Open Thread – Thursday 12 August 2021

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  1. H B Bear says:

    Chant keeps mentioning Whole Of Government.
    W.O.G.

    Yes! So much more impressive than the individual fuckwits.


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  2. egg_ says:

    “These are very weird stars,” Hermes says. Stars like LP 40-365 are not only some of the fastest stars known to astronomers, but also the most metal-rich stars ever detected. Stars like our sun are composed of helium and hydrogen, but a star that has survived a supernova is primarily composed of metal material, because “what we’re seeing are the by-products of violent nuclear reactions that happen when a star blows itself up,” Hermes says, making star shrapnel like this especially fascinating to study.

    https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/08/210802160646.htm


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  3. egg_ says:

    Chant keeps mentioning Whole Of Government.
    W.O.G.

    ——————————————

    /Fat Pizza!


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  4. egg_ says:

    Free speech was not a load of crap.
    It’s the basis of all the west’s wealth.
    That’s why the country that enshrined it became a superpower.

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    The more one’s direct dealings with sh1tholesrs at the same level of authority, the more “feudal society” dog-eat-dog applies.


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  5. Tom says:

    <a href=https://content.api.news/v3/images/bin/b982e1c57054324b267ce29e5aa9766f?width=1024 Johannes Leak.


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  6. srr says:

    “calli says:
    August 15, 2021 at 2:07 pm
    There is a place for a salon where everyone agrees respectfully with everyone else. Let’s face it, it’s comfortable. And civilised.

    My preference is for the scarred, ciggie burned coffee table and bodies rolled into the corners for quiet disposal at a later date. Robust debate, real talk, disagreement. Maybe free speech comes with free fists. Could be if it’s worth fighting for.”
    _____________

    That.
    The way the OLD old cat was, when good & bad ideas were thrashed about so soundly that only the most solid remained.


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  7. H B Bear says:

    Bob Hawke was the last leader who was genuinely a people person.
    It’s disturbing if you think about it.

    Hawkey was a manufactured saviour in the Liar mould. I was at a stop work meeting in the Pilbara and kept out till they could get Hawkey in to save the day in the late 80s. The Liars tried the same thing with Peanut Head but he truly was unelectable.

    His government was probably the best Liberal government Australia ever had.


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  8. ikamatua says:

    “Free speech was not a load of crap.
    It’s the basis of all the west’s wealth.”
    ..
    Garbage.
    “The basis of all the West’s wealth”?
    The height of western empire was the height of the British empire, from Victorian times on, exactly the times when you would be prosecuted for indecency.
    i.e:
    “abouchere’s Amendment, Clause 11 of the Criminal Law Amendment Act of 1885
    “…any male person who, in public or private, commits, or is party to the commission of, or procures or attempts to procure the commission by any male person of any act of gross indecency with another male person, shall be guilty of a misdemeanour, and being convicted thereof shall be liable at the discretion of the court to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding two years, with or without hard labour”.
    Coinciding with the Height of Empire, that is, for example:
    The British Rawas the rule by the British Crown on the Indian subcontinent from 1858 to 1947.


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  9. MatrixTransform says:

    I’ll be forced into bicycling in circles around the Hills Hoist in the backyard.

    as long as you double-mask that should be fine

    but no more than 1 hr per day


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  10. egg_ says:

    Blue Origin SHUT DOWN By SpaceX After Losing NASA Contract
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPLyLzSKBLk


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  11. Knuckle Dragger says:

    At least someone’s giving the finger to the handsy hunchback. The Hun:

    Around 200 people have flocked to Northcote to an outside dance event – in a clear defiance of social distancing guidelines.

    People were bunched together dancing maskless outside the Peacock Inn on High Street as loud dance music blasted through speakers.

    Partygoers were spotted drinking pints of beer and cocktails which they purchased from several vendors selling alcohol nearby.


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  12. H B Bear says:

    Tom – my pidgin HTML doesn’t seem to be working.


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  13. srr says:

    “Farmer Gez says:
    August 15, 2021 at 2:08 pm
    Our political leaders are strange people.

    Spoke to a bloke who has a mate that went through Mannix College with Dan Andrews for three years. He said none of his friends from those years can recall Andrews at all, yet here he is as Premier.

    It’s the one common element with all the state leaders, they are seriously odd and perhaps friendless in ordinary society.

    Bob Hawke was the last leader who was genuinely a people person.
    It’s disturbing if you think about it.”
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    As demonstrated in real life, this movie shows how “The LOSERS”, are singled out to be given hold power over all & so do ‘what ever it takes’ to maintain that power –

    The Wave – Based on a real Social experiment – basicaly how to create a Cult
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cWxLNENgMc

    The experiment took place at Cubberley High School in Palo Alto, California, during one week in 1969. Ron Jones, unable to explain to his students why the German citizens (particularly non-Nazis) allowed the Nazi Party to exterminate millions of Jews and other so-called ‘undesirables’, decided to show them instead. Jones writes that he started with simple things like classroom discipline, and managed to meld his history class into a group with a supreme sense of purpose and no small amount of cliquishness. Jones named the movement “The Third Wave,” after the common wisdom that the third in a series of ocean waves is always the strongest, and claimed its members would revolutionize the world. The experiment allegedly took on a life of its own, with students from all over the school joining in.


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  14. ikamatua says:

    “The Obscene Publications Act 1857 also known as Lord Campbell’s Act or Campbell’s Act, was a piece of legislation in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland dealing with obscenity. For the first time, it made the sale of obscene material a statutory offence, giving the courts power to seize and destroy offending material. The Act superseded a 1787 Royal Proclamation by George III titled Proclamation for the Discouragement of Vice.
    ..
    We actually used to WIN wars back then:
    ..
    “The Crimean War was a military conflict fought from October 1853 to February 1856[in which Russia lost to an alliance made up of France, the Ottoman Empire, the United Kingdom and Sardinia.


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  15. ikamatua says:

    “The British Rawas” should read “the British Raj”.


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  16. egg_ says:

    “Free speech was not a load of crap.
    It’s the basis of all the west’s wealth.”

    ——————————–

    I’m sure Global OEMs would concur, with regard to local authorities’ OHS and Environmental legislation.

    Life is cheap in some parts, Janet.


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  17. egg_ says:

    Things must be slow over at m0nty’s.


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  18. sfw says:

    Lizzie, you mentioned a couple of other sites, montys(?) and nilk and another, where can I find links to them? Thanks.


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  19. egg_ says:

    Reticulum II (or Reticulum 2) is an old dwarf galaxy in the Local Group. Reticulum II was discovered in 2015 by analysing images from the Dark Energy Survey. It is elongated, having an axis ratio of 0.6. The size is given by a half-light radius of 15 parsecs (pc). This is too large for it to be a globular cluster. Magnitude Mv of the galaxy is -2.7. The distance from Earth is 30 kpc. The galaxy contains some blue horizontal branch stars. Other features visible are a main sequence, and a main sequence turn off, and a red giant branch.[1][2] It has an unusual enhancement of r-process elements; meaning that gold and europium are extra common in the brightest stars in the galaxy.[3] The implication of the unusual enrichment in elements heavier than zinc, is that the r-process is very rare, and only happened once in this galaxy, possibly by the collision of two neutron stars.[4]

    Gamma rays mostly with energies between 2 and 10 GeV have been detected by the Fermi satellite.[5] The radiation from Reticulum II is more significant than that of other dwarf galaxy emissions.[6] However this finding has been contested.[7]

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reticulum_II


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  20. Mother Lode says:

    If it exposes young people to less drugs and prostitution.

    We already have laws against promoting prostitution and drug use because of effects not related to free speech.

    You seem to be seeing if people use speech when breaking the law, the speech being free is at fault.


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  21. dover_beach says:

    DB, any views on ACB ruling on the college kids vax case?

    Confirms Barnes’s view completely. Conservacorp lawyer. Never trust the choices of McConnell or the Federalist Society. She dismissed the case without providing any reasons. Disgusting.


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  22. sfw says:

    Lizzie, I found them, thanks anyway.


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  23. mh says:

    ‘Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has blasted an inner-city takeaway-drink pub crawl as authorities warned young people were the focal point of concern in bringing the coronavirus outbreak under control…
    Mr Andrews criticised a pub crawl across Richmond organised on social media, and pleaded with people not to breach social distancing rules.’
    ***
    📢 Young people. HOW DARE YOU!


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  24. calli says:

    Ahaha! I got it for you Tom, but you beat me to it!

    Perfect.

    Now, Johannes, do one for Gulag Glad.


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  25. Mother Lode says:

    Chant keeps mentioning Whole Of Government.
    W.O.G.

    Cool. I am looking forward to seeing ‘Wogs Out of Work’.


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  26. ikamatua says:

    “Mother Lode says:
    August 15, 2021 at 3:17 pm
    If it exposes young people to less drugs and prostitution.

    We already have laws against promoting prostitution and drug use because of effects not related to free speech.
    ..
    Link to a law that outlaws “promoting” prostitution or drug use.
    Our culture is saturated with such. Do a google search of “fat woman” with safesearch off.
    Then understand that the SAME company will relegate your vaccine reluctance to the 50th page if it allows it at all.


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  27. ikamatua says:

    For fucks sake Adam, put in a button for quotes.
    This blog is all but unusable.


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  28. calli says:

    Sfw, m0nty, nilk, Zipster and Dover all have alternative sites. I can’t give you the addresses, but I’m sure they’ll pop in to give you an invitation.

    It would be good to have a Blogroll toolbar like the old Cat for linkies.

    Plenty of choice for hungry felines!


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  29. calli says:

    Oh, and Arky has his Rumble channel.


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  30. ikamatua says:

    Here is a Google search for the word “high”.
    ..
    https://www.google.com/search?q=high&sxsrf=ALeKk02KYUBKCI-memcmlinxC5aoqQqdxg:1629005200524&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj8tcGipbLyAhWn7HMBHUyaDGEQ_AUoAXoECAIQAw&biw=1280&bih=625
    ..
    Note that the word “high” is not synonymous with getting off your face on drugs. In fact that isn’t in the first five listed definitions. But to Google, it’s about the only definition.
    ..
    High: (dictionary definition)
    of great vertical extent.
    “the top of a high mountain”
    Similar:
    tall
    lofty
    towering
    soaring
    elevated
    giant
    big
    multistorey
    high-rise
    sky-scraping
    Opposite:
    short
    2.
    great, or greater than normal, in quantity, size, or intensity.
    “a high temperature”
    Similar:
    inflated
    excessive
    unreasonable
    overpriced
    sky-high
    unduly expensive
    dear
    costly
    top
    exorbitant
    extortionate
    outrageous
    prohibitive
    over the odds
    steep
    stiff
    pricey
    over the top
    OTT
    criminal
    strong
    powerful
    violent
    intense
    extreme
    forceful
    sharp
    blustery
    gusty
    stormy
    squally
    tempestuous
    turbulent
    boisterous
    Opposite:
    reasonable
    light
    calm
    noun
    1.
    a high point, level, or figure.
    “commodity prices were at a rare high”
    Similar:
    high level
    high point
    record level
    peak
    record
    high water mark
    top
    pinnacle
    zenith
    apex
    acme
    apogee
    apotheosis
    culmination
    climax
    height
    summit
    Opposite:
    low
    2.
    a notably happy or successful moment.
    “the highs and lows of life”
    adverb
    1.
    at or to a considerable or specified height.
    “the sculpture stood about five feet high”


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  31. Steve trickler says:

    ikamatua says:
    August 15, 2021 at 3:24 pm

    Go here for short term fix.

    How to Create Bold and Italic Headings in HTML


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  32. caveman says:

    Twiggy Forrest ,” if your an anti vaxxer your history, or you better know more than me cause I am the science. ”
    ” Some liberty on the quote but the message is the same”


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  33. egg_ says:

    Mr Andrews criticised a pub crawl across Richmond organised on social media, and pleaded with people not to breach social distancing rules.’

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    Ring-of-Steel sounding p1ssweak.


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  34. ikamatua says:

    The same Google image search with “safesearch” on will return the exact same images of people getting off their faces on drugs, with the cartoon Lisa Simpson again in the first few results.


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  35. srr says:

    “Franx says:
    August 15, 2021 at 2:24 pm
    The people who favour lockdowns are often working from home.
    Yet more often than not they fail to realise that they are not working from home but are living at work, that their homes are the domain of their masters who can inspect and demand oh&s measures, can determine who enters and under what conditions, can determine when the worker can leave and for how long and how far. The idea and reality of ‘home’ has morphed from sanctuary into gulag. How easy was that. Not a shot fired.”
    ______________________

    Yep, while people are watching for black clad armed police to freak out over, the same people merrily go on dobbing their neighbours in to those black clad armed police for letting their kids have a birthday sleep over with a couple of friends.


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  36. DrBeauGan says:

    “The Obscene Publications Act 1857 also known as Lord Campbell’s Act or Campbell’s Act, was a piece of legislation in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland dealing with obscenity. For the first time, it made the sale of obscene material a statutory offence, giving the courts power to seize and destroy offending material. The Act superseded a 1787 Royal Proclamation by George III titled Proclamation for the Discouragement of Vice.

    Your preference is for taboos, mine is for morals Arky.


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  37. Rex Anger says:

    This is why I don’t get anyone still trusting those flitting between all the cats, calling for the banning of anyone they don’t like or the banning of those platforms that don’t comply with the needs of their ever so sensitive minds.

    THE TARGET is to have NO Free & Open Public Forums in Australia & they are going hell for leather to make it so.

    Just because there are a great many people on tbe Cat (including Doomlords) who consistently found your content tedious and conduct objectionable, does not mean that there is a concerted campaign to ban everyone from speaking their piece, srr.

    As the phrase goes, “It ain’t us- It’s YOU…


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  38. rickw says:

    Helicopter gunships were like fireflies in some areas and still the Mujahideen prevailed.

    The Russians were giving the Mujahideen a pretty ferocious beating until the USA started to give them Stinger surface to air missiles, then suddenly all their Aviation became vulnerable to any man on a donkey.


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  39. ikamatua says:

    So any primary age school child inputting a Google search for the word “high”, a word for which the primary aged definition should be ‘elevated’ or “a distance above ground level” even with safesearch on, will return page after page of drug culture and paraphenallia, and none that illustrates the concept of height.


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  40. Mother Lode says:

    Link to a law that outlaws “promoting” prostitution or drug use.

    I had in mind of promoting to minors – whose minds are still forming. I had no idea you mean to control what can be said to adults so you can manage what they think, and therefore do.

    How very 1984 of you.


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  41. ikamatua says:

    “Your preference is for taboos, mine is for morals Arky.”
    ..
    Incorrect.
    I simply note, as do the Marxists, that you do not rid a society of taboos, but replace one set with another after a period of chaos. A taboo against public intercourse is useful. A taboo against debating immigration levels or the likihood of carbon dioxide affecting temperature are not useful.
    Your preference is for chaos, which is never a permanent state.


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  42. Boambee John says:

    calli says:
    August 15, 2021 at 3:24 pm
    Sfw, m0nty, nilk, Zipster and Dover all have alternative sites. I can’t give you the addresses, but I’m sure they’ll pop in to give you an invitation.

    It would be good to have a Blogroll toolbar like the old Cat for linkies.

    Plenty of choice for hungry felines!

    Been thinking the same thing, but of late I have visited few other sites.

    I used to visit Jon J Ray’s sites (Dissecting Leftism, PC Watch, et al), but he posts little these days, apparently because of serious cancer. Also Quadrant On-Line, Spiked On-Line, Instapundit and Small Dead Animals.


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  43. ikamatua says:

    ” I had no idea you mean to control what can be said to adults so you can manage what they think, and therefore do.”
    ..
    This is garbage.
    I said nothing of the sort.


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  44. Steve trickler says:

    Twiggy Forrest ,” if your an anti vaxxer your history, or you better know more than me cause I am the science. ”

    A steel cap boot to the head would not go astray.


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  45. srr says:

    “Chant keeps mentioning Whole Of Government.
    W.O.G.”
    ________________

    I was told off for referring to myself as a first gen Aussie ‘wog’, in Canberra, when “WOGS OUT OF WORK”, banners where flying everywhere.
    There was also that time the National Gallery held a Chinese Communist Party Exhibition that they were praising, not condemning for their mass slaughters of their own people.

    Canberra, it’s broken and doesn’t recognise humans, only currant “talking points”.


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  46. ikamatua says:

    Lode.
    I just linked to where the major tool for research by primary aged children in schools opens up with page after page of images promoting drug culture.
    With “safesearch” on.
    Again.
    You claimed there were laws against promoting drug use to children.
    Link to one.


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  47. ikamatua says:

    “I had in mind of promoting to minors ”
    ..
    Link to a law that outlaws “promoting” drug use to minors.


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  48. shatterzzz says:

    I’ll be forced into bicycling in circles around the Hills Hoist in the backyard

    I went for my daily 40kms ride around Fairfield this morning .. not a plod in sight but then there NEVER is, all this waffle about rings of steel & presence in Fairfield since the beginning, has been just that .. waffle ..!
    Coupla weeks ago the media made a big issue of plod & horses in Fairfield resplendent with pix .. what wasn’t mentioned was that it was a photo op on a residential street on the edge of the shopping precinct that very rarely has much pedestrian traffic at the best of times.


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  49. Bar Beach Swimmer says:

    Can anyone put up the article in The Oz re China and the takeover of the WHO? thank you.


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  50. H B Bear says:

    Twiggy is going to be a PITA till he explodes again. It may take a while.


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  51. ikamatua says:

    No one in the conservative sphere wants to be the “bad guy” of telling people they need to give up their drugs and porn fixations for the good of a productive society.
    To