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Yeah Dover. The hootie tooties are now a major world power.Cope! I never said it’s a major world power. You…
Yeah Dover. The hootie tooties are now a major world power.Cope! I never said it’s a major world power. You…
Why would Yemen give two-shits about Gulf Arabs?
This is almost too funny.
All Bruce wanted to do was enjoy a little snow time and get his end wet. It is a tragedy.
A gift, most likely, to be returned unopened … duuuuh!
First to arrive and nothing to say…
On the tip of my tongue…
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ePWpolxEKiw&pp=ygUkZGllc2VsIHJpZ2h0IG9uIHRoZSB0aXAgb2YgbXkgdG9uZ3Vl
Trump has just promised to prevent World War III.
Happy Thursday.
Muddy. Insomnia. Grrrrr…
You’ve gone from “no, they were innocent of any of this” to “they won, they can do what they want whatever they said”.
Sure, sure, in the late 90s Russia was a belligerent state just thirsting to dominate Europe. No, the principle reason these states sought membership of NATO is because it was the main show in town, the US was at the height of its power, and they wanted to have a seat at the table.
dover0beach
Sep 7, 2023 12:21 AM
Don’t forget the self interest, as not having to spend money on the military.
If you look back, the Warsaw pact nations maintained huge armies.
A drag on the economy.
Update: The bottle of Scotch I saw for USD$40-something … I didn’t say but it was Laphroaig and I hadn’t noticed then but it was a 1.75 litre bottle! Three months here and I’d be an alkie!
I was moving along from your failure to provide a shred of evidence that there were “cables” showing the US was acting dishonestly from the outset. But yes, the US won the Cold War and if it decided to move away from initial undertakings then they’re were in the driver’s seat.
Which is not even close to what I suggested. I said those states that were forced to endure the Soviet Union ran away as quickly as they could to seek protection from a future belligerent Russia. History has proven they were right to do do.
You’re denial.
Really? For instance Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland joined to save money and not to seek protection from Russia? That’s an interesting perspective on sloth behavior from those countries.
Forget about the Cold War!
Tonight, Collingwood will bash Melbourne in the first elimination final at the G.
Carna Pies!
John Spooner.
Mark Knight.
Mark Knight #2.
Morten Morland.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Al Goodwyn.
Steve Kelley.
Henry Payne.
Thanks Tom.
Renouncing Islam, in Iran he must be one of millions, most of those play lip-service and are fine.
‘psychogenically mute’.
could go home
unidentifiable assailants
No doubt the Warsaw pact countries saw the US as a benign friend that could protect them from the Russians. They were not aware of Kissinger’s advice about being a friend of the US. The Hungarians have realised this and no doubt many Poles. The recent decision by Poland to send back a large number of Ukrainian men serves a number of purposes.
Kyoto, on my brief glimpse last night is a little more Japanese than central Tokyo, not as built up, with many old wooden buildings scattered around the station area where we are staying.
Google translate is indeed handy for handwritten menus, incidentally Kyoto taken off the nuke list because Truman honeymooned here? Seems very popular with Americans still.
Food here in Japan is consistently good and pretty cheap. I remember a former colleague who was married to a Japanese and lived here in the 80s complaining how expensive it was, the equivalent of $100 for a simple work lunch out. Now $10 to $15 to dine in.
Oh and those train lunch boxes are delightful. A work of art even.
Mark Knight wins today.
Glad you enjoyed the train Bento boxes, Rosie. We did, very much. So many little interesting things, well presented in little compartments.
Kyoto is about temples in gardens. Whatever you do, don’t miss Kinkaku-ji, the Golden Temple with its lake and garden walks. So many other temples to see also, but if you only see one, this is it.
I woke at 3am with elderly person’s insomnia, after only four hours sleep. I don’t get it a lot, but it is unpleasant when it happens. Small worries, often about growing older, a sense of disturbance in the usual fabric of life, magnify if you just lie there hoping to drift off again, so I find it best to get up and read, or go online.
Attapuss thinks it is great, for cats enjoy night time activity.
So insomnia has some benefit. To him, anyway. 🙂
Luckily, Tom’s Toons kick in at 4pm to bring one back into the dawning day.
As has been apparent here, I often crawl back to bed after a couple of hours up.
Wallpaper hanger man is coming later today to put our chosen stamp on the wall behind our bed. A little project of the past few months now coming to fruition. Our choice is unusual, so we might take a while to get used to it. Or rip it out?
So, thank you for the toons, Tom. They are really appreciated by so many here.
Did I write 4pm? I did. 4am of course.
Last nite, lots of talk here about Rita Panahi having a wonderful barney with Greg Sheridan during the “Credlin” show she’s temporarily hosting. It made for some gripping TV, with Sheridan resorting to ‘Martians’ to make a feeble point. As good as Bob Brown’s ‘earthians’, and if Sheridan says he’s being misrepresented, then tell him he knows now what Trump constantly puts up with.
And then on Bolt, which followed, Jacinta Price’s dad in a long interview showed himself to be a very thoughtful voice on reconciliation, a living representative of how its done. A great dad and a very fine man, protective of both his amazing wife and daughter, who both understand very well what the problems are in Central Australia, and how to solve them.
Sky After Dark is well worth the Foxtel sub – and free in the regions.
Best thing that ever happened to the bush.
Never mentioned anywhere in these stories is that Australia has a generous admission of refugees and migrants through the proper processes. He could have applied but didn’t. Will he keep Ned Kelly as his name back in Iran ?
Mark Knight 2, my choice too Bern. The one with a just-landed little Alan Joyce heading off with his millions leaving behind a top airline brand as a shuddering plane wreck.
Morning Lizzie
My work colleague and her family who are a victim of a home invasion, car theft and stabbing are back to court today. Final dark chap found guilty facing his sentancing. At last call his lawyer claim he has ADHD which caused his behaviour. Judge requested this claim be supported by qualified psychologist determination.
Will the chap get off due to ADHD ? or will he get min 3 years jail ? or will the wheels of justice find something else shiny to look at for another month? Stay tuned cat fans for an update later today.
Interesting to see the method of operation has now progressed to machetes outside schools in Caulfield. Aint Vic law and order grand. FFS.
My work colleague and her family who are a victim of a home invasion, car theft and stabbing are back to court today.
Violent crims of any age need to be spend time behind bars.
The idea of having your home burgled while you aren’t there is bad enough.
While you’re there would be incredibly psychologically damaging.
Allens is trying on an over used marketing ploy.
Say you are discontinuing a range of lollies.
Wait for the inevitable blowback.
Receive the free media coverage.
Announce a stay on the discontinuation.
People know this is a tired strategy, don’t they.
Saw the US as a rampant cash cow, I reckon. At that point the Yanks were funding pretty much everything in NATO with no questions asked, and the Pact countries were still overrun with Trabants.
Alas it is only the regions, not available in remote areas.
People know this is a tired strategy, don’t they.
Bern they know it well. In the same vein, behold the finals of the football codes, Herald Sun:
Starts tonight.
What should happen is the packed stadia during welcome to country all stand and turn their backs on it.
Rosie, don’t forget the Kyoto needle shop and its little garden. In the covered market down a corridor.
The picture wireless informs me that the Rolling Stones will release their first album in 20 years.
Apparently its working title was How to Be an Old Poof.
Those Canuck sensitivity trainers are going to have their work cut out…
Jordan Peterson blasts Qantas over Acknowledgment of Country comparing it to ‘propaganda’ in ‘China and North Korea’ (Sky News, 6 Sep)
Ouch!
“A great dad and a very fine man, protective of both his amazing wife and daughter, who both understand very well what the problems are in Central Australia, and how to solve them.”
I thought the same, Lizzie. Jacinta is a testament to both her mother and father. As Jacinta so proudly says, she’s a true product of both cultures, of black Australia, of white Australia. Isn’t Jacinta Price the best face of reconciliation?
What I also found interesting about Jacinta’s dad is that he spoke honestly about two things, one is the misogynism endemic in indigenous culture, which nobody wants to talk about, and if you dare to raise the subject, unless you paint it as some kind of idyllic Rousseau society, destroyed by evil colonialist whites, you’re denounced as waaaaaaciiist. The truth is that indigenous societies, before European settlement and since, like all stone age hunter gatherer societies, was and remains violent.
The second thing Jacinta’s very white dad talked about was how so many of our now leading “indigenous” spruikers, a group fast becoming a self anointed Aboriginal aristocracy (which, if the Voice gets up, will be an entrenched Aboriginal aristocracy), are themselves the products of white/black unions, have themselves married white people, and have very white children and grandchildren. And yet nobody talks about their “whiteness” because it’s inconvenient.
And yes, you’re right Lizzie, Sky is well worth the subscription. Especially last night, watching Rita’s excruciating interview with Dribbler Sheridan, who dribbled more than he usually does last night, resorting to “Martians” to prove a point. He’s a feeble embarrassment who should be forcibly retired. A faux at everything, he isn’t even a good foreign affairs writer. The only thing he’s good at is stoking war, he clearly loves war.
I find it interesting how Dribbler, when talking about Trump, always insists on describing Trump as “despicable”. I’ve never heard him describe the current occupant of the WH as “despicable”.
JJ Sefton had this line in his morning rant on Ace Of Spades. Possible liberty quote:
“If diversity makes us stronger, why does it require lower standards?”
Was a sub heading to a Daniel Greenfield article. Excellent.
FairShake, a few years back a mate of mine was walking up Northbourne Ave in canbra after a night on the turps. Local Sudanese thought he was an easy mark. Drainage works up ahead. Safety barriers, star pickets, spindly legs, broken bones. Not a mention in the news. He wasn’t as pissed as they thought.
Were they given cash for their military to buy mostly US MIC weapons? Was there a Marshall plan for those post-cold-war countries, btw?
And by saying so Sheridan shows himself for being just that, despicable. I expected him to pronounce it like Sylvester, the cartoon cat.
When he was challenged by Rita who listed Trump’s numerous successes he was stumped. It is personal with people like Sheridan, Turnbull and John Howard because Trump succeeded at the first go to presidency while Biden, their guy, had to lie his whole life to get there yet he is not despicable. And in light of the recent revelations to them Biden is still good. I noticed the same blindness in John Cleese at the end of the John Anderson interview when he said pretty much the same about Trump and then said Biden’s policies are working well. It’s seems to be a very wide blind side.
KD – yes I saw a piece this morning on the Rolling Stones revival. I could hardly believe how sprightly Mick Jagger is at 80 years old – AND after all those drugs, hard living etc. Just wow!
Grey Ranga,
I love hearing everyday stories like that. They are as good as when you read that the bad guy was put down by a bystander. The downside is, most of the good guy whacking the bad guy stories come from the US where you are allowed to defend yourself. For now.
Lovely painting, I presume the ladies “withdrawing” after the meal and the fellows getting ready for port and cigars.
A snapshot at the end of the Edwardian Afternoon.
64% of DC Residents Would Find Trump Guilty Before a Trial Even Begins – Only 8% Would Find Him Innocent – How is This Fair?
If Trump ever gets back in he has to close DC.
I love how the artists of the day were so good at painting fabrics. You can feel the texture.
They’re basically telling us they’re African by saying there were machetes involved.
I don’t mind someone on Sky saying they don’t like Trump and then providing legitimate reasons for that dislike. But no, instead we have the Dribbler, who comes on and proceeds to dribble his favourite anti-Trump pejorative…..”despicable”, and then when challenged, dribbles on about “Martians”.
Greg Sheridan is a colossal embarrassment.
Someone like Adam Creighton provides much better and more nuanced commentary in the Oz about American politics, and particularly about Trump.
As predicted, Albanese refused to answer Voice questions while overseas.
The polling isn’t getting any better.
Slightly gobsmacked reading that “the chap’ has been holding talks of some sort in Qatar .. why on earth would an out-there blokey impersonator be welcome in Qatar, regardless of her Oz gummint position, let alone chatting with Qatar gummint heavies given their laws and publicised attitudes on ‘queerdom”? ..
Something for those of us battling insomnia and pain management today…
He sees you. He hears you.
Just keep banging away. 😀
They are really pushing hard. Can you feel the reconciliation? Daily Telegraph:
I’m sure Mr Moran, who was snapped in a nice suit is also a beneficiary of this alleged slavery. Or the taxpayer wicket is playing with good consistent bounce.
So the land council don’t want it for development or whatever. Then what the hell is the claim for? To turn it into some healing centre? Another unkempt eyesore? Just leave shit alone.
I gave up AFL some years back when they got preachy, and have not flown for several years, but should I need to do so again sometime, are there any Aust domestic carriers who dont submit their customers to the Aboriginal or LGBTQ2A* propaganda?
* = 2nd amendment 😉
Venus bright in the East, Jupiter overhead, Orion striding in the North-east. It’s a beautiful universe.
From the Oz – ABC encourages Tick / Cross votes to disenfranchise illiterate no voters:
I find it interesting how Dribbler, when talking about Trump, always insists on describing Trump as “despicable”. I’ve never heard him describe the current occupant of the WH as “despicable”.
Dribbler is often regarded as a CIA plant. Not sure if it is true but a case could be made it.
During my ASIO style 3 hour interrogation (attempting to deny me a firearms licence) I was asked ‘can you use a firearm to defend yourself’
I cheated a bit, I didnt quite answer the question – I said ‘thats not a legal reason for owning a firearm’
Mmm…yes.
Harriet’s probably voting Yes too.
Come now, shaterzzz…money.
The same reason Qatar does a lot of business with China despite the latter’s persecution of Muslims.
I think booing the Welcome to Country would send a marvellous statement from sports fans that they’re sick of being preached at — especially about the Voice.
These blood pressure guidelines are insane.
https://www.nhsinform.scot/illnesses-and-conditions/heart-and-blood-vessels/conditions/low-blood-pressure-hypotension
90/60 is quite ridiculous and I want to know how many “young healthy adults” actually have that let alone under 120/anything.
Mosman council will be spending oodles of ratepayer dollars on native title while the bins overflow.
A lawyers picnic in the park – they always leave a mess.
https://twitter.com/ActivePatriotUK/status/1699288554931687741
Perish the thought that exercise could strengthen cardiac tissue or create stronger heart output and vasoconstriction.
Yes. According to researchers, one-third of high school, college, and professional players, who underwent screening at the Stanford Sports Cardiology Clinic were reported to have high blood pressure. These people are young, healthy, and have extensive fitness routines.
The American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association released new blood pressure recommendations in November 2017. Until November 2017, the cut-off to diagnose high blood pressure was 140/90 mmHg. Currently, it is 130/80 mmHg. European standards remain at 140/90 mmHg. Most of the athletes in the study with elevated blood pressure fell in the grey area, between the current United States and European guidelines. Only nine percent of participants had readings over 140/90 mmHg.
Oh. Well, that’s all right then.
Sheridini often states that the illegitimate incontinent parasitic syphilitic kiddie fiddling geriatric is “a fundamentally decent man”.
Case closed, M’lud.
Told this before.
My daughter experienced an aggravated burglary in Queensland, they crept through the house via the laundry door, fortunately nine month old was in with mum at the front , not in the cot in a bedroom opposite the laundry, both sets of car keys, wallets and one car stolen and written off after being used in another burglary.
Juvenile aboriginal offender only one caught because he leftprints on his Maccas wrappers, wouldn’t name his mates.
Victims were invited to a restorative justice session but as nothing was returned (they’d cleaned out baby Christmas gifts, the baby seat even family missals), they passed on the pretend sorry session.
It’s a merry-go-round of no justice.
Absolute unmitigated horse sh*t.
Does Tony Abbott read the Cat?
Same solution as for the ACT.
Keep the Houses of Congress and associated buildings, the White House and its associated buildings, the Mall down to the Potomac and the national institutions along it as the future DC, move the residential and commercial areas (and the rest of the government buildings, the Pentagon and CIA are already in Virginia) into the surrounding states.
That also puts the kybosh on DemonRat moves to make DC a (reliably DemonRat) state.
Tucker Carlson
@TuckerCarlson
Ep. 22 Larry Sinclair says he had a night of crack cocaine-fueled sex with Barack Obama, and that Obama came back for more the next day. Assess for yourself. Here’s our interview.
Nice discovery.
Four Roman swords, nearly 2,000 years old, found in Judean Desert (6 Sep)
They were found in a cave where there was also a coin from the Bar-Kokhba revolt. Here’s the photo, so well preserved they look like they could even be used today.
Link
https://www.medicinenet.com/physically_fit_and_high_blood_pressure/article.htm
We are seriously reaching the point where you’re not allowed to say what you think.
BREAKING: DOJ Prosecutors Seek 120 Days in Prison for Owen Shroyer for Speaking Out Against Stolen 2020 Election – A Speech Crime
Dan Bongino
@dbongino
Liberalism is a rotting, metastasizing, global cancer that destroys everything it touches.
It’s not wrong. It’s evil.
It’s not a coincidence that even liberals don’t want to live in liberal hellholes.
They escape to conservative states where they spread the liberal virus.
FACT.
The Judean Peoples’ Front, The Peoples Front of Judea or the Popular Front of Judea?
Abbott writes so very well.
If Dutton proposed words to that effect for his amendment to the preamble I predict his proposed referendum would be a resounding success.
What else is new. When has he done anything else. He’s now admitting that masks are useless on a “population” basis but are still of benefit on an “individual” basis and please, please do wear one. Oh, and of course, no one was ever forced to do anything.
Fauci Caught In A Massive Lie
His proofreader deletes the “ums” and “ahs.”
😀
Jack Smith, Letitia James Want Trump to Stop Defending Himself.
Righto…let it be an individual choice then, as it always should have been.
Yes Rabz that sound you heard was this claim going straight over the heads of the assembled press. You would think someone would pipe up and ask for documented evidence, but here we are.
Move legally not physically.
Sorry, it was ambiguous.
Obama, Clinton and Biden ALL used secret, fake-name email accounts to hide their actions
The myth-making just goes on, doesn’t it?
As a scientist, I’m not allowed to tell the full truth about climate change
Sorry Tony, but we don’t need a Mandela either.
Little unfair Roger, I have seen him delivery very good speeches but the msm, the ABC in particular, just loved to just give the um ah highlights.
The Bee
Justin Trudeau Says He Never Forced People To Get Vaccinated And That We’ve Always Been At War With Eurasia
Kyoto Hotel girl just arrived with breakfast.
Mrs Panzer had Neil Mitchell playing over the innernets.
Hotel girl points at speaker and asks “Who this dickhead?”
Black Ball, seriously, it is right up there with Teats Peanuthead’s Canadian smallpox blankets and that brain damaged ol’ cow Burney supposedly being classified under the (non existent) flora and fauna act.
Stupid dishonest z-grade sacks of excrement.
Whenever they utter one of these blatant untruths they should be subsequently subjected to a lengthy public flogging and be grateful they’re not gifted the whole HOP Time spectacular (which quite frankly, they bloody well deserve).
I’m sure Aboriginal girls would have been delighted to work in homes in Mosman etc over being returned to tribal life.
Robinson tried to rescue Aboriginal women kidnapped by sealers like Mansell etc, most didn’t want to be rescued, despite them being less that perfect gentlemen.
Why would that have been?
In Dim Bulb news:
Linda Burney open to Noel Pearson’s proposal for Indigenous voice to parliament to allow for ‘dissenting views’
Labor has opened the door to allowing dissenting Aboriginal leaders to formally break from the voice’s majority-backed advice.
[Unlinkable Oz]
Strangely, constitutional experts see pandemonium in their crystal balls, rather than diversity-enhanced democracy:
Translation: The High Court can expect to be entertained by publicly funded complaints that government is not responding to diametrically opposed positions.
So, problematic?
Pffft:
The governance of Australia is in good hands.
If anyone has any idea on obtaining documentation, feel free to share or ask Dover for my email.
All I am finding on Google is SBS reports and human rights articles.
He may be good with a manuscript in front of him but in interviews he was terrible.
And no, Cassie, we don’t need a Mandela either.
As regards the Cootamundra Girls Home, such programs of indentured labour did exist. A just solution would be to pay lost wages to any survivors or their descendants. It has no relation to a land rights claim over a Crown reserve in Mosman.
This is a long post on X. I remember some of this. People did die and it was mooted that it was to protect Obama from scandal. I’m surprised that Larry Sinclair himself wasn’t killed. Perhaps he was too high profile.
Barack Obama’s Ex-Boyfriend Admits He Was ‘Prime Suspect’ in Gay Serial Killer Case
Even Mandela wasn’t what he was made out to be.
Doc Faustus, I was assured by one of the Voice lapdogs that any dissenting opinion was misinformed Trumpian lies.
Will any dissenting Coalition members be allowed to have a say? I will see myself out.
A communist terrorist?
Among all adults:
Might be worth checking whether NSW hasn’t already done this; QLD certainly has.
That “Women in Law” thing is something you have a laugh with a chap over lunch at the club. And then completely deny ever doing so.
Considering that Nelson Mandela had sat on the Central Committee of the old South African Communist Party, no we don’t need another Mandela, not really.
A number of men of Mediterranean appearance and a number of promising footballers will be relieved.
Abbott must know this. He’s trying to be popular again, his great weakness.
4 thoughts:
1) most cases of hypertension are caused by insulin resistance, which can occur decades before the BSL rises – hypertension is a key early sign that your are eating too many carbs and the damage is starting – when I went carnivore, my BP went back to normal, after decades on antihypertensives.
2) big pharma suppresses knowledge of the above, and instead only allows Drs and patients to know about chronic drug treatment for hypertension, not dietary interventions which eliminate it
3) big food is all about carbs (and seed oils) – making them ideal business partners for big pharma
4) you can be sure that any ‘invisible disease diagnosed by tests and treated by chronic meds’ (think hypertension and hypercholesterolemia) will, over time, see its diagnostic criteria widened to include more and more customers.
whatever happened to ‘ a single example is an anecdote, not data’ then?
For shame, are you suggesting that tribal life was less then Utopia?
‘aspiring rappers’, ‘gentle giants’, ‘youths’ and ‘dedicated fathers turning their lives around’ on the other hand…..
Qantas vs Qatar is all about strip searched women eh. Na seems too simplistic.
Been going down a few rabbit holes myself over the last few nights. Most plausible reason I can find is that Qatar like other ME Airways is Government/Royal Family owned and gets cheap fuel giving them a massive edge. Now imagine if King had come out with that angle, instead of what she just dribbled?
Forebes article below that a few years old but delves into it and some dodgy practises in Europe. Also in my google searches a couple of other articles including one in a similar vein by the Airline Pilots Association:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasduesterberg/2019/07/08/qatar-airways-subsidies-continue-to-undermine-competition-in-vital-transatlantic-routes/?sh=1dd8a5c37b3c
So is everyone tip toeing round the truth here to avoid ending up in a WTO dispute or is there something else going on?
But surely, where public health systems prevail and medicines are subsidised, governments would resist this due to budgetary concerns?
So what is an unreasonably low BP guideline Dr Duk?
Why isn’t 160/100 any good for hypertension anymore?
Athletes can have BP above 120/80 up to 140/80 and some were in that study >140/80 (9%).
I can’t see how a 6’6″ built dude can have a BP of 90/60.
It’s not physiologically possible.
“He may be good with a manuscript in front of him but in interviews he was terrible.”
Correct. Look, I was at CPAC a few weeks ago and Abbott gave the opening address. It was great because the speech was in front of him. However, I recall his tenure as PM. Let’s be honest here, it was not inspiring, it was tortuous. In fact, I would say that in some respects Abbott himself was the architect of his own demise. Sure the MSM went after him, sure the wets went after him, but that’s when you need someone who won’t “umm and ahhh” in the face of orchestrated hit jobs.
As for his use of “Mandela”, now it’s my turn to ummm and to ahhhhhh. The last thing we need in this country is a Nelson Mandela. The ANC Marxist Mandela laid the groundwork for the basket case that is now South Africa. I never liked Mandela., I never thought he was a great hero. He was a Marxist terrorist.
Mandela and Ho Chi Minh shared a common achievement. Both men were hard line Communists, who convinced the gullible they were pure nationalists..
This paper says height gives lower BP (which means what it is meant to be measuring is BS) but that height is correlated to coronary artery disease.
https://karger.com/crd/article-pdf/146/3/345/3898321/000514205.pdf
Cardiovascular Prevention: Review Article
Cardiology 2021;146:345–350
The Relationship between Adult Height
and Blood Pressure 2021 DOI: 10.1159/000514205
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The next study outlines that height affects the DS/SS difference.
Greater height was associated with significantly lower SBP and PP, and higher DBP (all P?<?.001) in combined race/ethnic–sex group models beginning in the 4th decade. Predicted blood pressure differences between people who are short and tall increased thereafter with greater age except for MBP. Socioeconomic status, activity level, and smoking history did not consistently contribute to blood pressure prediction models.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5815765/
Medicine (Baltimore). 2017 Dec; 96(50): e9233.
Published online 2017 Dec 15. doi: 10.1097/MD.0000000000009233
PMCID: PMC5815765
PMID: 29390353
Associations between height and blood pressure in the United States population
You're better off being tall because your body has a built-in "buffer"???
1) governments no longer care a whit about ‘budgetary concerns’ … they just print or borrow as needed, and the public are too stupid to realise they are being fleeced constantly in this way.
2) our real rulers are the corporations who have bought our governments – our politicians work for them now, not for us.
3) the people have no idea that #1 and 2 above are happening, and have to be bought as well, via ‘free stuff’ (like the PBS)
Here it is.
A 1-cm vertical increase in blood column length will in theory raise blood pressure at the base by 0.76 mm Hg, an explanation often provided for why young children have lower blood pressure than their taller older counterparts.[36,37] Hydrostatic mechanisms should therefore lead to higher blood pressures in people who are tall and we are unable to specifically isolate these effects in the present study. Arvedsen et al[4,5] examined hydrostatic postural effects with tilt-table and centrifugation experiments and the investigators observed differing coordinated hemodynamic responses in short and tall adults. Taken collectively, these observations suggest that adult height plays a role in multiple components of the cardiovascular system that have yet to be fully evaluated and integrated.
If you’re 20 cm taller than someone, you are less likely to be affected by high BP and you will likely have a higher BP than them anyway.
They were clearly acting dishonestly. That is demonstrated clearly by the cables, etc. in the archive and by the second link. They made commits which they had no intention of keeping, evidenced by discussions already occurring in the background, and those commits are already dumped a year later when a consensus for enlargement was achieved. Even your last sentence admits that, as I said in previous comment: you reverted to ‘They didn’t renege, but even if they did, they can renege if they want to because they’re in the driver’s seat.’
Neocons were told ad nauseam where eastward expansion would lead but they ignored it. The only thing history has shown is that the Ukrainians have made their own beds and now they have to sleep in it.
That is why the left adore him.
/upticks
It was indeed.
Watching him second guess himself and stutter, I formed the view that he was trying to check his instinctive responses in favour of what his chief adviser was telling him to say.
I learned a long time ago that it is blood *flow* that matters, not blood *pressure* and indeed, I used to run my operative patients at ‘scary low ‘ numbers without incident – 65/40 would not concern me so long as they were well perfused. I also used to teach my registrars that, contrary to what they were taught (that old theme again!), if was flow that created blood pressure (or more accurately, resistance to flow) not pressure that created flow . Any fireman knows this – when you close down the hose nozzle, the pressure goes up but the flow goes down. The real problem with hypertension is ‘tight’ blood vessels, not excess cardiac activity.
because it doesnt capture as many patients in the ‘needs to take meds’ net as a lower number does – this has been even more obvious with the cholesterol thresholds which have been progressively lowered to get more and more people onto statins.
yes but BP is measured at heart level, not height above the ground, which accounts for that.
I dare say we’re not in that world anymore.
My GP complains about being constrained by prescribing parameters presumably set by whichever government agencies are responsible to keep costs down.
I tell her not to worry as I really don’t want to be taking any more drugs anyway.
Read, and be informed.
Scattered, random thoughts.
Is there a greater misnomer than ‘justice system’?
Providing opportunities for ‘disadvantaged’ (a much misused term I normally despise) young women to acquire employable skills and participate in the mainstream economy, with the potential for independence (compared with your traditional social norms), and access to health care, seems to be an offense against Kulture. I guess we don’t need too many of our own to become uppity and challenge the grip of the big men?
The indigenous land rights industry is extortion: What you build/have built – we’ll take our cut, because we are the privileged/status class by birthright.
Is there a modern, legal version of squatter’s rights? Perhaps this is not the correct concept, but I’m thinking of the value-adding to land or property. Sorry, I cannot explain that.
If we’re going to redefine slavery: Do the ‘yes’ people (the nodders) expect present and future generations of non-indigenous Australians to work without compensation for a percentage of their life in order to meet the demands of their new masters? Let’s say it’s only one hour per (taxpaying) person per week (for the foreseeable future), that I won’t be compensated for. Is that slavery?
I continue to believe that the indigenous are simply being used as a tool to render first-world idiocracies unmanageable.
(The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition).
Az youse wir.
The AFL has reportedly ruled out promoting the Voice on Grand Final day after the league commission warned against an 11th hour push.
Both the AFL and NRL have declared their support for the Indigenous Voice to parliament, with grand finals for both codes to take place before the October 14 vote.
But while top government officials expected the events to deliver the Yes campaign’s message to millions of viewers, an AFL spokesman its governing body – the AFL Commission – would not run any adverts for the Voice on game day.
The commission reportedly rules that the AFL would not actively campaign during the September finals series, Nine newspapers reported.
The woke leagues have finally sniffed the air and realised that the punters that they rely on to fill their coffers don’t give a flying about elite groupthink.
The worry that 90k at the G tonight might unleash a massive BOO has them soiling the undies.
That suggests that didn’t rely on ambulatory monitoring. In one link provided …
I won’t look any further because that is ridiculous.
A Christmas gift for the SJW in your life?
“Watching him second guess himself and stutter, I formed the view that he was trying to check his instinctive responses in favour of what his chief adviser was telling him to say.”
A very accurate analysis.
I can understand how this really bothered his back benchers, many of whom voted to oust him.
Lest anyone think this some sort of race-specific punishment applied to Aboriginal girls, this was a fairly typical way that welfare worked in the early 20th C – both here and in the ‘Home Country’.
I had two great aunts who were ‘taken in’ in the early 1900’s; one orphaned and one removed from a ‘morally dissolute’ (ie hopelessly drunk) parent. Both were put through an approved school until aged 14 and then sent into ‘domestic service’ until they eventually married.
This model was applied slightly differently and with ad hockery across UK-World, but with the same general objectives; to cost the parish/council/state as little as possible, to keep kids away from crime and vice, and give the girlies a work ethic and small domestic skills that would set them up as desirable and productive wives.
By current standards, unacceptably paternalistic, classist, and sexist of course. But certainly not some weird form of ‘slavery’ designed designed to exploit the indigenous.
Luckily some Truth Telling will sort this misunderstanding out.
The in_ voice is a collective ” solution” to problems of individuals.
It co- incidentally ensures very large numbers of non disadvantaged individuals would be entitled to extra resources/preferences/power based not on need but greed.
Langton and her Ilk are farting through silk, on high 6 figure incomes almost all provided by milking a group identity and it’s disadvantaged individuals for profit.
Picking the scabs off others For their own profit.
Not to mention the 6pm News, the dinner party invitations and preselection.
And the next stadium funding deal.
Roger, that’s 100% factually correct.
#bringbackupticks
Dr Faustus is right.
The question never asked after these stories of work is ” compared to what”.
Indentured service compared to…
Prostitution
Married off at 12
Starving in the streets
Selling matches on street corners
Becoming a mistress
I take my blood pressure three times every morning.
Yesterday it was 107/65, at 10:00 am,
126/66 at 10:01 am and 104/66 at 10:03 am.
This morning ot was 141/76 at 03:38 am,
147/74 at 03:39 am and 138/69 at 03:40 am.
Conclusion: don’t get up early in the morning. Early to rise and early to bed, makes a man healthy and wealthy and dead.
Not so sure. It’s laughable watching Anasta and the journos on NRL Fox sports recently contort themselves and stumble around in studious avoidance of the obvious reasons for the Rabbits bombing out of Premiership favorites and falling out of the top 8. After much discussion, analysis and desperate soul searching they managed to NOT identify South’s overpaid, over rated , temperamental and spoilt magic indigenes as the root cause. They were so fkg hopeless and made so precious Sam Burgess walked out 2 weeks before the biggest game of their season.
Dr Faustus
Sep 7, 2023 10:17 AM”
A thousand upticks!
It appears we have the reason as to why Qatar Airways were given a middle finger after asking for extra flights into Australia:
Ok I am sure many women have been to this airport and not been asked to strip to nudity. Something isn’t quite gelling.
NAB has announced, that from November, they will be cancelling accounts of serfs who are deemed, (by them, of course), to have used language that is:
Harmful,
hurtful,
racist, or
in general, not approved by these thieving c$nts.
Time to add NAB to the list of companies to avoid like the plague.
Also, watch for other usurers to announce similar.
JC you alluded to this yesterday I apologise.
Docklands provides a pretty good example of sporting codes being required to fund their own capex. Crippled a couple of clubs for a few years till the contracts expired. Ultimately offloaded to Channel Stokes I think.
Funny how this only comes up now.
Remember Ken Henry was a NAB person. Very appropriate. I seem to remember the former canbra pube didn’t cover himself in glory during that episode.
NAB also stands apart from the other three major banks. …I thought it telling that Dr Henry seemed unwilling to accept any criticism of how the board had dealt with some issues.
—?Commissioner Hayne, Final Report: Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry. 1 February 2019.
oh no another ‘doctor’
Summer are heralded by the slowly pulsing buzz of cicadas.
But the heralds are heralded now by the smell of burning bushland.
I got up as usual this morning, noticed pall of haze – which is common enough along with pockets of fog lingering in low areas awaiting the sun to burn them off. Showered, shaved, and got my coffee. Stepped out on the balcony to draw a great draft of aroma from my mug aaaand…SMOKE!
It is good that backburning is now (perhaps surreptitiously) being re-intergrated into forest management.
I despise canbra.
Muddy
Sep 7, 2023 10:13 AM
Scattered, random thoughts.
Is there a greater misnomer than ‘justice system’?</em>
Now renamed as the ‘Just Us System’.
Where the ‘Us’ is not the General Public BUT the so called ‘Elites’.
I’ve been avoiding them like the plague for decades. The worst of “the big four”, with daylight second.
The prime examplars (well before it was fashionable) of the Ozzie corporate adage that customers are an unfortunate annoying inconvenience to be ripped off, hectored, patronised and generally treated like sh*t.
Welp
I will be switching out of NAB and NabTrade exclusively to Swyft FX and CoinJar.
Hopefully, I can get out of ING Direct for super soon too.
rabz
I have found them to be friendly but utterly useless.
They’re the Shih Tzus of Australian banking.
I’m not gping to throw out the Abbott speech because he preferred a statesman over a tribal big man.
No restrictions on welcomers to country saying what they like at the start of the footy, though…
First week of spring and the mulberry tree is already dripping with fruit, some of it fast approaching ripeness. Looks like there’ll be a lot of mulberry jam to me made! The other trees in the orchard are looking very happy as well soaking up the sun.
More of this global warmening, please!
Well at least the invasive strip searches were, however wrong, for a reason.
I was under the impression was random.
Did they find the mother of the dumped baby?
See for example, Quaintarse and Coles, the latter of which was just busted “mysteriously, accidentally and entirely unintentionally” ripping off customers by labelling various products as “specials” which were more highly priced than what they’d sell for normally.
As for Quaintarse and the “ghost flights”, certain individuals need to be administered a lengthy public flogging before being condemned to languishing in gaol for many, many moons.
An interesting concept from Keith Windschuttle’s ‘The Breakup of Australia …’ which I’ll probably struggle to express coherently, is that of prescription.
My understanding is that the doctrine of prescription can be challenged [at least in the court of public opinion and policy making] by the existence of sustained resistance; in this case, indigenous resistance through violence. Hence the emphasis of recent decades on ‘frontier wars’ and massacres (presented as invader responses to indigenous resistance), by individuals such as Reynolds and others.
The more indigenous violence against the non-indigenous population can be presented as ‘political’ responses to invader behaviour, as compared with acts by individuals for personal gain, the greater the appearance of an ‘organised’ and sustained campaign of destabilisation against the ‘uninterrupted’ presence necessary to sustain prescriptive possession.
At least, that’s my blunt-pencil understanding.
I still have a share trading a/c with one of the big 4 (not NAB)- what are the alternatives?
Probably because it isn’t true.
Not the strip search…I’ll take their word on that. But the link between Qatar “authorities” overreach at home and an application by Qatar Airlines for additional sectors.
You mean like being put in a work house and forced to emigrate to Australia at age 18, that kind of thing?
Once again Aboriginal people think their stories are the only stories.
Same here, milt. As for the alternatives, I’ve not bothered checking. Pol Dot may have a suggestion.
Or settlement; hence the invention of aboriginal agriculture & aquaculture.
Amazing that the last workhouse effectively closed in the UK after WWII. Up until fairly recently, people’s lives were hard. It’s stupid looking through the lens of leisure and plenty and feigning affront at their hardships.
Quite so.
The temple is a bit OTT (who coats their place in gold leaf) but ponds and gardens top shelf.
The bamboo forest is nice too, but the garden off the path is worth a look.
Fushimi Inari Shrine (1000 orange gates) is also worth a look, but doing the trek to the top in 35 degree heat was not for me.
After you’ve seen 642 orange gates …
Gion is also good for the old buildings – Hanamikoji? St. Supposedly geisha central, but we didn’t see one.
Pontocho has lots of restaurants but it is a bit Lygon St.
Nishiki Market is worth a look, but crowded.
This goes to international law.
We’re looking at the legality of British settlement being challenged.
Yes you can see what they’re up to Roger. I could never understand until recently why for example in Parramatta, 1000s of miles away, the Torres Straight Island flag was flying.
It’s grotesque and obscene that taxpayer funded marxist law dons are attempting to destroy the very basis of the Australian nation.
On matters mulberry, my weeping ornamental isn’t even showing signs of bud burst yet. The bed socks still in active service too.
On the topic of Abbott, today is the 10 year anniversary of his election to PM.
Roger is a banana bender Bear.
It’s been my view for decades that the post WWII expansion of hiya ejucashun has been an unmitigated disaster. Not just in oz either.
Even for non lawyers it is worth having a read of the Mabo judgement. Much of it is not overly legalistic and describes the principles and attitudes of the day. I expect you’re right Roger. Another roll of the dice.
All my bananas come pre-bent. As far as I know.
Swyft FX
CoinJar (has a debit card too)
Stake
https://www.livingroomofsatoshi.com/
We all know Craig Steven Wright is Satoshi. Americans just can’t hack he isn’t a Jap or a Yank.
Oi…it’s not all bananas up here, you know! 😀
We’re more temperate than sub-tropical here due to elevation and being west of the Great Divide.
Still run a fireplace in winter, although this year the woodshed is half full instead of nearing empty.
I’ll keep an eye out for him at the Miata Helldrivers AGM.
Swyft FX can be a pain in the rear getting started with the KYC crap.
https://www.coinjar.com/au/
https://hellostake.com/au
https://swyftx.com/au/
This is what Lidia Thorpe & Mundine and the like are holding out for.
The CoinJar card can be used on ApplePay & GooglePay.
[Windschuttle, ‘Breakup …’ Quadrant Books, 2016, p.343].
LoL Yes I’m told Warwick and Stanthorpe get cold. When you get off a plane in Brissy from Melb though you think you’re in the tropics already.
Oops. Stuffed up the bolding there.
Thanks Dot
In response to duk’s earlier query about domestic airlines that don’t welcome us to our own country, it appears that Rex is the sole resistor. At least of a couple of weeks ago, they may have been got at since. Even Bonza welcomed me back to bloody Naarm.*
Shame about the the flying pencils masquerading as planes.
*Making an exception to my new rules of survival in Woke World in the interest of making a point. I refuse to use it as it is a blatant attempt to make me believe it.
It’s my understanding too, where this whole doctrine should fall down badly, is the evidence of coordination. Where were the widely accepted indigenous leaders of the time? Where was any actual evidence that they communicated and collaborated to resist the so called invaders. There is plenty of evidence to substantiate that many indigenous tribes bartered away the occupation of large tracts of land for tools, trinkets, food and grog.
I’d note that all the assistance that previous Australian settlers provided in the past has been miscontrued as slavery or destruction of indigenous culture. Those thinking that any assistance given today will cast those who gave it or voted for it in some saintly light are seriously mistaken. The grievance will simply move on and you will be a casualty of a culture that has no room for forgiveness or redemption only makarrata.
On NAB use of hurtful language ban.
My banker (non NAB) tells me that all of the major Australian banks offering online payment services are rolling out similar terms of use.
The issue appears more commercial arse coverage than woke concerns about hurtfulness in the wider world.
The problem seems to be individuals using the online banking system to express themselves, eg: the ‘appears on recipient statement’ message box in the monthly alimony payment being marked MONEY GRUBBING SLUT, DEAD WOMAN, or similar.
Banker’s bums are twitching like bunnies noses about being sued for running an uncontrolled carriage service facilitating fear and alarm that can only be assuaged by large compensation.
Before you shut your NAB account in protest, check your next choice – because they’re likely to be similar.
Paterson asking the correct questions on King’s “New Excuse” for the Quatar decision.
From News.com.au