abyss, mirror, missile, caramel, worcestershire, & lotsa others I can’t remember right now.
Those who enjoy a scrag-fight should tune in to Nein – Maori wimmenses v Indig wimmenses Rugby League.
My money would be on the Maori gels – but then again, who knows the real racial composition of the so-called Indigs.
The only Wars the Chinese fight are with other Chinese.
See:
#1. Taiping Rebellion
#2. Chinese Civil War
Meanwhile, Marlesy just signed a Mutual Defence Pact with Indonesia [Army of 400,000 trained killers].
Aussie Right Wing garage Nazis acting up?
Kopassus, come on down.
Mean Maori versus Abo?
Always bet on the Abo.
McGrath, buoy, Megan, whore, Z, leisure, mobile, basil, margarine, etc. It’s like they’re speaking in thieves cant.
Sodder or sauter (as I hear it) I can’t help with, I’m afraid…puzzles me too.
I have never believed I would ever get access to my super. If I’d been on the ball I would have taken the withdrawals that were permitted during the covid stupidity and invested it somewhere else.
Given the actions of various aussie governments recently, I doubt there’s anywhere safe to park your money in the country. Only a matter of time before they pull the same crap as Canada and freeze/seize your accounts and assets.
Somewhat similar to rickw, I don’t see any future for me here. But, also don’t see anywhere that’s worth running to in the western world. Bit bloody sad for someone who’s family have been here from before federation.
Rather telling too, that most of the really switched on people I’ve known have left.
Richard Cranium still desperately defending the prosecutor in the Mizzz Knickerless case. He has a lot invested in this, on behalf of the party he is shilling for – Labor.
Lately they have been dropping the D from words like “couldn’t” and replacing them with a sort of glottal stop. It sounds cute in a three year old but you try to train them out of it. Not so good in a thirty something news reader, suggestive of imbecility.
Correct.
Similar as in min’s case. Departure from drawings does not necessarily mean the work is suss either.
Yep.
Not as if he wouldn’t have had plenty of work he could pick up if he was any good.
Ed Casesays:
February 11, 2023 at 12:16 pm
Then there’s the stated reason Tudgey resigned [spend more time with the family], and the real reason [just a guess, Rachelle Miller told him why she got a $576,000 payout from the Commonwealth].
Don’t hold back, tell us the reason.
Bridge attack.
At some point, electronic warfare counters on the battlefield will become so pervasive,
Lo Tech will be the new game changer.
I know some here like the Ilse of Man motorcycle races, easy to see why. Funny enough they’re not the hairiest road races in the world, that title belongs to Irish motorcycle road racing, street circuits but with mass starts not TT conditions, amazing stuff. The do gooders have been trying to shut them down for years, well it looks like they are getting their way. All racing for this year has been cancelled by the controlling body due to insurance costs, I think the premium for this year is around 400,000 pounds, way too much for a small sport.
A sample, they’ve got watermelons where I have split peas, and I’ve road raced TZ’s and sidecars here in Oz -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpg4MKMQLwo
Info – https://www.goodwood.com/grr/race/modern/2023/2/all-northern-irish-road-racing-cancelled/#:~:text=All%20motorcycle%20road%20racing%2C%20short,and%20will%20continue%20as%20planned.
Dot
No, they hit his car, lied in court and “lost” evidence.
The police and “road worker” are all criminals and are part of a corrupt and evil government.
I for one, don’t approve of this Putin like bull crap.
You’re laughing about this monty.
Remember when leftards used to get upset about Police “verbals”? Now fascists like m0nty=fa applaud them.
The worst is Justin Langer.
I felt some sympathy for him when he got tipped out as coach but, after hearing him drone on in TV commentary, I can see why the players were calling, “Please make it stop!”.
Busy caring for an autistic three year old, so didn’t notice the time and barely the date, so here is a comment I put on the end of the old thread:
Not long before we visited the DMZ in South Korea the North Koreans sent up four drones over the territory beyond the DMZ thus into South Korea. The South Koreans sent up six fighter jets immediately in response, to shoot them down, although they are so small it was difficult to do so.
These drones were not intended as anything but what the South Koreans call ‘provocation’, just saying nah, nah, narny nah nah. This Chinese balloon is provocation of the same sort. It was a mistake for Biden to let them get away with it. OTT counter-responses seem to work better. There haven’t been any more drones over from North Korea since. Relationships with the North see-saw, they are currently on a downward move. At one stage in they were so good that the SK’s built and partly staffed a major industrial complex producing consumer durables right there in NK over the other side of the DMZ. It is now empty and unused.
‘Does Google Engage With The FBI?’: Matt Gaetz Presses House Hearing Witness
forbes
The most beautiful woman I’ve ever seen was Indian. The second best was Turkish. Third equal, my wife and daughter.
Flying Duk,
My understanding is Dr Thomas Borody was the Aussie Dr who initially advised Clive and then contacted FLCC. Borody had treated 500 in Sydney with Ivermectin and I believe other drugs and then Clive followed FLCC protocol.
What a lot of people forget is that for the first year, pre vaccines, the Government Health advice was go home and wait until got sick enough to go to hospital.
For frontline Dr’s that was not good enough and they came up with off label medicines.
Kory showed showed a graph showing prescriptions of IVM going up until one week was 90,000 and that was what triggered the horse dewormer smear campaign.
Some may recall the fake story about an Oklahoma hospital where the article said multiple gun shot wound cases were being delayed treatment due to multiple cases of overdosing on horse dewormer coming in. Found to be totally false. Kory role played well the dewormer victims pushing ahead of the gunshot wound cases in the ER queue.
John Leake the joint author on McCullough book and Kory said all roads lead to Bill Gates in relation to capture of media and financial gain.
Korea, anyone?
Oh yes, Dr Duk.
When I withdrew from the APS and formerly the NSW PS, I took steps to be able to cash out every penny. I paid off my house and invested the rest.
It’s a two-punch. First, taking your money will ensure a comfortable retirement (it won’t, never has and never will) and second, your money is secure. No, it isn’t, and anyone who thinks that politicians will not notice this enormous honeypot is delusional.
US-China balloon row: US House unanimously condemns Chinese balloon • FRANCE 24 English
Tucker: The climate cult has grown stronger
Frank what about Short Willie’s pronunciation of wiff and finking. Yes I know there is more than a wiff and he’s certainly a fink but that’s not what he was talking about. Lazy speech.
You rang?
There was an Aussie Dr, Melissa McCann, who spoke first at the event. Had only vaguely heard of her before as being behind a vaccine victim class action case.
She is a GP from a 15,000 people town in Whitsunday area. She did not give too many jabs herself so most of her normal clients were getting them elsewhere but she was the one dealing with injuries. She had 4 myocarditis cases in one week and realised if her small practice was seeing that then what was the big picture. She also mentioned increased miscarriages.
She was an impressive speaker and obvious why chosen to support McCullough and Kory. No doubt Clive supporting the class action case.
No matter what your thoughts about Clives politics he has been a strong advocate for vaccine injured and has spent considerable money assisting others since this started.
“We need to celebrate our diversity, not just tolerate it.”
Hear that? We need to celebrate it.
Won’t be long before he makes it compulsory.
Depends which pronunciation was used. 😉
Blind Freddie could have told you that, if you denounce your religion, you don’t start believing in nothing – you’ll believe in anything.
The swarms of newly-minted athiests in the West who have abandoned Christianity in the past 30 years don’t now believe in nothing.
Their new religion is a form of animism like that of the Aztecs in central America 500-700 years ago who, like modern progressives, worshipped plants, animals and invented celestial gods.
They’ve called their new religion “climate change”, a deliberate misunderstanding of the cycles of climate variability that says the human race is responsible for the weather – the ultimate expression of narcissism that confers god-like powers on the earth’s eight billion inhabitants.
Tucker Carlson Tonight.
h/t Zipster at 1.33pm.
I certainly am! Cookerpedia is a hoot. Ratbags reporting on ratbags, very entertaining.
I don’t know any of the details of Paix’s case, was there video of the incident? With cookers there is almost always video.
78ers, eh?
Are you a 78er, SpongeBob?
More elbow photo ops. Don’t think that’s going to go down well with all the people struggling to pay their bills.
Vietnam, Tibet, India, Russia. And all that in just my lifetime.
He’s had seven deployments to the sharp end Monty.
How many have you done?
Thousands of deployments at the blunt end of a donut box.
Mr. 32% displaying Ardern level hubris.
Attacks like this on Rosie are uncalled for.
She mentions that hydroxychlorquine had FDA approval withdrawn as it caused heart palpitations in Covid patients. Well, yes, that was the reason offered, without further consideration of this drug’s utility, nor taking into consideration of its widespread use and general population safety. This unusual side effect was at that time a very convenient excuse to knock out further research.
However, the side effect is real. Hydroxychloroquine does cause heart palpitations in some people.
Rose was simply reporting a fact. The FDA did use this reason. Perhaps she could have added that it provided a convenient excuse to push attention onto prevention by vaccines rather than by other preventatives or treatments. But this ad femina abuse of Rose should stop.
State why you think she is wrong rather than abuse her in the most dreadful manner for a truthful statement. Who the hell do you think you are, Trickler and Matrix, so be so vile and pick up so many upticks for it? Why do people want to agree with such vileness here?
Harsh, but fair!
Which sharp ends? Did he make it out of the Green Zone in any of them?
I am from Seymour, blokes from that area are not all that impressed by military records.
I’ll be first PM to march in Mardi Gras: Albanese
Weak.
If he was the first PM Sodomised on the back of a float during Mardi Gras, that would be something.
If he doesn’t do it in arseless chaps or a mankini he’s not for real.
And a feather boa.
Does anyone else see the irony in this comment?
There are already laws like this in QLD and VIC. Amazing to think of it, no less in the light of this,
which you can find in the Weekend Reading on the main page.
Monty – I am as amused by your abysmal memory as your stolen valour. Do try to keep up son.
I am from Seymour, blokes from that area are not all that impressed by military records.
That just explained an awful lot.
Further up this thread there’s a whinge going on about a lack of doctors (GPs). Well here’s the answer for all these BS whiners….
Stop stuffing yourselves with 12 meals a day…plus snacks…and get out doing some exercise….Stop the ciggies and over-boozing.
90% of ailments are life-style (over-indulging, lazing about) which means 90% and more of GP visits (plus assorted testing options) are due to this. STOP IT, and the GPs will be available when needed for stuff that’s NOT lifestyle related FFS.
“Eyriesays:
February 11, 2023 at 12:54 pm
Why do Americans pronounce “solder”, “sodder”?”
The one that makes me laugh most is “Aloominum”.
The thing I do find galling lately is the bad grammar and spelling creep coming over here. Yanks have long been known for not using “an” before a word that begins with a vowel. Everything is “uh”. Same with “the” which is lengthened to “thee” sound. There “is” for singular and there “are” for plural. Too many these days are using the abbreviation “there’s” where they should be using “there’re”.
Sheer laziness. And let’s not mention Lose or Loose!
Here endeth the rant.
It would be lovely to think there are fairies at the bottom of the garden.
Douglas Adams thinks his beautiful garden is “enough”, in the same way that eating the entreé without imagining a main or, heaven forbid, dessert is enough. How does he know it’s enough? Is he so easily satisfied?
Never lose your sense of wonder or expectation. See little dancing ballerinas in fuchsia flowers, and doves in columbines, and red hot pokers in…your red hot pokers. It’s a beautiful and marvellous world out there.
Nothing to see here, move along:
Yep, let’s rewrite the records when facts don’t fit the narrative.
This is Science in 2023.
I want him to march in stilettos. Tall ones a la Morrison.
Fishnets for extra ooomph!
Obviously if/when Russia invades Moldova, it will be for defensive and humanitarian reasons due to minor skirmishes near the border and not some over-arching Russian plan for imperial annexation.
The other speaker was John Leake who is a crime author who co wrote book with McCullough.
He went back to the famous speach by Eisenhower about the military industrial complex. The thrust of that speach is that they might further their own ends ahead of the country.
He compared it what we have now which is the Pharma industrial complex and he named the main people behind it.
Rockefeller foundation
Bill Gates Foundation
Wellcome Trust
WEF
Funding of WHO by above
CEPI
GAVI
Above 2 funded by Gates.
Incidentally Sir Jeremy Farrar former CEO of Wellcome Trust just been appointed Chief Scientist of WHO.
I am sure we are just lucky but Aussies are Chairpersons of Wellcome Trust and CEPI. That is Julia Gillard and Jane Halton.
Halton is the independent adviser to PM on vaccines. We are in safe hands.
Inconvenient facts Joh.
When will they start on the Periodic Table?
I got this email from Joanna the Bumper sticker lady:
More stickers available.
I’ve put in an order for more, and I think it a damn fine idea if more of youse did so too.
The Federal Reserve is about to go broke, and how accounting gimmickry will mask the event. Until it doesn’t. And this needs bearing in mind as geo-political events play out viz Russia, China , ME etc.
https://www.lynalden.com/broke-federal-reserve/
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Oh, and this;
“In 2021, the Federal Reserve earned $100+ billion in net interest income. Some of it went to pay for operating expenses of the Federal Reserve, and some of it was paid out as a dividend to the shareholders of the Federal Reserve (which are the commercial banks themselves)”.
I see now I’m reading the whole thread that there was further comment on the FDA approval and rejection of hydroxychlorophine, similar to what I wrote above, i.e. the heart problems were an excuse to withdraw it. And I note that the abuse of Rosie over the came from comments made by early morning thread wanderers who were no doubt the worse for wear due to reasons unknown. lol.
However, Rose should not be the whipping boy for the frustrations some feel about the FDA. On the surface, the reasons they used may have seemed valid. Plenty of medicos agreed. I have had hydroxychloroquine and in me it caused significant bleeding from all musosal tissues. I am unusually sensitive to it. This happens with most drugs, someone has a bad reaction somewhere. I take doxycycline as an anti-malarial. This, in combination with hydroxy, would be a potent anti-Covid medication, and doxycycline, like hydroxy and like ivermectin, is widely use in the third world for Malaria.
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Dover, would it be possible to announce on any old thread in its dying moment that a new thread has phoenixed up? It would be so helpful to people who are in different time zones or jetlagged or just plain old not up to scratch on how things work around here?
If I could ask a favor? Any chance of a link to the stickers? I’m buying some more.
mOron, if you are mouthing off about it, we can be sure it will never happen.
I got an email saying “At Google Earth we can read maps backwards!” I thought to myself… that’s just spam.
Watching the Maori gels v the Indigs – a lotta very pale legs on the ‘Indig’ side of the scrum.
Maori in front so far.
The only source of knowledge is experience.
– Albert Einstein
Attacks like this on Rosie are uncalled for.
They are perfectly justified as she posts bullshit. The HCQ /heart palpitations thing was dealt with by Duk and myself earlier. It was a bullshit study designed to fail.
She’s a waste of bandwidth.
Is this why the Moldovan government just collapsed?
A quick reminder to all that [email protected] is taking the good fight to the BoM and could use a hand with funding.
You’ll need to email her for her bank details – she hasn’t set up a GoFundme page.
I’ve just sighted an extremely rare lesser Moldovian squirrel in its natural habitat.
Amazing!
The BoM is just another canbra abomination.
Knuckle Dragger:
Your wish etc….
Eyriesays:
February 11, 2023 at 2:19 pm
Attacks like this on Rosie are uncalled for.
They are perfectly justified as she posts bullshit. The HCQ /heart palpitations thing was dealt with by Duk and myself earlier. It was a bullshit study designed to fail.
She’s a waste of bandwidth.
I agree along with Jerkoff Cretin the short arse Italian, Mrs Stencho Pantyhose, Dotty Dot and some others. Good fun being on this Bog, I mean Blog……………..
However, Rose should not be the whipping boy for the frustrations some feel about the FDA.
If she’s going to mindlessly trot out FDA and ATAGI propaganda….
A total affectation.
I’ll bet he didn’t speak like that at prahvate school.
It is the accent favoured by Slugs and Bugs lawyers to project wukking class cred.
Thank goodness someone has recognised the problem.
The Periodic Table is irredeemably white, heteronormative, patronymical, and Western-focussed. Where it’s not, it is derived from profoundly racist, Christianised Greco/Latin.
Rosie is entitled to her opinion which I don’t agree with. I like her travel logs though and I find abusing her unseemly.
Collapse seems a strong word for what seems to be happening, which is that the party in government changes leaders from one pro-Western wonk to another.
Not much fun being Moldovan at the moment, from the sounds of it.
Bruce of Nuke:
All four aircons going at home. And just because I can, the washing machine and the dryer as well.
Signing into work this morning.
Nepalese security guard:
Was there an earthquake in Turkey or is it fake news?!
The point is that a vast number of people have zero trust in MSM and are questioning everything.
There are plenty of wastes of bandwidth here.
Thank you Dover for providing us with abundant space to demonstrate it.
Curious.
The Hitlerite strategy circa 1933 onwards. No surprises.
‘This Is Problematic’: Thomas Massie Raises Alarms Over FBI And CIA Collecting Data On Americans
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Zulu Kilo Two Alphasays:
February 11, 2023 at 1:27 pm
The only Wars the Chinese fight are with other Chinese.
Korea, anyone?
India, 1962 and occasionally since?
Soviet Union on the Ussuri River, 1969?
Vietnam, 1979?
Dr Faustussays:
February 11, 2023 at 2:30 pm
When will they start on the Periodic Table?
Thank goodness someone has recognised the problem.
The Periodic Table is irredeemably white, heteronormative, patronymical, and Western-focussed. Where it’s not, it is derived from profoundly racist, Christianised Greco/Latin.
That is so Brillo. Blame science once again……………..Wot’ a Larf’……………………
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=V83JR2IoI8k
No aircon at Cafe Bruce, although I’m presently sitting in front of a pedestal fan since I just finished mowing the lawn.
Very cool summer so far. Interestingly the Indian Mynahs have barely been breeding, they seem to have a temperature cue for that or something.
Hungary’s leadership is obviously on Putin’s side, then the right and honorable thing to do would be to NATO and the EU asap.
or
a Couch Cushion Fortress with a flight sim on his iPad
while barking orders to a imaginary strike-team via Discord
Tucker Carlson nailed it again today with his speech on Climate Change as the new religion, complete with original sin and the coming raptures.
There used to be some Mynahs around here but the Noisies cleared them out.
Some galah:
Nope.
A.Parrot says:
Vietnam, lasted 6 weeks in 1979, lost 200,000 soldiers.
Tibet, invaded, annexed, coupla weeks.
India, Border skirmishes.
Russia, Border skirmishes 1964, got arse kicked.
Chinese Military History:
A joke.
“We need to celebrate our diversity, not just tolerate it.”
I don’t see much sign of the “diverse” celebrating the normal. It is a one-way street.
Legalisation? Yes, laws that are not enforced damage the Rule of Law.
Toleration? OK, as long as you keep your activities private.
Celebration? Why? You don’t celebrate our normality, so NO, no celebration.
Thanks for pointing those out.
+100
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Bearesays:
February 11, 2023 at 1:45 pm
My comment was blocked but is now at Dash Cat.
m0ntysays:
February 11, 2023 at 1:43 pm
You’re laughing about this monty.
I certainly am! Cookerpedia is a hoot. Ratbags reporting on ratbags, very entertaining.
I don’t know any of the details of Paix’s case, was there video of the incident? With cookers there is almost always video.
You need to start paying attention, the details have been published here multiple times. Try to focus, fool.
So. Charlie’s coronation emblem has been released. My first pass impression is…ummm…it’s a little busy. Looks like it belongs on a coin. At least it’s not rainbow coloured, which it easily could have been.
Taking a closer look – there’s a crown and a whole mess of leaves and flowers. No symbol of the power and majesty of the role, no sword-wielding lion or anything along those lines. The UK head of state* wants to be known as a florist. Rule Britannia.
*I’m of the opinion that the GG is our head of state
Ed Casesays:
February 11, 2023 at 1:43 pm
The 78ers were a group of LGBT activists who marched in the first Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras parade on June 24, 1978.
78ers, eh?
Are you a 78er, SpongeBob?
Are you a 69er?
Black Ball:
That is just bizarre.
From the article:
Straight out of “1984”. A complete reversal of reality.
Bruce, you may be surprised to learn that I don’t pay forensic attention to every Cat’s life.
Tim Franks of the BBC News Hour once again demonstrated how the beeb hates any national leader who’s not a lefty. He got stuck into Bolsonaro again, in much the same terms as they use against Trump; controversial statements, election denier etc. Never mind that he’s extremely popular. Never mind that Orban speaks good sense.
The Beeb hates Victor Orban (Hungary), Mr. Modi (India), Boslonaro (Brazil) and anyone on the conservative side of Poland’s house. It has become so bad that there are call in India to ban the Beeb after their hatchet job on Modi.
I wish we didn’t have to pay attention to you Monty, waste of space.
Seymour Hersh story on the NordStream 2 pipoeline a heads up that the Washington regime is abandoning Zelenskyy?
Hungary preparing to retake Ruthenia?
in context with all the other gibber she’s posted over several years now
no, she is not just reporting a ‘fact’
and now Lizzie, your’e turning it into a political football to suit your own ongoing agenda
the pair of you are disingenuous
bad actors, the pair of you
Where can you order the bumper stickers?
Regarding the hit job by News com au posted by Blackball at 0900.
At least it will hopefully alert more people to Hoodys Club Grubbery.
I wonder if the News journalist equate Ben Fordham and Karl Stephanovic as “cookers”.
Can we come up with a term for journalists who feed BS and propaganda?
calli says:
February 11, 2023 at 1:55 pm
Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?
– Douglas Adams
Never lose your sense of wonder or expectation. See little dancing ballerinas in fuchsia flowers, and doves in columbines, and red hot pokers in…your red hot pokers. It’s a beautiful and marvellous world out there.
calli,
Heh – a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?
Memories of having an “Old” Female Systems Analyst appox 45-50 years (Ok at 25 myself, I thought Old – was also Honours Maths Graduate), who had been posted to London in 1970 for 9 months, as part of the same Team as myself picking up Software System, always accompained my wife and my self in our Harry Potter Ford Anglia trips around UK to split petrol cost & join us in seeing the Country – Lands End to John O’Groats and all places in between
We, 3, had flown over to Ireland to drive around Ireland in a 3 day weekend, renting car and sharing costs
At Blarney Castle, she did not want to climb to the top and kiss the Blarney Stone, so she wandered into the Blarney Castle Fairy Gardens – Wife went to top, but did not kiss Blarney Stone, but I did and reckon Son was born just over 1 year later with the Gift of the Gab, due to me kissing the Blarney Stone – Wife cynically on this, reckons I never shut up, so genetic.
When we came out of the bottom of the castle, our travelling companion appeared at speed out of the Fairy Garden – apparently she had happened upon a male masturbating himself in the Fairy Garden, and skedaddled out of there at speed – we retired to a Pub to calm her nerves
Great Travelling Companion, a real Cynic, and she & my wife joined forces togther to rein me in.
Not really. It looks to me like Orban is against wasting tax dollars in corrupt Ukraine as well as material and also getting the EU effeminates out of Hungary and the national treasury.
That doesn’t make him a Putin supporter. He’s doing his job; looking after Hungary first.
Is this a come on, SpongeBob?
I’m now convinced you are indeed a 78er.
m0ntysays:
February 11, 2023 at 1:59 pm
BRUSSELS (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Thursday that his country has intercepted plans by Russian secret services to destroy Moldova, and Moldovan intelligence confirmed the claim.
Obviously if/when Russia invades Moldova, it will be for defensive and humanitarian reasons due to minor skirmishes near the border and not some over-arching Russian plan for imperial annexation.
Don’t just sit there typing, get up, and enlist for the Great War Against Wussian Imperialism that you have been demanding. Moldova needs you (Kitchener image, with pointing finger).
Like the out-of-control marxist play group/hit squad called the ABC, the BBC is well passed its use by date.
Ed – Your memory of history isn’t as bad as Monty’s but it isn’t great. Have you looked up Operation Praying Mantis yet?
The Sino-Soviet border conflict was a seven-month undeclared military conflict between the Soviet Union and China in 1969, following the Sino-Soviet split. The most serious border clash, which brought the world’s two largest communist states to the brink of war, occurred in March 1969 near Zhenbao (Damansky) Island
The Sino-Vietnamese War (also known by other names) was a border war fought between China and Vietnam in early 1979. China launched an offensive in response to Vietnam’s actions against the Khmer Rouge in 1978, which ended the rule of the Chinese-backed Khmer Rouge.
The Sino-Indian War took place between China and India from October to November 1962, as a major flare-up of the Sino-Indian border dispute.
War is heck, as they say. I haven’t bothered with the conquest of Tibet, that was brutal as even you know.
ZK2A leftists are totally self unaware. Just like the big nose Mo, perfect and just as dangerous.
Makkasays:
February 11, 2023 at 2:06 pm
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Thursday that his country has intercepted plans by Russian secret services to destroy Moldova, and Moldovan intelligence confirmed the claim.
mOron, if you are mouthing off about it, we can be sure it will never happen.
But, but, but, shirley Zelensky is an impeccable and completely unbiased source? No self-interest whatsoever?
Monty – Your Dunning-Kruger is especially bad today. If you need assistance just say so, we’re friendly people.
GYM HOES
Paul Joseph Watson
And why do you think your comment was blocked, Shakin’ Steven?
War is heck, as they say. I haven’t bothered with the conquest of Tibet, that was brutal as even you know.
None of these were Wars, Bruce.
As far as what I know is concerned, the rule of the Lamas in Tibet surpassed the Belgian Congo in brutality and ferocity, though I doubt you know that.
Bruce, it sounds like you keep your own wiki with every Cat’s personal history written up somewhere. Your own personal doxx database. I could think of better uses of my time, but you go girl.
The US Administration can’t help bending over to the FDA (aka Big Pharma). Keeping theft and fraud legal. But, there is definitely no conspiracy here;
Vietnam, lasted 6 weeks in 1979, lost 200,000 soldiers.
Total casualties, not dead.
Tibet, invaded, annexed, coupla weeks.
True.
India, Border skirmishes.
Define “skirmishes. The total dead on both sides adds up.
Russia, Border skirmishes 1964, got arse kicked.
In 1969, not 1964. Came close to a major conflict. Exactly who kicked whose arse is not as clear as you like to suggest.
Already occurring in a number of green council areas most notably Oxford in the UK. And London, which is starting to cause some serious opposition.
How London’s eco-obsessed mayor is threatening to drive white van man off the road: Sadiq Khan wants to extend Ultra Low Emission Zone across the entirety of the capital. But it could leave drivers of older cars facing a ruinous £3,000 a year bill (Daily Mail megaheadline, 30 Jan)
Also if you read Climate Depot you will often see climate fascists fantasizing about using covid lockdowns for global warming totalitarian control.
Would be to what?
Bourne1879
Can we come up with a term for journalists who feed BS and propaganda?
Arseholes?
Has Shakin’ Steven been banned?
That would be most upsetting.
Ed Casesays:
February 11, 2023 at 2:52 pm
Is this a come on, SpongeBob?
I’m now convinced you are indeed a 78er.
In your dreams, Dick.
China got its arse handed to it by a bunch of border guards and local militias in the 1979 Sino-Vietnamese War, whilst the main Vietnamese army was in Cambodia kicking the snot out of the Khmer Rouge and setting up a new client government in its place. After enduring eye-watering casualties, the PLA retreated and petulantly razed any Vietnamese territory they held in their wake.
China apologists claim that the PLA left after it ‘opened the gate’ to Hanoi, having made its point. The problem with this narrative is the 250k force defending the capital that the PLA didn’t come close to engaging.
They also claim that only the PLA was involved – if the PLAAF and PLAN were part of the conflict, it would have been a turkey shoot. They’re right, although it would have been the Chinese who were the turkeys. Firstly, it’s not clear how the Chinese navy could have impacted the outcome of a land war that occurred hundreds of kilometres from the coast. As for the Chinese air force – it had a bunch of obsolete 1950s-era planes whilst the Viets had a modern fleet and an advanced air defence network in place.
And there’s also the not-insignificant fact that the Chinese had zero experience in combined arms warfare, whilst the Viets had way more than any nation would want. The only way the war could have turned out worse for the Chinese is if they involved all three branches of their military.
The PLA back then was a dim-witted, clumsy behemoth. Even Deng Xiaoping described it as having ‘short arms and short legs’. They were still using runners to transmit orders from the rear to the frontlines, like in WW1. They didn’t even use radio! But yeah, the Chinese beat the Vietnamese. Right. I guess that’s why it’s barely known about in China, because regimes such as theirs are famously modest about their military victories.
You don’t have to.
None of these were Wars, Bruce.
Richard Cranium reverts to standard leftard tactics, re-define the question to avoid embarrassment.
Sad. Low energy.
LOL, Monty. I have a brain and a memory. The only bookmarks I keep are climate ones I have lots of those (ok a couple dozen science links for covid stuff more recently, but that’s it).
If you don’t pay attention then you can expect to be roasted when you get something wrong. Like today.
Tulsi Gabbard Makes Case For How Govt Agencies ‘Are Being Weaponized Against Us’ | Full Statement
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Monty, why are you so bitter and twisted today?
m0ntysays:
February 11, 2023 at 3:04 pm
Bruce, it sounds like you keep your own wiki with every Cat’s personal history written up somewhere. Your own personal doxx database. I could think of better uses of my time, but you go girl.
m0nty=fa
Any moderately intelligent reader who pays attention would be well aware of the matter. Sad that you seem to have a form of short-term memory loss. Speak to a GP, they might be able to help.
Hungary setting themselves up for the possible collapse and break up of Ukraine. Smart move.
Good grief! Thanks for the tip re the fairy garden! There are times when you just need a good hose with lots of water pressure. Usually to cool a Tomcat’s ardour, but handy for other stuff too.
I, too, did not need to kiss the Blarney Stone. For obvious reasons.
Lady Gaga has a woman force vomit over her chest as she plays the drums during a show.
Meanwhile if you stand up for family values you are labelled a domestic extremist.
Satan is in charge.
Sancho Panzersays:
February 11, 2023 at 3:03 pm
So many of your posts are just worthless. Spakfilla, applied on a wall inside of a building ready to collapse.
didn’t get his weekly prostate massage
Old School Conservativesays:
February 11, 2023 at 3:17 pm
Monty, why are you so bitter and twisted today?
Krispy Kreme sold out before he could get there?
Golly I could’ve almost sworn that two of them were actually officially called that.
Amazing, Ed, that you can’t seem to read the written word.
I have only read one history about Tibet I admit, although many articles. The Chinese have brutally repressed the Tibetans, and still are doing so.
Those of us who regularly use the scroll wheel when it comes to the blog idiots never have to pay attention.
I read your reply over at Dash, Steve. I can’t see how it didn’t pass muster unless you have modified it in some way.
Personally, I would prefer not have have people shut up but to keep talking. That’s how I will know what they think, or what they are prepared to reveal on a blog. I don’t have to believe them.
Also, good that the surgery went well. I detest hospitals, having seen the inside of so many of them.
JCsays:
February 11, 2023 at 2:40 pm
Hungary’s leadership is obviously on Putin’s side, then the right and honorable thing to do would be to NATO and the EU asap.
I disagree you short arse italian/oz. Go and live in Hungary and see it from their perspective. Living in MelBum and Sictoria you have NFI.