Open Thread – Tuesday 17 August 2021

Posted on August 17, 2021 by Adam D
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  2. johanna says:
    August 18, 2021 at 11:05 am

    Mark A says:
    August 18, 2021 at 10:47 am

    johanna says:
    August 18, 2021 at 10:30 am

    Mark, I’m sorry that free speech in the fullest sense makes you (and apparently a lot of others who are now congratulating themselves elsewhere) so uncomfortable.

    Again I may have missed the point, I do not want anyone banned, period.
    But if say you were a moderator with the power to remove an offensive post and be here at the time of posting, then that’s all would be required.
    ————————————-
    Maybe I am missing the point.

    It sounds suspiciously like the Left’s ‘words are violence’ crap.

    Adam has periodically purged the sewage we are speaking about. So, your complaint is that he is not doing it as quickly as you would like? That the words are violence?

    I’d hate to lose your pics, but especially for mysterious reasons. 🙂


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  4. Bar Beach Swimmer says:
    August 18, 2021 at 11:06 am

    Biden screwed up while doing it, but at least he got it done in the end

    Monty, I love that euphemism for what in fact is a debacle. “Screwed up” is being a bit of an arse and getting the wife off-side. And “getting it done” as people are falling from planes to get out of the place is not a successful op. But you know that already.


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  5. m0nty says:
    August 18, 2021 at 11:06 am

    If he’d chosen to support the Kurds he would’ve been impeached for breaking the NATO Treaty.

    Rubbish. Presidents have a lot of latitude on foreign policy. They can start wars under false pretences without getting impeached, just look at Dubbya. Impeachment wasn’t much of a deterrent to Trump either, was it?


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  6. lotocoti says:
    August 18, 2021 at 11:07 am

    because nobody has the election cycle courage to take out an entire city

    Witness the march through western Germany, 1945.
    The white flags are nice, but if anyone shoots, we’ll withdraw to a safe distance and flatten your picturesque little burg with artillery.


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  7. Mater says:
    August 18, 2021 at 11:08 am

    Breast cancer screening appointments suspended across all of NSW in response to lockdown

    Happened in Victoria in April 2020, and the devastating results have already been documented in the Lancet.

    “Combined with interruptions in cancer screening programmes and delays in scans and diagnostics, a spike in late cancer presentations and diagnoses is anticipated, making some previously curable tumours more difficult to treat and, unfortunately, further excess deaths unavoidable. This problem prevails internationally, even in countries praised for their management of COVID-19; a study estimated that in the state of Victoria, Australia, around 2500 cancer diagnoses were missed during the first 6 months of the pandemic.”

    https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanonc/article/PIIS1470-2045(21)00148-0/fulltext

    Monty responds with, ‘nothing to see here, move along!’:

    m0nty says:
    May 26, 2021 at 10:49 pm
    Also, in Victoria last year before the vaccine was available, how could you expect doctors to risk infection with face to face consultations? They are not soldiers on a battlefield.


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  9. Franx says:
    August 18, 2021 at 11:11 am

    SoM
    Though nothing is said about them by the political class, as if the self-employed did not matter at all: if only the people whose livelihoods have been destroyed could come to know that they are not abandoned by fellow human beings, or by their Maker.


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  10. mh says:
    August 18, 2021 at 11:11 am

    ‘NSW records 633 new cases‘
    ***
    Time to accept that we will have to live with Coronavirus.
    Just like we always have.


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  11. caveman says:
    August 18, 2021 at 11:13 am

    633 cases in NSW , how’s that lockdown doin.
    Full eradication of humans would work.

    Maybe their testing is crap.


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  12. cohenite says:
    August 18, 2021 at 11:14 am

    This is the problem with lefties, even affable ones like you. Lies upon lies upon lies.

    The fat little turd is as affable as any other leftie; which is to say not at all, or more specifically, only when he is winning or in charge.

    Dan Bongino in good form today beginning with the typical idiocy/hypocrisy of the left when a whitehouse spokesman expects the talifucks to be reasonable and play by the rules – gender diversity, CRT, BLM etc – when the left themselves don’t play by the rules only that others should.

    https://rumble.com/vlb2dj-ep.-1586-deeply-troubling-information-from-a-source-in-afghanistan-the-dan-.html?mref=6zof&mc=dgip3&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=The+Dan+Bongino+Show&ep=2


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  13. johanna says:
    August 18, 2021 at 11:15 am

    calli says:
    August 18, 2021 at 10:53 am

    Appears poor Dover has just had his first Bird Strike.
    ———————————————–
    Oh, dear.

    🙂

    So much for safe spaces.

    And yes, I am gloating. Gloating is the consequence of being proved right.

    Where to now, scared little kiddies?


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  14. Terry Pedersen says:
    August 18, 2021 at 11:15 am

    Glad the Loudhailer, Keeper of the Iron Pyrite Standard, is truly the modern version of Typhoid Mary.

    633 new COVID cases in NSW from only 100,000 tests. 462 people in hospital, 77 in ICU (up by 8), 3 more deaths.

    Gladys should have properly locked down Bondi and Waverley LGA 7 weeks ago. Too late now. Things are going to get much worse.


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  15. cohenite says:
    August 18, 2021 at 11:16 am

    srr says:
    August 18, 2021 at 11:09 am
    Cory Bernardi @corybernardi
    ·19h

    https://twitter.com/corybernardi/status/1427505291168387074/photo/1

    Usual comments blaming Trump for negotiating with the talifucks. The difference is Trump would have ENFORCED the agreement.


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  16. Bar Beach Swimmer says:
    August 18, 2021 at 11:17 am

    Mark A says:
    August 18, 2021 at 10:10 am
    Sorry BBS, I probably wasn’t clear

    Mark, that’s the problem with a blog – sometimes we can’t convey exactly what we mean and this is especially the case when we’re doing it at the same time as other things.

    I was attempting, and quite badly, to reflect what I think most commenters think of how the little things, especially things like the humour of your lame pics, help to balance our day. No worries with whatever you decide.
    Thanks, again.


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  17. rosie says:
    August 18, 2021 at 11:17 am

    My thought too as soon as I saw the name.

    And then, the semi innocuous comment

    Won’t last long though.


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  19. ikamatua says:
    August 18, 2021 at 11:20 am

    “And yes, I am gloating. “.
    ..
    Why?
    Would you like to run a blog the dude was bombing?
    I wouldn’t be able to sleep.
    Kudos to both Adam and DB for putting up sites for us to peruse.


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  20. Bar Beach Swimmer says:
    August 18, 2021 at 11:22 am

    The surf’s really up today. There’s a couple of surfies out there carving it up. I’m off for a walk; but I’ll be back 😁


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  21. rosie says:
    August 18, 2021 at 11:22 am

    No one is scared.

    I don’t blame people for not wanting to appear to be tacitly approving his rantings by posting at the same site.

    I could think of a dozen other topics that most people would run away fast from if they got an airing here.


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  22. Shy Ted says:
    August 18, 2021 at 11:24 am

    Not sure if you’ve see this. I find it very difficult to believe any vax would make anything happen in so short a space of time. more likely is a needle phobia or simple faint in response to a traumatic event. But a story well worth watching and verifying.
    https://xyz.net.au/2021/08/video-schoolboy-collapses-after-taking-covid-vax-at-sydneys-olympic-stadium/


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  23. H B Bear says:
    August 18, 2021 at 11:24 am

    We still have Groogs. Onya little buddy.


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  24. lotocoti says:
    August 18, 2021 at 11:25 am

    And there’s me thinking the President needed the consent of Congress to start a war.


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  27. candy says:
    August 18, 2021 at 11:26 am

    If you developed breast cancer at a stage where lockdowns made it more difficult to treat later, you’d have a legal case against the State?


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  28. struth says:
    August 18, 2021 at 11:27 am

    Like minds will congregate.
    Those wanting to got to other blogs will.
    Who gives a rats?!
    If we know where all of them are, isn’t it good that there are all of them?
    We can ban the disgusting fruit loops, I agree , but banning the offensive is left wing nonsense and in doing so, it is boring.
    Go woke , go broke.
    They’ll be back where the action is.
    Let’s just get on with supplying relative links and news with opinions attached!?


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  29. Bruce of Newcastle says:
    August 18, 2021 at 11:28 am

    As for the remark that the Afghans were cowards, the Afghan army sustained more casualties per year than the US army did in the entire 20 year occupation.

    Roger – They aren’t cowards, but they don’t want to fight the Taliban who are widely regarded as more observant champions of Sunni Islam.

    There is an interesting parallel with the Western Desert campaign in 1940-41. Graziani’s infantry divisions at Sidi Barrani were manned by conscripts. Those guys didn’t want to fight for Mussolini and surrendered as soon as they could. Then, shortly after that battle, when the Australians arrived at Tobruk for the first time it was the same: despite the strong engineered defenses which proved so useful for 9th Div in the siege the Italians would fire one or two shots for appearances, then surrender as the 6th Div guys assaulted the posts.

    When Rommel arrived he was able to draw upon the more professional Italian divisions like Ariete and Trento, but even then during El Alamein the 9th Div found that Italian regiments were carefully deported with German battalions and regiments between them, and the Wehrmacht guys were tasked with keeping the Italians facing forwards. Which they still didn’t do if they could get away with it.

    Having said this there was nothing wrong with the Italian soldiers, even the conscripts. In certain cases they fought like tigers. But the guys just didn’t want to fight for Il Duce.

    Hence the bug out in Afghanistan, once the stiffening Americans were no longer there. The guys certainly didn’t want to fight for the corrupt regime or their corrupt officers, and certainly not against holy warriors of Islam.


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  30. Ruprecht says:
    August 18, 2021 at 11:28 am

    Johanna, you are alluding to smugness at Dover’s site ? I’d rather have unhinged rants here and no tales of what Granny did today on heavy rotation. That said, no one wants anti Semitic behaviour here and Adam D has dealt with with.


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  31. ikamatua says:
    August 18, 2021 at 11:29 am

    “This is the problem with lefties, even affable ones like you”
    ..
    It’s pronounced “uneffable”.


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  32. Zulu Kilo Two Alpha says:
    August 18, 2021 at 11:29 am

    From the “Australian.”

    “Afghanistan: fleeing president ‘had cars and helicopter full of cash’

    By Hugh Tomlinson
    The Times
    An hour ago August 18, 2021
    1 Comment

    As the Taliban closed in, President Ghani is said to have insisted on a dignified exit from Kabul. When the end came, it was anything but.

    The president of Afghanistan fled his palace headed for Tajikistan, and then issued a statement on Facebook: “To avoid bloodshed, I thought it would be better to leave.” Within hours, Taliban militants were filmed posing in his presidential office.

    If reports from the Russian government are to be believed, and they are no friends of Ghani, he was followed out of his presidential palace by a motorcade and a helicopter loaded with cash.

    “As for the collapse of the [outgoing] regime, it is most eloquently characterised by the way Ghani fled Afghanistan,” a Russian embassy spokesman told the RIA news agency yesterday.

    “Four cars were full of money. They tried to stuff another part of the money into a helicopter but not all of it would fit, and some was left on the tarmac.”

    Condemnation and mockery of Ghani, 72, has been swift from Afghan leaders left behind to negotiate a handover of power to the Taliban and the civilians who stormed Kabul airport on Monday in desperate hope of a flight.
    —————————————————————————————————
    “I care no for your plight, Octavius, for I am aboard the chariot.”


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  33. Boambee John says:
    August 18, 2021 at 11:32 am

    Baba says:
    August 18, 2021 at 9:40 am
    Just one comment at phatpussy.com in the last 9 hours.

    Monty is feeling irrelevant.

    That explains why he is here, looking for company and relevance.


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  34. H B Bear says:
    August 18, 2021 at 11:32 am

    The surf’s really up today. There’s a couple of surfies out there carving it up. I’m off for a walk; but I’ll be back

    Some guy in his 60s drowned at Margaret River main break. Got to know your limits. Like the time I was put back on the reef 3 times at Guillotines and decided it was just too hard. My mate made it out and spent the next hour working out how to get in.


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  35. Bruce of Newcastle says:
    August 18, 2021 at 11:33 am

    Rubbish. Presidents have a lot of latitude on foreign policy. They can start wars under false pretences without getting impeached, just look at Dubbya. Impeachment wasn’t much of a deterrent to Trump either, was it?

    As expected M0nty doubles down with more lies, waffle, innuendo, misdirection and squirrel. Stay classy son.


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  36. Shy Ted says:
    August 18, 2021 at 11:33 am

    A good idea coming out of all places, France. https://izismile.com/2021/08/17/daily_gifdump_36_gifs-5.html
    I’m willing to help with manure.


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  37. Boambee John says:
    August 18, 2021 at 11:35 am

    m0nty says:
    August 18, 2021 at 9:57 am
    I mean, isolationism is a philosophy that you can make a case for, it’s a thing. It has consequences though, don’t try to run away from them like a coward.

    As usual, Trump is trying to pretend that he can have his cake and eat it too.

    munty is now an interventionist neo-con!


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  38. calli says:
    August 18, 2021 at 11:36 am

    Won’t last long though.

    Depends on how sensitive Dover’s trip switch is. If people are frantically pressing the “Report comment” button only because it’s Bird is one thing.

    Smiting him for holding offensive views is another. And which views?

    As Ika says, it isn’t easy being Doom.


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  39. Boambee John says:
    August 18, 2021 at 11:38 am

    m0nty says:
    August 18, 2021 at 10:06 am
    If Trump had wanted to oversee the withdrawal from Afghanistan, he had four long years to do it. He was the Pentagon’s boss. Don’t give me whines about how he couldn’t do it.

    Biden screwed up while doing it, but at least he got it done in the end.

    O’Bambi and Hiden had eight long years to oversee an early withdrawal from Afghanistan. Instead they “master-minded” a panicked withdrawal from Iraq, empowering ISIS, and causing tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of deaths. Did you criticise them at that time?


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  40. jo says:
    August 18, 2021 at 11:39 am

    Monty is feeling irrelevant. ____________________________________________________________ Not only feeling it but is.


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  41. struth says:
    August 18, 2021 at 11:39 am

    Government shill Rosie letting us know 5 million people have had been double jabbed.
    It’s RAMPING UP.
    5 million out of 26 million!
    And of course there will be boosters for them , and more boo-sters, more variants, and still nobody free.
    But plenty more dying of the death jab and taking up hospital beds with the jab jive and other strange happenings with the commo health bureaucrats saying there is nothing unusual about teens dying of heart attacks, rare blood clots now not rare, ……etc etc.
    Evil is coming on here trying to comfort yourself regarding your own idiocy and Darwin awards nomination, by trying to get others to think it is all good, and as normal and acceptable as a lock down (only to stage 2 of course)


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  42. m0nty says:
    August 18, 2021 at 11:40 am

    Berejiklian copping a fair old serve today, deservedly so.


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  43. incoherent rambler says:
    August 18, 2021 at 11:40 am

    Not just breast cancer. Most life threatening illnesses have better outcomes with early detection and treatment.

    Some very annoyed medicos around at the moment.
    Patients are doing poorly and horror amongst horrors, the number of patients and income is way down.
    I am wondering if doctor’s wives have noticed the income hit, yet.
    This could take out a big bloc of lab votes.


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  44. calli says:
    August 18, 2021 at 11:40 am

    The surf’s really up today.

    Sure is. Woke me at 4am, booming across the marshland.

    And, naturally, we have the window washers in. Tonight the windows will be smeared with a new coating of salt. I found out their tradie secret too – truck wash. 🤫


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  45. srr says:
    August 18, 2021 at 11:40 am

    “cohenite says:
    August 18, 2021 at 11:16 am
    […]
    The difference is Trump would have ENFORCED the agreement.”
    _______________________________

    Correct.


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  46. johanna says:
    August 18, 2021 at 11:41 am

    ikamatua says:
    August 18, 2021 at 11:20 am

    “And yes, I am gloating. “.
    ..
    Why?
    Would you like to run a blog the dude was bombing?
    I wouldn’t be able to sleep.
    Kudos to both Adam and DB for putting up sites for us to peruse.

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    Arky, we had a lot of smug peeps eschewing this blog because Bird.

    Welcome to reality.

    What will they do now?


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  48. Mick Gold Coast QLD says:
    August 18, 2021 at 11:44 am

    wivenhoe says at 10:25 am:

    “It would appear that Professor Bunyip has made a return over at DBs”

    … and “DBs” is?


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  49. Mike Hunt says:
    August 18, 2021 at 11:49 am

    Oh dear, Smithers, there is a raaaarrrrther unpalatable chap saying some vile and unpleasant things on the blog that Adam D put together.
    Oh yes, Althrop, I noticed it too.
    We mustn’t allow that sort of talk to be tolerated.
    We should at once spit on the site hurriedly set up by somebody who obviously hasn’t the class and sophistication to get a blog going in the manner one must expect and demand, especially if one’s presence is to be enjoyed by the lower classes.
    We must turn our backs on it at once.

    I nearly sent myself to sleep writing that.


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  50. Roger says:
    August 18, 2021 at 11:50 am

    The guys certainly didn’t want to fight for the corrupt regime or their corrupt officers, and certainly not against holy warriors of Islam.

    ————————

    Corruption was certainly an issue, Bruce.

    But my main point – and what gets on my goat – is that Biden smeared the footsoldiers of a national army that had been an ally for 20 years after having abandoned them to their fate – deliberately, one can only conclude as we learn more about the withdrawal process Biden presided over. US veterans – and I’ve heard it from a couple of Australian vets too – are rightly trashing him.

    These remarks are not only insulting and disrespectful to Afghanistan, they are dangerous as they compound the global decline in trust that the US had been experiencing since Bush 43.

    The Taiwanese must be feeling particularly vulnerable atm with Chinese forces holding assault drills off their shores.


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  51. calli says:
    August 18, 2021 at 11:51 am

    Twitter has now become completely useless to me as a tool to view Covid updates.

    Looked up the NSW Health twitter page for an update and now Twitter wants me to “log in” to see the Government feed. Presumably to harvest my details.

    Thanks Big Tech.


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  53. calli says:
    August 18, 2021 at 11:55 am

    Mick, it’s Dover’s New Catallaxy.

    The link will take you to the Home page.


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  54. ikamatua says:
    August 18, 2021 at 11:56 am

    ” peeps eschewing this blog because Bird.”
    ..
    It’s a natural reaction.
    If you see a dog turd on the pavement, do you go over and stomp on it and get all covered in dog shit, or do you go “Phew, disgusting” and walk away?
    Bird leaves the written equivalent of dog shit all over the blog.
    Doesn’t mean I think the dude should be booted from all society, pursued by human rights creeps, jailed or that people should be tainted by association because they use the same forum. We have to actively fight all of THOSE things. Makes it harder to do so when you are gasping on the stench of dog shit.


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  55. Roger says:
    August 18, 2021 at 11:56 am

    Looked up the NSW Health twitter page for an update and now Twitter wants me to “log in” to see the Government feed. Presumably to harvest my details.

    ————————-

    If you are getting a product for free…you are the product.


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  56. incoherent rambler says:
    August 18, 2021 at 11:58 am

    The Taiwanese must be feeling particularly vulnerable atm …

    They can relax. Korea will be first.


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  57. Top Ender says:
    August 18, 2021 at 11:59 am

    Afghanistan: fleeing president ‘had cars and helicopter full of cash’

    As the Taliban closed in, President Ghani is said to have insisted on a dignified exit from Kabul. When the end came, it was anything but.

    The president of Afghanistan fled his palace headed for Tajikistan, and then issued a statement on Facebook: “To avoid bloodshed, I thought it would be better to leave.” Within hours, Taliban militants were filmed posing in his presidential office.

    If reports from the Russian government are to be believed, and they are no friends of Ghani, he was followed out of his presidential palace by a motorcade and a helicopter loaded with cash.

    “As for the collapse of the [outgoing] regime, it is most eloquently characterised by the way Ghani fled Afghanistan,” a Russian embassy spokesman told the RIA news agency yesterday.

    “Four cars were full of money. They tried to stuff another part of the money into a helicopter but not all of it would fit, and some was left on the tarmac.”

    Condemnation and mockery of Ghani, 72, has been swift from Afghan leaders left behind to negotiate a handover of power to the Taliban and the civilians who stormed Kabul airport on Monday in desperate hope of a flight.

    Oz


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  58. ikamatua says:
    August 18, 2021 at 12:01 pm

    Catallaxy has effectively split into two: a wanker version and a yob version.
    So I’m now homeless.


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  59. Boambee John says:
    August 18, 2021 at 12:02 pm

    Perry the Very Tedious One

    633 new COVID cases in NSW from only 100,000 tests. 462 people in hospital, 77 in ICU (up by 8), 3 more deaths.

    Arithmetic is not your strong point. A “strike” rate of 0.633% is hardly indicative of the “ferocious beast” that is Delta stalking through the land. Particularly when the test has a known false positive effect, and many will be completely asymptomatic.


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  60. calli says:
    August 18, 2021 at 12:03 pm

    Aaaand…just like that, Bird has disappeared. Because he’s Bird.


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  61. H B Bear says:
    August 18, 2021 at 12:04 pm

    Afghans know the value of cash. Keeps the Contract Tracys off your trail.


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  62. Brislurker says:
    August 18, 2021 at 12:05 pm

    FUCK DAN ANDREWS!!!
    FUCK DAN ANDREWS!!!

    https://twitter.com/SlayerofMemes/status/1427772098349469696?s=19
    ==========================================================

    I am very sorry Slayer.


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  63. calli says:
    August 18, 2021 at 12:06 pm

    Thing is, Ika, the dog shit hadn’t quite yet appeared.

    He was smote for what he might say, not for what he did say.

    Dover’s Blog. Dover’s Rules.


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  64. srr says:
    August 18, 2021 at 12:08 pm

    “calli says:
    August 18, 2021 at 11:51 am
    Twitter has now become completely useless to me as a tool to view Covid updates.

    Looked up the NSW Health twitter page for an update and now Twitter wants me to “log in” to see the Government feed. Presumably to harvest my details.

    Thanks Big Tech.”
    __________________

    Yep, Twitter “suspended” me so I can’t see anything on Twitter, “myself”, as they tell me to log in again then remind me I’m “suspended”. But as any old Anonymous Al in “incognito mode”, sure, I can wander all over the place.

    Of course they know this.
    I figure it’s their regular reminder that I’m “unpersoned”, you know, a little bit of that Big Tech Psychological Warfare that Big Tech keeps hitting average Joes & Janes.

    Like those Big Pharma Propagandists that keep telling everyone they’re going to die a horrible death if they don’t bow unquestioningly to Big Pharma & Big Cocs.


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  65. calli says:
    August 18, 2021 at 12:10 pm

    Catallaxy has effectively split into two: a wanker version and a yob version.
    So I’m now homeless.

    Should there be a Yanker version?

    A mullet blog. Respectable at the front, chaos out the back.


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  66. H B Bear says:
    August 18, 2021 at 12:10 pm

    Afghans should do their corruption like the West -bail out the banks and make their CEO Chairman of the Federal Reserve. Carloads full of cash is so unbecoming.


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  67. Boambee John says:
    August 18, 2021 at 12:12 pm

    m0nty says:
    August 18, 2021 at 11:40 am
    Berejiklian copping a fair old serve today, deservedly so.

    Did the fat fascist fool give Dan of the Dead a “fair old serve” last year, as hundreds died on his watch? No? Thought not.


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  68. srr says:
    August 18, 2021 at 12:12 pm

    * Big Docs …but meh, truth in typos strikes again


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  69. shatterzzz says:
    August 18, 2021 at 12:12 pm

    cohenite says:
    August 18, 2021 at 10:31 am
    Worth repeating
    Knuckle Dragger says:
    August 18, 2021 at 7:01 am

    ten out of ten!


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  70. ikamatua says:
    August 18, 2021 at 12:13 pm

    “He was smote for what he might say, not for what he did say.”
    ..
    Yeah.
    But to extend the dog analogy, if you see the critter stop, hunch over and go “Nnnnnnnnnnnnnnggggggggggggggggggghuh”.
    You know what’s coming.


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  71. jo says:
    August 18, 2021 at 12:14 pm

    a wanker version and a yob version. ____________________________________________________________ I represent that Arky.


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  72. cohenite says:
    August 18, 2021 at 12:14 pm

    Bruce of Newcastle says:
    August 18, 2021 at 11:28 am

    Roger says:
    August 18, 2021 at 11:50 am

    Good points both.

    The main point being it would not have happened under Trump.


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  73. struth says:
    August 18, 2021 at 12:14 pm

    Catallaxy has effectively split into two: a wanker version and a yob version.
    So I’m now homeless.
    …………………………………………………………………………….
    You’re no hipster, so I think you know where you belong.


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  74. mh says:
    August 18, 2021 at 12:15 pm

    It’s an absolute beast!

    ‘St Kilda sex worker among 24 new COVID cases recorded in Victoria
    Health Minister Martin Foley said the woman was being cared for in quarantine and *there was no evidence of transmission occurring through her work*.’


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  75. Eyrie says:
    August 18, 2021 at 12:18 pm

    “The US doesn’t have a functioning government, it’s run by dozens of fiefdoms.”

    A loose coalition of competing and cooperating criminal gangs is more like it.


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  76. incoherent rambler says:
    August 18, 2021 at 12:21 pm

    wow mh, does that mean lotsa rooting is the corona cure?


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  77. H B Bear says:
    August 18, 2021 at 12:23 pm

    There is nothing worse than being a wanker.


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  78. Mark A says:
    August 18, 2021 at 12:23 pm

    Smiting him for holding offensive views is another. And which views?

    Precisely, I don’t care about his general rants, I scroll his posts, but when he goes overboard with his antisemitism and on top blamed Cassie personally I think that’s a line where he should be stopped.
    Not banned, just delete his comment, he is not stupid, if those kinds of comment disappear he will restrain himself, he proved that he can do it.
    But it has to happen in a timely manner not 3 days later.

    Other than him can’t think of any other.

    (no I don’t want to be a hall monitor myself)


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  79. H B Bear says:
    August 18, 2021 at 12:26 pm

    Blogs like this and the Cat v1.0 operate largely on trust and goodwill. Bird deserves neither.


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  80. woolfe says:
    August 18, 2021 at 12:27 pm

    Calli,
    Although i am on twitter you can still view threads without logging in if you follow a link, say this one from Gillian Dempsey (https://twitter.com/catedempsey/status/1427767370932572163) on a browser that you have not used to log on to Twitter with. So open this Cat fred on say edge, click on the link and you can view the thread without logging in.

    Once there you can also search for and view threads from morons that have blocked you.


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  81. H B Bear says:
    August 18, 2021 at 12:28 pm

    wow mh, does that mean lotsa rooting is the corona cure?
    ____________________
    Only if you are wearing a mask.


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  82. Roger says:
    August 18, 2021 at 12:28 pm

    *there was no evidence of transmission occurring through her work*

    ————————

    Do I understand this correctly, Victorians:

    Churches, synagogues etc. are closed but brothels are open?


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  83. Bruce of Newcastle says:
    August 18, 2021 at 12:30 pm

    Catallaxy has effectively split into two: a wanker version and a yob version.
    So I’m now homeless.

    Arky – You sure? I didn’t think there were any other options:

    TISM – What are ya?

    Ok, there’s M0nty’s blog too. I wonder what TISM would think of M0nty?


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  84. Barking Toad says:
    August 18, 2021 at 12:31 pm

    Calli @ 12:06…..

    He was smote for what he might say, not for what he did say..

    Good. Not interested in what he might say – sick of fucken scrolling all the time.


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  85. Ruprecht says:
    August 18, 2021 at 12:33 pm

    I don’t want to post on a forum where you get ‘oh the blog owner is a friend of mine’ followed by a few tear stained emails being sent to said owner when feelings have been hurt. Give me the yobs any day than Karens.


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  86. John Brumble says:
    August 18, 2021 at 12:35 pm

    Perhaps the Bunyip was just warming up, but that seemed to me to be missing a little something. Call me cynical, but why would Bunyip come back to blogging on Dover’s blog of all things after all this time?


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  87. Baba says:
    August 18, 2021 at 12:38 pm

    Health Minister Martin Foley said the woman was being cared for in quarantine and there was no evidence of transmission occurring through her work.

    “I’m as fit as a mallee bull”, Foley assured assembled journalists.


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  88. shatterzzz says:
    August 18, 2021 at 12:38 pm

    It’s an absolute beast!
    ‘St Kilda sex worker among 24 new COVID cases recorded in Victoria
    Health Minister Martin Foley said the woman was being cared for in quarantine and *there was no evidence of transmission occurring through her work*.’

    Strange, I’m sure ALL of her clientele would have recorded their correct details or QR code .. LOL!


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  89. Ruprecht says:
    August 18, 2021 at 12:40 pm

    John, the Bunyip has always posted at the Cat.


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  90. Ragu says:
    August 18, 2021 at 12:42 pm

    《Only if you are wearing a mask.》

    Face Frangas


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  91. Bruce of Newcastle says:
    August 18, 2021 at 12:42 pm

    I am very sorry Slayer.

    Seconded from me Brislurker and other Cats.

    Commiserations Slayer for what it’s worth. God’s creation has many wonderful things in it to enjoy, but this human stuff right now is like wearing ankle chains. Trudge and suffer. My old mum said this when I was talking with her on the phone a short while ago (I’m not allowed to visit) – she said it was like a huge weight on her and everyone else’s brains.

    The elites don’t understand what harm they are doing to us.


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  92. mh says:
    August 18, 2021 at 12:44 pm

    incoherent rambler says:
    August 18, 2021 at 12:21 pm
    wow mh, does that mean lotsa rooting is the corona cure?
    ***
    One conclusion you can draw. If a hooker cannot even manage to spread the virus, the chance of spreading the virus by walking along the beach is near impossible. Yet what do cops do? Go to our beaches and book people.


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  93. min says:
    August 18, 2021 at 12:46 pm

    mh really transmission did not occur at work . That out out of the mouth of Foley who said no family visits because everyone hugs and kisses But brothels ok . So all activities are conducted wearing full PPE.? Contact tracing maybe causing some embarrassment
    .


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  94. shatterzzz says:
    August 18, 2021 at 12:49 pm

    This, apparently, doesn’t qualify as worth publishing news in the media today ..

    Lone outpost still holding out against the Taliban: Afghan vice president
    and the son of a dead legendary military commander rally forces in
    Panjshir less than 100 miles from Kabul
    Amrullah Saleh and Ahmad Massoud are rallying troops to launch a
    counter offensive from the Panjshir valley – the only region not under
    Taliban control. It has never been captured by the group.


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  95. Indolent says:
    August 18, 2021 at 12:53 pm

    If you don’t join Twitter, you now can’t click into any tweet to to read the comments or link it.

    I will still not join Twitter.


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  96. min says:
    August 18, 2021 at 12:53 pm

    I startled our Zoom meeting today when discussing sex worker with Covid telling them that a family member had regular contact with working girls . Doctor in STD clinic where they come in for regular checkups . Business is down apparently but tthey still need the checkup .


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  97. mh says:
    August 18, 2021 at 12:55 pm

    Strange, I’m sure ALL of her clientele would have recorded their correct details or QR code .. LOL!
    ***
    Contract tracers: “John Thomas. Another visit from Dick Johnson…”


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  98. Indolent says:
    August 18, 2021 at 12:58 pm

    James Woods
    @RealJamesWoods
    ·
    9h
    Our current President is holed up in a basement; won’t answer any questions from the press.

    Our last President is banned from social media and silenced.

    Our only news source on Afghanistan is from the Taliban, who hold press conferences and have an uncensored Twitter account.


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  99. John64 says:
    August 18, 2021 at 12:58 pm

    Churches, synagogues etc. are closed but brothels are open?

    The CHO’s latest orders state that brothels are closed so one must assume that she was working from home like so many others.


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  100. min says:
    August 18, 2021 at 1:06 pm

    Smart person using places that they would not want to be found at would sign in rather than iPhone . That’s if establishment even had phone check in.


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