Open Thread – Tues 2 May 2023


The Good Shepherd, Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, 1660

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Vicki
Vicki
May 4, 2023 2:49 pm

Re duk’s point about the behaviour of the police in enforcing Covid rules:

What I, personally, found the most shocking was being stopped by a road block on our way from Sydney to the farm & being – brusquely – demanded to produce our “travel documents”.

All I could think was….my God, this is East Germany on the rise……

It got worse. Husband had obtained requisite document to permit travel into our region, but I did not. Silly me. I thought the doc would suffice for husband and wife. The surly response from Mr. Plod was to warn me that I would have to have one as well, next time. All the while, the demeanour of the posse at the road block was threatening.

Unbelievable – &, although our experience was not one iota of what happened to you, duk, I also will never forget it.

flyingduk
flyingduk
May 4, 2023 2:52 pm

So, gold is approaching $3100 an ounce…

I think my $2800/oz floor just gave up the ghost.

Better to think of it as the dollar losing value than gold going up in price….

Winston Smith
May 4, 2023 2:54 pm

ZK2A:

I can remember when it was twenty thousand years..

I understood that Homo Sapiens arrived in Australia at the end of the last Ice Age, about 12,000 years ago.
But I’m no Taxonomist.

Black Ball
Black Ball
May 4, 2023 2:57 pm

Can someone point me to where the corruption is please? Daily Telegraph:

NSW Premier Chris Minns’ move to install one of his best mates in a top parliamentary job is set to be referred to the Independent Commission Against Corruption.

Nationals MPs were meeting on Thursday morning over Zoom in an effort to block one of their own colleagues from taking the Upper House President role next week: a move which would give Labor effective control of the parliament.

Mr Minns has courted former Arts Minister (and Nationals MP) Ben Franklin for the plum role which comes with a car and driver, an expenses account, a bigger office, and a $143,000 pay rise.

Mr Franklin is a godfather to one of Mr Minns’ children.

The job will be filled by a vote of Upper House MPs on Tuesday.

The Daily Telegraph can reveal that Nationals chairman Andrew Fraser is planning refer the issue to the corruption watchdog, because it could be interpreted as Labor offering an “inducement” for political gain.

The Daily Telegraph does not suggest the job offer amounts to corrupt conduct. However, Nationals want the corruption watchdog to independently probe the matter.

“If Mr Franklin is elected president, it will mean the Coalition loses a vote on the floor of the upper house making it easier for Labor to pass legislation,” Mr Fraser told the Telegraph. “This is a job within the parliament gives an advantage to Minns on the floor of the Legislative Council.

“If the parliamentary party doesn’t refer it (to ICAC), as chairman of the state Nationals I will,” he said.

He said ICAC should investigate the matter “on the basis that its an inducement to a member within the parliament”.

If Mr Franklin accepts the nomination for president and is elected, Mr Fraser said he will call a meeting of the Nationals executive in a move which would kick off the process of expelling Mr Franklin from the party.

The question of whether to expel Mr Franklin from the Nationals would be considered by the party’s central council, with Mr Franklin given the “right to defend (himself),” Mr Fraser said.

Earlier, furious NSW Nationals accused Mr Franklin of being a “traitor” for considering a “jobs for the boys” offer from his close friend.

Multiple National MPs called on Mr Franklin to be booted from the party if he accepted the position. One source accused Mr Franklin of treachery for considering the position.

Another accused Mr Franklin of “complete bastardry” by not immediately rejecting Labor’s offer while a third source blamed the fiasco on Nationals leader Paul Toole for failing to haul one of his MPs into line.

Mr Toole called on Mr Franklin to turn down the job offer.

“He should not be accepting the position of president of the upper house,” he said.

Mr Minns admitted that if Mr Franklin was appointed, it would make it easier for Labor to pass its legislation.

“I’m being upfront about that,” he said. “It’s a recognition from us that we don’t have majorities (in either house of parliament).”

Mr Minns also rejected the assertion Mr Franklin being made upper house president could be viewed as “jobs for the boys”.

“I would say look at the government’s track record, particularly in relation to the appointment … or prospective election of the speaker of the Legislative Assembly, and that’s Greg Piper, he’s an independent MP,” he said.

Mr Franklin refused to comment on the matter.

Would seem to this reader that’s the cost of doing business.
As an aside, it seems that this is the politics that Liberal and National Parties excel at in recent times. Turn on your own rather than fight back.

Vicki
Vicki
May 4, 2023 2:59 pm

On his sub stack today, Dr. Phillip Altman has reported that Australia’s TGA has changed its stance on Ivermectin!:

In a remarkable about-face, the TGA has finally admitted that general practitioners should be able to prescribe ivermectin without going to jail or loosing their license to practice medicine.

Of all the misinformation and outright lies perpetrated during the pandemic by our health authorities, the banning of ivermectin prescribing for COVID-19 must rate as the greatest mistake. Dozens of clinical trials documented the safety and efficacy of ivermectin alone and in combination with other therapeutics in the prophylaxis and treatment of mild, moderate and severe COVID-19 and the prevention of death. Despite this, Australia’s most senior health officers, much to my astonishment, declared there was no evidence for the clinical efficacy of ivermectin in the treatment of COVID. This incompetence is unforgivable.

The 3 May 2023 announcement, the TGA states:

“A large number of clinical studies have demonstrated ivermectin does not improve outcomes in patients with COVID-19. The National Covid Evidence Taskforce (NCET) and many similar bodies around the world, including the World Health Organization, strongly advises against the use of ivermectin for the prevention or treatment of COVID-19.”

I strongly disagree that the overall evidence “does not improve outcomes in patients with COVID-19”.

Those who have been following me know I have been submitting the evidence supporting the safety and efficacy of ivermectin in many submissions and publications.

Here are a few:

Altman, P.: A Total Lack of Therapeutic Perspective. Quadrant Online. 22 Aug. 2021.

https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/public-health/2021/08/a-total-lack-of-therapeutic-perspective/

Altman, P.: Ivermectin: Chemists Place Themselves Between Doctor and Patient. Quadrant Online. 31 Aug. 2021. https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/public-health/2021/08/ivermectin-chemists-place-themselves-between-doctor-and-patient/

Morris, P.: Repurposed drugs to treat Covid-19: Ivermectin. July 22, 2022. drphilipmorris.com

https://www.drphilipmorris.com/repurposed-drugs-to-treat-covid-19-ivermectin/

Altman, P.: Comparison of ivermectin and molnupiravir

BIRD-group.org – 28 October 2021

https://bird-group.org/ivermectin-vs-molnupiravir-a-comparison/

The TGA has never communicated with me on these submissions. Nothing…zero.

It is stunning the TGA and the NCCET could simply ignore submissions such as these in times of crisis.

The TGA and our so-called “health experts” seem disconnected from reality. Why has it taken so long for them to come to their senses?

As I keep saying…….we are not safe in their hands, nobody is safe.

If the Australian TGA cannot tell the difference a toxic horse worming medicine and a potentially life-saving, widely used, essential safe medicine – they should not exist.

At last, doctors will be able to assess for themselves if their patients should be prescribed ivermectin. Will those doctors who have been suspended for prescribing or advocating the usefulness of ivermectin be reinstated with an apology and compensation by APHRA?

I can rest easier tonight knowing general practitioners can use their best judgement to treat their patients on an individual basis without fearing retribution.

Dot
Dot
May 4, 2023 2:59 pm

I think that is correct. The wife tried to seemingly get her husband killed, the judge advocate gave him a slim chance to live.

flyingduk
flyingduk
May 4, 2023 2:59 pm

Ivermectin was never a threat to public health.

There is NO SUCH THING as *public* health, there is only private (aka individual) health …. your health outcomes are largely determined by how healthy you are when you encounter a threat. And how healthy you are is largely determined by all the life choices you made prior to that.

As doctors, we were taught that the physician-patient relationship was sacred (not the physician – state – other members of the public – patient relationship).

Bending the knee to the ‘greater good’ of ‘public health’ is a lie and we should never have accepted it.

PS .. similarly, there is no such thing as ‘public housing’ or ‘public money’ … these also represent theft of an individuals property to benefit the collective.

Plasmamortar
Plasmamortar
May 4, 2023 3:00 pm

Better to think of it as the dollar losing value than gold going up in price….

Yeah, I’m wondering how long it will take before the masses realise inflation is here to stay for quite a while…

Interest rates won’t fix the issue…

rosie
rosie
May 4, 2023 3:02 pm

It’s a bit confusing; is someone suggesting that the murder of the international student is a harbinger of things to come if the Voice referendum isn’t waved through?

Dot
Dot
May 4, 2023 3:03 pm

“If Mr Franklin is elected president, it will mean the Coalition loses a vote on the floor of the upper house making it easier for Labor to pass legislation,” Mr Fraser told the Telegraph. “This is a job within the parliament gives an advantage to Minns on the floor of the Legislative Council.

Sour grapes, ladies. You were part of a fake conservative government that went full COVIDmania and had arrogant, smug, fascist pigs like David Elliot and Brad Hazzard in cabinet.

flyingduk
flyingduk
May 4, 2023 3:03 pm

Inflation is too much money chasing too little stuff.

Therefore, there are two ways to “fix” it:

1) reduce the amount of money (typically, increase interest rates, which is the cost of money)
2) create more stuff (typically, reduce govco spending, and reduce taxation and regulation)

So, 3 years ago, to ‘manage’ COVID, we

1) vastly increased the amount of ‘money’ in the system by printing $$$ to pay people to stay home and hide from the killer virus
2) locked the economy down and stopped producing stuff

Now, bafflingly, we have prices breaking out (aka ‘Inflation’ to the proles who don’t understand the money supply/goods supply equation).

And the govt will get away with the lie that inflation just happens and is not the direct result of government action.

Dot
Dot
May 4, 2023 3:04 pm

A teacher, not a martinet.

Dot
Dot
May 4, 2023 3:09 pm

That article is damning of the NT government.

rosie
rosie
May 4, 2023 3:19 pm

Further to the discussion on biblical responsibilities would it be sinful to continue to pray outside an abortion clinic because the law forbids it?

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
May 4, 2023 3:24 pm

Surprising brain activity moments before death.

This set me thinking about my brother, who was clearly conscious at the moment of his death even though he was totally immobile except for one hand that could clasp once or twice (yes or no) in response to questions, and when one of us offered comforting words into his ear. He could hear but was totally blind, with motor functions destroyed by a massive clot that bled out. My brother didn’t have a peaceful descent into death once the breathing tube was removed, which he had firmly agreed to have done; he had a struggle to breathe over two arduous days which ended in a final back-arching heart attack.

In the study above, those monitored were comatose. The conscious brain at the end seems to flare.
I am not sure that the study means anything at all, though I’ll allow that it may.

Johnny Rotten
May 4, 2023 3:26 pm

Black Ballsays:
May 4, 2023 at 2:57 pm
Can someone point me to where the corruption is please? Daily Telegraph:

NSW Premier Chris Minns’ move to install one of his best mates in a top parliamentary job is set to be referred to the Independent Commission Against Corruption.

And the ICAC report on Gladys has still not been released. How long do these investigations usually take for goodness sake. Years and and years it seems probably hoping that the Electorate will simply forget. She’ll probably only get a slap on the wrist, if not completely exonerated.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
May 4, 2023 3:29 pm

From rosies link. Beneath contempt.

It was later revealed the Fyles Government hid in their electorate offices and locked the doors during the first rally.

johanna
johanna
May 4, 2023 3:31 pm

Even with the pay increase, the federal government has conceded it will not be able to attract enough workers to meet its election promise to have all aged care facilities staffed 24/7 with registered nurses by July.

Aged Care Minister Anika Wells previously acknowledged about 5 per cent of facilities, particularly in rural and remote areas, would not be able to meet the target.

But she said today’s pay rise was expected to bring another 10,000 workers to the sector.

Tell us, Anika, where are these 10,000 workers going to come from? The disability sector, the public health sector, out of thin air?

I must say that so far, this government is not traveling well in terms of delivering on its promises. That’s not surprising, as they were mostly based on the fallacious ‘legislate and it will be so’ premise so common amoung leftists.

The housing legislation currently stuck in the Senate is another example. The bloody-minded Greens are putting the government through the wringer with outrageous and unaffordable demands – quelle surprise!

I am beginning to suspect that watching Elbow and his minions try to deal with unrealistic expectations from their supporters and a ratbag Senate will be quite entertaining.

I predict that in three years’ time, Elbow will look ten years older.

calli
calli
May 4, 2023 3:32 pm

Further to the discussion on biblical responsibilities would it be sinful to continue to pray outside an abortion clinic because the law forbids it?

It depends. Are you praying ostentatiously so others will notice? Are you inviting the law to come down on you like a pile of bricks so you can feel like a martyr?

God reads the heart.

If you can’t stand outside, can you sit in your car in the carpark? He still hears the prayer wherever you are.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
May 4, 2023 3:33 pm

Further to the discussion on biblical responsibilities would it be sinful to continue to pray outside an abortion clinic because the law forbids it?

Rosie – Yes, on the basis of Matthew 6:6 and Luke 18:9-14. However conscience may have a contribution to such things since in the latter passage it is the attitude of the heart. However there’s no reason according to the former passage for you to do so right there in that location, you can pray anywhere and it’s just as effective (but with less chance of being arrested).

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
May 4, 2023 3:38 pm

Aged Care Minister Anika Wells previously acknowledged about 5 per cent of facilities, particularly in rural and remote areas, would not be able to meet the target.

That would be Anika that told reporters that because they had made it LAW that it was up to oldies homes to find the nurses..

rosie
rosie
May 4, 2023 3:38 pm

If it’s just as effective away from the clinic why did anyone ever pray close by to a clinic?
I was under the impression people did so to sway those seeking abortion to not killing their babies.

Johnny Rotten
May 4, 2023 3:39 pm

The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.

– Andrew Carnegie

rosie
rosie
May 4, 2023 3:41 pm
rosie
rosie
May 4, 2023 3:44 pm

I’m not sure it depends.
If the claim is that breaking a civil law is objectively sinful then there is no wriggle room for the conscience, is there?
Another example, the Christian doctor who refuses to refer a patient to an abortion provider?
It’s the law he must do so.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
May 4, 2023 3:47 pm

I have a new friend.

Some nice person has raised this one and then released him into the wild, since no corella is this tame unless they’ve been in human company previously. It’s very rare that I can even get one to accept food from the hand, let alone sit on it. He arrived a few weeks ago and seems fairly young. The release was obviously successful since he follows the rest of the corella flock, but does like a freebie when he can get one. Thanks WIRES if they are one of your people!

rosie
rosie
May 4, 2023 3:48 pm

Matthew 6:6 and Luke 18:9-14.

You’re now citing these verses to condemn public prayer at an abortion clinic?
I thought you originally meant we should obey the law irrespective of what our conscience demanded.

calli
calli
May 4, 2023 3:54 pm

Break as many laws as you like rosie.

I’m not stopping you.

Vicki
Vicki
May 4, 2023 3:59 pm

This set me thinking about my brother, who was clearly conscious at the moment of his death even though he was totally immobile except for one hand that could clasp once or twice (yes or no) in response to questions, and when one of us offered comforting words into his ear

Lizzie, this also set me thinking about the passing of my sister-in-law. She had leukaemia and managed well for many years. When she reached 50 (I think) her specialist told her that if she wanted a bone marrow transplant (her son as donor) she could not wait any longer. So the transplant took place but, sadly, did not succeed, & she contracted pneumonia soon after.

The family was summoned in her final hours. She was not conscious and her breathing was laboured. As many will know, on such occasions the family sits for hours on the bedside. The attendant nun ( it was a well known Catholic hospital in Sydney) assured us that she could hear what we said to her. After a time, our family members took a break. I could not bear to leave her alone, and so stayed by the bed, holding her hand. It feels like it was yesterday in recounting this.

Soon after they left, she suddenly awoke, looked at me in a slightly bemused way. To this day I don’t know whether she said,

“Hello Vick. What’s the time?” or “Hello Vick. It’s time” I believe it was the latter.

She tried to pull her oxygen mask off, and I, like a panicky fool, called for the nursing staff. By the time she arrived, and also the family from the adjoining room, she had passed away.

It was one of the most moving experiences of my life, and I felt somehow privileged to have been there at that moment. But then I am a bit of a romanticist.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
May 4, 2023 4:03 pm

International student ‘clinically dead’ after Darwin home invasion
EXCLUSIVE
By LIAM MENDES
Reporter
@liammendes
1:45PM May 4, 2023

An international student from Bangladesh is “clinically dead” after being subject to a brutal home invasion Northern Territory in the early hours of Wednesday morning, and it can be revealed the man arrested over the attack is believed to have been under the influence of drugs or alcohol at the time of his arrest.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
May 4, 2023 4:05 pm
rosie
rosie
May 4, 2023 4:05 pm

That’s not the issue Calli.
It’s whether breaking the law is also always a sin.
I don’t think it is, there are quite a few civil laws that are contrary to God’s law.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
May 4, 2023 4:08 pm

If the claim is that breaking a civil law is objectively sinful then there is no wriggle room for the conscience, is there?

Rosie – Breaking civil law is required if obeying civil law is in conflict with God’s law. So it was fine for early Christians to defy the Roman order to sacrifice to Roman deities, since that is in direct conflict with the ten commandments. I admit it’s a difficult issue though.

She’s a brave lady, perhaps there’s a way around the law that can do what she hopes to do without breaching the law. I can’t think of one, but Cats are inventive so maybe someone else can think of a way. How about a drone with a sign say? Or a dog with a sign on his coat? Is walking your dog past an abortion centre illegal?

Mark from Melbourne
Mark from Melbourne
May 4, 2023 4:10 pm

That whole Tasmania/AFL/Stadium thing explained…

You know it makes sense.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
May 4, 2023 4:13 pm

Someone did this.

The French Finance Minister?

French Finance Minister Under Fire For Writing, Publishing Erotic Novel While in Office (3 May)

I was amused when Pachauri the railway engineering guy who was head of the IPCC came out with a bad soft porn novel which he wrote on planes between climate meetings.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
May 4, 2023 4:18 pm

I can’t believe I fought for this bulls**t’: Navy SEAL who helped kill Osama Bin Laden fumes over Navy’s decision to use drag queen for their recruitment program

Navy SEAL Robert O’Neill who took part in the mission to kill Osama Bin Laden is outraged over the U.S. Navy using a drag queen for a recruitment program
‘I can’t believe I fought for this bulls**t,’ O’Neill tweeted on Wednesday
The vet was referencing the Navy’s use of Yeoman 2nd Class Joshua Kelley, a drag queen who announced in November an ambassadorship with the Navy

calli
calli
May 4, 2023 4:24 pm

I reiterate, just in case you missed it:

Submit yourself to the governing authorities. Pretty straightforward, unless they require you to do something you know to be a sin. Then…nope.

Also, we are to consider our weaker brothers and not do anything that will cause them to stumble.

This was said in the context of wearing a mask to church.

On laws that are cruel and unjust and ungodly – those that directly contravene the ten commandments, it’s pretty clear cut. Just. Don’t. The Christian doctor referring their patient to an abortionist would fall into that category.

As for the young lady outside the clinic, standing and praying. Firstly the law is clearly in breach of other freedom of religion laws. It is internally inconsistent. This could be challenged legally.

However, I would ask myself if I was led to do this personally – why exactly am I doing it? Is it to shame the women attending the clinic? Is this an act of love? Is it because I want someone to film me testing the law? Does this honour God? Is it because I really think that if I stand there praying that a woman may change their mind? I would really have to allow myself to be searched on this one and leave no corner of my motives hidden (not that I could anyway).

I tend to look at these things case by case, because that is how we live our lives.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
May 4, 2023 4:48 pm

Hypocrite…..

ABC host Stan Grant joins King’s coronation coverage despite ‘visceral anger’ after Queen Elizabeth II’s death

By Sophie Elsworth
Media Writer
@sophieelsworth
4:24PM May 4, 2023
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Q+A host Stan Grant will appear in the ABC’s coverage of King Charles III’s coronation despite revealing he felt “betrayed” by his employer and colleagues following Queen Elizabeth II’s death.

Days after the release of his book The Queen is Dead, Grant is among the ABC’s line-up, which will be hosted by Julia Baird and Jeremy Fernandez on Saturday night.

Grant, a Wiradjuri, Gurrawin and Dharawal man, only recently spoke out of his disgust at the way the ABC handled the Queen’s death in September last year, telling Radio National breakfast host Patricia Karvelas he felt “visceral anger” in the days following.

He then began writing his latest book on his Indigenous past and faith and he lashed out at his employer and colleagues for paying little attention to how he was feeling at the time.

“How dare the Queen just die and this country go into mourning, what about my own people who continue to be the most impoverished and imprisoned people,” Grant said on ABC radio last week.

Dot
Dot
May 4, 2023 4:50 pm

Grant, a Wiradjuri, Gurrawin and Dharawal man, only recently spoke out of his disgust at the way the ABC handled the Queen’s death in September last year, telling Radio National breakfast host Patricia Karvelas he felt “visceral anger” in the days following.

Good lord. This bloke is so full of it.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
May 4, 2023 4:50 pm

Compare and contrast to Dr duks experience…
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/may/04/deanna-violet-coco-to-face-court-after-allegedly-spray-painting-woodside-logo-on-perth-police-station

A magistrate has commended high-profile New South Wales environmental activist Deanna “Violet” Coco but said she had gone “too far” by defacing a Perth police station.

Coco, 32, was convicted and fined $200 after she admitted spray painting four yellow Woodside Energy logos on the front windows of the Perth police centre a day earlier.

The Western Australian magistrates court was told her actions at the police station were an act of solidarity with local campaigners targeted by police amid an escalating crackdown on protesters.
..
It is noble and commendable people have strong personal views,” he said on Thursday.

It’s a fundamental tenet of western democracy … a functioning democracy … it should be supported.

“You don’t have to go too far abroad to see the restrictions on personal freedoms and activism.

Coco was ordered to pay $500 in damages.

In a lot of regards you should be commended, however, you breached the law … you went too far on this occasion,” Walton said.

I encourage to you to do it but you should be encouraged to do it in a lawful manner.

“It should be something held to be very precious to all of us.”

Coco, who was jailed and then released last year after being charged with offences relating to activism in New South Wales, was remanded in custody on Wednesday night after her arrest.

She said in a statement that she had travelled to Western Australia to stand in solidarity with protesters opposing the development of the Burrup peninsula.

I am a survivor of the authoritarian crackdown on environmental protest on the east coast and I have come over to WA to sound the alarm and stand in solidarity with campaigners facing the same police state repression here,” she said

Dot
Dot
May 4, 2023 4:53 pm

Law Society President Elizabeth Needham said, “Mr Walton has all of the qualifications to make a successful contribution as a Magistrate. He is very familiar with the workings of our court system, having worked at the DPP for a decade, conducting a number of trials in the District Court and Supreme Court, as well as in regional Western Australia.”

So a lefty who was a prosecutor. Odds on he was a full blown COVID Nazi.

calli
calli
May 4, 2023 4:53 pm

I imagine Grant is positioning himself front and centre for a prime role in the Voice.

Watching the competition for that role slug it out will require much…much popcorn.

Ed Case
Ed Case
May 4, 2023 4:55 pm

Would seem to this reader that’s the cost of doing business.
As an aside, it seems that this is the politics that Liberal and National Parties excel at in recent times. Turn on your own rather than fight back.

It’s not against the Law to be a tedious Labor Shill critiquing the Liberal Party, but it probably should be.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
May 4, 2023 4:57 pm

Watching the competition for that role slug it out will require much…much popcorn.

All those that used to be referred to, rather rudely, as “Air -conditioned Aborigines.”

Frank
Frank
May 4, 2023 5:01 pm

Noel Pearson vs Stan Grant cage match. Cribbed Martin Luther King cadences vs blubbering victimhood at ten paces.

Ed Case
Ed Case
May 4, 2023 5:04 pm

I don’t think it is, there are quite a few civil laws that are contrary to God’s law.

It’s God’s Government whether it’s good, bad or indifferent.
Say your prayers in private and call His name whenever you like
[It’s Yahweh, by the way].
Aborigines in South East Queensland used to call it out multiple times a day, perhaps they still do?

Black Ball
Black Ball
May 4, 2023 5:07 pm

Ahahahaha Tan Grant.
I expect his commentary to be full of Yes platitudes without actually, you know, the Coronation itself.
What would be a nice touch is to do it in the local Aboriginal tongue.

Black Ball
Black Ball
May 4, 2023 5:08 pm

Aborigines in South East Queensland used to call it out multiple times a day, perhaps they still do?

Citation needed

Frank
Frank
May 4, 2023 5:10 pm

What would be a nice touch is to do it in the local Aboriginal tongue.

Does he really speak it or is it some melange of verbiage designed to impress the cameras. Like Rudd and Cantonese.

Vicki
Vicki
May 4, 2023 5:10 pm

For those who didn’t see my morning post re the TGA’s backflip on Ivermectin – Jo Nova has posted an excellent overview:

After a 628 day ban for no medical reason, the Australian TGA has decided that our doctors will be allowed to prescribe ivermectin “off label” again, like they did for decades without a problem. Apparently, they don’t have to worry now that crazy people will use it to avoid getting injected with a barely studied, radical new form of drug which had no published data.

TGA: Removal of prescribing restrictions on ivermectin
From 1 June 2023, prescribing of oral ivermectin for ‘off-label’ uses will no longer be limited…

…there is sufficient evidence that the safety risks to individuals and public health is low when prescribed by a general practitioner in the current health climate.

This considers the evidence and awareness of medical practitioners about the risks and benefits of ivermectin, and the low potential for any shortages of ivermectin for its approved uses. Also, given the high rates of vaccination and hybrid immunity against COVID-19 in Australia, use of ivermectin by some individuals is unlikely to now compromise public health.

Ten years before this decision they knew it was no threat to public health. Ivermectin was known to be so safe researchers fed it to children in a trial to kill head lice in a Canberra primary school in 2010. Back in those medieval days, people were giving horse dewormer to kids, and nobody cared.

When it was banned, the TGA gave three reasons, none of which made sense. In September 2021 the TGA even pretended Australia might run out of ivermectin due to the new demand driven by consenting taxpayers with their doctor’s recommendation. This is a drug that is so mass produced, it costs six cents a tablet and that same month, Indian suppliers sold nearly $3 million USD worth. Yet no one in the Australian government thought to phone Indiamart and put in an order? The shortage was never the problem was it?

How many people died because ivermectin was banned?
Mortality, skull, deathOne study of 8,300 people in Brazil showed that taking ivermectin regularly before catching Covid halved the odds of catching it, and reduced mortality by 92%. Prophylactic use reduced hospitalization by 98%, and in a dose dependent manner.

If unvaccinated people were threatening our hospital system, it was only ever because they were denied ivermectin by unaccountable, unelected government committees.

Over 20 countries adopted ivermectin for COVID-19. The evidence base is much larger than typically used to approve drugs.

In the end, about 20,000 people died of Covid in Australia, many of who might have been saved, but there have also been some 15,000 Australians who died unexpectedly in 2022, who theoretically might not have died, if their doctors had had the freedom to treat them the way they felt was best. And then there are the businesses destroyed, the billions of dollars wasted, and those who live on, but suffer long term spike related injuries via either long covid or the TGA approved “carrots”.

Craig Kelly: this may have something to do with the former TGA head being sued for malfeasance:
Someone asked “why now”? Craig Kelly replied:

“… the TGA couldn’t hold out forever, as their senior management were risking being personally sued for Malfeasance given the tsunami of evidence rolling in, showing that Ivermectin is highly effective against Covid. Although this is a time for celebration, we should stop and spare a thought for the thousands of Australians that lost their lives in this war, that died unnecessarily from Covid because the TGA denied them access to this life saving Ivermectin. It’s now time for the war crime trials and reparations. –@CKellyUAP

“I think the fact that the recently retired head of TGA was being sued personally for his conduct. It put the new head of the TGA on notice, that they were potentially personally liable – plus the weight of recent studies showing Ivermectin was highly effective. If they maintained the ban, there was a real personal risk, and they’d have no chance defending the ban on merit. — @CKellyUAP

Last week Australians sued the Government for Vaccine related injuries
The former TGA head is named in the Class Action. Professor Skerritt (head of the TGA) retired on April 18.

The Applicant alleges that the Respondents’ actions to advance the acceptance and use of the various approved Covid-19 vaccines constitutes negligence and/or misfeasance.

This is just stunning news. Of course, you would have to convince your GP to prescribe it – and that may be no mean feat.

As it turned out, we did not need Ivermectin when our household members eventually contracted Covid19. The usual daily cocktail of vitamins plus Covid extra help via Quercetin, aspirin and anti-histamines, & for husband – his asthma puffer with its steroid – was more than sufficient to deal with what was a 3-5 day illness.

I was surprised to read that Dr. Peter McCullough (pretty sure it was McCullough) is not convinced of the evidence for the efficacy of either Ivermectin or Hydroxychloriquine. However, his argument is that, for most people (younger & no co-morbidities) Covid is not a particularly dangerous corona virus, & therefore the use of these drugs may have been overrated.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
May 4, 2023 5:10 pm

Aborigines in South East Queensland used to call it out multiple times a day, perhaps they still do?

Yes, Ed, they still do.

Australian Indigenous Ministries

Aboriginal pastors ministering to people from Walgett to Katherine.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
May 4, 2023 5:11 pm

Worth mentioning our local pharmacy has been issuing the repeat scripts with a pic of Elbow the oleaginous on the side and a logo about causing country pharmacies to go bust.

Example here. (found on internet, not one of my customers)

Dot
Dot
May 4, 2023 5:13 pm

causing country pharmacies to go bust

I’ll believe that when they’re driving around in 1985 Toyota Corollas.

Boambee John
Boambee John
May 4, 2023 5:13 pm

Ed Casesays:
May 4, 2023 at 4:55 pm
Would seem to this reader that’s the cost of doing business.
As an aside, it seems that this is the politics that Liberal and National Parties excel at in recent times. Turn on your own rather than fight back.
It’s not against the Law to be a tedious Labor Shill critiquing the Liberal Party, but it probably should be.

And you would be banned?

Boambee John
Boambee John
May 4, 2023 5:15 pm

Ed Casesays:
May 4, 2023 at 5:04 pm
I don’t think it is, there are quite a few civil laws that are contrary to God’s law.

It’s God’s Government whether it’s good, bad or indifferent.

Citation needed, Grandpa Ed Simpson.

Ed Case
Ed Case
May 4, 2023 5:16 pm

Citation needed

Uh huh.
I’d like to see you walk through Musgrave Park, there wouldn’t be enough of you left to fill a Coles bag.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
May 4, 2023 5:17 pm

Bruce:

I have a new friend

So do I, Bruce, but I’m not sure I want him. The Currawongs only come sporadically to check if anything is put out for them, but a large young crow has now made himself a regular. The cute little Noisy Miners in the Pittosporum tree nearby to the Jacaranda go berserk when he’s around. He sits on our verandah roof with that hideous long caaaaw they make, and then quickly swipes the food and flies off. He’s a really objectionable looking and sounding bird, but I say to Hairy he has a right to live too.

Hairy disagrees. We are not feeding crows, he says. I think I may have to agree.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
May 4, 2023 5:21 pm

Vicki, I am glad that you have good memories of your relative’s death.

My brother’s death was cruel and painful to sit with, even though he was given a degree of morphine to dull his sense of being unable to breathe. We had to call for more at the end, and even that didn’t stop the final violent death throes. I am still upset by it, and sometimes dream badly of it, or it surfaces when I am reminded of my brother. Last night we watched Barry Humphries on Who Do You Think You Are, the show that investigates family history. He was wonderful and so full of life it made a good memory. He also looked at times a lot like my brother, which stirred strong feelings in me, like a minor PTSD.

Dot
Dot
May 4, 2023 5:22 pm

Short (bus) er Ed:

If you don’t acknowledge three Muslim Aborigines from 1893, if you walk through a historically significant park, the Aborigines there will tear you apart like mythical halloween monsters.

Sure Ed, that’s totally not racist or ridiculous.

You are failing at pretending to be a seriously stupid example of a “typical right winger”.

You’ve fallen so far into the character it has become your reality.

It’s like being the Tony Clifton of blogs, except you’re Andy Kaufman and wake up one day thinking you’re Tony Clifton.

Well done, you freaking lunatic.

johanna
johanna
May 4, 2023 5:24 pm

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-05-04/kambo-ritual-natasha-lechner-inquest/102302834

This is the kind of craziness that happens in the northern rivers of NSW.

Apparently (as Dame Edna would say) the thing is to pierce your skin and then place frog toxin in it, which induces uncontrollable vomiting, an anorexic’s dream.

Typical self loathing stuff, you are merely a receptable for poison, best get rid of it asap. Funny how they always focus on the digestive tract. As any student of anatomy knows, the liver and kidneys are worth more than a passing comment, and anyway, it is much more complicated than that.

Whatever.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
May 4, 2023 5:32 pm

Dotsays:
May 4, 2023 at 5:13 pm

We have a new pharmacist took over from the 70 year old chap who had ben trying to retire for a decade.
Keen young chap, finished years of training and brought a viable but not extremely profitable pharmacy.
Daddy government just made his reasonably profitable business a struggle with a single thrust of its acid spewing red hot barbed wire phallus of idiocy dressed up as “its helping the battlers’…

I have a lot of sympathy after a similar hot cock decimated my rental business under the reign of the red queen.

Government wrecks crap, then pretends nothing happened as their intentions were good.

Dot
Dot
May 4, 2023 5:34 pm

I agree mole, I have had a business idea or two shot down by government idiocy, plus a decent job to move onto later on.

Roger
Roger
May 4, 2023 5:35 pm

Cribbed Martin Luther King cadences…

Noel’s really having a lend of white middle class liberals with that affectation.

H B Bear
H B Bear
May 4, 2023 5:35 pm

former Liberal deputy leader Fred Chaney

Red Fred. Most definitely part of the problem.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
May 4, 2023 5:37 pm

Lizzie – I suspect your crow is a young male. They get shown the door this point in the season. Over the years I’ve had two young male crows become friendly enough to accept food from my hand…briefly…until the clan spotted them and evicted them from the family territory. One lasted three days, the other nearly a month before being caught. Your new visitor may get the same treatment therefore! Life is tough for young male crows.

I discourage crows around the Cafe since they eat the clientele if they get the chance, especially raiding any nests. But I do give food to a matriarch crow up at the end of my street: she’s not tame but she’s learned that the particular location is halal. This morning she spotted me on my walk and followed me all the way to the special place, whereupon she received some mince. But she knows not to come any nearer to my house. They’re quite intelligent.

Black Ball
Black Ball
May 4, 2023 5:38 pm

Uh huh.
I’d like to see you walk through Musgrave Park, there wouldn’t be enough of you left to fill a Coles bag.

When called on his/her stunning ineptitude, he/she changes tack. Mostly ad hominem, by wanting violence visited on those who challenge the Wikipedia readings. Golf clap sir/madam.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
May 4, 2023 5:40 pm

Dot

Half a mill and 10 years of my life….
To give you an idea of what it did to the rental goods market. (and why afterpay is even a thing now)

Heres Thorn group – was Radio rentals, not a financial services company.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
May 4, 2023 5:43 pm

Typical self loathing stuff

Johanna it was naturopath healing! Surely healing heals? Almost like all those Covid treatments do!

An inquest into the “natural cleansing therapy” that claimed the life of a Northern Rivers woman in 2019 continues in Lismore Local Court.

‘It’s not good’: Frog poison link explored in woman’s death (Daily Terror, 3 May, paywalled)

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
May 4, 2023 5:43 pm

Thats “NOW a financial services company”…

johanna
johanna
May 4, 2023 5:43 pm

ruce of Newcastle says:
May 4, 2023 at 3:47 pm

I have a new friend.

Some nice person has raised this one and then released him into the wild, since no corella is this tame unless they’ve been in human company previously.

Releasing one into the wild might make someone feel good, but corellas are far from endangered . There are at least hundreds of thousands of them. At least.

I’ve seen vast flocks of them around Canberra. Luckily, we don’t grow many grain crops around here.

I’ve read that they can devastate grain crops elsewhere.

Roger
Roger
May 4, 2023 5:52 pm

Speaking of birds, I spotted a trio sparrows the other day.

Relatively rare these days.

calli
calli
May 4, 2023 5:54 pm

The mynahs have displaced them.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
May 4, 2023 5:57 pm

I’ve read that they can devastate grain crops elsewhere.

Johanna – They do, but here they spend their time eating kikuyu grass on the playing fields of the local schools. They’re harmless, if a bit loud. I always liked the bin chickens at Bungendore dump also, when I lived in your town. Amazing that ibis like garbage! Fun world. The friendly corella flew onto my shoulder this arvo unprompted, whoever was his patron was obviously a good friend.

Ed Case
Ed Case
May 4, 2023 5:57 pm

I don’t think so.
There are plenty of sparrows in Ipswich, none in Brisbane, and Mynahs hang around the tips.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
May 4, 2023 5:57 pm

I’ve read that they can devastate grain crops elsewhere.

They are considered vermin in this part of the world.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
May 4, 2023 5:58 pm

rosiesays:

May 4, 2023 at 4:05 pm

That’s not the issue Calli.
It’s whether breaking the law is also always a sin.

of course not

crossing against a pedestrian red light on a deserted road at 0400?

the illegality / sin venn diagram is not a 100% overlap.
not even close

only a mong would suggest it is

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
May 4, 2023 5:59 pm

Submit yourself to the governing authorities. Pretty straightforward, unless they require you to do something you know to be a sin. Then…nope.

As an atheist, I just don’t go with any of this. I recognise a moral obligation to obey just and reasonable laws. I did not sign up to be an obedient serf and follow orders given by stupid, ignorant bureaucrats. Nobody in the world has a right to give me orders. Nobody. I generally comply with requests because I’m a kindly fellow, mostly. But I shan’t wear a mask to keep out (or in) a virus, because I know it won’t accomplish that, and I have objections to spreading hysteria, which is something masks do accomplish. My relationship with government authority is that I’ll go along with legal obligations, pretty much, but don’t bother passing a law saying anyone can give me orders. I never agreed to that.

shatterzzz
May 4, 2023 6:00 pm

Soooooo .. hands up all those that already knew over 60s ( actually, you are almost 61 on minimum age qualification) were paid more on the dole than under 60s?
In the excess of dollars it ain’t a biggie but it is more ……. $51.90 a fortnight ..
No idea when it came about cos I don’t ever remember any announcement .. it, definitely, wasn’t happening before I retired cos I spent my last 2 years on Sickness benefit (Cancer) which paid the same as the dole ..
https://www.servicesaustralia.gov.au/how-much-jobseeker-payment-you-can-get?context=51411

Roger
Roger
May 4, 2023 6:04 pm

The mynahs have displaced them.

Domestically, yes they seem to have done so, calli, although the loss of sparrow populations is a worldwide phenomenon with several causes postulated.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
May 4, 2023 6:09 pm

Submit yourself to the governing authorities. Pretty straightforward, unless they require you to do something you know to be a sin. Then…nope.

so when dan xi man introduces a law which forbids me expressing a mild objection to drag storytime?

that brand of pissweak christianity is not for me

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
May 4, 2023 6:09 pm

Sadly the English sparrows who used to forage at the local shopping centre were displaced about a year ago by noisies and peewees. Just sort of happened. I don’t think they’re Cafe graduates since the centre is six km away. But they’re pretty jolly wandering around the food tables under the feet of the diners picking up crumbs. Life is life.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
May 4, 2023 6:10 pm

I’ve often wondered how corellas would go in a minefield.

Roger
Roger
May 4, 2023 6:10 pm

As an atheist, I just don’t go with any of this. I recognise a moral obligation to obey just and reasonable laws. I did not sign up to be an obedient serf and follow orders given by stupid, ignorant bureaucrats.

The Christian position on this isn’t monolithic.

Some, from Thomas Aquinas & the Jesuits to Presbyterians and Congregationalists, have found biblical justification for the right of rebellion against unjust laws and tyranny.

A famous modern instance is Bonhoeffer.

Ed Case
Ed Case
May 4, 2023 6:11 pm

crossing against a pedestrian red light on a deserted road at 0400?
Don’t do it.
It’s a slippery slope, while respect for the secular law isn’t all that hard.

Frank
Frank
May 4, 2023 6:17 pm

Typical self loathing stuff

I think you credit them with thinking about it too much.

Dot
Dot
May 4, 2023 6:17 pm

Thats “NOW a financial services company”…

I have worked in industries I was shocked were not regulated as AFSL regulatees, will not name them, the bastards don’t need ideas.

shatterzzz
May 4, 2023 6:17 pm

Grant, a Wiradjuri, Gurrawin and Dharawal man, only recently spoke out of his disgust at the way the ABC handled the Queen’s death in September last year, telling Radio National breakfast host Patricia Karvelas he felt “visceral anger” in the days following.
Good lord. This bloke is so full of it.

Time for a gummint enquiry into the effects of over-dosing on tanning cream/rays .. methinx ..!

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
May 4, 2023 6:19 pm

looks like titus got off the leash today

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
May 4, 2023 6:20 pm

Ed Casesays:

May 4, 2023 at 6:11 pm

crossing against a pedestrian red light on a deserted road at 0400?
Don’t do it.
It’s a slippery slope, while respect for the secular law isn’t all that hard.

sure

Frank
Frank
May 4, 2023 6:21 pm

“I’ve often wondered how corellas would go in a minefield.”

Roos would be far superior.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
May 4, 2023 6:23 pm

Not as thorough Frank.

calli
calli
May 4, 2023 6:24 pm

Drag storytime would be classed as a sin. I would be quite comfortable protesting it, regardless if it was a “law “ or not.

Matthew 18:6

There will be just enough millstones. They’re ready.

Frank
Frank
May 4, 2023 6:25 pm

More entertaining though.

Ed Case
Ed Case
May 4, 2023 6:28 pm

Violent fruitcake with 40+ arrests gets Floyded on Subway Platform by Marine, did he do right?
H/T, Unz Review

calli
calli
May 4, 2023 6:29 pm

Oh. Ed’s back.

Thanks for the kerplop.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
May 4, 2023 6:30 pm

callisays:

May 4, 2023 at 6:24 pm

Drag storytime would be classed as a sin. I would be quite comfortable protesting it, regardless if it was a “law “ or not.

Matthew 18:6

There will be just enough millstones. They’re ready.

right

so there is no requirement to follow civil law if my conscience dictates otherwise?

and i don’t need to pore over the bible to find a supporting verse?

Frank
Frank
May 4, 2023 6:32 pm

Double flush ungood.

calli
calli
May 4, 2023 6:33 pm

You started a question with “so”…and a lowercase one at that.

I heed you not sir!

Zipster
May 4, 2023 6:33 pm

City of Monash CANCELS Drag Storytime amid community backlash
The event targeted children aged between one and six

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
May 4, 2023 6:35 pm

The TransAgressors were whining on the ABC this arvo, claiming the awful violent right were out to get their genteel selves by wanting to protest Drag Queen story hours.
I think women get sucked in by these blokes, men have a very different take on this behaviour.

Miltonf
Miltonf
May 4, 2023 6:40 pm

Usual leftist trick to try and make aggressive corruptors of little kids ‘victims’.

calli
calli
May 4, 2023 6:43 pm

that brand of pissweak christianity is not for me

Yes. It was so pissweak it had the writer beheaded outside the walls of Rome.

H B Bear
H B Bear
May 4, 2023 6:45 pm

Voting Lieboral turned me gay.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
May 4, 2023 6:46 pm

Lo
28 minutes ago
From the London Telegraph this afternoon,
“Australian senator: ‘Horrific impacts of British colonisation still felt today’ Australian senator Lidia Thorpe is among the Commonwealth representatives asking King Charles to apologise for British ‘genocide and colonisation’.”
It made me cringe. It is embarrassing sometimes to be Australian.

bons
bons
May 4, 2023 6:48 pm

I am visiting my nephew’s (formerly my brother’s) enormous cattle property NW of St Lawrence, C QLD.
I love this country, it is just so unremittingly wild. The land of the ten thousand acre paddocks but you always have the feeling that the bush is ready to grab it back.
The recent seasons have been so good he has had to fit tracker collars to his dogs. The boofs take off after a cow and get lost in the high grass and new scrub.
It’s hilarious watching the dogs bouncing through the high grass like antelopes popping their heads up to find their way.
Love it.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
May 4, 2023 6:48 pm

I will vote to expel Deeming at State Council or Assembly

It’s war.

Victorian MP Moira Deeming has initiated legal action over her nine-month suspension from the Liberal Party (Sky News, 4 May)

Ms Deeming accepted the suspension after Opposition leader John Pesutto agreed to drop a motion to expel her over her attendance at a women’s rights rally that was crashed by neo-Nazis.

In an email to colleagues on Thursday afternoon, Ms Deeming said she has advised her lawyers to “prepare a legal challenge” over her suspension, arguing that opposition leader John Pesutto had failed to live up to his part of the agreement.

“To date, I am the only one who has honoured that agreement. I am suspended, but there has been no joint exoneration statement and inconsistent messaging regarding my automatic return to the Party Room.”

Earlier on Thursday Ms Deeming issued an ultimatum informing Mr Pesutto he had until 2pm to issue a statement exonerating her from the “charges laid against me” or she would begin legal action.

“Given that the Leadership did not make the statement of exoneration, or confirm my return, and that no mediation or even any minutes exist to settle this dispute, I have advised my lawyers to prepare a legal challenge over my suspension,” Ms Deeming said in her email this afternoon.

RTWT. Vic Libs really do seem to want to commit seppuku in the most blody and public way possible. Well that’s fine. Hopefully MsDeeming can lead a new conservative party to the opposition benches, after the LINOs expire bloodily on their own swords.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
May 4, 2023 6:49 pm

I’m of the opinion that anyone who wants to watch drag queens has something wrong with them. Anyone who thinks inflicting it on children is reasonable is a twisted sicko.

I’m extremely tolerant, so if a bunch of adults want to watch drag shows, I shan’t try to stop them. But I’ll take care to avoid their company.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
May 4, 2023 6:56 pm

DIE, says the King.

‘Inclusivity, equality and diversity’ will be central to King Charles’ reign, according to goddaughter India Hicks (Sky News, 4 May)

Ms Hicks, who will be in attendance at the historical event, appeared on Sky News Australia on Wednesday night where she predicted a successful reign for Charles and praised Queen Consort Camilla.

“I think what’s interesting about that is they have an EDI situation which is inclusivity, equality and diversity and I think those are the three things that we’re going to see come throughout the reign of King Charles.”

Or his goddaughter, anyway. I’m amused that it’s always IED, DEI or EDI never DIE.
They seem very sensitive.

Indolent
Indolent
May 4, 2023 6:58 pm
Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
May 4, 2023 7:04 pm

Labor are learning how to fingerpaint.

NDIS was ‘managed like a Kindergarten kid’s finger painting concert’: Shorten (4 May)

Good luck with that Bill, I suspect you’ll find that fingerpainting is harder than it looks. Especially for lefties.

Roger
Roger
May 4, 2023 7:11 pm

Apparently the WA govt spent half a billion $ on rapid antigen tests during the covid panic.

They’re now offering them to the public for free at Bunnings stores by the pallet load.

Roger
Roger
May 4, 2023 7:13 pm

“I think what’s interesting about that is they have an EDI situation which is inclusivity, equality and diversity…”

Go easy…she’s a fashion designer.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
May 4, 2023 7:14 pm

Farmer Gezsays:

May 4, 2023 at 6:35 pm

The TransAgressors were whining on the ABC this arvo, claiming the awful violent right

would struggle to top the hyper-bowl on channel nein

Winston Smith
May 4, 2023 7:15 pm

Plasmamortar:

Yeah, I’m wondering how long it will take before the masses realise inflation is here to stay for quite a while…
Interest rates won’t fix the issue…

Best get used to the term “Stagflation”.

Causes
1973 oil crisis caused an increase in the price of Brent Crude
UK M4 Money Supply Increases
UK Inflation
Economists offer two principal explanations for why stagflation occurs. First, stagflation can result when the economy faces a supply shock, such as a rapid increase in the price of oil. An unfavourable situation like that tends to raise prices at the same time as it slows economic growth by making production more costly and less profitable.[7][8][9][10]
Second, the government can cause stagflation if it creates policies that harm industry while growing the money supply too quickly. These two things would probably have to occur simultaneously because policies that slow economic growth do not usually cause inflation, and policies that cause inflation do not usually slow economic growth.[citation needed]

Both factors are caused by stupid government policy and both are present in our current economy.

JC
JC
May 4, 2023 7:21 pm

I’m extremely tolerant, so if a bunch of adults want to watch drag shows, I shan’t try to stop them. But I’ll take care to avoid their company.

They’re very talented dancers, Doc.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
May 4, 2023 7:23 pm

channel nein also ran a pharmacist tear-jerker which failed to jerk any of my tears free

the gummint letting the prescription cycle run out to two months instead of one

when they reduced the cycle to one month a few years ago did they cut the dispensing fee?

if not we are being told that reverting to the prevailing business model from five years ago is armageddon

Roger
Roger
May 4, 2023 7:27 pm

Otoh, I admire Moira Deeming’s fighting spirit.

Otoh, I wonder why she’s expending it on staying in the Liberal Party of VIC.

C.L.
C.L.
May 4, 2023 7:28 pm

Drunk Barnaby talking to Rita. LOL.

C.L.
C.L.
May 4, 2023 7:29 pm

Rita (with new do) looking lovely, btw.

Indolent
Indolent
May 4, 2023 7:31 pm
Indolent
Indolent
May 4, 2023 7:33 pm
Steve trickler
Steve trickler
May 4, 2023 7:35 pm

Nice work.

———-

Stew Peters goes into the lion’s den and teaches the BBC a lesson.
Watch behind the scenes footage the BBC doesn’t want you to see.
The BBC attempts and fails to discredit the wildly successful documentary “Died Suddenly”.
Stew financed and released “Died Suddenly” to save lives from the murderous Covid cult.
Throughout the interview Stew exposes the pro-vaxx lies parroted by the mainstream media.
The BBC continues to promote a bioweapon injection that is killing children.
The fake news “journalists” were completely caught off guard and not prepared to answer Stew’s questions about why embalmers are finding white fibrous clots inside the vaccinated dead.
Stew reminds the BBC of vaccinated Damar Hamlin’s sudden collapse on national television.
The average number of professional athletes who have collapsed during competition is 5 to 10 per year.
In the last year that number has climbed to over 1000.
The United States is funneling money into the fake construct of a country called Ukraine.
The Covid-19 pandemic was used to enact a massive worldwide depopulation event.
People must be held accountable for their blatant crimes against humanity and that also includes lying journalists.

LIVE@8PM ET: BBC Doesn’t Want You To See This: Stew Peters Goes Head-To-Head with BBC, WATCH FULL Interview

Boambee John
Boambee John
May 4, 2023 7:35 pm

Ed Casesays:
May 4, 2023 at 5:57 pm
I don’t think so.
There are plenty of sparrows in Ipswich, none in Brisbane, and Mynahs hang around the tips.

Check the jacarandas in New Farm Park for sparrows. Or mynahs.

Winston Smith
May 4, 2023 7:38 pm

ZK2A:

“How dare the Queen just die and this country go into mourning, what about my own people who continue to be the most impoverished and imprisoned people,” Grant said on ABC radio last week.

YOUR People, sTan Grant? Impoverished and imprisoned?
You bastard hypocrite. You’re in the top 5% of wealthy people in this country and you have the arrogance to claim ownership over people who will never be invited to share a meal in your house?*
Piss off!
*They might just get an invite, as long as there are cameras supplied by the ABC to film the occasion for nationwide viewing of Saint sTan and his generosity.

Boambee John
Boambee John
May 4, 2023 7:40 pm

callisays:
May 4, 2023 at 6:29 pm
Oh. Ed’s back.

Thanks for the kerplop.

One kerplop isn’t too bad, but Grandpa Ed Simpson is suffering from digital diarrhea tonight.

cohenite
May 4, 2023 7:41 pm

Faruqi is bringing our Pauline to the 18C chamber of horrors because our Pauline told her to piss off back home after faraqi said on the day of the death of Madge this:

Condolences to those who knew the Queen.
I cannot mourn the leader of a racist empire built on stolen lives, land and wealth of colonised peoples.
We are reminded of the urgency of Treaty with First Nations, justice & reparations for British colonies & becoming a republic.

faruqi has spewed up other twits such as this where she racially vilifies whites.

Faruqi has brought action in the Federal Court under 18C which deals with offensive behaviour based on race, colour or national or ethnic origin. A couple of things. Faruqi clearly has contravened 18C herself. In addition the full context of what our Pauline said has been ignored with the focus on the piss off ending. Our Pauline said in response to faruqi’s dreadful response to madge’s death:

“Your attitude appalls and disgusts me. When you immigrated to Australia you took every advantage of this country”.
“You took citizenship, bought multiple homes, and a job in a parliament. It’s clear you’re not happy, so pack your bags and piss off back to Pakistan,”

That would seem to satisfy S.18D (c), (iii) which says:

(ii) a fair comment on any event or matter of public interest if the comment is an expression of a genuine belief held by the person making the comment.

Finally faruqi is a muzzie. Islam is not a race, colour or national or ethnicity so as to invoke 18C.

Gabor
Gabor
May 4, 2023 7:41 pm

Oh. Ed’s back.

Thanks for the kerplop.

I blame bespoke, he had to ask.

Miltonf
Miltonf
May 4, 2023 7:42 pm

Nasty piece of work but then most ‘Jounalists’ are. Why accept the ABC salary if he despises the people paying it so much?

Indolent
Indolent
May 4, 2023 7:43 pm
flyingduk
flyingduk
May 4, 2023 7:44 pm

I agree mole, I have had a business idea or two shot down by government idiocy, plus a decent job to move onto later on.

I had my whole career shot down, with a side order of jail time.

H B Bear
H B Bear
May 4, 2023 7:45 pm

A mynah in a jacaranda is worth two in the bush.

H B Bear
H B Bear
May 4, 2023 7:49 pm

sTan’s People? Weren’t they on Kenny Everett?

Winston Smith
May 4, 2023 7:51 pm

Farmer Gez:

I’ve often wondered how corellas would go in a minefield.

Bang!

132andBush
132andBush
May 4, 2023 7:54 pm

A mynah in a jacaranda is worth two in the bush.

Sounds slightly obscene.

H B Bear
H B Bear
May 4, 2023 7:58 pm

Somebody’s been at too many drag time story hours.

H B Bear
H B Bear
May 4, 2023 8:01 pm

Why would sTan want to go to the coronation? Wimbledon doesn’t start for weeks.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
May 4, 2023 8:01 pm

H B Bearsays:

May 4, 2023 at 7:58 pm

Somebody’s been at too many drag time story hours.

or watched 2 much mafs

Winston Smith
May 4, 2023 8:13 pm

‘I felt like a thief!’ Hordes of Sainsbury’s shoppers join growing outrage at new system that demands customers scan their receipts before they are allowed to leave stores.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12042565/Sainsburys-shoppers-outraged-barriers-force-scan-receipts-leave.html?ico=related-replace
I’d like to see that particular bit of idiocy go to court.

Crossie
Crossie
May 4, 2023 8:15 pm

I’m amused that it’s always IED, DEI or EDI never DIE.
They seem very sensitive.

I saw that as well particularly when in most cases words are even used in an unusual order just so you get a memorable acronym. What could be more memorable than DIE particularly when it describes what it is meant to do to us?

Crossie
Crossie
May 4, 2023 8:18 pm

Roger says:
May 4, 2023 at 7:27 pm
Otoh, I admire Moira Deeming’s fighting spirit.

Otoh, I wonder why she’s expending it on staying in the Liberal Party of VIC.

I understand her, Liberal Party is a major party that has been taken over by its enemies and she is trying to wrest control back from them. I have tried other options, voting for minor parties, and they work up to a point but you need a major party like the Liberals to change things. If it takes litigation then let it rip and I will even donate to the cause.

Black Ball
Black Ball
May 4, 2023 8:20 pm

They’re now offering them to the public for free at Bunnings stores by the pallet load.

Says a bit about the last couple of years.
The only hardware store that was deemed an essential service, to my knowledge, and remained open all through the shitshow getting lots of revenue whilst old mate on Main Street got a kick in the nuts.
And McGowan to wash his hands of the surplus RAT tests. Just wow.

Bear Necessities
Bear Necessities
May 4, 2023 8:23 pm

Skills needed in the US Military

Was this idea from the same person who marketed ‘Dylan’ with Bud Light. Will it work this time?

Winston Smith
May 4, 2023 8:32 pm

re the US recruiting using drag queens and poofters as draw cards: I wonder if they are aware that overt practitioners of the Anal Art are usually the first off the ship when war is declared?
Or was that just a dream I had once?

rosie
rosie
May 4, 2023 8:41 pm

All hardware stores in Victoria were allowed to remain open.
Know someone who owns a couple, they did very nicely through covid.
There were a few weeks when even Bunnings was open to trades only and the rest of us could only click and collect.

Frank
Frank
May 4, 2023 8:45 pm

What could be more memorable than DIE particularly when it describes what it is meant to do to us?

IED: Improvised Explosive Device.

Black Ball
Black Ball
May 4, 2023 8:47 pm

Know someone who owns a couple, they did very nicely through covid.

Nice for them. Not here however

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
May 4, 2023 8:51 pm

All hardware stores in Victoria were allowed to remain open.

Bunnings were bastards in NSW. I avoided them for a long time, during the lockdown/anal stuff period.
Fortunately I’m not a handyman type of guy, so wasn’t too strung out by having to go cold turkey.

Winston Smith
May 4, 2023 8:52 pm

O’Keefe: DOJ Prison Official Says Merrick Garland “Rolling Over” On Trans Men Impregnating Women in Prison – Paying Transgender Rapists Millions in Lawsuit Settlements

If this is true – and there’s a definite chance of that so far – the government is paying men to rape women in prisons.
Sounds about right for the DoJ.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/05/okeefe-doj-prison-official-says-merrick-garland-rolling-over-on-trans-men-impregnating-women-in-prison-paying-transgender-rapists-millions-in-lawsuit-settlements-video/

Cassie of Sydney
May 4, 2023 9:07 pm

“I will vote to expel Deeming at State Council or Assembly”

As I wrote earlier, I really think it’s time the Victorian Liberals shut up shop.

It’s now embarrassing. It’s no wonder Dan reigns supreme.

Cassie of Sydney
May 4, 2023 9:18 pm

A few weeks ago someone on C.L.’s blog made the accurate observation that the Victorian Liberals don’t want to win elections. You might ask….why not? Well, winning elections requires hard work, it requires discipline, it requires opposing, resisting, speaking against governments in power, it requires not dumping on your own and it requires party apparatchiks not using Wikipedia as a source to defame and smear one of the few real performers in the party. It appears that all of this was and is way too hard for the Victorian Liberal Party, and instead they lick Andrews’ bum on everything. Opposing and resisting is too hard for Guy, Pesutto and others in the Victorian Liberal Party, instead, the Victorian Victorian are comfortable in their tidy and safe sinecure and they prefer to blame everyone else for their problems. The party is not salvageable, it’s over.

In the meantime, Deeming should join the Liberal Democrats.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
May 4, 2023 9:24 pm

Saint sTan and his generosity.

Saint Stan was the bozo who took his children to show them where the evil white man destroyed the Walpuiri “Nation” by poisoning the waterholes….

Muddy
Muddy
May 4, 2023 9:25 pm

Nostalgia is a powerful motivator, Cassie.
Political parties such as the Festering Zombies depend on it for their survival.
Though marketed as a stimulant, it’s actually a sedative.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
May 4, 2023 9:36 pm

Carnarvon crime wave prompts WA liquor licensing’s Lanie Chopping to impose State’s strictest booze ban
Rebecca Le MayThe West Australian
Thu, 4 May 2023 6:27PM
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Carnarvon has been slapped with the State’s strongest alcohol restrictions after a booze-fuelled crime wave prompted urgent calls for action.

WA’s director of liquor licensing Lanie Chopping announced in March she was considering tough measures such as prohibiting packaged liquor sales on Sunday and Monday, and only allowing it between midday and 7pm on other days.

And on Thursday, she revealed those first two conditions had now been imposed, along with daily volume limits for packaged liquor sales.

Each customer is only allowed one carton or 11.25 litres of beer with an alcohol content up to 6 per cent, two bottles or a 1.5-litre cask of wine, or 1 litre of spirits.

The wine must be priced at least $15 per bottle or cask.

For beer, cider or pre-mix spirits with an alcohol content higher than 6 per cent, the limit is 3.75 litres. And where a product is available in cans, it should not be sold in glass containers.

Licensees must scan every customer’s ID against the banned drinkers register “when the facilities become available”, Ms Chopping said.

Carnarvon has been torn apart by alcohol-fuelled violence this year, including a brawl involving about 100 people in which a boy suffered serious head injuries.

Muddy
Muddy
May 4, 2023 9:36 pm

I’ve just realised that nostalgia cannot be a motivator if it is a sedative.
Hopefully someone knows what I meant.

Cassie of Sydney
May 4, 2023 9:37 pm

“Nostalgia is a powerful motivator, Cassie.
Political parties such as the Festering Zombies depend on it for their survival.
Though marketed as a stimulant, it’s actually a sedative.”

Yep. Akin to being opium addicts. The Victorian Liberals, bar a few, are like inert bodies in an opium den. Remember, apart from the four years of Beaulieu and Napthine, the Liberal Party in Victoria has now been out of power for twenty years. What’s tragic is that there are millions of Victorians who deserve better, but they can’t get better, they’re the forgotten people.

Dot
Dot
May 4, 2023 9:51 pm

Disgusting.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/cea/written-materials/2023/05/02/cost-of-cryptomining-dame-tax/

One new proposal in this year’s Budget, the Digital Asset Mining Energy (DAME) excise tax, is an example of the President’s commitment to addressing both long-standing national challenges as well as emerging risks – in this case, the economic and environmental costs of current practices for mining crypto assets (cryptomining, for short). After a phase-in period, firms would face a tax equal to 30 percent of the cost of the electricity they use in cryptomining.

Let’s say I’m a clever clog Yank and make a free to use app with no adds, but I do install some mining software as part of that deal. I get 10 million users in a massively parallel, distributed computing solution. The users could be all over the world.

How the %$#& does senile Joe “Hairy Legs” Biden tax me?

While crypto assets are virtual, the energy consumption tied to their computationally intensive production is very real and imposes very real costs, as highlighted in a chapter of this year’s Economic Report of the President (entitled “Digital Assets: Relearning Economic Principles”). Recent reporting by the New York Times highlighted the scale of the power consumption associated with 34 of the largest cryptomining operations, which they calculated as equal to the power used by the surrounding 3 million homes. As shown in Figure 1, the amount of electricity used in cryptomining in the United States in 2022 was similar to what is used to power all the country’s home computers or residential lighting.

Idiotic.

Do ATMs, POS systems, cash registers, bank websites, bank servers, physical bank lights, physical security systems, heating, cooling, money printing machines, lathes and dies for making pennies, all run on free, non polluting electricity?

Alongside these known costs and risks, cryptomining does not generate the local and national economic benefits typically associated with businesses using similar amounts of electricity.

Except for a class of young millionaires who can start investing in other businesses from a relatively young age, indirectly employ people through higher consumption and there is an alternative currency if the dollar sharts itself outside of gold & silver. It is also the formation of a new kind of financial services platform. Comparing this to “SHOVEL READY!” projects is absurd.

Although the potential for cryptomining to relocate abroad—such as to areas with dirtier energy production—is a concern,

America has clean energy because of nuclear power. Countries that have electricity production outstripped by crypto mining are generally, well, unpleasant public latrines that no one emigrates to.

other countries are also increasingly moving to restrict crypto asset mining. China banned such activity completely in 2021

China did it, it must be good?

three Canadian provinces also have announced or enacted cryptomining moratoriums.

The great leap backwards shifts from Shanghai to Vancouver.

To ensure that cryptomining is not simply pushed from one local community to another, a national policy is needed. Of course, the DAME tax is not a panacea—it is only one example of the Administration’s efforts to fight climate change, reduce energy prices, and increase access to electrified options for all Americans. Similarly, it is just one example of the President’s larger efforts to ensure the responsible development of digital assets, modernize their tax treatment, and mitigate risks to financial stability.

Joe Biden knows as much about digital assets and financial stability as he does what day of the week it is – zilch.

Dot
Dot
May 4, 2023 9:53 pm

For da equity and wukkin’ class.

https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/smokers-hit-with-3-3b-tobacco-tax-increase-20230502-p5d4vb

Tax whack to push cigarettes to nearly $50 a pack

The ALP are the party of the people: with significant assets, who don’t smoke.

Top Ender
Top Ender
May 4, 2023 9:54 pm

Just watched an episode and a half of The Diplomat on Netflix.

Written like a cartoon, by nongs who think all viewers are halfwits.

Motoring through NSW and stopped in Balranald. For some reason they have a small museum in the Main Street which seems to have a replica of the Spirit of St. Louis aircraft in it. Couldn’t really tell as it was getting dark. Most mysterious.

Muddy
Muddy
May 4, 2023 10:04 pm

Cassie: … the forgotten people.

From Lifters and Leaners to Invisibles and Screamers.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
May 4, 2023 10:04 pm

Tax whack to push cigarettes to nearly $50 a pack

Mme Zulu is still realizing how much she saves by giving up smoking!

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
May 4, 2023 10:12 pm

Robert
14 minutes ago
How do part-Aborigines like Grant justify needing an extra voice to parliament? Hypocrisy.

Top Ender
Top Ender
May 4, 2023 10:21 pm

Dubbo youth crime: Police, locals share horror stories of break ins, theft

Children as young as 10 are being charged multiple times for youth crime related offences in the state’s central west – as terrified families say they face home invasions on a monthly basis.

A ten-year-old boy in the state’s central west has been charged on 17 different occasions in relation to youth crime – as frustrated local police say the level of vacancies are hampering their ability to tackle a growing scourge of kid gangs from dusk to dawn.

Police Association of NSW president Kevin Morton said the boy was released from custody every time he was charged, “up until his most recent matter when bail was finally refused”.

“Our police are currently dealing with a group of young people who sadly continue to reoffend and terrify locals,” Mr Morton said.

Mr Morton said the “revolving door of the court system” needed to be addressed.

Officers told The Daily Telegraph the Orana-Mid Western Police District was struggling to cope with growing crime rates – including an increasing number of incidents relating to youth crime – citing “inflated” vacancies and long-term health related leave.

“Police can’t keep up with the sheer amount of criminal activity across the district,” one officer said. “The district is short-staffed, we have a high number of vacancies and a significant number of officers on health leave.

“Even if we could impose a youth curfew, we wouldn’t have enough boots on the ground to deal with the number of call-outs we get everyday.

‘The number of officers rostered on overnight hasn’t really changed in several years, despite our growing overnight youth crime issue – we are at breaking point.”

Another former officer argued NSW Police advocated for youth programs, rather than a strict curfew to stamp out criminal behaviour, because of the “huge” grant funding associated with the initiatives.

“The department’s response to growing vacancy rates across the boards is introducing four new probationary constables.”

Mr Morton said police recruitment and retention “remains a significant issue”.

“The PANSW will continue to work with the NSWPF and Government to find solutions through training, improved wages and entitlements to attract and retain our officers.”

The calls to keep youth offenders in custody after repeated offences comes as Dubbo residents revealed the constant threat youth crime poses across the central west.

“My house was broken into, property stolen, car stolen and destroyed after being taken for a joy ride – $30,000 in damages that I’ll never see again,” one resident said.

Another Dubbo resident said home security cameras alerted him to a teenager attempting to break into his car and house earlier this month.

“This isn’t an uncommon issue for us,” he said.

The man said he scared the teen off before he accessed the house, before calling the police.

“Police swing by about 20 minutes later and as they pull up out the front of our house they startle two young teenagers in our yard,” he said.

“The police put handcuffs on them and began questioning what they were doing – they were uncooperative and seemed to know the system – telling the police they couldn’t be arrested as they were too young.

“A quick search from the police found them to be carrying meth, tools to break into houses and a large knife.”

The man said just two nights later a car was stolen at knifepoint.

“We’ve lived in Dubbo for 2 years now and we average a break in every six to eight weeks.”

A NSW Police spokeswoman said the department would “continue to work towards meeting the expectations of the local community to increase their safety and will continue to engage the community of Dubbo to identify and address concerns that may exist or arise from time to time in the township”.

“Dubbo Police Station operates on a 24/7 basis and provides a consistent and well-resourced complement of local officers to ensure the community has the best possible policing response and is equipped to meet local needs,” she said.

“Western Region Commander Assistant Commissioner Brett Greentree has been appointed Corporate Sponsor for Youth.

“Mr Greentree will be focusing on education and employment as key priorities, working with partner agencies.

Meanwhile, Police Minister Yasmin Catley said she “shares community concerns about anti-social and criminal behaviour and supports the range of actions and interventions Police and government agencies are taking to keep people safe”.

Daily Tele complete article – no comments allowed

Top Ender
Top Ender
May 4, 2023 10:30 pm

And in Qld again…

Just hours after he helped steal a Mercedes which would later be involved in a triple fatal crash, a 13-year-old boy was allegedly back behind the wheel of another stolen car, driving past the Maryborough police station and taunting officers who were powerless to pursue.

This is among the confronting details the Courier Mail has uncovered amid an investigation into the events before and after the stolen Mercedes allegedly caused a crash which claimed the lives of Kelsie Davies, 17, Michale Chandler, 29 and Sheree Robertson, 52 on Sunday night.

While not in the car at the time of the crash (another 13-year-old boy has been charged with dangerous driving causing death) it’s understood the juvenile was not only the passenger captured on CCTV when the Mercedes was stolen earlier that evening but that he has also continued to leave a trail of carnage since.

It can be revealed the boy, despite knowing his friend had the night before been arrested over a crash which killed three people, allegedly stole a white Kia Cerato with the registration 240 XYS, on Labour Day morning.

That car was seen being driven erratically through the city with multiple sources saying the three youths inside that car drove past the Maryborough Police Station, “taunting” officers, throwing things out the window and sticking their middle fingers up.

A picture of the Kia was posted on the Maryborough Community page that same morning with the caption “here we go again last seen flying down Kent St, front end smashed”.

It’s understood police were unable to give chase due to pursuit legislation and the CBD location.

The boy has since been arrested and on Thursday was charged with two counts of dangerous operation of motor vehicle, one count each of driving without a licence and possessing dangerous drugs.

The Beer Whisperer
The Beer Whisperer
May 4, 2023 10:48 pm

How many people died because ivermectin was banned?
Mortality, skull, deathOne study of 8,300 people in Brazil showed that taking ivermectin regularly before catching Covid halved the odds of catching it, and reduced mortality by 92%. Prophylactic use reduced hospitalization by 98%, and in a dose dependent manner.

Which means that the studies that showed it made no difference didn’t use any real world data, or simply deleted data that showed it did.

cohenite
May 4, 2023 10:53 pm

Just hours after he helped steal a Mercedes which would later be involved in a triple fatal crash, a 13-year-old boy was allegedly back behind the wheel of another stolen car, driving past the Maryborough police station and taunting officers who were powerless to pursue.

Some vigilante action required here.

Muddy
Muddy
May 4, 2023 10:57 pm

Cohenite: Some vigilante action required here.

It’s the indigifada, just like Marcia warned us.

The Beer Whisperer
The Beer Whisperer
May 4, 2023 11:13 pm

China did it, it must be good?

To every closet wannabe tyrant, yes.

slackster
slackster
May 4, 2023 11:24 pm

The fact that RAT’s were illegal in WA and citizens faced a $20,000 fine for using them while the mine sites were testing everyone 2x a day with them says more than enough.

Oh wait it gets even better- part of the justification of this ban and fine was:

“In Western Australia (WA) the Chief Health Officer has prohibited the use of SARS-CoV-2
rapid antigen tests as an acute illness diagnostic tool for COVID-19, as their use may
adversely affect the prevention, control and abatement of the serious public health risk
presented by COVID-19”

https://www.health.wa.gov.au/~/media/Corp/Documents/Health-for/Infectious-disease/COVID19/COVID19-Clinician-Alert-WA-34.pdf

Why people in Australia continue to listen to anything their government officials tell them is beyond my comprehension

H B Bear
H B Bear
May 4, 2023 11:37 pm

Good pickup slackster. A proper forensic account of that whole period would provide numerous examples of such absurdities. That one was particularly galling- no surprise it was from the land of the Big Sneakers. Also the 6pm news being lead by a tanker 20 miles off the coast with a single case onboard.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
May 4, 2023 11:50 pm

Have a go at this muppet (the Hun):

A man who turned up to TV star Sophie Monk’s house holding a single rose claims he was duped by an online scammer into believing he was in a relationship with the Love Island host.

Brian Rapley, 49, was slapped with a restraining order by police after awkward scenes unfolded outside the former Bachelorette’s Central Coast home last week.

Brian Rapley, by the way, and according to his pics accompanying the piece, has the visage of a dropped pie.

“I feel like such an idiot,” Mr Rapley told The Daily Telegraph on Thursday outside his Western Sydney home. “But I thought we were in a relationship.”

Mr Rapley, a father of two, has spent the past four months chatting online with someone he believed was the real TV personality and has been scammed out of $7000.

Oh dear Lord.

But what played out was a “belittling and distressing” few hours as Mr Rapley was surrounded by police officers and taken to Gosford Police Station where he was questioned “like I was some crazed stalker”.

And:

“I had five cop cars around me and I’m being told ‘Get out with your hands up’,” Mr Rapley claimed police said.

“They said to me ‘What are you here to do to Sophie Monk,’ and I said ‘I’m here to meet her for the first time, we are in a relationship’.”

The best of the piece is where is describes that Monk was actually in Quenthland, making a zombie film with…..

Vanilla Ice. Presumably she’ll be rollin, in her 5.0 with the ragtop down so her hair can blow.

Johnny Rotten
May 5, 2023 12:11 am

H B Bearsays:
May 4, 2023 at 7:49 pm
sTan’s People? Weren’t they on Kenny Everett?

LOL. That was ‘Hot Gossip’. Stan and his people, on the other hand, just do the gossip bit.

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