Monthly Archives: November 2021

A clear case of he hit her because she hit him

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Let me start with this which is a story found in The Age: MP Andy Meddick’s daughter allegedly assaulted. This is basically what the story consists of:

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Police are investigating an alleged assault on the daughter of a crossbench MP on Thursday night after she spray-painted over a poster in Melbourne’s inner north.
 

A police statement said the 25-year-old woman was spray-painting over a poster in Smith Street, Fitzroy, when she was approached by an unknown man about 11pm.

“The pair had an argument before the woman threw the spray can towards the man as she attempted to leave the scene,” a police spokesperson said.

“The man followed the woman and threw the spray can, which struck her in the back of the head.”

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In summary: She is defacing a poster late in the night when she is accosted by someone who objects to what she is doing . They get in an argument and she throws her spray can at him and runs away. So he throws the spray can at her and hits her in the back of her head.

Nasty all round but if there was an assault, let alone a case of defacing property, if these are a fair summary of the events, it was she who was almost entirely at fault.

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The notion that this incident between two strangers in the middle of the night in Fitzroy is an example of someone targeting a politician’s family is utterly absurd. Near as I can tell, it was an incident involving two total strangers who knew nothing about each other except that one was defacing someone else’s property.

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Here is her version with an important element seemingly omitted.
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“Tonight on Smith Street in Fitzroy I was attacked by a man for being ‘political’. He chased me down the street and as I called for help he threw a spray can at my head.

How could she have known it was a spray can, I would like to know.

Who’s better?

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I didn’t say he was the new Winston Churchill. I  said Scott Morrison is the best political leader in the world right now. Let’s compare him with that brace of Quadruple-J clowns: Jacinda, Joe, Justin and Johnson. Scott Morrison is so far ahead of that crew of far-left grifters, I cannot believe there was any issue with what I wrote.

So let me say it again. Scott Morrison is the best political leader in the world right now. I am grateful for these small mercies in this time of political insanity. Everything is poll-driven, but even so, at the back of my mind I actually think the PM is trying to do what needs to be done – taking on the Chinese over Taiwan, limiting the damage from the climate-change scam as much as possible, and trying to open the economy in spite of the massive fear-driven Covid mania we have from our media and at virtually every other turn as well.

There are sophisticates I deal with occasionally who think having a socialist government run the country for a while will end up working in the right direction since everyone will learn their lesson. These things are too hard on my nerves.

Does no one even notice what is happening in the United States? In Canada? In New Zealand? In the UK? So now we have this, which I fear is all too true: Scott Morrison says he’s the underdog in looming federal election. 

Politics is famously the art of the possible. With well over half the country dreading climate change and more than half wanting tougher action on Covid (Daniel Andrews, heaven help us, may even be the gold standard!) we may yet find out how bad things can get. 

Two weeks to flatten the curve

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Frightful First World War : Horrible Histories - Terry Deary

Came across a copy of the above “Horrible History” on the Frightful First World War. And indeed it was horrible and even now there is no settled theory on how it ever happened, although there is a near consensus that it never ought to have. But there on the back was this.

The Frightful First World War tells you all the horrors and hardships of the war that was meant to last four months … but ground on for four grim years.

We are now in the midst of the “Frightful Covid Pandemic” that will one day be part of history, but not until we can get our political leaders to stop the War on Covid and let us get back to normal. 

The really sad thing is how nothing seems to change, but in particular the idiocies among our political “leaders” who lead us into these mass insanities. Beginning with “two weeks to flatten the curve” how much longer is this going to go on?

Victorian Police State

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Typical of The Age to try to deflect guilt from those who are responsible for the massive growth of police power in Victoria. This is how the article, titled Thick blue line: Victoria builds the country’s biggest police force, begins.

Victoria has become one of the most heavily policed states in Australia after a two decade-long law and order rivalry between the ALP and Coalition helped build the country’s largest law enforcement organisation.

This is all Labor. In fact, this is all Daniel Andrews who being the stupid clod that he is, knows only force in every dealing he has with any issue. You need to go to the link to see the charts, but this is what they show. First,

Victoria Police now has 22,000 personnel and government funding worth $4 billion a year, surpassing that of NSW Police even though the northern state is three-times the geographical size with 1.4 million more people.

Victoria has 327 police staff per 100,000 population, substantially more than NSW (263) or any other eastern state or the ACT.

This, of course, is what all this is about at the moment.

“Victoria Police have been on the frontline every day of the pandemic supporting the health response and enforcing the Chief Health Officer’s directions to keep Victorians safe,” said Ms Neville. “I’m proud and supportive of the work of our police, which has undoubtedly saved lives.”

If we remember them at all, we will remember them as the vilest collection of political leaders Australia has ever known.

Which brings me to this: Thousands take to Melbourne’s CBD to protest new pandemic laws, vaccine mandate.

Thousands of demonstrators took to Melbourne’s streets on Saturday.

This, it seems, is where we are at:

Premier Daniel Andrews has previously said the legislation is an improvement to human rights and government transparency, but lawyers claim the laws will give politicians “a blank cheque to rule by decree” and are unlikely to achieve the outcomes promised in its current form.

And just what outcomes are these? They will have to pass the legislation for the rest of us to find out.

MAGA en Español

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Mostly I have put this up because I liked the picture, but the story is interesting as well. From The Economist, a magazine of the deep left: A large minority of Hispanic voters support Trump populism. Does that mean that a small majority of Hispanic voters support Biden insanity? Anyway, this is what they say in their sub-head.

This looks catastrophic for the left

For some reason, The Economist prefers “the left” to Donald Trump.

Vaxxines will make you free or perhaps not

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We thought we could trust our governments but have now found out that we cannot. Jordan Peterson’s experience has been shared by many all across the world. Near everyone in politics thinks they can run your life better than you can. They are always wrong, but once they have the power to do what they please, they seldom give that power away without being made to do so. The question for us right now is whether we actually can make them do so.

It’s always the supply side that matters

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Two charts plucked from many others at THE GEEK IN PICTURES: THE USUAL SUSPECTS. These should be self-explanatory, but if not, given the way things are going, their relevance will soon be widely appreciated.

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Also, this from the comments.

I run a business that requires me to order material from China about twice a year. For fifteen years the shipping costs have been about $4,500 for me to get a container from my factory to my business. I just wrote a check last week for $23,500 for freight for a single container.