I feel strong! and empowered!

Now, if someone could just affirm my strong!ness and empowered!ness please. Or you’re a bigot and I feel threatened.

I think I could get the hang of this…

Scary logical thought for the day.
1. The shortest time between a statement being prosecuted as disinformation and being accepted as mainstream opinion is down to 6 months.
2. If an idea can go from unacceptable to acceptable in a time period, it can make the reverse change in the same period.
3. The GCHQ TEMPORA project records a complete copy of all communications in all mediums across a moving time window of a size limited only by available storage.
4. If they add enough cheap storage to expand the time window to 6 months, 1 & 2 & 3 implies: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FspzwJyWwAAwnSM?format=jpg&name=small

DrBeauGan, you are not religious.

Why is fish on Friday religious but Easter eggs not? I admit Easter eggs aren’t Christian, celebrating Eostre, a goddess of Spring I believe, but hot cross buns have crosses on them.

Bruce of Newcastle says:
April 6, 2023 at 5:16 pm

Lefty jurisdictions are increasing the age that kids have to be in secure child seats. But you can pretty much only fit two of those in a car. So parents aren’t having that extra child because they can’t fit in an extra child seat. True story.

Anecdote o’clock. Twins arriving before the oldest turned three meant we ran dual capsules and a backless booster in the centre (without stretching the recommend weight threshold for the oldest by too much). Possible in a Territory and a Magna but unlikely in anything smaller. Current regs would force three capsules – not possible in anything except perhaps a ’60s Bel Air.

OldOzzie says:
April 6, 2023 at 9:42 am

My hat is off to you Sir, you go straight to heaven, no purgatory for you, you’ve done your penance here on earth.

The Doctors said no to unvaxxed blood,

Sort of the point that was being made in the first place.

yet it was available from volunteers. Was that, fair enough?

If this was tried on in WA for a baby needing urgent heart surgery, it is indeed fair enough to suggest unjabbed punters would put their hands up. For a baby.

For a middle-aged screecher who believes in shark-laser-weather-alterers, has been banned from WA talkback, is a devotee of a Minnesota accountant grifting his way to retirement on the back of idiots subscribing to his earthquake predictor machine and who thinks billion-year old rocks are Bible trees:

I would imagine the take-up would be less substantial. As in, zero.

Anyone that chimes in suggesting weather modification is not real via Doppler / Nexrad Radar

None of that bog-standard radar, thank you very much.

I want unvaxxed pureblood radar.

To be fair, I suspect they caught old Aunty Clay on pension day:

“I believe the academics will represent us all, who cares if they are academics or not, they are Aboriginal too,” she said.

“It has to be a Canberra voice, because that’s where Parliament House is. It has to come from Canberra, I think they will represent us all,” she said.

Ms Clay said the Voice to Parliament campaign has been rushed, and more consultation is needed, but despite the timing of the referendum, many Palm Island residents were supporting it.

“We do need a Voice in parliament, but there needs to be more consultation,” she said.

“We all agree with the Voice … the idea of a Voice to Parliament means a lot to them [Palm Island residents].

“[But] we have waited too long for a voice to represent us … we need self-determination and we know the answers to our problems.”

In order to help her community understand what the Voice means, Ms Clay said upcoming community meetings were in the works.

Despite Mr Dutton standing firm on his opposition to the Voice, Ms Clay believes he should rethink his views.

“He should [be supporting the Voice] but we don’t expect him to. He’ll oppose everything,” she said.

“[It makes me feel] like I’ve felt all my life, like we are nothing. It does hurt.”

Ms Clay said Palm Island “needs a lot of help” and hopes the Voice can start addressing some of the community’s biggest concerns.

“There are over 5000 of us here, and you still have 20 people to a house,” she said.

“It’s hard sometimes; it causes a lot of friction and the young people don’t have jobs.

“All the kids are going to school and graduating, but there are no jobs.

“We know the answers to our problems, and we are hoping the Voice will help us get a handle on it.”

We know the answers to our problems, and we are hoping the Voice will help us get a handle on it.

We know the answers to our problems, and we are hoping the Voice will help us get a handle on it.

I’m trying to understand.

We know the answers to our problems, and we are hoping the Voice will help us get a handle on it.

I’m really trying.

So you know the answers to your problems? Sounds like you’re in a helluva lot better shape than most of the rest of us, I have to say.

This is the problem with having a mind stuffed with cliches. Blah blah blah self determination blah blah blah more consultation blah blah blah we need a Voice blah blah blah Aboriginal deaths in custody bad blah blah let us solve our own problems blah blah blah Canberra needs to act blah blah blah Canberra needs to get out of the way blah blah blah

Ultimately, the message is just keep signing the cheques.

There was another impassioned Aunty in Alice Springs whose speech the ABC breathlessly reported. She said something like ‘get out of our way and come to the table’.

Sorry, but these people sound like f*cking morons.

There’s a reason the female hormone is called Estrogen.

News headline of the day:
Man charged over platypus on train.

Karen Lunn is basically saying that wrist, arm and shoulder strength is not a factor in golf.
I did not know that.
Karen should have the an arm wrestle with a trans golfer to see who tees off first. Karen would be second up forever.

Might as well scrap mens/womens tournaments and just make it open to all (including elephants etc).

Let the sheilas hit off from the back tees then we’ll hear the squealing from the cocks in frocks that it’s not fair having to play against the big boys.

Anyone interested in learning a lot about the origins of Christian ceremonies and Holy Days etc could do no better than take time to read ‘The Golden Bough’, the abridged version is good enough, the real thing is a big read.

https://www.google.com/search?q=the+golden+bough&biw=1600&bih=761&sxsrf=APwXEddadcuuaaj9_86ejEuozhvc7N2Azw%3A1680814729659&ei=iTIvZPbuJ5iA2roPzImp-Ak&oq=the+golden+bough&gs_lcp=Cgxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAQARgAMgQIIxAnMg0ILhDUAhCKBRBDEOoEMgsIABCKBRCRAhCLAzILCAAQigUQkQIQiwMyBggAEAcQHjIGCAAQBxAeMggIABCKBRCRAjIKCC4Q1AIQigUQQzIFCAAQgAQyBQgAEIAEOhgILhDUAhCKBRBDEOoEENwEEN4EEOAEGAFKBAhBGABQAFgAYNsdaABwAXgAgAGMAogBjAKSAQMyLTGYAQCgAQG4AQPAAQHaAQYIARABGBQ&sclient=gws-wiz-serp

So why is there a Women’s Competition at all? Just throw everybody in to one competition.

This is an excellent point, we should promote true equality, where everyone competes on a level playing field.

The progressives will love it!

There are two things happening with the word “Easter”.

In countries with other than English/Germanic languages, the name of the season is derived from “Pesach”, a reference to the Passover.

When Christianity came to England and Germany, the name “Easter” stuck, as it occurred at the same time as Eostre or Spring. It had zero to do with any pagan festival except for the timing and the peculiarity of the local language.

As for the eggs and yummy fruit buns, we are at the feast end of the season of voluntary deprivation. Bring it! I don’t think chocolate was around in the first century either, unless you were some Aztec or Inca celebrating a little involuntary heart surgery.

FEC Commissioner Reminds Bragg That Officials Concluded Trump Case Isn’t ‘a Campaign Finance Violation’

The Federal Election Commission (FEC) isn’t having it with Bragg. The DA must have forgotten the FEC and DOJ concluded if Trump did this, he did not commit a federal crime:

“It’s not a campaign finance violation. It’s not a reporting violation of any kind,” said FEC Commissioner James E. “Trey” Trainor.

“I don’t know how you get around the evidence that both the Department of Justice in their investigation of the federal campaign finance issues and the Federal Election Commission in their ultimate jurisdiction over campaign finance issues, neither of them found there to be any violations whatsoever.”

Bragg’s entire case, such as it is, rests on his 34 charges facilitating a second crime and he’s being told yet again that the second crime doesn’t exist.

So there are no private blood banks in Australia

There was an ASX stock listed mid 80’s called Private Blood Bank , listed at a $1 and went to $20, a pump n dump operation , then became know as Private Blood Bath and was soon after delisted.

Face the truth. Christians stole Easter from the pagans, just as they stole Yule and the harvest celebrations. The remnants of the pagan Easter are all over the place. Particularly since we got hold of chocolate.

And Oestre is both the pagan god and the season.

Goddess. For some obscure reason, fertility is the preserve of the female of the species. And her symbols included eggs and bunny woppets. Not, originally, made of chocolate.

I’m getting a distinct feeling of deja vu about this argument, we seem to have it every year.

It’s an Anglophone issue. Perhaps because the commercial world is anglophone the confusion is so pervasive. If it was Greek or Italian it would be considered a peculiarity of the English and dismissed as silly.

We need a Lewis or Tolkien here to explain it better than me and probably add in a but of Old Norse for the fun of it – philology experts are in short supply on the interwebs.

Glad my daughter is doing mechanical engineering.

At a real University though, not the ones that have been specialising in mendicancy for years.

I once worked for someone who’s now in gaol.

I once worked for someone who narrowly avoided gaol.

I once worked in a gaol. The crooks were ok, except for a couple of serious psychos, the staff…. well most were ok but there were more than the normal number of bullies, petty tyrants and cruel bastards among them. It was a women’s prison too.

36mm at our place and still bucketing down.
https://www.wunderground.com/weather/au/tawonga/ITAWON13

It’s an Anglophone issue. Perhaps because the commercial world is anglophone the confusion is so pervasive.

I agree that Easter is the English name. Stamping out fertility celebrations in springtime and the return of life, and replacing them by Christian mythology was done more efficiently in other European countries.
I reckon we’re lucky in the anglosphere. We still have Easter eggs.

Gabor, I lasted less than six months, I really couldn’t stand being around some of the pricks who worked there. A mate put me onto the job, the money was pretty good as they were always short staffed and there was as much overtime as you wanted. I know one bloke who left on a hospital escort at 8am in the morning and was there without a relief for almost two days. Dunno how he did it or how the prison overlords got away with it. No one said anything about staff working 16hour+ days several times a week.

There’s a reason the female hormone is called Estrogen.

History of Oestrogen:
in 1906, secretions from the ovaries were shown to produce estrus (cyclic sexual activity in non-human females) and the term “estrogen” was born, derived from the Greek oistros (mad desire) and gennan (to produce). Yet, it was not until 1929 that estrogen as a hormone was isolated. Link

“I once worked for someone who’s now in gaol.

We are governed by people who should be in gaol.”

I had a brother who did time in Long Bay and Pentridge.
My other brother was a Copper.

In Slavic languages the name for Easter is Resurrection. Simple.

I bet they don’t have chocolate Resurrection eggs.

My initial disgruntlement changed fast when Mr. Bernardi kept calling the voice “An Aboriginal House of Lords”

A pretty decent analogy – except that in the pre-Blair Lords, the general tendency was to improve legislation and decision making for the UK as a whole. The Lords gave the screaming shits to Tory as well as Labour governments.

Farmer G, run along the Hume anyday on any hill you will see the brake lights on, they’re not braking heavily just enough to keep on the limit, different say running into Adelaide, you have to use low gears and jakes etc to safely keep the speed down. I ‘ve been delivering new and used trucks all around the country for a while, often with trailers or bobtail, none of them had limiters/retarders that will keep the speed to 100kmh automatically. The Euro trucks come close but even with all their ‘safety’ equipment will still overspeed on downhills.

Colonel Crispen Birka fron last night. About Soviet psychological manipulation. Russians are not stupid people. They all knew they were being lied to. The threat of dying or being sent to Siberia is not the same as the acceptance of looney leftist crap like trannies that idjits like mutley believe. The wholesale idiocracy of this type of BS is mental derangement.

The threat of dying or being sent to Siberia is not the same as the acceptance of looney leftist crap like trannies that idjits like mutley believe.

Rather than idiocy it might be cowardice, fear of saying the wrong thing in front of the peers rather than believing it.

I often wonder why 4 point harness is not common for motor vehicles. It would appear to be safer and maybe handle deceleration better. I understand that the 3 point is useless in collisions over 60kph?

Apologies for late answer, but the 3 point belt was chosen as the best compromise between ease of putting on and effectiveness. A 4 (or better still 6) point belt requires 2 hands to operate, and is a much bigger pita in civilian driving – recall that when they were introduced in the 60s, simply getting the public to use them at all was so difficult that some manufacturers designed ‘self applying’ belts which were attached to the door, thus self applying when you closed it.

As to ‘useless over 60kmh’, modern belts are pretty good at any speed up until the structure of the car is deformed towards you, allowing you to hit it despite being restrained in your seat. There is always some potential for your body to move in the belt, mainly due to stretch, but this has been largely managed with ‘seat belt tensioners’ which reel the belt tight at the moment of impact.

The McGowan Government on Thursday revealed it was seeking nine Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to fill positions on the newly-created panel.

Torres Strait is a looooong way from WA. Racist tokenism?

Torres Strait is a looooong way from WA. Racist tokenism?

Yes I think that too- just shows how manufacured and confected the whole thing is. I see Torres Straight flags in Parramatta and Melbourne- it’s 1000s of miles away. Why? To undermine the Australian nation of course.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupiditysays:
April 7, 2023 at 12:36 am
…when you hit 65 years of age you should lose the franchise. You have no skin in the game any more

Fantastic idea!
That’d put paid to retired public [servants] voting against Australia.

m0nty=fa might not have thought that through.

Or it might just have been lower than usual quality trolling.

The thing about cowardice is that it’s a moral failing whereas idiocy is most likely congenital and hence forgivable, as long as it is properly managed.

In 1st century Rome, the Christians were the pagans and labeled and persecuted as such.

The Christians didn’t “steal” Easter from the Germanic and English. Oestre was the name of Spring. Passover occurs in Spring. The Crucifixion and Resurrection occurs in Spring. The celebration of the fertility deities occurs is Spring. Rabbits, after the long winter hibernation, are breeding like…well, you know…

This is not difficult stuff. That one thing supplants the other is not controversial. There may be artefacts of previous observances that persist as nations adopted Christianity. The link between Passover and Easter is clear in the name of the season in non Anglophone countries.

Correlation is not causation. St David did not steal my birthday any more than I stole his saint’s day by having the hide to be born on that particular day. And, yes, there are candles and cake to celebrate. Too many candles these days. 😀

For some obscure reason, fertility is the preserve of the female of the species.

It’s hardly obscure. Male emphasis in reproduction has always been on ‘getting it up and in’. It is then considered job done. The rest is seen as up to the female. This is because until modern times the mechanism of gamete reproduction was not clearly understood. In most pre-literate societies men were known to play a part, although in some the link was very tenuous, especially if matrilineal descent was important, where a woman’s brother’s had the predominant lineage claim to the children rather than the husband having that claim.

Henry the Eighth claimed each of his six wives was at fault for any reproductive failures.

Transgenderists and their allies feel completely free to be violent. Apparently, this sort of violence against women is fine.

They haven’t got any arguments, so there is, for them, nothing else.

Razey says:
April 6, 2023 at 8:21 pm
Albosleazy is up to his eyeballs in corruption.

what are the companies the Adam’s investigation is about ?

Transgenderists and their allies feel completely free to be violent. Apparently, this sort of violence against women is fine.

That’s because this whole abomination is being driving by the establishment. Even prince hazza of the di slag is on board.

Zatarasays:
April 7, 2023 at 7:19 am
FEC Commissioner Reminds Bragg That Officials Concluded Trump Case Isn’t ‘a Campaign Finance Violation’

Bragg’s entire case, such as it is, rests on his 34 charges facilitating a second crime and he’s being told yet again that the second crime doesn’t exist.

m0nty=fa will be here to refute this heresy, just as soon as the daily DNC/MSM talking points arrive.

RE the speed of those trucks on the Hume. Could be that the Sporty Beamer’s hologram is the culprit in me thinking they were going at 110kph or more. That thing flashes between 108kph to 120kph in seconds going up and down the scale with the engine toons and the roadway; the needle on the dial, by contrast, mostly hovers from 110kph to 115kph.

Interesting to know of the leeway that you have legally, thanks for that.

Today, heading for Bendigo. It’s a bit wet and quite cool. I probably brought too few warm clothes.

Mr Toad.
Zactly.
And the same (all in together) should apply to cycling.
The equipment is the same, wheels are the same size. Why should girls get to ride races that are markedly shorter than the boys.
Oh!
And let the ‘girls’ with the bulging knicks declare their results from within the pack. Trans racing would soon disappear.