IMHO every time there is a inflammation triggered there is a tiny % chance of an adverse outcome.
I do think part of the autism/seizures etc is the sheer number of “events” kids are exposed to.

So while you were getting 15 or so vaxes in childhood with a .0001% chance of an adverse result each we how have dozens with the same .0001% so the numbers are bigger.

I am coming to the opinion that every round of vaccination should start and stop with a pre-vax assessment, followed by a post vax assessment 2 weeks or so later.
As much to restore the reputation of vaccination as any other reason.

Glad the little one worked out ok JC, sometimes the seizures can roll on and starve the brain of oxygen/sugars with lifelong consequences.

The headline (the Hun):

Why weird nicknames make your relationship stronger

Can relate.

I had a girlfriend for a time a couple of years back I called ‘spanner’ because she made my nuts tighten.

Good analysis bons- Anal and Wong haven’t grown beyond their days as uni agitators. They have nothing good to offer.

JC saw upthread the bad news, god speed to the little one.

Knuckle Dragger
  Supra, 6:50 pm

Why weird nicknames make your relationship stronger

Not quite on point, but we had a one-armed bloke at work years ago.
We knew him as “Digital” – because he didn’t have a second hand… (tish boom).

Dunno Dover.
My vague recollection is that the borders between the Bekaa Valley and the west of Syria were always pretty open as many members of the same tribes lived on both sides of the border. Looks like Tartus being majority Alawite would be reasonably safe.
Not so much Sunni majority areas of course.

Brian Quinn.

Diverting company money to renovate his house in … Templestowe.

I know, right?

Apparently his wife Trenna ran up the tab on very lavish finishes.

I remember that, She wanted bevel glass window panes fitted to an unsuitable window frame, frame too small for that and looked shyte, tried for 3 or 4 times.

And that was just a minor thing.

Pop star Taylor Swift has received a barrage of negative feedback for backing Kamala Harris, much of it from mums vowing to never spend a cent on her concerts or merchandise.

Rita Panahi

When it comes to Taylor Swift and poor choices, the jokes write themselves.

After all, she’s made a fortune writing songs about picking the wrong person and she’s done it again, endorsing Kamala Harris.

But her endorsement of the Democrat appears to have backfired as the star’s popularity takes a battering.

She has closed comments on her Instagram page after a barrage of negative feedback, much of it from mums vowing to never spend a cent on her concerts or merchandise.

The decision means Swift’s 284 million followers are currently banned from commenting on her posts.

And, her backing of Harris – a Vice President so hopelessly inept that she had record low approval ratings as VP before the media propaganda campaign rebranding her as capable and visionary – has seen Swift record a favourability rating that is lower than Donald Trump’s.

According to latest polling by the New York Times and Siena College, a reputable survey that typically favours the left, Trump had a favourability rating of 47 per cent, while Swift was at 42 per cent.

When it comes to Republicans, Swift’s popularity is down to 23 per cent.

This is not the first time Swift has become highly political.

In 2018 she emoted widely about “being on the right side of history” and spoke out against Tennessee Republican Marsha Blackburn, labelling her “Trump in a wig” and accusing her of breaching “basic human rights”.

The ill-advised hyperbole did not seem to hurt Blackburn, who won Swift’s home state with a healthy 10.8 per cent margin.

The celeb class were warned to stay in their lane.

To stick to what they’re good at and not use their profile to push their uninformed views on their fan base and the wider public.

Ricky Gervais said it best when he told the Hollywood elite at the 2020 Golden Globes to resist making a political speech if they won an award.

“You’re in no position to lecture the public about anything, you know nothing about the real world,” he said.

“Most of you spent less time in school than Greta Thunberg.”

But, alas, they cannot help themselves, particularly when it comes to the US election.

Swift joins a long list of celebs backing Harris.

We saw a similar phenomenon in 2016 with the A-list endorsing Hillary Clinton.

It didn’t help her and it remains doubtful whether celebrity power will get Harris over the line.

Herald-Sun

Bending over or kneeling, sitting down even is a cinch.
Getting up is the problem.

Speaking of supermarkets.

From humble beginning.

Tesco

BBC Fails Self-Awareness Test Again!
Reporting on the Murdoch Succession matter, the Beeb made reference to Lachlan having views more in line with his father’s, that is to say falling on the conservative side of the line. They went on to say that the empire included far-right Fox News, which had promulgated debunked conspiracy theories, and that the succession would determine how people heard the news!
Never mind that people now hear mostly left-leaning news from about 90% of the MSM, including the BBC itself.

And don’t forget A.D. Hope’s Dunciad Minor – where he slices and dices literary critics, particularly those who want to reduce Shakespeare to “extended metaphor”.

I haven’t read it but will look it up. Of course, smacking down literary critics is shooting fish in a barrel.

Hobbes…salient…

An excellent piece from ACE.

“Ever since the Six-Day War, Israel has diddled and vacillated and tried to please the elites in the West (primarily America) while simultaneously trying to protect its citizens from the existential threat of Islam.
Land for peace…political autonomy…hundreds of thousands of jobs for the West Bank and Gaza Arabs within Israel itself…carefully titrated responses to the never-ending terrorist attacks against its citizens.
Nothing worked. What did Israel get? Hezbollah to the North, Hamas to the South, with the even more kleptocratic but equally homicidal Palestinian Authority to the East. Thousands of Israelis have died, and the threat of both home-made and Iranian supplied missiles has never been greater. And all of this culminated in the worst attack on Jews since the Holocaust. October 7th should have been the catalyst for a radical departure from the status quo, but because of pressure from the Iran-loving American administration and Israel’s fear of Western media disapprobation, The military response has been drawn out and muted. Yes, tunnels have been destroyed, rockets have been destroyed, thousands of Hamas terrorists have been killed…but the war has been going on for more than 11 months! Israel’s goals have been muddied by the intense pressure from both the West and its own fifth column of ardent leftists.
But the magnificent operation of last week has handed Israel a tremendous opportunity to snatch back the initiative, and return to the Israel of old…lightning strikes on its enemies, daring and unconventional operations, and finally taking the fight to its real enemies.
Retired colonel Kobi Marom urges Israel to target Nasrallah in IDF ground maneuver

During the interview, Marom stated, “This week has been the hardest in the organization’s history, following severe damage to its command structure. Therefore, the question is: where is Israel headed? Do Israel’s initiative, attack, and significant damage lead Iran and Hezbollah to reach an arrangement? I say no.”Marom then explained that unless the IDF destroys Hezbollah’s power centers in Beirut and Baalbek, “Hezbollah will not sit down for negotiations, what Israel is trying to do is escalate attacks, and doing more of the same is a mistake. There is a rare, once-in-a-generation opportunity here; it’s time for brave decisions.”

Exactly. Israel does not have the luxury of time. A war of attrition favors the terrorists, who are content to conduct low-level attacks from all sides until the Israeli body politic is exhausted and ready for the existentially awful “Two State Solution.”Take the gloves off. Let the military planners do their work without political considerations that ALWAYS temper their plans.
And then conduct fast unrestricted war against Hezbollah and the remnants of Hamas. Make them shiver with fear, unsure when the next Israeli operation will come, but knowing that it will be fierce and from an unexpected direction.
That is how Israel can win its war.”

Absolutely.

Scale of existing turbines in NW Vic and the new Bowen Fan Club merch

Herald Sun now covering the story with more to come.

Militant union boss Peter Marshall has been implicated in a major corruption report, after it was revealed he pressured senior Fire Services Victoria staff to illegally share confidential information to further his own interests.

A bombshell report, published by the Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission on Tuesday, revealed Mr Marshall worked with senior staff at the former Metropolitan Fire Brigade, now FRV, to access sensitive data after he became convinced he was the subject of a WorkSafe bullying investigation.

It found he also used illegally shared information to pressure the Andrews government and former emergency services minister Lisa Neville over a range of matters.

From my reply to Pogria, for more general dissemination re diet.

I really do think we evolved via a lot of meat eating, and from what I know of hunter-gatherer cultures in Savannah environments, such as the central Australian desert tribes, the meat protein diet (much of it ‘gathered’ as insects or small animals) is only supplemented by roots and seeds, nuts and berries. Coastal communities relied on hunting but also a lot of protein from seafood, and Bruce Pascoe be damned.

Our omnivore dentition, used in the past by anthropologists to suggest a high plant-based diet during human evolution, is being explained more recently by a focus on the early presence of the use of fire, and hence – cooking! – which softens meat and makes our modified lesser canine-teeth dentition explicable for predominantly meat eaters. It is fascinating on the internet to see a major debate being fought so fiercely between the ‘carnivore’ keto-style dieters and the ‘food pyramid’ orthodoxy of plant-based and grain dependent existence.

The greenies, of course, are all plant-based freaks, and the whole science of metabolic disorders due to plant-based diets is anathema to green ideologues who want to prohibit meat eating. I suspect too that over millennia since the Neolithic where a major dietary shift occurred certain populations have accommodated physiologically to different sorts of diets.

Kennedy, now a Trump supporter, is onto this quite a bit.
Meat eaters unite, you have nothing to lose but your American obesity.
Especially the epidemic of obese children, who are now being dangerously put on Ozempic, with all of its side effects, when a dietary change is what is most needed.

Karens are a plague on humanity, change my mind.

Sad update on Molly the magpie and Peggy the staffy (24 Sep)

The photos are charming! Here’s the rub of the story from the A Current Affair link:

Eventually, authorities granted a licensce with special conditions so Molly could return home to owners Juliette Wells and Reece Mortensen.

But A Current Affair can reveal their licence to keep Molly is now being called into question.

Legal documents have revealed an anonymous wildlife support volunteer and magpie specialist is challenging the Queensland government’s decision to reunite the magpie with the family. …

The applicant is unnamed in court documents and will stay anonymous as they contest the government’s decision to grant them a special licence to care for Molly.

Over one magpie?! This is mad. The waste of time over this when the birdie is obviously happy is just insane.

The problem with vaccines is not “too many too soon” or “have they done a randomised double blind placebo trial with an actual placebo”?

The problem is epistemology.

If people had bothered to approach medicine using a modicum of thought rather than “let’s make up a theory that enriches lots of people and justifies totalitarianism and simply ignore every obvious and relevant fact which proves we’re wrong” the whole thing would have been sorted out thousands of years ago.

The incredible thing is how astonishingly obvious it all is when you actually step back, ignore the brainwashing and actually think.

You simply can’t not see it. Unless you’re an abject imbecile.

Take blatantly obvious phenomena that anybody in history could have observed – no need for microscopes or PhDs or whatever – and the cause of disease is obvious to anybody with an IQ above 10.

1) Most people get sick much more than once in their life (which means that most people recover from most illnesses). This means that disease is an endogenous process (ie controlled from start to finish) or, at the very least, is dominated by negative feedbacks.

2) Symptoms sometimes cluster around multiple people. So disease is caused by something multiple people can experience.

3) Doctors and their patients are clearly not in any danger (doctors never have any trouble getting life insurance). So whilst disease is shared (as in 2)), it is not spread. Sick people are not the cause of disease.

4) Rashes are typically focused. So disease is caused by something that understands and differentiates between different parts of our body.

5) Animals often physically freeze when they’re trapped (tonic immobility). This is made famous by the opossum (why we have the term “playing possum”). So disease can be related to trauma.

Now, the cause of disease is blatantly obvious from all this – the mind’s response to emotional traumas. And all of this could have been realised before anybody looked through a microscope. The fact that not one person in a million saw it in history is testament to how dumb and easily brainwashed people are.

But we can go even further today though because we do have microscopes and they are telling us that germs are completely ubiquitous – if they had anything to do with disease there would be no living organisms to experience it.

We also have phenomenon surrounding antibiotics. Most people would consider this as proof that germ theory is correct when it is actually the exact opposite. People can have specific germs which are clearly killed by antibiotics (as shown in a petrie dish) and yet they fail to improve. Conversely, people can have specific germs that are not killed by antibiotics (as shown in a petrie dish) and yet they still see their symptoms improve.

IOW, antibiotics do kill germs and they can suppress symptoms, but it is certain that they do not suppress symptoms because they kill germs. Antibiotics cause a change in our subconscious mindset (a reaction to being poisoned) which makes us feel better (like when we go out and get drunk when we have a cold) in the short term but make the eventual healing (sickness symptoms) much worse.

And of course there is vaccination. The most obvious scam in history. 99% of people have fallen for it though – even people who claim to be vaccine skeptics tend to have a far better view of them than they deserve.

All anybody ever had to do was look at total rates of paralysis since the polio vaccine and they would have understood what a gigantic fraud it was.

Astonishingly, even though everybody always says “you never see polio anymore hurr durr” not one person in a million bothered to check to see if paralysis rates had actually fallen since the polio vaccine.

They had not. Or if congenital defect rates had fallen since the rubella vaccine or sterility had fallen after the mumps vaccine or liver cancer rates after the Hep B vaccine etc etc.

None of the diseases fell – doctors just refused to diagnose them in vaccinated patients (and the diagnostic criteria was often strengthened so that lab tests were now required).

Whether or not there has been a true placebo in any vaccine trial is irrelevant.

Randomised double blind placebo trials are completely invalid regardless of whether you use an actual placebo.

For a hundred years epidemiologist imbeciles (but I repeat myself) have said that this is the gold standard of testing – that there could be no bias from such a brilliantly conducted study.

Complete nonsense. If you’re not a retard you will see the obvious flaw:

Anybody in the trial who gets the vaccine (rather than the (inert) placebo) will know that they got the vaccine if they experience a reaction (even if it’s just a minor one). The study is no longer blinded for many of the participants.

As every participant is presumably a vaccine zealot (given they are self-selected) they are likely to try and use this information to manipulate the data to make the vaccine look safe and effective.

This is what happened in the polio vaccine field trials. Everybody marvelled at how “scientific” the study was. It was complete horseshit.

Of course, if you use a poison (eg an older vaccine) as the placebo instead, you are just comparing one poison to another. You get around the problem of participants being unblinded but create a different but equally devastating problem for the validity of the trial.

Note that the same problem holds true for any kind of chemo drug trials.

And this is why I say it comes down to epistemology. We got it horrifically wrong with epidemiology – an absolute joke of a “science” – because we were only concerned with being told we were already right. The germ industry was already worth the equivalent of trillions of dollars and formed the basis of the power of so many politicians before there was a way to verify if any of it was true.