Open Thread – Weekend 13 May 2023


Reekie, Glasgow, John Atkinson Grimshaw, late 1800s

1,524 responses to “Open Thread – Weekend 13 May 2023”

  1. Zatara Avatar
    Zatara

    Do they still have the death penalty in Louisiana?

    Yep. At the moment it’s via lethal injection but that’s being litigated.

    Plenty of rifles and ropes still around tho.

  2. Chris Avatar
    Chris

    This neo-nazi thing is very weird. Who are these people? What are they actually saying?
    It’s a puzzle. I don’t know which side to despise.

  3. Steve trickler Avatar
    Steve trickler

    Indolentsays:
    May 14, 2023 at 7:46 am
    The virus was never isolated.

    There was No Virus’ Says The Former Vice President of Pfizer

    Hmmm.

    This is a follow up to a feature called Watch the Water which came out about a year ago, focusing on the use of Synthetic Venom Peptides by Big-Pharma with development under the auspices of the Department of Defence in the USA. Various labs around the world analyzed the fecal and blood of covid patients and discovered snake and various other critter’s venom signatures in the samples.

    How did they get there?

    Peter McCullough, Robert Malone ( self-proclaimed inventor of mRNA -Wrong! *), Pierre Corrie, Paul Marik and Steve Kirsch refuse to touch on the subject which is a tell in my book.

    * Drew Weissman and Katalin Kariko are the inventors of mRNA. They receive the royalties cheques. Kariko started it all around 1978.

    All Doc Ardis is doing is telling the world about all the studies that are in the public domain and the above group come across as absolute bloody cowards in refusing to address the subject matter.

    @18:13 Ardis details about how it was mentioned that the SVP’s could not get passed the stomach acids to enter the body. His response was a kaboom moment ( taking his word for it ), particularly with regard to blood pressure medication which is based on ….venom. They found a way with that medication.

    As for the jabs, 50% of the ingredients is proprietary, so the bastards don’t have to reveal it. Have a guess what the other 50% could be? Yep, SVP’s that basically is the spike protein that gets the human body to produce, yes produce, venom in the body. The use of the them can produce / create all the symptoms of respiratory disease.

    Anyway, check out this angle and make up your own mind and do some research. Big-Pharma are quite open when it comes to using synthetic venoms …so is the WEF.

    I think many will be surprised about nicotine in all this. Why? because the jabs focused on the nicotine receptors in the brain …. do check it out. I remember Fauci saying to smokers it’s now time to quit as they would be the most vulnerable. HA! That turned out to be absolute BS! Nicotine basically rendered the jabs as to be useless.

    At least you now know about it.

    54:33 and the interview starts at 1:55.

    _____________

    Stew Peters Show:

    They called it a conspiracy. They ignored the evidence.
    But they can’t change the truth.
    Dr. Bryan Ardis returns in this closing chapter to Watch The Water, reinforcing the research behind the groundbreaking documentary.
    From venom peptides to blood clots, Dr. Ardis and Stew dive deep into how the Covid-19 bioweapon was made.

    LIVE @ 8PM ET: PREMIERE: Watch The Water 2: Closing Chapter

  4. Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity Avatar
    Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

    … John Howard in a bullet proof jacket when he spoke against gun possession? Yes I know, wrong cause and the media loved it but can you imagine Dutton doing the same for any cause?

    Actually the media & govt denied it. The politician I spoke to at the time (incredibly I forget who) flat out refused to accept that anybody would have noticed JoHo was wearing a flak jacket.

    On to the main point: Dutton the invisible man. Yep, difficult to imagine him doing the same.
    At the moment I’ll take Pauline Hanson, Mark Latham, even Jacquie Lambie, as leader of the opposition.

    Each of those will at least have cut-through & get their message out.

  5. Roger Avatar
    Roger

    This neo-nazi thing is very weird. Who are these people?

    The special ops group of the International Socialists?

    At least, I wouldn’t be ruling that out just yet.

  6. Sancho Panzer Avatar
    Sancho Panzer

    Who wrote that tripe in the Daily Tele about the Cane Toad?

  7. Cassie of Sydney Avatar
    Cassie of Sydney

    “Who are these people?”

    Paid operatives of the Victorian police and the Victorian Labor party.

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  8. Dr Faustus Avatar
    Dr Faustus

    …delivery of culturally appropriate care…

    People who make these comments, and expect a functional response, have an obligation to spell out exactly what ‘culturally appropriate [insert service here]’ means.

    Otherwise they are demonstrating NFI and simply making noise, or deliberately obscuring any discussion leading to a practical outcome.

  9. Bruce of Newcastle Avatar
    Bruce of Newcastle

    Weep little qwerties, weep from this horrifying righty trolling…

    The Daily Wire is on fire (12 May, via Instapundit)

    David Richardson is gay, but the wrong KIND of gay man. He is fixated on biology and science, and that is simply unforgivable.

    California community college is investigating a tenured history professor for the “serious misconduct” of handing out chocolate, he claims.

    The Daily Wire started selling the chocolate as a fun tease of Hershey’s, which used a transgender “woman” to celebrate International Woman’s Day by introducing Her She’s chocolate bars. The Daily Wire immediately shot back at the absurdity by releasing “Jeremy’s Chocolate,” with two flavors: SheHer bars, and HeHim bars, which have nuts.

    RTWT. I’d heard about the gay professor being suspended for transphobia after handing out chocolate bars, but I hadn’t seen the full story. Trolling Hershey’s for a Bud Lite style fiasco is most excellent. Well done sir! I hope you get your job back, if you still want it.

    (The Jeremy’s Razors commercial embedded in the story is a thing of beauty too!)

  10. Cassie of Sydney Avatar
    Cassie of Sydney

    “Who wrote that tripe in the Daily Tele about the Cane Toad?”

    Gossip writer called “Annette Sharp”, a woman of zero substance writing about another woman of zero substance.

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  11. Boambee John Avatar
    Boambee John

    “To improve health outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people we must overcome barriers to medicines access and ensure the delivery of culturally appropriate care,” Harris said in a statement (pdf) on May 11.

    Pfizer should feel free to deploy mobile teams of doctors and pharmacists to indigenous outback “communities”, at their own expense, to “overcome [the] barriers”. Consider it a contribution to the noble cause.

  12. Boambee John Avatar
    Boambee John

    Roger

    Snap re Pfizer.

  13. Boambee John Avatar
    Boambee John

    Rogersays:
    May 14, 2023 at 9:59 am
    By the White House’s own admission Joe Biden is only in the Oval office between the hours of 10:00am and 4:00pm, and sometimes not even that.

    He has spent 331 days of his presidency – 40% of it in total – on vacation.

    But, but, but, Trump played more golf!

  14. flyingduk Avatar
    flyingduk

    “The odds that the United States will fall into a recession at some point over the next 12 months have risen to a 40-year high, according to a probability model from the New York Federal Reserve.”

    If you adjust for
    1) Population increase (to calculate whether *your* standard of living rises requires you to divide GDP by population)
    2) The fall in the value of the measuring instrument (the USD)

    the US (and Australia) are already in recession and have likely been for most of the time since the 1970s.

  15. Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity Avatar
    Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

    A crowdfunding effort for the ex-Marine charged with second-degree manslaughter over the death of a homeless schizophrenic on a New York City subway has soared past $1million.

    $1.3 million.

    Just contributed USD $10
    The total rose $2800 in the brief time the screen refreshed to accept my contribution.

  16. flyingduk Avatar
    flyingduk

    I have just read a cross post (of Malone) to an interesting sub stack concerning the censorship of the media that has arisen to an astonishing degree over the period of the pandemic. Worth reading.

    As a sign at a protest rally said: “Of course all the experts agree, when you censor the ones that don’t”

    To which I would add, censor – jail – fire – harass – ruin careers – destroy income ….

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  17. JMH Avatar
    JMH

    According to Rukshan, the anti-racist supporters were Antifa and Socialist Left – the same a/holes who interrupted the Keen Rally in support of women’s rights.

  18. OldOzzie Avatar
    OldOzzie

    Are the Neo Nazis in Melbourne organised by the American FBI like these Guys?

    Feds on Parade: Hundreds of ‘Patriot Front’ Members March in Khakis and Masks Towards U.S. Capitol (VIDEO)

    Note the Police Escort

  19. Roger Avatar
    Roger

    People who make these comments, and expect a functional response, have an obligation to spell out exactly what ‘culturally appropriate [insert service here]’ means.

    She’ll consult with her DEI people and get back to you in due course with a spiel laden with even more buzz words that bears only a tangential relationship with the King’s English.

    In the meantime, corporate virtue has been signalled.

  20. Vicki Avatar
    Vicki

    Peter McCullough, Robert Malone ( self-proclaimed inventor of mRNA -Wrong! *), Pierre Corrie, Paul Marik and Steve Kirsch refuse to touch on the subject which is a tell in my book.

    * Drew Weissman and Katalin Kariko are the inventors of mRNA. They receive the royalties cheques. Kariko started it all around 1978.

    It gets pretty tedious going back to this dispute. As I understand it, Malone developed the technique (in 1980s when he was at Salk?) of delivering the mRNA via lipid nanoparticles. This was seminal, because it allowed the delivery to avoid destruction by the immune system. He says he receives patent royalties & these can be reviewed by disbelievers.

    There is no doubt that Professor Kariko, in particular, refined & further developed this work. They worked together, &, as often happens, dispute the significance of each other’s work.

  21. Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity Avatar
    Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

    The image that caused ordinary Americans to become contributors to give-send-go, & turned them into right-wingers.

  22. H B Bear Avatar
    H B Bear

    The funny thing is that music I didn’t care for 20 years ago I now like.

    Would have said that for Blondie. Had Talking Heads on cassette. Only Emos listened to The Cure. Probably still true today. Have come around to Australian Crawl and Midnight Oil too. Spotify is the greatest use of the Internet.

  23. Robert Sewell Avatar

    “The alleged actions of Joe Biden may rise to the level of an impeachable offense.”
    They are already at that point – what it now takes is the political will to impeach the old thief.
    https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/explosive-new-evidence-biden-family-breathtaking-corruption
    The problem is that there are too many Republicans on the take to enforce the Impeachment.
    Perhaps it would take the Don to force the vote and make the ALL the crooked politicians either turn on Biden, or stand by him. Because if there’s one thing President Trump does, is make people take sides and expose themselves.

  24. flyingduk Avatar
    flyingduk

    Actually the media & govt denied it. The politician I spoke to at the time (incredibly I forget who) flat out refused to accept that anybody would have noticed JoHo was wearing a flak jacket.

    There are certainly pictures out there of JWH wearing a suit jacket with what appears to be the outline of a ballistic plate on his back. It would have to have been in either a very slim line plate carrier, or sewn into the jacket, you dont see the plate outline in a miltary grade vest.

    https://www.google.com/search?q=john+howard+wearing+bullet+proof+vest&sxsrf=APwXEdcGN8nQh1OkKCoiNV0VJQW-OyTRsA:1684026222723&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi_x7DGzvP-AhUrTWwGHasaB9cQ_AUoAXoECAEQAw&biw=1229&bih=574&dpr=1.56#imgrc=UEzD25qA78Tn0M

  25. Boambee John Avatar
    Boambee John

    Chrissays:
    May 14, 2023 at 10:43 am
    This neo-nazi thing is very weird. Who are these people? What are they actually saying?
    It’s a puzzle. I don’t know which side to despise.

    Whom are these people? Almost certainly Glowies.

    What are they actually saying? “Don’t cross the fascist left, stick to the approved narratives. Or else!”

  26. Miltonf Avatar
    Miltonf

    puke piece

    accurate description

  27. Muddy Avatar
    Muddy

    I haven’t seen the footage, so might be incorrect with this, but it’s interesting that in Black Ball’s article above about the Melb CBD clash, it states that Avi was ‘bonked’ on the head, but others were assaulted. Note the use of language: ‘bonked.’ While in reality (see my opening sentence) it may have been a minor incident, ‘bonked’ carries a less serious, unintentional, almost humorous connotation in comparison to ‘assaulted.’

    Note also the adjective ‘controversial’ attached to Avi. I’m guessing that at least some of the ‘anti racism’ posse may have been experienced campaigners, but we’re any of them identified by name & similarly described as ‘controversial’?

  28. Muddy Avatar
    Muddy

    The phrase ‘culturally appropriate care’ is emotive code for ‘officially sanctioned segregation,’ nothing more.

  29. Miltonf Avatar
    Miltonf

    I actually thought BB was taking the piss and it was a spoof at first. You can’t believe at first that anyone could write such sludge and then get it published.

  30. Muddy Avatar
    Muddy

    Were not we’re. Freaking auto-carrot!

  31. Miltonf Avatar
    Miltonf

    Vicpol taking a leaf out of the FBI book most likely.

  32. Roger Avatar
    Roger

    For those who appreciate classic British fillums, The Lavender Hill Mob is on 9GEM at 12:30pm.

  33. H B Bear Avatar
    H B Bear

    Re “The utter destruction of Lisa Wilkinson’s TV career”:

    I don’t think Lisa’s agent will be blocking out the diary for contract renewal talks somehow. Maybe a few lunches for puff pieces if anyone will take her calls.

  34. Miltonf Avatar
    Miltonf

    Avi was ‘bonked’ on the head

    The meja approves of violence against Avi. The meja are our enemy.

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  35. Miltonf Avatar
    Miltonf

    Nasty little lezzies with their BA (Comms)

  36. H B Bear Avatar
    H B Bear

    Karl Stepanovic comes up smelling of Brut.

  37. dopey Avatar
    dopey

    Trans rights. That would be the same rights they had before they went trans. What they really want is to get in the showers with schoolgirls.

  38. C.L. Avatar
    C.L.

    A gigantic mushroom cloud is not want a Ukrainian wants to see in the morning…

    NATO ammunition depot bombed into oblivion:

    https://twitter.com/KanekoaTheGreat/status/1657451533951455234

  39. johanna Avatar
    johanna

    Only Emos listened to The Cure.

    Oi!

    In my record collection, The Cure sat between Canned Heat and Deep Purple.

  40. Roger Avatar
    Roger

    I actually thought BB was taking the piss and it was a spoof at first. You can’t believe at first that anyone could write such sludge and then get it published.

    Progressive journalistic boilerplate.

    AI could probably write it…now there’s a thought.

  41. Dr Faustus Avatar
    Dr Faustus

    Do they still have the death penalty in Louisiana?

    Yep. At the moment it’s via lethal injection but that’s being litigated.

    Although indifferent to the fate of these two bastards, I’m not a fan of the death penalty, mainly because I don’t trust the machinery of State justice to get any part of process right.

    Part of that is the puzzling inefficiency (and horror stories) of the process of execution by lethal injection. Clearly a civilised State doesn’t want its felons to take 20 minutes or more to die, gargling on a stretcher – and yet that seems to be a regular outcome.

    In other circumstances, euthanasia seems fairly straightforward. We put one of the dogs down recently. The whole process from unconscious to death took less than a minute – no struggling or suffering involved.

    This is not rocket science for vets, yet it seems to be for governments.

  42. Vicki Avatar
    Vicki

    From venom peptides to blood clots, Dr. Ardis and Stew dive deep into how the Covid-19 bioweapon was made.

    Look, this bioweapon theory about the virus and the vaccines is currently gaining traction. Late last year a website called “Bailiwick” of writer Katherine Watt began to publicise the revelations of Sasha Latypova, a former executive of Big Pharma. The latter claims that the virus was developed (manipulated?) under the direction and financing of the US Department of Defense. The latter made sure that Peter Daszak of EcoHealth Alliance, in cooperation with South Carolina University and Fauci were able to complete this research. Astonishingly (& quite hard for us to process!) they did this in concert with the Wuhan Lab’s programme with bat viruses.

    Someone I know, and have a great deal of respect for, believes that this is likely what happened. He has impeccable experience in immunology and thinks that this scenario can only explain the cavalier and disgraceful way RCT trial protocols were totally abandoned when vaccines were required to deal with the early escape of the virus.

    Personally, I think that this is too “way out there”, although I agree that the evidence for the cooperation of the US and the Wuhan Lab is clear and undeniable. Same for the involvement of Daznak’s EcoHeath Aliliance & Fauci.

    I always think that the simplest explanation is often the best. The damn virus that they experimented with escaped from the lab, all the world health organisations – and consequently the governments – totally panicked. Big Pharma smelled a wince in a lifetime opportunity for carte blanche….& the rest is history.

    I am a simple person & it seems to make sense. On the other hand, the historical and social consequences of these developments are almost incalculable.

  43. Dot Avatar

    On Friday Chrysanthou described the ensuing media frenzy as “the utter destruction of my client”.

    She chose to breach advice from a prosecutor during a criminal trial, she made herself cry.

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  44. Dot Avatar

    Paid operatives of the Victorian police and the Victorian Labor party.

    Wasn’t a Victorian detective’s son outed as one of these glowie protestors previously?

  45. Zatara Avatar
    Zatara

    Just contributed USD $10
    The total rose $2800 in the brief time the screen refreshed to accept my contribution.

    It was at $15,000 or so when I contributed roughly 24 hours ago. It’s at $1.36 million right now.

    $1.3 million overnight.

    A statement is being made.

  46. H B Bear Avatar
    H B Bear

    On Friday Chrysanthou described the ensuing media frenzy as “the utter destruction of my client

    If only Wile E Coyote was represented. Those Acme explosives are obviously defective.

  47. Chris Avatar
    Chris

    “Who are these people?”

    Paid operatives of the Victorian police and the Victorian Labor party.

    I can’t help thinking someone got a few cartons of XXXX Gold to set it up. The media luuurve this, and the benefit is also to Chairman Dan and his nearly invisible minions.
    A few specimens should be collected ‘by any means necessary’ and anatomised to determine their species. REALLY suspicious that the all-seeing media have not published names or social media stuff they have written.
    And as a Transitioning Right Wing Death Beast, I find it interesting that all my contacts have shared zero of their material.

  48. Zipster Avatar

    Exhibitors at various trade fairs in China protest/The trade volume of Canton Fair dropped by 1/3
    China Insights
    The Communist authorities are anxious to revive the economy after ending a three-year epidemic control, so they actively put on various expos in the spring and summer of 2023. But so far, the results have been disappointing for many vendors.

  49. H B Bear Avatar
    H B Bear

    Although destruction via media frenzy is exquisite.

  50. Roger Avatar
    Roger

    Wasn’t a Victorian detective’s son outed as one of these glowie protestors previously?

    That seemed to disappear pretty quickly.

  51. Dot Avatar

    The mRNA vaccines were in part pinned on a scientific truth that wasn’t. In 2021 it was found that RNA templated DNA repair can occur, it was thought this was not possible, it was only ever written from DNA to RNA.

    I have posted the paper a few times that shows this, here it is.

    Gurushankar Chandramouly et al.

    Pol? reverse transcribes RNA and promotes RNA-templated DNA repair.Sci. Adv.7,eabf1771(2021).DOI:10.1126/sciadv.abf1771

    It seems like this could be the reason why there are so many unpredicted and unwanted side effects.

    Here is the paper outlining quite a lot of undesirable neurological damage.

    Hosseini, R., Askari, N. A review of neurological side effects of COVID-19 vaccination. Eur J Med Res 28, 102 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40001-023-00992-0

  52. H B Bear Avatar
    H B Bear

    But so far, the results have been disappointing for many vendors.

    Particularly the armadillo and bat soup food trucks.

  53. H B Bear Avatar
    H B Bear

    That seemed to disappear pretty quickly.

    Faster than a slug on a processing line.

  54. Vicki Avatar
    Vicki

    In other circumstances, euthanasia seems fairly straightforward. We put one of the dogs down recently. The whole process from unconscious to death took less than a minute – no struggling or suffering involved.

    Yes – we now stipulate that the vet anaesthetises the animal first – & then administers the lethal injection. This is because we once witnessed a beloved dog cry when she received the fatal injection. Maybe it was the fault of the injection – but the initial anaesthetic seem preferable (if expensive).

  55. Chris Avatar
    Chris

    OldOzzie, I am shocked. You published a fairly readable and interesting article.
    And harmed only 10% of your usual pixel count.
    Thank you.

  56. Zipster Avatar

    If You Can Choose Your Gender Can You Choose Your Race?
    PragerU

    If it’s socially acceptable for people to identify as a different gender, would the same logic apply to choosing a different race? Aldo asks students at UCLA what they think and whether there’s a double standard when it comes to “blackface” vs. “woman-face.”

  57. Robert Sewell Avatar

    The major factor in civilisational growth is the cost and availability of energy.
    Raise the C&A of energy, growth slows then stops.
    Lower it and watch the civilisation grow.
    It’s a fact that may as will be a rule of nature.
    Ask yourselves this question:
    Would Australia grow or shrink its economy with power at 4c a kW/hr and fuel at 40c a litre?
    Would Australia grow or shrink its economy with power at 40c a kW/hr and fuel at 400 c a litre?
    (Just looking at my last bill because I wanted to make sure I got the killerwhats thing right. Power at this time last year = 8.48 kW/h. This year = 13.43 kW/hr)
    Faaaark! That’s nearly double!

  58. Miltonf Avatar
    Miltonf

    The making light of the assault on Avi reminds me of the assault on Silvio Belesconi and how the Australian made light of that.

  59. Bruce of Newcastle Avatar
    Bruce of Newcastle

    A statement is being made.

    Very like Israel Folau, when unprecedented millions were donated through GoFundMe also in 24 hours, only for them to pull the plug due to political pressure. Never used GFM since and I never will again. I was most impressed by ACL who bootlegged up a donation platform in a remarkably short timeframe. Lyle Shelton got my vote at the recent election in part because of that.

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  60. Dot Avatar

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-12062583/We-wont-force-children-learn-read-write.html

    ‘Our son was ten years old when he began taking an interest in wanting to read and write,’ said Adele.

    ‘He just picked up pen and paper and taught himself,’ she added.

    Seems like bullshit. Try teaching yourself a language without any help or reference material.

  61. Robert Sewell Avatar

    Cassie of Sydney:

    Multiple Liberal sources told The Weekend Australian a third motion, seeking to replace Ms Heath’s March 27 minutes with Mr Pesutto’s own version, passed with a smaller majority, with many contesting the accuracy of the leader’s minutes and several MPs abstaining from voting on the issue.

    That’d be right – the sleazy little bastard making up the minutes to support himself. I hope someone had a voice recorder going at the time.

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  62. Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity Avatar
    Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

    flyingduk says: May 14, 2023 at 11:08 am

    Actually the media & govt denied it. The politician I spoke to at the time (incredibly I forget who) flat out refused to accept that anybody would have noticed JoHo was wearing a flak jacket.

    There are certainly pictures out there of JWH wearing a suit jacket with what appears to be the outline of a ballistic plate on his back. It would have to have been in either a very slim line plate carrier, or sewn into the jacket, you dont see the plate outline in a miltary grade vest.

    Exactly!
    The vest stood out like a stiff prick in a pair of wet speedos.

    Incredibly, the political caste were puzzled as to how anybody knew he was wearing one.

  63. Mother Lode Avatar
    Mother Lode

    So Lisa Wilkinson left channel 7 because she wanted pay parity with Karl.

    She went to 10 and was happy to receive substantially higher pay than the other hosts.

    And once again it is revealed that she is not much of a draw.

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  64. Robert Sewell Avatar

    Razey:
    The copper at 1:17 – who taught these guys to ride motorbikes? That’s the most pathetic bit of cornering I’ve seen in years. I could do better at 70 years of age.
    He could see the surface on the way up to it – it was good, no travel bumps, no sand, FFS. And why not just kick the idiot into the weeds at 00:50. It was obvious at that time he wasn’t going to stop.

  65. Chris Avatar
    Chris

    ‘He just picked up pen and paper and taught himself,’ she added.

    Seems like bullshit. Try teaching yourself a language without any help or reference material.

    Doesn’t seem strange to me. The help and reference material are provided by the parents when the kid gets interested. Not appropriate in my opinion, kids need parents to set the agenda.
    But people are adaptable. If the kids are not thickos and don’t get caught by computer games they might end up not totally uneducated.

  66. Bruce of Newcastle Avatar
    Bruce of Newcastle

    Well that’s that then.

    Messenger RNA COVID-19 Vaccines Had No Effect on Overall Mortality: Trial Data Reanalysis (13 May)

    The vaccines were literally worse than the disease. Oh and the masks were too:

    The Harm Caused by Masks (13 May)

    And let’s not get to the mandates and lockdowns, lest my blood pressure rise too high.

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  67. Sancho Panzer Avatar
    Sancho Panzer

    Cassie of Sydneysays:

    May 14, 2023 at 10:54 am

    “Who wrote that tripe in the Daily Tele about the Cane Toad?”

    Gossip writer called “Annette Sharp”, a woman of zero substance writing about another woman of zero substance.

    So it’s an advertorial then?
    The sort of thing they used to get stuck into Alan Jones over?
    Kind of funny really.
    The PR / Journo club in Sydney imagining they have the influence to fix it for the Cane Toad.
    Truth is, her career is toast.
    Ten are grudgingly paying her to sit on her arse until the contract expires and there are too many smouldering bridges at Nein. She is on the nose with the public so Seven won’t touch her and her chick-mag pedigree wouldn’t be highly regarded at ABC/SBS.
    A string of poor, poor, pitiful me podcasts is all she has to look forward to.

  68. Bruce of Newcastle Avatar
    Bruce of Newcastle

    Trolling level: grandmaster.

    President Trump Rolls Out Three Letter T-Shirt Trolling CNN After He Dominated Town Hall (13 May)

    President Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign for the White House is rolling out a victory celebration of sorts after epic domination of CNN at their town hall on Wednesday. Trump fans will be able to purchase a t-shirt commemorating his perforation and troll the liberal “news” network in the process. Here is the announcement from Team Trump:President Trump’s CNN town hall was so masterful that many are now saying CNN should be renamed TNN – the Trump News Network.

    Here’s the t-shirt.

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  69. Robert Sewell Avatar

    MiltonF:

    Remember how they protected Hawke.

    Help us Hawkie! Only you can save us!
    Vomit producing. The whole charade was unworthy of a cheer at a kindy end of year concert but it nearly got an Oscar.

  70. Miltonf Avatar
    Miltonf

    Horrible, spoilt, entitled people with zero accomplishments.

  71. Robert Sewell Avatar

    JMH:

    May I remind everyone that the Victorian Shadow Minister for Women, one Cindy McLeish was one of the signatories to the motion to expel Moira Deeming.

    Ta – I hadn’t noticed.

  72. Dot Avatar

    The help and reference material are provided by the parents when the kid gets interested

    Yeah but they claim their kid literally taught himself with no help, next week he’s going to teach himself partial differential equations?

    Well that’s what I blew up about, I’m a sucker and I took the bait. That article showcased incredibly lazy parents. If your kid rides their bike on their own, don’t you want them to be able to read road signs and instructions for how to repair their bike tyres?

    Actually the worst of that article isn’t that the parents are lazy, but it is the reflexive idea that if you don’t rely on public education, you won’t be a “productive member of society”.

    Most of the net tax recipients were publicly schooled; if I’m not a “productive member of society” but do not rely on welfare or charity, who cares; and the notion that public schooling isn’t damaging or that unschooling cannot be good (it usually is) is simply false.

    These articles are wheeled out every so often when homeschooling and unschooling gets popular.

    Most boys would rather do a cadetship or apprenticeship than go to school. They’re nurseries for teenage girls, who then can go on to be the next generation of English teachers and social welfare officers.

  73. Chris Avatar
    Chris

    There are certainly pictures out there of JWH wearing a suit jacket with what appears to be the outline of a ballistic plate on his back. It would have to have been in either a very slim line plate carrier, or sewn into the jacket, you dont see the plate outline in a miltary grade vest.

    Exactly!
    The vest stood out like a stiff prick in a pair of wet speedos.

    The writer of the first comment appears to have only seen modern armour with hard plates in fabric carriers. In 1996 the usual type of body armour was a thick, softish vest, made of sewn layers of kevlar fabric. That’s what Howard was wearing, and he has admitted it and called it a ‘mistake’. He said it was at the insistence of the Protective Services lot and he should not have let them do it.

    I understand a considerable number of people are planning a very satisfactory ‘bowel movement’ when his time is up. Its gonna be like the streets of San Francisco!

  74. Wally Dalí Avatar
    Wally Dalí

    Vicki-
    the anaesthetic you’re thinking of might be the paralysant, which will stop the diaphragm from relaxing at the termination of the nervous signal, sometimes making a drawn-out groan or cry through the pharynx. My wife’s mob actually miss it a bit, nine times out of ten it’s more like a silent sigh.

  75. Dot Avatar

    It’s also funny that not sending your kids to a taxpayer funded public school is considered a burden to society.

    Do these people realise how expensive the compulsory schooling industrial complex is?

  76. Bruce of Newcastle Avatar
    Bruce of Newcastle

    Grilled bear is good says Bear Grylls.

    ‘I WAS WRONG’: Bear Grylls Admits Vegan Diet NOT Healthy (12 May)

    Famous survivalist Bear Grylls is publicly acknowledging how “wrong” he was to push for a meatless diet. The “Man vs. Wild” star revealed he is now “embarrassed” he published a vegan cookbook, but going back to meat has been a “game-changer” for him. “I was vegan quite a few years ago,” Grylls told UK Telegraph. “In fact, I wrote a vegan cookbook, and I feel a bit embarrassed because I really promoted that,” Grylls said. “I thought that was good for the environment and I thought it was good for my health. And through time and experience and knowledge and study, I realized I was wrong on both counts.”

    Baby steps. The vegan lady in the WIP who was chasing the ice cream van was excellent!

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  77. calli Avatar
    calli

    Well that was fun. A very satisfactory morning tea put on by my brother for two very elderly ladies and me. All home made goodies, all delicious. A perfect Mother’s Day spread.

    We are so blessed to have our mothers still with us and every year is more precious than the one before.

    Even the littlies at Sunday School made bouquets for all the mothers. Mine is sitting perched in a bud vase. Life is good.

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  78. Bruce of Newcastle Avatar
    Bruce of Newcastle

    Maybe I should’ve shoehorned “eats, roots and leaves” into that last comment somehow.

  79. Zulu Kilo Two Alpha Avatar
    Zulu Kilo Two Alpha

    Most boys would rather do a cadetship or apprenticeship than go to school. They’re nurseries for teenage girls, who then can go on to be the next generation of English teachers and social welfare officers

    That was the free and uncensored opinion of one of the next generation – “Schools are run by girls for girls. I’m out of here, as soon as I can.” He served an apprenticeship as a diesel mechanic.

  80. Robert Sewell Avatar

    Doc Faustus:

    It appears that nobody is going to come out of this legal train wreck with an undamaged reputation.

    And the best part of the whole stuff up was the cause – stupidity, followed by malice and arrogance.
    If they’re not in the pantheon of 7 Deadly Sins, they should be.
    Just checked:
    Lust
    Gluttony
    Greed
    Sloth
    Wrath
    Envy
    Pride
    OK. The 10 Deadly Sins.

  81. Chris Avatar
    Chris

    Horrible, spoilt, entitled people with zero accomplishments.

    I am not sure who this is. The VIC Liberals? Labor? Teals?

  82. zimlurog Avatar
    zimlurog

    I looked everywhere at the newsagents for a “Happy Birthing Person’s Day” card but couldn’t find any. To whom do I complain?

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  83. Cassie of Sydney Avatar
    Cassie of Sydney

    The making light of the assault on Avi reminds me of the assault on Silvio Belesconi and how the Australian made light of that.”

    Yes, and I remember the assaults on Tony Abbott, on Fraser Anning, on Andrew Bolt, on Scott Morrison, on Christine Forster and others. They were all made light of by our classy progressives, even our very own resident grub thought the assaults were a hoot.

    Punch a Nazi
    Punch a conservative
    Punch a women who believes in biological reality
    Punch anyone who disagrees with me

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  84. Robert Sewell Avatar

    Indolent:

    I think the answer is yes.
    Do They Actually Want World War 3? Now The West Has Decided To Give Ukraine Long-Range Cruise Missiles…

    I don’t think they really do, but the Allies will continue to stumble blindly into it because they can’t see it coming. Their arrogance and stupidity blind them to the reality of their position.
    I bet you all the underground shelters are having stocktakes and refurbishments right now.
    Stupid bastards. Stupid, stupid bastards.

  85. Bruce of Newcastle Avatar
    Bruce of Newcastle

    Now do ivermectin and zinc…

    Low levels of vitamin D linked to long COVID (MedXpress, 13 May)

    It’s amazing how science eventually catches up to where we Cats were in about April 2020.

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  86. Roger Avatar
    Roger

    Punch anyone who disagrees with me

    Remember when the left used to routinely accuse the right of intolerance?

    Turns out the right are tolerant to a fault.

  87. johanna Avatar
    johanna

    Lisa Wilkinson, unless she is a terrible spendthrift or has a gambling habit, is a 63 year old many times millionaire.

    In view of what many more deserving people have gone through/are going through thanks to Covid policies and housing shortages, my sympathy rates at approximately zero.

    On another note, here is an excellent article about Chuck the Third:

    His 2010 book, Harmony: A New Way of Looking at Our World, co-written with Ian Skelly and Tony Juniper, is a much longer, much more tedious excursus on the same theme. In societies still governed by Tradition, claims Charles, humanity lived in harmony with nature. The natural world was a source of sacred authority, a manifestation of divinity. Man was at home in the world. But that period of harmony, of living in the truth, came to an end with the Enlightenment. It liberated individuals from ‘submission to the authority of the Divine’, and freed up humanity to know nature objectively (as an ‘it’ rather than a ‘she’, writes Charles), as something to be used rather than deferred to. ‘Humanity came to be seen as having the right – a human right, that is – to explore, manipulate and exploit every element of the natural world for the betterment of mankind.’ He writes that as if it’s a bad thing.

    For Charles, much like his Traditionalist muses, those twin fundamentals of modernity – the growth of individual autonomy and our increasing mastery of nature – are seen as the cause of our coming downfall. It has led to a ‘rationalistic’, ‘mechanistic’ mode of being and thinking – Charles’s equivalent to Guénon’s ‘modern mentality’ – in which everything is to be judged according to humanity’s own ends. ‘Four centuries of increasingly being dependent upon a very narrow form of scientific rationalism’, writes Charles, ‘[have] led us along a new but dangerously unknown road… a dance that has been so merry that we failed to notice how far we were being taken from our rightful home’.

    Worth a read, because it charts Chuck’s journey from youthful naive environmentalist through the metaphysical pathways to Traditionalism.

    You don’t have to agree with Traditionalism to agree with some of its conclusions, such as those about the ugliness of a lot of modern architecture and art.

    But that is not the same as swallowing the whole thing, hook, line and sinker.

  88. Steve trickler Avatar
    Steve trickler

    Is that small group of a short wearing “Nazi’s” really Nazi’s? My gut tells me it is all staged and just theatrics. I don’t know for sure.

    Rukshan is right, it’s the lunatics on the left to watch out for.

    Check this out.

    What happened when I went to a Pro-Immigration / Anti-Racism Rally in Melbourne

  89. Vicki Avatar
    Vicki

    On another note, here is an excellent article about Chuck the Third:

    Thanks Johanna. This is a profile of Charles that I had not considered. There is much that I would agree with in his assessment of modernity.

  90. Bruce of Newcastle Avatar
    Bruce of Newcastle

    Turns out the right are tolerant to a fault.

    This one I saw this morning brought my inner boxer out though.

    “Colorado’s top public university says that people should address new acquaintances as transgender until otherwise instructed and that ignoring someone’s pronouns is ‘an act of violence.’” (13 May)

    If anyone addresses me as transgender I will punch them in the nose. The only bone I ever broken is one in my right hand, at a scout camp. I’m quite prepared to rebreak that bone.

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  91. Dot Avatar

    I think the answer is yes.
    Do They Actually Want World War 3? Now The West Has Decided To Give Ukraine Long-Range Cruise Missiles…

    Trump was arming Zelensky in 2019, bless.

  92. OldOzzie Avatar
    OldOzzie

    Luxxle: Is this the search engine conservatives have been looking for?

    American Thinker receives hundreds of promotional emails a week. Most swiftly head to the circular file. However, last week I received an email from a woman named Molly Koweek, promising that Luxxle, her employer’s search engine, is truly revolutionary. Her email piqued my interest, so I did something I very rarely do: I set up a phone call. So far, it appears that she didn’t oversell anything; Luxxle really is something different, especially for those who are sick of seeing the major search engines ignore conservative content or give them such a low ranking that they essentially vanish. It’s still imperfect, but it’s better than the alternatives.

    As you can imagine, since I write posts every day, I frequently turn to search engines to help me track down information I know exists, so that I can provide a link to support my factual assertions. And every day, no matter the search engine I use, I run into the same problem: If I saw the facts on a conservative site, the search engines make it almost impossible to locate the source, and that’s true even if I include the site’s name in the search itself.

    Instead, especially for controversial topics (COVID, Trump, J6, etc.), I get pages of content from the New York Times, Washington Post, ABC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, etc.. Sometimes, these sources have the fact I’m seeking but, usually, I have to wade through paragraphs of leftist agitprop to find the fact buried in a paragraph at the end of the article. I waste incredible amounts of time thanks to the search engines’ manifest bias and link to sites to which I’d rather not send traffic.

    That’s why I got interested when Molly’s email said,

    As you may be aware, traditional search engines typically exclude non-mainstream media sources, such as American Thinker, from their main algorithm of results. Even after searching for popular keywords like “Trump” or “Trump news” on Google, your content does not appear in any of the results.

    At Luxxle, we believe that all publishers deserve a fair chance to be discovered, which is why we rank your content alongside the world’s biggest news outlets. Our platform is specifically designed to showcase high-quality content, like yours, front and center, so that readers can easily find and access it.

    In addition, we have developed a powerful tool called Lenses that makes it even easier for users to find your content quickly. Our goal is to grow our user base and help quality publishers like American Thinker reach a wider audience.

    Obviously, Molly was writing to us as a content provider, but I was intrigued by the promise that the search engine doesn’t do viewpoint discrimination.

    After speaking with Molly it’s apparent that, while the site is still a work in progress, it’s progressing in the right direction. Also, along with more control over results, the search engine also respectes privacy. On the “about” page, Luxxle promises not to sell data and that its searches are encrypted. It has a mobile browser (which I haven’t tried) that blocks trackers, allowing private browsing.

    Here’s what you see when you go to Luxxle:

    https://luxxle.com/

    https://luxxle.com/luxsearch?q=native+tribes+of+central+australia+spencer+baldwin+1899

  93. Robert Sewell Avatar

    Muddy:

    Returning to the gang culture analogy I’ve been harping about recently: They were protecting their ‘own’ and ONLY thier own, females; those who passed the tests required for gang membership & had demonstrated their allegiance to the gang’s culture & internal rules: the insiders. Females who were NOT gang members, were & still are, ‘fair game.’

    That’s as accurate a description of the Left policy about women as you’ll ever get.

  94. Boambee John Avatar
    Boambee John

    Robert Sewellsays:
    May 14, 2023 at 12:29 pm
    Doc Faustus:

    It appears that nobody is going to come out of this legal train wreck with an undamaged reputation.

    And the best part of the whole stuff up was the cause – stupidity, followed by malice and arrogance.
    If they’re not in the pantheon of 7 Deadly Sins, they should be.
    Just checked:
    Lust
    Gluttony
    Greed
    Sloth
    Wrath
    Envy
    Pride
    OK. The 10 Deadly Sins.

    Stupidity can be related to Sloth, Malice to Envy and Arrogance to Pride. Seven is enough.

  95. bespoke Avatar
    bespoke

    Humanity has never lived in harmony with nature. More accurately described as an arms race.

  96. Sancho Panzer Avatar
    Sancho Panzer

    I suspect that the ACT DPP’s office was awash with bonhomie and good humour in the early days of Project Get Bruce.
    I strongly suspect that whilst Drumgold was saying “I couldn’t possibly …” he and/or his staff were giving tacit winks and nods to go ahead with the speech.
    Did he care if the trial was delayed?
    The end result would be more social media chatter resulting in a stronger likliehood of a jury pre-loaded for a guilty verdict.
    Cane Toad took the bait and should have known better.

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