We need to harden up both internally and externally, and stop treating politics like croquet. That’s what happened to alleged conservative parties across the English speaking world, they imagined that it was a gentleman’s game with rules that everyone would abide by.
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Probably a good synopsis of WW2 – the allies rallying in the end.
Just texted a mate about troops going into the Ghan again. He doesn’t know much about it being a civi now but says will be to get expats out mainly, a protected evacuation. Says “Kabul will be chock-a-block full of busybody women with hyphenated names in various NGO’s who will be clutching at pearls right about now.”
Have to wait and see I suppose, be curious so see how many are evacuated and their reasons for being there. Lebanon 2006 all over again?
We need to harden up both internally and externally, and stop treating politics like croquet.
From personal experience, croquet is a mild game played by extremely ruthless people. Some of those oldies would eat our politicians and Deep Staters as a morning tea snack, and spit out the bones (but not on the playing surface).
Metallic Wobbling Zombie Star Is Moving Really Fast Thru Our Galaxy
Was in the science news a few weeks ago. Biggest artillery shell in the universe: half the star exploded in an off-centre Type 1a supernova, whereupon the other half took off rapidly in the other direction. As you do.
“The difference is Arky, that if you believe in free speech, then you can’t have it both ways.”.
I never claimed to put free speech over and above everything.
I’m not a libertarian.
we were better off in the days when publishers were held to standards of decency.
the decency has gone, and so has the free speech for those of us who advocate for those values.
That’s the reality.
Once those indecent ideas were allowed, it has been a gradual decline and fall, ending in the triumph of filth and the outlawing of decency.
There is no middle ground of peaceful co-existence with the Lord of the Flies.
Mental illness doesn’t describe Graeme Bird in any way. Like every leftard troll ever, he believes religiously in all kinds of dumb shit lapped up by human sheep with an IQ of less than 90.
Stay on the plantation designed for you by the left, Bird.
One of the things we have to wrap our heads around is that because we arrived late in the decline, much that we are fond of and grew up with were already horribly corrupt before we were born.
Many of the most talented and wonderful people have devoted their lives in the service of absolute filth. Cool, witty and sophisticated, in many ways admirable, but filth.
It’s just the way it is.
Once those indecent ideas were allowed, it has been a gradual decline and fall, ending in the triumph of filth and the outlawing of decency.
There is no middle ground of peaceful co-existence with the Lord of the Flies.
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Or was it because those ideas were not challenged , mocked and derided?
The worst cyberbullies of the pandemic aren’t schoolkids (14/8); it’s the tech giants censoring and deplatforming anyone who disagrees with their world view. In doing so they’re acting as publishers and not as common carriers. Telstra is a common carrier and it knows not to cut off your phone call to your doctor when you’re asking about covid cures. Try using Facebook to ask the same questions. It’ll be censored or “fact checked” out of existence. Bob, Mission Beach
I’m doing my bit to keep spirits up during the pandemic. When I see someone wearing a mask I reach out to them with a supportive verbalisation, using simple terms they’re sure to understand. “Baaaa.” Try it, they love it! Angry Steve, Redlynch
Here’s an idea to repair our governance. Any government that invokes a “state of emergency” must face a general election within three months. F.M.D., Yorkeys Knob
Can we please lock down the government for two weeks to stop the spread of totalitarianism? Mark W. Redlynch
OK, help me understand the $600m federal-state cash support package (14/8). Does this mean govts will tax us all to give money to the businesses they killed by deciding to micromanage our health? Or will they borrow money in our names from overseas to give to business and we pay it back for decades? Or do they just print money out of thin air and devalue our savings in the process? Confused, Cairns North
It’s been estimated that half the death toll of the 1918 Spanish Flu were not from the influenza virus. They were from bacterial respiratory tract infections caused by the masks. If you’re not putting a fresh mask on every 20 minutes or each time you sneeze you’re setting yourself up for a bacterial infection. Medic, Smithfield
The govt wants to force me to have a vaccine to protect me from a virus that probably won’t kill me, but it won’t allow me to have a gun to protect myself from home invaders that may well kill me. Weird, right? Neil, Bungalow
Any activity that involves personal risk must also involve personal choice. That is why government vaccine mandates are morally and ethically wrong and unlikely to be supported by the High Court – which is where such mandates will end up. Bethany, Aeroglen
To understand climate change alarmists you must understand that you are the carbon they want to reduce. Bailey, Cairns
If anyone is wondering if the ALP still harbours “thugs” then the article about Mundingburra MP Les Walker, his punch-ups in pubs and his banning from the Safe Nights Precinct (14/8) says the answer is probably yes, yes they do. Woz, Parramatta Park
Peter Carruthers (CP 14/8) is only partly correct on the motivations of capital city residents buying property in the regions. The other significant factor is that city folk have seen how easily a city can be shut down on the whim of the ruling government and how disastrous that would be in a genuine pandemic where supply chains were cut and power, water and internet services were interrupted. Many are planning to flee the cities at the first sign of a real pandemic – which would be homeless people dead on the streets. Stacey, Kanimbla
The network of like-minded people who own and run the media don’t actually want regional content (CP, 14/08). There’s too much room for regional reporters to deviate from the centralised message. They want everything filtered through central office to remove any unapproved ideas – you know, like treatments for covid as opposed to vaccines. Dot, Whitfield
(CP, 14/8) No. Wearing masks is not “the new normal.” Masks are a psychological control mechanism – a constant visible advertisement for a fear campaign that is based on blatantly false information. Masks cannot stop viruses. The workers in virus labs wear full-encapsulation suits pressurised by an external air supply precisely because masks don’t stop viruses. Masks are solely to force you to capitulate to an out of control administrative state. Fern, Holloways Beach
Have you noticed that “fact checkers” didn’t exist until the truth started getting out? Anne-Marie, Earlville
If our Constitutional Monarchy worked as intended the Governors and Governor-General would have sacked the Premiers and Prime Minister by now for their abuses of our federal constitution and our God-given human rights. Merryl, Port Douglas
Well done to federal education minister Alan Tudge for showing some spine. (CP 14/8). These “industry associations” led by credentialed folk who fallaciously appeal to their own authority are usually trying to advance a radical left cause of some sort. In the education sector that usually involves dumbing students down so they don’t ask difficult questions. Never give such activists an inch. Jennifer, Edge Hill
Some government advertising in support of covid vaccinations is referring to “media conspiracy theories” against the vaccines. This is puzzling because the media has dutifully reported all the governments positions on each vaccine. Are they really trying to say that the government didn’t keep changing its advice, especially about AstraZeneca? Isn’t that “gaslighting?” Slavitsa, Mareeba
Pam (CP 14/8). How would linking Quaid Rd to Black Mountain Rd be a better link to the Cape than the existing Rex Range Rd? Quaid Rd links Southedge Dam to Wangetti Beach – neither is a major population centre. And nobody has suggested using the existing Lake Morris Rd as a regional highway – it would need to be widened and straightened which the UN won’t allow. But that’s still a better idea than the Katter and Entsch Crystal Cascades gorge road. Resident, Redlynch
Funny how there’s all these “exceptions” to quarantine rules (14/8). At least marine pilots perform a vital role – more so than movie stars, politicians and footballers, who have all had non-vital work quarantine “exceptions.” If this was a real pandemic and the govt had really saved us there would be no exceptions. Haley, Brinsmead
The governments’ ongoing excessive over the top reaction to Covid outbreaks are not based on sound medical evidence or on the federal government’s own pandemic plan from 2019. They are the result of shallow-thinking narcissists trying to make themselves look heroic for political advantage. TR MacDonald, Clifton Beach
Covid hysteria has become so irritating that I now only read local, non-covid stories in the paper and the only TV I watch is Outsiders on Sunday mornings. Outsiders was interrupted by a ScoMo press conference. From what ScoMo was saying it appears he now works for foreign pharmaceutical companies and not for Australians. Ex-LNP Voter, Manunda
Doctors can be attracted to regional areas very easily, but Mr Katter (CP, 14/08) doesn’t seem to know how. You see, doctors are entirely dependent on government for licensing and for income via the medicare system, and that system needs a tweak. Take provider numbers off doctors and pin them to postcodes. Doctors will suddenly be willing to move to wherever they can get a provider number. It really is that simple. Higgs, Tolga
(CP, 14/08) The top-ranked bureaucrat in a government health department should not be described as the “nation’s top doctor.” That honour rightfully belongs to someone who actually practices medicine as their full-time job. It dishonours committed healers to award their top gong to someone who sits at a desk. Nurse J, Cairns
Regarding the $44m roads boost (14/8) if the Mareeba to Atherton section is the example then all we’ll see is fewer places to overtake and wider but rarely-used bicycle lanes. Truckie, Mareeba
The FNQ radio station that plays the Top 40 on Saturday arvo was running pro-vax ads on high rotation. The ads were aimed at indigenous people. We all know that the government has exempted vax makers, doctors and themselves from indemnity for the consequences of the side effects, but are radio stations and other media also exempted? Albert, Cooktown
CMO Paul Kelly reckons we’ll have a third wave of covid (CP 14/8). How odd. Looking at ABS figures I see we still haven’t had a first or second wave. In fact, 2017 still has far more more flu-related deaths than we’ve seen from covid. Theresa, Atherton
There’s been several recent reports here of bushfires in the US, with the media blaming climate change. However, a former Professor of Sociology has been arrested for wildland arson in California and is suspected of starting many bushfires (npr.org
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). This is the sort of prove-a-point climate activism that Michael Crichton, author of “Jurassic Park,” described in his 2004 novel “State of Fear.” Without the excessive forest fuels demanded by climate activists this arsonist would have had nothing to light. Darryl, Westcourt
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Peter Campion’s letter (TB, 14/08) very precisely identifies the serious flaws in the IPCC’s version of climate science and the reasons it will not improve. Campion also correctly describes how to end the frightening but false IPCC prophecies – by defunding it. However, Campion’s concise statement of facts will trigger mass outrage from the rote-learned, the low-info party hacks, and the cultists who exhilarate in feeling afraid. I forecast that the Bulletin’s radical left commentators will inundate the Editor’s inbox with hysterical attacks on the “heretical denier” and on the newspaper for allowing him to speak. Prof. D, Garbutt
Continue commenting on the blog while you have time. Guilt by association and by thoughtcrime will find us all out, bird or no bird. You can see where it’s heading. It’s funny how old bats like Joh and I are encouraging staunchness, while hale and hearty gents are worried about malodorous pixels on a blog.
Our governments have entire populations locked up, many now with advanced Stockholm Syndrome, and some of us are the only members of our families who aren’t buying any of it. This blog is important, more important than some realise.
Now, it may seem strange that one who has a penchant for stupid jokes about stuffing rainbow lorikeets into the never regions of various individuals and for violent and derogatory language of all kinds would bemoan the lack of standards of today, but this is simply the result of two things:
1. We were all born into a corrupt and decaying society.
2. I’m easily influenced. Always have been.
Says “Kabul will be chock-a-block full of busybody women with hyphenated names in various NGO’s who will be clutching at pearls right about now.”
Damn right, rockdoctor. Karens like Kerry Chant are busy back home destroying what’s left of the Australian economy and democracy, so the rest of the do-gooder Karens have headed offshore to pointlessly try to stop Afghan girls being raped, enslaved and murdered by their ideological allies in Islam.
“Were this site to be examined by the media, they would find ample proof of Storm Front-like material and would assume – understandably – that I (and everybody else) either endorsed it or dismissed it as so much harmless fare for the scroll-wheel.”
This from CL, who is now taking a break. I and others too have felt the same way as CL now declares about having their name and known identity elsewhere associated with the sort of unexamined material on various topic fronts being presented here. For two days I have hit the report comment button on most of Bird’s comments in the hope of some moderation, but none is emerging. This seems deliberate, but may not be so.
I came back in recently in some anger to correct some serious disinformation about a naive misreading of a peer reviewed medical study on Covid vaxination and pregnancy by people who think they have some competence in this field when clearly they have none and are just seeking to discredit testable vax findings. It was typical of a lot of the more way-out critiques of vaxes, which seem to be founded on far less than real evidence or physiological processes, relying mostly on ‘spook’ science.
Certainly, don’t take the vax if you don’t want it, or are waiting for something better, with fewer side effects, or are concerned about longer term effects (ADE is unlikely but worries some). Balance your risks well in that case though, with Delta on the move here now. That said, I’m not in favour of mandatory vax nor of vaccine ‘passports’.
Like CL, I hope we can keep the old Cat connections going at least on three other sites – M0nty’s, Dover’s and Nilk’s, and hopefully here too if the moderation issues become solved concerning at least the rampant anti-Semitism. On Nilk’s site there are links to these other two, and Monty’s site helpfully aggregates all formal posts across the sites.
Just had a friendly chat with my landlady at the motel. Apparently, she is into weightlifting, and strength training, big time. Used to participate in competitions when that was possible.
I retreat to my room; shortly afterwards, I hear this THUD THUD THUD. Peer out, and she is splitting logs with an axe. Big logs. Huge logs.
Training.
I feel very safe with her as the gatekeeper. 🙂
Also, apparently I am not the only resident here. There is a bloke called Bill who has just returned from Cambodia. I shall try to meet him.
Staying in an almost empty motel should have a Hollywood gothic feel about it, but as we are in the CBD of Queanbeyan it doesn’t quite work.
Graeme – White dwarfs, which are the culprits behind type 1a supernovae have burned through all their hydrogen, then collapsed into a big ball of degenerate matter once fusion ceased due to lack of fuel. They go bang if they then accrete matter from a companion star such that they exceed the Chandrasekhar limit. Which is why one can explode off-centre, since the matter that tips it over the edge is falling onto one side of it.
“feelthebern says:
August 15, 2021 at 10:28 am
Something stinks about this “mercy dash” by Australia, the US & other countries to assist getting people out of Afghanistan.”
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I’ll repeat the question since there were no takers the first time:
If the object of the mission is not as stated, what is it?
Before you answer, bear in mind that the US, who I imagine have roped us into this and not without good reason, is only sending three battalions of marines. That is not an offensive capability in the present context of Afghanistan with the Taliban rampant.
You can see where it’s heading. It’s funny how old bats like Joh and I are encouraging staunchness, while hale and hearty gents are worried about malodorous pixels on a blog.
Our governments have entire populations locked up, many now with advanced Stockholm Syndrome, and some of us are the only members of our families who aren’t buying any of it. This blog is important, more important than some realise.
That’s exactly right. It’s surprising really that Sinc, being an RMIT academic, was able to keep the old cat going so long. I’m sure a lot of colleagues would have given him a hard time. Thanks again Adam and to all the astute and interesting commentators like Calli here.
“The difference is Arky, that if you believe in free speech, then you can’t have it both ways.”.
I never claimed to put free speech over and above everything.
Everyone has the right to free speech.
However, it doesn’t necessarily follow that their free speech is impinged upon when they are not provided time on every blog or media outlet.
Bird.
Tell us about how you would use your mummy as the template for any girlfriend you might take up with.
Firstly, can you afford to be choosy and, secondly, you don’t think that has a touch of the Norman Bates about it?
Was mummy totally above board with everything when you were growing up?
Just on another observation.
Once those assassinated, oops, sorry, I mean vaccinated, realise that when the borders are open again and all the little viruses they catch will be huge sickness for them , as we’re learning, they’ll be screaming to keep the borders shut and ironically (because they got the fakecine to travel) will be scared of leaving the house.
NEVER comply or submit to tyrants.
It will kill you as quick as those who resist.
Sometimes quicker.
Had a look at it. The preamble makes it sound a bit suspect. Perhaps it is legitimately what it is made out to be. Perhaps not. It reads as something written by a high school kid with a particular flair for creative writing and a moderate understanding of economic and system theory. Though stupid people like Klaus Schwab and his Davos mates probably are dumb enough to believe in approximations of social function as given within the short text.
we were better off in the days when publishers were held to standards of decency.
the decency has gone, and so has the free speech for those of us who advocate for those values.
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You have rose tinted glasses, Arky.
Who was in charge of ‘standards of decency’ and how did they apply it?
Once again, lack of historical knowledge besets the Right.
Even in the US, the Constitution and the Amendments are, and have been, constantly under challenge. It’s Whack-a Mole territory.
When I was growing up, The Sydney Morning Herald was a benchmark for accuracy, perfect spelling and grammar, and it had a slightly conservative tilt.
Do the current owners and denizens give a fig? Of course not. As with TheirABC, they trade off the intellectual and social capital built up over decades and piss on the graves.
How come the Taliban aren’t dying like flies? They are in groups of more than 2, over 5 km from their home, outside, no masks, close contact, no bubble friend, no hand sanitiser… I recon just wait for two weeks and most of them will be dead.
I don’t know about all that Graeme. The Sun is shining sufficient energy that you can tell the difference easily when a cloud occludes it. Happened to me yesterday when on bicycle (made of supernova stuff!) whereupon it felt like the temperature dropped about 5 degrees. So I cut short my ride, which on hindsight was a bad move since I got home to the news that Gladys has now restricted my exercise to within 5 km of my house. Makes it hard to do much treadlying since 5 km is stuff all. By Christmas, at this rate, I’ll be forced into bicycling in circles around the Hills Hoist in the backyard.
Lizzie of Sydney says:
August 15, 2021 at 12:48 pm
That’s a solid point, and one I have been considering since the beginning. It seems inexplicable to permit the continuing presence of those whose intention is obviously to discredit this blog, and those who use it. I’m aware of course that Adam is busy with his own life, but to persevere with this acceptance of comment vandalism can only result in his efforts being wasted when the site implodes.
The new Catallaxy troll swamp is worse than the old one with a racist anti-semite roaming free because no-one is in charge and the new webmaster has no management plan for the site.
Maybe Tom, an other explanation is that it is happening with a tacit approval.
There was enough time to get organised, at least on the moderation side if not on the tech. issues.
I’m not a libertarian, don’t believe in unfettered speech.
Voters in NSW are sitting in front of their TVs – slapping their baseball bats into the palms of their hands – restlessly waiting for the coming Federal Election. Both Morrison and Berejiklian have followed the wrong strategies – trying to preserve the coalition’s NSW seats. That has clearly been a waste of time – the voters will use those baseball bats to send first the Morrison government and then the Berejiklian government into oblivion. They both richly deserve it.
The detachments are too small for any other purpose that I can see. Kabul is finished – a “dead city walking” so to speak. This evacuation has parallels with the evacuation of Saigon.
Several days ago I posted a message that all foreign nationals were being told to leave the city ‘NOW’. A day later, the MSM was reporting similar advice. The Taliban advance is gaining momentum and fighting with government troops, whilst fierce and vicious in some places, is not holding back the tide. In other areas, government forces are in full retreat. (actually not so much ‘retreat’….more, run for your lives).
There are huge regional implications from the fall of Afghanistan in neighbouring Pakistan and Iran but also for India and China.
Just texted a mate about troops going into the Ghan again. He doesn’t know much about it being a civi now but says will be to get expats out mainly, a protected evacuation. Says “Kabul will be chock-a-block full of busybody women with hyphenated names in various NGO’s who will be clutching at pearls right about now.”
Taliban steamrolling through everything help to a large extent by NGO efforts to disarm everyone in Afghanistan. Not sure how many times this needs to happen before they work it out.
“Graeme – White dwarfs, which are the culprits behind type 1a supernovae have burned through all their hydrogen……”
Thats all just silly talk. You got any evidence for that? Stars don’t have much in the way of hydrogen in the first place. Lifting gasses (hydrogen and helium) naturally float to the top of any gravitational body and the dummy looking through a telescope assumes that goes all the way down.
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They’re trying to explain the metallic composition as the result of a “nuclear explosion” causing heavy elements that then coalesced.
Pure guesswork/fantasy.
The zombie star cited, LP 40-365, is a type 1ax Supernova.
‘The four people who died were an unvaccinated woman in her 50s, women in her 70s who had only recently been vaccinated, an unvaccinated in his 80s, and a female in her 80s who was vaccinated but had underlying health conditions.’
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So it looks pretty much the same as last year. People in their 80s and above are most likely to die.
The vaccines may or may not make a difference.
The government refuse to take Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine seriously, putting all their eggs in the ‘vaccine’ basket.
When allegedly grown men say they want a girlfriend just like mummy, it is a dead certainty there was some illicit stuff going on under the doona at bedtime storytime.
Grigory M says:
August 15, 2021 at 1:17 pm
Voters in NSW are sitting in front of their TVs – slapping their baseball bats into the palms of their hands – restlessly waiting for the coming Federal Election.
And voters in Victoria, the prototype for the current NSW policies? Happy little campers, are they?
How pathetic is it that given 20 years. Twenty fucking years. To put in place something in Afghanistan that might resist these scruffy religious nutters with AKs and Toyota Hiluxs, the US military has again utterly failed in it’s mission.
Heads should fucking roll.
Thousands of dead US personnel. Tens of thousands of dead Afghanis, Trillions of dollars squandered. Strategic priorities warped and actual defence of the nation ignored.
And the rsult? After a month or two of leaving the joint will be back under the control of the same wankers who sheltered Osama.
The population of Afghanistan has quadrupled in the last 30 years.
Not only haven’t we pacified the motherlovers, there are now a shit tonne more of them.
We need to harden up both internally and externally, and stop treating politics like croquet. That’s what happened to alleged conservative parties across the English speaking world, they imagined that it was a gentleman’s game with rules that everyone would abide by.
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Probably a good synopsis of WW2 – the allies rallying in the end.
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Just texted a mate about troops going into the Ghan again. He doesn’t know much about it being a civi now but says will be to get expats out mainly, a protected evacuation. Says “Kabul will be chock-a-block full of busybody women with hyphenated names in various NGO’s who will be clutching at pearls right about now.”
Have to wait and see I suppose, be curious so see how many are evacuated and their reasons for being there. Lebanon 2006 all over again?
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We need to harden up both internally and externally, and stop treating politics like croquet.
From personal experience, croquet is a mild game played by extremely ruthless people. Some of those oldies would eat our politicians and Deep Staters as a morning tea snack, and spit out the bones (but not on the playing surface).
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Was in the science news a few weeks ago. Biggest artillery shell in the universe: half the star exploded in an off-centre Type 1a supernova, whereupon the other half took off rapidly in the other direction. As you do.
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Will Kabul soon be full of aspirant rappers?
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“The difference is Arky, that if you believe in free speech, then you can’t have it both ways.”.
I never claimed to put free speech over and above everything.
I’m not a libertarian.
we were better off in the days when publishers were held to standards of decency.
the decency has gone, and so has the free speech for those of us who advocate for those values.
That’s the reality.
Once those indecent ideas were allowed, it has been a gradual decline and fall, ending in the triumph of filth and the outlawing of decency.
There is no middle ground of peaceful co-existence with the Lord of the Flies.
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Mental illness doesn’t describe Graeme Bird in any way. Like every leftard troll ever, he believes religiously in all kinds of dumb shit lapped up by human sheep with an IQ of less than 90.
Stay on the plantation designed for you by the left, Bird.
The scroll wheel’s not fast enough.
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One of the things we have to wrap our heads around is that because we arrived late in the decline, much that we are fond of and grew up with were already horribly corrupt before we were born.
Many of the most talented and wonderful people have devoted their lives in the service of absolute filth. Cool, witty and sophisticated, in many ways admirable, but filth.
It’s just the way it is.
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Once those indecent ideas were allowed, it has been a gradual decline and fall, ending in the triumph of filth and the outlawing of decency.
There is no middle ground of peaceful co-existence with the Lord of the Flies.
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Or was it because those ideas were not challenged , mocked and derided?
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The worst cyberbullies of the pandemic aren’t schoolkids (14/8); it’s the tech giants censoring and deplatforming anyone who disagrees with their world view. In doing so they’re acting as publishers and not as common carriers. Telstra is a common carrier and it knows not to cut off your phone call to your doctor when you’re asking about covid cures. Try using Facebook to ask the same questions. It’ll be censored or “fact checked” out of existence. Bob, Mission Beach
I’m doing my bit to keep spirits up during the pandemic. When I see someone wearing a mask I reach out to them with a supportive verbalisation, using simple terms they’re sure to understand. “Baaaa.” Try it, they love it! Angry Steve, Redlynch
Here’s an idea to repair our governance. Any government that invokes a “state of emergency” must face a general election within three months. F.M.D., Yorkeys Knob
Can we please lock down the government for two weeks to stop the spread of totalitarianism? Mark W. Redlynch
OK, help me understand the $600m federal-state cash support package (14/8). Does this mean govts will tax us all to give money to the businesses they killed by deciding to micromanage our health? Or will they borrow money in our names from overseas to give to business and we pay it back for decades? Or do they just print money out of thin air and devalue our savings in the process? Confused, Cairns North
It’s been estimated that half the death toll of the 1918 Spanish Flu were not from the influenza virus. They were from bacterial respiratory tract infections caused by the masks. If you’re not putting a fresh mask on every 20 minutes or each time you sneeze you’re setting yourself up for a bacterial infection. Medic, Smithfield
The govt wants to force me to have a vaccine to protect me from a virus that probably won’t kill me, but it won’t allow me to have a gun to protect myself from home invaders that may well kill me. Weird, right? Neil, Bungalow
Any activity that involves personal risk must also involve personal choice. That is why government vaccine mandates are morally and ethically wrong and unlikely to be supported by the High Court – which is where such mandates will end up. Bethany, Aeroglen
To understand climate change alarmists you must understand that you are the carbon they want to reduce. Bailey, Cairns
If anyone is wondering if the ALP still harbours “thugs” then the article about Mundingburra MP Les Walker, his punch-ups in pubs and his banning from the Safe Nights Precinct (14/8) says the answer is probably yes, yes they do. Woz, Parramatta Park
Peter Carruthers (CP 14/8) is only partly correct on the motivations of capital city residents buying property in the regions. The other significant factor is that city folk have seen how easily a city can be shut down on the whim of the ruling government and how disastrous that would be in a genuine pandemic where supply chains were cut and power, water and internet services were interrupted. Many are planning to flee the cities at the first sign of a real pandemic – which would be homeless people dead on the streets. Stacey, Kanimbla
The network of like-minded people who own and run the media don’t actually want regional content (CP, 14/08). There’s too much room for regional reporters to deviate from the centralised message. They want everything filtered through central office to remove any unapproved ideas – you know, like treatments for covid as opposed to vaccines. Dot, Whitfield
(CP, 14/8) No. Wearing masks is not “the new normal.” Masks are a psychological control mechanism – a constant visible advertisement for a fear campaign that is based on blatantly false information. Masks cannot stop viruses. The workers in virus labs wear full-encapsulation suits pressurised by an external air supply precisely because masks don’t stop viruses. Masks are solely to force you to capitulate to an out of control administrative state. Fern, Holloways Beach
Have you noticed that “fact checkers” didn’t exist until the truth started getting out? Anne-Marie, Earlville
If our Constitutional Monarchy worked as intended the Governors and Governor-General would have sacked the Premiers and Prime Minister by now for their abuses of our federal constitution and our God-given human rights. Merryl, Port Douglas
Well done to federal education minister Alan Tudge for showing some spine. (CP 14/8). These “industry associations” led by credentialed folk who fallaciously appeal to their own authority are usually trying to advance a radical left cause of some sort. In the education sector that usually involves dumbing students down so they don’t ask difficult questions. Never give such activists an inch. Jennifer, Edge Hill
Some government advertising in support of covid vaccinations is referring to “media conspiracy theories” against the vaccines. This is puzzling because the media has dutifully reported all the governments positions on each vaccine. Are they really trying to say that the government didn’t keep changing its advice, especially about AstraZeneca? Isn’t that “gaslighting?” Slavitsa, Mareeba
Pam (CP 14/8). How would linking Quaid Rd to Black Mountain Rd be a better link to the Cape than the existing Rex Range Rd? Quaid Rd links Southedge Dam to Wangetti Beach – neither is a major population centre. And nobody has suggested using the existing Lake Morris Rd as a regional highway – it would need to be widened and straightened which the UN won’t allow. But that’s still a better idea than the Katter and Entsch Crystal Cascades gorge road. Resident, Redlynch
Funny how there’s all these “exceptions” to quarantine rules (14/8). At least marine pilots perform a vital role – more so than movie stars, politicians and footballers, who have all had non-vital work quarantine “exceptions.” If this was a real pandemic and the govt had really saved us there would be no exceptions. Haley, Brinsmead
The governments’ ongoing excessive over the top reaction to Covid outbreaks are not based on sound medical evidence or on the federal government’s own pandemic plan from 2019. They are the result of shallow-thinking narcissists trying to make themselves look heroic for political advantage. TR MacDonald, Clifton Beach
Covid hysteria has become so irritating that I now only read local, non-covid stories in the paper and the only TV I watch is Outsiders on Sunday mornings. Outsiders was interrupted by a ScoMo press conference. From what ScoMo was saying it appears he now works for foreign pharmaceutical companies and not for Australians. Ex-LNP Voter, Manunda
Doctors can be attracted to regional areas very easily, but Mr Katter (CP, 14/08) doesn’t seem to know how. You see, doctors are entirely dependent on government for licensing and for income via the medicare system, and that system needs a tweak. Take provider numbers off doctors and pin them to postcodes. Doctors will suddenly be willing to move to wherever they can get a provider number. It really is that simple. Higgs, Tolga
(CP, 14/08) The top-ranked bureaucrat in a government health department should not be described as the “nation’s top doctor.” That honour rightfully belongs to someone who actually practices medicine as their full-time job. It dishonours committed healers to award their top gong to someone who sits at a desk. Nurse J, Cairns
Regarding the $44m roads boost (14/8) if the Mareeba to Atherton section is the example then all we’ll see is fewer places to overtake and wider but rarely-used bicycle lanes. Truckie, Mareeba
The FNQ radio station that plays the Top 40 on Saturday arvo was running pro-vax ads on high rotation. The ads were aimed at indigenous people. We all know that the government has exempted vax makers, doctors and themselves from indemnity for the consequences of the side effects, but are radio stations and other media also exempted? Albert, Cooktown
CMO Paul Kelly reckons we’ll have a third wave of covid (CP 14/8). How odd. Looking at ABS figures I see we still haven’t had a first or second wave. In fact, 2017 still has far more more flu-related deaths than we’ve seen from covid. Theresa, Atherton
There’s been several recent reports here of bushfires in the US, with the media blaming climate change. However, a former Professor of Sociology has been arrested for wildland arson in California and is suspected of starting many bushfires (npr.org
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). This is the sort of prove-a-point climate activism that Michael Crichton, author of “Jurassic Park,” described in his 2004 novel “State of Fear.” Without the excessive forest fuels demanded by climate activists this arsonist would have had nothing to light. Darryl, Westcourt
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Peter Campion’s letter (TB, 14/08) very precisely identifies the serious flaws in the IPCC’s version of climate science and the reasons it will not improve. Campion also correctly describes how to end the frightening but false IPCC prophecies – by defunding it. However, Campion’s concise statement of facts will trigger mass outrage from the rote-learned, the low-info party hacks, and the cultists who exhilarate in feeling afraid. I forecast that the Bulletin’s radical left commentators will inundate the Editor’s inbox with hysterical attacks on the “heretical denier” and on the newspaper for allowing him to speak. Prof. D, Garbutt
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For Captain
KirkDot:Two Scientists Are Building a Real Star Trek ‘Impulse Engine’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bp8fk5rosI
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That’s the ticket, Tom.
Continue commenting on the blog while you have time. Guilt by association and by thoughtcrime will find us all out, bird or no bird. You can see where it’s heading. It’s funny how old bats like Joh and I are encouraging staunchness, while hale and hearty gents are worried about malodorous pixels on a blog.
Our governments have entire populations locked up, many now with advanced Stockholm Syndrome, and some of us are the only members of our families who aren’t buying any of it. This blog is important, more important than some realise.
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Now, it may seem strange that one who has a penchant for stupid jokes about stuffing rainbow lorikeets into the never regions of various individuals and for violent and derogatory language of all kinds would bemoan the lack of standards of today, but this is simply the result of two things:
1. We were all born into a corrupt and decaying society.
2. I’m easily influenced. Always have been.
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Damn right, rockdoctor. Karens like Kerry Chant are busy back home destroying what’s left of the Australian economy and democracy, so the rest of the do-gooder Karens have headed offshore to pointlessly try to stop Afghan girls being raped, enslaved and murdered by their ideological allies in Islam.
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“Were this site to be examined by the media, they would find ample proof of Storm Front-like material and would assume – understandably – that I (and everybody else) either endorsed it or dismissed it as so much harmless fare for the scroll-wheel.”
This from CL, who is now taking a break. I and others too have felt the same way as CL now declares about having their name and known identity elsewhere associated with the sort of unexamined material on various topic fronts being presented here. For two days I have hit the report comment button on most of Bird’s comments in the hope of some moderation, but none is emerging. This seems deliberate, but may not be so.
I came back in recently in some anger to correct some serious disinformation about a naive misreading of a peer reviewed medical study on Covid vaxination and pregnancy by people who think they have some competence in this field when clearly they have none and are just seeking to discredit testable vax findings. It was typical of a lot of the more way-out critiques of vaxes, which seem to be founded on far less than real evidence or physiological processes, relying mostly on ‘spook’ science.
Certainly, don’t take the vax if you don’t want it, or are waiting for something better, with fewer side effects, or are concerned about longer term effects (ADE is unlikely but worries some). Balance your risks well in that case though, with Delta on the move here now. That said, I’m not in favour of mandatory vax nor of vaccine ‘passports’.
Like CL, I hope we can keep the old Cat connections going at least on three other sites – M0nty’s, Dover’s and Nilk’s, and hopefully here too if the moderation issues become solved concerning at least the rampant anti-Semitism. On Nilk’s site there are links to these other two, and Monty’s site helpfully aggregates all formal posts across the sites.
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Just had a friendly chat with my landlady at the motel. Apparently, she is into weightlifting, and strength training, big time. Used to participate in competitions when that was possible.
I retreat to my room; shortly afterwards, I hear this THUD THUD THUD. Peer out, and she is splitting logs with an axe. Big logs. Huge logs.
Training.
I feel very safe with her as the gatekeeper. 🙂
Also, apparently I am not the only resident here. There is a bloke called Bill who has just returned from Cambodia. I shall try to meet him.
Staying in an almost empty motel should have a Hollywood gothic feel about it, but as we are in the CBD of Queanbeyan it doesn’t quite work.
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half the star exploded in an off-centre Type 1a supernova, whereupon the other half took off rapidly in the other direction.
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Should be a “Gravity wave” bonanza.
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Graeme – White dwarfs, which are the culprits behind type 1a supernovae have burned through all their hydrogen, then collapsed into a big ball of degenerate matter once fusion ceased due to lack of fuel. They go bang if they then accrete matter from a companion star such that they exceed the Chandrasekhar limit. Which is why one can explode off-centre, since the matter that tips it over the edge is falling onto one side of it.
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Pakistan’s Child Criminals
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiRJkusvY1o
Aug 14, 2021
The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters
[they cover more than that issue; it’s worth a watch.]
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https://twitter.com/OzraeliAvi/status/1426671565572231168
The concentration camps are being built, just in case you thought this was about a cold virus
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“feelthebern says:
August 15, 2021 at 10:28 am
Something stinks about this “mercy dash” by Australia, the US & other countries to assist getting people out of Afghanistan.”
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I’ll repeat the question since there were no takers the first time:
If the object of the mission is not as stated, what is it?
Before you answer, bear in mind that the US, who I imagine have roped us into this and not without good reason, is only sending three battalions of marines. That is not an offensive capability in the present context of Afghanistan with the Taliban rampant.
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You can see where it’s heading. It’s funny how old bats like Joh and I are encouraging staunchness, while hale and hearty gents are worried about malodorous pixels on a blog.
Our governments have entire populations locked up, many now with advanced Stockholm Syndrome, and some of us are the only members of our families who aren’t buying any of it. This blog is important, more important than some realise.
That’s exactly right. It’s surprising really that Sinc, being an RMIT academic, was able to keep the old cat going so long. I’m sure a lot of colleagues would have given him a hard time. Thanks again Adam and to all the astute and interesting commentators like Calli here.
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Everyone has the right to free speech.
However, it doesn’t necessarily follow that their free speech is impinged upon when they are not provided time on every blog or media outlet.
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Bird.
Tell us about how you would use your mummy as the template for any girlfriend you might take up with.
Firstly, can you afford to be choosy and, secondly, you don’t think that has a touch of the Norman Bates about it?
Was mummy totally above board with everything when you were growing up?
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Just on another observation.
Once those assassinated, oops, sorry, I mean vaccinated, realise that when the borders are open again and all the little viruses they catch will be huge sickness for them , as we’re learning, they’ll be screaming to keep the borders shut and ironically (because they got the fakecine to travel) will be scared of leaving the house.
NEVER comply or submit to tyrants.
It will kill you as quick as those who resist.
Sometimes quicker.
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Dot says:
August 15, 2021 at 12:15 pm
“Have you read Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars?”
Had a look at it. The preamble makes it sound a bit suspect. Perhaps it is legitimately what it is made out to be. Perhaps not. It reads as something written by a high school kid with a particular flair for creative writing and a moderate understanding of economic and system theory. Though stupid people like Klaus Schwab and his Davos mates probably are dumb enough to believe in approximations of social function as given within the short text.
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we were better off in the days when publishers were held to standards of decency.
the decency has gone, and so has the free speech for those of us who advocate for those values.
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You have rose tinted glasses, Arky.
Who was in charge of ‘standards of decency’ and how did they apply it?
Once again, lack of historical knowledge besets the Right.
Even in the US, the Constitution and the Amendments are, and have been, constantly under challenge. It’s Whack-a Mole territory.
When I was growing up, The Sydney Morning Herald was a benchmark for accuracy, perfect spelling and grammar, and it had a slightly conservative tilt.
Do the current owners and denizens give a fig? Of course not. As with TheirABC, they trade off the intellectual and social capital built up over decades and piss on the graves.
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How come the Taliban aren’t dying like flies? They are in groups of more than 2, over 5 km from their home, outside, no masks, close contact, no bubble friend, no hand sanitiser… I recon just wait for two weeks and most of them will be dead.
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Did mummy touch little birdy in the Tarsus?
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I don’t know about all that Graeme. The Sun is shining sufficient energy that you can tell the difference easily when a cloud occludes it. Happened to me yesterday when on bicycle (made of supernova stuff!) whereupon it felt like the temperature dropped about 5 degrees. So I cut short my ride, which on hindsight was a bad move since I got home to the news that Gladys has now restricted my exercise to within 5 km of my house. Makes it hard to do much treadlying since 5 km is stuff all. By Christmas, at this rate, I’ll be forced into bicycling in circles around the Hills Hoist in the backyard.
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Lizzie of Sydney says:
August 15, 2021 at 12:48 pm
That’s a solid point, and one I have been considering since the beginning. It seems inexplicable to permit the continuing presence of those whose intention is obviously to discredit this blog, and those who use it. I’m aware of course that Adam is busy with his own life, but to persevere with this acceptance of comment vandalism can only result in his efforts being wasted when the site implodes.
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Tom says:
August 15, 2021 at 8:21 am
The new Catallaxy troll swamp is worse than the old one with a racist anti-semite roaming free because no-one is in charge and the new webmaster has no management plan for the site.
Maybe Tom, an other explanation is that it is happening with a tacit approval.
There was enough time to get organised, at least on the moderation side if not on the tech. issues.
I’m not a libertarian, don’t believe in unfettered speech.
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Voters in NSW are sitting in front of their TVs – slapping their baseball bats into the palms of their hands – restlessly waiting for the coming Federal Election. Both Morrison and Berejiklian have followed the wrong strategies – trying to preserve the coalition’s NSW seats. That has clearly been a waste of time – the voters will use those baseball bats to send first the Morrison government and then the Berejiklian government into oblivion. They both richly deserve it.
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BIGgles must have sh1t the bed again and they didn’t let him have access to the iPad till after lunchtime trifle.
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Roger says:
August 15, 2021 at 12:56 pm
The detachments are too small for any other purpose that I can see. Kabul is finished – a “dead city walking” so to speak. This evacuation has parallels with the evacuation of Saigon.
Several days ago I posted a message that all foreign nationals were being told to leave the city ‘NOW’. A day later, the MSM was reporting similar advice. The Taliban advance is gaining momentum and fighting with government troops, whilst fierce and vicious in some places, is not holding back the tide. In other areas, government forces are in full retreat. (actually not so much ‘retreat’….more, run for your lives).
There are huge regional implications from the fall of Afghanistan in neighbouring Pakistan and Iran but also for India and China.
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Just texted a mate about troops going into the Ghan again. He doesn’t know much about it being a civi now but says will be to get expats out mainly, a protected evacuation. Says “Kabul will be chock-a-block full of busybody women with hyphenated names in various NGO’s who will be clutching at pearls right about now.”
Taliban steamrolling through everything help to a large extent by NGO efforts to disarm everyone in Afghanistan. Not sure how many times this needs to happen before they work it out.
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“Graeme – White dwarfs, which are the culprits behind type 1a supernovae have burned through all their hydrogen……”
Thats all just silly talk. You got any evidence for that? Stars don’t have much in the way of hydrogen in the first place. Lifting gasses (hydrogen and helium) naturally float to the top of any gravitational body and the dummy looking through a telescope assumes that goes all the way down.
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They’re trying to explain the metallic composition as the result of a “nuclear explosion” causing heavy elements that then coalesced.
Pure guesswork/fantasy.
The zombie star cited, LP 40-365, is a type 1ax Supernova.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LP_40-365
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Libertarianism is not anarchy. There are some rules, to protect others’ liberty.
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Daily Tele
‘The four people who died were an unvaccinated woman in her 50s, women in her 70s who had only recently been vaccinated, an unvaccinated in his 80s, and a female in her 80s who was vaccinated but had underlying health conditions.’
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So it looks pretty much the same as last year. People in their 80s and above are most likely to die.
The vaccines may or may not make a difference.
The government refuse to take Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine seriously, putting all their eggs in the ‘vaccine’ basket.
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When allegedly grown men say they want a girlfriend just like mummy, it is a dead certainty there was some illicit stuff going on under the doona at bedtime storytime.
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Grigory M says:
August 15, 2021 at 1:17 pm
Voters in NSW are sitting in front of their TVs – slapping their baseball bats into the palms of their hands – restlessly waiting for the coming Federal Election.
And voters in Victoria, the prototype for the current NSW policies? Happy little campers, are they?
You are an idiot (with a political agenda).
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How pathetic is it that given 20 years. Twenty fucking years. To put in place something in Afghanistan that might resist these scruffy religious nutters with AKs and Toyota Hiluxs, the US military has again utterly failed in it’s mission.
Heads should fucking roll.
Thousands of dead US personnel. Tens of thousands of dead Afghanis, Trillions of dollars squandered. Strategic priorities warped and actual defence of the nation ignored.
And the rsult? After a month or two of leaving the joint will be back under the control of the same wankers who sheltered Osama.
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When it all explodes, there’s a fair chance confidence in vaccines will be destroyed for decades.
All for vanity hubris and greed.
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The population of Afghanistan has quadrupled in the last 30 years.
Not only haven’t we pacified the motherlovers, there are now a shit tonne more of them.
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