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Will the Supreme Court Save the Nation?
“This effort to prevent Trump from running for President is presenting a major CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS. We have the extremely LEFTIST Supreme Court of Colorado ruling unconstitutionally that Trump should be barred from being on the ballot. Then we have the Michigan Supreme Court ruling against Colorado. Now, the State of Maine, another LEFTIST government, is also seeking to follow Colorado.
These Leftist Governments are planning to really destroy the Constitution in any way they possibly can. Not a single person on January 6th was criminally charged with the Insurrection Statute. Yet, these LEFTIST states are trying to use the 14th Amendment to block Trump from running when it has NEVER been used even once in history against any Southerner.
These states are fulfilling the warnings of Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971). They are so anti-Constitution and are allowing this country to be flooded with people from South America who have traditionally been Marxists, which is why they have destroyed their own economies and are flooding into the United States for free food, clothing, healthcare, and to be taken care of for life as long as they vote for the Marxists here determined to destroy the US economy.
Our model warns of a recession from May 7th, 2024, into 2028. As Chairman Powell of the Federal Reserve warned, this spending by Biden is “unsustainable,” and there may not even be an election by 2028. Democracy is all about letting the people decide. States are rigging the ballots so that no challenger in the Democratic primary may appear on any ballot, leaving no choice for Democrats but Biden. Then, they are trying to prevent Trump from running at all. This is not Democracy – it is totalitarianism.
I fear we have reached the end of the rule of law. If the Supreme Court strikes down these Marxist States, they will only claim it was a Republican Decision. The very idea of a “UNITED” formation of states can no longer be justified. The nation has become so deeply divided; as Abraham Lincoln once said, a house divided cannot stand. This is what we face as we move into 2032. The Supreme Court instigated the Civil War with the Dread Scott decision when they tried to defuse the potential for the Civil War.
Emerson was Scott’s owner, and he allowed Scott to get married and left Scott and his wife in Wisconsin when Emerson traveled to Louisiana. Emerson died in 1843, and Scott attempted to purchase his freedom from Emerson’s widow, but she refused. Dread Scott argued that since he became a permanent resident in the federal territory of Wisconsin, which prohibited slavery, he became a freeman. The district court applied the laws of Missouri to find Scott was still a slave, and the Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed. It then went to the Supreme Court, in a hotly watched issue, then much as removing Trump from the ballots today. In a highly contentious opinion written by Chief Justice Taney, he held that persons of African descent were not citizens of the United States. The Court reasoned that, at the time of the ratification of the U.S. Constitution, persons of African descent were brought to the U.S. as property and, whether later freed or not, could not become U.S. citizens. With that decision, the Civil War became the solution. Abraham Lincoln was never on the ballots in 10 states: South Carolina, North Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Texas, Georgia, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Virginia. He did not receive any votes from the states that would later form the Confederacy besides Virginia, where Republicans secured 1% of the votes. History is repeating once again. Today, the Marxist-following states that do not believe in Equal Protection of the Law seek to remove Trump from their ballots as well to prevent him from becoming president, precisely as was done to Abraham Lincoln.
Regardless of how the Supreme Court rules, as in Dread Scott, one side will never support the outcome. It is questionable if the United States will ever be able to stand as one nation once again.”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/rule-of-law/will-the-supreme-court-save-the-nation/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
This is so cool.
Yep, they are very good employees of pharma – aiming the consult towards a statin script whenever possible – just ask them if they know that statins double your risk of diabetes, which IS an actual risk factor for heart disease.
I should have given every one of them a copy, for Christmas, of Dr. Malcolm Kendrick’s book, “The Clot Thickens”.
Last seven words not necessary, JC.
Run! Huge Marty fart coming our way.
Here is the latest Survey taken recently in the USA –
Apparently, 40% of US High School students think that Joan of Arc is Noah’s wife. LOL.
kind of hope this is true
At least in the COVID arena, CASA appeared to follow the same script as AHPRA:
1) Mandate an untested therapeutic, contrary to all previous practice
2) Censor and if necessary, deregister dissenters.
As an example, they cancelled the career of senior Qantas Captain Graham Hood for refusing to take the jab due to its unknown risks, particularly at altitude. He had 32,000 hours btw, and claimed to have ‘never left a passenger up there’.
And yet they defeated the Crusader States and the Mongols in the Levant.
Compared to a limey crook believing Marty-the-fraud offers valuable, insightful and honest insights?
The “US high school students” have better standing.
Spaghetti bol sauce ends up very oily-syrupy. Milk is to neutralise it somewhat.
If I were you, Shatters, I would put them back where you found them and wait another couple of years at which time they will be worth $200 each to collectors
Has Europe Just Committed Suicide?
“Europe has laid the groundwork for World War III and the destruction of Europe as a whole, all to save its failed fiscal management of the economy. Using the Ukrainian war that the West instigated by promising democratic elections to the Donbas in BAD FAITH just for being Russian, the European Union Council adopted a 12th sanctions package against Russia. This time, they sealed the fate of the world and Europe by also announcing that the end of this contrived Ukrainian war would not be lifted after the conflict ended. From the very beginning, Europe negotiated in BAD FAITH with the intent of creating war. They promised to allow the Donbas the dignity and respect every human society deserves – the right to determine their own fate by a free election.
The Donbas was to be allowed to vote on their independence all because Nikita S. Khrushchev had merely redrawn borders for administrative purposes, designating that they would be governed from Kiev. The New York Times has put out real propaganda just as they once hailed Stalin as the economic model for the United States back during the Great Depression. When Gareth Jones (1905-1935) in March of 1933 exposed the New York Times reporting as propaganda, the truth finally began to appear. However, it still took the New York Times until 1990 to admit they engaged in fake news pushing communism on America. The NYT wrote that their reporting on the Russian Revolution constituted “some of the worst reporting to appear in this newspaper.” Their journalist Duranty even supported Roosevelt’s New Deal. He helped install drastic progressiveness in taxation. This time, the New York Times outright lied:
“Mr. Putin is repeating his longstanding argument that Ukraine’s borders are an artificial creation of Soviet planners who unjustly cordoned rightful Russian land within the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.”
Is the New York Times just cheering on World War III in hopes of resurrecting a totalitarian state in the aftermath?
Anyone with any sense of history knows that there was NEVER a Ukraine, and the border of Russia under the Tsars was the Dnieper River. The very name “Ukraine” means borderland. They joined with Hitler, who promised them their own country upon his victory. Kiev was the birthplace of the Rus (Russians), whose city was destroyed by the Mongol invasion of 1240AD. They were dispersed, and eventually, Moscow began to rise as a city.
This is why, to this very day, much of Eastern Ukraine is still the homeland of Russians who were promised to be able to hold their own election to separate from Ukraine to rejoin their own ethnic people. It was Khrushchev who redrew the borders, as Putin stated during the Soviet Union period.
Not only did Khrushchev rise through the ranks to head Russia after being in charge of rebuilding Kiew after World War II, but his successor, Brezhnev, was born in the Donbas, which the West wanted to now claim was Ukraine to provoke war.
There are NO Ukrainian coins. The earliest coins of Kiev are that of the Rus or Russians. After the fall of Kiev to the Mongols in 1240, there were no coins. Money became foreign Byzantine coins or silver ingots known as hryvnias. During World War I, there was a brief attempt West of the D River, creating the Ukrainian Revolution of 1917 to 1921. This involved some paper money that was briefly issued. The first coinage of Ukraine as a nation was in 1992. Because the Rus displayed a trident on their coinage, today, the Ukrainians try to claim they were their coins, but this was just not true.
The war for the territory that was NEVER the borderland and thus NEVER occupied by Ukrainians amounts to a territorial grab. It would be as if Mexico seized Texas and then outlawed English as a language. Over 500,000 Ukrainians have died in these proxy war games waged by the West. Merkel has so much blood on her hands that it will NEVER be washed off. She will go to her grave with the stain of so many people who have died for her treachery. Is it truly worth the destruction of Europe all for this nonsense of personal hatred of Russians because they were once communists? Or is this really just a cover-up for the economic collapse of a failed Western economy that borrows every year with no intention of ever paying off any such debt?
The Ukrainians hate Russians so profoundly that they have outlawed their religion, and now Ukraine has even abandoned Eastern Orthodox Christianity. They have now announced that Christmas will be that of Western Christianity – December 25th. Whatever they can do to offend every Russian living in what they claim is Ukraine, they are doing, and the West supports this abuse, even denying the freedom of religion. All of this is because the West needs war as the excuse for the collapse of the monetary system.
The people of Russia never wanted to return to the days of the Soviet Union. Once they tasted freedom, all the propaganda that Putin wanted to resurrect the old Soviet Union was just nonsense. Rome was the greatest empire ever to exist, with decades of peace because everyone benefited from the common market. Europe has chosen hatred rather than prosperity driven by the Neocons, who now also control NATO. The future is being determined right now. Europe has just condemned its own people to war. For what? To deny the people of the Donbas what the West had promised under the Minsk Agreement? Or are they, too, just pawns in this game to retain power?
The new sanctions package they recently announced includes a ban on the import, purchase, or transfer of diamonds from Russia beginning on January 1, 2024, and tightens enforcing a Western price cap on Russian oil at $60 a barrel. Worse still, they have violated international law and set a highly dangerous precedent whereby some 61 people and 86 Russian companies were also sanctioned, according to a list published by the European Commission. They have even sanctioned Putin’s cousin, Anna Tsivileva, and the son of former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, Ilya Medvedev. If there is a dispute between countries, this precedent destroys the rule of law and the world economy. So if a war between the US and China unfolds, then each side can confiscate the assets of private citizen based entirely on their race and ethnic background.
The world economy has been torn to shreds. It will NEVER return before 2032. We are looking at the economic decline our Model warns will unfold between May 7th, 2024, and 2028 as we head into 2032. The leaders of the West are NOT interested in peace. They are brainwashed by the Neocons and NATO, which has been scared to death that peace with Russia makes them irrelevant. So, to retain all the jobs in NATO, their self-interest is always to talk up war. Peace means they are no longer relevant or necessary.
This is NOT my personal opinion. If I could stop it, I certainly would. Our leaders are playing with more than fire; they are playing with the destruction of Western Society as we have known it since the end of World War II. These stupid sanctions have ensured that globalization has come to an end. It was that economic interconnection that created the countless years of peace under the Roman Empire – Pax Romana. The cornerstone of civilization is free trade. When everyone benefits by joining together, the economy expands, and peace flourishes.
What our illustrious leaders are doing is following the Neocon recipe for war. Impose sanctions, wage economic war, and the people will overthrow their governments. The Russians and Chinese are NOT stupid. They know who is waging this economic war, and it is the West. The West has undergone a coup like Rome many times. The Neocons are in complete control of the White House and the EU, not to mention the NATO – The North American Terrorist Organization. These people are trying to conquer the world, not much different than the ambitions that drove Alexander the Great (336–323BC), Hannibal (221–202 BC), Julius Caesar (58-44BC), Attila the Hun (434-453), and Genghis Khan (1206-1227), Napoleon (1799-1815), Adolf Hitler (1934-1945), Josef Stalin (1924-1953).
1833 Russia 12 Roubles PlatinumCyclically, 2024 is right on schedule with Russia’s 72-year revolutionary cycle. Many have dreamed of the conquest of Russia, for it is one of the wealthiest nations in natural resources, which include gold, platinum, and diamonds. Russia produced platinum coins between 1828 and 1845. No Western Nation was ever able to produce Platinum coinage.
Indeed, just before the Communist Revolution of 1917, Russia had the largest gold reserves of any nation on earth. Kolchak Alexander VasilyevichFor nearly 100 years, people have been searching for those gold reserves, which weigh nearly 500 tons (a ton equals 32,150.7 troy ounces of gold). That is 16,075,350 ounces or $32.150 billion at $2,000 an ounce. The Russian Empire’s gold reserve fell into the hands of Alexander V. Kolchak in November of 1918 when he overthrew the government in Siberia supported by the Triple Entente allies. Kolchak was the leader of the White Anti-Bolshevik movement in Siberia during the years of the Russian Civil War. The gold was transported from the capital, Petrograd, during WWI because of the German threat of invasion of the city.
Kolchak’s gold, as it has been called, has been looked for on the Yamal Peninsula. Others suggest carts with Kolchak’s gold might have been found in the Altai Region. Still, others have said that Kolchak’s gold was dropped into Lake Baikal. These headlines have been following the search for the Russian Empire’s gold.
For the first time since World War II, German troops have crossed Poland, moving to Lithuania to defend the border with Belarus/Russia being stationed there until 2027. NATO cannot admit Ukraine as long as it is at war. Therefore, NATO is seeking to create the same situation in the Baltics, and the people of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania are now to be sacrificed on the altar of the Neocons along with the more than 500,000 dead troops of Ukraine and the 8 to 10 million Ukrainian refugees who have fled to Europe with no intention of returning home.
Estonia has passed the same law as Ukraine, outlawing the Russian language to discriminate against the Russian population that lives there. Can you imagine if the US outlawed Spanish or Canada outlawed speaking French? This is a deliberate act to invoke a response from Russia as they did to the people in the Donbas. NATO wants war, and they are determined to create World War III. Nobody is interested in peace whatsoever.
Lithuania is now considering imposing a “WAR TAX” on its people, as reported by the local press- BNS. Yet, BNS interviewed 16 economists, who agreed that increasing defense funding is necessary. However, they disagree on whether it needs a separate tax, with only five supporting that. This tax they seemed to foolishly tell the people they are seeking to boost their deterrence capabilities, insisting that it will not be possible to rely on borrowed funds alone.
News agency BNS asked sixteen economists and experts to evaluate the defense tax idea this year. Five would tend to support it; eight believe that a separate tax is not necessary. BNS also noted that the tax can be debated, but would the taxes collected be used transparently and according to the intended purpose? Another emphasized the priority is to have not only resources but also robust and efficient government institutions.
Death of EuroThe design of the Euro was unsustainable in the long term. The ONLY way the Euro could have competed with the dollar was to consolidate the debts. However, Chancellor Kohl knew he would have lost 7:1 had he allowed the German people to vote on joining the Euro. So, he admitted he denied any democratic principle, took Germany into the Euro, denying the people a right to vote, so the compromise was that there would be no debt consolidation. I know since the commission came to our 1998 London Conference, and I warned then there would NEVER be a single interest rate in Europe for the member would be no different from the states in the USA – each pays a rate based upon their credit score.
Unfortunately, now, with debt crumbling beneath the surface, they need to escape responsibility for the coming sovereign debt crisis. The way to do that is W A R! They are pushing hard to get Sweden into NATIO.
This is the unspoken agenda. Sadly, these people in power do not care about the people. There are too many of us anyway, according to Bill Gates. They are deliberately seeking to use the Baltics to try to get Russia to take the bait to justify World War III. NATO is also expanding its authority to Asia, knowing that this will be a war between the West, Russia, China, North Korea, and Iran, just for starters.
Kaja KallasThe small nation of Estonia is also desperately trying to sacrifice its people for NATO and the Neocons. Prime Minister Kallas is using Estonia’s strategic position to further this proxy war with Russia. She has outright stated that negotiating a peace deal with Putin is off the table. She is willing to sacrifice her own people for personal safety before she gets a free flight to the USA.
“For us, it is important to not make that mistake again like we did in Crimea, Donbas, Georgia,” she said. “We have done the same mistake already three times, saying that, you know, negotiations, negotiated peace is the goal. … The only thing that Putin hears from this is that ‘I can do this because no punishment will follow.’”
She deliberately fails to mention the Minsk Agreement and how the West negotiated peace in bad faith because this has been the intention from the very start – to create World War III to end democracy and move to a totalitarian state proposed by Klaus Schwab and the end of the United States as all power is then usurped into the United Nations.”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/war/has-europe-just-committed-suicide/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
If your GP is badgering you about statins, take in a copy of their own Colleges Position statement on Calcium scores
https://www.racgp.org.au/clinical-resources/clinical-guidelines/key-racgp-guidelines/view-all-racgp-guidelines/first-do-no-harm/gp-resources/coronary-artery-calcium-scoring
Note that it is indicated in asymptomatic patients at ‘moderate risk’ (ie the vast majority of people who have never had a heart attack but are being pushed to take a statin) and tell them you want proof you have coronary disease (the calcium score does this) before you will consider longterm therapy with statins, due to their side effects.
If they refuse, get a new GP, yours is incompetent and not listening to what you, the patient, wants.
Sounds he still wants training and advice but not ‘military operation’
what the Iraqi prime minister said
The Arabs I met could all tell the stories of their grandfathers herding goats and camels. They still live in the days of glory through raiding. It is part of their religion and tribal heritage.
The Israelis have it right.
I hadn’t actually thought of the 7 October terrorism as part of this mentality. But I think that you are right.
If you go back 2000 years, “Italy”, which was then Rome also won wars. And then they lost. 🙂
I don’t understand your implied view that the US is some sort of paper tiger.
Was that when they had janissaries Dover?
JC
Dec 29, 2023 4:44 PM
Get back in the play pen with that big dopey dummy in yer’ fat gob. You Sictorian Pompous Windbag. And don’t keep throwing those toys out. It just shows your temper tantrums for all to see.
More Marty on the way. LOL.
If your GP is badgering you about statins, take in a copy of their own Colleges Position statement on Calcium scores
https://www.racgp.org.au/clinical-resources/clinical-guidelines/key-racgp-guidelines/view-all-racgp-guidelines/first-do-no-harm/gp-resources/coronary-artery-calcium-scoring
When I have told two GPs in the practice that there is no chance that I will take statins – one just gave my a pitying look , and the other told me that she was giving me advice “that I would give my mother”. I gave her equally an condescending reply that I was grateful for her concern, but that I fundamentally disagreed with her recommendation. To challenge a doctor in this country, of course, is tantamount to heresy.
The war in Iraq had the effect of shifting the country politically in the Shia direction. Iran doesn’t have to do anything apart from being friendly towards it.
Now Junior, what was that statement that you made yesterday about this Blog being a place where stuff could be contested – or words to that effect.
Were you drunk at the time as you don’t seem to want to allow it to happen.
However, as this is not your Blog, you can just Bog Off asap back to the baby play pen.
I’m sure. How much has he promised you to spam sites, you stupid limey dickhead?
I bet this isn’t the only one either. It’s like a modern version of a paper round, with Woddenhead dropping a pile of shit across various sites, hoping for a little vig.
You’re never going to see a red cent. There’s no honor among thieves.
What consequences are you expecting?
Err, not what was said.
I said a huge chunk of the rules governing aviation contribute to safety.
Most are derived from long-standing good practices resulting from accidents or pants-soiling near misses.
This was in response to Nurse Betty bemoaning the fact that pilots are stifled by bureaucracy, but strangely enough, can’t define which stifling rules he would flick off.
No, the armies here are Egyptian and Syrian.
I’d still be changing GP’s if mine started holding cholesterol threats or anything I considered unreasonable over me re my drivers’ licence. I’ve studied with enough GP’s through doing a degree in a med faculty, and also knowing some socially via my medico Big Sis (who was a GP before becoming a Specialist), to assess that some of them are loonies and control freaks. Find one who isn’t.
I don’t argue with GP’s btw, I just leave them to it, without me. I have good confidence in my own research and judgement.
I responded to a comment about Muslims never fielding disciplined armies.
Neither do I given the above.
Try taking your own PEG to a surgeon at a major teaching hospital. Unsurprisingly it went back with me.
Contest this, you slimeball limey wog.
1. Do you believe Marty had a sentient, fully operational AI since 1985?
2. Do you believe Marty stole or didn’t steal client money and that he was a patsy of the big bad banks (we don’t know the motivation other than the fraud’s claim he was)? Yes or no?
3. Do you believe the fan boy mail is written by Marty or legit customers (of the fraudulent dickwad)?
4. Do you believe Marty’s AI predicted the exact date of the October 1987 crash, as he claims?
5. Do you believe Marty’s AI predicted the exact date of 911, as he claims?
These are the contestable points that you ought to explain, possibly when you’re sober.
Fair enough, but what you do think of US military abilities?
There are studies on humans demonstrating that statin use can increase the rate of arterial calcification. I looked into it because of animal study finding some statins inhibited the production of MK 4, a vitamin K2 believed to play a role in calcium management.
Most people think statins are just about cholesterol management. Statins have also demonstrated increased nitric oxide production and reduced inflammation, both being important for health in general.
I’m not as black and white as some here. Statins generally appear to provide good benefits for people who have had a heart attack. GPs though seems to prescribe statins solely on the basis of cholesterol levels. There are at least 3 cardiologists on youtube with differing opinions. The literature is dense and confusing, GPs don’t read that literature, and the ones that do, cardiologists, have differing opinions.
Statin research makes so many claims of benefit, including protection from some cancers and dementia, that statins appear to be wonder drugs. Yet doctors will routinely mock claims about supplement X being able to cure so many conditions because that is just too good to be true.
I always challenge doctors.
My coronary artery calcium scores are considered very good, especially for my age.
I think that could probably be used to ameliorate any heavy-handed pressure for statins in my case. The heart specialist who supervised my calcium CHD tests of course recommended statins, but when I looked dubious he said it was entirely up to me. They weren’t really necessary.
He also added that he considered statins fairly useless for people over 80 and that they were completely ineffective once over 85. You should stop taking them then.
Good news, I said to him. All I have to do is get older. I’ll wing it without till then.
Sorry, JC, to up the age level of the blog, as you noted for everyone’s benefit last nite, but I’m on my way to outgrowing the pressure to take statins. 🙂
John H, I think one has to be very careful in the way a patient challenges a doctor’s advice. At the end of the day, a doctor will concede to the way a patient challenges the advice because ultimately it’s the patient who decides. This is also an easy way out for the doctor to simply go along with the patient. No skin if the patient refuses.
If your GP is badgering you about statins, take in a copy of their own Colleges Position statement on Calcium scores
https://www.racgp.org.au/clinical-resources/clinical-guidelines/key-racgp-guidelines/view-all-racgp-guidelines/first-do-no-harm/gp-resources/coronary-artery-calcium-scoring
Thanks Duk. I hadn’t seen this document. I did know that a recent research document suggesting that CACs are being over prescribed & over relied upon has caused something of a furore in medical circles here. But it is clear from the RACGP document that a more restrained approach is being recommended re CACs. I suspect that many GPs haven’t seen it.
As for changing GPs – I have been at the same practice for a couple of decades. I have moved on from several in the practice when diagnoses have proved incorrect. I thought I had settled upon a well qualified, sensible & respectful practitioner – however Covid policies and the approach to cholesterols & statins have undermined my trust.
And yet they defeated the Crusader States and the Mongols in the Levant.
Good point.
Lol. I was just joshing around. Just be careful and don’t rely of internet advice. The problem is that after covid, it’s obvious the experts aren’t as expert as we believed, but that also applies to “internet doctors” too.
Gee, I bet they love you, John H. GP’s can get a bit antsy if I mention my MPH, without my arguing with them about anything. Even more so if an MPH or similar is their only claim to post-graduate medical research themselves. It is sometimes helpful to let them know. Years ago a colonoscopy I had produced an embedded and rather nasty polyp 7cm long, and the gastroenterologist gave me three excellent papers to read on re-evaluations of the ‘staging’ of bowel cancers. Very helpful. An endocrinologist also did a search for me for papers on making the shift from oral to transdermal oestrogen, pros and cons for this following a provoked DVT. He’d printed off some relevant sections which we discussed. Again, very helpful.
Still packs a punch but stretched and in decline.
That endocrinologist had an MPH himself, so he knew what I might need to read.
At the end of the day, a doctor will concede to the way a patient challenges the advice because ultimately it’s the patient who decides. This is also an easy way out for the doctor to simply go along with the patient.
You are fortunate in your experience. One relief GP years ago tried to stop me going on an OS trip because she was convinced I had Pertussis (Whooping Cough). I actually have very mild Bronchiectasis – which I have had for years. She didn’t, & I got on my plane – but it was an unpleasant experience.
lol. As if I would, JC. I’d go straight to Google Scholar and Medline to check it up at source for myself. Decide then how good various studies are, or aren’t. Discuss if necessary with GP or Specialist. I was given the option of ‘watchful waiting’ with my ovarian lesions, did some quick searches, and booked in for a major op for removal asap. Not buggerising around with anything like that. Hairy and I combined did the same thing for his prostate cancer; picked brachytherapy and he’s never looked back.
Very minimal side effects. He’s at ten year ‘cure’ now, but we say that cautiously.
I get the professional-level Medscape into my inbox four times daily for various interesting recent papers and discussions. Certainly haven’t got time to read them all.
The tactic is easy. Start referencing the literature. GP responses can vary. For the most part doctors have respected my input. I don’t go into it with a supercilious attitude, rather that we work together. There is evidence that doctors are human beings and are subject to the behavioral repertoires of human beings.
Me too, Vicki. It used to be called ‘chesty’ in my day, loads of Vicks was applied. Thus Big Sis totally freaked out about me in particular when we decided to go cruise the Panama when Covid started to spread in March 2020. We both stayed well though.
I always ask for a diagnosis, even for flu. :-). Docs hate that because it puts them on the spot. I suspect most patients never ask.
Cruising twitter I now think Australian Jews are coping the worst antisemitism of any pro Israel accounts, from far right fruit cakes, from Voice advocates that outright deny Hamas atrocities and from amoral Greens like Julian Burnside.
Civilians casualties invovling small children are heartbreaking, Sinwar and his cronies hiding in their bunkers are entirely responsible for all of them..
I always challenge doctors.
Gee, I bet they love you, John H. GP’s can get a bit antsy if I mention my MPH, without my arguing with them about anything.
I won’t go into too many details here – but a few years back I had a persistent digestive problem. GP couldn’t help – in fact he (not my regular GP) refused to prescribe an intensive antibiotic since the PCR had come back negative for a parasite infection. So I consulted a gastroenterologist – no red flags, he said. But I continued to be mildly ill. Took things into my own hands – literally – with a suspicious stool. Being on a farm I was reminded that earlier in the season I had eaten out delicious figs off our tree – which we do not use pesticides on. I also recalled fruit flies around the figs. For a week I drank pure celery juice (an emetic) & I took the sample back to GP & insisted on a lab test. Result? A fruit fly larvae.
Within a week of the celery juice process I was on my way back to normalcy. The GP after that satirically called me “Dr” – although I assume she doesn’t know I am an academic “Dr” of an entirely different area than medicine. But I simply won’t ever accept a diagnosis that doesn’t accord with the evidence.
It’s good to see everyone in furious agreement that we have the right to reject or accept all or any medical advice.
And yet they defeated the Crusader States and the Mongols in the Levant.
Thanks for that.
I had to double check. In both major battles (Ayn Jalut and Hattin) the Muslims were Mameluke i.e. slaves such as Mongols (Bahri) lead by Kurds and Turks (Seljuk)- not Arabs i.e. of the Mohammed variety.
It took a while as I lent my Armies of the Sand to an Israeli. Mo’s method stays. One of the Hadith ( if I remember) is that you raid with the desert at your back. Then retreat to the desert so the pursuing enemy will die of thirst.
My guess is that this is why Israel is more concerned with the Iranians. They are not Arab and far more disciplined.
I don’t believe it! Just spotted a great big fat brown rabbit in my backyard! First one I’ve see. In ten years.
Hmmmm…I’m dog minding for a few weeks in January. Bye bye Bugs.
From the Oz:
Security agencies on martyr alert at home:
Unintelligence agencies are ramping up efforts to prevent local violent attacks after an inbred goat pleasuring pallyweirdo* who had his pointless existence brought to a long overdue end by an Israeli air strike was claimed to be a fighter and martyr for Hezbollocks …
*That is, not an Ozzie. Never was nor ever will be (thankfully) given his “untimely demise”.
completely ingrained. If Jordan blows up al aqsa it will be the will of allah, obviously
Me too, Vicki. It used to be called ‘chesty’ in my day, loads of Vicks was applied. Thus Big Sis totally freaked out about me in particular when we decided to go cruise the Panama when Covid started to spread in March 2020.
I confess, Lizzie, that I was a bit freaked out when Covid came on the scene because of the bronchial condition. The first round of Covid I contracted in 2022 was pretty much a non event – 3 -5 days of blocked eustachian tubes & loss of taste & small. All good. However, the new strain that husband and I contracted in mid October was far more intense. We both had a curious cough from what we think was more post nasal congestion, than bronchial. It was quite intense coughing – almost as though the body really didn’t like this type of viral congestion.
My oxygen levels remained high – so, in spite of the nasty cough the bronchial were coping well. BTW my specialist years ago explained that Bronchiectasis leaves the end of the bronchials “floppy” so that overnight they get a little congested – causing the characteristic cough in the morning. Don’t know whether you get that Lizzie – but it is just an almost “normal” thing for me. A few coughs they are clear.
And BTW when the bronchiectasis was first diagnosed all those years ago my then GP gave me the “sombre” news with a majorly serious face. I insisted on seeing a specialist – a very well known pulmonary bloke – who tested me & queried whether I had been an athlete, since my lung capacity was so expansive! I told him I walked a lot – especially up a famous hill in our Sydney area. No treatment necessity.
The first thing was understanding the conditions which gave rise to it and avoiding them.
The next big thing was Mr Doppler.
Detection via radar basically eliminated the risk.
The phenomenon doesn’t usually persist for long so easy to avoid.
Re. Statins. My Dr. of many years who put me on Statins initially – until I educated myself and dropped them like a hot brick, said to me after a blood test; your cholesterol is a bit high. I said “so what”. He said OK. I now have a new Dr. since my normal retired. Last bloods; Your ‘bad cholesterol’ is a bit high. “So what” says I. OK says MD. I think I’m at the right Medical Clinic!
These evil inbred bag headed slags are not Ozzies, FFS.
“Beloved and now very dead Ozzie terrorist”
And about time. Hey, you f*cking morons in the braindead lamestream meeja – by attempting to beat this non event up, you endanger all of us.
You filthy rodent pleasuring sh*tsacks. 😡
This is what the beginning of draining the swamp looks like.
Douglas Murray
To be clear, I wasn’t expressing any view about prescribed medications.
My main point was that medical riders on drivers licences will almost certainly be tightened after the Daylesford incident.
Listening to those animals, I feel dirty that I stepped one foot inside Jordan and spent good, hard-earned money there.
Oh, and while I’m at it, that Morgan interview with Murray and that shreiking dumb@rse Cenk Uyghur reminded me of this.
Do you think that this excluded Egyptians and Syrians too or weren’t they Arabs either? If so, you would have to argue that substantial parts of present-day Levant, Syria, Iraq are non-Arab too.
Challenging doctors needs to be done cautiously, if at all. Lizzie’s advice to just sack the ones that don’t measure up is sound, IMHO. The arrogant ones will never shift, even in the face of solid evidence.
I have had a couple of scraps with the Hindu Princess, but usually she takes the view that it’s my funeral, so to speak, and documents that I declined her suggestion. She asked me if I wanted COVID ‘vaccine’ and I said no, and that was the end of it.
My Christmas was marred by a stuff-up in my arthritis pain medication – the e-script didn’t come through for some reason and the clinic promptly closed down till the New Year. Since old people with chronic pain conditions are treated like street junkies by the health system, and I only had a couple of days worth left, things looked grim. Fortunately, my regular pharmacy gave me a print out of my prescription history and I managed to find a friendly doctor at a clinic I previously attended who was able to verify that I was a genuine patient. It was touch and go, though.
In fairness to doctors, they are routinely bullied by various arms and legs of the bureaucracy in ways that prevent them from looking after their patients properly. As I and others keep saying here, pain management is one of the worst examples of the precautionary principle/one size fits all approach favoured by lazy health bureaucrats and their professional bodies.
There are at least 3 cardiologists on youtube with differing opinions. The literature is dense and confusing, GPs don’t read that literature, and the ones that do, cardiologists, have differing opinions.
A good friend was told by a cardiologist that he needed 3 stents, got a second opinion from another cardiologist that none needed. Go figure.
Big, fat, loud, hideously uglee and staggeringly stupid. The Cenk will go through his entire existence burdened with those non qualities in abundance.
Unfortunately, there are creatures currently existing that might just be sucked in by his irredeemable idiocy.
And we get to share a planet with them.
Grate.
I just have to mention that I think Ancel Keys was full of shit and my Drs. don’t promote Statins. I wonder why that is?
I’m guessing that all the recent rain will cause an explosion in the population of herbivorous pests – plenty of grass and seeds to eat.
Who’d be a farmer?
Farmer sold their lambs, and adjusted harvest accordingly.
We did that, not the lambs but cancelled seeding. Not because of any BOM forecast but rather because of BOM’s inability to issue anything resembling a coherent forecast for our district.
Observed evidence indicated that we were facing a dry. So far. that isb the case.
Things are certainly strange. We picked up a couple of storms from the belt that passed further South causing all that trouble, but now it is harsh blue sky and crackling dry.
Strange individual storm cells pop up and sail past looking like giant meringues. Time to run and hide.
Oh, and re cholesterol, early in the piece the Hindu Princess remarked that mine was a bit high. I said ‘everyone’s cholesterol goes up as they get older’ and the subject was dropped.
No need to start a brawl, just state your position and don’t back off.
These beautiful non creatures must die …
Fatty Trump, on song, again:
Following 9/11, Trump wanted twin towers rebuilt
In the years following the attacks of New York on Sept. 11, 2001, Donald Trump pushed a proposal that would have rebuilt the World Trade Center’s iconic twin towers, with the only difference being the tower’s being five stories taller.
Instead of going with Trump’s plans, New York City officials opted to build the 1776-foot-tall Freedom Tower at the site of the World Trade Center. The 94 story building opened in July 2013 after seven years on construction.
In an interview on MSNBC in 2005, a decade before starting his run for president, Trump called the Freedom Tower “disgusting” and a “junk yard.”
“I would rather have nothing than what they’re building,” Trump said. “It was a terrible design; it was designed by an egghead architect who doesn’t have a lot of experience designing something like this.”
Trump said he simply wanted the World Trade Center’s twin towers back.
“What I want to see built is the World Trade Center stronger and maybe a story taller,” Trump said before construction of the Freedom Tower. “That is what everyone wants.”
The New York real estate mogul claimed that rebuilding a taller version of the twin towers, which were destroyed by terrorists who flew planes into the buildings on Sept. 11, 2001, would not allow the terrorists to win.
“If rebuild the World Trade Center stronger and a story taller, we win,” Trump said. “I don’t want to have the terrorists win, and that’s what will happen if we build this pile of junk.”
Trump’s proposal essentially died in 2006 as officials called for the groundbreaking of the Freedom Tower.
Cats – never forget – he’d still be in his second term if not for some of the most blatant cheating in human history.
Terrible traffic accident in the NSW Central Tablelands on Great Western Hwy on way to Bathurst. It is a road we do not like – it has been under continuous enormous roadworks for a number of years. Goes on and on, & , we think creates dangerous conditions. However, it looks like the accident was not in such an area. But high speed involved, probably, and overtaking also, I think.
So very sad.
Cats – never forget – he’d still be in his second term if not for some of the most blatant cheating in human history.
and that will tell us if 2016 was a rebirth of democracy or its last gasp
Strange individual storm cells pop up and sail past looking like giant meringues. Time to run and hide.
Yes, bons, we see similar.
Hailstones the size of tennis balls fell a few km from us while we were in Sydney. Thank goodness, not in our patch.
Israeli prayer warrior
William Dalrymple another intellectual who thinks Israel should not be allowed to win a war.
It’s been a shocking lesson finding out what the western political class is really about. From King Tampon to little Johnnie hoWARd. Howard really discredited himself completely with his spiteful attack on Trump in his recent book which I’ll never buy.
Thanks, JC – just for emphasis:
18 days ago, President Javier Milei was inaugurated in Argentina. Since then:
The last one is especially relevant, given our beloved lunatic asylum of a current government’s utterly insane push to eliminate all mining and exploration.
Strange individual storm cells pop up and sail past looking like giant meringues. Time to run and hide.
Typical negative PDO weather features.
Something going on in the Armenian Quarter.
BTW, I love the Milei’s pinstripe suits – I have one, in the same navy bleu, tailored by these Hong Kong craftspeoples.
As we no longer need their money. 😕
Yes. Can always manage a cough in the morning.
But then, most ex-smokers of 20 a day can do that. 🙂
don’t tell us sancho
lemme guess
being the renaissance man that you are
you once worked in medicine, nutrition and statistics?
Murray watt defending the BOM retards. Watt looks as though he is eating for 6. You could live in the bastard’s cheeks.
Hairy’s just gone off to the football with our son. We’ve been busy, so I’ve only been dropping in and out of here. Our home is now back in order with the final washing of sheets and towels and mattress protectors from visitors, and all spare bedding is sweet and folded and stored under the gas-lift bed in the spare room, all beds remade with changed sheets. All catering equipment is back on the top shelves in the kitchen where it lives and the tablecloths are washed. The ironing board has finally collapsed, we’ll buy a new one tomorrow, so the ironing can wait (hooray!). We haven’t found the spare pair of Ray Bans my second son has lost. I have found homes for various Christmas presents and sorted out some wardrobe space. Much more to do, but it can wait now. That is the joy of being retired.
I’m reading one of my Christmas books, on the creation of the landscapes of Britain from twelve thousand years ago to the present – by Francis Pryor, archaeologist and TV presenter. Small bite-sized chapters, good for five mins with the feet up. 🙂
Around 1900s Australia and Argentina were about level in economic and social terms then somewhere in the 1940s Argentina went off the rails. During the intervening time Australia made enormous strides forward. These days Argentinians have come to their senses and intend to right their ship of state while we are heading down former Argentine path of corruption and economic ruin. How did we get here?
Gets even better.
Argentina’s Javier Milei Sends Giant Deregulation ‘Omnibus’ Bill to Congress (28 Dec)
Be interesting to see if the Argie Congress fails to pass this bill. He says if they don’t he’ll take it to a plebiscite. Popcorn!
Looking like the Cow’s Garden is contested territory in Jerusalem.
We were told that internecine fighting broke out regularly between sects in control of parts of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, that conflict was endemic. Looks like something has spilled over into more than pushing an shoving here.
There’s no excuse the use of physical force against Armenian religious personnel.
What’s the back story here?
Remember reading somewhere that the two countries had one of the highest standards of living in the world.
“For what reason, Damon?”
I was never told I passed the Momtreal Cognitive Assessment, but apparently made a couple of mistakes in the practical driving test. That was it. No second chance.
Where I am, summer began pleasantly mild, with daytime temps around 25. Then, on Christmas Eve, the temp plummeted and for five full days it flatlined at 12 – 16 degrees, with wind, constant drizzly rain and not one skerrick of sunshine until yesterday.
Amazing! And for me, wonderful; cooking and feasting with the wood fire roaring away. This has never happened before in my five decades of preparing and hosting Christmas lunch. No worries about the prawns and crayfish getting warm, no air conditioner and no flies. Not one!
Of course, my delight was despair for the kidlets and doggies: no water pistols/blasters, no water slide and no cricket. Everyone stuck inside, all day, with nothing to do but eat (my homemade) Christmas pudding and brandy custard, play carols on the piano and sing along. How sad. 🙂
100% agreement that I won Christmas this year with my gifts: cruises on the One and All tall ship for all five fellas, beauty stuff for the grandgirls from ‘unlabelled’, who claim to donate their profits for the prevention of youth suicide and for daughter, an exquisite metal sign with the name they have chosen for our house.
A lovely day – a lovely Christmas week – with up to 10 extras for meals and accommodation. Now our attention turns to New Year’s Eve with eight overnighters – some in their own caravans – and a Chinese banquet. Prawn toast and spring rolls, as usual, from me, with maybe a Mongolian lamb and honey chicken. This will be some banquet!
As for the weather, instead of hovering around 35 nasty degrees as usual, the temps this year are predicted to be a nice, cool 26 C. Love global warming!
Profligate Labor governments and cowardly Liberal ones.
Vicci and others.
i worked at a meatworks, and contaced both Q fever, and Bruccelosis, Could not convince GP that I was sick until I was sent to emergency. After almost dying, he decided that , y es, I really was sick. Lost all my teeth, but could have been worse, I guess.
Argentina looks like being an interesting case study. One of our economics professors did a lot of advisory work in Chile in the 80s. Ex Chicago uni, pretty hard at the football.
Are you also sporting a 1970s Welsh rugby player’s hairstyle, Rabz?
😀
Just returned from a pre-Shabbat prayer vigil for Israel, the hostages and the Jewish community. It was held at Lyne Park here in Rose Bay. I walked down, it was nice to go for a long walk. Despite the rain, there were a few hundred of us Jews and I’m happy to report, lots of Zionist dogs in attendance as well!
Here’s my message to scum like Sonny Bill Williams, Chlamydia Ford, Abbie Chunderfield, Anthony Sleazy, Penny Wonk, Mehreen F*ckruqi and her fellow Nazi Greens, and the rest of the Muslim Nazi scum living in this country who think they can intimidate us Jews, hear this…..
Israel will win. We Jews will prevail. Am Yisrael Chai.
The usual then?
Every time I hear of Cenk Uygur I am reminded of the 2016 epic meltdown:
The Young Turks Election Meltdown 2016: From smug to utterly devastated.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiWY0iRLV94
It goes for 26 minutes but it’s pure gold !
Hey wivenhoe,
Good to see you here!
We need some serious disruption of the status quo.
A lovely idea, and a dear little fellow so proud to be part of it.
The Israeli soldier he is praying for seems such a fine man. Which is the impression I have of all of the Israeli soldiers I’ve met and now see online doing their duty in Gaza and, sadly, those in their photos as heroes who have fallen for Israel. The women are strong and beautiful and the men are completely manly. The comparison to their foes is very marked.
I was reading one of my old man’s zero till books, somewhere in South America was getting something like 6 crops a year at about twice the yield he was getting on some barely economic cropping country. The continent should be an economic powerhouse.
There we have it – yet another case study of the unrelenting horror show that is Gerbil Broiling™, Cats! 😕
I read the same and forgot to include it in my comment.
Seconded.
Though I mostly browse these days, I enjoy seeing the old, familiar, friendly names pop up.
“rosie
Dec 29, 2023 6:29 PM
Israeli prayer warrior”
Thank you, Rosie.
Delta A, I do remember a cooler Christmas in 2017, I noticed myself in photos wearing a puffer vest.
Hard to see where that is going to come from. Getting on for 20 years since Howard, and you wouldn’t say the final 2 terms of that government set things on fire either. Have to give them the GST, although much of the promised tax reform around it failed to appear.
I don’t have a reference, and I think the Israeli politician involved may have been Golda Meir, but there was an interview given, soon after the discovery that the State of Israel possessed atomic weapons, and the means of delivery, in the shape of F4 Phantom aircraft.
“Does this mean the State of Israel would strike at Moscow, if all looked like being lost, in another Yom Kippur War?”
“All things are possible.”
“Given the aircraft would need aerial refueling, to make a return journey, any refueling aircraft may well be shot down, meaning this would be a one – way mission, with no hope of return for the aircrew?”
“The young men of Israel know their duty to the State of Israel.”
From The Oz…
John Howard would not vote for Donald Trump if he had a vote in the US presidential election next year because the former president failed to accept the outcome of the 2020 election and fraudulently tried to overturn the result.
The former prime minister (1996-2007) told The Weekend Australian he would have “ever so reluctantly” voted for Mr Trump in 2020 because he identifies more with Republicans than Democrats, but could not do so in 2024.
I think it is time Mr Howard was put out to pasture.
Sadly you are right. I could overlook Labor working against us, it’s what they do, but cowardly Liberals have destroyed our future. All they had to do is level with the people and not get on the greens “we are all going to die” train if we don’t destroy our power generators.
Liars.
Yeah, broad church little johnnie is a typical lib piece of shit, intoning he washed his hands of Trump when he did not accept the 2020 fuked election result. I bet the little bastard still exchanges Xmas cards with shrillary though since she accepted the 2016 results.
It’s past time.
Given his record, his elder statesman shtick is pathetic.
Roger
And a populace who thought they could have it all without effort.
Which brings me to what will happen over the next decade:
Trillions of dollars are going to flow to our kids who will have the mother of all parties.
The hangover will be generational.
An exceedingly generous assessment.
Cassie, this is why you get my upticks, this sort of eloquence must be rewarded.
The funniest thing was told to me by an American friend. He received an invitation to witness the election results with other donors and the Clintons in a NYC hotel suite. The Clintons closed the doors to a smaller room when it seemed that the outcome was fatal. From the other side, they could hear the endless out of control sobbing and screaming.
There are about twenty cockatoos on my cypress tree chomping it to bits. Each morning I find twigs littering the ground underneath. I am not sure what they are after, the seeds or the twigs. If I shoo them away they just come back when I go back inside.
There was “fraud” in 2020 all right.
But not from Trump.
I could never figure out why so many conservatives prefer Biden to Trump, even when Trump had barely been in office five minutes.
You only have to compare America 2017-20 to the very sorry state it is in now.
Sonny Bill Williams
That should be ‘Dunny Bill Williams’.
I didn’t think Hillary has ever accepted the 2016 result.
From the Hun. Oh, THAT Sonny Boy Williams.
Yes. A bloody big ‘Feck yes.’
It continues to mystify me why conservatives (stereotype ahoy) continue to cling to the comfort-blanket of ‘pointy finger’ when none of the damage we lament would have been inflicted had conservatives provided a substantial defense.
It is conservatives who have failed. Not conservatism, but conservatives. Ego-obsessed, overly prideful, conservatives.
*Cue the breast-beating *
Door cockie was on my screen door half a dozen times today. He has me well trained. If I ever left the screen door open I’ll have a house full of cockies.
Disappointingly, I have placed Canavan into my ‘talk the talk but..” box.
Put it on the line or stop leading people on Matt, show ponies are not needed.
He’s been pathetic all his life, Rog.
Back when Bill Leak Snr was a staunch collectivist, he did not hold back …
“When hoWARd introduced the GST, I increased his eyebrow size by 10%”.
What a pair of jokes. The gliberals – like the Bourbons, “They have learned nothing and forgotten nothing”.
Watching the new four-part series Archie, about the life of Cary Grant.
He seems a nice fellow indeed. Bit of a tortured past though.
Don’t ever be above the ground floor if you’re close to Putin.
Cause of death has since been declared as another of case of puticide.
Tabloid journalist trolling.
The only truth in that headline is that he’s a former rugby star.
The Cyprus near our entry attracts a lot of cockies who break off whole ends of branches; they are after the little triangular green bobbles near the end leaves and like to have a branch to hold in their claws as they tuck in.
Very late in the day, I just put out some mince for the birds. The Kookas had already retired for the night but two Currawongs came and gathered up the mince, tucking in for themselves first, then taking away lumps of it to their respective larders. They must be supporting babies in their nests. We have wonderful bird life around here; so blessed.
These creatures are not worth the minuscule amount of time we might waste contemplating their staggering stupidity and hypocrisy.
*Convenience and lifeform.
During the Cold War this was a cold hard fact for all allied aircrew assigned to be prepared to deliver nukes to the Soviet Union.
Those men deserve much more recognition than was ever granted them by our comfortable western societies.
It’s not surprising that the IDF has faced this same reality with equanimity as well.
JC, it’s becoming as regular as Arkancide.
The driver should have put two bullets in his head.
His mum can eff off!
_____
Steve Inman:
Charlotte, NC: Bus driver and passenger open fire on each other
Official explanation is that he had heart problems, JC.
Because when you’re having a heart attack in Tobolsk, Siberia (pop. 100k) mid-winter you have an overwhelming desire to go over to the window, open it and jump out, rather than wait for the ambulance.
Having a quiet gin and tonic to myself right now. Hairy, as I said, is away at the football. I have the dinner ready for his return but I don’t feel hungry enough to eat mine yet.
Whenever Hairy’s gone in the evening I become aware of what it would be like to be on my own here, the things I would have to do alone to survive here, and I feel sad. I hope it never comes to that. I would have to get on that steep learning curve of independence once more, as I did when my first marriage broke up. Then, I had relative youth and the needs of two little one to keep me going. Now – well, best not to think on it. Even worse is to think of how he would be without me here; he’d manage because he’s tough, but he wouldn’t like it at all. Darby and Joan problem.
AKA, “defenestration”.
I will have to start buying mince in order to save my cypress tree.
Shittest (that’s a real word) wet season ever, so far.
Tracking for less than half 2022 – which wasn’t a record-breaker – rain for the third month in a row.
I am seriously considering putting the sprinklers on the back lawn for the first time ever.
January, February and March had better be belters.
Perhaps it may help if I paid more tax.
KD would no doubt approve – yaarpie cricket fans wear SBW masks to get it up the cheating houso midget ranga … 🙂
Whatever you think of Putin; He is a bulwark for the Globalists. Only big nation that isn’t in their grasp. The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
The greatest moment in sporting history.
Ever.
Red tailed Black cockatoos do something similar with the Cape Lilac trees here in Perf. Take off about a foot of end growth. Although not a native tree, neither tree nor cockatoo seems to suffer any ill effect.
Lizzie, I understand what you are thinking, for the last three years I have had to come to terms with all of that when my husband suddenly died. Looking back on it all I don’t think he could have coped and therefore I believe the Good Lord knew who could weather it better and therefore here I am.
On the other hand you are the older spouse and can logically expect not to have to face this situation. My husband was some years older than me yet I still assumed that he would outlive me as his family were long-lived.
That won’t work, Crossie. The cockies aren’t big on being fed mince or anything else much. And they adore the conviviality of the Cyprus claw-held lollipop sessions. All they are doing is lightly pruning the tree, so it will survive and thrive.
If you think Putin is your friend you need a clip over the ear.
I thought “defenestration” was a method of exiting this world, similar to the King of England, who died from a red hot iron inserted in his rectum…
Just ask Netanyahu what their friendship amounted to in his time of need.
So is little rocket-man. What’s your point?
I suppose you are correct as this is the second summer the cockatoos have been attacking the tree yet it is still there and looking fine.
I’m not as black and white as some here. Statins generally appear to provide good benefits for people who have had a heart attack.
Yes, when you dig into the data, the ONLY group that appeared to benefit at all (and minimally at that) were people who had already had an MI. Even then, the effect is likely more due to the anti-inflammatory effect, NOT the cholesterol lowering effect.
GPs though seems to prescribe statins solely on the basis of cholesterol levels.
Yep, as I noted earlier, they are trained to do this (by the pharma dominated medical system) to get more statins prescribed, that is the goal of big pharma – statins are one of their most profitable lines.
Statin research makes so many claims of benefit, including protection from some cancers and dementia…
And yet the data shows that statins increase your risk of diabetes, sepsis, cancer and dementia … its almost like the statin research is fraudulent … no … it cant be that….
I said that the enemy of my enemy is my friend. You understand that concept?
As a conifer, cypress may not take kindly to pruning – cockatoo or otherwise. I’ve never grown one so check against reality. Doubt you can do much about them anyway. The Sulphur crested ones used to dig up the putting greens at my old course. Destructive bastards.
That was Edward II.
Defenestration = being turfed out of a high window. That sort of thing leads to people getting antsy. Exhibit A – The Thirty Years’ War.
Hmmm let’s not lump red-tailed black cockies into the “noble savage” myth that they are conscious custodians of Gaia’s perfect balance.
My observation is that over many seasons, they push a jarrah or blackbutt into so much stress that the bardi grubs get under the bark, then they can strip the bark for the bugs, and ringbark the tree from the top down.
White-tails, not so much. They just get wasted on huffing euc oil from the gumnuts.
True, but Hairy’s had more physical problems than I have had (so far I’ve been extremely healthy and dancing well, driving often). His DVT’s in his legs and then later a lot of leg cellulitis has left him with swollen legs and feet. We’re getting a physiotherapy program for that lymph swelling, and he never, ever, complains, but I do worry, as wives do.
We’ve always said we’ll go out together, by some stroke of luck never by volition, and I have to keep that in mind. (stroke a poor word choice there).
Crossie, I have friends in your situation and I know how hard it is, but I also know that picking up sticks and getting out and about is the answer; my friends have joined together with others in our ambit and they’re all off to Vietnam soon for a girls’ fun holiday – I’m almost envious. When my brother died, my sister-in-law wasn’t at all a coper, but she’s pulled around tremendously, joined groups, made friends, and does cruises with them.
That first taste with single-parenthood and divorce has alerted me to what might happen at this stage in life and how we need to keep positive regardless. But the lonely nights don’t go away. I know that. Thinking of you now.
I will just go back to talking about cricket then.
I see Seth Efrica smashed India by an Innings!
Old Dean Elgar made 185.
From the other side, they could hear the endless out of control sobbing and screaming.
That was from bill as shrillary inserted several pineapple enemas up his arse.
Big Sis’s answer has always been to just find another bloke.
She did well for the last one, the best one after five duds. She was 72.
She’s with him still and she is now nearly 83.
*I have no idea how they choose the tree- in a 3km stretch of the mighty creek, they’ve tagged two Jarrahs, and a Blackbutt right over my shed.
Our cockies are sulphur-crested whites.
While the Saffies had SBW masks on was great trolling the best sport ever was the Pirate copping a flogging by the Frogs, with the rest of the Wobblies not giving a toss.
This week in Israel, in Caesarea, 1,000 Israeli musicians and singers got together and recorded this….
?????? ????? – ?????
BRING THEM HOME NOW
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyI2GPDDLWc&t=4s
Please watch. This must reach into the heavens for Hashem to hear. I hope the angels are singing this. If you cannot or will not see and understand which side of this conflict is light and which side is darkness then I truly pity you.
RELEASE THE HOSTAGES NOW
Lizzie – Cockies are totally passionate about white bread. It was fun yesterday I went out for morning walk and did not give a lurking cockie his fix. He then followed me for almost a kilometre before I relented and finally gave him a bit of bread.
Hence door cockie: he’s worked out where the bread is kept, except the screen door is in the way.
Just tried to post some Hebrew, to no avail.
WolfmanOz
Dec 29, 2023 7:23 PM
Thanks for that, Wolfman. It’s an excellent goto when politics is getting you down.
Just saw Tomi Lauren being interviewed on Fox. She is a stunner and blessed with brains and common sense. A bit of toning and she would make a fine cute owl.
Sounds far-fetched. He looks like a low-level operative. His history indicates he might have been imprudent in his business dealings.
The Cow Garden is the subject of a dispute between the Armenian Church and an Israeli Australian business and his arab Israeli partner.
I don’t know who sent the heavies but apparently they spoke Arabic.
story here.
Whatever the Red Tails are doing it isn’t working based on their numbers. Used to hear big flocks of them around Vic Park, whose council must have planted every mongrel street tree ever over the years. The current council doing a better job with various eucalyptus although they will get a big bill from various ficus at some point.
There is a massive flock of these creatures in my old home town. Maybe 200 or more. They can get the decibels going.
Cassie,
while I hate to say it:
helps Hamas more than the hostages at this point. Because Hamas ain’t listening, but the anti-Israel press is.
Lizzie
A couple we knew went out around two hours apart.
As they were both under medical attention, and died in the post-midnight hours, the second to go had not been notified of the other’s death.
Whenever Hairy’s gone in the evening I become aware of what it would be like to be on my own here
Know the feeling, Lizzie.
Elsie flew off today after much drama, bound for Winston’s tender care.
It’s odd not sweeping her tail off the keyboard every minute or so
Strangely enough I always thought we also would go out together. As we travelled a lot I thought at some stage we would run out of luck. Didn’t work out that way.
Thank you Cassie, this is sublime.
Japan decides to restart Kashiwazaki-Kariwa
Kos Samaras asks a question
BoN, the last thing you need is a cocky invasion.
Wife left the screen door open to the apartment on Hamilton Island. Well, they trashed everything — tore open all the coffees looking for sugar, which they consumed with gusto judging by the cocky scat all over the kitchen … and the TimTams … and the wife’s makeup bag. They pulled stuff out of open suitcases, crunched ballpoints and gnawed on picture frames.
That mini-Eiffel tower in Melbourne’s yarts district — the cockies hit it every few weeks, unscrew the lightbulbs and drop them for the sheer devilment of the exercise.
A couple of mountaineer types make good money replacing the bulbs.
On sulphur cresteds …
The seeds – they used to tear the sh*t out of a tree in the backyard of my last house in Scamberra. They would descend, rip everything out with beak and claw, hoover the seeds and leave a god almighty mess before flying off …
And yes, if I was home and in the living room, they wouldn’t bother. It annoyed me so much I had to observe what they were doing from an upstairs room, before it twigged (ptp) …
Although Wally, having read your comment above – perhaps they were doing a Klaus* and eating the bugs.
*Trigger warning – hideously uglee ol’ nayzee imbecile (BIRM) …
Umm, never mind.
Lizzie, I just can’t. We were happily married for 46 years so I can’t even imagine anybody else.
I do have lots of friends and as most of us are retired we do lunch a lot however, most of them are still married so I don’t intrude on their travel plans. I do have lots of family around the world so I will just have to start taking them up on their invitations to visit.
Navalny has been found in the Polar Wolf gulag after vanishing for a week or two.
Jailed Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny jokes about harsh new ‘Polar Wolf’ prison in first message after reappearing (Sky News, 27 Dec)
And the Ukies hammered Gonzalo Lira some more.
Coach Red Pill Gonzalo Lira Sentenced to Another 60 Days in Kharkiv Hell Prison, US Embassy in Kiev Declines to Intervene (28 Dec)
Bit like what Kissinger said about the Iran-Iraq War: pity both sides can’t lose, although perhaps in this case they already have.
That should be ‘Dunny Bill Williams’.
Dunny Dill $signs ………….
Howard really is despicable.
Altogether, the Israeli relationship with Armenian interests is shameful, from non-recognition of the Armenian genocide, to arms supply for Azerbaijan’s war against Armenia, and now this where the judiciary could have stepped in to determine whether the lease was due to corruption among Armenian leadership. It’s an area where Israel has let cynical political advantages override moral imperatives.
Jerusalem Post – https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/crime-in-israel/article-779881
Times of Israel – https://www.timesofisrael.com/topic/armenian-quarter/
Was watching a couple of months back, a pair of sulphur crested Cockies were deliberately sending some nesting plovers into an absolute fury. The boys in the area had already stirred the birds up enough, couple of boys had gel blasters at one stage.
Regular as clockwork, same time of day the cockies returned for about a week and taking turns with one resting in the palm trees and the other causing havoc.
Great amusement as the birds would have known what they were up to.
Cass – that is magnificent. Jewish peoples really do come in all shapes and sizes, which makes the malevolent insanity of anti-Semitism even more inexplicable.
There is no such thing as a “Universal Jew*“, which anti-Semites throughout the ages have invoked as a figure that panders to the inadequacies of those that have and would perpetrate pogroms.
*AKA, “Rootless Cosmopolitans”.
Zatara, for shame. You have obviously never enjoyed the close companionship of a loved cat. When we return from O/s, if Attapuss is being minded elsewhere, the place feels so empty. We pull out all stops to make getting him the first thing we do.
Elsie will be OK, areff, and so will you. Winston can send videos for you, they are a comfort we find when we are away. Look, we say, he seems pretty happy, and that’s his inquisitive stance, he’s clearly enjoying life. It helps.
And you’ll be away soon enough on your own adventures.
The continual posting, verbatim, of verbiage from the Armstrong crank’s blog with no attempt at commentary is a blight on the reputation of this blog.
Either add a blog link and nail your colours to the mast or farc this rubbish off.
“Big, fat, loud, hideously uglee and staggeringly stupid.”
Don’t know how someone as attractivve as Kasparian agreed to co-host the show.
manchester, represent!
https://open.spotify.com/track/5ikdUUm6JbnEVnp35c7dvy?si=64f80a5a041e4ea0
It’s an area where Israel has let cynical political advantages override moral imperatives.
Well said, Katz.
I knew it (the NT News):
The author of this piece, which includes ‘dating tips’ from ‘experts’, is a Jessica Wang.
mistakes were made: collins edition
Lizzie, I have in fact been co-habitant with a cat or two.
We have reached terms. I fill the bowl with fresh water and tasty food, provide scratching posts with little fish on long springs, and they leave me the hell alone while I’m reading or working.
On the other hand, I find non cats “sweeping their tail off my keyboard” a completely different distraction.
Too many
Baby Showers for All the Expecting Moms who lost their Husbands in Gaza!
Good documentary on the Mount Erebus/Air New Zealand disaster – 257 people lost their lives, because the Chief Navigational Officer of Air New Zealand hit the wrong key on his keyboard. The judge of the High Court of New Zealand, who conducted the Royal Commission, and said several unkind things about Air New Zealand, copped a lot of flak from one “Piggy” Muldoon…
thanks for the smsf tips too from all a cuppla days ago, appreciated