Open Thread – Weekend 12 Aug 2023


In the Grove, Ivan Shishkin, 1869

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Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
August 12, 2023 3:16 pm

The message is clear: the great game is afoot. And the way to win is by rebuilding resilience and self-reliance.

We need strategic leadership from government, business, and our partners to create these industries and value chains.

We get careerist floundering and rent-seeking and and pie sharing and Buggins turn and Canute-attempts to turn politics against society, economics and the iron laws of physics.

We get Top Men.

Johnny Rotten
August 12, 2023 3:23 pm

We get Top Men.

And Women and the Alphabet Soup people.

Boambee John
Boambee John
August 12, 2023 3:33 pm

Hellllooo! Is anyone there?

Salvatore, Iron Publican
August 12, 2023 3:35 pm

Hydroxychloroquine

1/. Trump gave it a positive mention.
2/. The Swamp & the TDS media, could not stand the thought of Trump’s name being tied to an effective antidote/cure. So Hydroxychloroquine had to be discredited, whatever the cost to mankind.

Clive Palmer bought 30 million doses of Hydroxychloroquine & donated it to the people of Australia.

The anti-Hydroxychloroquine push in Australia was thus turned into a holy war.

Trials of Hydroxychloroquine were then rigged, with unequal control groups & incomparable doses – proving that Hydroxychloroquine, freely administered to all & sundry for decades, was actually now superduper risky.

We’re going to need more lampposts & a lot more piano wire.

Vicki
Vicki
August 12, 2023 3:38 pm

Speech: Inaugural Jim Molan Oration
Andrew Hastie August 11, 2023
Thursday 10 August 2023

What would you do if you were given 18 months to live?
How would you spend that time?
Travel the world? Experience as much of life as you could?
Not many of us would think to write a book on Australian national security.
Yet that’s what Jim Molan did.
As the shadows grew long, he laboured hard for his country.
He marshalled his strength, mind and pen for Australians past, living and yet unborn.
It was Jim’s final act of patriotism to warn us of the dangers ahead, and the risks if we fail to act in the face of a rising China.
Very few people who depart this world can speak their mind in such a way.
On a national stage, with a powerful message, and to so many people.
Jim gave us ‘Danger on our Doorstep’ – a book that argues that war on our doorstop is not just possible in the coming years, but that it is also likely.

It was an uncomfortable read, as it was intended to be.

I will never forget reading that book. My husband had just been admitted to hospital with an impacted bowel and I couldn’t sleep that night & decided to read Jim’s book which I had just purchased.

Well – I can tell you – if I couldn’t sleep before that, I couldn’t damn well sleep for the rest of the night! I was s__t scared after what Jim has explained about national security (or lack of) in that book. It confirmed what had been forewarned by Clive Hamilton & Peter Hartcher in their books a couple of years before.

No one now will ever convince me that China is not a threat to us or that we are prepared for the consequences. Jim Molan will always have a special place in my pantheon of Australian heroes.

Fair Shake
Fair Shake
August 12, 2023 3:42 pm

Heading into Melbourne CBD for a beer on the train. Estimated 1 in 2 wearing masks made of handkerchief material (so u know its quality). Same numpties getting their news from CCTV and will likely vote for da racist Voice.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
August 12, 2023 3:43 pm

“Much of it I can do little about. The polar bears are in trouble and there’s piles of fast fashion. It’s like you’re not allowed to enjoy anything without guilt.”

It’s a hard life for gullible fatheads.

Robert Sewell
August 12, 2023 3:51 pm

Lizzie:
How to make a chicken tractor.

Robert Sewell
August 12, 2023 3:58 pm

https://www.firstpeoplesrelations.vic.gov.au/preliminary-aboriginal-heritage-test
The rort is on, even before the referendum is done. Which says to me that despite the vast majority of Australians rejecting it, it will pass because cheating.
So what will we do when the day after the referendum comes out and it’s passed with lots of dodgy shit being exposed?

mem
mem
August 12, 2023 4:01 pm

An exclusive national survey of 1000 18 to 24-year-olds found more than 60 per cent have anxiety and more than half said they worried about the future.

The 2023 Gen Z Wellbeing Index conducted by Year13, a post-school advisory service, and Scape, which provides student accommodation, found 78 per cent of young Australians said the cost-of-living issue was their biggest concern, followed by housing/rental affordability (67 per cent), climate change (60 per cent) and mental health (57 per cent).

So 60% said climate change was one of their biggest concerns. Was it really? Or was it just a fashionable answer selected from a pre-prepared list? I seem to recall that at that age I and most of my cohorts were anxious about body image, being fashionable, being popular or not, passing exams, boyfriends, girlfriends, sex etc. As for cost of living being top of the list I call bullshit on that too. Most of this group don’t pay fuel bills, mortgages etc. This was a push poll and the results are useless except if you are an organization wanting to use the results to push an agenda.

mem
mem
August 12, 2023 4:04 pm

On a different note I had cause to wonder whether mushroom sales had changed over the past week? We actually had mushrooms last night purchased from the IGA.

Fair Shake
Fair Shake
August 12, 2023 4:06 pm

1 x schooner of beer $12.50. Thank you Uniparty.

Robert Sewell
August 12, 2023 4:08 pm

Rabz

Aug 11, 2023 10:42 PM
An Absolute Glamazon. Slinky as. Just look at that mischievous li’l smile in the 2nd pic.
And to those sanctimonious Wallies* who might get all het up about supposed alleged skinneeness, I don’t give a rodent’s …
*You know who you are, Nurse B

They’re both gorgeous, Rabz. I don’t get your point. #1 is just naturally skinny – not half starved. #2 is the sort who makes a bloke get onto his knees and thank God he’s a man.

Fair Shake
Fair Shake
August 12, 2023 4:08 pm

Last month $8 Euros got me 1 litre of beer. …quality Bavarian beer mind you.

cohenite
August 12, 2023 4:15 pm

Angela Shanahan is a Canberra-based freelance journalist and mother of nine children. She has written regularly for The Australian for over 20 years,

Still not bad looking; and a woman of faith; which you would need in spades with 9 sprogs spitting out from between your pins.

In other news that bat eared retard speakman, leader of the NSW libs supports the screech. The problem is never the left but gutless false conservatives.

vr
vr
August 12, 2023 4:20 pm

Is there a game on at Suncorp tonight? Helicopters have been buzzing the are since mid-afternoon. Won’t anyone think of the environment?

Robert Sewell
August 12, 2023 4:23 pm

Indolent

Aug 11, 2023 11:12 PM
Clearing the Fog of ‘Unprovoked’ War

Here.
Some clarity on the Ukraine/Russian/US war. We are not the Goodies here.

Diogenes
Diogenes
August 12, 2023 4:24 pm

The night they drove old Dixie down???

I grew up and remember it as “Am tag als Connie Kramer stab” – “The day that Connie Kramer died” I remember watching this performance on Deutsche Hitparade in the early 70s.

https://youtu.be/OD8-q-Zey7Q

Crossie
Crossie
August 12, 2023 4:24 pm

cohenite
Aug 12, 2023 4:15 PM
Angela Shanahan is a Canberra-based freelance journalist and mother of nine children. She has written regularly for The Australian for over 20 years,

Still not bad looking; and a woman of faith; which you would need in spades with 9 sprogs

I believe she is married to Dennis Shanahan.

Bruce in WA
August 12, 2023 4:25 pm

Calli said:

Bruce in WA, which Cunard are you on? Is it for a sector of Queen Anne’s maiden voyage?

No, ma’am, on Queen Vickie.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
August 12, 2023 4:34 pm

The same woman, Nurse Betty.

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
August 12, 2023 4:39 pm

Rabz, Winston… the Kardashians are all addicted to plastic surgery. You might have a wonderful unboxing, but check the warranty- the product will seize up and/or fall apart before long.
For my money, untouched birds like Elizabeth Shue, Kristy Swanson and Radha Mitchell look better now than any of those marzipan muppets ever will.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
August 12, 2023 4:41 pm

Just googled Lang Park’s schedule, low and behold there’s a soccer match on. Whoda thunk…

I have been hell west and crooked for nearly 4 weeks and see I have missed absolutely nothing. The screech still no 1 headline and media still flogging the soccer world cup. Sat phone contact with the coast and data link by Starlink has been our only connection to anywhere.

Dry season in full flight this year but isn’t as cold as the normal clear dries we have had in the past IMO. Bull dust is a big problem everywhere on well travelled unsealed roads atm. Annual burn off of the north going on too, though most accidently sparked from stupidity to discarded cigarette butts.

As for incidents, 2 near roll overs (One should have been but veh came to a stop on 45 deg angle perfectly leaning against 2 trees, sight to see & snatch strap off a roll bar righted it) and a couple of machinery failures due to non fair wear & tear from operator misuse. Busy time.

JMH
JMH
August 12, 2023 4:53 pm

Fair Shake
Aug 12, 2023 3:42 PM

Heading into Melbourne CBD for a beer on the train. Estimated 1 in 2 wearing masks made of handkerchief material (so u know its quality). Same numpties getting their news from CCTV and will likely vote for da racist Voice.

This is what concerns me. Volume of city/urban f/wits -vs- regional and rural. We know the regional/rurals are more than likely to vote NO but do they have the numbers to overthrow the morons? I’m talking Victoria here.

calli
calli
August 12, 2023 5:09 pm

#MeToo Bruce. I’m on the Queen Vic doing the western Med out of Rome in early June.

Delta A
Delta A
August 12, 2023 5:10 pm

Lovely winter’s day today. 10 C max, no wind and 14 mls rain so far.

Luurve global boiling.

calli
calli
August 12, 2023 5:14 pm

Although I may have to buy a new dishwasher which will severely crimp my on board spending money! My horribly expensive upmarket monster is making grim whistling and wheezing noises.

Got into the impeller and pulled out what looks to be a cherry pit and a large fishbone. So took the opportunity to give the whole lot a scrub out before I put it back together again. The sound it’s making is suggestive of a worn valve bubbling around, not a bearing. Here’s hoping. My trusty repairman is yet to be engaged.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 12, 2023 5:14 pm

Lovely winter’s day today. 10 C max, no wind and 14 mls rain so far.

Luurve global boiling.

According to the long time residents of this district, this is the coldest winter since 1992.

Global warming, my hairy aunt!

Rosie
Rosie
August 12, 2023 5:15 pm

Trials of Hydroxychloroquine were then rigged, with unequal control groups & incomparable doses – proving that Hydroxychloroquine, freely administered to all & sundry for decades, was actually now superduper risky.

What? The FDA rigged the hydroxychloroquine trials because Clive Palmer?
Interesting theory.
I’m willing to bet though, that Clive himself took zero hydroxychloroquine when he got pretty sick with covid.

Rabz
August 12, 2023 5:16 pm

Schlockerettes – you know what you have to do.

Vanquish la Frergs.

H B Bear
H B Bear
August 12, 2023 5:18 pm

C.L.

I also find it amusing that John Howard – formerly known as ‘John HoWARd’ – is now being lionised by autograph hunter Troy Bramston as the Good Liberal.

It’s not a good look.

Rosie
Rosie
August 12, 2023 5:19 pm

I’m pretty sure, with over 5 million people living in Melbourne out of a total 6.6 million living in Victoria, regional and rural don’t have the numbers to outvote us city sheeple.

Robert Sewell
August 12, 2023 5:20 pm

Indolent:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/…/Skittles-faces-backlash…
They’re very slow at getting the message we want products, not lectures about how horrible we are?

Rabz
August 12, 2023 5:21 pm

autograph hunter and kneepad wearer Troy “Mavis” Bramston

Looking forward to his role as the highest profile rent boy at the next ALP conference.

“More hands in his pockets than the average Ozzie tax payer”.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
August 12, 2023 5:21 pm

What? The FDA rigged the hydroxychloroquine trials because Clive Palmer?

They were rigged because Trump advocated it.

calli
calli
August 12, 2023 5:22 pm

Heh. The Garden Gurus episode today featured “exotic mushrooms”.

Exquisite timing.

JMH
JMH
August 12, 2023 5:23 pm

Rosie
Aug 12, 2023 5:19 PM

I’m pretty sure, with over 5 million people living in Melbourne out of a total 6.6 million living in Victoria, regional and rural don’t have the numbers to outvote us city sheeple.

That’s my point. I do not believe the Polls that seem to indicate it’s 50/50 Victoria – unless, of course, there are a vast number of city/urbans who have done their homework. I bloody hope they have!

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
August 12, 2023 5:28 pm

Rosie

Aug 12, 2023 5:19 PM

I’m pretty sure, with over 5 million people living in Melbourne out of a total 6.6 million living in Victoria, regional and rural don’t have the numbers to outvote us city sheeple.

Well, yes, but I think GMH is assuming all Melbuornibad voters will vote as a block.
Sure they lean “Yes” and rural and regional lean “No”, but it isn’t 100% Yes vote in town.
If GMH bothered to read the detail in the polling, ze would see that they are trying to weight the sample to avoid bias one way or the other.

Robert Sewell
August 12, 2023 5:31 pm

Farmer Gez

Aug 12, 2023 10:10 AM
The biggest scandal of the renewable roll out is the existence of faux government bodies like AEMO, who do the dirty work away from the checks and balances of departments and ministers.
The states and Feds have gifted extraordinary planning and coercive powers to unelected ex-energy company executives, who wield that power with arrogance and disdain for proper process.

Australia stands on the stone one step away from a Fascist Society.
We’ve been warned.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 12, 2023 5:35 pm

I’m pretty sure, with over 5 million people living in Melbourne out of a total 6.6 million living in Victoria, regional and rural don’t have the numbers to outvote us city sheeple.

The latest population of Western Australia is 2.8 million people, of which 75% live in Perf and the surrounds, yet the polls show the “Voice” as going down in a screaming heap.

Salvatore, Iron Publican
August 12, 2023 5:37 pm

What? The FDA rigged the hydroxychloroquine trials because Clive Palmer?

Don’t be deliberately obtuse.
Though you’re not far wrong.
It was rigged coz Trump.

Makka
Makka
August 12, 2023 5:38 pm

Sure they lean “Yes” and rural and regional lean “No”, but it isn’t 100% Yes vote in town.

I don’t think the city Vic vote is a lock for Yes. I have people of Indian and Chinese heritage in my workplace and the sentiment seems definitely No. Among the anglo’s it’s universally no.

Of course, there’s no accounting for the rigged vote.

JMH
JMH
August 12, 2023 5:39 pm

Well, yes, but I think GMH is assuming all Melbuornibad voters will vote as a block.
Sure they lean “Yes” and rural and regional lean “No”, but it isn’t 100% Yes vote in town.
If GMH bothered to read the detail in the polling, ze would see that they are trying to weight the sample to avoid bias one way or the other.

Can’t help yourself can you, Petty little yappity yap yap Poodle. You are nothing more than the blog’s bot fly. However:-
THE POODLE BITES!
(Come on, Frenchie)
THE POODLE CHEWS IT!
(Snap it!)
Thank you, Frank Zappa!

Rosie
Rosie
August 12, 2023 5:40 pm

I’m absolutely sure you are right.
Between March and June the FDA rigged poor outcomes of trials of Hydroxychloroquine so that tens of thousands of people died unnecessarily of covid, just to spite Trump, and at the end of the year provisionally approved the various vaccines trialled under Trump’s Warp Speed program which were then rolled out to millions of people world wide, including Trump, who openly endorsed them.

miltonf
miltonf
August 12, 2023 5:42 pm

Can’t help yourself can you, Petty little yappity yap yap Poodle. You are nothing more than the blog’s bot fly. However:-
THE POODLE BITES!
(Come on, Frenchie)
THE POODLE CHEWS IT!
(Snap it!) Thank you, Frank Zappa!

huh?

Salvatore, Iron Publican
August 12, 2023 5:43 pm

Between March and June the FDA rigged poor outcomes of trials of Hydroxychloroquine so that tens of thousands of people died unnecessarily of covid, just to spite Trump

Pretty close to it.

Hydroxychloroquine had been prescribed/administered for decades with barely a stifled yawn emitted. It didn’t suddenly become Strychnine.

JMH
JMH
August 12, 2023 5:43 pm

Makka
Aug 12, 2023 5:38 PM
Sure they lean “Yes” and rural and regional lean “No”, but it isn’t 100% Yes vote in town.

I don’t think the city Vic vote is a lock for Yes. I have people of Indian and Chinese heritage in my workplace and the sentiment seems definitely No. Among the anglo’s it’s universally no.

Of course, there’s no accounting for the rigged vote.

I really hope you are right, Makka but I think Victoria will be one State to hold the YES vote.

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
August 12, 2023 5:45 pm

The History Guy:

In 1907 a professor of chemistry at Tokyo Imperial University named Kikunea Ikeda was eating dinner when he noticed that his broth was particularly delicious. A year later, on July 25, 1908 he determined why. Professor Ikeda had identified a chemical compound that today represents a nearly seven billion dollar industry, and one of the world’s most common, and controversial food additives. The complex history of the sodium salt of gluconic acid called “monosodium glutamate” deserves to be remembered.

Umami: A History of Monosodium Glutamate

Rabz
August 12, 2023 5:45 pm

Australia stands on the stone one step away from a Fascist Society

Not quite yet, Bobby.

I’ll know we’re there when I am arrested or “deplatformed” from everything.

The Farage “debanking” debacle shows us all how close we are getting.

I don’t publicly proclaim my political views anymore. Collectivists still automatically assume I am of them. This will be used to my advantage and ruthlessly when any future opportunities might arise.

My work colleagues have already acknowledged that I am the most strident critic of the stupid forking gliberals. While lacking the nous to realise from which direction I’m laying into the latter with the Louisville Slugger.

Anyway, Cats – to everything, turn, turn turn

Salvatore, Iron Publican
August 12, 2023 5:48 pm

My work colleagues have already acknowledged that I am the most strident critic of the stupid forking gliberals. While lacking the nous to realise from which direction I’m laying into the latter with the Louisville Slugger.

Surely your views on our ABC are not as opaque?

Rosie
Rosie
August 12, 2023 5:50 pm

Jack Waterford, Canberra Times, paywall.
I suppose I could wait until I’m in sunny Canberra and read the paper version.
After all the enquiry only affects Canberrians.

Walter Sofronoff inquiry into Bruce Lehrmann case missed real opportunities for ACT reform

Rabz
August 12, 2023 5:50 pm

your views on our ALPBC

“I never read, watch or listen to it, except chiple jay”

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
August 12, 2023 5:52 pm

Jeez GMH.
Easy, Tiger.
I was just helping you with your homework.

Rabz
August 12, 2023 5:58 pm

missed Real opportunities for ALPCT reform

Yeah, no. The place is a cesspit.

Nuke. From. Orbit.

JMH
JMH
August 12, 2023 5:58 pm

Sancho Panzer
Aug 12, 2023 5:52 PM

Jeez GMH.
Easy, Tiger.
I was just helping you with your homework.

Bwahahaha – I don’t need your input on anything, yappity yap yap yap Poodle. However, your motives are as clear as crystal.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
August 12, 2023 5:59 pm

Between March and June the FDA rigged poor outcomes of trials of Hydroxychloroquine so that tens of thousands of people died unnecessarily of covid, just to spite Trump

Yep.

You haven’t yet worked out how evil the fascist oligarchy is, have you Rosie?

Trump was snowed by the pharma-industrial complex. Here’s an Instapundit entry today, which is extremely relevant.

The whole thing was slanted to get rid of Trump. Fauci for example perjured himself, which Rand Paul is nailing him on this week. And the social media companies repressed everything that could literally have saved millions of lives.

I had a sub-clinical Covid infection late last year, which I only worked out about when I read up on long Covid symptoms. I won’t bore you with details, but I eventually found how to fix the symptoms. You wanna know what? Asprin. Works amazingly within 15 minutes.

And yes some Israeli researchers noticed how effective asprin is for Covid. Zero coverage in the MSM. Isn’t that just mindblowingly amazing? At least Trump never mentioned it or asprin would’ve been banned completely.

H B Bear
H B Bear
August 12, 2023 6:01 pm

I never read, watch or listen to it, except chiple jay”

Who gave us Frank Elly, the work experience kid. Still on the tit 30 years later. Poor Aunty.

miltonf
miltonf
August 12, 2023 6:05 pm

Speaking of awful JJJ types, what ever happened to Catterns?

Robert Sewell
August 12, 2023 6:07 pm

I was tossing up either going to the US for a look amongst other things, the Fort Knox Tank Museum or the Tank Museum at Bovington.
But if the breakdown of Law and Order continues, I’m cancelling.
16yo autistic girl arrested for hate speech.
https://rumble.com/v36jldr-this-week-in-culture-160.html.
Too late.
I’m cancelling even the thought of going to either of these shitholes.

calli
calli
August 12, 2023 6:08 pm

Oh. I see.

“Yes” campaigners are planning to browbeat people by knocking on their doors and do a bit of thug-on-citizen urging.

It will be interesting if anyone tries to browbeat me on my doorstep. Of course, I will be polite.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 12, 2023 6:17 pm

It will be interesting if anyone tries to browbeat me on my doorstep. Of course, I will be polite.

I’ll send Mme Zulu to answer the door. She’s not an Australian citizen…

miltonf
miltonf
August 12, 2023 6:19 pm

Why should you be polite? Tell them you’re quite capable of making up your own mind. Tell them to get off your property.

Delta A
Delta A
August 12, 2023 6:21 pm

Luurve global boiling.

Just hope it’s dry and a little warmer next Saturday. We are having a memorial day for our darling friend, Nana, Mother and MiL, who recently died peacefully here at home.

Just days before her passing she called in Daughter (her DiL) and asked if she would take care of funeral arrangements. “[My son] is a wonderful man,” she whispered, “but he can’t organise anything.”

And so next Saturday shall be a celebration of an extraordinary life, a genuine rags to riches story. This refined English woman was sent away from home (aged nine) for five years during WW2. Imagine today’s snowflakes coping with that.

A year after her arrival in Australia, her husband returned to England, leaving her to raise their three young children alone. She truly deserved every happiness which followed those awful years.

On Saturday, her ashes shall be sprinkled, as requested, in the beautiful Memorial Garden which Daughter and SiL have already established in the top corner of our property, joining those of my dear brother. People will be encouraged to give eulogies or even simple comments about this dear, courageous woman. Our pastor will say a (very few) words and offer a prayer, perhaps the first religious words several of the extended family have ever heard. Then a hymn sung by granddaughters followed by a moment or two for silent reflection.

And then, a humungous lunch provided by Daughter (who, coincidently, is director of funeral catering for our church,) her daughters and me. It will be a happy day and I’m sure our dear, late House Buddy would approve 100%.

Son, a talented stonemason, is building a wall to feature commemorative plaques for all our immediate family who have passed, including our late doggies who, in death, provide nutrients for the thriving pepper tree, the centrepiece of the garden. (Yes, a camelia or crepe myrtle might have been prettier, but that top corner sits amid some howling gales. The brave little pepper tree takes it all in stride.)

Cats, I just wanted to post this as a finale to the happenings which lately I have been posting. I know that those who have been following shall be sympathetic and supporting, so no need clog up the blog with words to that effect. Thank you.

calli
calli
August 12, 2023 6:24 pm

Milton, I have an impolite garden hose.

I’ve tried to train it, but to no avail.

JMH
JMH
August 12, 2023 6:27 pm

It will be interesting if anyone tries to browbeat me on my doorstep. Of course, I will be polite.

If they dare, they enter my property at their own risk. I will NOT be polite.

Indolent
Indolent
August 12, 2023 6:29 pm

Dr. John Campbell

Excess deaths persist

Cassie of Sydney
August 12, 2023 6:29 pm

Just home after an afternoon with my mother and sister.

I went into a local Woollies, and I noticed that the mushroom shelves were full and many punnets were reduced. I wonder if the ongoing mushroom death mystery has affected sales of mushrooms?

I think this week I’ll make a mushroom risotto, with mushrooms from the supermarket, of course.

miltonf
miltonf
August 12, 2023 6:30 pm

LOL Calli- especially when it starts snaking uncontrollably

Rosie
Rosie
August 12, 2023 6:30 pm

Do go on Bruce, your expertise on this subject is truly fascinating.
The FDA and everyone involved in the clinical trials were in an yet another massive Conspiracy! and no-one said a word in the last three years.
Meanwhile in Australia.

calli
calli
August 12, 2023 6:32 pm

It’s even better connected to the pressure washer.

And that particular piece of kit hates racists.

Robert Sewell
August 12, 2023 6:32 pm

Crossie:

I was buying pate the other day and it occurred to me that I have not seen for some time now a particular school sandwich filler from the 70s. Has anyone seen lately devon in Colesworth or anywhere else?

Yes IGA. several varieties, different names.
On white bread sangas with tomato sauce.
Brings back memories – unpleasant ones.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 12, 2023 6:35 pm

Not breaking the glass ceiling … shattering it

Lieutenant General Natasha Fox has been promoted to become the first female three star officer in the Australian Defence Force. But it hasn’t always been an easy road.
By glenda korporaal
From The Deal
August 12, 2023
7 minute read
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It was how she reacted to being told “no” when she was passed over for a job she wanted that Lieutenant General Natasha Fox credits for her 35-year career in the Australian ­Defence Force.

Fox, who has consistently broken through glass ceilings in the male-dominated ADF since joining as a 17-year-old cadet – a career that has just seen her promoted to become the first female three-star officer in the ADF – ­recalls her frustration when she was passed over for a command position she so dearly wanted earlier in her career.

“I thought why not me?” she says in an interview with The Weekend Australian. “I am as a good as XYZ (the person who got the job). But then I started to reflect on why I turned up for work every day.”
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Fox decided that she did want to stay in the ADF and vowed to make sure that even if she didn’t get that job she wanted, she would be working in roles she enjoyed.

Soon after, she was offered a new job as head of the Australian Defence Forces Academy – the academy she attended as a young recruit.

“One door closed, but another one opened,” she says. “It was a bit of luck and timing. But it’s how you approach things when you are told ‘no’ which is important. I’ve taken that lesson substantially through everything else I have done.”

The first female deputy chief of the Australian Army, Fox has just been promoted from Major General to Lieutenant General as the ADF’s chief of personnel in June.

It is a new role, in charge of some 5000 to 6000 people who manage the personnel side of the military – a force of 60,000 permanent staff and another 40,000 reservists – that was recommended by the Defence Strategic Review which was released to the public in April.

Fox is now the most senior woman in the ADF – a force which is still only around 20 per cent women. One of 11 three-star officers in the ADF (the other 10 are men), she reports directly to the four-star Chief of Defence Force, General Angus Campbell.

Fox’s career has included deployments in Lebanon, Syria and Israel as chief of staff for the joint task force in the United Arab Emirates. Her overseas appointments involved some tense times in Lebanon, dealing with both the Israeli army and Hezbollah.

Her new role is aimed at developing a system that will take a whole-of-career approach to the recruitment, retention, management, education, and support of people in the ADF and their transition from Defence. It’s a remit that includes the three services – army, navy and air force – with the warfighting domains of space and cyber.

It’s also a role that will play a key part in the federal government’s goal of increasing the size of the ADF by another 18,500 people by 2040 – a goal set before the pandemic but now made much harder with the unemployment rate at near record lows.

“It’s great for Australia that we have these circumstances of low unemployment, but it means that defence, as an organisation, needs to be more competitive. We need to be able to better tell our story of the fantastic employment offering of a career in the ADF.”

The mother of two children whose husband is in the navy, Fox wants to get the message out that the ADF can provide a career where you can “lead a normal life”.

“You have other obligations. You have a profession and there are expectations of us. You can have a family, you can study, you can play sport. It does get interrupted when we go on different tasks but the purpose of those tasks and why we are training is really powerful. For a lot of people, that’s why they stay.

“There’s a sense of purpose which is really powerful. And there are also the opportunities of being offshore in another country which gives you an opportunity to know why the democracy we have in Australia is worth fighting for.”

You go, girl!

Rabz
August 12, 2023 6:35 pm

“Yes” campaigners are planning to browbeat people by knocking on their doors and do a bit of thug-on-citizen urging.

The entry door to the cottage is inaccessible to anyone apart from those invited.

The uninvited will no doubt shove their propaganda into the mailbox, despite the “no junk mail” label affixed prominently above.

The joys of modern life, Cats. Which is rubbish.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
August 12, 2023 6:38 pm

The FDA and everyone involved in the clinical trials were in an yet another massive Conspiracy!

Yep. Have you been living under a rock for two years Rosie?

Taibbi’s Twitter files are pretty clear on such things.

And yes I can provide references for you, but I won’t, since it’s Saturday evening and you wouldn’t read them anyway.

Viva
Viva
August 12, 2023 6:41 pm

Calli we had a wonderful time on Queen Vic

Elegant surroundings and fabulous Ports of call in the Med

A bottle of champagne awaits in your stateroom

Do they still call them cabins lol?

Diogenes
Diogenes
August 12, 2023 6:42 pm

Has anyone seen lately devon in Colesworth or anywhere else?

Yep our local ones have it sliced in the deli department. I get it every so often out of a sense of nostalgia; as I do an occasional can of spam, fried with scrambled eggs, it reminds me of a ration pack meal. Haven’t seen Pecks paste around for a while.

Rabz
August 12, 2023 6:44 pm

just naturally skinny

That picture illustrates creatures that may or may not be beyond us, Cats.

However, note the colour of the (no doubt hugely overpriced) slip Kendall J is clad in.

Soviet Grey.

It goes with everythang. 🙂

Salvatore, Iron Publican
August 12, 2023 6:45 pm

Crikey, four minutes to go & nobody has scored. Come on France!
Desired outcome: France wins.
Unhappy outcome: Matildas win.

Diogenes
Diogenes
August 12, 2023 6:46 pm

Unhappy outcome: Matildas win.

Amen, brother!

Indolent
Indolent
August 12, 2023 6:48 pm
Indolent
Indolent
August 12, 2023 6:50 pm
Robert Sewell
August 12, 2023 6:51 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mhj9iK4KSf8&t=100s
Lizzie:
How to make a chicken tractor from junk around the house.

Rabz
August 12, 2023 6:53 pm

The Schlockerettes are into extra time against la Mademoiselles!

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
August 12, 2023 6:53 pm

Unhappy outcome: Matildas win.

I have no problem with that idea, since it’d mean the Newcastle u15 boys’ side would be the best in the world.

Matildas Beaten 7-0 By Newcastle Jets Under-15 Boys Team (2016)

I’m very parochial.

calli
calli
August 12, 2023 6:56 pm

Viva, *channelling my inner Hyacinth* they are called “staterooms”!

They no longer call the Captain “Commodore” though.

It’s all rather silly and a source of endless enjoyment. Over the years I have watched the rather rigid British caste system slowly crumble around the edges. On my first trip years ago I was quizzed to try to establish my place in the Scheme of Things. Aussies were still a mystery.

So instead I discussed the wonders of gardening. That appeared to be my “pass”. 😀

Indolent
Indolent
August 12, 2023 7:00 pm
Rosie
Rosie
August 12, 2023 7:05 pm
calli
calli
August 12, 2023 7:06 pm

In my view what happened on Maui was inevitable. Huge quantities of unmanaged fuel, a drier that usual season combined with fire-friendly terrain.

So…who was responsible for managing all this tropical forest and providing firebreaks and other important retardant features?

The place wouldn’t be Dem controlled, would it?

Viva
Viva
August 12, 2023 7:06 pm

That reminds me of Hyacinth’s horrified reaction when she discovered Onslow ( scrubbed up to look somewhat presentable) ensconced at the captains table of her exclusive Cunard cruise!

My husband had to go back and put on a tie on one of the “formal” nights on board. Heh heh

vr
vr
August 12, 2023 7:07 pm

I can hear the crowd at Suncoorp…someone must have scored a goal

Rabz
August 12, 2023 7:09 pm

I’m very parochial

Not to mention very spacey and sciencey

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
August 12, 2023 7:10 pm

Rosie, f-off! with the covid commentary. You’ve posted nearly every Big-Pharma corrupted news source under the Sun. I have a very good memory.

I still luv you. X

The HighWire with Del Bigtree

Dr. Jim Meehan guest hosts The Highwire this week and is joined by ICAN lead attorney, Aaron Siri, to share his side of his twitter debate with vaccine creator, Paul Offit, cornering him over his false statement that all vaccines are tested under placebo controlled trials. Hear about the 17 tweet smackdown of facts and how these trials are specifically designed to test efficacy and not safety.

AARON SIRI’S DEBATE WITH PAUL OFFIT

calli
calli
August 12, 2023 7:11 pm

Yes…the QEII. Daisy and Onslow won their cruise in a lottery. Onslow scrubbed up quite well too, particularly for the dancing.

Robert Sewell
August 12, 2023 7:12 pm

Diogenes

Aug 12, 2023 6:42 PM
Haven’t seen Pecks paste around for a while.

Pecks paste still a regular here in Barcy, But they no longer make the Peppersteak spred, from what I’ve been told after asking.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
August 12, 2023 7:12 pm

Wonder how many Eucalypt plantations are in Hawaii too. Know they are on the big island and some on Oahu. Be interesting to see if that was a contributing factor.

JC
JC
August 12, 2023 7:14 pm

I can’t see where Sportsbet has the ref betting posted, if at all. There’s one site I’ve never heard of, which has betting prices.

Yes at 3.75. approx 20% chance of getting up

No at 1.23 Approx 80%

(Rounded off)

https://www.bluebet.com.au/sports/Politics/142/Australian-Referendums/The-Voice-Referendum/The-Voice-Referendum/1192045/All-Markets

Salvatore, Iron Publican
August 12, 2023 7:14 pm

Pecks paste still a regular here in Barcy

Likewise here on the Outer Barcoo, where churches are few & men of religion are scanty.

bons
bons
August 12, 2023 7:15 pm

Unhappy outcome: Matildas win.
God has gone uni party.
Check the names on your bank’s board.

Viva
Viva
August 12, 2023 7:15 pm

We are currently running thru some old British sit coms which are always good for a laugh
Are you Being Served for example
You could never get away with that dialogue today

miltonf
miltonf
August 12, 2023 7:15 pm

So has little Johnny hoWARd really been advising the lieborals not to ‘move to the right’.

calli
calli
August 12, 2023 7:17 pm

Sorry. QE2.

Standards must be maintained.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
August 12, 2023 7:20 pm

In my view what happened on Maui was inevitable. Huge quantities of unmanaged fuel, a drier that usual season combined with fire-friendly terrain.

Here soon. El Nino vs lets-not-burn-all-the sequestered carbins-it’d-offend-Gaia.

I’m not looking forward to summer. The volcano is adding to the whole pattern.

Rabz
August 12, 2023 7:20 pm

Australia’s gift* to the following locales:

California
South Africa
Hawaii
Israel

Eucalypts are an unwelcome guest anywhere. Any other locales they’ve been gifted with, Cats?

*and a ghost gum, at that …

Rabz
August 12, 2023 7:23 pm

I’m not looking forward to summer

I am, Squire. Three La Niña summers in a row is enough. 😕

Indolent
Indolent
August 12, 2023 7:23 pm
Steve trickler
Steve trickler
August 12, 2023 7:28 pm

calli.

If that garden hose squirted you in the chest, can we get some wet t-shirt pics please?

Joking folks … joking ( :

Indolent
Indolent
August 12, 2023 7:28 pm

Senator Rennick

Approximately 50x more risk of injury than any other vaccine.

JC
JC
August 12, 2023 7:28 pm

People who say poltics is depressing because of the low quality of candidates aren’t really closely at the great GOP field. Here’s another star, who is unlikely to run.

Virginia governor Glenn Youngkin.

The first Republican presidential debate is two weeks away, and the party’s prospects look bleak. The front-runner is under indictment in three jurisdictions so far. Donald Trump’s platform for 2024 is retribution, for offenses real and imagined. In second place is a successful governor of a booming state, but Florida’s Ron DeSantis is failing to electrify voters. A survey this week showed him polling at 9% in New Hampshire in a tie with Chris Christie.

If no alternative to Mr. Trump breaks through, nervous Republican donors and voters will start looking for a lifeboat, and Glenn Youngkin just may prove seaworthy. The Virginia governor’s approval rating is 57% in a state Joe Biden carried by 10 points. A poll this month from Virginia Commonwealth University suggested Mr. Youngkin would beat Mr. Biden in the Old Dominion, which the GOP hasn’t carried in a presidential election since 2004.

For now Mr. Youngkin, 56, is focused on another contest: for control of the Virginia General Assembly this November. The GOP seeks to preserve its slender majority in the lower chamber, the House of Delegates. Democrats control the Senate 22-18 and have held up much of the governor’s agenda since he came to Richmond last year.

“I’m excited about the midterms,” Gov. Youngkin tells me on Tuesday, after touring a manufacturing facility north of Richmond. “It gives us a chance to take our case back to voters and say, ‘This is how we’ve done. We’d like for you to extend our license to lead by electing a House that’s led by Republicans and flipping the Senate.’ ”

Taking the Assembly won’t be a layup, to use a favorite metaphor of Mr. Youngkin, who played college basketball at Rice University before a career in business. Governors tend to lose seats in midterm elections. Virginia Republicans haven’t controlled both Assembly houses and the governorship in a decade. Control will likely depend on a few races in some of America’s most contested political territory—suburban Richmond and Hampton Roads, in the southeastern corner of the state.

Mr. Youngkin seems to have no shortage of enthusiasm or energy. He is witheringly sunny. “It’s the way God made me—I tend to see the glass half full,” he says with a laugh. The governor is rooting the fall race in a popular agenda: the economy, education and public safety. “You can’t run on 52 things. You’ve got to be very clear about your top priorities.”

By some miracle, the GOP seems to have produced local candidates who aren’t terrifying to normal Americans. Pair that with a sophisticated early-voting operation aimed at narrowing the Democratic turnout advantage. Whatever the outcome in November, give the governor credit for risking his political capital instead of merely riding his popularity into other ambitions after his one-term limit expires and his successor is elected in 2025.

If he does manage to defy political gravity and consolidate Republican control in Richmond, it will be a major political story with national implications. Such an achievement might bust open the race for the White House, even if Mr. Trump’s support now appears set in concrete.

“Children will meet the expectations that are set for them,” Mr. Youngkin says at a fire station on Thursday morning in quaint Stafford County. In Virginia, “over previous years, expectations were systematically lowered. What does that mean? When I say standards were lowered—literally, the number of questions on our standards-of-learning tests that had to be right, in order to be proficient, was reduced. That’s the truth.”

He has been traversing the state conducting “Parents Matter” listening sessions, with another one earlier in the week near Richmond. The core pitch: Raising both “the ceiling and the floor” on student achievement, closing learning gaps widened by pandemic school closures, and giving parents more choices, such as a “lab school” initiative working with colleges and universities.

Indolent
Indolent
August 12, 2023 7:28 pm
Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
August 12, 2023 7:30 pm

Cats are wanted on Rabz’ musical thread which Dover has now posted a week late!
Thanks Dover! Things were a bit crazy last week, technology is so annoying sometimes.

Rosie
Rosie
August 12, 2023 7:32 pm

People make up their own minds about linked information.
Considering the varying degrees of insane things you believe, I’m not particularly bothered by your abuse.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
August 12, 2023 7:33 pm

Is the whipper-snipper still going Tickler?

miltonf
miltonf
August 12, 2023 7:35 pm

Ethiopia or Addis Ababa at least is famous for gum trees Rabz.

Roger
Roger
August 12, 2023 7:35 pm

Cohen explains that Vladimir Putin is successfully flogging his war in Ukraine to the Russian people as a battle against the whole spiritually depraved West

Apparently we’ve moved on from de-Nazification.

And de-militaristaion.

And Russian historical grievances over borders.

Close to 8 million Ukrainians had to be killed, maimed or displaced to protect Russians from Western moral depravity?

If he were at all serious (which the ex-KGB officer is not – Putin might like to remind himself of what Solzhenitsyn wrote, viz. ““the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either — but right through every human heart.”

Rabz
August 12, 2023 7:37 pm

A penalty shoot out is on, Cats!

Sacré bleu!

Razey
Razey
August 12, 2023 7:42 pm

battle against the whole spiritually depraved West

Oh but it is.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
August 12, 2023 7:42 pm

Australia very lucky to get as far as a penalty shoot out.

Razey
Razey
August 12, 2023 7:46 pm

Are they going to re-name Australia with some bullshit Abo word now as well?

Roger
Roger
August 12, 2023 7:47 pm

battle against the whole spiritually depraved West

Oh but it is.

Spiritual battles aren’t fought with artillery and tanks, Razey.

Besides which, the adulterer, thief and murderer Putin is not on the side of the angels.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
August 12, 2023 8:01 pm

Put your money on the chestnut.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
August 12, 2023 8:01 pm

Mon dieu!!!

Rabz
August 12, 2023 8:02 pm

Miss Courtney Vine!

Razey
Razey
August 12, 2023 8:04 pm

Besides which, the adulterer, thief and murderer Putin is not on the side of the angels.

And I suppose your mates in the USA and Labor Party are?

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 12, 2023 8:05 pm

Are they going to re-name Australia with some bullshit Abo word now as well?

Don’t give them any ideas!

Razey
Razey
August 12, 2023 8:07 pm

And I’m pretty sure God was favoring sides in wars described in the Old Testament. God is clearly with the Russians. Satan is obviously sided with Woke West.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 12, 2023 8:11 pm

Any military Cats got any words of wisdom and advice, for a young bloke whose looking at Kapooka, in the near future?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
August 12, 2023 8:11 pm

Rabz

Aug 12, 2023 8:02 PM

Miss Courtney Vine!

Expect KD here any minute, railing against rangas in sport.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
August 12, 2023 8:11 pm

Two exciting bits.

The Frog with the lesbian haircut saving the goal.

The other bit.

Laydeez soccer is an entirely different game to the men’s. Neither side seemed to have much idea what they were supposed to be doing.

Alamak!
August 12, 2023 8:11 pm

Australia very lucky to get as far as a penalty shoot out.

Made it to the next game … really pretty ordinary football on the whole and not sure what Oz attack is actually based on?

if they think wimmins football deserves equal pay for this club-level stuff then I’m not sure where the fan base will be drawn from – perhaps public servants will be forced to watch the games in order to get paid.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
August 12, 2023 8:13 pm

Oh dear.
Far cough Albo.

cohenite
August 12, 2023 8:14 pm

Women’s soccer, like every female sport, should be played with the players wearing as little clothing as possible.

Rosie
Rosie
August 12, 2023 8:16 pm

Watching Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, I’ve read the book but watching the movie in fits and starts I couldn’t follow the plot properly.
Now rewatching, then might have another go at the Alec Guiness version which on Amazon prime (I hope).

Black Ball
Black Ball
August 12, 2023 8:16 pm

Peta Credlin:

When the Prime Minister says he is committed to implementing the Uluru Statement from the Heart IN FULL, what does that actually mean?

Is he referring to the benign one-page version, a poster with a lot of signatures around the edge, made up of just 439 words, or does he want to implement a far more radical document running to dozens of pages that we only know about because of a Freedom of Information request?

If you are not sure, then ask yourself this question: What serious country would seek to insert a new chapter into its constitution based on a one-page poster? None, but the fact that this is what Anthony Albanese wants you to believe rings massive alarm bells for me about what he will really sign Australia up to, if his Voice vote succeeds.

For months and months, the government has refused to give us any detail about the Voice. And when governments refuse to provide detail, and dodge serious questions (as we saw in the parliament last week), then trust me, I’ve worked in Canberra for 16 years, something is up.

And the penny dropped for me when I finally got my hands on the complete 26-pages of the Uluru Statement from the Heart, released under official FOI. It is nothing like the “gentle invitation” that the PM claims the Uluru Statement is. Instead, the full 26-page document is an angry manifesto of grievance, separatism, division and compensation. And as soon as I started telling people just what’s in the complete Uluru Statement, Anthony Albanese went a little crazy claiming it was some sort of conspiracy theory.

He is wrong. He doesn’t want you to understand what is in the complete Uluru Statement because if you did, you wouldn’t vote for it. He wants you to think it’s just a poster of goodwill statements not a blueprint to divide this country along racial lines. And he is deliberately trying to play a game of misinformation in the desperate hope you don’t understand what will happen to Australia if you vote Yes in the upcoming referendum.

That’s a big call, but here is the proof.

Anthony Albanese wasn’t at Uluru, he wasn’t even the Labor leader at the time but Professor Megan Davis was there in 2017 and was one of the co-authors of the Uluru Statement. She said the following year in her 2018 Parkes Oration: “The Uluru Statement from the Heart isn’t just the first one page statement. It’s actually a very lengthy document of about 18 to 20 pages and a very powerful part of this document reflects what happened in the dialogues (leading up to it)”.

Giving the Sydney Peace Lecture last year, she said: “It’s very important to read the (Uluru) Statement and the Statement is also much bigger. It’s actually 18 pages”. And also last year, Davis wrote in the Australian that “The Uluru Statement is occasionally mistaken as merely a one page document when … in totality (it’s) closer to 18 pages and includes … a lengthy narrative called Our Story”.

In the last couple of days, Davis has tried to backtrack on six years of statements, now wanting us to believe she got it all wrong and that in fact the PM is right, the Uluru Statement is just a simple one-page poster.

It’s just not believable.

But Davis isn’t alone in trying to change her tune.

Pat Anderson was co-chair of the Referendum Council that auspiced the deliberations culminating in the Uluru Statement. Last Wednesday night on the ABC, trying to get the PM out of a hole of his own making, she told the 730 Report: “Let me explain first of all, the Uluru Statement from the Heart is a one pager. It’s 439 words”. Yet at Melbourne University last year, she’d said that “the Uluru Statement is in fact 18 pages long”. And in 2017 she co-signed the Referendum Council’s final report that, from page 16, highlights a dozen-plus pages of passages that it stated were “extracts from the Uluru Statement from the Heart”.

Seriously, the more they try and cover things up, to pretend that what they have said is no longer true, the more it says to me that we are starting to get to the bottom of the real agenda behind the Voice.

The Voice is not some worthy gesture towards reconciliation; but an attempt to force non-Indigenous Australians to atone for 240 years of settlement by giving Aboriginal leaders a near veto over governmental decisions. Plus, it means multi-billion dollar reparations payments (on top of the near $40 billion currently spent on Indigenous people). Plus the rewriting of our history as a story of shame. It is all there in the full Uluru Statement – “Voice, Treaty, Truth” – and that’s why there’s been such a push in recent days to try and deny any credibility to this document that we only know about because the government was forced to release it under FOI.

As I pointed out on my Sky News program last week, there is one disconcerting discrepancy between the Uluru Statement referenced in the 2017 Referendum Council’s published final report and the version released as “Document 14” under FOI. The FOI version says, on page 19, “a Treaty could include a proper say in decision-making … reparations, a financial settlement (such as seeking a percentage of GDP), (and) the resolution of land, water and resources issues…”.

Yet the originally published version, in Pat Anderson’s Referendum Council’s report, omits financial (as in “financial settlement”) and entirely omits any reference to “seeking a percentage of GDP”. It’s hard to avoid the conclusion that the published Uluru Statement had been sanitised to make it less alarming.

The use of the term Makarrata, even in the sanitised one-page Uluru summary, gives the game away. This is a Yolngu word meaning a retribution ritual, a disabling spearing, to atone for a wrong that’s been committed. Hence the Makarrata Commission, that even the one-page version of the Statement demands, is essentially a payback punishment for the supposed injustice of the settlement of Australia.

Think of the near compulsory acknowledgments of “country” at all official and corporate events even though as Tony Abbott said last week ‘This country belongs to all of us’, the already routine flying of the Aboriginal flag coequally with the national flag, the oppressive insistence on Indigenous cultural sensitivity training in most large workplaces, and now this new tendency to refer to our big cities as Gadigal (Sydney), Naarm (Melbourne), and Meanijin (Brisbane) – even though, places like Canberra and the little town where I grew up, Wycheproof, are Indigenous names already showing we have long lived alongside Indigenous culture even if the activists want now to seed hate.

All this will be turbocharged if the Voice is passed, as part of the re-indigenisation of our country to atone for the original sin of settlement. Hence the mad scramble in recent days from the Yes camp to insist that there’s nothing to see beyond a poster; and that the biggest constitutional change we’ve ever been asked to make is validated on just 439 words. Australians, I hope, are just not that gullible.

Perplexed of Brisbane
Perplexed of Brisbane
August 12, 2023 8:17 pm

Indolent
Aug 12, 2023 7:40 PM
I Meme Therefore I Am ??
@ImMeme0

The FBI surveilled a 75 year old man with disabilities for over 4 months for threatening Biden on his social media. Instead of arresting him while he was outside, they raided him and shot him 37 times.

If it follows the same pattern as Ruby Ridge, the killers will get awards and promotions instead of the electric chair.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
August 12, 2023 8:17 pm

Bloody Albo injects his miserable carcass into the Matilda’s victory.
A gilded tick.

shatterzzz
August 12, 2023 8:19 pm

Not all Oz rangas are cheats .. go Cortnee ..!!

Black Ball
Black Ball
August 12, 2023 8:20 pm

Oh dear.
Far cough Albo.

Chortle. What a wanker.

miltonf
miltonf
August 12, 2023 8:21 pm

Just when you thought PMs couldn’t get more lousy than say Rudd or Trumble, along comes Anal. Nasty little campus marxist.

bons
bons
August 12, 2023 8:22 pm

His msnager Andrews told him to.

Rosie
Rosie
August 12, 2023 8:22 pm

Maybe Credlin could ask Andrews how much ‘Aboriginal Heritage’ work is costing Victorians across state government, statutory authorities and the private sector?
I suspect it is running into billions of dollars in hidden costs.

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
August 12, 2023 8:22 pm

I think Sam Kerr is a goner. Lacking wind by the looks, tho she’s got an impressive leap.
Commentators were willing something out of Mary Fowler for ninety minutes, but she fluffed a few good chances where a half second of patience would have paid off.
Carpenter, Raso and Foord are the entire squad as far as i can see.
Tho Arnold MacKenzie did a great extended shift, not like those slimy frogs switching keepers at the eleventh hour.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
August 12, 2023 8:24 pm

Roger

Aug 12, 2023 7:47 PM

battle against the whole spiritually depraved West

Oh but it is.

Spiritual battles aren’t fought with artillery and tanks, Razey.

Besides which, the adulterer, thief and murderer Putin is not on the side of the angels.

Jeez, some people in the West are gullible.
Vlad the Impaler posts a picture of himself with a Russian Orthodox icon with some trite statement about Western depravity, and they all swoon at his feet.
Lookin’ at you, Razey-san.

H B Bear
H B Bear
August 12, 2023 8:24 pm

Just when you thought PMs couldn’t get more lousy than say Rudd or Trumble, along comes Anal. Nasty little campus marxist.

Even the Liars had to reach the bottom of the barrel before he got a turn. Mrs Peanut Head must be asking what went wrong?

caveman
caveman
August 12, 2023 8:25 pm

When the Prime Minister says he is committed to implementing the Uluru Statement from the Heart IN FULL, what does that actually mean?

Labor has previous form , NBN done on the back of a napkin or was it a coaster, so a Constitutional change gets a bit more attention to detail, one page sounds about right.

Sweden I think will take out the cup.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
August 12, 2023 8:27 pm

Commentators were willing something out of Mary Fowler for ninety minutes, but she fluffed a few good chances where a half second of patience would have paid off.

Her penalty was a cut above all the others from both sides.
Absolutely smoked it.

Salvatore, Iron Publican
August 12, 2023 8:27 pm

Alas, it seems the two teams conducting an onfield jersey swap is not part of Soccer’s post-match ritual.

billie
billie
August 12, 2023 8:29 pm

miltonf
Aug 12, 2023 12:13 PM
•Gave Canadian taxpayer’s money to the Clinton Foundation.

Dolly Downer was doing that to us too iirc

PM Julia Gillard gave the Clinton Foundation $280M I believe, of taxpayer’s money

FM Julie Bishop continued the payments too, I last heard it was around $80M of taxpayer money

I would not be in the slightest bit surprised if every Foreign Minister has continued it to this day.

I don’t remember if PM (Ambassador to USA) Rudd gave it away or had it given away, but all of them did it for personal interests (ego) and networking.

i mean, why not, it’s only taxpayer’s money .. plenty more of that about

And who knows how much is p*ssed away to various UN tin rattlers.

A pox on all their houses

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
August 12, 2023 8:31 pm

Heading into Melbourne CBD for a beer on the train.

I took that as meaning beer on the train.

I thought that because the ferry between Circular Quay and Manly has (or had) a 4 pines concession so you could buy beer on the journey.

Last night I went to the theatre and bought a double scotch. An Ardbeg Uigeadial. $88 for a double. Well, I suppose even though most people seeing a play will take a drink – it is really only before the play, in interval if there is one, and during the awful luvvie air-kissing afterwards that they can recoup the cost of countless piss regulations and piss licenses.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 12, 2023 8:31 pm

All this will be turbocharged if the Voice is passed, as part of the re-indigenisation of our country to atone for the original sin of settlement.

I’m beginning to become quite skeptical about constitutional recognition – what will that lead to?

Rabz
August 12, 2023 8:34 pm

railing against rangas in sport

The Schlockerettes have that “I lerve them long time even though I should not” factor.

Ellie Carpenter* zealously guards her patch of the pitch while conspirin’ with Miss Raso to kick their opponents’ house sized backsides.

They may go all the way. Which would be wonderful.

*Right back of the tournament. As a former (alleged) right back myself, I can only look on in awe.

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
August 12, 2023 8:36 pm

Carpenter is a massive fox. Cameraman earnt his overtime, gifted us an extreme close up of her tattoo’d eyebrows before she banked one.

Salvatore, Iron Publican
August 12, 2023 8:38 pm

Phooey! Only one more chance for the Matildas to be knocked out of the comp.

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
August 12, 2023 8:38 pm

Make up your own mind. Have fun. ( :

Biblical Tree Remains, Have You Seen This?

Willem Pasterkamp
Willem Pasterkamp
August 12, 2023 8:41 pm

Watching Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, I’ve read the book but watching the movie in fits and starts I couldn’t follow the plot properly.
Now rewatching, then might have another go at the Alec Guiness version which on Amazon prime (I hope).

Fantastic show. Starts off with all these limeys drinking tea. Yet these are all hard-core intriguers.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
August 12, 2023 8:44 pm

Now rewatching, then might have another go at the Alec Guiness version which on Amazon prime (I hope).

The Alec Guinness version was closer to the book than the Gary Oldman version (which was pretty good, I thought). More claustrophobic.

flyingduk
flyingduk
August 12, 2023 8:48 pm

I’m willing to bet though, that Clive himself took zero hydroxychloroquine when he got pretty sick with covid.

Clive took Ivermectin, which was superior in efficacy, which became known after he had gifted every Australian a course of HCQ.

Louis Litt
Louis Litt
August 12, 2023 8:51 pm

Re the woman’s soccer are the straights the chickpea babes with their hair in pony tails and the lezzoswith the short hair aka the French goalie, French centre back,the girl that saved Fowlers shot off the line?

Willem Pasterkamp
Willem Pasterkamp
August 12, 2023 8:53 pm

Looks like the war is coming to an end. Nato has no options left. The Americans lost the arms race. The Americans suffer under the worst leadership seen anywhere. Whereas Germany knew not to attack the Maginot line of France, America has its proxies doing just that. “Ukraine” could not get through to the modern Russian Maginot line, yet what would they get from doing so? What is the prize? Play silly games and win stupid prizes, so what did they think they would gain? It was a case of “Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.” It seems that its the State Department running things and they are the most out there lunatics around.

So there is some tension out there wondering what craziness they will come up with next. If Americans wanted a fight they had a chance with they could snatch a coal mine adjacent to Alaska. They would still lose yet at least they could make a fist of it.

flyingduk
flyingduk
August 12, 2023 8:54 pm

Between March and June the FDA rigged poor outcomes of trials of Hydroxychloroquine so that tens of thousands of people died unnecessarily of covid, just to spite Trump

Getting rid of Trump was a bonus, it was done to prevent the Emergency Use Authorisation for the COVID injections being negated by the requirement that ‘no existing approved treatment be available’ – same same for IVM

The rigged the HCQ trials by:

1) giving it too late to be effective (most virus replication occurs in the first 3 days) – giving it after that is about as much use as putting you seat belt on after the crash
2) Deliberately overdosing people (which caused the heart issues) – IIRR, they used about 3x the normal dose – and in sick people, who were already compromised with respect to metabolism and clearance.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 12, 2023 8:56 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2popEF09abk

The IMMORTAL John Fogerty – “Long as I can See the Light.”

Rosie
Rosie
August 12, 2023 8:58 pm

Clive took a cocktail of five antivirals, and I was wrong, apparently that included hydroxychloroquine (and ivermectin).
Doesn’t mention what the other three were.

flyingduk
flyingduk
August 12, 2023 9:00 pm

Australia’s gift* to the following locales:

California
South Africa
Hawaii
Israel

Eucalypts are an unwelcome guest anywhere. Any other locales they’ve been gifted with, Cats?

Our compound in Balad (50km N of Baghdad) was full of them.

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
August 12, 2023 9:06 pm

Commentators were willing something out of Mary Fowler for ninety minutes, but she fluffed a few good chances where a half second of patience would have paid off.

Her penalty was a cut above all the others from both sides.
Absolutely smoked it.

I believe we’re in agreement then, comrade!
Fowler has a good decade of playing in front of her… and the meeja are obvs hungry for an indigenous heroine.

Willem Pasterkamp
Willem Pasterkamp
August 12, 2023 9:06 pm

Hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin are not antivirals. They are Anti-parasitics. Which makes one wonder how the killers were making people sick in Wuhan, Northern Italy and New York. There is no such thing as a virus, so it makes a wonderful magicians distraction from whatever methods they were using to hurt people. If these Invisible Pink Unicorns actually existed they could not act as such an effective distraction from parasites, poisons, radiation, and whatever else used as a weapon.

cohenite
August 12, 2023 9:06 pm

This should be part of Trump’s Jan 6 defence:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vXoLwe7m-0

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
August 12, 2023 9:08 pm

Saw heaps of eucs on Rodos in 2001. Yes it’s on fire now.
Lots in Portugal, too.

Willem Pasterkamp
Willem Pasterkamp
August 12, 2023 9:10 pm

Trumps defence should include that voting spikes cannot happen in an unrigged election. So that the Americans suffered from a coup, without any chance of sane contradiction

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 12, 2023 9:14 pm

Eucalypts are an unwelcome guest anywhere. Any other locales they’ve been gifted with, Cats?

Joke was, in certain parts of South Africa, that “the Australians gave us three things – Eucalypts, Australian Rules football and “Breaker” Morant.”

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
August 12, 2023 9:14 pm

Yes, good evening GB.

Willem Pasterkamp
Willem Pasterkamp
August 12, 2023 9:15 pm

Strange wording is due to my keys only with around 22 letters.

Willem Pasterkamp
Willem Pasterkamp
August 12, 2023 9:18 pm

Sancho picked up on my emphasis on those things that are definitely true and cannot be untrue. The idea is to lock these in and work back from then. So this shows us that Jan 6 was the coup leaders doubling down on their treason. And you can’t get away from that once you hardwire what cannot be untrue.

JC
JC
August 12, 2023 9:20 pm

Hi Birdie. Wondering what had happened to you.

Willem Pasterkamp
Willem Pasterkamp
August 12, 2023 9:23 pm

Computer broken. Its too hard to break in on the phone.

Willem Pasterkamp
Willem Pasterkamp
August 12, 2023 9:28 pm

JC the fake pandemic scandal has led people to look for other reasons for getting sick. And so one realisation is that parasites are more important than almost anyone thought. So you know. Look after yourself and schedule some kind of purge. Dr Lee Merritt is your go to on that score.

JC
JC
August 12, 2023 9:30 pm

Willem
Willem Pasterkamp
Aug 12, 2023 9:10 PM

Trumps defence should include that voting spikes cannot happen in an unrigged election. So that the Americans suffered from a coup, without any chance of sane contradiction

How would you prove that, Guillermo? You’re a noted lawyer, so how would you go to court and prove this assertion?

Willem Pasterkamp
Willem Pasterkamp
August 12, 2023 9:31 pm

If Dr Merritt looks a little like a trans, thats just through her going into body building and winning a competition at a late age. So don’t let the masculine look put you off. She’s made a real study of the scandal and of parasites. So she has the best info in this space.

JC
JC
August 12, 2023 9:33 pm

Guillermo, why are you talking to me about the pandemic? I haven’t spoken about it any detail in months I think.

Willem Pasterkamp
Willem Pasterkamp
August 12, 2023 9:36 pm

How would you prove that, Guillermo? You’re a noted lawyer, so how would you go to court and prove this assertion?

Its not an assertion. Its a hardcore mathematical reality. So you take a mathematician and a statistician with you. Start with a coin toss example. If someone tosses a hundred heads in a row thats a rigged coin. You see if you get more than ten in a row for one person, under any circumstance at all, that ought to raise an alarm. Trump got a 1200 spike in one county so someone was cheating for him in that specific place. We must differentiate the score from the guy running the scoreboard.

Willem Pasterkamp
Willem Pasterkamp
August 12, 2023 9:38 pm

Its general health I’m talking about here.

Willem Pasterkamp
Willem Pasterkamp
August 12, 2023 9:43 pm

You watch election night. Each 3 years or so and the experts always talk about swings. Swings, not spikes. Elections are all swings. No spikes. We are so gaslit in the modern era we lost our grip on reality.

Willem Pasterkamp
Willem Pasterkamp
August 12, 2023 9:46 pm

JC you must take care of your health these days. When I met you, you were the age that Aquinas was when he died. You are much older now. So things are different. So for example when you get a cramp you don’t want that cramp in your heart. So you assume a magnesium deficiency and deal with it right away. Its not like when we were younger. You must think of things like parasites.

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
August 12, 2023 9:48 pm
Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
August 12, 2023 9:50 pm

Just happens when there are no upticks.

Fair Shake
Fair Shake
August 12, 2023 9:59 pm

Great night in the rubity nub watching Matildas. How was that youn French chap who saved the Fowler shot? Some suggested it hit him in the nuts. Anywhoos great game. On Frances form i thought theyd romp it home. Our girls can go all the way!

Fair Shake
Fair Shake
August 12, 2023 10:01 pm

And womens Winter fashion is beige trench coats inspector gadget style. If u24 then netball skirts with pleats are mandatory. Not that I mind, i feel sorry for their slave to fashion. …but its all mens fault. LOL.

JC
JC
August 12, 2023 10:05 pm

Guillermo, thanks for thinking about my health, but I’m fine. Really, I appreciate the thought.

JC
JC
August 12, 2023 10:08 pm

Its not an assertion. Its a hardcore mathematical reality. So you take a mathematician and a statistician with you. Start with a coin toss example. If someone tosses a hundred heads in a row thats a rigged coin. You see if you get more than ten in a row for one person, under any circumstance at all, that ought to raise an alarm. Trump got a 1200 spike in one county so someone was cheating for him in that specific place. We must differentiate the score from the guy running the scoreboard.

It is an assertion as far as the courts are concerned. That was tried in a few cases as evidence there was wrongdoing and the cases were thrown out. Lake tried a similar thing in the Arizona court and she was told it wasn’t a goer. The US courts are loathe to interfere in the electoral process.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
August 12, 2023 10:13 pm

Willem Pasterkamp

Aug 12, 2023 9:15 PM

Strange wording is due to my keys only with around 22 letters.

Let me guess.
The worn out keys are E J W S?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
August 12, 2023 10:14 pm

Dr Faustus

Aug 12, 2023 9:50 PM

Just happens when there are no upticks.

This is not helpful.
My butcher’s paper says “no causal link”.

Willem Pasterkamp
Willem Pasterkamp
August 12, 2023 10:17 pm

There is this situation of fear out there. Some people are so full of fear they cannot recognise if the actor playing the President is the person they say he is or not. Or if the actor playing Fauci is the original Italian. Or if Michelle First Lady was a man or not. After all this time, the threat of nuclear war and total American failure, the fear factor may not swallow the courts the way it did when the coup first happened. People start to lose the fear also of the Sanhedrin at this point. So if they try again with the total lack of possibility of the idea that the actor playing the President actually won, they may make more progress.

MatrixTransform
August 12, 2023 10:22 pm

A penalty shoot out is on

sheila’s …

they should have just done the shoot-out at the beginning

and then talked about it for an hour and a half

Rabz
August 12, 2023 10:27 pm

Willem Pasterkamp

Cheep cheep!

Willem Pasterkamp
Willem Pasterkamp
August 12, 2023 10:28 pm

The fellows who directed the Matrix series of films were mutilated into pretend women. I find this deeply disturbing. Them of all people. You would think they could escape these things.

The matrix is so all-encompassing none of the physical sciences are unaffected except most of chemistry. Cosmology is total disinformation. Its all the opposite of what they say. They say larger stars are younger. No its the other way around. All they say is crazy. Their idea of fusion was wrong from the start. I must get a new keyboard. Trying to communicate is so clumsy with this one.

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