Open Thread – Saturday, 18 December 2021

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  1. kaysee kaysee says:

    What I’ve Learned Rescuing My Daughter From Her Transgender Fantasy

    My daughter’s story is no longer novel. Stories like it are occurring in your state, your town, and perhaps even on your street. Gender dysphoria—the incongruence between the mind and the body—moves stealthily and quickly to invade girls and boys alike.

    But this isn’t a cautionary tale. It’s a warning.


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  2. Black Ball Black Ball says:

    Piers Akerman

    ‘After nearly two years of exposure to the Wuhan flu, confusion about its origins, treatments, efficacy of vaccines and the repeated failures of health professionals and political responses remain to be explored.

    The lack of transparency from the get-go – internationally and locally, at all levels – has been breathtaking.

    The health experts don’t agree with each other and in the case of Queensland’s former chief health officer Dr Jeannette Young, who is now the state governor, have assisted a wave of vaccine hesitancy.

    State leaders, particularly Labor’s Victorian premier Daniel Andrews, Queensland’s Labor premier Anna Palaszczuk and Western Australia’s Labor Premier Mark McGowan, have been cruelly responsible for serial examples of inhumane treatment of ordinary Australians.

    Only in the past week have Queenslanders been able to reunite with loved ones locked out of their state. West Australians will have to wait until early February.

    Many missed funerals of close family members, marriages and births – all the milestones that knit family ties and bind generations.

    Victorian police arrested pyjama-clad pregnant woman Zoe Buhler, 28, in her home in Victoria in front of her partner and children for posting information about an anti-lockdown protest on her Facebook page.

    Queensland’s Palaszczuk refused to grant waivers for family members to attend the funeral of a dead baby but film stars and sport figures were granted admission at will.

    Similarly, WA’s McGowan granted travel exemptions to local billionaires but refused to permit families to come together for weddings and funerals.

    As Australians travelled to be with their long-separated loved ones for Christmas, former PM Tony Abbott called for a royal commission into the handling of the pandemic.

    Speaking to the International Institute For Strategic Leadership Dialogue (forced to hold its sessions by video-link for the second year in a row), Abbott said it was essential the decisions of government and officials be scrutinised once victory over the pandemic is declared. Abbott said he was particularly concerned by the lack of parliamentary scrutiny to date.

    “The most important decisions that have been made in a generation, at least in terms of spending and restrictions, and there has never been a full debate in the parliament and there has never been a vote on it,” he said.

    “The democratic deficit which exists increasingly in these ‘expertocracies’ that we have become has been radically exacerbated by this and I think that is one of the reasons that so many people are feeling frankly pretty disgruntled right now.”

    To that, I would demand the actions of the Therapeutic Goods Administration be thoroughly investigated in regard to its illogical rejection of drugs proved to reduce the risk of Covid death and its pandering to big pharmaceutical companies, and I would add its refusal last week to reschedule for therapeutic use the hallucinogens MDMA and psilocybin in the treatment of depression.

    According to the Productivity Commission, one in five Australians – pre-Covid – suffered from a mental illness and one in eight Australians (including one in four older people) were on antidepressants.

    Lobby group Mind Medicine Australia chairman Peter Hunt pointed to the volumes of research conducted by the US Federal Drugs Administration which has permitted therapeutic use of the hallucinogens and expressed bitter disappointment with the TGA’s decision to reject FDA findings and deny access to MDMA and psilocybin therapy to people suffering from treatment-resistant depression and PTSD in Australia.

    Finally, when the pandemic first reached Australia, I believed that the national approach trumpeted by Prime Minister Scott Morrison was necessary and achievable. I took umbrage at then NSW Treasurer Dominic Perrottet’s resistance to the national cabinet’s plan to house new arrivals in hotel quarantine and charge the costs back to their home states.

    For this, I apologise. Perrottet correctly read his fearmongering interstate colleagues and accurately predicted they’d leave NSW to pick up the bills. We weren’t all in this together because of the petty politicking of pusillanimous politicians and the lack of expertise displayed by our so-called health experts.

    The people have been denied the protection of their constitution.’


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  3. Black Ball Black Ball says:

    Lolgf Bananaby
    Time you suffered like the citizenry you pretend to serve


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  4. kaysee kaysee says:

    A few romantic ideas to spice up your Covid love life.

    MSM journo – Patricia Karvelas
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    Tinder tips from NZ PM Ardern
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  5. kaysee kaysee says:

    The Huron Carol

    It was written in the Wendat language by the missionary Jean de Brébeuf.

    This version performed by Heather Dale, and sung in Wendat (Huron), French and English.

    The “Huron Carol” (or “‘Twas in the Moon of Wintertime”) is a Christmas hymn, written in 1643 by Jean de Brébeuf, a Christian missionary at Sainte-Marie among the Hurons in Canada. Brébeuf wrote the lyrics in the native language of the Huron/Wendat people; the song’s original Huron title is “Jesous Ahatonhia” (“Jesus, he is born”). The song’s melody is a traditional French folk song, “Une Jeune Pucelle” (“A Young Maid”).

    The well known English lyrics were written in 1926 by Jesse Edgar Middleton.


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  6. Shy Ted says:

    mh, the EPL games were cancelled because of Convid cases (nobody actually sick of course). However I have a friend in the UK who has a son vying for a place in the Leeds squad. He says the pressure to get vaxxed is enormous, players have vax injuries so aren’t fit enough for the top level and some can’t even train and those who refuse the vax are essentially being banned from playing. Leeds have a very depleted squad because of this and have lost the last 2 games bigly. Of course these elite athletes are very aware of all the sportsmen collapsing around the world.
    Naturally the BBC and UEFA are spinning it.


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  7. Black Ball Black Ball says:

    Shy Ted I watch a program called ESPN FC and the panel indeed the pressure to get the jab is enormous as you say.
    Also a stat that was raised, only something like 60 percent of the players are vaccinated. The mighty Liverpool are apparently 100 percent done, which I find very hard to believe.


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  8. mh says:

    ‘ mh, the EPL games were cancelled because of Convid cases (nobody actually sick of course). ’

    ***

    The players?
    So there was an anomaly with the Arsenal game with no players with Moronic?


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  9. kaysee kaysee says:

    Freedom in NSW may turn out to be not so free.

    Dominic Perrottet says ICU presentations the ‘key metric’ to reintroduced COVID-19 restrictions

    NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet says he won’t rule out reintroducing restrictions as the state recorded 2,566 new infections on Sunday – the highest daily COVID-19 case number since the pandemic began.

    The Premier also didn’t rule out reinforcing mandatory face masks, adding health officials are tailoring the response “as the situation evolves”.


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  10. mh says:

    Brisbane Heat have to chase down 196 at the Gabba.

    Will Chris Lynn flop?


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  11. mh says:

    Yep.
    Flop.
    Out third ball.


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  12. mh says:

    Heat 5/15.

    Yes, really.


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  13. Steve trickler says:

    Play this in the background. Just listen to it.

    What a rush!

    PILOT DIES, Passenger Lands King Air


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  14. mh says:

    One performer was reportedly stabbed Saturday night during a Los Angeles concert where acts on the bill included Snoop Dogg, Ice Cube, and 50 Cent, according to reports.

    The Los Angeles Times identified the victim as rapper Drakeo the Ruler, reporting he was attacked by a group of people while backstage and was in critical condition when he was taken to a hospital.

    He suffered a stab wound to the neck, the Los Angeles Police Department said…

    ***

    Now he is rapper Drakeo the Drooler.


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  15. mh says:

    A rare violent and deadly multiple-vortex tornado struck several villages in the Hodonín and Břeclav districts of the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic in the evening of 24 June 2021, killing six people and injuring at least 200 others.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFRXZ_a28Gk


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  16. mh says:

    2 days ago

    ‘We respect Sam’s decision to leave Home and Away’
    Home and Away hottie Sam Frost is leaving Summer Bay and returning to Melbourne after copping a severe backlash over her controversial vaccination views.

    ***

    Controversial only to Branch Covidians.


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  17. Steve trickler says:

    That fat prick is useless, much like his daughter.

    Freedom Media WA.

    Western Australia Freedom Rally – Hands off Our Kids – 18th December 2021


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  18. Steve trickler says:

    I’ve had a gutful of the aboriginal flags at these protests. We’ve got Schwab and Gates to deal with, two bastards f8cking us over, which is a problem for all of us.

    Ditch your flags will you.

    HOW-MANY-PEOPLE-ELECTED Schwab and Gates?

    None dare mention these blokes on a march. Not even Avi has the balls to do it.


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  19. mh says:

    Rubbery figures

    ‘Vaccine Data Gaps Point to Millions More in U.S. Who Lack Shots
    States revisions uncover over-counting of first doses
    CDC revised estimate of proportion of elderly with one shot’

    https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-12-18/vaccine-data-gaps-point-to-millions-more-in-u-s-who-lack-shots


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  20. Steve trickler says:

    Yet to hear Cossack mention, Klaus Schwab.


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  21. shatterzzz says:

    Also a stat that was raised, only something like 60 percent of the players are vaccinated. The mighty Liverpool are apparently 100 percent done, which I find very hard to believe.

    Klopp won’t play anyone not jabbed, also, I’ve been told, threatening the, future, careers of any Liverpool players not jabbed .. he’s a vax fanatic .. LOL!


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  22. Shy Ted says:

    Headline of the day.
    Sadly it’s a satire site. Funny cos it’s true.


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  23. cohenite says:

    No Lame Pics this morning so here are some R rated golden oldies:

    https://imgur.com/a/R3pFgSt


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  24. Black Ball Black Ball says:

    Expect SloMo to dole out more to the organisation that hates him.


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  25. cohenite says:

    Salty Cracker re: twitter, space chook banning Project Veritas which has exposed the pedos at CNN which is being protected by the fbi/doj and other news outlets. Fuck our society is sick:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tew4sUCN3cg


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  26. Shy Ted says:

    The top sports teams all have private doctors, usually highly competent and highly paid. I think it likely depends on the rules regarding “who” gives the jab, GP or team doc. It’s nothing to switch the vial contents for saline so being “jabbed” ain’t necessarily so. So if you were a team doc and aware of the scam (how could they not be) would you really jab all the A team with the genuine article?
    And if you were a common or garden GP, fully aware, would you give the vial contents to a loved one/friend or someone you just genuinely liked or would you do the old switcheroo? And would you not be genuinely tempted to give the “bane of your life” patient the real thing and then cross your fingers?
    After all there’s no actual proof of who got what but there’s plenty of proof of impaired immune systems, clotting and so on in previously healthy people.
    And anybody who goes to a pharmacy or Bunnings for a jab is a effing idiot. It’s meant to be prescribed by a doctor and given in a sterile manner.
    I’ll bet the Liverpool squad are saline-vaxxed. And I wonder why league leaders Man City let legend Aguero go only for him to suddenly develop heart problems after his move. Just announced his retirement.
    Watch the teams for who gets “injured” and who doesn’t.


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  27. Shy Ted says:

    And I’ll change my (informed) opinion when Kochie and Mel and Virginia and Michael look like this
    Although Trioli…


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  28. caveman says:

    Why let a another variant go to waste , Dr Suen dialed eleventy on the panic meter and is going to town on a pre christmas scar-a-thon.
    Scary times

    Heres the kicker
    “Dr Suan said only people who have a “normal immune system and have been triple vaccinated” are adequately protected.

    His whole spiel is a bunch of contradictions.


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  29. mh says:

    Perennial embarrassment Piers Morgan weighs in:

    Piers Morgan
    @piersmorgan
    Footballers who refuse to be jabbed should be refused treatment for injuries. After all, why should they trust doctors about treatment for broken legs & torn ligaments if they don’t trust them about a life-saving vaccine?
    7:57 PM · Dec 19, 2021


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  30. mh says:

    #FoxNews
    Ron DeSantis: Floridians know there will be no lockdowns

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XF5F2XrHHw


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  31. mh says:

    ‘NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet has defended his state’s refusal to return to lockdown amid a new spike in Covid-19 cases, urging Australians to ‘move away from fear’.

    ***

    He’s not Ron, and he wears ladies glasses, but he’s right about the fear.


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  32. mh says:

    I see Joe Biden’s Build Back Better bill was defeated, thanks to his own party.

    Makes Boris Johnson look even more of a loser for using the term Build Back Better.


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  33. Shy Ted says:

    While we’re talking about soccer did anyone see the African match on SBS yesterday (or maybe NITV). South Sudan vs Republic of South Africa. It was played in Sydney. Where they all live. (Whiteys weren’t allowed). There were zero spectators. That’s why you had to pay for it.


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  34. Steve trickler says:

    Cossack:

    Premier of NSW Dom Perrotett officially abolished the discrimination against unvaccinated citizens on the 15th of December 2021. Shamefully, some venues such as the Breakfast Point Country Club continue to enforce an illegal discrimination policy against people according to their medical status. in this video local residents clash with representatives of the Breakfast Point Country Club Committe who storm off giving the rude finger at women and children.

    Locals clash as Breakfast Point Country Club bans the unvaccinated whilst fleecing thousands in fees


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  35. mh says:

    Shy Ted says:
    December 20, 2021 at 11:48 am
    It started out as a meme

    LMAO


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  36. Steve trickler says:

    Freedom Media WA:

    World Wide Freedom Rally held in Perth, Western Australia on 18 December 2021.

    Watch the growing number of Perth citizens resist tyranny by corrupt politicians and fear mongering MSM.

    No doubting public sentiment with the question of the day being asked :

    WHAT DO YOU THINK OF MAIN STREAM MEDIA.

    An update also provided by Bram who bravely told Freedom Media WA a few weeks ago his REAL Story about his significant adverse side affect from being coercively mandated into having the experimental injection.

    Freedom Rally in Western Australia on 18 December 2021


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  37. Steve trickler says:

    Rebel News – Canada.

    ******

    Ezra Levant of Rebel News provides a detailed response to the thoughtless and typical accusations from some Media Party journalists to the footage of the recent attack on David Menzies outside of a Justin Trudeau event.

    Response to David Akin’s sick conspiracy theory that reporter David Menzies wanted to be attacked


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  38. mh says:

    Dem holdout Manchin:

    “…I cannot vote to continue with this piece of legislation. I just can’t. I’ve tried everything humanly possible. I can’t get there,” Manchin said, speaking to Fox News Sunday. “This is a no on this legistlation. I have tried everything I know to do.”


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