Open Thread – Thursday 5 August 2021

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  1. Cassie of Sydney says:

    “twostix says:
    August 5, 2021 at 10:13 pm
    “Never fear, Cohenite. I backed up the entire site to the beginning of 2017. I’m busy for a week but if you let me know what it is you want I’ll go look for it next week.”

    Man oh man where is Leigh Lowe!”
    ___________________________

    I’ll call him.


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  2. Indolent says:

    mindfree says:
    August 5, 2021 at 9:55 pm
    Malcolm Roberts is on Conservative Tree House. Now getting a presence in the US

    —–

    Link dude.
    —————————————–

    https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2021/08/04/australian-senator-malcolm-roberts-if-the-government-can-decide-who-is-free-and-who-is-not-there-is-no-freedom-only-tyranny/

    Amazingly well put. Every word is true. I’ve sent him a message of support, even though I’m in NSW.


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  3. Cassie of Sydney says:

    “It’s been nearly a year since she last put in an appearance anywhere.”

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    Wrong…Ellie made several appearances on the old Cat this year.


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  4. rocinante says:

    But everything I ever said is literally priceless so going through it is like picking and choosing flawless diamonds.

    That’s okay, Cohenite.
    I’ll copy the whole thing onto a memory stick and post it to you c/- Cohenite at a post office of your choice. It’s just under 10 gigabytes.


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  5. mh says:

    ‘Neil says:
    August 5, 2021 at 10:15 pm
    Until a MPs salary is cut when they order a lockdown these lockdowns will be never stopped. Halving a politicians salary during a lockdown is what should be done.’

    C’mon Neil. This isn’t Sinc’s blog anymore. We can do better that.
    Politicians and CHOs need to be killed for crimes against the Australian people.
    Public hangings, starting with Dr Jeanette Young. Ladies first.


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  6. Rorschach says:

    In SpaceX news. Starship SN20 is rolling down the road to the Boca Chica launch centre. Things are moving fast (ahem it the SN29)

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mhJRzQsLZGg


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  7. Steve trickler says:

    Indolent says:
    August 5, 2021 at 10:27 pm

    —–

    Cheers.


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  8. Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare says:

    “Johanna hit the nail re. the “Epidemiologist” b/s and bushkid’s carefully thought-out post went right over her head. Somebody is too self-absorbed to reflect and to learn. ”

    JMH, Johanna was quite wrong about my qualification. It is the most usual and recognised qualification in epidemiology: MPH. Check how many researchers on the New England Journal of Medicine (a gold standard publication) are proud to put it after their name. I have used it in post-graduate university teaching myself. Why Johanna is so insistent about denigrating it is the real issue, imho.

    Bushkid’s ‘advice’ was gratuitous and I suspect made without knowledge of Johanna’s long history on this site. Bushkid has been a fairly recent arrival on the Cat and is of course very welcome here. Her views received my careful and well thought out reply.

    I have been commenting on Catallaxy well over ten years now. I know this site and its ethos and commenters well. Sometimes I am serious, sometimes not; that is the way of it. I have in point of fact a great deal of self-reflection about who I am, what I stand for, how I behave, what I write about and what I am doing here; also what I am prepared to put up with here. What gives you or Johanna or anyone else the right to determine whether Catallaxy is a good place for me to comment or not?
    Such hubris you display. Another pompous male too.


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  9. Sancho Panzer says:

    rocinante at 10:19.
    “Ellie? Ellie?
    Yeah she’s here.
    No, she can’t come to the phone right now.
    She’s sucking my dick.”
    (Hangs up phone).
    “I love wrong numbers”.
    .
    h/t Danny DeVito in Ruthless People.


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  10. twostix says:

    “For almost 40 years Australians have had a legal right under the Freedom of Information Act to access information relating to intergovernmental meetings, subject only to a test of public harm.

    “Last year Prime Minister Morrison tried to take that right away. He did not ask the Parliament to change the law, he just declared that national cabinet to be part of the federal cabinet and as such exempt under the cabinet secrecy exemption of the FOI Act.

    “That arrogant declaration has now been overturned.”

    Oops! Turns out you can’t simply create a new arm of government inside the Commonweatlth. What a shame, sad.

    This is what happens Morrison, when you turn on your people and side with the baddies – shit starts to go wrong immediately, god is punishing you.


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  11. rocinante says:

    Cassie of Sydney says:
    August 5, 2021 at 10:28 pm

    Wrong…Ellie made several appearances on the old Cat this year.
    ——————————–
    Thanks Cassie. So she was still alive then. Good to know.


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  12. egg_ says:

    National Cabinet is the Australian intergovernmental decision-making forum* composed of the prime minister and state and territory premiers and chief ministers. Originally established on 13 March 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, National Cabinet replaced the now-defunct Council of Australian Governments (COAG) as the primary intergovernmental forum on 29 May 2020, citing excessive bureaucracy and infrequent meetings.[1] National Cabinet is composed of the main forum (prime minister, premiers, and chief ministers), and specialised committees focusing on: rural and regional Australia, skills, infrastructure, health, transport, population and migration, and energy.[2]”

    *Where’s a lampost when you need one?

    /NADT


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  13. mh says:

    Sing it, brother

    Discharge – Drunk With Power
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-O-qxYJdpg

    For how long do we tolerate
    These fools drunk with power

    Drunk with power, obsessed with death
    Death and destruction drunk with power

    A giant game of chess they play
    With you and I
    As the disposable pieces

    Drunk with power, obsessed with death
    Death and destruction drunk with power


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  14. egg_ says:

    “I’ll call him.”

    Is the nursing home open at this hour?


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  15. rocinante says:

    egg_ says:
    August 5, 2021 at 10:37 pm

    *Where’s a lampost when you need one?
    ——————————
    Power poles work just as well. But often they’re a bit taller so we will need more piano wire.
    NADT


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  16. twostix says:

    When Labor win the next election, with One Nation holding the balance of power in the Senate and god willing a few lower house seats, I want Labor to make public every single damaging document out of Scommos little traitorous “shadow government” that he setup inside the Commonwealth from the last 18 months.

    Out of one side of his mouth he said it was simply a working group, “hey guys we’re just having meetings here no big deal”, out of the other a fully protected arm of the Commonwealth Government that has been running the country like a secret junta for 18 months.

    Treacherous!


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  17. egg_ says:

    The wiki link attempts to compare the National Cabinet to the Australian War Cabinet.

    “At the Imperial Conference in London in 1937, the Australian government had agreed to form a War Cabinet on the outbreak of war.[30] The Full Cabinet approved the formation of the War Cabinet on 26 September 1939.[31] As neither Earle Page’s Country Party nor John Curtin’s Australian Labor Party would join in a coalition government with Menzies’ United Australia Party,[32] the War Cabinet initially consisted of:

    Robert Menzies (Prime Minister and Treasurer)
    Richard Casey (Minister for Supply)
    Geoffrey Street (Minister for Defence)
    George McLeay (Minister for Commerce)
    Henry Gullett (Minister for Information)
    William Hughes (Attorney-General)[33]”

    No State Premiers in that list.


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  18. Fat Tony says:

    Lizzie

    Why don’t you do what some of us do when someone here gives us the shits:

    1. Ignore them (scroll wheel) or
    2. Tell them to get fucked, then ignore them.

    I’ve had to replace my mouse with all the scrolling I’ve been doing lately (not just you, but others as well)


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  19. egg_ says:

    “National cabinet thrown open to scrutiny in ruling it is not a cabinet”

    Scumoron taking advice from kids in short pants?


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  20. rocinante says:

    egg_ says:
    August 5, 2021 at 10:39

    Is the nursing home open at this hour?
    ——————————
    No, but we sneak around in the dark after lights out.


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  21. Fat Tony says:

    egg_ says:
    August 5, 2021 at 10:47 pm
    “National cabinet thrown open to scrutiny in ruling it is not a cabinet”

    “Scumoron taking advice from kids in short pants?”

    eggster – mate, it’s Federal Parliament – that’d be “kids in no pants”


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  22. cohenite says:

    That’s okay, Cohenite.
    I’ll copy the whole thing onto a memory stick and post it to you c/- Cohenite at a post office of your choice. It’s just under 10 gigabytes.

    Send it to head prefect; he loves my stuff.


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  23. egg_ says:

    “I want Labor to make public every single damaging document out of Scommos little traitorous “shadow government” that he setup inside the Commonwealth from the last 18 months.”

    Probably shows him up for the cuck that he is.

    Scummo: “I’d like to propose blah blah blah…”

    Andrews (interjecting): Nope – not in my State.

    (silence)


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  24. Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Border Closure says:

    When Labor win the next election, with One Nation holding the balance of power in the Senate and god willing a few lower house seats, I want Labor to make public every single damaging document out of Scommos little traitorous “shadow government” that he setup inside the Commonwealth from the last 18 months.

    Would that be the same Labor that contributes Five of the Nine members of that National Cabinet?


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  25. K2 says:

    I get to work today (1pm start) and the colleagues are telling me about another lockdan looming etc. WTF?

    These imbeciles seemed happy/nonchalant about such an occurrence. More time off, have another holiday! No discourse about the insanity of it all . Age range early 20s-late 30s.

    The only person showing concern was our prep chef; a bloke mid-40s who knows something sinister is afoot.

    I don’t want to fight for these morons. Will happily watch them weep and gnash their teeth.


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  26. Harlequin Decline says:

    Lizzie,

    I agree penalties would be most unlikely but a ruling that imposing such measures without debate and the approval of Parliament constitutes reckless indifference might be possible.

    After all the reason for the existence of Parliament is so that such matters get due consideration by the elected representatives of the people and the public has access to the arguments. Different in practice of course.

    If so we might get more detail on the currently arcane ‘expert health advice’ which is not being made public and prevent the more egregious abuses of power-e.g. the farcical shutdown for the building industry only to open it up 2 weeks later when case numbers were higher.


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  27. Steve trickler says:

    A cricket bat to a few heads would not go astray.


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  28. egg_ says:

    “it’s Federal Parliament – that’d be “kids in no pants””

    With Scummo in a gimp outfit.


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  29. twostix says:

    Would that be the same Labor that contributes Five of the Nine members of that National Cabinet?

    Don’t blame the players, blame the absolute dickhead who made up the game.


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  30. John of Mel says:

    “Essentially a lite-coup where he and the state premiers formed a completely new branch of commonwealth government and named it a ‘committee of the [federal] cabinet’.”

    Common Twostix. That’s not a coup. The guy in WA (?) who made a video – that’s the real one.


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  31. Sancho Panzer says:

    I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again.
    This country is a shit-splattered latrine.


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  32. Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare says:

    “Out of one side of his mouth he said it was simply a working group, “hey guys we’re just having meetings here no big deal”, out of the other a fully protected arm of the Commonwealth Government that has been running the country like a secret junta for 18 months.

    Treacherous!”

    I couldn’t agree more. The has to be some reckoning for all of this.


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  33. K2 says:

    Am going to browse e-bay for a Viv Richards SS Jumbo.


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  34. rocinante says:

    Steve trickler says:
    August 5, 2021 at 10:55 pm
    Steve trickler says:
    August 5, 2021 at 10:55 pm

    A cricket bat to a few heads would not go astray.
    ————————
    To the soles of their feet would be better. Slower.
    While they are hanging by piano wire under their armpits, decorating power poles.

    NADT
    At least not for a good while.


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  35. Jorge says:

    Vicpol tonight. A small bunch of them, two big fucks especially relishing their work as they smashed the disabled guy. It took six of the overweight palookas to get him down George Floyd style and then a good three minutes to get the plastic on his wrists. Lots of vocal bystanders gave them heaps as they did it.


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  36. Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare says:

    “1. Ignore them (scroll wheel) or
    2. Tell them to get fucked, then ignore them.”

    Fat Tony, I have done all of this at times. But there is a time to fight back too. Why should people be able to get away with constant bully-boy or bully-girl tactics?

    Also, it is hurtful. Remember when I went OTT with you once and really called you out as being ‘fat’? You were hurt, and you felt you had to say so. And I backed off.
    Scrolling and a thick skin isn’t always the answer. It is a very human response to want to tell people when they are being utter pricks.


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  37. Huck says:

    “ Sancho Panzer says:
    August 5, 2021 at 11:02 pm
    I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again.
    This country is a shit-splattered latrine.”

    No, it couldn’t be.
    Could it?


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  38. egg_ says:

    Guitar Boogie (Tommy Emmanuel) Piano Sangah Noona Jams with Tommy Emmanuel
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WOyZ9hFht0


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  39. John of Mel says:

    “Crazy ride.”

    Even watching this is scary.


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  40. Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare says:

    No Premiers in Menzies’ War Cabinet.

    That is a very good observation. Morrison has allowed the Premiers inside the main House. He should have kept them at the gate, waiting. He holds the purse strings and he could have enacted emergency legislation to take over some of their powers.

    Someone has to steer the ship of State.


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  41. twostix says:

    In “Pharma marketing brochures aren’t necessarily truthful” news:

    Moderna Inc. said Thursday that its vaccine remains more than 90% effective for at least six months, but added that people who received it will likely need a third dose before the winter to keep strong protection against newer variants of the coronavirus.

    Moderna is good for a whole…six months.

    Prediction made last year: The 2020 era coronavirus vaccines have not overcome the problems that have plagued and prevented all previous coronavirus vaccines coming to market. The companies are simply lying that they have, and we’ll find out soon.

    100% correct.

    New prediction: All governments and public health officials already know that the vaccines are already worthless. But have invested so much money and personal reputation into shilling for them, they must now continue as if nothing has happened. The companies are offering to cover them with positive media for them by aggressively tapping their marketing channels to advance the products (I.e low rent media companies like News Corp and Fairfax, corrupt officials, Google, Facebook, Twitter etc).


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  42. K2 says:

    Vocal by-standing is not enough. More tolchocking required. Time to start making these pigs query whether they want to go to work tonight.


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  43. Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare says:

    Watched the end of the Olympic men’s hockey with Hairy. It was quite exciting. Australia vs Belgium. It went to extra time, putting tremendous pressure on the play off as one goalie fended off a lone attacker for each goal. It was 3:2 for Belgium when a video ref had to be called, just as the crowd was yelling gold for Belgium. Australia was given one more chance for a goal. All back to make that last shot, tension riding high; our guy missed it, the crowd went wild for Belgium, the Belgian players went beserko climbing all over each other, and our guy was a broken man in tears on the ground, his mates all over him saying s’ok, s’ok. So sad.

    I’m usually not much into sport, in contrast to Hairy who lives for it. But the Olympics has always got me much more interested, and not just in the girl things like swimming or gymnastics.


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  44. Sancho Panzer says:

    I did enjoy my Mushrooms on toast for breakfast this morning.


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  45. Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Border Closure says:

    Don’t blame the players, blame the absolute dickhead who made up the game.

    Fair point.
    + wot Lizzie said @ 11.15pm


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  46. Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare says:

    Harlequin, it would be good if a ruling could be obtained; it would be something at least. It might also have some impact on any later epidemic management.

    As for the ‘arcane’ health advice, I doubt we would get anywhere with challenging that. They have ‘protective’ back up in the modelling (!) that they have had done. It has plenty of wriggle room in it. Construction ban was a stupid decision made in panic because the tracers were obviously showing building sites were active in transmissions. They will use this as the ‘health advice’. Men were going to work regardless of being ill in those early two weeks and infecting their families at home. They could have just come down harder on Covid compliance on the worksites in work methods etc with more testing, say weekly, for workers (and making the tests easily available). The tremendous reaction from construction workers in trucks and on the streets made them swing back anyway to opening it again with more emphasis on Covid compliance. They will argue that this stoppage pulled construction workers up sufficiently about workplace compliance to allow reopening. In fact, we’ll never really know how and where this virus was speading as it moves too fast. I think they’ve lost it already; tilting at windmills.

    They will have a health ‘reason’ for everything in retrospect though.


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  47. K2 says:

    This whole National Cabinet horse shit is all about absolving Canberra of any decision making. Divide and Conquer 101.

    Australian states are anachronistic and should have been dissolved decades ago.

    The island continent was divvied up into five states etc in the early days. ALL former British colonies LOL.

    If the island continent of Australia was some parts British, other parts Spanish, French, Portugeuse etc then you might still plum for some statehood/autonomy like we are seeing now.

    What a fucking scam and farce.


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  48. Wally Dalí says:

    That hockey game was awesome- until the appeal to the video ref. Video review has ruined the spectacle as well as the grace of tennis, cricket, aussie rules… and now Olympic hockey, just when hockey had been doing so much to purge the poxy offside – obstruction regs which were clogging up the whistle and ruining the flow of play.
    That, and it was a very weak reasoning too, bordering on staging. The player was not fouled so much as to stop play for even a heartbeat, so where’s the justification? I hope the blokes can reflect and think, yeah, should have never even let it cross our minds, no matter what was at stake. You should play for grace first, everything else- crowd expectations, olympic gold, justifying AIS money, distant second.


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  49. Bushkid says:

    miltonf says:
    August 5, 2021 at 8:45 pm
    If I understand correctly, the WEF plan for Australia for it is to be a playground for the rich and fatuous.
    ——————————–

    Someone told me that about 23 years ago, without mention of the WEF specifically, not sure if it existed/or was in its current form at that time.

    I laughed at the time…. Not any more.


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  50. Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare says:

    “The island continent was divvied up into five states etc in the early days. ALL former British colonies LOL.”

    We thus have the ridiculous situation where a ‘State’ such as Tasmania, with a population the size of a small regional city on the mainland, still gets 12 senators to represent its interests. Tasmania should be amalgamated with Victoria or South Australia simply on the population argument. Or lump all three of them together. It’s so freaking cold down there most of the year they could keep each other warm.


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  51. Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare says:

    Yes, Bushkid. That view was expressed in the Keating years as ‘Australia will simply become the playground of Asia’,


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  52. mh says:

    Just catching up on the latest vaxxx death:

    ‘A 34-year-old NSW woman died yesterday after developing blood clots following a first dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine, with the Therapeutic Goods Administration finding her death was “likely linked” to the jab.

    The women is one of three new blood clotting cases among people who had received the AstraZeneca vaccine disclosed by the TGA this afternoon as part of its weekly vaccine safety report.

    The other two are also both NSW women, aged 51 and 67.

    “Sadly, one of the cases, a 34-year-old woman from NSW, died yesterday,” the TGA report said.’


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  53. K2 says:

    Yes Lizzie. You almost understand. Tasmania should be represented in accordance to it’s population. Maybe two senators, not 12.

    It should not be amalgamated with Victoria or South Australia, because neither of them should exist.

    Only LGA/provinces and Canberra.


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  54. rocinante says:

    Bushkid says:
    August 5, 2021 at 11:45 pm

    I laughed at the time…. Not any more.
    —————————————-
    As the planet cools over the next hundred years or so the coastal areas of Australia will be very desirable. The Parliament House in Canberra was never built for us minions. In fact none of Canberra was.
    b
    This has been planned for a very long time. The WEF and their “Great Reset” are merely temporary stepping stones. They will be discarded and dispensed with when the time comes.


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  55. Steve trickler says:

    Going to bed ladies and gents. Sleep well.


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  56. Old School Conservative says:

    Video review has ruined the spectacle as well as the grace of tennis, cricket, aussie rules

    I’d add rugby to that list.
    Eons of standing around while video refs pour over minutiae.
    Boring, stops the free flow of the game, and ridiculous to have 4 officials looking for a consensus on-field.
    A courageous rugby administration would give all on-field decision making power to just the ref and have video refs call up any missed foul play after the game.


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  57. mh says:

    Avi Yemini 🇦🇺🇮🇱
    @OzraeliAvi
    ·
    2h
    Tonight I was ASSAULTED numerous times by a thug cop.

    He tried to intimidate me out of doing my job.

    He threatened my security guard to “take me home”.

    I didn’t back down. I never will.

    Tomorrow I’ll make him famous, and then I’ll come for his badge.

    WATCH. THIS. SPACE.


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  58. K2 says:

    Tasmania having statehood and too many senators does give us some blockage like the religious nut back in the day and Jacqui/Jackie. On the flip side, Bob Brown.

    What can you do?


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  59. Chris M says:

    Is Barnaby completely stoned in parliament? Or downed a keg?

    We need to lock down parliament for our safety!


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  60. mc says:

    What has taken over the new cat? Why is everyone so keen to be ruled centrally from Canberra? I agree we are over governed but it is better to have government closer to the governed not further removed. Far better to significantly reduce the size of the federal government, remove the duplication and hold state governments accountable as they should be.

    Be careful what you wish for.

    And remember, what ever the problem, government is not the answer.


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  61. rocinante says:

    mc says:
    August 6, 2021 at 12:11 am

    + 100

    Bed time.


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  62. Grigory M says:

    mh says:
    August 5, 2021 at 10:31 pm

    Adam – if you are not already up to speed on the Criminal Code, perhaps you should add it to your list of priorities. Comments such as the one noted above are likely to be a problem for not just the person who made them but also for you as the blog owner.


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  63. egg_ says:

    “Tonight I was ASSAULTED numerous times by a thug cop.

    He tried to intimidate me out of doing my job.

    He threatened my security guard to “take me home”.”

    The long arm of Stairmaster Dan?


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  64. K2 says:

    If this Covid-19 debacle hasn’t clued you up to the ridiculousness of the “states”. nothing will.

    People in Mildura and Bairnsdale are lockdan tonight because: State: Victoria.

    I have been very careful for what I wish for.


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  65. mh says:

    Shut the fvck up Grigs you parasitic failure of a man.


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  66. egg_ says:

    “Ezra Levant Maple leaf
    @ezralevant
    ·
    2h
    Avi, we’ve got your back.”

    A global embarrassment, Dan?


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  67. egg_ says:

    “Why is everyone so keen to be ruled centrally from Canberra?”

    WTF?

    It’s about nailing this useless POS Morrison enabling the State tin pot Dictators, especially Andrews.


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  68. Digger says:

    “What can you do?”

    STFU


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  69. egg_ says:

    “Some pathetic cops”

    What’s the name tag on teh fvcktard sans mask?


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  70. Bushkid says:

    Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare says:
    August 5, 2021 at 10:08 pm

    —————————————————————-

    Your views on this please, Bushkid?

    Would like to be the recipient of this sort of vitrioltic mad-woman attack whenever you say anything here?
    ——————————–

    First, I don’t know why you’d think my opinion necessary or valuable.

    Second, I’m not the recipient of “this sort of vitrioltic mad-woman attack whenever” I “say anything here” because I rarely post, and try to remain on topic when I do.

    Third, don’t make the mistake of thinking I care enough to comment any further on this subject.

    I’m busy enough keeping my head above water, on my own in my seventh decade, earning my own living, finding some joy in life, doing my best to keep ahead of the bastards who are trying to ruin our country, and keep informed partly through finding useful and sensible information at various places, including this forum. I’m not interested in bitchfights, either as spectator or participant – that goes for the other tit-for-tat commenters as well – hence my comment. I made my observation, offered mature advice in a mature manner, that’s it. Get over it or not as you choose, I really couldn’t care less, I have more important things to be concerned with.


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  71. K2 says:

    Calling posters like Ed Case and Terry Pedersen “Grigs” is not accurate or fair, and also lazy.

    This Grigory M, who I’m guessing is the real “Grigs”, is an horrible c**t.


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  72. mh says:

    ‘PM seeks national framework on women’

    How about some women on a framework.
    Gladys and Kerry on a gallows.


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  73. I’m happy with the Federation idea of competing states but it’s meaningless with centralised taxation. Give taxation back to the states and get the federal government back to its original small responsibility.


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  74. srr says:

    The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #191
    https://www.lotuseaters.com/the-podcast-of-the-lotus-eaters-191-05-08-21
    Published 5th Aug
    Carl and Callum discuss the conflict between Joe Biden and Ron DeSantis, the state of the state of New York, and Bill de Blasio’s mandatory vaccine passport tyranny.


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  75. K2 says:

    All of metroplolitan Melbourne could and should be a province of Australia. People in Mildura or Bairnsdale etc should not be under some diktat from there.


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  76. K2 says:

    Digger!

    Good on you cobber. Thanks for your enlightening contribution, as usual.


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  77. MatrixTransform says:

    Thefrollickingmole says: August 5, 2021 at 7:47 pm
    On the off chance you know.
    Do they harvest hormones from the bugs at all?

    couldn’t say (because of the NDA I signed)
    don’t think so
    very concerned with life cycle at the moment


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  78. MatrixTransform says:

    Reshaping the global food chain

    YUM!

    … an look at all those machines and climate controlled labs
    … I wonder what clever fuckers set all them up?


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  79. MatrixTransform says:

    “For your protection your administrator has blocked all Facebook access.”

    *chuckles

    ever vigilant because we care


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  80. MatrixTransform says:

    If Victorians are going to start being awesome on a regular basis I’ll have to increase my view of them.

    don’t get yr hopes up.

    as my grand-mother would say … spit in one hand and wish in the other then see which come true first


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  81. struth says:

    So no one can prove Covid exists.
    Not even the government of Alberta.
    Would the hysterical bedwetters just stop and ponder that a while.
    Realise the extent to which you have been had.
    To the extent of putting a concoction of death into your bodies while allowing yourselves to be locked up in your own homes and your lives destroyed.
    All while for the last 18 months people like me have been screaming at you.
    Gullible is a word that doesn’t really descibe you adequately.
    Prove covid exists.
    Prove the PCR tests can discern the virus from other viruses or even whether the virus is living or dead.
    Prove that anybody, and I mean anybody died of just covid.
    When you can’t. ….ask your local rep to prove it.
    In writing.
    Then you say this.
    If you cannot provide proof I expect you to come out publicly against this tyranny.
    If you do not and you cannot provide evidence, you are guilty of crimes against humanity, against millions of people and I and others will be putting your name forward to the Nuremberg style courts being organised (said as if a fact) as a knowing perpetrator.
    Maybe quote Alberta decision and whatever else you think may get them nervous.
    Back benchers are the key here if you ask me.
    Thoughts?
    But no nice letters.
    As threatening as you can be insinuating the tide has turned (even if it hasn’t) without being actoinable.


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  82. struth says:

    I would also add the challenges he will face next election.
    We only need one or two to crack.


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  83. Top Ender says:

    Thanks for the ‘toons Tom – much appreciated.


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