Potentially The New Cat – First Open Thread 31 July 2021

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.

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3,112 Responses to Potentially The New Cat – First Open Thread 31 July 2021

  1. Cassie of Sydney says:

    “I’m out.”

    What do you mean? Don’t go away.


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  2. Adam P says:

    I am not the most excellent Adam that set up this site, although I do have to double take at all the ‘thank you, Adam’s’. Makes me feel like doing a royal wave.

    srr, glad you like my humble scribblings.


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  3. jupes says:

    Defence has set out a four-year process to reform ADF culture and command accountability, weed out wrongdoers and strip medals from unworthy recipients, in its long-awaited response to the Brereton war crimes inquiry.

    The fuckwits double down.

    What was the point of Peter Dutton again?


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  4. Gab says:

    Test from mobile


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  5. cohenite says:

    The only solution available now short of street riots and armed insurrection is next election (assuming there is one), number the sitting member last in the HoR, if they represent the Liberal, Labor or National parties. Number whoever you like number one, and list preferences in whatever way you choose, just so long as the sitting Liberal, labor or National is LAST.

    I sympathise with this view but it ignores the fact there are some very good sitting LNP members:

    Matt Canavan
    Amanda Stoker
    Peter Dutton
    Claire Chandler
    Concetta Fierravanti-Wells
    Gerard Rennick
    BJ
    And hopefully soon Jacinta

    Not many I know, especially since Kelly has gone and Christiansen and Flint will soon follow.

    Anyway here is the latest Shit Towns rankings:

    https://www.facebook.com/shittownsofaustralia/posts/1230592284042571?notif_id=1627649113736996&notif_t=page_highlights&ref=notif

    They went fucking woke about the guy hitting the horse, allegedly, and are coping flak for that bullshit.


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  6. srr says:

    Adam P, I’m happy to see that you continue to have a thoughtful audience after all this time. It’s a testament to the quality of your writing.


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  7. struth says:

    Hope all is going well with you Adam P, way over there.
    A word of advice.
    DON’T COME HOME , WE’RE FOOOOOOOKED.
    Not that you probably could anyway!!!


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  8. cohenite says:

    although I do have to double take at all the ‘thank you, Adam’s’. Makes me feel like doing a royal wave.

    Enjoy it while you can; it won’t last. This pack of alley cats would bite their own tails off to prove a point or principle.


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  9. struth says:

    Cohenite, they are all useless.
    They are party hacks.
    Even Jacinta last night declared that people should not be working with vaccinated oldies if they themselves are not vaccinated.
    This is a psychological war and members of the Liberal party by means of being members, prove they are not mentally fit for the fight.
    They are without principle and conviction in the necessary areas to secure our freedom, they’ll in fact increase our persecution.


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  10. mh says:

    Adam P, which country do you currently live in?


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  11. johannna says:

    Just been reading some US news and find that several large unions, including public sector unions, are telling power crazy legislators and health bureaucrats to back up on mandating injections for all workers in certain workplaces.

    (I’ve decided that using the word ‘vaccinations’ is incorrect terminology.)

    The unions are saying – this is not in our agreement, nothing is going to happen until you talk to us.

    Now, it may be that they will cave and sell out their members. But at least they are going through the motions.

    We have not had a peep from those corrupt wastes of space who purport to represent the interests of Australian workers.


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

    Has anyone seen Top Ender?

    Winston Smith & Top Ender’s (brief) exchange of ideas re Operation SeaLion: what if..? is to the point & has refreshing concise gravitas, on a thread full of squabbling, illuminati/juice references and admonishments/warnings over posting about illuminati/juice conspiracies.


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  13. Tom says:

    What was the point of Peter Dutton again?

    Just another politician who’s been eaten by his department. We didn’t used to notice when that happened — before unelected health bureaucrats appointed themselves rulers of our fascist Big Government economy (in the global coup d’etat against the free people of the West).


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  14. Nelson_Kidd-Players says:

    Struth, I think Doomlord 2.0’s departure was as it was said on the tin. Enough time in the saddle, moving on to other interests, and the Great Lockdown may also have pushed him a little.

    The effort to moderate new posters and sin-binned post, play whack-a-mole with trolls, deal with slowdowns and the vagaries of WordPress updates would take it’s toll on anyone. If it ceases to be fun, why continue?

    I’d love to see the original URL passed on to Adam and the old threads to be accessible if the experiment progresses that far.


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

    I am not the most excellent Adam that set up this site, although I do have to double take at all the ‘thank you, Adam’s’.

    Cheers Adam.
    Lap up the glory by making an early guest post.

    (Somebody should start some guest posts off – to bulk the site out a bit)


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  16. srr says:

    Matt Couch
    @RealMattCouch 40m
    ·
    “No one should be able to take the masking seriously until you see biohazard bins at every business and street corner in America..

    They think you’re stupid America… Don’t prove them right..”


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  17. rocinante says:

    “sympathise with this view but it ignores the fact there are some very good sitting LNP members:”
    ———————————–
    How about you email each of your “very good sitting members”, and ask them how they voted on –

    The Cash Restrictions Bill 2019.

    The various banking amendments passed in May and August 2018 that changed savings bank “depositors” into”unsecured creditors”.

    The laws passed earlier this year providing for the jailing of doctors who do not cooperate with the Australian Immunisation Register (AIR) listing everybody who has, and doesn’t have, the Covid “vaccinations”.

    Come back and tell us how you fared. Then I’ll give you some more.


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  18. mh says:

    ‘Just been reading some US news and find that several large unions, including public sector unions, are telling power crazy legislators and health bureaucrats to back up on mandating injections for all workers in certain workplaces.’

    Yes, I saw the US Postal Services union was straight out of the blocks.


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  19. egg_ says:

    “What was the point of Peter Dutton again?

    Just another politician”

    +1

    Aren’t Dutton and Barndoor in lockstep with Scummo on the Frankenvax?


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  20. Cassie of Sydney says:

    Where’s LL?


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  21. Zulu Kilo Two Alpha says:

    “Tokyo Olympics: Blunder as Ukrainian shoots opponent’s target”

    The West Australian
    Tue, 3 August 2021 9:56AM
    Rory Coleman-Heard

    A Ukrainian shooter has made one of the more remarkable blunders in recent Olympic history – shooting at his opponent’s target.

    Serhiy Kulish, the 10m air rifle silver medallist in Rio and world No. 2 had cruised into the 50m air rifle final and was well-placed in fourth with 30 shots fired when his promising campaign capitulated.

    Kulish fired at the wrong target, receiving zero points.

    He was later eliminated in eighth having entered the event with high hopes of standing on the podium.

    A frank self-appraisal followed.

    “I am not happy,” Kulish fumed. “Who shoots someone else’s target? Only people like me.”

    Kulish blamed the mishap on a wardrobe malfunction, which caused him to lose concentration just before shooting.

    “The button on my jacket came undone and I felt some discomfort but time passed and I had to make a shot, so I didn’t notice I was aiming at someone else’s target,” he said.


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  22. Cassie of Sydney says:

    “Aren’t Dutton and Barndoor in lockstep with Scummo on the Frankenvax?”

    I reckon they all are….except for Christensen.


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  23. cohenite says:

    Come back and tell us how you fared. Then I’ll give you some more.

    How about you tell me if you consider there is a decent sitting member from any political side. Or, if there are none, what you would consider to be a decent sitting member. I mean we have to be realistic here; if Trump is your template we’ll get nowhere since he is unique.


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

    A Ukrainian shooter has made one of the more remarkable blunders in recent Olympic history – shooting at his opponent’s target.

    Apart from that, wonder how was his score, albeit on the wrong target?


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  25. Runnybum says:

    People keep mentioning Dutton as some sort of saviour for the SFL party, what exactly has he done recently?


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  26. Franx says:

    (Try again.)
    Agree with Johanna.
    The fungal whisperings, though, are insidious, lawful or otherwise. Site might be better off not to be a carrier of nasti spores.


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  27. twostix says:

    Aren’t Dutton and Barndoor in lockstep with Scummo on the Frankenvax?

    It’s safe to say that the Commonwealth has been absolutely battered by the state governments. So their big ‘plan’ now, rather than stick up for Australians and get us out of the mess that Scott Morrison created when he handed the premiers equal share of power as he has, is to stick a gun in our faces and tell us that we need to do exactly as the state premiers tell us and that’s a ‘win’.


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  28. Runnybum says:

    Yeah Cassie where is biggles & his side kick mini me?


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  29. Cassie of Sydney says:

    “Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare says:
    August 3, 2021 at 12:59 pm
    I see Birdie has the top of page position for another fine piece of anti-Semitism.

    Your thoughts, Johanna?”

    Well said Lizzie.


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  30. Cassie of Sydney says:

    “Tom says:
    August 3, 2021 at 11:14 am”

    Well said Tom


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  31. rocinante says:

    cohenite says:
    August 3, 2021 at 2:04 pm

    That’s a cop out, Cohenite. I haven’t said a word about who people should vote FOR. That would require me to know details on all the candidates in every electorate. People need to do their own research and decide who they might vote FOR next election, assuming we have one.

    What I am stating clearly and firmly is that the Liberal, Labor and national Parties have well and truly sold us up shit Creek. They have done this with the full cooperation of the rank and file elected members of those parties.

    Voting for any of them just ensures more of the same, and the only way to throw a spanner in the works now is to put them LAST if they are the sitting member.


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  32. Runnybum says:

    Struth my thought on Sinc canning the site is he was leaned on, probably by trumble, don’t forget sinc was a bit of a lefty & never forget he thought trumble was potential greatness & never ever backed down from that stupidity.


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  33. jo says:

    Mak Siccar says:
    August 3, 2021 at 12:49 pm
    Another incisive analysis by James Allan.

    https://spectator.com.au/2021/07/any-conviction-politicians-out-there-hello/

    Any conviction politicians out there? Hello?
    Conservatives have been betrayed by the hollow men and women

    James Allan
    31 July 2021 Thanks Mak, Is there any politician in Australia that even had a passing thought about any of James Allan missive? We all know the answer.


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  34. twostix says:

    Real Mark Latham
    @RealMarkLatham
    Ever wondered where NSW Govt gets it’s ‘mobility data’ during the Sydney lockdown?
    LC Answer 6830 says:
    Google map searches
    Opal Card use
    And purchasing mobile phone tracking.
    Big Brother not just on our QR codes but tracking the phones themselves.

    They’re getting location data from Google and your phone providers during ‘lockdowns’. Learn to turn the phone off when out, we’re going back to 1995 baby!


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

    …my thought on Sinc canning the site is he was leaned on, probably by trumble

    The stated reason is more plausible.
    Overseeing/moderating a blog site is a time consuming, thankless treadmill, it becomes an anvil around your neck.

    Completely understandable that he’s opted out, there’s only so much you can fit into your day.

    Sinc put in a herculean effort for more than a decade.


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  36. JMH says:

    rocinante said: “What I am stating clearly and firmly is that the Liberal, Labor and national Parties have well and truly sold us up shit Creek. They have done this with the full cooperation of the rank and file elected members of those parties.”

    In full agreement with this statement.


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  37. Dot says:

    “Bit of a lefty”

    Maybe in the gamma quadrant, but no, not here on planet earth.


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  38. Vicki says:

    “Even Jacinta last night declared that people should not be working with vaccinated oldies if they themselves are not vaccinated.”

    Cognitive dissonance abounds in all circles – even amongst otherwise smart people. What can’t they get about the fact that vaccination will NOT prevent you from subsequent infection, AND the transmission of that infection?????

    If they proposed that aged care workers should have a rapid antigen test EVERY day before entering the centres, I would whole heartedly agree – even though the test itself is far from infallible. In fact, such workers should be PCR tested regularly- even though again, the PCR itself is not infallible (far from it).

    Every day is “groundhog day” with the ridiculous debate.


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  39. JC says:

    How do you know about this:

    Overseeing/moderating a blog site is a time consuming, thankless treadmill, it becomes an anvil around your neck.

    Drills, you weren’t persactly inundated with comments on your own blog. Did some experienced blogger with a well traveled site tell you?


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  40. rocinante says:

    “They’re getting location data from Google and your phone providers during ‘lockdowns’. Learn to turn the phone off when out”
    —————————–
    Turning it off accomplishes nothing, twostix. Even turned off your phone sends out a signal every 30 seconds to maintain and triangulate its position relative to the three strongest signals available.


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  41. JC says:

    Cronkite:

    I’m really surprised with your earlier comment about Hiden and that his unpopular and very corrupt. I thought you;ve said several times how much you admire Hiden and the family. What changed your mind?


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  42. E.J. says:

    YOU MUST ACT NOW TO PROTECT YOUR PRIVACY!
    “For many years, the AVN has been trying to get a study done comparing the health of the fully vaccinated, the fully unvaccinated and the partially vaccinated using the information on the Australian Childhood Immunisation Register (ACIR) which is now called the Australian Immunisation Register (AIR). Since 2016, this register has tracked all vaccinations given to everyone in Australia.
    In our research, we have just discovered that there are plans to use this data to inform State Governments of who is and is not vaccinated for the purposes of bringing in a vaccine passport within the next 2 months.
    What we were no aware of is the fact that we can opt-out of allowing the government to share our data with any third party including sharing it with the States (it is currently held by the Federal Government) or whomever will win the tender to operate the passport system.
    Time is short since the federal government has already said they have everything ready to go for the vaccine passports and are only waiting on the States to complete their end.

    PLEASE VISIT THIS WEBSITE-
    https://www.servicesaustralia.gov.au/organisations/health-professionals/forms/im017

    and fill in the form IM017. It cannot be submitted online but must be printed out and mailed-we recommend you do this by express post and also if you don’t mind spending a few dollars extra, paying for the proof of delivery so you have the signature of who has received it should they claim they never got it.

    PLEASE SHARE THIS AS WIDELY AS POSSIBLE since it is urgent that we opt-out now while we still can.

    see… http://www.servicesaustralia.gov.au
    Australian Immunisation Register (AIR) -ceasing correspondence and release of information form (IM017) -Service Australia
    Use this form to advise the Australian Immunisation Register you don’t want to receive correspondence, or share information with third parties.”


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  43. m0nty says:

    It is a common misconception among conservatives that libertarians are lefties. A similar misconception is often held by the same people about the teachings of Jesus Christ. Not that Jesus was a libertarian as such, but the conservatives in both cases are projecting their fear of losing control and power in a less hierarchical ordering of society.


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  44. johanna says:

    Cassie, I have already referred to the behaviour of toddlers who poo on the floor and smear it over the walls. And to the smell of birdshit stinking the place up this morning.

    I don’t propose to feed this attention seeking behaviour any further.


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  45. JC says:

    I couldn’t understand how Afterpay could get a $33 billion valuation – having Jack Dorsey and his private equity operation make a market big for them until I heard this.

    Laybuy style of purchasing is not well known in the US and is only a tiny fraction sales done on credit arrangements. The bidders think this payment method will really take off. It sounds like a decent bet.


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  46. woolfe says:

    So whats going to happen to prevent the unjabbed mixing? If you check in with the Covid app will it access your health records and flash red?


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  47. Tom says:

    Cognitive dissonance abounds in all circles – even amongst otherwise smart people. What can’t they get about the fact that vaccination will NOT prevent you from subsequent infection, AND the transmission of that infection?????

    We’re now living in a post-modern medical world where vaccination against a disease does not prevent you from both acquiring and passing on that disease.

    In other words, the vaccine doesn’t work, but, hey *wink wink* it may stop the virus from killing you if you roll the dice.

    We can’t tell the truth about this disaster because science has been politicised by a ruling class that requires the proletariat to be in dumb compliance with its proclamations from on high.

    In other words, we’re regressing to the Middle Ages, centuries before The Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution had even been thought of.


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  48. rocinante says:

    Thank you for reposting that AIR info, E.J.


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  49. Runnybum says:

    Dot, you probably know which quadrant as it will be close to uranus.


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  50. JC says:

    It is a common misconception among conservatives that libertarians are lefties..

    It’s not a misconception at all, Fatboy. There are left leaning libertarians. An excellent example would be Noam Chomsky .. a complete whack job.

    There are also leftwingers who pretend they’re libertarian. Bill Maher is a great example. The swine often referred to himself as libertarian until someone corrected him and requested he stop using the term to self describe as it was fraudulent.

    STFU and go eat those donuts.


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  51. Ragu says:

    I wonder how many 1000s of afterpay shares Zulu picked up.


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  52. rocinante says:

    JC says:
    August 3, 2021 at 3:00 pm

    “It is a common misconception among conservatives that libertarians are lefties..”
    ——————————————–

    Frederic Bastiat’s “The Law”
    http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html


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  53. Timothy Neilson says:

    “Not that Jesus was a libertarian as such, but the conservatives in both cases are projecting their fear of losing control and power in a less hierarchical ordering of society.”

    Jesus was noticeably uninterested in whether “control and power” in society was hierarchically ordered or not. “Render unto Caesar” ring a bell? Or “my kingdom is not of this world”?


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  54. JC says:

    Tom

    We need to give this vax stuff a little bit of a chance and demonstrate some patience. The vaxes do work well against the initial Covid while it’s problematic with the new strain. This is entirely within the bounds of reasonableness.

    It was a massive effort to get these vaxes out in about a year. Technically and logistically, it’s possibly more complex that the moon shots of the 60s. The yellow headed oaf was at the center of getting the vax to the folks and for this alone – leaving aside the rest – he will be considered a great president in the future.

    We’ve now figured out the foundations of the vax and we’ll quickly begin to see the booster shots etc like we do with flu.

    Don’t ever undersell human capability as we’re the smartest fuckers in the universe. We seriously kick arse.


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  55. DrBeauGan says:

    “This is offered during the interregnum in the year of our Lord, 2021.”

    Dover, I got as far as the point where I was told I had to make a payment in order to see any posts. Then I quit. I don’t buy pigs in pokes.


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  56. twostix says:

    Kerry Chant goes there and explains that the vaccines don’t work as promised, and that if you get one, you’ll be getting ‘booster doses’ for the rest of your life.

    https://media.gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/080/945/511/original/2fc971cc0f7c19f7.mp4


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

    How do you know about this:

    Overseeing/moderating a blog site is a time consuming, thankless treadmill, it becomes an anvil around your neck.

    Coz for some years I’ve administrated/moderated an information/discussion group. One that is a totally different theme to Catallaxy, with a totally different member base, though shares the free speech & minimal deletion/minimal banning ethos.

    It is unending, time consuming, thankless, and requires eternal vigilance.
    Thankfully the extreme slowdown of economic activity due to covid has taken some pressure off over the past year or so.

    The original administrator couldn’t take the pressure, prolly coz they took things too much to heart when dealing with dickheads (i.e. state government & various advocates)


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  58. Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare says:

    Cassie, LL has been in and out of Nilk’s site quite a bit.
    ———-

    Whew. Funerals are always upsetting, even online. This was for a farmer, sportsman, family man, countryman and businessman, our neighbour. In a delightful church, where the stained glass windows offer their own sort of solace, and with a bishop presiding. Sad to see only ten people are allowed due to ridiculous edicts.
    Death should not have this sort of sting.


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  59. Vicki says:

    “A while ago I said I was a marked man for which Frank scoffed.
    I certainly am a marked man.
    But so are all of you.
    Some more than others of course.
    And the time is drawing close.
    And underneath, you guys know it.”

    I always knew my husband and I should have bought 10,000 acres out of Cobar when it was possible.

    I used to say – they won’t find us out there! I was talking about the Chinese, and joking around, of course.

    Who would have thought that just a few years later I would be more worried about our own government. And…. nothing to do with “conspiracy theories”….they have accomplished it all by themselves.


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  60. DrBeauGan says:


    Cassie of Sydney says:
    August 3, 2021 at 1:57 pm

    Where’s LL?”

    Posting as Ruprecht. Sometimes.


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  61. Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare says:

    “Don’t ever undersell human capability as we’re the smartest fuckers in the universe. We seriously kick arse.”

    That’s good, because we’re also all we’ve got in the face of the unrelenting universe.

    I feel like pretending to believe in God because there is nothing else that makes sense.
    Only thing is my agnosticism always kicks in.


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  62. Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare says:

    “Dover, I got as far as the point where I was told I had to make a payment in order to see any posts. Then I quit. I don’t buy pigs in pokes.”

    Same here, good doctor BG. I am happy for my email to go on a list there though as long as it is kept private. Said so to Dover on Nilk’s site.


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  63. Dot says:

    Thanks Runnycum,

    Sorry pal but you’re not going to be put in a library anytime.

    Not until we have achieved Idiocracy.


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

    Under Gottliebsen’s column at The Australian is this comment:

    Australian Banks are no longer commercial banks, they operate in a manner reminiscent of the old style Building Societies.

    They no longer have the culture or skills to work with the business sector.

    This has been well known for a decade or two, by anybody with a business who has had dealings (transactional, merchant facilities, or mortgagee) with an Australian bank.


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  65. srr says:

    “Where’s LL?”

    Posting as Ruprecht. Sometimes.”

    Yeah, I can see it makes sense –

    Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988) – Ruprecht Gets Angry
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkuKrymtuCg


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  66. Vicki says:

    “We’ve now figured out the foundations of the vax and we’ll quickly begin to see the booster shots etc like we do with flu.”

    JC, clearly you do not share the concerns that so many virologists,epidemiologists, biologists, and critical care physicians do about the gene tech. vaccines & the viable alternatives in terms of repurposed drugs (viz. Dr Robert Malone, Dr Tess Lawrie, Dr. Pierre Kory, Dr. Mike Yeadon, Bret Weinstein et al.)

    Why is that?

    I note also that even the pharmaceutical companies are now exploring alternative therapies ( e.g. monoclonal antibody therapy) & vaccines (not just Novavax, but Pfizer’s new exploration of oral vax)


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  67. cohenite says:

    That’s a cop out, Cohenite.

    That’s my middle name. Seriously I said I sympathised with your simplified approach. But I also said you can’t judge our feet of clay pollies with Trump who is basically a God the like of which we will never see again. So on that basis I put up a list of ok, sort of LNP pollies.

    I mean if we vote according to your theory we could get another Clive, Steggles, or God knows fucking what. I think our Pauline should be supported on account she has guts while Latham has brains. The best of a bad lot. Seeking the ideal in politics is a fool’s errand; not that I’m calling you a fool.

    Speaking of which, head prefect, I have always hated biden because I hate old people who mush their food and sniff the hair of young people. I also hate corrupt pollies. Biden is not only corrupt, he is demented and a deviant. In a just world the old bastard would have been flushed down a toilet.

    Hope that clears everything up.


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  68. Runnybum says:

    Dot, shut the fuck up, you are a lawyer, one of the most hated people on the planet, so just fuck off.


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  69. min says:

    I see a Viking won 400 hurdles not only in world record time but below the magical number .


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  70. HD says:

    JC says:
    August 3, 2021 at 3:15 pm

    “…we’re the smartest fuckers in the universe…”

    Err…ahem. What exactly to say. I don’t believe pragmatists in general would agree. Probably not all other forms of life on the planet for that matter.

    “…to get these vaxes out in about a year. Technically and logistically, it’s possibly more complex that the moon shots of the 60s.”

    Yeah whatever.

    Regarding booster shots. What really is the point? Boosting production of antibodies targeted at the alpha strain which going off of the observation that vaccinated people are dying at all from delta strain- is a public health disaster in progress.

    You are legitimising the mushroom guy expressing what you have.


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  71. Cassie of Sydney says:

    Thank you Lizzie and Dr BG.


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  72. rosie says:

    I’ve been busy.

    Less Graeme and other conspiracy loons would be good though.


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  73. Dot says:

    Actually Runnycum, let’s let the people decide who stays.

    Let’s call it Bane’s Peoples’ Court.

    The loser gets exile or permanent banning.


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  74. rosie says:

    I agree with JC.

    There are medical experts for every occasion, some people love the random ones that seek fame and fortune on the internet.

    Individual responsibility. Individual choice.


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  75. DrBeauGan says:

    “Looks like one of those ridiculous dogs. Sausage-shaped German mutts.”

    “Dachshund.”

    “Bless you.”


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  76. Sancho Panzer says:

    Arriba España!
    Tie with Team USA at half break!


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  77. Tom says:

    Don’t ever undersell human capability as we’re the smartest fuckers in the universe. We seriously kick arse.

    I agree 1090%, JC.

    But if you’d told a medical doctor 10 years ago you were going to volunteer for a vaccination that wouldn’t protect from the disease it was designed to protect you from, he would have looked at you like had two heads.

    The politicisation of science is utterly destroying public trust in science because the scientists with the loudest mouths are telling the normies that, first and foremost, they’re actually lunatic political activists who want to destroy civilisation as we know it and remake it in the image of every failed socialist experiment of the past 300 years.


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  78. Runnybum says:

    Dot, the new smiter in charge!


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  79. srr says:

    “I feel like pretending to believe in God because there is nothing else that makes sense.”

    Give an ear to Dr James Tour. Being one of the big nobs of science, he’s one of a number making ‘The God Hypothesis” ‘respectable’ again –

    Practicing Science While Believing and Acting Upon the Scriptures
    (Dr. James Tour – 12/18/20)
    *** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5McHUjo1d2s ***
    In a joint meeting of NCS New Canaan, NCS Austin, NCS Houston and NCS Sugar Land, Dr. James Tour shares a powerful and convicting message about the importance of meditating daily on God’s word and then actually believing and acting upon Scripture. Pointing to various Biblical passages, including Psalm 1:1-3, he emphasizes the words DAILY (not just three days) and MEDITATING (not just reading).

    But this is far from just a theological or theoretical lesson. Through numerous stories, Dr Tour shares vulnerably about the practical and miraculous ways in which his life, his behavior and his career as a world-renowned scientist and teacher have been guided, changed and blessed by meditating on Scripture, believing what God says and then acting in faith upon that belief.

    Dr. Tour is also far from just a theoretical or academic scientist. His work has led to numerous breakthroughs, patents and products, and Dr. Tour starts his talk by describing (and showing) some of the extraordinary developments he has led in the field of nanotechnology.

    In a rich and extended Q&A, Dr. Tour addresses a wide array of questions dealing with topics such as: how, as a Messianic Jew, he came to a faith in Jesus; the COVID vaccine; artificial intelligence; nanotechnology; the challenges of being a scientist who speaks openly about his faith in Jesus; his weekly Bible study attended by people around the world; and the ethics of “Human 2.0”.

    To learn more about Dr. Tour, you can visit his website at http://www.DrJamesTour.com or his YouTube channel at YouTube/DrJamesTour.


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  80. Thefrollickingmole says:

    Dot please don’t use the name runnycum
    Leaves a bad taste in the mouth.

    Also looks like my copper mates rumour about an unlawful command being issued by the WA police commissioner turned out right.
    Unvaxed cops supposed to wear masks at all times.

    Might be the final straw for him.


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  81. Old School Conservative says:

    3D printing often gets a run of comments here.
    Not good news from the Olympics though:

    The strength of Australia’s track bikes is being urgently assessed after the failure of a 3D-printed component caused Alex Porter’s catastrophic crash at Izu Velodrome on Monday.


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  82. JC says:

    Vicki

    I do. I believe there are dangers with the vaxes and people have died. There are times however, when decisions have to be made through difficult trade-offs and this is one time.

    The US authority VAERS (?) have suggested around 6300 cases of problematic deaths that could have been caused by the vaxes. Assume 50% of those cases could be attributable vax.

    When you get to this, risk reward is on the side of vaxing middle and older people at least.

    I note also that even the pharmaceutical companies are now exploring alternative therapies ( e.g. monoclonal antibody therapy) & vaccines (not just Novavax, but Pfizer’s new exploration of oral vax)

    Humans kick arse, right? -:)


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  83. Thefrollickingmole says:

    I’m trying to remember I think it was the old 12th man comedy tapes had a joke about a woman weight lifters testicle popping out attempting a lift.

    Who would have guessed it was actually a warning beamed from the future?


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  84. cohenite says:

    Speaking of pollies worth supporting: Malcolm Roberts:

    Marise Payne as foreign minister was one of six Liberal senators to join Labor and the Greens in voting down my motion calling on the government to stop the abuse of children seeking to change gender through hormone treatment and surgery.

    https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=370701834624377&set=a.329681448726416

    Payne on the other hand is a POS.


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  85. Eyrie says:

    “When you get to this, risk reward is on the side of vaxing middle and older people at least.”
    Apparently not:
    https://twitter.com/RanIsraeli/status/1422291237399302152


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  86. Zulu Kilo Two Alpha says:

    This one’s for Pedro.

    “Diggers & Dealers 2021: Roy Hill profit-sharing gives Gina Rinehart chance to splash cash as iron ore soars
    The West Australian
    Tue, 3 August 2021 1:42PM
    Daniel Newell

    It won’t just be Australia’s richest person counting the ginormous piles of money generated by iron ore’s runaway price rise this year.

    Gina Rinehart’s personal wealth has taken another leap into the stratosphere thanks to China’s insatiable appetite for WA’s red dirt.

    But the mining mogul will also be sharing the riches with the high-vis heroes helping to run her Roy Hill operation through the company’s Chairman’s Profit Share Scheme.

    Speaking at the annual Diggers & Dealers Mining Forum in Kalgoorlie-Boulder this morning, Roy Hill’s new chief executive Gerhard Veldsman said reward and recognition were high priorities for the company.

    “We’re really fortunate to have Mrs Rinehart as our executive chairman and from the early days on she’s actually supported the program where we share the profits that goes back to our employees,” Mr Veldsman said.

    “To put it in perspective, this year of you’re a truck driver or process plant operator in Roy Hill your bonuses over the year will be 50 per cent of your pay salary. “


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  87. Ellen of Tasmania says:

    “and fill in the form IM017.”

    It’s worth noting that on page 2 of the form, under ‘Privacy Notice’ (section 8) it says (second paragraph) –

    “Your information may be used by the Department, or given to other parties: where you have agreed to that; or where it is required or authorised by law (including for the purpose of research or conducting investigations).”

    In other words – it can be used or given to other parties where you say so OR where we say so.

    Kind of negates the purpose of the form, does it not?


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  88. srr says:

    Another of my ‘trinity of big nob scientists who are also Christian’ –

    Stephen Meyer on Intelligent Design and The Return of the God Hypothesis
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_8PPO-cAlA
    Recorded on March 30, 2021
    Dr. Stephen Meyer directs the Center for Science and Culture at the Discovery Institute in Seattle. He returns to Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson to discuss his newest book, Return of the God Hypothesis: Three Scientific Discoveries That Reveal the Mind Behind the Universe. In this wide-ranging and often mind-bending interview, Dr. Meyer explains the God Hypothesis; makes his continuing and evolving case for intelligent design; describes how Judeo-Christian theology gave rise to science; discusses why the discovery of DNA is actually an enigma, as its existence cannot be explained by natural selection; and more.


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

    I think our Pauline should be supported on account she has guts while Latham has brains.

    Not to omit Senator Malcolm Roberts. Just sayin’…..


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  90. twostix says:

    Five minutes ago: These completely new experimental ‘vaccines’ are tried, tested and completely safe and 98% effective and totally well understood you anti-vaxxer retard.

    Five minutes later: “You’ll need booster shots starting this year because this vaccine has unexpectedly already been beaten by mutations so get used to it you anti-vaxxer retard!”.

    They’re reading the marketing provided to them by Pfizer and pretending its Science!(tm). This is a something that public health regularly does.


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

    I’m trying to remember I think it was the old 12th man comedy tapes had a joke about a woman weight lifters testicle popping out attempting a lift.

    That was East German weightlifter Anna Bolik.
    Yep, 12th man.


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  92. Runnybum says:

    Agree Cohenite, Malcolm Roberts is excellent.
    A better fighter for the bush than bananaby.


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  93. twostix says:

    NSW govt orders supermarkets to put security guards on to force people to use the QR codes.

    2021 is going well.


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  94. JC says:

    Eyrie

    It doesn’t appear that the effects of “getting” covid carries the same serious risk for the unvaxed vs those who are.


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  95. rosie says:

    When Israel’s death rates start climbing, ill start worrying about the effectiveness of the vaccines.

    https://graphics.reuters.com/world-coronavirus-tracker-and-maps/countries-and-territories/israel/


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  96. srr says:

    John Lennox: Has Science Buried God?
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBio3y0Rrbc&t=4s
    Aug 22, 2019
    socratesinthecity
    Host Eric Metaxas and Oxford professor John Lennox explore the question, “Has science buried God?” — discussing the fine-tuned universe, evolution, logic, history, and more! “It’s like we’re an old Vaudeville team” says Metaxas, who eggs the legendary Lennox into retelling his equally legendary roast chicken anecdote. The interview was hosted by the Colson Center and took place in Washington D.C., in May 2019.


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  97. Makka says:

    Has JC worked out why we are being steamrolled with the experimental vax, Big Pharma $ fraud, Govt oppression and freedom “incentives” yet? Or is he still willfully dumb to what’s been going on for the last 1 1/2 years?


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