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… he didn’t suffer as much in his final illness as he might have without being vaccinated.
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As sales pitches go, this isn’t exactly Coke Adds Life. 🙂
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Mater says:
August 14, 2021 at 8:02 am
I will note, that even with data cleansing two weeks later (an additional 25 dead people), we still find ourselves 128 dead people short.
That’s big numbers given that deaths are nightly headline news.
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I wonder if they are hiding increased suicide numbers in there? Just chatting with a person whose other half works in the emergency services. Tells me they used to average 1 suicide per shift period. Lately they have averaged 8 over the same period. SE Queensland. Pretty well off area too.
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Dot.
Sorry to hear that. Thinking of you and keep strong. She was a good lady to have a nice dude like you as a son.
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+1,000
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Israeli Syringed BREAKTHROUGH cases now EXCEED 50%
When new SERIOUS cases involving FULLY Syringed people are MORE than those involving not Syringed people you have a BIG PROBLEM
Delta breaking through Syringed which means people can STILL get infected AND end up in a serious condition……
From Craig Kelly.
Oh Dear, you thought taking a concoction from socialist hostage takers was going to free you.
It’s going to kill you.
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Nah Areff, just Dad so far.
You learn to respect parish priests when you see how efficient yet humane they are.
I have also seen youngsters turn up to church at a requiem mass l looking like they’re going to hit the clubs in Miami.
NO.
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Ted – thanks for letting us know the Premier League was back.
Those mighty Reds taking on the Canaries this morning.
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Don’t be too harsh, Gab. Monty has absolutely no idea of a eulogy Having an audience – using his own likeability as a guide, you understand.
His own eulogy will will be delivered in a thick Indian accent to a couple of dozen 7-11 franchisees. It will recount such anecdotes as the time he forgot his ‘free donut and coffee’ stamp card so he ran back down (demanding his place at the head of the queue be kept) and grabbed another dozen to fill a new card so he could get his freebie – the still call 13 of anything a ‘Monty Dozen’.
And the time he heaved himself up to the counter looking blanched with swollen cheeks looking to buy a single Freddo Frog he passed over a note reading “Can’t talk. I have mups.” The cashier looked at the note quizzically, testing “Mums? Pups? Mops?”
Impatient, Monty blurted out “Mumps!” But as he did so great chunks of Krispy Kremes, now tirned into a paste by saliva, shot out and stuck to the Perspex shield in front of the counter. Even as the blood flooded back into his now relieved face he now claimed he had forgotten they were there.
Such a loss.
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Good catch up there, Struth. Rowan Dean’s satire.
That’s more like it. Outsiders still unmissable on Sundays.
Just popped in sweating from an online workout, except ladies don’t sweat.
Apparently, we glow. 🙂
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Honestly, who is worse, that Rosie screaming with her fingers in her ears, or a raging anti semite who thinks anyone with a big nose is evil?
Gideon Rosner is also a Jew.
There are many good ones.
Only a collectivist ( a leftist) can be a racist.
The left have always been anti-semetic.
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Lode, every word at 10.32:
BAM.
That will live forever.
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JC says:
August 14, 2021 at 10:28 am
Dot.
Sorry to hear that. Thinking of you and keep strong. She was a good lady to have a nice dude like you as a son.
What’s happened with Dot?
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I liked it, KD.
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struth says:
August 14, 2021 at 10:06 am
Rowan Dean at his finest.
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Thank you Struth. Loved it.
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Terrible to lose your Mum, dotty. Sorry to hear that.I still have big memory blanks of that week when I experienced the same and the funeral. Bloody traumatic it was. You’ll manage it and work through it I’m sure but it’s just an awful time. A big life moment. Cheers.
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LOL.
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Lack of buttons is making for many…many departed parents who aren’t.
Its urb’s mum who passed away. Urb was asking for eulogy tips.
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Dot, so sorry you have lost your mum. Especially when we under such dehumanising and cruel limitations for how we can farewell our most loved.
My only advice is similar to Calli’s, engage your heart rather than your brain in the writing of it and avoid rambling at all costs.
Sending you much light and strength for the days ahead.
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It’s because of this sort of news being right out in the open, undenied & unchallenged that so many professional social media propagandists for ‘The Great Reset”, are so arrogant & emboldened.
They sincerely believe that ‘Their Side’ has ‘won’ & they’ll never have to pay for their roles in unleashing countless evils.
BOMBSHELL: Another Hunter Biden Laptop?
Donald Trump Jr. Published August 12, 2021
https://rumble.com/vl2ce9-bombshell-another-hunter-biden-laptop.html
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Rabz says:
August 14, 2021 at 9:14 am
Same in Dannistan. Quite pleasant until one remembers whom we are being ruled by.
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Just realised what has happened, Dot.
Forgive the flippancy of my earlier comment regarding Monty.
You might know it is coming but you are never quite ready when it does.
Sincerest condolences.
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Sorry, Dot….and Urb. That eulogy advice is for Urb. I too was led astray.
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“When the eulogies began, the sun of memory and affection warmed St Augustine’s from the inside.”
People expect a eulogy these days. I’ve written a few for family members and others.
You try to honestly picture their personality, how people lived their lives and were loved, and to keep their sad times mentioned but in perspective.
I don’t think any eulogy should be long or claimed as the whole story.
Just as Fred Hollows said ‘an eye is an eye’ no matter to whom it belonged, so one might say of a life. All human lives are precious; a funeral is there to claim that, and to sustain the living. Ritualised religious services emphasise that part, the calling home of a life to the divine, that life as part of a wider scheme of things. I like that.
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Best of all, Christensen got to spread that message to a huge US TV audience via Fox News’s Laura Ingraham last night.
The Americans can’t believe what’s going on in Australia, which is the world capital of beating Kung Flu, but — thanks to the media hysteria — is behaving like it’s out of control.
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Let me lay it on the line for you Graeme.
My wife is of Jewish decent, she looks quite Jewish.
A beautiful brunette, with piercing beautiful Jewish eyes.
She is the most loving and caring woman on the planet.
She has been fighting this socialist coup d’etat all the way.
She has never put on a mask, had a test or QR coded anywhere.
Although I can’t physical threaten you publicly, let me remind you of what your situation may be like if I ever meet you.
You insult my wife and therefore me with your racist bile, and I’m old fashioned.
So for your sake, you better hope we never meet.
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Who are Gladys and News Corp blaming today?
Have they lined up a baddy for the weekend papers?
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Oh, sorry Dot. My sympathy mate. All the best.
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I have come to appreciate M0nty more lately. He has a great sense of humour.
And Rosie asks no more than a personal approach to the vaxx.
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Just the opposite. It is very constructive to let someone know in the midst of their grief not to worry about the eulogy; the Mass will take care, as it has for countless others, over millenia.
There is ample opportunity to recollect the past during the wake. All things have their place and time.
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Terry McCrann nails SloMo, the ALPBC and Nilligan in this weekend’s Paywallian.
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Quick link of Laura Ingram interviewing George Christensen
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…a funeral is there to claim that, and to sustain the living.
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The sole purpose of a Christian funeral is to pray for the repose of the deceased.
At the recent funeral of Bobby Fulton at St Mary’s, Archbishop Fisher gave a homily on the Scriptural readings of the day and the life of a famous man he didn’t know. It was one of the most masterful and splendid homilies you will ever hear anywhere in the world.
Then Alan Jones lobbed in the sanctuary trying to be an off-the-cuff Great Orator – rambling away unconvincingly about the sporting annals or something. I doubt the Fultons ever had him over for dinner. Jones even had the temerity to congratulate the Archbishop for his “remarkable” words. If AJ met Albert Schweitzer, he’d say “isn’t he marvellous, hey?”
After Struggle Street’s most beloved bugle, up came cab driver, indoorsman and anti-Catholic loony Ray Hadley – the a man I have affectionately dubbed the Dapto Doge. “Begging our pardon, Your Grace,” he said, before making a joke about Fulton’s erstwhile “porn star moustache.” The uplifting brilliancy of the Archbishop’s homily was wrecked by a couple of heathen blowhards who should never have been allowed near the pulpit.
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This was posted on Lurker’s thread, but us worth a run here:
Seems straightforward to me. The smoothest of brains might struggle, given our frantic media.
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Thanks, Tom, much appreciated.
I can’t believe that Rowe gets it right twice in one week. Yes, of course, Morrison has made Gladys the wrecking ball. I said this back when she did her 18o.
Ramirez almost always is a standout – yes, in America “cop killers” can also hold public office, while Leak’s work on Dan Xi-Man, is always good.
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You’ve lost it bird; you haven’t said a word about the AR6 crap; not a word. It’s just the same old vile antisemitism and threatening to punch people.
It’s a fucking blog you idiot; you can’t punch people on a blog.
Now critique AR6 without resorting to antisemitism or piss off.
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Dot, if it helps, you can have Bird’s mum.
Everyone else has.
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Perhaps we should have just mixed their prescription medication up, according to what we thought best instead.
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Oh dear Lord. That’s brilliant.
Brilliant, and stolen.
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So, Glad the Loudhailer, Keeper of the Iron Pyrite Standard, has this moring announced 466 new cases and 4 more deaths from COVID in NSW. 378 people hospitalised, 64 in ICU, 29 on ventilators.
What an absolute shower she is. Failed to properly lock down Bondi and Waverley LGA 7 weeks ago and has now allowed the Delta variant to spread throughout NSW. The cases, hospitalisations and deaths in NSW are directly the result of her incompetence. She should resign.
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Lizzie, yes.
Horses sweat ; men perspire; ladies glow.
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To outdoor pursuits!
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“do you think we were right to bomb all those German civilians? Those little Japanese girls, and the Vietnamese?”
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Little girl Krauts and Japs are subject to the same laws of the universe as the rest of us: When your society fucks up beyond repair everyone gets dead.
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There’s a nerve touched, you fucking sook, Graeme.
Still the offer stands.
I’m outed here, so why don’t you let us all know who you are, and we’ll agree to meet up and see who’s who?
You classify people by race.
You are a collectivist.
I’d love to have a crack at you.
And yes, the Germans did need to be bombed off the face of the earth, because they, as a nation, allowed Hitler to lead them.
It’s not that hard.
The race of a few elites that are stuffing the world is irrelevant.
And here’s why, fuckhead.
The main blokes doing it is a German.
One is Spanish, and you may think they’re all controlled by people with big noses, but that’s just your mental sickness called anti semetism.
You’re a mental case as anti semites inherently are.
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English would be renamed as a subject in the Australian curriculum and kids instead taught “Language Arts” under a radical proposal from a leading academic.
In a major address at the recent Australian Association for the Teaching of English conference, former Queensland school teacher and University of Melbourne senior lecturer Dr Melitta Hogarth described the use of the name English as an “act of assimilation”.
She offered alternatives, such as “Language Arts” or “Languages, Literacy and Communications”.
Dr Melitta Hogarth said her intent was to “disrupt and scrutinise” the role English plays in maintaining the status quo, power, privilege and “asserting the besieged sovereignty of the colonial state”.
But the idea was shot down by Federal Education Minister Alan Tudge, who told The Courier-Mail in terms of changing the national curriculum he would be “firmly rejecting such nonsense”, claiming it would “lead to the dumbing down of our kids”.
“This is not just political correctness gone mad, but it actually makes me angry that such views are in our universities’ education faculties – the place that trains our future teachers,” he said.
“Everyday Australians are just sick of this sort of rubbish that infects our universities.”
Dr Hogarth, an Indigenous woman who spent many years teaching Indigenous children, said in her address her intent was to “disrupt and scrutinise” the role subject English played in maintaining the “status quo”, and “asserting the besieged sovereignty of the colonial state”.
“The power of the coloniser within colonial Australia is clear when we consider how essential to the teaching and learning and schooling in Australia is the privileging of Standard Australian English,” she said.
“It wasn’t enough that First Nations peoples had been disposed of their lands, their children stolen but also their languages were silenced and it was dictated within the government controlled missions that English should be spoken.
Daily Tele
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Yeah nah, I doubt Urb wants to read long screeds ranting about the sanctity of the pulpit.
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The Vortex — The Bishops’ Own Making
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNXMFzM4bRc
Aug 13, 2021
Church Militant
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King Of Swaziland (In Waiting) says:
August 14, 2021 at 11:05 am
“Although I can’t physical threaten you publicly, let me remind you of what your situation may be like if I ever meet you.”
Oh for fucksakes. You’d get your head punched in. You are an idiot mate. Just like that fellow last night.
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Anytime f*ck knuckle.
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Hey AdamD
As soon as we can get this delayed posting sorted out it would be good.
When trying to rile up the retarded into outing themselves, it makes it all that much harder if there is a five minute delay.
I feel like my bren gun has been replaced by a muzzle loading musket.
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Shit is going to hit the fan when the first wave of the Rona hits Tassie. There have been near enough to zero wild type infections and will present an almost perfect case study of the efficacy of vaccination.
By the way, this place doesn’t need any more mainland escapees. We’ve got a good thing going on down here. The cops like to keep a low profile and the natural born population don’t need any more reminders about how illiterate they are.
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Charlie Watts to miss the US leg of the ‘Stones’ upcoming tour.
It will be the first gig he’s missed since 1963.
The beginning of the end?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OMccfL5H2k
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Bar Beach Swimmer says:
August 12, 2021 at 12:15 pm
Cohenite,
A for effort
B for substance- you didn’t lead with Flannery is a total f*wit who’s making a lot of money as a global warming carpetbagger.
C for something else (scores always need a third factor – pick whatever you like!)
cohenite, I listened this morning and caught part of your segment.
I’m changing your scorecard.
For effort, you’ve held your score of A.
For substance, I’ve nudged you up to a B+ because you worked on your delivery and took the floor! (But I can’t increase it any further until you throw over the host.)
But the C remains because I gave you an opportunity to choose something, and you didn’t😉
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This. By the bye, Archbishop Fischer should have said, yeah nah to AJ and Dapto Doge speaking during the Mass.
I will add, the inversion here illustrates the change in the culture brought to us by liberalism.
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Well, we all know that now.
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Terry McCrann nails SloMo, the ALPBC and Nilligan in this weekend’s Paywallian.
What’s the title of the article so I can search in archive dot net
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Dr Hogarth, an Indigenous woman who spent many years teaching Indigenous children, said in her address her intent was to “disrupt and scrutinise” the role subject English
So was never there to teach.
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It’s time you outed yourself big talking Bird.
I am not one for outing people, but be a man.
You want to talk like one, act like one.
You insulted my wife and you constantly insult all the good Jews of the world.
You might punch my head in, you might not, but that’s not the point is it?
I’m challenging you to man up and out yourself and lets see who wins?
You don’t have to accept my challenge to you, of course, but your a fucking big mouth and I want to close it.
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Dot, my condolences, if that’s any consolation.
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Correct.
It wasn’t an invitation to critique whether a eulogy is appropriate in certain rites or not.
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Protofascism rules in the formerly free state of New South Wales. What a disgrace
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struth says:
August 14, 2021 at 11:25 am
[…]
“you may think they’re all controlled by people with big noses, but that’s just your mental sickness called anti semetism.”
[…]
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[…]
Buddah and Moses and all the noses from narrow to flat
Had to stand in the line, just to glimpse the divine, what you think about that?
Well it seems like our fate to suffer and wait for the knowledge we seek
It’s all his design, no one cuts in the line, no one here likes a sneak
You got to fill out a form first, and then you wait in the line
[…]
Paul Simon – The Afterlife
Lyrics HD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjtjmSI8cWw
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Struth at 10:54.
Good luck with trying to get through to the racist anti-Semitic Nazi.
There was a hint of a possible bird kryptonite late last night.
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Spotlight: SSPX COVER-UP CONTINUES — Promo 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDxnHdxIpeU
Aug 14, 2021
Church Militant
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Spotlight: SSPX COVER-UP CONTINUES — Promo 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OgBhDwQHT4
Aug 14, 2021
Church Militant
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Spotlight: SSPX COVER-UP CONTINUES — Promo 3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viE7byWbVVk
Aug 14, 2021
Church Militant
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I have stood alone on a cold day in the gas chambers of Mauthausen, with the ovens right next door.
Production line mass murder by German socialists, just like Klaus is today.
The Elite socialists that are now ruling us, are from all races.
One is a black Ethiopian communist in charge og the WHO.
Their races are only important to a sick mind.
Their politics and their megalomania, who they are as individuals matters a dam sight more.
It’s evil and down right lazy to blame a race.
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jupes – I ran an online music trivia quiz last night, one of the questions was:
Which of the following did not play at the disastrous Altamont Speedway Music Festival in 1969?
Jefferson Airplane, The Grateful Dead, The Flying Burrito Brothers, The Rolling Stones.
Needless to say, the Airborne Burritos romped home. Only one person got it correct.
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Dr Hogarth, an Indigenous woman who spent many years teaching Indigenous children absolutely nothing useful ….
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Dear oh dear.
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Gladys, ‘the buck stops with me…are we going to make mistakes, of course we are, I feel what we’re imposing on our people…but we’re working our guts out… When we’re in a pandemic it affects every part of a person’s life…I know people are making sacrifices…but we’re all in this together…every decision we make makes some happy and some not…but we have to base it on what works for the majority of our citizens..!’
Every day the same thing.
What to say to that dribble?
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Gosh, ya mean the SSPX is not different to the rest of the Church in terms of abuses?
Shocked, I tells ya!
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CL – I disagree. The main reason is to teach the Gospel to the attendees, since many family and friends will not have really heard it. Especially now that the school system has expunged Christianity. Having them sitting attentively in the pews for 20 minutes is a wonderful opportunity to tell them it.
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Very odd.
Clicking “Newer Comments”, with the last one on the screen being srr at 11:41, takes me to…
…the comment thread finishing at 11:08.
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“…Dr Hogarth, an Indigenous woman who spent many years teaching Indigenous children…”
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ORLY (from abc)
“…Indigenous Australians are overrepresented in welfare dependent families, and the high proportion of Indigenous students who fail literacy and numeracy cannot progress to jobs and careers….”
So hows her record?
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One from the Albino tribe again top Ender.
The Pascoeridginies
https://cdn.newsapi.com.au/image/v1/675749056af7e878117cca6ec5b7728c?width=1024
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Paul Watson’s latest video is about what has happened to Australia…
Pulled together like this, it is deeply disturbing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-EnA2LSKsc&ab_channel=AnythingGoes
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King at 11:26.
Did you or did you not attempt to tamper with your father’s prescibed meds in his final days?
Yes or no?
Medications aside, here’s another question.
Did you attempt to actually comfort your father in his last days?
Or did you avoid your duty as a son and run around the hospital trying to prove how incredibly smart you were?
All your father needed was someone to hold his hand and help him on his final journey, but the last thing he heard was his son babbling on about contra-indicated medications and subpoenas for Indian nurses and legal discovery of hospital records.
It’s one thing to be a failure in academia and your professional life.
But to fail as a son is something else.
Have a good look at yourself.
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BBS – the hideous gargoyle has gone stark staring bonkers.
They’ve blundered beyond parody into an interminable auto-da-fé on everyone existing in NSW.
Remember, we’ve wronged them, not the other way round.
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Also, Gerard nails the ABC with Australia’s most trusted? You must be kidding
AND the mods let me get through with an anti-Milligan comment.
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BBS. The people Gladys needs to convince like me have stopped listening. Also a quick look at the polls tell me a lot of others are switching off too, down from January when she did her 180…
She has looked rattled when I have seen her recently. I’d say she’s backed the wrong horse and now realises it.
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Shit is going to hit the fan when the first wave of the Rona hits Tassie. There have been near enough to zero wild type infections and will present an almost perfect case study of the efficacy of vaccination.
By the way, this place doesn’t need any more mainland escapees. We’ve got a good thing going on down here. The cops like to keep a low profile and the natural born population don’t need any more reminders about how illiterate they are.
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You do realise you need to breed with people outside the family at some stage?
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Top Ender.
The refresh button goes a bit spazzo* around the page turn.
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* Spazzo. Technical IT term meaning “unexpected indexing error”.
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Old and busted “Follow the science..
New and hot: Police want restrictions to enforce compliance…
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-08-14/covid-live-blog-latest-updates-nsw-vic-act-lockdown/100376634
NSW Police requested clamp down on outdoor recreation
The Premier says the police wanted the stricter rules on people being outdoors.
She said there was not any strong evidence about outdoor transmission, but the police wanted tighter restrictions as it was an “operational issue”.
“So while there is no strong evidence about outdoor transmission, operationally we have said to the police what do you need to do, what do you need to ensure greater compliance and that is one of the things on their list,” she said.
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There will be an additional 500 ADF on the ground, joining the 300 already in NSW.
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The word “recreation” is no longer a reason to leave your home. It must be genuine exercise.
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“There is a potential worldwide protest coming up and I would say to anyone again who thinks about turning up that if you thought the police response was begin on weeks ago, it will be much bigger this time.
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I hope there is a proper accounting at the end of this hysteria.
Certain people will need to be branded as outlaws and rendered internal refugees with every mans hand against him.
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Going for my walk yesterday and found it freaking disturbing how many people are masked up and also shy away from one as the walk past, skittering away from other humans as if we’re all toxic.
It’s fucking sick what these arseholes have done to our society.
24 hour fear porn non stop for two years, just to sell advertising. Sickos.
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McCrann article – “Why no sackings at ABC after Milligan fiasco?”
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Ah we see it clearly now.
Graeme is pointing us toward his cult leader constantly.
High Clif (FMD) speaketh, so it is.
I can usually rev them up faster than this Adam.
Hope you can help soon.
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The real reasons for South Africa’s riots
From The Spectator issue: 31 July 2021
Sixty-eight years ago, when I was four, my Scottish father and English mother took me from London to South Africa, to a seaside town 20 miles south of Cape Town in the Western Cape. This is Fish Hoek (pronounced ‘fishhook’). I was brought up here, and after working in England and elsewhere in South Africa, I have returned. I have lived through the rise and fall of apartheid, and the 27-year rule of the ANC. I watched the terrible recent events, which seem to have subsided. We are sifting through the ruins and wondering what happened, and why. South Africa has nine provinces. Two of them, KwaZulu-Natal (KZN, formerly Natal) and Gauteng (with Johannesburg and Pretoria), have been devastated by violent riots. More than 300 people have been killed and more than 50 schools in KZN have been ransacked; thousands of shops, including big, insured, white-owned supermarkets and small, uninsured, black-owned stores, have been destroyed; pharmacies and clinics have been attacked and trucks and buses have been set on fire. The main motorway from Johannesburg to Durban is often simply closed. The damage now amounts to billions of rand. Only bookshops seem to have escaped the looters, which might tell us something. Shops selling TVs, smartphones, freezers, furniture, designer clothes and luxury goods have been less lucky.
The nominal cause of the riots was the arrest and imprisonment of Jacob Zuma, our president from 2009 to 2018, a charming man with powerful supporters and the most corrupt leader in South Africa history. We were told the riots were in his name, but I saw very few pro-Zuma placards. In fact, there were almost no placards at all. Instead, there seem to have been more immediate causes: desperate need and greedy opportunism; political and racial rivalry. Murderous faction-fighting within the ANC was doubtless a factor, especially in KZN, where assassination of political rivals has become an administrative procedure. One KZN journalist wrote: ‘Politicians in Durban walk around with hit lists in their back pockets … a hitman can be hired as easily as we hail e-rides. A simple trip to the taxi rank gets you an inkabi — or hitman — as long as you have R5,000 to pay.’ But if there are many immediate causes of the rioting, there is only one profound cause, which is the failure of the ANC to improve the lives of ordinary black people.
In 1994 the ANC inherited the strongest economy in Africa, with excellent infrastructure, including cheap, reliable electricity. The ANC has wrecked it all. We have continual blackouts; the passenger railways are crumbling into ruin; most of the municipalities are dysfunctional, with appalling water supply and sewage running in the streets; South African Airways is bankrupt; the economy is crippled; deep poverty is widespread, and unemployment is at 43 per cent (including many who have given up looking for work). This tragedy has been caused by systematic corruption, a bloated government, ruinous racial laws and a relentless assault on private enterprise. Violent crime alarms the rich and terrifies the poor. The ANC government responded to Covid-19 with a clumsy and callous lockdown. A team of actuaries showed that many more South African lives would be lost by the lockdown than by the virus. The ANC ignored them. The country was a tinderbox waiting for a spark.
In Cape Town we have escaped this rioting but been victim to a different source of violent death: taxi wars. Here, 82 people have been slaughtered this year for using a rival taxi company’s transport. As little boys in the 1950s, we used to travel safely by train from Fish Hoek to Cape Town. The Cape Town to Simonstown line, a scenic engineering marvel, was completed in 1890 and served well for a hundred years. No more. The railway lines are now dilapidated, unreliable and dangerous or completely defunct, and black people living in townships established by apartheid far from the city must find other ways to get to work.
In the last years of apartheid, to cater for these people, a network of private, black-owned minibus taxis sprung up. Unfortunately this welcome triumph of free enterprise has become infected with organised crime. Each company claims a particular route as its monopoly and kills any rival drivers who use it. The taxis shoot at buses. Uber drivers are in peril. Any Cape Town companies that provide their own transport for staff risk their lives. When I go to Cape Town airport, my driver (in an unmarked private car) asks me to sit in front because if I sat in the back, I might look like a paying passenger. On the way to the airport, I see spectacular natural beauty, graceful manors, and festering, crime-ridden slums. Such is the South African paradox.
WRITTEN BY Andrew Kenny
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Seeing the last of Bird. Lucky bastard.
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but we’re working our guts out…
……………………….tried using your brain Gladys????
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‘The sole purpose of a Christian funeral is to pray for the repose of the deceased.”
Correct. It is to pray for the soul of the dead by pleading for God’s mercy upon that soul that is to undergo the particular judgement. Before death, we can beg for mercy, after death, that soul can no longer beg for mercy because it is the time of judgement. Therefore, we who are left behind, can pray to the dear Lord to have mercy on the soul of the deceased. This is of greater importance and value than any eulogy, which only serves to comfort the living but has no benefit to the dead.
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I am “Pending” in my comment on the Scrap English story:
“Dr Hogarth, an Indigenous woman…”
I live in Darwin. She doesn’t look like any of the Indigenous people who live up here.
Story: Call to scrap ‘English’ name from school curriculum
No chance, but it’s fun to taunt the moderators.
BTW, that story has a poll included seeing if people agree with the good Doctor. 98% against at present.
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This is what we’ve allowed. The screws just keep on being tightened.
This is madness.
Thank goodness I’ve got a backyard. What people in existence pods have been experiencing doesn’t bear thinking about.
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“So while there is no strong evidence about outdoor transmission, operationally we have said to the police what do you need to do, what do you need to ensure greater compliance and that is one of the things on their list,” she said.
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So this is what the Liberal Party of Australia has come to…their “gold standard” state premier giving police carte blanche to terrorise citizens for no good or rational purpose.
The Liberal Party has well and truly passed its “use by” date.
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This just in:
NSW police to ‘clamp down on people doing the wrong thing’.
Not only must you register your lover as a dog, but recreation is now officially a crime:
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Dickhead Dan:
ValGlass2.0
@AussieVal10
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Here it is ⬇️ threats to the unvaccinated
https://twitter.com/AussieVal10/status/1426005963631333381?s=20
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One of the many harms of lockdowns.
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‘Which of the following did not play at the disastrous Altamont Speedway Music Festival in 1969?’
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Disastrous, spurge?
It was a great event.
Hippies getting beaten by bikers was the cherry on top.
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Poorly educated I know, so I had to look up auto-da-fé.
That expression describes exactly what all woke apologies have been in the last decade.
I look back at public figures and companies who have broken the barriers of political correctness and have committed figurative seppuku to try to get back on board the gravy train, and I cringe with disgust at their cowardice.
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Apologies, ‘mole.
You already posted that ABC link.
Non auto-freshing page load and moderation delay makes it difficult to follow what has been posted in real time.
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This also just in… This is REAL:
Berejiklian is unwell and should be removed by the Governor.
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Rabz:
Remember, we’ve wronged them, not the other way round
+1
And, RD, yes, we’ve all stopped listening – it’s time for her to go.
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The word is “foolproof” Mr Academic Whizz.
Therefore it worked perfectly on you.
So, yes, you did attempt to fuck with professionally prescribed meds.
Have you considered that you might have hastened his death or made his end painful and uncomfortable, all so you could demonstrate your shining brilliance to complete strangers?
Yes, you googled the meds.
You latched onto some warning about long term use and then took off to the moon on a shithouse door.
Those warnings are to be considered when prescribing to children and young adults, not for someone in palliative care with days or weeks to live.
But, no.
Bwilliant Birdie had to ponce into the hospital spouting his recently acquired (but totally misguided) medical knowledge whilst his old man was gasping and letting out the death rattle.
I assume you successfully sued the hospital for malpractice, right?
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Remember the old days.
When people were scandalized by the anti bikie laws that targeted a small criminal element of society for police ‘special treatment” and there was vigerous debate, some of it very well made, over the implications of such laws.
It even contributed to the downfall of the Premier who did it.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-04-04/queensland-vlad-laws-should-be-scrapped-judicial-review-finds/7296778
Now the mongs in charge have swept straight to “lock down everyone and give the police the power to make laws directly”.
Long time ago 7 years….
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