This is fascism.

It’s also recruitment.

Win their hearts and minds and you’ll eventually win their bodies.

Qld police press conference about the cop shooting case.

Religious extremists is the conclusion. Planned ahead of the day.

Doc telling me how difficult it is to get an appointment in feraldton, 2 weeks at least, and they have a $40 charge for people that miss their appointments as well.

Gave me a great idea for a business.
Ill simply buy up a block of appointments and auction them off to the highest bidders!

Ethics, we dont need no stinking ethics!

The season can affect the type of accommodation you chose on a driving holiday. Going to the UK this January we decided against Airbnb accommodation, even though we had enjoyed it very much in the previous May. We thought that trying to find out of the way country cottages or check house numbers in busy urban streets would be rather difficult if, as usual, we got up late and were looking for our next accommodation around 3.30pm, which in winter is when things re getting dark and the cold is bleak. Pitching into a hotel with parking and someone at reception with no fuss about keys seemed far more preferable. And with breakfast ready made – most hotels in the UK include brekkie in the deal, and it is always a hearty one.

Hence, one relies on shoes and jewellery for the sense of an easy fit in getting dressed.
In the evening, stoles and ponchos and loose jumpers are the go. They don’t lose their good fit.
Horrors, even in Lapland’s Rovanieme, for which I’d dug out my big black fur hooded zip up coat, it was a little snug. Had to eschew the zip and just use the duffle pegs to do it up. Except in the snowstorm, when it was a case of breathe in and tug it up regardless.

Is Steve Trickler a J.C. sock?
There are many similarities.

No.

Lowe is so retrograde when he says unemployment rising is the only way to bring down inflation.
Australia needs less government intervention in energy markets.
And Australia needs less cartel pricing structures within industries.

Lowe can’t do anything about the last two so he uses the luddite tool of interest rates.

Vicki and I have just had a chat by telephone, the old fashioned way. She rang.
Often the best way to sort out any communication problems with other modes.
Especially if neither of you is/are A Grade in this new fangled internetty thing. 🙂

The number of abortions in the UK increased by 47 per cent in the first two weeks of 2023

Fairly grim new years resolutions coming into fruition.

The Toyota Corolla’s lane assist is $#@*ing demonic.

Glad it was only a rental.

Those who suffered injury, and often extended periods of incapacity have been left to deal with the usual bureaucratic exercise that requires medical evidence, which may include but not be restricted to proof of hospital admission, sending the forms in, then sitting and waiting. And waiting. And waiting.

My son aged in his forties developed severe wrist synovitis incapacitating both wrists immediately following his second Pfizer shot, thus disastrously affecting his physical independence, his life and employment chances for more than five months. He has given up on ever being compensated, even though an MRI paid for by me showed this damage after medicos and a hospital emergency department had sent him home without any diagnosis and no further investigation or treatment. They simply did not want to acknowledge what was wrong with him and why. He lives alone and should have been hospitalised for both extreme pain and for intimate personal care. But that would have validated his claim. Now, only those hospitalised can claim compensation.

I expect he is one of the many vaccine injured who will never be acknowledged or compensated.
Doctors were simply sending people home undiagnosed and untreated.

Switched over to 1026 ABC and caught some parliamentary debate.
Labor member telling the house that nine out of ten jobs now require a university degree.
That explains why our roads are so bad -not enough graduates to man the road plant.

But more so, the vacuum created by bureaucratic babble and evasion will always be filled by misinformation. The truth gets left dazed and bruised by the roadside.

Jack the Insider

One of the worst examples of which has been the UKHSA.

The official fluffing around over UK population estimates energised the dark side of Trusted Bloggers, many “armed and ready, bristling with falsehoods and deceit”. This has obscured sensible discussion globally about the relative risks of vaccination vs WuFlu.

Of course, many factors play a part in women deciding against having children. In an age of widespread contraceptive use, baby making is no longer the default position for most couples. At a time when women are putting off having children — in many cases so as to pursue the myth of “having it all” or to “girl-boss” their way through life — the goal of becoming a mother is an increasingly foreign concept to my generation. The cost of living crisis doesn’t help matters. Neither do unstable housing, even more unstable relationships, climate change fears, career stress and a generation of people who have grown up accustomed to divorce and family breakdown. Add into the mix reduced religiosity among the British public, and the ingredients for rejecting motherhood are in abundance.

the same people who obsess about sustainability are making themselves unsustainable

Calli said:

“Be Prepared. Dib dib dib.”

At the risk of being branded a pedant, I believe it’s Dyb, dyb, dyb.

feelthebernsays:
February 16, 2023 at 3:01 pm
I wonder if the Japanese family situation is similar to Australia’s.

Japan is past their event horizon.
They are now in a shit spiral.
The most important theme that will impact every part of the globe is how China changes its age stratification over the next 20 years.
After seeing Japan, they know what they have to avoid.

Chainerr being Chainerr might follow the suggestion of that Japanese academic, and move to compulsory euthanasia to adjust the profile.

Farmer Gezsays:
February 16, 2023 at 3:22 pm
Switched over to 1026 ABC and caught some parliamentary debate.
Labor member telling the house that nine out of ten jobs now require a university degree.

Minor subtle difference skated over by the pollimuppet.

That’s nine out of ten jobs of Labor’s current targeted voting demographic that now require a university degree. As for those dumb rural and urban working classes, and the aspirational tradie and small business demographics, they are abandoned to their fate by the Liars, with only the useless Lieborals and One Nation as options.

If only La Hanson, whose heart is definitely in the right place, could establish a capable party organisation.

H B Bear says:
February 16, 2023 at 11:59 am

When is the Chook up for re-election? She must be close to losing the energy to do the job.

Unfortunately, not up to earthquake predictionating standard.

Exclusive interview: Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk vows to stay in top job
(Courier Mail: for Queenslanders only.)

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has revealed she has no plans to step aside and she will not back her deputy to succeed her in the top job because “I’m the Premier”.

Pressed if she thought Mr Miles – the highest ranking MP from the dominant Left faction in the Labor caucus – would make a good premier, Ms Palaszczuk said she was “not going into any of these questions”.

She would not be drawn on whether she had a succession plan, and she also would not say if she thought Treasurer Cameron Dick would make a good premier.

[Technical Note: The correct answers are: No; and No.]

BJ true, PHON could do well, my experience with the UAP showed me how a party without a branch structure will not be successful, Clive wanted to control every aspect, input from members wasn’t wanted. Without a branch structure come election time, the candidate has to organise everything and everyone from scratch, a big job without having to campaign.

The Brownies also.

Not allowed to call them that.

‘Brownies’ Changes Its Name Because It Was Racist (12 Jan)

The Left destroys everything good it can reach.

They’ll probably delete scouts and guides also since Baden-Powell was obviously a colonialist imperialist.

At the risk of being branded a pedant, I believe it’s Dyb, dyb, dyb.

Do Your Best.

I looked it up and it can be spelt (spelled) both ways. Had both Cubs, Scouts, Brownies and Guides and the Beloved, all 6’3.5” of him, was Baloo.

And Cliff…DOB DOB DOB! 🙂

Brownies are little elves in folklore. Nothing to do with skin colour.

The Story

I was taken to Brownies when I was seven. I hated it.

Definitely not a “joiner”. 😀

“Low-lying communities and entire countries could disappear forever,” Guterres asserted. “We would witness a mass exodus of entire populations on a biblical scale.”

if only marxism would disappear for ever

Raquel Welsh, aged 82, has died after a short illness.

A great beauty and a pop culture icon.

Vale.

Still fighting them as my account is in credit, and there seems no way to get an easy transfer to my bank, or a cheque.

5 months I waited for fvcking telstra to refund a not insubstantial credit on my closed account.
Overseas call centre liars lied, then lied, then lied some more. Promises, promises, apologies, lies.

Put in a complaint to the TIO – result – 24 hours later – direct employee contact in Australia, credit method organised, credit received.

I HATE TELSTRA – IT SHOULD BE RABZ’D WITH THE ABCD.

As a consequence of the low profile, the windscreen pillars stretch out in front of you and successfully block vision of upcoming intersections.

Same thing with that Audi 5, the low profile ‘beast’ which we hired. Although longer than most cars and very sleek in looks it was really difficult to get and out of, and the pillars on all of the windows made it feel very enclosed. Hairy would say to me as he was turning into a difficult rhs turn, anything coming your side?, and I’d be unable to see back because of the design of the vehicle.

Pic of the ‘Big Blue Beast’ that tried to devour me.

Uh, it’s Raquel Welch.

Wonder if she was vaxxed?

Lotta B-Listers dropping off the twig “after a short illness” lately?

Richard Cranium

She was 82, the time of life when you pinch yourself when you wake up, to be sure, to be sure.

Still unable to share with us the real reason for the $576,000 payout to the Tudge staffer? Or still don’t know yourself, just doing your usual blow-harding?

Utter trash, Richard Cranium.

The Liars want the university credentialled, taxpayer employed, inner city dwelling demographic, male and female. The women’s vote alone is not enough. Some women are spouses of workers, tradies, small businessmen. Some belong to those groups.

In seeking that vote, they are now competing with the Slime.

We are indeed in the End Times. Wandering along past the rooms in this tradie-oriented motel, I saw not one, but two pairs of work boots (left outside the door by our well brought up guests) with elastic tops instead of laces. Elastic tops! Slip-on work boots! Next, they’ll be putting pink bows on them.

Also, slightly belated, but here is a great tribute to the late Burt Bacharach, with a great selection of clips. Every song is memorable, and every song can be sung along with – I discovered I knew the words to all of them. A gigantic talent, RIP.

Peta Credlin hoes into Labour in The Oz today:

“Safe changes” estrange us in our own land

Part of Anthony Albanese’s routine reassurance before last year’s election was that he would be a prime minister like Bob Hawke rather than Gough Whitlam. Hawke was Labor’s best prime minister because he turned out to be a market-friendly economic reformer who kept the US alliance strong and never really pushed a left-wing social agenda.

Less than 12 months into his prime ministership, Albanese’s genial public manner plus rhetorical continuity in foreign policy is disguising what could turn out to be our most radical government, prosecuting not only the culture wars but the class struggle, too.

It’s too early to say that Labor has gone soft on border protection but forgetting to renew Nauru as a legal option for offshore processing looks careless; and this week’s announcement that 19,000 people who arrived illegally by boat in the Rudd-Gillard years could apply for permanent residency with full access to social security and family reunion is another worrying straw in the wind. The Prime Minister’s justification – that he was strong on borders without being “weak on humanity” – echoed the language of Kevin Rudd and his ministers in 2008 that ultimately restarted the people-smuggling trade and led to nearly 1000 boats, 50,000 arrivals and more than 1000 deaths at sea.

The “refugee lobby” inside the green left that basically believes Australia has no right to deny its bounty to anyone from a poorer country who wants it is even stronger now than in Rudd’s day.

I hope I’m wrong, but it’s going to be hard for the government to stay credible when the Home Affairs Minister’s protestations of being tough are such a stark contrast with the Immigration Minister’s insistence on being compassionate.

Then there’s this week’s Australian Law Reform Commission recommendation that religious schools have no right to insist on employees who share their ethos outside those positions that specifically require it. The Prime Minister’s insistence that Labor has always upheld the right of religious schools to employ their own misses the point that religious schools are about setting an example at least as much as imparting religious knowledge.

Then there’s the move to strip the concept of shared parenting from family law settlements, as if children don’t need a male and female presence in their lives, that could easily result in separated dads once more being restricted to seeing their kids on weekends and school holidays. And when the trans lobby insists, as it inevitably will, that people’s gender, and all the consequences that flow from that, is simply what individuals declare it to be, it’s hard to see anything other than an acquiescent response from this government, especially given the contortions of its political soulmates in Britain.

The Prime Minister’s recent change of tone on the constitutionally entrenched Indigenous voice to parliament and the executive is much more moral pleading than actual bipartisanship. Rather than accuse the opposition of a “cheap culture war stunt” when it asked perfectly reasonable questions about the details, the government is now claiming any Coalition failure to back the voice could “break the nation’s heart” and make us an “international pariah”. A government that wanted to unite the country rather than to prosecute the culture war would not proceed with a proposal as contentious and divisive as the voice, especially if there was every chance it would fail. But instead of offering to make it clear in the amendment that the voice’s advice would not be justiciable, and not binding on the parliament or the government, all the Prime Minister is doing is preparing the ground for an accusation of rac­ism against the Coalition should it fail.

While the Prime Minister will stress that the voice is not about sovereignty (or who owns Australia), the government has already admitted that, morally, people whose ancestors were here before 1788 have more claim than anyone who has come subsequently, thanks to the acknowledgments of country that now start every official speech.

How can Australia belong to all of its citizens equally if the land we’re now on “always was, always is, and always will be” the land of the relevant Indigenous clan? The now constant presence of the Aboriginal flag, representing just some of us, flying coequally with the national flag representing all of us is yet another sign that, in Labor’s Australia, some are more worthy than others.

Finally, there’s economic policy. The industry-wide bargaining and industry-wide strikes that the government legislated last year haven’t yet started to bite, but pretty soon larger private sector businesses will be dealing with union officials as much as with their own staff. There will be an even bigger range of environmental and diversity rules they’ll have to comply with if they want government contracts. And the hurdles to be leapt over to get anything done will get even higher – impossibly high if it’s a new fossil fuel project, as we saw with last week’s historic decision from the federal Environment Minister to use her powers to quash a new mine. And despite the alleged cheapness of renewable energy, power bills continue to go up and up, and taxpayers will be hit a second time as the government spends their money to cover the country in Chinese-made solar panels and wind turbines, and the thousands of kilometres of transmission lines.

Labor’s progressive push is undermining the ‘fundamental basis’ of our society
Menzies Research Centre’s Nick Cater says the Albanese government’s progressive push is undermining the… “fundamental basis” of our society. “The whole notion of citizenship, the whole notion of freedom … is being undermined,” Mr Cater told Sky News host Peta Credlin. “It is vital that we fight these battles and More
Here’s a prediction you can take to the bank. The short-term revenue gains from sky-high gas and coal prices will fund long-term higher pension and unemployment payments in the coming budget, making the structural deficit worse. No new coal and gas projects will be approved under this government despite their importance for our ongoing export income, tax revenue and international reputation as a source of energy security.

There will be no significant reform to the out-of-control NDIS. None of the projects funded by the proposed National Reconstruction Fund will ever turn out to be economically viable. And while defence spending will be increased, there will be no real urgency, with no major new capabilities any time soon, and its main purpose will be to operate as a job creation scheme in Adelaide.

If you’re non-Indigenous, don’t want your workplace run by a union, do want a religious education for your kids, have no interest in changing to an electric car, and think January 26, 1788, was the start of something to be proud of, welcome to a country where you will be made to feel increasingly unwelcome in your own land. So much for the “safe change” that was promised pre-election. There is almost nothing in today’s Australia that this government doesn’t want to “fix” – even where it isn’t broken.

They even have zip up ones, Joh. With fake laces.

End Times.

Ed Casesays:
February 16, 2023 at 6:28 pm
Take it easy, SpongeBob.

If you insist on shilling for Labor 24/7, as you do, expect the occasional pushback.

Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who is the greatest Liars shill of all?

Why it’s the blow-hard who babbles on, hinting he knows the “real” reason for a $576,000 payout, but can’t say what it was.

Reveal, or shut up.

I loved my Redback steel caps. Elastic sides. Wish I still had them – dropped a brick on my toe a couple of weeks ago and only had a daggy old pair of Sketchers between me and toe oblivion.

When I saw the doc for a “skin” check he looked anxiously at the surviving blood blister – “brick” was all he got out of me. 😀

I was taken to Brownies when I was seven. I hated it.

I loved it, in England, living with my grandparents, aged just eleven.

I loved the little gold brooch in the form of a Brownie that I got to hold the big fat yellow tie in place, and the simple brown uniform, and sitting around on toy toadstools with Brown Owl, a very kind young woman, on her stool in the centre of our Brownie Circle. Brownies of course were a form of elves, as Calli mentioned, and as elves we were supposed to do good and learn to be clever by getting badges to sew on our uniforms and to go on outings to discover ‘nature’, in ponds and under bushes.

Then, about six months later, I grew out of it. It just wasn’t as interesting any more. As a newcomer,
I’d been given a book of ‘practice’ examples for the Eleven Plus examination and I aced these, fascinated by then in my spare time. I was beyond Brownies by then. Could work out if Mary was taller than Fred given some complicated x about Harry compared to Mary, and stuff like that. Could line up pictures of boxes every which way. Knew every Proverb in the English Language.
Of course, Proverbs are now regarded as culturally bad for working-class kids.
No-one told me that. I imagined scenarios for every one of them.

I went on to ace the Eleven Plus.

Over eighty, you remember things from long long ago far more readily than where you put your glasses five minutes ago. And always with rose coloured lenses. Not what your glasses have at all.

I see much huffing and puffing in the NT ‘Parliament’ about proposed legislation to prevent drunks from annoying and worse businesses.

It’s huffing and puffing, because they all propose fines for offenders. How is a pisswreck (h/t KD) of no fixed address going to pay thousands of dollars in fines? How could it even be enforced?

More kabuki.

If you’re non-Indigenous, don’t want your workplace run by a union, do want a religious education for your kids, have no interest in changing to an electric car, and think January 26, 1788, was the start of something to be proud of, welcome to a country where you will be made to feel increasingly unwelcome in your own land.

Peta Credlin.
If you’re non Indigenous … .
What a phony.

Steel caps wreck your toes.

Why wear those when there are other types of safety caps out there that meet the same AS?

Peta Credlin.
If you’re non Indigenous … .
What a phony.

Richard Cranium

Stop shilling for Labor, it’s demeaning to the blog. Almost as bad as your regular shilling for the Liberals.

Jim’ll fix it.

A solution cribbed from Rudd no doubt, Porkulus MKII.

Yeah, Peta Credlin is a phony.
The Voice won’t have any positive outcomes for the Indigenes, so why exclude them from her list of people harmed by it?
I’ll tell ya.
She’s a Labor shill.

Nothing escapes the Eye of Sauron.

Barred by the Albanese government from giving evidence in the multi-million dollar civil case successfully brought by Ms Higgins against the Commonwealth over its alleged failure to support her, Senator Reynolds is now keen to set the record straight.

Albanese only got elected because he wasn’t Morrison, so he was never going to let Reynolds revenge herself on Higgins while the Commonwealth paid for it.

“I’m a woman who has spent my life serving my nation in the parliament and in the army, but I was expendable,” she says.

Cry me a river, it’s all about Linda.

“Two years on my major reflection is a question I think for all Australians: what do you expect from your federal members of parliament?”

Easy.
When the going gets tough and you’ve gotta do the right thing, don’t be Linda Reynolds.

Best license plate was a NSW rego Daimler Double Six with 6ULDV8

Cassie of Sydneysays:
February 16, 2023 at 8:25 pm
“I seem to recall reading that she went to Vietnam to perform (with Bob Hope) for the troops. (As opposed to posing on a piece of enemy artillery smiling with their troops.)”

I remember reading about Welch years ago and the piece said she was a GOP voter. Once upon a time Hollywood actually had out and proud Republicans such as Steve McQueen, Clark Gable, Debbie Reynolds, Bob Hope, Charlton Heston, Jimmy Stewart, John Wayne and many others. Now it’s career suicide. Republicans keep quiet and remain in the closet.

Remember leftards screeching for decades about Hollywood “Black Lists”? Seems their only complaint wasn’t about their existence, just who was on them.