Open Thread – Saturday, 12 February 2022

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  1. candy says:

    I wonder if Alan Tudge is on the “cusp of being sacked” or this is PM Morrison doing a focus group poll overnight to see whether it’s a good move. Either the LNP think an allegation from a woman in the past is a reason for sacking a chap or they don’t.

    Scott Morrison of late, especially with the ukulele, is acting odd. The ukulele an instrument associated with Hawaii. What was his motive for that segment on 60 minutes. Mrs Morrison taking blame for the Hawaii trip because the girls needed a holiday. I wonder if he took up playing the ukulele as some kind of statement about the Hawaii trip. There is a bit of strangeness there.


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  2. Steve trickler says:

    That is a lot of salt on the steak.

    Hot Tent Camping In Snow


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  3. mh says:

    #Tucker #FoxNews
    Tucker: Trudeau has declared Canada a dictatorship

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZzJPXojtWs


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  4. mh says:

    Can anyone unlock the Courier Paywall story?
    I want to see Cardi

    Clive Palmer’s Queensland candidates for the upcoming election include an Elvis impersonator, the Deputy Prime Minister’s father-in-law and a former Origin player who bombed out at the past three polls. SEE WHO’S RUNNING


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  5. Steve trickler says:

    Nitromethane. Crazy chemical. You’ve got to taste once in your life. This goes for 1:45:10.

    FUNNY CAR CHAOS – The Movie (2021)


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  6. Steve trickler says:

    Sleep well, everyone.

    Going to bed is easy.


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  7. mh says:

    The interviewer is a predictable BBC dickwad, but here is the GOAT

    #NovakDjokovic #Djokovic #BBCNews
    Novak Djokovic breaks silence over Covid vaccine refusal – BBC News

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNaIMC4XMhc


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  8. cohenite says:

    Lame pics and memes. You, lucky, lucky bastards.


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  9. mh says:

    Dow jumped 400 points on positive Ukraine news.

    And CNBC had this headline:

    Investing Club: This chart shows inflation may be peaking — here’s what it means for stocks

    You have to laugh.


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  10. candy says:

    If I’m reading the news right, Dan Andrews is mandating parents and all visitors be triple vaccinated before they can enter the schoolgrounds or attend school events.

    So anyone who needs to enter the school, eg trades workers, grandparents, visitors for concerts and school activities, has to show a triple vax certificate at the gate or email it in beforehand to get permission?


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  11. Ragu says:

    Yeah, that’ll work. Half the kids I know are laid up at home with the rona and mightily pissed off, like their parents, because the vaxx dont work.

    Well done, Premier Kyphosis Wingnut.


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  12. Old bloke says:

    South Australian Police Union calls for an end to Covid mandates.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LShFXlozYc4


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  13. mh says:

    South Australian Police Union calls for an end to Covid mandates.

    How on earth can government mandate vaccines that clearly don’t fvcking work?


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  14. Ragu says:

    Blows my mind that companies and universities wont budge on the issue. Just told my Uni to go fuck themselves because, despite teching medical ethics, they are incapable of adhering to those principles.


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  15. mh says:

    Wimbledon ‘will not ban’ unvaccinated Djokovic

    Wimbledon is set to allow Novak Djokovic to defend his title despite his refusal to be vaccinated against coronavirus.


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  16. cohenite says:

    Anyone know who supplied food to the Canberra protestors?


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  17. mh says:

    Peter McCullough, MD MPH@P_McCulloughMD
    Two fatal cases of myocarditis in teenage boys a few days after second dose. Found dead at home without a chance at resuscitation. Clear cut findings on autopsy. I testified in US Senate 1/24 that “one case is too many!”. Parents and kids should know more deaths will happen.

    https://twitter.com/P_McCulloughMD/status/1493549281541775361?s=20&t=QkaRr1CcmKV4wTZjAoo9FA


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  18. Ragu says:

    Not a prisoner, I’m a free man
    And my blood is my own

    https://youtu.be/a7LH__BPqSY


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  19. Ragu says:

    The fourth dose cancels out the negative affects of the first three. Doesn’t McCullough know how science works.


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  20. mh says:

    Chief Health Officer John Gerrard and Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk confirmed they would make an announcement by the end of the month.

    “We’re currently looking at all of the restrictions that we have in place in Queensland, all of them are currently under review,” Dr Gerrard said.

    Dr Gerrard said they were “looking at everything” including face masks and vaccine venue mandates.


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  21. mh says:

    Craig Kelly MP@CraigKellyMP·1h
    We must stand united against tyranny around the world

    The world must condemn the tyrant Justin Trudeau & call out his human rights abuses against the Canadian people

    He’s no better that the tin-pot dictators of history

    DISGUSTING

    CRIMES AGAINT HUMANITY


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  22. Shy Ted says:

    National Press Club day. And whach winker is lecturing us today?

    Simon Holmes a Court, clean energy investor and Senior Advisor to the Climate and Energy College, addresses the National Press Club on the topic: Independents and Climate – The Hope to End the Lost Decade.

    Apparently Independents really are Independent. Even though he’s funding them.


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  23. Shy Ted says:

    Dean Vegas is the UAP candidate in my patch, Elvis impersonator. Very good, intelligent, articulate, accomplished and self-made. Had a tilt at mayor a year or two ago. Goes to the Elvis convention in Vegas every year and comes close each time. Can’t have that. Cue the smearing.
    Thank you very much.


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  24. Black Ball Black Ball says:

    What’s the go with the federal Education Minister? Watching Question Time and it appears he has been kiboshed


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  25. kaysee kaysee says:

    The Malala syndrome:

    Why liberals are unabashedly taking Islamist position in hijab controversy

    Malala has come a long way from being a young Pakistani girl who dared to look in the eyes of the Taliban when they threatened her from attending school. In 2012, she was shot in the head by the Islamist militia for her campaign in favour of the education of girls in Pakistan. She then thought “wearing a burqa is like walking inside a big fabric shuttlecock with only a grille to see through and on hot days it’s like an oven”, as she confessed in her memoir, I Am Malala.

    Today, 10 years later, in the comforts of the ultra-liberal West, Malala’s worldview seems to have turned upside down: Hijab today symbolises freedom for her. It helps Muslim women fight against their sexist commodification.


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  26. mh says:

    PJ O’Rourke, brown bread.


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  27. kaysee kaysee says:

    Jennifer Sey:

    Yesterday I Was Levi’s Brand President. I Quit So I Could Be Free.

    …

    Tucker Carlson

    Levi’s just forced out Jennifer Sey for criticizing school shutdowns and mask mandates. The company offered her $1 million in severance to keep quiet, but she refused.


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  28. kaysee kaysee says:

    According to Wikipedia:

    Truth Social is a proposed social media platform by Trump Media & Technology Group. According to a listing on the Apple App Store, the site plans to launch on 21 February 2022.

    This is the site link. But, at this stage is Access Denied.

    Here is the owner in the beta version.

    Liz Willis

    TRUTH Social (beta) has dropped and President Trump is active on his own account!


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  29. Ragu says:

    Lark Distilling CEO Geoff Bainbridge quits over shock video

    “I attended a gathering with people I didn’t know and don’t remember much more about that night. However, the next morning I was played footage which made it clear I had been set up as part of a shakedown,” Bainbridge said in a statement.

    What T F. How dumb can one person be.

    From the video, it’s quite clear it is not his first time using the utensil.


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  30. egg_ says:

    From the video, it’s quite clear it is not his first time using the utensil

    Don’t think yours truly will be clicking on any of those links any time soon.


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  31. egg_ says:

    A life observation as some are wont to post.

    Diminutive new (Sharp) uwave oven, where the carousel is the same size as a large dinner plate, which just fits inside the oven without scraping the sides – went to remove a casserole dish and took the lightweight, diminutive carousel out with the whole lot by mistake.

    Perhaps manufacturers could integrate the carousel base fitting into dinner plates in future, ending the need for a carousel?


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  32. kaysee kaysee says:

    Delta A says:
    February 14, 2022 at 4:07 pm

    Just had a quick chat with Daughter. She is still hyped and super angry about wicked tactics used against the protesters. They actually sounded a warning siren and then depoyed LRADs, sonic weapons which caused headaches, palpitations and general malaise.

    I’m shocked that a democratic government would do this to its own people, especially whilst excusing BLM and ER protesters.

    Delta, your daughter joined the protest and saw what happened at close quarters. She can actually talk about her experience to others and compare it to BLM protests.

    Australia is one of the fortunate countries having its federal elections within a year of the restrictions and lockdowns and just a couple of months from the Canberra Convoy. If, on Election Day, voters cannot recall how democratic governments (Uniparty) have treated them, and boot them off, it will be far more shocking.

    Now is the time for everyone who understands what is happening to pass the message to those who don’t. A big change is possible if there are enough voters who are prepared to fight for it.


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  33. kaysee kaysee says:

    Steve trickler says:
    February 15, 2022 at 3:45 pm

    Via Joel Jammal:

    🚨 The police union in South Australia has called for the end of jab mandates

    Mark Carroll, Police Association Of SA President speaking up on behalf of the cops of SA.

    Every association in every state – law enforcement, medical, education, others – needs their President/head to stand up and speak. Should have happened last year, but the time to be silent is over.


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  34. kaysee kaysee says:

    mh says:
    February 15, 2022 at 6:06 pm

    Examples of replies to George Brandis for anyone who cannot view:

    No one has mentioned the special powers of Immigration Minister Hawke to chuck you out because of some opinions in your mind (based on something you said when you were in primary school, decades ago) which could have a corrupting influence on the fragile Aussies who reside in the country.


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  35. kaysee kaysee says:

    Novak Djokovic says he is willing to sacrifice more trophies, even at Wimbledon and the French Open, if tournament organisers insist he be vaccinated against COVID-19 to compete.

    “Because the principles of decision-making on my body are more important than any title or anything else. I’m trying to be in tune with my body as much as I possibly can.

    There seem to be so many tennis tournaments insisting on the jabbing that I was wondering whether Djokovic would eventually give in.

    He has his principles and priorities in good working order. Hope he continues to have the inner strength to stay that way.

    Wimbledon champion Novak Djokovic:
    “Before I am an athlete, I am an Orthodox Christian”


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  36. kaysee kaysee says:

    The Novak print interview posted yesterday by mh.

    Here is the BBC interview.

    Novak Djokovic breaks silence over Covid vaccine refusal


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  37. Ragu says:

    Project Veritas; FDA exec “Joe Brandon wants to innoculate the whole country

    https://youtu.be/6nSXHrmOy8o


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  38. kaysee kaysee says:

    The Brave

    Surrey Canada Anti Mandate Standoff Here We go…
    It’s about to begin…Police are starting the arrests…The People stand in line and Face-off against the Police. Truth Vs Lies. Godspeed Canada

    vs

    The Brainwashed

    University of Nevada graduate students protest repeal of university’s mask mandate


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  39. kaysee kaysee says:

    Delta,

    I think your mode of navigation of some tricky situations would be to reflect carefully, speak up if necessary, and then move on.

    Some will understand and take what is said in the spirit in which it is meant. The rest don’t matter.

    You make the effort to add something of substance to this blog. This commenter appreciates it.


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  40. mh says:

    mh says:
    February 16, 2022 at 8:37 am
    The Kari Lake Takedown Of The MSM

    https://banned.video/watch?id=620c132cf8b550051caf69f4

    60 minutes blockhead Liam Bartlett gets reamed. Again.


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  41. kaysee kaysee says:

    egg_ says:
    February 16, 2022 at 3:38 pm

    A life observation as some are wont to post.

    Diminutive new (Sharp) uwave oven, where the carousel is the same size as a large dinner plate, which just fits inside the oven without scraping the sides – went to remove a casserole dish and took the lightweight, diminutive carousel out with the whole lot by mistake.

    Currently, most interested in all microwave oven-related life observations.

    Happy to learn from the mistakes/suggestions/experiences of other Cats 🙂.


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  42. Steve trickler says:

    Microwave oven from 1986 is still going strong, kaysee.

    It is a Easy Touch – National


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