Hi Cats,
As you can see I have created a copy of the Cat for you to continue to bicker, argue and occasionally make a reasonable point.
I do hope a solution is found with the original Cat but just in case Sinc doesn’t want to transfer the site to a new generation I have built a replica before the closure so we can migrate as many of the community across as possible.
Programming Note: I rushed out the site so there will be bugs. I can get them fixed but did not want perfection to get in the way for progress.
Community Note: Please let as many cats know of the new blog as soon as possible so we can capture the magic of the original. In particular would love for the original posters to continue their great work here.
Ideological Note: I am an infrequent poster but long time reader of the Cat. The discussions there have been a huge part of my own ideological growth on many issues. In particular free speech is key for me so will have a very similar light touch to the original Cat, potentially adopting my one policy on an earlier forum I built: “No D***heads” which is subjective but surprisingly easy to implement.
Website Note: I will run the Cat as close to possible as the original because I don’t believe in re-inventing the wheel. However if the community so wants I am happy to make changes to improve the experience so if you have any ideas let me know. For anything specific hit me up at the contact form, else go nuts in the comments.
Top Ender:
“But I wonder what would have happened if the Luftwaffe had concentrated on wiping out the RAF, and then hammered the southern cities relentlessly with aircraft and V1 missiles. Meanwhile the U-Boats go all out against Britain’s food and oil supplies.”
Stand back on the defensive on French soil would have done more for the German war effort than throwing the Luftwaffe against GB. Every plane shot down over Britain was a loss not only of the aircraft but a valuable crew as well. The cost in fuel alone was a major issue for Germany. Better to build up strength and replenish the fuel stocks.
More effort in the submarine blockade would have worked. Without the fuel, food, and strategic metals coming from the US, Britain would have foundered.
Whalehunt Fun:
” Not a large price for Hitler to pay for ending the western front and allowing more focus on ridding Russia of the then government.”
Taking on Russia before the German war economy had been built was the biggest mistake. Germany needed the oil of the Iran/Iraq region and should have concentrated their efforts clearing Britain from the Suez. Taking Cairo may well have been enough to collapse British morale.
Who knows? Maybe making significant investments in the Rumanian oil fields and the coal to oil program in Germany would have made the whole Middle East moot?
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So the J oos learn to protect themselves from being used as everybody’s fall guy, so now it is the Chinese who are to blame for everything.
The more things change the more they stay the same.
Sigh.
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Armadillo:
I’m here in search of a record, and I’m patient.
Heh heh heh.
Me too, rodent.
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Dilbert
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Here we see, in reality, a tribute to Adam. Having created a functioning blog within 72 hours, and improving by the hour, that blog is attracting those who already have their own blogs.
But because those blogs are unread and ignored due to their owner/operators’ Radio Rentalness they feel compelled to spread their ‘message’ to an undoubtedly wider, more worldly and well-read audience.
It’s like parking a 1969 Mustang Boss 429 in a car yard full of Holden Camiras. All the salesmen are zombie-walking towards it thinking ‘This’ll get me a lick of that brass ring’, leaving their giant inflatable arm-wavy balloon things behind them.
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Bird:
“Its not me that wants to single them out.”
No, no. Of course not.
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So, in the blue corner we have Bird crying “”The sneaky J oos done it!” And in the red corner we have Struth yelling “the Chinese commies done it!” Let the battle begin.
Meanwhile the real perps are sipping Dom Perignon in Monaco, or playing on the shores of the Med.
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Thanks, Will. I’ve been a Dilbert fan forever.
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Australia getting plenty of mentions in the shit spiral:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBAmk4N8WPI&pp=sAQA
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Oh dear. I see we have hit Blog Problem 101. Good luck Adam. Maybe Snic has some tips he could pass on?
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Soooooo, (not NOT a complaint):
Should I wish to access this phoenix of a site from elsewhere, and because the original link/s to here were on the old Cat and don’t appear in the Trove archive, and also because apparently the given link with the hyphen redirects to the old Cat, any advice as to what to type to get me here from elsewhere would be appreciated.
Yes I am deficient in this field of endeavour.
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So, Laurie Hubbard the NZ weightlifting dude called himself a dude to get into a weightlifting competition for girls:
1. Knowing he was physiologically a shoo-in;
2. Believing he was a monty for the gold medal;
3. Safe in the knowledge that the floggerati would run cover for him while he did it; and
4. No doubt either scaring off competition or causing it to withdraw in disgust.
But was still trounced by real girls. Not girly men. Girls.
This is the funniest shit ever. Hope burns anew.
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Jeebus.
Just hit ‘post’ and BAM. Straight in. Brilliant.
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“Hope burns anew.”
This is the worst possible outcome. This is propaganda.
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rickw:
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Now that is a powerful message in stupidity, arrogance and the utter failure of someone to understand how the world works.
I think we found out just who consumes the northern hemispheres excess production of peanut butter krispy kremes…
… and majik mushrooms.
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Adam is truly a treasure.
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Simple “catallaxy-files.com” works for me.
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Upthread Muddy asked a good question about what is it exactly we want from this new reincarnated Cat. Whilst I can’t speak for others, for me personally I would just like it to be a continuation of what worked so well for years with the original Cat…..where we have commentators such as the wonderful C.L. setting up threads devoted to specific stuff and of course we have the Open Forum where we can all hang out, comment, kvetch, gossip and stoush, Why change a good thing? An example of such a specific thread…which I reckon C.L. would already have created a thread about on the original Cat is be the story about how the ABC is going to set up an “inquiry” of sorts into the ABC’s Luna Park programme…aired earlier this year. Note that no such inquiry has ever been initiated by their ABC re. the Pell lynching and the 7-0 verdict….a verdict which should have compelled any reputable media outlet to open an inquiry into…..and their ABC, with their spruiking of Louse Nilligan’s questionable journalism (I hate using the words journalism and Louse Milligan together) is deeply entangled in this…and I haven’t gotten to the the Porter affair yet. This thread would already have attracted numerous comments and robust debate.
I would also like to see Vikki Campion’s weekly piece uploaded for discussion. And I would also like to occasionally post pieces on a thread for discussion and I’m sure there are many other Cats who would like to do the same. A reminder, this new Cat is only days old so we need to be patient and I take my hat off to Adam for creating this.
I believe we need the Cat more than ever…we are entering dark times and one day they’ll come for us but in the meantime we need to thrash it all out here and enjoy doing it.
As for trolls……Lizzie is right as is Dr BG….I’m torn. I certainly value Monty’s presence (can’t believe I’m saying that but then who wants this to be an echo chamber?) and I’ll even tolerate Creepy Grigs but I don’t want Numbers posting his drivel….and then there is Bird the Lunatic…currently mushrooming all over this site. Whilst a Bird strike can be entertaining…..for about two minutes…..it quickly descends into utter offensiveness such as pure unadulterated anti-Semitism because he can’t help himself. Bird was on Discord two nights ago babbling on about me killing my other half (who isn’t Jewish) and using his blood to make bizarre stuff. That’s the old blood libel which accused Jews of murdering people, draining their blood and making matza for Passover. Such libels led to pogroms and the Holocaust. I don’t think such rubbish is appropriate on any forum and if we’re going to try and attract people to create threads they will (rightly) not want to be associated with a site which allows such offensive drivel to dominate.
Anyway, they’re my thoughts for the morning.
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‘Simple “catallaxy-files.com” works for me.’
Righto. Will report later.
Damn, I should learn to code. Which reminds me – appreciated, NKP, for further formatting tips overnight.
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Oh and I asked my partner whether he’s scared I’ll kill him in the middle of the night and drain his blood and use it to make matza.
He said he isn’t scared.
Matza, by the way, is the unleavened bread make from flour and water which we eat at Passover.
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“Knuckle Dragger says:
August 3, 2021 at 7:09 am”
I was hoping he would win the gold because it would finally wake people up to the whole transgender rubbish. Too many people have their heads in the sand about this transgender menace.
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Q. What is the difference between a conspiracy theory and the truth?
A. About six to ten months.
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Cassie,
The most excellent and well-informed (yet probably paywalled) Andrew Rule has a piece a month or two ago in The Hun on the Luna Park ‘accidental’ fire.
Well worth a look, if you can get hold of it.
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Oh dear. I see we have hit Blog Problem 101. Good luck Adam. Maybe Snic has some tips he could pass on?
Given Adam likely has limited time to deal with it, this blog needs to be more self-regulating.
There is a plug-in which allows people to ‘report’ a post. This can send an instantaneous alert to Adam for review. A threshold of number of ‘reports’ can also be set (not mandatory) which, if passed, can disappear the comment until it is reviewed…and either deleted, or reinstated.
I have mixed feelings about this, but it might make Adam’s life easier. At least it would instantly make him aware of potentially libellous comments, for a quick response.
The right threshold of reports might strike the appropriate balance for comments going into moderation.
https://www.wpbeginner.com/plugins/how-to-allow-users-to-report-inappropriate-comments-in-wordpress/
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Cassie,
Agreed, if it ain’t broke don’t fix it.
Bird has to go in short order.
Need some good threadsters to stay with it. CL, Alan Moran, David Bidstrup, etc.
Somebody get Mark Latham in here!
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Disturbing article on CCP persecution of Christians linked by Powerline today:
Christians Under Xi (15 Jul)
Depraved and evil are the only words which work. China is starting make 1930’s Germany look like a bunch of wimps.
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Qld media and government turning it up to 11 going after children as a lever in the marketing campaign to get people to vaccinate.
Possibly most ridiculous line yet:”qld hospitals are on stand by in case one of the cases becomes seriously unwell”.
I.e all the children have is a nothing to a sore throat.
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Upthread Muddy asked a good question about what is it exactly we want from this new reincarnated Cat.
#1 A simple way to bold, italicise, strike-through, underline, and hot-link web addresses on our comments for those of us who aren’t conversant with the finer points of coding.
#2 No sock puppets. You make a comment, you stand by that comment, don’t back it up with a sock, or multiple socks.
#3 Perhaps create a separate thread dedicated to more ‘out there’ discussions that aren’t fit for the Open Thread or would derail the Open Thread. Somewhere for Bird and his ilk to sound off on. Perhaps call it ‘The Asylum’. 😉
#4 Otherwise, just let the site grow and evolve naturally.
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*Q. What is the difference between a conspiracy theory and the truth?*
Who reports it and people’s preconceptions.
I can rattle off a heap of obviously true, verifiable stuff regarding the extent of the surveillance state which has even been reported upon on the MSM and independent media; quite a lot of people refuse to believe it because the government in the West would never be underhanded, formidable or evil.
It’s just amazing. So fantastic it’s unbelievable.
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Hope burns anew.
Only until the lady penis fanciers declare his loss is proof of no advantage.
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Forgot two things
#5 The function of being able to edit what you have written after hitting the “post comment” button.
#6 A ‘quote’ function.
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Testing
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I’m doubling down on my theory: Jeanette Young has been a shrewd bulwark against the worst covidian political madness in QLD and that is why she is being move on.
E.g:
[AMA] Dr Boulton has urged people under 60 to “have a chat with your GP” about getting the AstraZeneca vaccine if Pfizer was not available.
That’s despite the state’s Chief Health Officer Dr Jeannette Young yesterday insisting AstraZeneca should not be given to anyone under 60.
Maniacal vaccine fetishist AMA rep Bolton wants children to be given Astrazeneca and is using the qld ‘outbreak’ in a school (previously known as winter) to lever it.
Young is steadfastly resisting.
What comes after november.
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My comments still take ages. 🙁
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Square (@jack) plus Afterpay should be viewed in the same way as the PayPal plus ADL.
Payment gateways have to be protected.
I raised this with my local member, Sharma, in 2019….mmm yes….good idea…but what can we do….?
f.wit.
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How many children in total are have tested ‘positive’ in this qld ‘outbreak’?
Because in my travels across the eerily similar media ‘reporting’ on it all I see is the number 31 – which appears to be all ‘cases’ they can muater up including adults weeks ago. A steadfast refusal to break that down into age groups makes me smell an organised beat up.
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Live in Qld? Time to ring your local MP.
Woman’s murder ‘not a sex crime’
EXCLUSIVE
DAVID MURRAY
AUTHORITIES ACCEPT KILLER’S STORY
Authorities appear to have accepted at face value a convicted sex offender’s claim that he intended to rob, not rape, his neighbour when he murdered her, despite substantial evidence it was a sex crime.
Paul Anthony Vaughan attacked his neighbour Nina Lewis, 26, in her home at Ipswich, west of Brisbane, in 2004, bludgeoning her to death before dumping her body in the Brisbane River.
Lewis’s body was found five days later, her lower half naked and her wrists and ankles bound with duct tape. She had been blindfolded and gagged.
Vaughan was on parole at the time for abducting and assaulting a 17-year-old girl he had bundled into the boot of his car, intending to rape her, in 1999.
He was forensically linked to Lewis’s murder by a fingerprint on the duct tape, eventually pleaded guilty to her murder. He is seeking parole after serving his minimum 15-year sentence.
A parole board assessment report obtained by The Australian appears to accept a version of events Vaughan has put forward that is strenuously rejected by investigators.
The report says Vaughan, now 45, claimed he broke into Lewis’s home intending to steal items to sell or exchange for marijuana, and when she returned home he panicked and pushed her, causing her to hit her head on a coffee table.
“Prisoner Vaughan has presented a version of his offending which is considered to be consistent with the official version obtained through sentencing remarks,” the report states.
“It is not considered that he made attempts to minimise his actions or externalise blame at his parole interview. His disclosures indicate his acceptance of his actions and remorse.”
The report adds Vaughan engaged in sexual offending assessments and interventions in prison “despite there being no apparent sexual motivation in his murder offence”. He would have been considered suitable by the report’s author for supervised release if not for an ongoing investigation into an alleged 2019 assault of another prisoner.
A committee reviewed the report and found Vaughan was not yet suitable for parole, saying “there does not appear to be a clear indication as to what drives his offending”.
A separate psychological risk assessment report for the parole board last year also details Vaughan’s claims it was a robbery gone wrong. “In my view, Mr Vaughan does not set out to act violently, in that he does not develop a predatory plan,” Therese Ellis-Smith said.
“His acts of violence have been unplanned and spontaneous. He acts violently when unable to manage his emotions, whether it be frustration and anger, as in 1999, or fear and panic in 2004.”
The two reports conflict with the views of the lead investigator, Detective Inspector Tom Armitt, who has said there was “no doubt in our mind that (the murder) was a sexual offence”.
Queensland’s Court of Appeal detailed police evidence in a 2006 judgment. It says after Lewis disappeared, and three days before her body was found, Vaughan was questioned by police and volunteered he was on parole “for something similar … a similar offence, but it was attempted rape”.
Judge John Jerrard said a jury could consider the comment was “a significant admission of involvement in the abduction and actual rape of (Lewis)”.
In a later interview, Vaughan “also implied a belief that there may be some forensic evidence of his semen on the deceased”, claiming a friend may have planted it, Justice Jerrard said.
The Parole Board Queensland rejected Vaughan’s parole application last October and told him he could reapply in a year.
Oz print edition
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My comments still take ages. 🙁
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Take it as a sign of respect. At Teh Paywallian if your comment stays pending for hours you know the work experience kiddies have referred it upwards.
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That Ben Garrison toon is too close to where we’re heading right now for comfort.
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*reported upon on in…*
That’s a mouthful, no wonder I couldn’t type it right. 🙄😊
Try “reported by” next time, idiot!
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“ Here we see, in reality, a tribute to Adam. Having created a functioning blog within 72 hours, and improving by the hour, that blog is attracting those who already have their own blogs.”
Very true KD
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I would argue the Open Thread is the home of ‘out there’ discussions.
Play/don’t play is the user’s choice.
After decades of deciding my own line breaks for VCGs, a preview function to sub, splel check and link test would be nice.
It’d also prevent runaway italics budget blowouts* from missing backslashes.
*H/T What’s her name.
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“feelthebern says:
August 3, 2021 at 7:55 am
Square (@jack) plus Afterpay should be viewed in the same way as the PayPal plus ADL.
Payment gateways have to be protected.
I raised this with my local member, Sharma, in 2019….mmm yes….good idea…but what can we do….?
f.wit.”
Good to see ya Bern….and yes Sharma is a f.wit…I won’t be voting for him.
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Albo out wanting to spend billions to get people vaccinated so there are no more lockdowns . Perhaps he should be offering Israel advice on how to manage their population having to go into another lockdown and another jab with the majority already vaccinated .
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KD…thanks for the tip…I’ve read Rule’s piece….very good and it outlines what a grub Wran was….and everyone here in Sydney knew it and they also know about the close relationship between Wran and Turdbull. The Turd managed Wran’s affairs when he lost the plot and I recall back in 2012/2013, towards the end of Wran’s life, there was an unpleasant stoush between Jill Wran and Turdbull.
As for Harriet Wran…that old adage is very true…the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.
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BitCoin.
It’s how you avoid dickheads like Jack Dorsey.
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SMH
“ A top executive at banking giant HSBC has claimed China’s crackdown on tech companies and society will benefit investors over the long term.”
Lmao yeah. Just like the tutorial school industry in China
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Mater we could call it the ‘Karen’ (patented) button. Adam has done a great job. I find it a bit pathetic the crazies that don’t read posts properly instead reply what they think was said. If Cats put the effort into responding the way you took spud apart we wouldn’t have the stoushes that occur with monotonous regularity.
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The way the pandemic is heading in the opened countries overseas, Scotty’s Premier league team, The VaccaRoos, will still be on the pitch when the other teams are back at the hotel enjoying drinks.
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I think this new version is auto-caching. Adam can switch the function off when he gets around to it.
Formatting tips without:
It works as a toggle on and off.
This site will help you with what words you need to put between the brackets to get the effect you need (see LHS bar for different features.
I have linked to the Hyperlink page because I think you all want to link easily to other sites. Just delete “url” and paste the one you want to link to, then something like “Linky” instead of the link text.
Good luck. I’m 65 and I worked it out! 😂
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