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Mme Zulu is Bride Mk 2? I did not know that.I got that one.
So many greasy sleezey lawyers. Great way to make money without creating wealth.
Barry not on a winning streak after the last 4 years.
dickfeeders
Indeed!
Are these companies effectively loan sharks with a spiffy badge? Maybe this new regulation is a good move.
The buynow-paylater system works great if you use it properly .. all these new regulatory features will do is block folk and they’ll then be whinge-ing cos they are going back to the old layby system .. pay BEFORE use …
Once again the folk that abuse the BNPL are gonna cost the folk who use(d) it properly ..
If you pay on time you pay no interest ….. SIMPLES …..
I’m guessing when these providers set it up the all at once pile on for multiple use wasn’t properly factored in and so it has come home to bite …..
End result is the regs will be like credit cards and folks who use BNPL most likely didn’t qualify for credit cards .. sooooooooooo …!
Jeremy Clark died on 21st May.
A great writer. One of the interesting aspects to his weekly column – as many have attested – was that it was effortless but attractive to read. If you analysed it you realised how well crafted his words were – the style, so to speak, was one of its major attributes.
English Literature courses at universities moved away from analysing “style” years ago. The craft of Hemingway and Joyce was abandoned for analysis of “the meaning” behind the words, and English studies became the lesser as a result. Instead it has all become Marxism, Feminism, racism, etc, and the more boring they became.
Well done Jeremy Clark.
I wish to lodge a complaint about the Muddy post. I won but the mail was late. I demand my political acumen be recognised!
I don’t think that follows. Eye-witness testimony does not cease to be eye-witness testimony simply because the witness has expired.
Written by Fraser Nelson, Jeremy Clarke’s editor in the Speccie.
Lizzie – There’s a bit of iconography about that in the Old Testament, but I think it is cart and horse reversed in Ankhenaten’s case. His was certainly monotheism, but the monotheists had taken off eastwards, so there wasn’t anyone left to explain the details* to him. As I said he seems to’ve been a kid when the traumatic events took place. But they made an impression. So much so he upended 1600 years of religious dogma overnight. More importantly he relegated an entire religious bureaucracy to second class status – which they would’ve resented massively. Think “deep state”.
No wonder when young Pharaoh Tutankhaten was coronated they saw their chance to get the primacy back.
(* I have a personal view that Joseph (ie. the technicolor dreamcoat guy) wrote down from oral history most of Genesis, since he was vizier of Egypt around the 19th century BC or so, and would have been literate. It would then make sense for Moses as an adopted son of the pharaoh, therefore also literate, to’ve read Joseph’s history, then thereafter adding to it the sequel called “Exodus”. Plus the rest to make up the Pentateuch. The circumstances fit pretty well, but because of resentment of Christianity among the academic classes I doubt there’s been serious consideration of such things.)
The only disciple, reportedly, that does not die of martyrdom or suicide is John, the only one of them that remains beside Christ to the end. Vignettes like this have extraordinary power and meaning.
As Christian myself, I still doubt the literally true event that at Jesus’ expiry on the Cross, the curtain of the temple was torn from top to bottom, and the dead came out of their tombs and appeared to many
Strong symbolism for sure. Did they happen? Of course not! No reasonable person would think that they happened.
No. For them to happen would take a miracle.
If I actually believe in an all-powerful God, who actually has done miracles including raising his son from the dead, then I will not have a problem with these events really happening.
Imagine my surprise when I heard yesterday that they weren’t.
I always thought that buy now-pay later schemes would have been the work of the devil if they were introduced by the Big Four banks.
But somehow, when the guys fronting these schemes were 30-something tech-hipsters they were the coolest thing evah.
From Zulu’s post:
A digital passport with the requirement to scan in every time they entered a new paddock would fix that.
“It’s very, very rare that many, many people will die for what they know is a lie.”
True but they will also die for what they believe is true, it’s the belief, the faith that gives them the courage to die. If what they die for is really true, who knows? The early Church had the Council of Nicaea, around 325AD, long after any witnesses or even people who knew the witnesses were long dead. the council decided which gospels and writings to leave in and which to leave out. Apparently this choosing was divinely inspired. Who knows what is true?
If you’d filled in the mandatory pre-competition DIE questionnaire, I could have adjusted for your specialness and given you a 68-point advantage. No-one considers the admin burden on these occasions, do they?
As has been mentioned above.
That would probably have to be the easiest situation for any cop to resolve.
Clare Nowland, who suffers from dementia and is currently receiving end of life care, fell and sustained critical head injuries after the officer used a taser on her.
So, one hand would be holding the walking frame and the other the knife? All the d-head cop had to do was a quick shimmy to get behind her then reach around and grab the arm holding the knife below the elbow ( Her strength would be negligible – danger over at that very moment ) and use his other arm to support her under the arm pit of the arm that is holding the walker in order to prevent a fall. Controlling the arm with the knife of a 45kg woman at that age would be equivalent to arm wrestling a 1 year old child.
Done and dusted in a flash.
In summary: Police forces around the country have recruited retards by the dozens.
Why am I always in the wrong queue when luck is handed out? ..
Haven’t had a bet for several weeks even tho TOON have been winning left, right & centre so last night decided time for a share of the glory and plonked $20 on ’em to win ..
End result a nil all draw so $20 down .. reads report .. Toon had 26 shots on goal, 3 hitting the woodwork against Leicester’s 1 shot for the whole match .. apparently if it hadn’t of been for excellent goalkeeping that one would have gone in ……..!
Steve, they’ve been trained and workshopped into imbecility.
Que? None died of suicide.
In summary: Police forces around the country have recruited retards by the dozens.
A definite worry! … considering the bloke has been a NSW plod for 12 years ………!
Methinks he would have made her a Saturn V rocket if she’d asked.
The iconography of the period (1534bc on for 17 years) is there in the Egyptian Museum. I’ve seen it there and it is very impressive in gold. Akhenaten and his consort are attached to sunrays which come down upon them from the sky. He is known to have instituted his new god, the Aten, and insisted on sun worship. The major explosion at Akrotiri in Crete (Thera), which cased a volcanic winter, was in 1660bc ( dating not too secure) but there were also other eruptions. Perhaps you allude to the date differential re carts and horses, but I am not sure that destroys the case that a sun dimming event led to Akhenaten’s actions. A major one like Thera would have stayed in memory re its effects felt long term, and any further signal of sun god’s displeasure could have led to a desire to stall any return of an Akrotiri-like event. The volcano on Thera went up numerous times over that whole period. Volcanic winters are notably associated with ‘the death’ of gods, as we see from work done on the 537AD explosion of (likely) Krakatoa. A line entry killed off Arthur at this date, btw, as well as what happened throughout the Americas then too.
I think Dover refers to Judas, C.L. An ex-disciple through choice and betrayal perhaps.
May I issue a polite request for the Kittehs to up their snark if they’re hoping to bathe in the glory of inclusion in Muddy’s next list?
(The same goes for the Cats identifying as Kittehs. You know who you are!).
Maybe Kamala should go back to Big Willie.
Months After Making Out at State of the Union, Dr. Jill and Kamala’s Husband Spotted Leaving SoulCycle Together (18 May, via Instapundit)
No idea if this is just salacious, salacious-but-true, or only salaciously salacious. If true, though, it does suggest he has very low standards. I admit it’s neck and neck, in that regard, between Jill and Kamala.
OK.
One more time.
There. Is. No. Missing. CCTV. Footage.
Yes, there is CCTV footage of the two diligent workers arriving for the night-shift, walking along a main corridor and of Lehrmann leaving.
There is no CCTV coverage of the offices. All available CCTV was submitted as evidence.
This footage isn’t helpful to the prosecution because Britnah doesn’t show obvious signs of blithering intoxication. In fact, she takes her shoes off whilst standing up, which I defy any drunk to do without wavering.
What Dumgold is after is “CCTV footage” which shows Britnah staggering around and leaning up against a wall.
It does not exist.
It was a re-enactment produced for Four Corners.
I missed something too.
That means a lot to me you know. I just thought I was opining and musing, but I must do it a bit more than I thought.
It means that like Mrs Marsh and the toothpaste, it really has got in. Only took fifty three years. 😀
The old lady was apparently in a room on her own when the saga started, why couldn’t they have locked her in til her rage expiated?
The expectation seems to be she will now die as a result of the police action.
Or they could have run away slowly as she advanced menacingly on her walking frame.
Police aren’t trained to deal with dementia patients so why call them in in the first place?
callisays:
May 23, 2023 at 12:58 pm
Steve, they’ve been trained and workshopped into imbecility.
I think many would want that officer to explain what the threat was … what was going through his mind at the time? I doubt he’ll front up with it.
And now the w*nker gets a paid holiday. I hope he suffers insomnia in the months ahead.
The Snark can be quite elusive, but I shall do my best. All out of vorpal swords, so maybe I can snicker snack with a bit of sarcasm?
This hasn’t hit the airwaves yet, but VicForest will pull the pin on native forestry by December 31st this year. They’re not going to fight on with the uncertainty of ongoing green lawfare. Given that there hasn’t been much, if any logging since November last year, I doubt that another tree will be harvested from state forests. I suspect that Dan Xi Man’s budget has no room to support it either.
There was zero consultation with the industry either.
Pretty much every hardwood sawmill in Viktoriastan and harvesting/silverculture contractor in the state is now kaput.
NSW have locked up half of the area that Forestry NSW can harvest and WA has completely shut down native forestry, and SA and QLD are making overtures to follow suit. This makes the media report the other day where Xi announced they are lifting the bans of Australian Timber imports, is curiouser and curiouser.
I suspect that NSW police training levels must be similar to that of evil henchman…
D’oh.
Of course, Calli.
The good Lord does.
We have to trust His word when he said the Holy Spirit would continue to guide the Church.
Muddysays:
But it was in the mail!
How come I’m liable for the halfarsed attempt at clericling of your employees that YOU employ?
I demand a recount.
Any number of courses of action were open to them to contain this “situation”.
I am not particularly interested in the minutiae of training and procedures (although they matter when it comes to assessing the strict legality of what happened).
What level of primary schoolboy maturity does it take to think that tasering a tiny, immobile woman is in any way OK?
I think the “compare and contrast” raised earlier between this and the Lindt Cafe cock-up is pertinent.
Bruce, Graham Phillips has written on these Egyptian issues in his book ‘Act of God: Moses, Tutankhamun and the myth of Atlantis’ (published 1998) also drawing on Biblical stories, memories as he sees them, and a major volcanic eruption on Thera. I don’t go much on his style of interpretation, which delves into unknown tombs etc, he is also misleading on Arthur in a separate work, but he does see the Thera explosion and its tsunami into Egypt as important in the Akhenaten story. He also sees it and the burial of towns as part of the myth of Atlantis (which I think could relate to many other things, for we cannot know what that means from Plato’s reference onwards, although there are many theories, including some haywire ones). You may enjoy reading it if you haven’t already.
No Voice can fix this chaos
People are dying as politicians ignore the real problems afflicting Aboriginal communities
John-Paul Baladi – The Spectator
Having recently returned ‘down south’ from almost a year spent living and working in the Northern Territory, I could not be more opposed to the proposed Voice to Parliament.
Like many other Sydneysiders, I had previously held tepid support for the idea; influenced by the overpowering messaging by public figures, activists and sections of the media claiming that the ‘voice’ was endorsed by all indigenous Australians, and was the best way to ‘close the gap’.
Having previously helped organise the Country Liberal Party’s campaign in the federal division of Lingiari (a seat which encompasses the entire Northern Territory save Darwin and surrounds), I spent two months travelling across vast stretches of the Outback, learning and understanding the real issues facing the most disadvantaged indigenous communities in the nation.
I was not an onlooker or observer – I was in remote Aboriginal communities speaking alongside our candidates with elders, traditional owners and community leaders about what issues they faced and what solutions they proposed.
Crime and antisocial behaviour, drug and alcohol-fuelled family violence, an extreme undersupply of remote housing and rapidly declining education and literacy rates are but some of the issues plaguing these communities.
In the town of Tennant Creek, I spent an evening sitting with the Jurnkkurakurr Volunteers. This group of local elders, mostly women, have used their cultural authority to discourage and repel the violence and vandalism of the town since their only grocery store was burned down by primary school children in 2020.
I met a school teacher in the community of Wallace Rockhole who looked after the local school of 50 students. That day, only two of those 50 had come to school. Apparently this was the norm.
After spending time with one of the directors of an Indigenous art centre in Wurrumiyanga, I learned that amateur gambling was rife across the region and was one of the root causes of antisocial behaviour on the island. I witnessed countless card games taking place in the streets of the community. It was so bad that a community leader would not accept a gift of drink coasters from me, knowing they would inevitably end up in a punter’s game of some sort.
Driving to Gunbalanya, I learnt of the desperate need for road upgrades on the Arnhem Highway and beyond. Unsealed dirt roads stretching hundreds of kilometres separate communities from their closest neighbours and hinder access to basic needs.
I spoke with a stern school administrator whose role it was to allocate boarding school opportunities to local indigenous students, who was sacked prior to the elevation of his students to their final year of high school. In his absence, not a single member of that cohort attended Year 12.
Then there is the civil war in the Daly River community of Wadeye. So many horrific stories have been front and centre in the local news about the 22 clans fighting each other. In this small community, over one hundred houses have been burnt down, multiple people have been speared to death (yes, you read that correctly) and others have gone missing or have been displaced.
In Yuendumu I witnessed family violence caused by disagreements over royalty money paid out to a traditional owner family. It was not uncommon to hear about large sums of money (in the tens of thousands) essentially disappearing within days of a payout due to various forms of ‘humbug’ and financial illiteracy.
Not a single community leader I spoke with ever voiced support for the ‘Voice to parliament’ or saw it as a real or practical solution to the chaos. From Kakadu to the Tiwi Islands, from Areyonga to Santa Teresa, from Darwin to Katherine, and from Alice Springs to Yulara; the Uluru Statement from the Heart was not even an afterthought in the remedies and solutions articulated by so many indigenous leaders.
For non-indigenous people ‘down south’ to assume that the hundreds of indigenous cultural groups from across our vast nation are in favour of the proposed ‘voice’ is naive.
I have come away from my time in the Territory with an appreciation for the issues and priorities of remote indigenous Australia and particularly how they compare to the priorities and rhetoric of our cultural and political leaders.
Supporters of the Voice to Parliament say it will be about practical measures on the ground. So will Anthony Albanese act on the open letter urging him to reinstate the Stronger Future legislation, signed earlier this year by the leaders of nine influential indigenous organisations? Or will he listen to his Labor member for Lingiari, an Aboriginal woman from a remote community, who has also spoken strongly in favour of reinstating alcohol bans?
It seems as though those most vocally in favour of the Voice to parliament are the least willing to listen to the real voices in remote communities.
Unfortunately this anarchy is not confined to remote communities.
Declan Laverty was working the evening shift at a Darwin BWS when he was brutally stabbed to death. Declan’s death has plagued my mind and shaken my core; it occurred mere metres away from where I worked.
Last week in Darwin, a 23-year-old Bangladeshi student at Charles Darwin University was bludgeoned to death in his apartment by a home-invader.
The student association organised a ‘demonstration against violence’ where the CDU vice-chancellor conceded he could no longer tell prospective students ‘that Darwin was a safe place to live’.
The ongoing ‘anti-crime’ protests in Darwin have attracted thousands upon thousands of residents. They call for the government to act and they mourn the ever growing list of lives lost too soon.
The Northern Territory’s two senators and the member for Lingiari are all indigenous women from remote Aboriginal communities, they account for exactly 75 per cent of its federal representatives. Moreover, in the Territory parliament about one quarter of representatives are indigenous, an almost identical reflection of the electorate.
Excluding the sensible solutions and practical approaches of perspicacious Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, an overrepresentation of indigenous ‘voices’ in parliament has only seen the crime, chaos, and instability get worse.
It seems remote voices are being ignored, the voices of scared and mourning Territorians are being disregarded, and there is little to no action from the Territory’s indigenous parliamentarians.
Not only must we ponder on the efficacy of the Prime Minister’s proposal, but we must ask ourselves what difference it will make to the most vulnerable when so many voices aren’t being heard and those few empowered indigenous leaders sacrifice their convictions in order to toe party lines.
A Voice is not needed to articulate the problems afflicting our indigenous communities, those
problems are plain to see, just take a trip to the Territory. Problem gambling, excessive alcohol consumption, family violence, a failing education system, financial illiteracy; these are the problems in our indigenous communities. While proponents of the Voice continue to debate high-brow constitutional provisions, the real issues in these communities will continue to be ignored.
John-Paul Baladi is the former Territory Director of the Country Liberal Party.
I’m willing to drop my normally low standards even further, in order to avoid being labelled kittehfauxbic.
Neither I nor my employees can count, nor have we ever claimed to be able to count. At least, not in writing. None of us can write, either. Nor think. We can emote, though, if that’s any help?
Lizzie – I’m alluding to the events of the Exodus, you know plagues of frogs etc. That would’ve been around 1350 BC, so well after the Thera eruption.
If as a child you lived through that, and having your big bro drowned in the Red Sea at the head of the Egyptian Army, it would make an impression. A kid just might get the idea that YHWH was the real thing, not the the odd and sods the priestly class were pushing. They took religion quite seriously in those days, and if a guy came to the understanding that the entire panoply of his country was wrong, due to traumatic lived experience, you can see why he might up-end the whole thing, as soon he was old enough to make it stick.
There ‘s an element in this part of the world, who claims that sending their children to school, will make them “lose their culture.”
But the disciples didn’t simply believe they witnessed miracles prior to the Crucifixion nor simply believe that Christ rose from the dead post-Resurrection, but that they spent weeks with Him before He finally departed. So the claim is why would those disciples that witnessed Christ post-Resurrection willingly not deny Christ and suffer martyrdom if the former were false?
Paul Simon has such a great discography. Rhythm of the Saints is still one of my favourite albums.
One thing to note re the Akhenaten iconography which has always excited comment is that both the king and his consort are quite peculiar looking. They both have enlarged ham-thighs and long arms and the king in a carving has a very long face. It has been suggested they suffered from a genetic disease, perhaps Marfan syndrome or something similar, and the wife being the same could be explained if she was, as was usual, also his sister. This may have been regarded as a special sign that they should do something unusual to match their personal appearances. Who knows. Maybe so.
Caroline Wilson the revered football writer who never writes about football.Only concerned with politics and scandals.
I’ll pile on.
What appalling behaviour.
As any mother could tell you it can be very difficult to establish breastfeeding.
It should have nothing to do with satisfying someone’s warped ego and everything to do to ensure a new baby is being properly fed.
I keep meaning to do other things, but keep getting waylaid by blogs, here and at the Speccie.
Meanwhile, a certain Diocese of the Church of England in the UK awaits my email as spokeswoman for our familial church. And my son needs to know of the changed dates (now end July) for our trip to the Malaysian highlands because he is cat sitter in chief.
Nice essay.
There should be more John Paul’s in this world.
Perhaps someone should explain to Stan Grant the difference between racism and ridicule
I don’t know about now, but there used to be quite strict rules regarding the use of restraint – physical, chemical, social, etc.
Aside from that statement, I’m unwilling to speculate any further on the subject.
Good mate has just started “working” with the Martu Rangers out of Wiluna.
He was surprised to learn- and me too- that at age 11- 12- 13, boys leave school and go out on the range with the men. Forever. How many other local cultural norms like this are running amok with Closing Gap?
What?
No more local timber for wood stovers in The Patch?
I wonder how many staunch greenies saw that coming.
My Mum’s home was run by two women who I found hard to warm to, but they were very expert.
Mum could become cranky at times. The home just left her alone, or at most told her that they would have to call her son if she didn’t behave. Amazingly, that worked even though she had no idea who I was.
They had a couple of blokes who could become rather threatening. They simply cleared everyone out of the way and left them to it until they settled down.
One of the managers described the strategy as being like having a puppy pinch a pair of socks. If you make a fuss you will never get the socks back, leave the pup alone and it will eventually lose interest.
That kind of flexibility and acceptance of disruption is not something that one normally associates with institutions. I am certain that these women would never have contemplated the possibility of calling in Plod. Well, not for the patients, perhaps for the rellies.
I cannot think of any job that I would be more incapable of undertaking.
Muddy they didn’t even need to lock it. They could have just closed it.
Doorhandle, knife, walker.
Surely at that point you refuse, or walk out? He’s not short of a quid is he?
Thanks for that, TE.
Things like this:
There are people up there wrestling with these problems as best they can, who should be given support, but who do not get it. Instead it is the urban Fauxboriginals who think it is all about politics and patronage, about race-baiting, about nebulous generational ‘trauma’, quotas, and whipping up a sort of cottage industry of smoking ceremonies and welcomes to country.
Yet where people are fighting for their own and communities’ lives there is no attention paid. Out of city, out of sight.
The different arcs of Peter and Judas also pay close attention. Peter betrayed Christ just as much as Judas did, and both felt their betrayal deeply, but the difference between the two is that the former didn’t shut himself off from reconciliation with Christ by killing himself. I don’t know if it was here or on twitter, but someone put up that within Orthodoxy there is a tradition re Peter that whenever he later would hear a cock crow he would sob.
And the link to their ABC on the demise of the timber industry.
Lizzie – The priestly caste hated his guts. So, once they re-established control for polytheism, they chisled off his face on all the statues they could find. And erased his cartouches. A sort of proto-Trump!
I loved the account of Howard Carter finding Tutankamun’s tomb. I can’t recall the PB that I have, and too hard to go find it right now. Also C. W. Ceram’s “Gods, Graves and Scholars: The Story of Archaelogy” was just marvellous. Read both as a teenager.
I had the Fox News on while doing something else and had to go and check that it wasn’t CNN. Apart from Gutfeld Fox is really becoming unwatchable.
Dover, I had all that in mind in my answer about embellishment and truthfulness.
Also, this Sunday is Whitsun, which Rosie touched upon in her comment. It’s only when you experience the guidance personally that it takes you by surprise, just as it did those first ones.
Oh to have been hanging around that marketplace at witnessed the spectacle of those fearful guys suddenly becoming courageous and multilingual.
As recorded in three of the gospels:
Matthew 27:51 KJV
And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent;
Mark 15:38 KJV
And the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom.
Luke 23:45 KJV
And the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was rent in the midst.
A delightful painting for us old tars.
Fun thing is that Peter is foreshadowed in the Book of Daniel (2:34-35):
34 While you were watching, a rock was cut out, but not by human hands. It struck the statue on its feet of iron and clay and smashed them. 35 Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver and the gold were all broken to pieces and became like chaff on a threshing floor in the summer. The wind swept them away without leaving a trace. But the rock that struck the statue became a huge mountain and filled the whole earth.
The context is Alexander, the Seleucids and the rise of the Romans. Some supposed scholars say Daniel was written after the fact, not during the Babylonian exile, but absolutely no one says his book was written after Christ, which is what the rock prophecy is clearly pointing to. “And on this rock I will build my church” said Jesus.
I’ve seen those chiselled off faces. Bruce is right – they wanted to get rid of him permanently, and removing the face meant no afterlife for Egyptians.
Amazing that some of the caricatures even remain.
Suffice it to say, something happened to change the way the Pharaoh was depicted at that time, and why polytheism was put on the back burner until he was dead. That monotheism took its place was unheard of.
Questions archeologists and historians ask themselves.
Bons:
I think you’d be pleasantly surprised with yourself when and if the occasion arose.
I know I was.
Apparently his Californian divorce left him in a less than desirable financial position.
Other Lode:
There are people up there wrestling with these problems as best they can, who should be given support, but who do not get it. Instead it is the urban Fauxboriginals who think it is all about politics and patronage, about race-baiting, about nebulous generational ‘trauma’, quotas, and whipping up a sort of cottage industry of smoking ceremonies and welcomes to country.
Exactly.
The problem lies with the fauxaboriginals and their greed. If any funding gets back to the camps, it’s as if it came out of their pockets. And they resent it.
Why are actual scientists not calling this BS out?
Yet we are still enjoined by a carping chorus to ‘trust the science’ which in practice is taken as ‘trust the scientists’, or rather, ‘trust those with science titles’.
I trust science. Scientists, on the other hand, are people. Subject to the same fallibilities, frailties, and foibles as the rest of us.
Science is not whatever a scientist says. It is what you get when you subtract the scientist from what they say – if what is left over is not consistent with observations, or is contradictory, or contains unjustified assumptions, then it is not science.
There is an illness in the discipline. There seems a critical mass has been reached of scientist spivs, grifters, and mediocrities who know how to play the system that, in an environment that rewards politically expedient claims, that threaten to pull down the last vestiges of the pursuit of scientific knowledge. There are countless souls out there who love their test tubes, oscilloscopes, and their unplanned instantaneous exothermic increases in entropy, but they are not the ones who are getting to call the shots.
That may sound overblown but how else to explain that all this nonsense about men needing tampons, and such that we hear about now?
I suppose AGW did a lot to pave the way, taking scientific research away from observation and turning it into a slice-and-dice of imaginary data. This gender thing is just the same thing only now completely unmoored from any objective reality.
Calli says: May 23, 2023 at 11:48 am
Nope, they may have been true believers.
Sure but how is that relevant, as nobody in this conversation ever suggested such a thing.
What I did suggest is that the eye witnesses did not exist, just people who believed there were witnesses because the stories they’d heard said so. But since I know nothing about the origins of the Bible, I decided to do a quick web search to see how wrong I was. Turns out slightly, but not far wrong.
The critical assumption I made was that you are talking about J-man’s alleged miracles and self-appointed messianic status, and that the final opportunity for anyone to recant such beliefs was at his trial.
https://famous-trials.com/jesustrial/1042-home
Quite a bit of Chinese whispers happening there even for a secular legal event, so the more magical parts of the bible could be less certain than this.
Then there’s the story of the land becoming shadowed for 3 hours upon the crucifixion – which has several options for interpretation. The most obvious is a solar eclipse, which in fact could not have happened at that time and place with celestial mechanics as we understand it. Once you’ve accepted that was made up for dramatic effect (not merely exaggerated), well the sky’s the limit on how much else was made up about J-man. As Prof. Linder suggests:
The timeline of events also illuminates the division within proto-Christianity about the story of Jesus, where two different branches were using his name to promote different narratives.
https://famous-trials.com/jesustrial/1044-chronology
This initial victory of the Jerusalem branch was short-lived as 10 years later (after the fall of Rome) they were snuffed out by the Romans. This left the Gentile branch, with its more theological purpose for the story of Jesus, as the last one standing. Paul never met Jesus, so he’s not an eyewitness to the miracles or the crucifixion.
Given that Jesus’ ministry career lasted less than 3 years, it seems unlikely anyone who heard of him would not have heard of his miracles. So the following consensus is surely less than satisfying:
As the Gospel of Thomas includes parts of the “Q Gospel” and also endorses James as an authority on Christianity, it seems to me likely that the version of events that says nothing about miracles was also the more down-to-earth rebel picture of Jesus as favoured by the Jerusalem branch and Jesus’ brother. The only miracle is that any remnant of their version of events survived into the Bible.
All that’s just addressing the eyewitness status of the original authors of the Bible. Obviously anyone who followed them and who expresses sincere belief in that text even on pain of death is simply repeating information they received in good faith.
The annoying aspect of all this is the supernatural embellishments were all so unnecessary. If the general message of love/peace/forgiveness attributed to Jesus’ ministry are accurate then the book founded on his story would have been wise and motivational even without the miracles – and would have made the resulting work more believable.
Humans are special and we know it. We just don’t know exactly how or why that came to be. Any story that offers a cosmic explanation for that has great appeal.
The Beanie points out that much of the woke BS results from the fact they are headquartered in NY. The most egregious rules (at least) about pronouns and bathrooms and such are NY laws.
It is going to get worse in NY, and Fox News will get worse in tandem, I suppose. There is no need to talk about them pushing back because Lachlan won’t bother. Perhaps he is aching to lie on his back and have his belly rubbed by the NY progressive elites.
I’ve been suffering from a non specific virus the last couple of days, courtesy my youngest granddaughter and daycare (not covid, I tested yesterday to please my mother) and have been knitting and watching TV to distract myself from my extreme suffering.
Having subscribed to Acorn for Rebus, as I am also rereading Rankin, after watching that I essayed into an Irish series called Blood which starred the Irish bloke in Line of Duty, not bad, though I did feel like fast forwarding after the first couple of episodes. Get on with it! A bit weak at the end but no plot spoilers from me.
Now watching Lynda La Plante’s Above Suspicion which is also okay.
I’ve never read La Plante, I tried Widows? once, but didn’t think I could interest myself in the trials and tribulations of gangland widows so abandoned the endeavour.
There are little holes in the plots but doesn’t matter, it’s just entertainment.
Laura Loomer
@LauraLoomer
WOW
@GovRonDeSantis just changed his Twitter handle to drop the FL part of his handle.
He’s done with Florida. He used Floridians as a stepping stone and never wanted to be Governor for a second term.
Come the day we’ll find out who was correct about Our Lord, or nothing.
Fox News Is Going Full Bud Light, Leaked Internal Documents Show
STUDY: AP Pushes Woke Terms Across 64 Climate Stories After $8M Grant from Leftist Orgs
Believe what you want to believe, Crispin. I’m not here to convince you. You’ve convinced yourself already, as have the scholars you quote.
By the way this
simply doesn’t make sense.
Don’t worry. I won’t attempt to argue you into Paradise. I don’t have the skill.
What happens when Target hires a transgender Satanist to design their Pride merchandise?
All that from a Twitter handle change?
Double WOW.
Biden to end familial DNA testing at border, key deterrent to fraud and child trafficking
I don’t know how Floridians can sleep at night!
Indolentsays:
May 23, 2023 at 2:30 pm
Biden to end familial DNA testing at border, key deterrent to fraud and child trafficking
The only testing will be of voting intentions.
DemonRat or deportation.
Since they don’t have to worry as much about being murdered in their beds or having their children mutilated on the sly in school, probably better than many.
PHILOSOPHY – Thomas Aquinas
Excellent thread.
It would seem the NAACP has issued a ‘travel advisory’ warning Black people (and other POC) against visiting Florida because it is openly hostile to Black people.
I read just this morning that Florida is the number one place in the US for Black proprietorship of businesses. (And maybe no 2 for Hispanics and for women.)
The NAACP needs Blacks to be afraid and their way. They promise that they are the way Black people will get their freedoms and opportunities. If instead Black people go to Florida and see they can have a good life without the NAACP but without the bitterness, the resentment, and the angst of feeling constantly persecuted, then the NAACP will have no power.
Wow, very cool foreshadowing in Daniel.
The problem for DeSantis is that he has way too much to make up v Trump (approx. 40 pts) and he is doing worse (-4) v Biden than Trump (+7) is doing v Biden in rust-belt states across several polls that had Biden in front in 2020. Interesting interview with women by Fox in that clip.
Yep. He’s running as a spoiler against Trump. The left pull this shit regularly. Entice a second party to run against the man they can’t beat, split the opposition vote, and when that person pulls out of the Republican Presidential race, they turn on the one they know they can beat.
They can beat DeSantis, so they support him against Trump.
I’d have thought DeSantis had more political smarts but obviously not. And he’ll lose the State governorship when he stands next.
https://slaynews.com/news/ron-desantis-is-trying-to-recruit-sarah-huckabee-sanders-to-be-his-2024-running-mate-report/
If it’s the same in all states, he can’t hold that office more than twice in any case.
Meme
Can you name >5 unvaxxed Amish who died from COVID? Why not? They are “supposed to be” dying in droves!
The Malaysian highlands – the last relics of the British colonialists….
Not altogether surprising since the Russians have fortified the Ukie-Russia border and front line all the way from Belorussia to the Black Sea. In many cases with back up trenchlines. (Not exactly a sign of confidence I have to say.)
The interesting thing is that the Ukies have done nothing at all to the long border from Kiev to Kharkov. I think that means they are avoiding giving any cause for Vlad to use nukes, since the Russians have been quite fierce rhetorically about attacks on the motherland. This particular event has a fig leaf of “Russian Separatists” presumably to finesse the nuke threat.
Here try this! It’s called wine. I’ll trade you a jug of it for some tomato plants. And an extra jug for a dozen seed potatoes.
Earliest evidence of wine consumption in the Americas found in Caribbean (Phys.org, 22 May)
Scientists have found what they believe to be the earliest known evidence of wine drinking in the Americas, inside ceramic artifacts recovered from a small Caribbean island. Forty ceramic sherds were examined in the first study to have used molecular analysis techniques—Gas Chromatography and Mass Spectrometry—to investigate 15th century pottery from the Puerto Rico region.
…
The analysis included sherds from a Spanish olive jar that could be dated between 1490-1520 AD. The rounded style of the jar shows it to be this early and aligns it to the timing of when Columbus first noted the existence of the island in his diary in 1494.
The olive jar, used then as a general container for all sorts of food and liquid goods, transporting them on Spanish ships, had evidence of wine residues inside.
Spag bol with rioja was invented by these people. I am in debt to them.
Keep in mind, this only works if it continues to the general election. If its only a primary play it only works if Trump loses the primaries which won’t happen. He’s too far ahead already in the 60s and his support is only firming. What this run does if it goes ahead is create bad blood among would-be allies, and destroys DeSantis as a potential future Pres. candidate. The only people that support candidate DeSantis now AND also would not vote for Trump if he was the R candidate in the general are confirmed NeverTrumpers anyway and they constitute only a small portion of his voters but they are a significant portion of his institutional backers and they are quite happy to burn DeSantis to spite Trump.
Bruce of Newcastlesays:
May 23, 2023 at 3:22 pm
How the Great Belgorod Raid started vs. how it went
Not altogether surprising since the Russians have fortified the Ukie-Russia border and front line all the way from Belorussia to the Black Sea. In many cases with back up trenchlines. (Not exactly a sign of confidence I have to say.)
Force of habit. Russians love defence in depth almost, but not quite, as much as they love artillery.
Groogs? Explain yourself (and those crusty tube socks).
That is like saying ‘bearing arms’ is not exactly a sign of confidence.
They’ve been attacking parts of Bryansk, etc. for months, they sent a drone to the Kremlin, but sure, they are studiously avoiding giving the Russians any cause to escalate their response dramatically.
The entire planet is racist, but there’s always the Moon as an alternative…
As a Black astronaut sets his sights on the moon, he feels the weight of injustice on Earth (Phys.org, 22 May)
Stay there son, and don’t contaminate your precious bodily fluids by returning to the fallen Earth.
The Palin Diarieshave Cleese complaining about his ex wives and finances for around 40 years. Generally a US divorce is preferable to a UK one if given the choice.
The Australian Christian Lobby have issued an email asking for people to object to the government stealing the Canberra Calvary Hospital.
I don’t know if this will work – it’s not the one been going around for a week.
Cars have 57 genders.
Is that self-driving car a boy or a girl? Buyers are less attached to gender-neutral tech, finds study (Phys.org, 22 May)
As new technologies take on increasingly humanlike qualities, there’s been a push to make them genderless. Apple’s Siri digital assistant unveiled a gender-neutral option last year, and more gender-neutral interactive tools, such as Q and Replika, have recently entered the market. When asked about their gender identities, the AI chatbots ChatGPT and Google Bard each reply, “I do not have a gender.”
The United Nations and World Economic Forum have cautioned against gendering technology, arguing that doing so reinforces societal stereotypes. That is likely true, says Ashley Martin, an associate professor of organizational behavior at Stanford Graduate School of Business. “People are stereotyping their gendered objects in very traditional ways,” she says.
So if you say cars have no gender is that stereotyping? I’m sure that cars have feelings too. My car obviously identifies as a parrot, although I don’t know what gender.
We have friends with a 10-year-old daughter. Super bright kid, and loveable with it.
Her friend, however, is a different kettle of piscine species altogether — self-absorbed, self-centred, precocious (her parents’ credit card on her Apple watch, so she can buy things, adult make-up, revealing clothes, older “boyfriends”, her own Tik-Tok page where she regularly posts videos of herself posing or dancing provocatively). The latest is that she has decided she is a dog. She barks and whines instead of talking. She insists on eating her food out of a dog bowl, sans knife and fork, she pants and laps her water from a bowl.
And her parents’ response? They bought her a large doggie bed to sleep in. She crawls in on her hands and knees and goes round and round before settling down to sleep.
And they think there’s nothing wrong???
Primaries and non compulsory voting sure changes the dynamics of elections. We can only watch and hope.
a perennial wringer then
Do they insist she goes outside to do her business?
Why does a dog need an apple watch and make up?
Bruce O’Nuke:
I’m surprised those cockies haven’t dismantled your car, already.
Do they realise how funny their little victories are beginning to sound?
“The first black woman, aged 25-54, single, has a pet called Magnifi-cat, and enjoys short words and long looks on the beach – to be made chief stationary officer in a business with over 500 employees. Another ceiling shattered! A testament to her tenacity! TAKE THAT, WHITE PATRIARCHY!”
There is a fondness for ex-victim groups to raise their cups and toast themselves for their achievements, but if they were disempowered and were given power, that is because the supposed villains gave it to them.
Women have the vote? Who voted to give them that right? Can’t have been women. Black guy gets to be an astronaut? Well if there ever was a rule that kept black guys out then who dissolved the rule.
Sure enough this astronaut sees his being allowed to fly so high as being about oppression.
I personally think he might have spent a little too long in the hypobaric chamber.
The problem is very likely them.
AEMO atm:
Carbins 72%
Wind 6%
Solar 12%
According to hearsay one guy at Uni college (who went on to achieve notoriety as WA Treasurer) would routinely transfer the evening meal from plate to bowl because it was more efficient to eat.
Hat tip to Shy Ted over at Adam’s Cat.
NSW Police Sensitivity Training.
I believe it.
Elon Musk Makes Serious Accusations Against George Soros
A blinding bacteria, four dead and an everyday brand blamed: What we know about the US eye drop recall
And her parents’ response? They bought her a large doggie bed to sleep in. She crawls in on her hands and knees and goes round and round before settling down to sleep.
And they think there’s nothing wrong???
Neutering – to ensure parents horrible genes are never passed on. It’s the only way.
Antifa librarian and witch wants proof that this is ‘pornography for kids’
Calli, being willing to die for your belief doesn’t make it true.
Most of the Christian martyrs died long, long after Jesus. They had no first hand knowledge of his death and alleged resurrection. But their faith was strong.
That doesn’t mean it was true.
You can, of course, believe whatever you like. Believing things because you want to is a very unreliable guide to truth.
Let me guess we ban labour hire companies and other job seeker grifters & the unions take over those roles?
Labour Hire is a product of the casualisation of the workforce that’s happened over the past 30 years.
Union Organisers claim to hate it, but the reality is that the Construction Union warehouses between jobs members with the Labour Hire firms.
I’d say the story here is that Migration Agents have struck a gold mine in the Albanese Government and that Australians in the Construction Industry are going to be mass replaced by Pacific Islanders, Street Shitters, Ant Colony people and ‘people’ with links to the Ukraine, using ‘Skills shortages’ as the reason.
As a woman working in a male-dominated industry (transport and logistics), the worst thing about the ‘pussy pass’ is those of us who achieve on merit alone get lumped in with those who are there to make up a quota.
Just another reason to ensure everybody knows I’m not a feminist. They are nothing but a bunch of entitlement princesses demanding unearned privilege. Also unrepentant civilisation wreckers.
But perhaps I’m being too kind.
The Apostles were eye witnesses and that’s who were being referred upthread.
And Christians continue to be martyred for their faith, it’s just most people don’t take any notice.
Lol, rosie. I know exactly what I would be doing. Probably child abuse these days.
Cold water baths in the laundry tub, collar and lead. Pal for tea.
Things would change mighty fast.
Around seventy perished in India this week. Caught up in a political struggle. Nigeria is another place where they’re murdered out of hand.
Ho hum. How many angels was that on a pin head again?
Groogs fevered imaginings hit the page again.
But that isn’t what I said.
What I said was something quite different. This wasn’t “belief”.
I already have too, on the old thread, Rosie. What is even more horrible is that this man claims to provide ‘colostrum’ to his newborn child. As we know, this is the special thick rich milk made just after childbirth and depends on the hormones of birth. It is essential for a child’s early immunity post birth.
That this idiot male thinks some sticky unnaturally induced goo he produces from his male nipples is colostrum shows just how warped this whole gender fluidity issue has become. It’s child abuse to treat a newborn in this way.
Hi Ed! Enjoying that double click? Make sure you uptick your own before someone is mean to you.
So did anyone ever write a simple history of Jesus using the available historical records – birth; events, various charges, trial etc? Would be interesting reading.
I’ve been suffering from a non specific virus the last couple of days, courtesy my youngest granddaughter and daycare (not covid, I tested yesterday to please my mother) and have been knitting and watching TV to distract myself from my extreme suffering.
My sympathy Rosie – likewise in our house. Suspect we got the damn virus (also not Covid) from 20 year old grandson who is a walking store of viruses.
It is characterised by a hacking, persistent & non productive cough. Husband decided to visit GP when we returned to Sydney. Mistake. GP (who is habitually downbeat) diagnosed pneumonia which panicked “his nibs” & he called am ambulance when his oxygen level dropped a little during the night. He is currently in hospital – although X-rays havn’t shown any evidence of pneumonia! Interestingly, the specialist reckons it is a nasty viral flu – a lot worse, he says, than the dreaded Covid!
DrBeauGan, if you have the time maybe you would care to comment on my link at 2:54 pm.
About half an hour ago, bringing in the washing, I was thinking again about it and my mind drifted to you. Coincidence!
Guys like Polycarp, who was a student of John the Apostle, were also martyred. Ignatius too. Clement was apparently appointed by Peter – he was born in 35 AD and martyred in 99 AD.
The historical linkages are as good as it gets in days of no printing presses, and these guys laid their lives down for their belief. No surprise that the Roman clerisy were like their Egyptian brethen of 1500 years previously: they didn’t like competition that might be a threat to their jerbs.
Trouble at Belgorod, I’m hearing.
Of course Russia will be able to use their new base in Bakhmut to… wait, I am also hearing they have not taken Bakhmut yet.
Wow, what a pack of losers!
Top Ender, I think your go-to guy is Luke.
He did a two-volume historical piece. One is a Gospel, the other is a history of the early church. It ends before AD70. Because neither the deaths of Saint Peter or Saint Paul are mentioned or the sack of Jerusalem.
Hi Ed! Enjoying that double click? Make sure you uptick your own before someone is mean to you.
Hi Calli.
You know [whispers] you could make that Duck Egg go away yourself, unless you were the one who put it there.
In which case, you can’t.
google bard is woke as f*ck
That’s exactly why I am interested in going there, Zulu. Immerse myself in the past.
High Tea at 4 and G & T on the terrace at 6. Somerset Maugham stories on hand for ambience.
Really? I haven’t tried either. Never mind…enjoy yourself.
I will make the Malayan Highlands fashionable again. The cognoscenti will start to flock there.
It will be like the rediscovery of the Croatia and the Dalmatian coast. Time out from modern days.
A quiet part of the world still unexplored, until the tourists get the wind of it.
Except I know some bugger has got there before me. You know it when Great Luxury Hotels of the World are already there exploiting some grand old Colonial mansion. The good thing is we can stay there with decent plumbing. The grand old hotels I stayed at in Sri Lanka in the early 70’s still had original features including some of the weirdest plumbing imaginable. Plus plentiful roaches and bad beds.
et in arcadia m0nty
google bard thinks we can end wokeim with… more wokeism
I have a friend with the same lurgy. Just can’t seem to shake it, poor lady.
Knitting is a great distraction, just keep the pattern simple. No Fair Isle or Aran!
Mrs D seems to have the same thing, courtesy of no 2 grandson. She had it about 10 weeks ago, and finally shook it off completely after 5vweeks… 1 week feeling like death, then persistent coughing spasms for 4 weeks. Then seems to have caught the same or very similar thing 5 weeks ago. She is now able to finally cough once, not uncontrollable coughing.
I have remained immune, except as a result of 2 nights bad reflux I get coughing fits. I must have aspirated some of the gunk, as when I cough I can taste the reflux. Ribs ache like buggery.
TE – That’s what Luke the doctor set out to do as forensically as he could, from the admirable Greek historical tradition of guys like Herodotus and Xenophon. His account reads very well, and his book of Acts too. I especially like Paul’s encounter with the Athenian guys in togas in his account. Having read several preceding Greek and Roman histories in the same genre it rings pretty well. (Even better if you go into the Greek in Acts 17: for example the words rendered as “man” in our modern Bible texts are not “man”, but have several carefully chosen meanings. I use Strong’s Concordance for such things.)
The trouble is that simple history is never simple. We already are seeing memory of the events of the 20thC fading, only 100 years ago, and we theoretically have a civilization where this stuff should be inviolately kept as a record. In practice history is subject to editing, as per Orwell. Right now Christianity is on the outer with the ruling class, so draw your own conclusions about what you read. And always crosscheck.
Really? I haven’t tried either. Never mind…enjoy yourself.
Huh?
Either?
It’s not that big a deal, you upvote your comment, it defaults to zero, you
or Robert Sewell or some other deadshit claims victimhood.
Yes. There is one doing the rounds with the kiddies at the moment. One reason I popped into a chemist and got a flu shot yesterday. Lots of kids in my ambit. I don’t see anything wrong with the flu shot which incorporates new forms of the virus. Flu can be a killer for the very young and (ahem) the very old. The flu shot is the usual sort, not on an mRNA platform like Covid, which I wouldn’t accept. In fact, I am vary of the spike protein in any Covid shot regardless of the platform. Prefer to deal with that naturally.
General mUntgomery! I thought he was lost in the Battle of Malamo.
Me oh my, where did the day go? It’s already getting dark outside, time to batten down the hatches and consider a G & T after that. Still, the Diocese has received my request for a ‘covenant’ regarding the familial church in England, and that took a bit of careful drafting. All of these little odd jobs due to fingers in pies etc.
callisays:
May 23, 2023 at 4:56 pm
Hi Ed! Enjoying that double click? Make sure you uptick your own before someone is mean to you.
He always does.
Snap to Calli… 😀
Pulitzer Prize Goes to Queer Troll Author*
Can we call it the Putzer Prize now?
Chuckle. I’m no “victim”. But I am an amused observer.
m0ntysays:
May 23, 2023 at 5:00 pm
Trouble at Belgorod, I’m hearing.
Of course Russia will be able to use their new base in Bakhmut to… wait, I am also hearing they have not taken Bakhmut yet.
Wow, what a pack of losers!
Grow up fatso.
ChatGPT is also woke as f*ck
I’m assuming the asterisk signifies not a Hans Christian Andersen troll.
Judge Tosses Kari Lake’s Lawsuit After Trial on Fraudulent Signature Verification Shows AT LEAST 274,000 Ballots Were Verified in Less Than 3 Seconds – ORDER INCLUDED
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/05/just-judge-tosses-kari-lakes-lawsuit-after-trial/
Recently read ‘Paul’ by N T Wright covering that meeting. VERY illuminating.
Those Athenians may have been a theological court that could sentence Paul to death for blasphemy against their gods.
“I Stand With Stan” and “We Reject Racism”
Oxymorons
lol, Calli, that’s the way to do it. Let the child come immediately face to face with reality.
You’re a dog? This is a dog’s life. Get used to it.
A kindly invitation to return to the human world would probably suffice to get rid of this behaviour.
If not, then a deep and meaningful with the parents would be a good idea.
That Martell Fox is bit of babe, did she play GAA level hockey and does she have a first in pure maths?
She may be best girl. I’ll let her drive Our Maserati.
It’s a good thing the Feral Abacus was a satirical character.
You mean, Artyomovsk?
(Apple Kid muzak ensues…)
‘As there are only two sexes, male and female, why don’t you take a running jump?
I wonder if this bot would start talking about athletics or would it be primed for idioms and start going on about not just two sexes but many mutable genders, blah, blah, blah?
4Corners last night reviewed the various ethnic syndicates importing cocaine to Australia.
Vietnamese, Mexicans, Bolivians, Russians, Albanians … and their different propensity for violence.
Multiculturalism: don’t knock it.
It’s not just about pizza toppings.
ChatGPT
Feel the same Lizzie. I have some chardy in a glass. Highlight was oldest lady kooka (she’s about 14) who found me when I was out walking mid morning, flew down and landed on my arm. She received a late breakfast, since I take birdie food with me. Then at the lakeshore one of the Cafe currawongs recognised me, and accepted some food from my hand in a sheoak near the water. They’re pretty good at telling humans apart. She nested there last year and looks to in the process of building a new nest in the same patch of trees this year. Then this arvo I had a cockie on my right hand – he’s started doing this only in the last week. A lot of fun, and so far not too much of my blood spilled in the process.
No. Make her sleep in a kennel and feed her PAL ask her if she wants to be a human again.
Extracts from the Caro glossary of terms:-
“Influential club support group” = two guys who buy a $100 raffle ticket once a year and think they are majority shareholders.
“Well placed sources at the AFL” = the cleaner.
“A large group of players have lost confidence in the coach” = three reserves players who can’t get a game.
“Sources close to a Collingwood star” = Jordon De Goey’s mum.
“There is a strong feeling within the club” = I made it up.
Why would you be more wary of the spike protein in a covid vaccine than in covid itself?
Novavax only uses part of the spike protein. So you perhaps get less exposure than getting COVID.
Alas, I think I got COVID once, maybe twice. The RAT tests re not particularly reliable, who knows how many were improperly stored and so on? They had fairly short expiry dates too. You could have bought some early on and they might have been expired by the “end” of the totalitarian overreach.
Of course it was. It was a belief that the disciples had told the truth about the death of Jesus and his return from the grave. The disciples themselves believed Jesus was the son of God and could do miracles. They were every bit as capable of fooling themselves as most people are.
The fact is that the evidence for the resurrection is pathetically thin. An awful lot of Jews, then and now, didn’t and don’t buy it.
I believe this is the point where we say we can no longer accept more immigration, unless something is done about housing.
Lizzie:
Get a male friend to try to sniff her butt, then ask how much will she charge for the 8 or so puppies.
Rosie – Because the vaccine is directly injected in a massive slug whereas the virus has to make it past the respiratory system defenses, like mucus and etc, then replicate over time.
The vaccine hits like a hammer, with adjuvants to further increase the effect, but the virus comes in gradually.
The problem with the spike protein is it binds and neutralizes an important line of T-cells, which act as a first line of defense. The vaccine initiated antibodies produced by the B cells are a secondary defense. This is why the vaccinated as so susceptible to Covid after those antibodies decay, which takes 3-6 months: the vaccines remove the other defense, which is the T-cell population that does the immediate counter attack to an initial infection.
When you witness something, say a car accident, are you prepared to say so before a court in evidence?
These guys were eye witnesses. They died, not because of a “belief”, but because of what they saw and experienced. They were not prepared to shut up about it and pretend it hadn’t happened.
That would have been the real deception.
I have noticed a pattern of gangland executions, they mostly happen in front of the victim’s house. I suppose it makes sense, why bother chasing him all over the place? Just wait until he comes home.
Spike proteins are ubiquitous in the microbial world. They are how quite a lot of microbes fight each other and perhaps even mop up their dead enemies or bystanders and harvest genetic material they can benefit from or macronutrients. I’ve seen them referred to as “sorting hats” for desirable molecular resources ala Harry Potter.
A layperson probably cannot tell any coronavirus virion apart from any influenza virion. There is a reason why so many species have that capsid shape; it works.
The mRNA vaccines are starting to accumulate evidence against their utility. The real problem however, at least in Australia, is the dormant authoritarian powers that lay as emergency health powers under the various Public Health Acts.
Do you want to explain this with regards to viral load and incubation?
MEME
UK: Your bowel cancer surgery will be scheduled for 57 months time.
USA: You are cured of bowel cancer, please pay $87,000 by next Friday.
Canada: If we schedule you in for next Thursday, you can be buried on the following Tuesday.
indubitably!
Canada’s made Solyent Green come true.
Provide evidence of these threats you featherweight phony.
Surely, that would have been done from the get go? Where is the evidence or is it just ridicule as others here have suggested?
The violin music is appropriate for the next time he is laying down in the solarium.
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Danger Dan Reviews:
When you stuff up yet blame everyone but yourself. Stan Grant QandA
I already signed the petition at the link provided by commenter P. Shortly after I received an email from Archbishop Anthony Fisher that had the same link. I am pleased that the Australian Christian Lobby are supporting it as well.
Nice to see Shoe0nhead is still hitting it out of the park, but I don’t think she’s talking about immigration with that comment. She’s saying a quarter of Canadians are total Nazis, which sounds about right. Trudy is the new Herr Reichsfuhrer.
Canadian Fascist Leader Criticizes Democratically Elected Italian PM Over “Rights” (22 May)
Bring on the Zyclon B!
That was where Mme Zulu acquired her nickname of “The Memsahib” – the European Lady, and I became the “Tuan Besar” – the big European, the big shot. If you understand Malaysian customs and cultures, or show you are willing to learn, it’s an experience. American style tipping is considered “Neo – colonial” and quite offensive, but “something for a small present” for your children goes down well.
Mother Lode, it always amazes me how the various “victim” groups are unable to grasp that it’s the very people they keep demonising who empowered them when they didn’t have to. It seems no good deed goes unpunished and no credit is ever given to those who deserve it.
They’re shaped differently Dot. The Alpha spike protein, which all the vaccines were built upon, docks hard and fast with the gp120 receptor as I recall. And it causes cell fusion per Dutch 2021 and Lazebnik 2021. Once a cell displaying the spike protein fuses with a T-cell with the gp120 receptor the T-cell is toast. Bye bye T-cells, they’re all stuck to the lining of your blood vessels, which are now displaying spike proteins because of the mRNA they contain. The mutated Omicron spike attaches more weakly.
Re the appearance of Akhenaten:
While it is true that there was much facial destruction of representations of previous rulers, these images of Akhenaten were contemporary and from Amarna, not caricatures. The long face was particularly interesting, as were the enlarged thighs in the pieces genuinely from his period which I saw in the Egyptian museum. They did seem so unnatural as to suggest a genetic deformity, as has been speculated. The Nefertiti we admire today, btw, is a reconstruction.
Yes, Bruce. The Covid spike protein is a real nasty, and it is used in all attempts at a Covid virus vaxx with some untenable side-effects.
Corona viruses are notorious for not being amenable to killed or attenuated viral vaxxes.
When we visited the Egyptian museum fifteen years or so ago it was a delightful mess, everything everywhere but so many interesting corners and cabinets you could delve into and find the most amazing things. Apparently it’s all changed now. I could have spent days in there discovering.
I didn’t watch it the first time, P, but I went back and viewed it. It was a bit simplistic, but the basic take was pretty much right. I agree that we have to thank Aquinas for Christianity being one of the very few religions to set a high value on reason. And the schoolmen of the middle ages developed this idea and applied logic to theology, which contributed mightily to the origins of Science, a uniquely Western thing. In fact, with mathematics and technology, the defining feature of Western civilisation.
So yes, he was definitely a good guy and someone for whom I have great admiration.
Where I disagree with him is the idea of revealed truth. I think that whereas classical Science deals with the world outside our skin, the issues of morality are partly, at least, concerned with our perception of the world inside our skin. The existence of a conscience, or toothache, are real enough for the one who suffers either, but cannot be directly observed in another. They have to be inferred from conduct. This makes them much trickier to analyse. Religion has usually been the source of conclusions on this sort of problem. I agree with Aquinas on natural law and believe it extends to human nature. As did St. Thomas, in my understanding.
So I find myself in considerable agreement with the church on a great many moral issues, although I came to these conclusions from very different premisses.
We went to these places in Malaysia’s Cameron Highlands a few year back, Lizzie.
Drop up from Singapore. Excellent roads up the middle – was passed by a Lamborghini doing about 200 kph – and also veered off for a while to the western coast.
Very interesting.
Your body doesn’t discard dead cells? How much do you weigh at your age? 5 tonnes?
Actually it was in 2010, I remember because I promised my mother on her deathbed I would go in the next year. As a whacky spiritualist, she wanted to see from beyond the grave if her guardian Egyptian spirits would get in touch with me while I was there. Apparently you had to be there.
They didn’t.
Yes. We blundered there.
Yum. Strawberries and blueberries in the Cameron Highlands. Thanks, Top Ender, I think the whole of it looks worth a few days of leisurely travel. Really looking forward to it as a substitute for our 2020 trip to Sri Lanka. We are getting back what we paid in deposit for that in the form of airfares. It’s only taken three years but at least we’ve now been recompensed for all of the booked travel for 2020.
I would not be surprised by deformities due to inbreeding Lizzie. Dynastic requirements seem to run headlong into genetic ones.
My southern magpies have done well this season despite dad being a tad intimate with his daughter. Three chicks, all healthy except that one lost a leg due to an accident – even he/she is rudely healthy despite the amputation. But last year their only chick had bad visual problems, nearly blind in one eye and short sighted in the other. Nice young birdie but I wouldn’t sell her insurance. Inbreeding has consequences.
Indeed. I also don’t recognise Istanbul. It is Constantinople!
Malaysia is quite a popular spot for Saudi couples on their honeymoons. There was a couple at the next table complaining that they wanted to be moved, because we had a bottle of wine on the table……
I loved the Cairo museum! Ended up going there a couple of times, once alone, once with a group. That was 2018, and many of the exhibits were being boxed to go off to the new location at Giza.
There was something so mesmerising in seeing thousands of years of history displayed…so far back and still sophisticated and beautiful. I did a bit of blogging here about that journey. Memories of the moon rising over the pyramids and that dust storm that swept in from Libya curtailing the trip to Abu Simbel.
Time for a song.