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See also:
31/12/2020: The
Perfect Thistle Weapon: Or brush cutter - also excellent for track
clearing. As you may know we have been pretty much self-sufficient farmers most
of our lives. If I can avoid it I would rather not use herbicides though this
is not always possible. I doubt though there is a more effective way of
eliminating blackberries from one's property for example.
Some years are 'the year of the thistle' and they just
keep coming up. This year they were away in autumn and no matter how many times
one tried to get around the wretched things there were still more of them.
Once you have them down to a manageable number it is
easier on the back to carry around a hand tool than a backpack full of
herbicide. For some years I have used an ultralight
mattock I made - which I still recommend.
My spinal fusion operation makes the bent-over position
needed to wield it pretty uncomfortable after a bit so I was looking for
something I could use in a more upright position. I found an old fern-hook in
the shed which I figured I could make a lighter handle for out of some 1
1/4" aluminium tubing.
This worked so well I went looking to see whether I
could find anything better - well, to tell the truth I was looking for another
one so Della could help out on this job! I found these folk Tramontina who make
a range of brush cutter (sickle) heads. I bought their heavy
duty (710 gram) one from eBay and attached an aluminium shaft to it. Read
More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2020/12/30/the-perfect-thistle-weapon/
31/12/2020: Witness Jovan Pulitzer under oath stating Dominion machines are hacked
in real time right now in Georgia: https://www.citizenfreepress.com/breaking/breaking-dominion-machines-hacked-live-during-georgia-election-hearing/
President Trump, Please write an
executive order to have 2020 ballots and images audited quickly by the method
devised by Jovan Pulitzer: ihttps://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/12/president-trump-please-write-executive-order-2020-ballots-images-select-states-audited-quickly-method-designed-jovan-pulitizer/
This
will be a good start: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/12/georgia-senate-judiciary-subcommittee-unanimously-passes-motion-audit-fulton-countys-absentee-ballots-using-method-outlined-jovan-pulitzer/
31/12/2020: For those who came in late…A Compilation of (some) Election Fraud
Evidence. Ten times more than enough to overturn the result: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1344009358472957953.html
And
who is the most admired man in
30/12/2020: I
knew this was coming but it sure should blow a lot of things wide open: Wikileaks just dumped all of their files
online. Everything from Hillary Clinton's emails, McCain's being guilty,
Vegas shooting done by an FBI sniper, Steve Jobs HIV letter, PedoPodesta,
Afghanistan, Syria, Iran, Bilderberg, CIA agents arrested for rape, WHO
pandemic. Happy Digging! Here you go, please read and pass it on..... https://file.wikileaks.org/file/... These are
30/12/2020: DIY
10 Gram Pillow: You can cut down the Graham
Flexair pillow (which you can buy lots of places for about $2 using your
home vacuum bag sealer to make a 10 gram hiking pillow (as shown). My sealer
will only handle a seal of a little over 11″ so my pillow (sealed area)
is approx 11″ x 7″ which I personally find quite comfortable enough
for a neck pillow – which also fits inside the hood of my sleeping bag
incidentally.
Place the pillow in the sealer, close the lid, press
the ‘Bag seal’ button. You have to wait for the pump timer to progress to the
seal timer mode. It is automatic. When sealing here is a slightly different
sound which stops when the process is done. carefully remove the sealed pillow.
Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2020/12/30/diy-10-gram-pillow/
30/12/2020: Let’s Make a
30/12/2020: This is my perception too, ‘In the
30/12/2020: As January 6 draws nearer many
of us are becoming increasingly anxious that something must be done, but it is
quite possible that Trump already has the situation in hand and has already entered into an agreement
with Mike Pence (remember Defence Chief Miller congratulating him last
week for a mysterious yet successfully carried out military operation?) or is
about to declare the election fraud an act of war and so nullify it in that
way. This guy Mike Adams is worth a read (though perhaps he be best taken with
a grain or three of salt): https://thedonald.win/p/11RO2juCqV/situation-update-dec-29th--exten/
29/12/2020: The Last Stand:
‘There is one hope for the defeated
That he cannot hope in victory.
Is it not better to die as a man,
Than to live in shame before the eyes of all?’ We should remember the
Birkenhead, Rorke’s Drift,
29/12/2020: This foreign interference is just what Mike Pence needs; I trust the
full Ratcliffe report is also imminent: https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/12/28/the-guarantee-clause-the-electoral-count-act-of-1887-the-dni-ratcliffe-report-on-foreign-interference-and-vp-mike-pence/ & https://creativedestructionmedia.com/investigations/2020/12/28/breaking-white-house-has-extensive-evidence-of-foreign-interference-in-nov-3rd-election-example-1-nevada-sos-sent-voter-information-to-pakistani-intelligence/ & https://creativedestructionmedia.com/investigations/2020/12/28/foreign-election-interference-2-dominion-sent-information-election-night-to-5-countries-frankfurt-saw-30-spike-election-night/
& https://joannenova.com.au/2020/12/a-smart-thermostat-spy-in-voting-machines-sent-data-direct-to-china/
This
may also be enough to convince him to act: In
And
then there is this:
29/12/2020: Remember this: Lockdowns Were Inspired by the Chinese Communist Party
(CCP): https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/12/27/lockdowns-were-inspired-by-the-ccp-admits-professor-pantsdown/
and were based on this false narrative:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/12/330000-americans-die-china-coronavirus-closer-20000-died-china-coronavirus/
as well as banning effective cheap medicines such as Ivomec and
Hydroxychloroquine. ‘The fact that you
can go out is a privilege, and it should be respected in an appropriate way, in
accordance with the government’s requirements’. Brad Hazzard – NSW Health
Minister. Oh Dear, And now this: New
Study of 10 Million Chinese Finds Asymptomatic Covid Spread Never Existed: https://nationalfile.com/what-new-study-of-10-million-chinese-finds-asymptomatic-covid-spread-never-existed/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=what-new-study-of-10-million-chinese-finds-asymptomatic-covid-spread-never-existed
& this: Coca Cola Tests Positive to
Covid: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/12/austrian-lawmaker-tests-coca-cola-covid-infection-colleagues-drink-tests-positive/
28/12/2020: Sad really:
28/12/2020: This is certainly one of the things I fear: German Economist Says
‘Great Reset Will Cause a Crash Worse than 1930s’: https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/12/26/german-economist-great-reset-will-cause-a-crash-worse-than-1930s/
28/12/2020: Massive new fraud evidence here: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/12/mathematician-bobby-piton-finds-500000-unique-last-names-pennsylvania-sophisticated-state-actor-able-optimize-desired-outcome/ and here: https://www.citizenfreepress.com/breaking/dozens-of-georgia-witnesses-step-forward/ More Voter Fraud Videos here: https://rumble.com/vc5nk7-georgia-a-close-look-at-the-data-and-events-of-the-general-election-chapter.html & https://thedonald.win/p/11RNtPwz8n/unbelievable-dozens-of-georgia-w/c/
& NB Also Navarro Report
Update: Peter Navarro Expands Election Fraud Memo, Number of Illegal Ballots
Dwarf Biden Victory Margin By Over Two: https://thenationalpulse.com/breaking/navarro-election-memo-update/
& Sydney Powell Report: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/12/attorney-sidney-attorney-sidney-powell-releases-270-page-document-on-massive-2020-election-fraud-involving-foreign-interference-releases-270-page-document-massive-2020-election-fraud-involving-foreign/
Mike Pence must reject the electors from the disputed states on January 6 and
elect Trump on the numbers from the states which had valid elections.
27/12/2020: I am sick of Facebook etc acting like Big Brother – a $2 million fine
would certainly make them think twice! https://worthypolitics.com/we-need-this-in-u-s-every-time-facebook-or-twitter-censor-free-speech-in-poland-they-will-face-2-2-million-fine/
27/12/2020: 20 Seconds of Nuclear Fusion in
27/12/2020: Ways to a quick resolution; https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/12/twj-exclusive-new-legal-memo-giving-trump-supporters-hope-christmas/ & https://noqreport.com/2020/12/24/viral-legal-memo-calls-for-new-leadership-at-doj-to-file-variation-of-texas-lawsuit-with-scotus/ & https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/12/mike_pence_is_being_held_out_as_the_potential_savior_of_a_fair_election.html
26/12/2020: Xmas is different here in the bush:
The Fire at Ross’s Farm
The squatter saw his pastures wide
Decrease, as one by one
The farmers moving to the west
Selected on his run;
Selectors took the water up
And all the black soil round;
The best grass-land the squatter had
Was spoilt by Ross’s Ground.
Now many schemes to shift old Ross
Had racked the squatter’s brains,
But Sandy had the stubborn blood
Of Scotland in his veins;
He held the land and fenced it in,
He cleared and ploughed the soil,
And year by year a richer crop
Repaid him for his toil.
Between the homes for many years
The devil left his tracks:
The squatter pounded Ross’s stock,
And Sandy pounded Black’s.
A well upon the lower run
Was filled with earth and logs,
And Black laid baits about the farm
To poison Ross’s dogs.
It was, indeed, a deadly feud
Of class and creed and race;
But, yet, there was a Romeo
And a Juliet in the case;
And more than once across the flats,
Beneath the Southern Cross,
Young Robert Black was seen to ride
With pretty Jenny Ross.
One Christmas time, when months of drought
Had parched the western creeks,
The bush-fires started in the north
And travelled south for weeks.
At night along the river-side
The scene was grand and strange —
The hill-fires looked like lighted streets
Of cities in the range.
The cattle-tracks between the trees
Were like long dusky aisles,
And on a sudden breeze the fire
Would sweep along for miles;
Like sounds of distant musketry
It crackled through the brakes,
And o’er the flat of silver grass
It hissed like angry snakes.
It leapt across the flowing streams
And raced o’er pastures broad;
It climbed the trees and lit the boughs
And through the scrubs it roared.
The bees fell stifled in the smoke
Or perished in their hives,
And with the stock the kangaroos
Went flying for their lives.
The sun had set on Christmas Eve,
When, through the scrub-lands wide,
Young Robert Black came riding home
As only natives ride.
He galloped to the homestead door
And gave the first alarm:
`The fire is past the granite spur,
`And close to Ross’s farm.’
`Now, father, send the men at once,
They won’t be wanted here;
Poor Ross’s wheat is all he has
To pull him through the year.’
`Then let it burn,’ the squatter said;
`I’d like to see it done —
I’d bless the fire if it would clear
Selectors from the run.
`Go if you will,’ the squatter said,
`You shall not take the men —
Go out and join your precious friends,
And don’t come here again.’
`I won’t come back,’ young Robert cried,
And, reckless in his ire,
He sharply turned his horse’s head
And galloped towards the fire.
And there, for three long weary hours,
Half-blind with smoke and heat,
Old Ross and Robert fought the flames
That neared the ripened wheat.
The farmer’s hand was nerved by fears
Of danger and of loss;
And Robert fought the stubborn foe
For the love of Jenny Ross.
But serpent-like the curves and lines
Slipped past them, and between,
Until they reached the bound’ry where
The old coach-road had been.
`The track is now our only hope,
There we must stand,’ cried Ross,
`For nought on earth can stop the fire
If once it gets across.’
Then came a cruel gust of wind,
And, with a fiendish rush,
The flames leapt o’er the narrow path
And lit the fence of brush.
`The crop must burn!’ the farmer cried,
`We cannot save it now,’
And down upon the blackened ground
He dashed the ragged bough.
But wildly, in a rush of hope,
His heart began to beat,
For o’er the crackling fire he heard
The sound of horses’ feet.
`Here’s help at last,’ young Robert cried,
And even as he spoke
The squatter with a dozen men
Came racing through the smoke.
Down on the ground the stockmen jumped
And bared each brawny arm,
They tore green branches from the trees
And fought for Ross’s farm;
And when before the gallant band
The beaten flames gave way,
Two grimy hands in friendship joined —
And it was Christmas Day.
— Henry Lawson (1895)
26/12/2020: A Very Big Bang 1600 Light Years Long: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/12/24/a-blazar-in-the-early-universe/
26/12/2020: More
Pack Mods: You should not be afraid to ‘have a go’. No manufacturer ever
made the perfect pack (for you) but there is some chance you can do so yourself
– at least it is worth a try. I have hauled this old pack around now for a
number of years since Joe Valesko (at Zpacks) first made it for me over a
decade ago. Back then he called it his ‘Blast’ pack, and it certainly has been
for me.
Back then it was half cuben fibre but that wore through
fairly quickly. I should not have been surprised really as it replaced an
identical totally cuben fibre one I trashed pretty darned quickly which he
replaced free of charge! The parts of the pack Joe made in 4.8 oz Dyneema have
worn pretty well and we have replaced other bits with pretty much the same
material. Della replaced
the side and back pockets long ago which had been in a kind of mesh
material quite unsuitable for blackberries and the like.
Again some
time back I deleted the pad holder pockets and the ‘waist’ belt as you
perhaps saw in this post. This made a substantial improvement but I still had
the suspension wrong, and the shoulder straps had always been too narrow I
felt.
Anyway it is Xmas and no-one is here (as usual). We
always have Xmas on a different day as the kids have commitments elsewhere
(work, other parents in law, etc), so I decided I would make new straps for it.
I also changed their position again and the position of the waist belt. Read
More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2020/12/25/more-pack-mods/
25/12/2020: Camp and Trail By Stewart Edward White (1907). What a gem this Project Gutenberg
ebook is. Though you may be ‘ultralight’ in your hiking/hunting methodology
now there is much you owe to strategies outlined here so long ago, or which you
may have forgotten, and should re-learn. Anyway it will make an excellent
Xmas holiday read if you download it to your phone for free. The contents and
list of illustrations may give some hint of the joys within. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2020/12/25/camp-and-trail/
25/12/2020: Beware falling Iguanas on Xmas Day. Fairly chilly here at Jeeralang
Junction too. Only 8C overnight. I have a jumper on. But Merry Xmas: https://www.breitbart.com/environment/2020/12/24/florida-forecasters-warn-of-falling-iguanas-on-cold-christmas-day/
25/12/2020: Alarmism Dies In The
25/12/2020: Great Election Fraud Videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAavMXC99UI&feature=emb_title & https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gF_baAbzAvI&feature=emb_title
& https://twitter.com/i/status/1342098544547794944
24/12/2020: Was Jesus really born in Bethlehem – seems the important datum was
to establish his lineage to King David: https://theconversation.com/was-jesus-really-born-in-bethlehem-why-the-gospels-disagree-over-the-circumstances-of-christs-birth-150828?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20December%2018%202020%20-%201816217657&utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20December%2018%202020%20-%201816217657+CID_8da855f702f43e9b0e0a79f0d3683e14&utm_source=campaign_monitor_us&utm_term=Was%20Jesus%20really%20born%20in%20Bethlehem%20Why%20the%20Gospels%20disagree%20over%20the%20circumstances%20of%20Christs%20birth
24/12/2020: Just when Hydroxychloroquine gets US approval the main Chinese plant
burns down: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/12/unexplained_explosion_and_fire_destroy_worlds_second_largest_pharmaceutical_factory_producing_precursors_for_hydroxychloroquine_.html
24/12/2020: Decertification – it’s getting close in three states at least. If
Pence (today) sends it back to the states to do their homework properly it
certainly will happen and it will be all over for Biden: https://noqreport.com/2020/12/23/will-mike-pence-defend-the-constitution-and-the-republic-today/
& https://joannenova.com.au/2020/12/breakthrough-georgia-senate-committee-recommends-decertification-of-biden-electors/
Trump
is putting the pressure on Mike, but I doubt he will fail anyway: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/12/mike-pence-must-tomorrow-president-trump-retweets-operation-pence-card-urging-vp-act-fraudulent-election/
23/12/2020: Watch this. One hour ago. This is not a man who has given up. He
will still be the President on 21 January: https://streamable.com/c9ukrf PS: I
notice he is no longer using Youtube!
23/12/2020: Unknown Bird Update: Nature Finds a Way. The Horsfield Bronze
Cuckoo (which is what it turned out to be – first mentioned in this
post) in our garden has at last attracted a mate with the calling which we
were unable to identify for some weeks (al la Edward Thomas’ poem) – and here
they both are:
23/12/2020: The other Holocaust – if you ever wonder why
23/12/2020: On January 6 Mike Pence can reject the electors from all the disputed
states which would confirm Donald Trump as President. Hope that happens.
Interesting times: https://noqreport.com/2020/12/21/vice-president-pence-can-save-it-all/
Why this is the ‘fight of our lives’: https://joannenova.com.au/2020/12/this-is-the-fight-of-our-times-steve-bannon-on-china-and-the-capture-of-the-elites/
PS: Mike Pence doesn’t sound like a man who is quitting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vm6Nx4mgxiM&feature=emb_title
This
is the real bombshell. Pence must act by December 23rd. Merry Xmas Donald
Trump: https://nationalfile.com/exclusive-white-house-memo-details-how-pence-card-can-save-trumps-presidency-on-dec-23/
22/12/2020: The War on 'Manly Men' Why is the Left so heavily invested in
reversing traditional sex roles? Good Question: ‘Progressives are at war
with anything perceived as normal and traditional. Everything that has made us
in the West who we are, and made us the freest, most prosperous, most
accomplished, most civilized civilization
in history – our religious beliefs, our values, our traditions, our art and
literature, our history, our heroes, even our science – is now deemed either
racist, sexist, classist, homophobic, Islamophobic, colonialist, oppressive,
exploitative, or a toxic combination thereof, and must be erased. Our past and
any links to it are unacceptably unwoke, and so Progressives seek relentlessly
to redefine, or preferably eradicate, every cultural norm in order to remake
the world according to their self-righteous, allegedly inclusive, collectivist,
utopian vision’: https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/12/war-manly-men-mark-tapson/
PS: I admit I was upset by the Vic Govt’s recent abolition of the traditional
terms ‘husband’ and ‘wife’ which I favour as avowals of our love for each other
over awful neuter dispassionate terms such as ‘partner’ and ‘spouse’ nor does
either of us mind in the least being either a man or a woman, but clearly there
is (much) more to this agenda. This podcast might make a pleasant alternative; https://www.artofmanliness.com/articles/steven-rinella-meateater-interview/
22/12/2020: Very Little Threat to the Reef: Try to read Peter Ridd’s summary
of his new book dispassionately: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/book-excerpt/2020/12/bad-science-isnt-a-victimless-crime/
22/12/2020: The sheer number of manufactured votes by the Democrats is just
astonishing, over 13 million and probably more. For the number to be
anywhere near correct one would have to believe that voter turn-out for the
lackluster candidate Biden exceeded every other candidate in a century – and by
a huge margin, more than has ever been experienced anywhere which has voluntary
voting and more indeed than most get with compulsory voting: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/12/breaking-huge-simple-math-shows-biden-claims-13-million-votes-eligible-voters-voted-2020-election/
Here is a useful graphic: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2020/12/compare-contrast-obama-trump-and-the-record-shattering-political-powerhouse-megastar-joe-biden.html
21/12/2020: The Most Important Question: How Should We Live: https://www.city-journal.org/elizabeth-lasch-quinn-ars-vitae
21/12/2020: I’m not an anti-vaxer, but this is weird: https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/founder-of-vaccine-safety-website-ex-pharma-insider-found-dead
21/12/2020: How Can This Be? Modern Iceland’s Climate Is Colder With More Ice Than
Any Other Time In The Last 8000 Years Except The 1800s: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/12/16/modern-icelands-climate-is-colder-with-more-ice-than-any-other-time-in-the-last-8000-years-except-the-1800s/
20/12/2020: ET Call Home: Is this the one: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-9067117/Alien-hunters-carefully-investigating-mysterious-radio-signal-Proxima-Centauri.html
20/12/2020: Rorke’s Drift: A painting of this famous battle (where British troops
won more VCs than in any other single engagement) has been given a ‘trigger
warning’. What a weird world we are forced to live in. The 1964 film ‘Zulu’ about this historic
engagement has always been one of my favourites. https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/12/19/now-zulu-war-battle-of-rorkes-drift-gets-blm-style-trigger-warning/
20/12/2020: Watch the documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Mw58r0FkNo&feature=emb_title
19/12/2020: After more than 300,000 lives lost, the American Medical Association
(AMA) rescinds hydroxychloroquine prevention order so that doctors can now
prescribe Hydroxychloroquine tablets (HCQ) to cure and prevent the
Covid-19, as documented in its November 2020 handbook resolution: https://catallaxyfiles.com/2020/12/18/trump-was-right-on-hydroxychloroquine/ Time you did the same Dan?
19/12/2020: How many ways can they find to
cheat? I mean during an
‘audit’ of a sample of ballots people are ordered (against their protests) to
count 138 votes with exactly the same signature! https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/12/mi-sec-state-official-caught-video-telling-volunteers-count-multiple-ballots-signature-audit-votes-antrim-county/
In
19/12/2020: Ratcliffe’s report and Presidential Executive order trigger today (https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/12/executive_order_13848_and_the_stolen_election.html
) Pentagon ‘transition’ has been
suspended by Miller. (https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/12/breaking-big-pentagon-halts-biden-transition-defense-briefings/
). Trump is meeting with the head of Defence (Miller) right now: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/12/developing-trump-meet-acting-defense-secretary-chris-miller-oval-office-330-pm/ We just cannot abide the current situation
Here’s why: https://joannenova.com.au/2020/12/corruption-is-like-acid-to-democracy-the-phase-change-a-high-trust-nation-risks/.
Maybe something is happening at last. We could see this: https://www.citizenfreepress.com/breaking/general-flynn-tells-all-trump-has-options/
PS Martial law has been declared at least 64 times in the
18/12/2020: Navarro Report into voter fraud out today. The Ratcliffe report (https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/12/dni-ratcliffe-resuses-sign-off-elections-report-intel-officials-include-damning-info-chinas-attempts-influence-election-deep-state-hiding-facts/ ) will be even more damning. These is more
than enough evidence here to convince the House of Representatives to overturn
the election result. We can but hope: https://www.scribd.com/document/488495896/Navarro-Report#from_embed
17/12/2020: The Presidential Executive
Order regarding ‘foreign interference’ in
17/12/2020:
These sea surface numbers are all over the place. Just as with air temp and
CO2 figures over time we lack reliable data from which to prognosticate. An old
neighbour of mine (when asked when he thought the ‘drought’ would break used to
say, ‘It’s rained before and it will rain again’. That’s still about as good as
it gets - and folks who claim to be able to ‘see’ the future are just snake oil
salesmen and charlatans: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/12/16/sea-surface-temperatures-hadley-centre-v-noaa/
16/12/2020: The
Rise and Fall of the Tallest Mammal to Walk the Earth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDk1Ft50bsI&feature=emb_title
16/12/2020:
Terrorist who beheaded a French teacher is given a hero's funeral in his native
16/12/2020: Yes
it matters: ‘To think that today we are freer to speak our minds in
15/12/2020: The
Truth About the Reef: No big deal; it’s fine: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/12/09/peter-ridd-its-the-science-thats-rotten-not-the-great-barrier-reef/
15/12/2020: The
Great Reset. How mad is this? By 2030, they don’t want anyone to own property: https://www.skynews.com.au/details/_6210343297001
15/12/2020: The
14/12/2020: ‘The
two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you
find out why’, Mark Twain
14/12/2020:
Requiem for a Female Serial Killer: https://quillette.com/2020/12/08/requiem-for-a-female-serial-killer-a-review/
14/12/2020: We
are at war with
13/12/2020:
Facebook apparently thinks that my friends are not adults who can read
something then make up their own minds but feels that it can/should remove
something I said or a link that I added because it is ‘misinformation’. This
includes for eg a link which shows dozens of studies attesting to the efficacy
of common generic medicines in preventing death from covid, but other things
besides. I am offended by this interference with free speech. I can agree that
there ought to be some restrictions placed on my ability to promote truly
abhorrent, dangerous things such as child molestation, illegal drugs, terrorism
etc (not that I would) but these nannies go way beyond this and have become
nothing but tyrants. PS: The link was to an item on Jo Nova’s excellent
website: https://joannenova.com.au/
13/12/2020:
ENSO: the role of natural forcings on the climate – in this case changing sea
surface temperature (since 1525). Interesting to say the least: https://www.drroyspencer.com/2020/12/500-years-of-global-sst-variations-from-a-1d-forcing-feedback-model/
13/12/2020: What
can we do with the Left? Anything? Just about as important an essay as I have
read in a long while: https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/12/the_time_for_talking_with_the_left_is_long_long_past.html
12/12/2020:
Something (other than civil war – or a
Harris Presidency!) must be done, and quickly. I know there are
still many, many legal battles still being fought, but the situation is
becoming increasingly desperate: https://www.breitbart.com/podcast/2020/12/11/conservatives-urge-state-legislators-appoint-clean-slates-electors-under-constitution/
12/12/2020:
Seriously bad news for the future of the ‘free world’, the Supreme Court has
refused to hear the
12/12/2020: How
(best) to talk to the trees – your taxes at work: ‘Trees are like human
beings. They have intelligence. They have feelings. They communicate with each
other. And also, they are perfectly silent listeners. You can complain to
them… I hope we can create some kind of trend, that actually people are going
to run to the parks and start complaining to the trees. This is one way of
healing at this moment of our history’ https://davidthompson.typepad.com/davidthompson/2020/11/barking.html#more
12/12/2020:
Whatever the dangers of Covid might have been (and I think they were slight)
there is no doubting that it has been used as an excuse for massive social
changes some of which may never be undone. The (small) loss of life was
always going to be less important than the loss of freedom and ‘way of life’
for billions of people. The ‘pandemic’ was a creature of the left and has been
used by the left to cement their power and takeover of practically everything.
We must fight back: https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/12/10/the-usefulness-of-covid-19-fear/#more-205948
Why are 3,000 people a day dying of covid in the
12/12/2020:
11/12/2020: The
Supreme Court already made this ruling
in Oct. 2020 in a 5-3 decision. Check: 2nd & 3rd paragraph
The court's 5-3 ruling means that absentee ballots will
be counted only if they are in the hands of municipal clerks by the time polls
close on Nov. 3.
The justices determined the courts shouldn't be the
ones to decide the election rules amid the coronavirus pandemic that is surging
in
"The Constitution provides that state legislatures
— not federal judges, not state judges, not state governors, not other state
officials — bear primary responsibility for setting election rules,"
Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote in a concurring opinion.
https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/10/26/u-s-supreme-court-declines-change-wisconsins-voting-rules/3670662001/
So the Left thinks they will not decide in a like manner in the current (
11/12/2020: Was
Robin Hood beheaded on the King’s orders? https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/robin-hood-beheaded-nottingham-robert-wetherby-b1763946.html
11/12/2020: The
Global Mean Temperature Anomaly Record; How it works and why it is misleading: ‘Indeed, the 1.2 degree Celsius global
temperature change in the past 120 years, depicted as alarming in Figure 7, is
only equivalent to the thickness of the “Average” line in Figure 9. As the
figure shows, the difference in average temperature from January to July in
these major cities ranges from just under ten degrees in
11/12/2020: How
to cheat with a Dominion voting machine – better watch this today as Youtube
intend to take all this material down. NB
The machine will accept all manner of dodgy votes even blank ones and votes
can easily be manipulated. We should not ever move to using such electronic
voting procedures and should straightaway eliminate computer tallying of votes.
In my opinion we should also get rid of all pre-polling too and go back to the
great mass of voters voting together with all due surveillance and security
(including secure voter ID) on the one ‘election day’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46CAKyyObls&feature=emb_title
11/12/2020:
Toothbrush Spoon: The patent for this idea was filed in 1934 so it is not
my idea, but it is my take on it – and at 3.3 grams it works and saves you
weight on your toothbrush. Just cut the toothbrush down then add a couple of
small o-rings and voila! BTW: The handle I cut off weighed 13.6 grams! Read
More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2020/12/10/the-toothbrush-spoon/
10/12/2020:
Damn! Starship One Explodes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLo73YkEvpM&feature=emb_title
10/12/2020: An
87 page Senate Committee Report just came out into Joe and Hunter Biden’s
corrupt financial dealings with the Chinese Communist Party. Read it
yourself. How would this have affected the election result? https://www.finance.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/HSGAC%20-%20Finance%20Joint%20Report%202020.09.23.pdf
10/12/2020: Just
one way the steal worked: a vote for Biden was counted at 113%, Trump at 87% -
nice advantage if you can get it! This is actual proof using a confiscated
election computer from
10/12/2020: You have probably noticed this yourself ie
that (alleged) ‘fact-checkers’ are Newspeak for partisan disinformation
operatives. Here’s a case in point from
10/12/2020: It
will be just (great) if Trump is able to take down the tech giants - as Howell
(etc) outlines here. There will be a lot of wailing and gnashing of teeth
if these billionaires end without the shirts on their backs, as they ‘richly’
deserve. We will have to wait and see. Come on Texas: https://richardsonpost.com/howellwoltz/19243/did-president-trump-just-go-nuclear/
& https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/12/exclusive-president-trumps-executive-order-regarding-foreign-intervention-us-elections-may-result-perilous-consequences-biden-family-others/
& https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/time-for-action-on-big-tech/ar-BB1bJ9c0
& https://richardsonpost.com/howellwoltz/19350/trump-taking-donw-the-ccp/
& https://joannenova.com.au/2020/12/trumps-two-year-sting-executive-order-13848-may-trigger-by-dec-18/
Of course he might also use the Insurrection Act to overturn the fraudulent
election and arrest the perpetrators.
09/12/2020: It’s
all over Joe (except the coming gaol term of course): https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/12/end-case-trump-attorney-jordan-sekulow-mi-ga-pa-wi-required-respond-texas-case-thursday-good-news-video/
Now 18 states (including Arizona) join
09/12/2020:
Amazing Planetary Conjunction – watch for it on the shortest day: https://www.dailywire.com/news/jupiter-saturn-will-soon-form-first-visible-double-planet-in-nearly-800-years
09/12/2020: RIP
Chuck Yeager a Genuine American Hero – what the ‘Right Stuff’ was made of: https://www.citizenfreepress.com/breaking/american-legend-general-chuck-yeager-is-dead-at-97/
09/12/2020:
Tucker Carlson on the
09/12/2020:
Arizona Legislators have now taken their election back (This will make a
loss to Biden of five states (73 votes) and will take Trump notionally to 305): https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/12/rep-daniel-mccarthy-announces-arizona-legislators-invoked-article-2-section-1-meaning-arizona-is-officially-contested-election/
08/12/2020: Wow!
Go
08/12/2020: Rudy
Giuliani is a 76 year old cigar smoker, but he's ‘recovering quickly' from a
virus deemed so 'dangerous' it's turned the Western world into a giant prison. I
think he may take Biden down yet. The Supreme Court is moving closer to taking
over all the state election challenges this week, starting probably in
08/12/2020:
08/12/2020: Lest
We Forget: Vale Victorian MP Lieutenant Hamilton Lamb, 2nd AIF - died 7
December 1943 as a Jap PoW on the Burma railway, the only Australian MP to be
killed in a war: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2020/12/vale-victorian-mp-lieutenant-hamilton-lamb-2nd-aif-died-7-december-1943-as-a-jap-pow-on-the-burma-ra.html
07/12/2020: The
Deer Hunter’s Phone: Imagine a phone that allows you to communicate with
someone else several kilometres away without being connected to the phone
network. Unihertz’s Atom
XL is a very rugged fully waterproof dual Sim mobile phone which also takes
a micro SD card with a 48 mp camera which also contains a DMR UHF walky-talky
at a very handy package size of 134.5 x 65 x17.5mm (5.29″ x 2.55″
x .69″) and 243 grams. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2020/12/07/the-deer-hunters-phone/
07/12/2020: I
just can’t believe the vast evidence of vote fraud in the
07/12/2020: Some
of the good news you don’t see: https://catallaxyfiles.com/2020/12/06/monckton-vs-lancet-on-the-benefit-of-warming/
07/12/2020: This
could prove a big boost for the Valley: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/12/04/aussie-brown-coal-to-clean-hydrogen-plant-will-address-carbon-capture-eventually/
06/12/2020: Mastering
the Hiking Energy Budget: I guess ‘everyone’ understands about calories per
gram in choosing their hiking food requirements – if you want to save weight,
and have realised that does not mean eating nothing but peanut butter – 6
calories per gram or 7 for real butter, no matter how weight-desirable that
might be (I have many food tips here)
– but there are many other similar considerations.
For example the post FuelFollies
(and others) explains how you can save weight by carrying less fuel,
alternative fuel or lighter stoves of various sorts. This line of reasoning
culminates in a 20 gram titanium roll up wood burning stove which you can make
for yourself for less than $4 in the post Mastery
of Fire – amongst other things. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2020/12/06/mastering-the-hiking-energy-budget/
05/12/2020: What Nonsense: There may now be more ‘aborigines’ in
05/12/2020: What a neat idea – The Nomad Legless Awning: https://newatlas.com/outdoors/fast-nomad-car-camping-awning/
05/12/2020: I
believe I would still want to but I can understand these 8 Reasons Straight Men
Don’t Want To Get Married: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/8-reasons-men-dont-want-t_b_3467778?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9wam1lZGlhLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAI1YVt-x_tnWGi7tCKo5yZ8RhwgW9pOZX1QAO8lTo_l7aII8Hjr2cD72UwkECMEx3lbsorRRbqlcJLJM0T2cEYT4A5pKSFp4rzIvzFj2DexeQF_ijnrJ3CG7IRR0YbLk6tdn38zaYGUGQh_QDDcAYwWmCG751SNirRxLilb8oxSY
04/12/2020: The
Great Reset. What Fun It Will Be! Let Them Eat Weeds and Insects: https://moonbattery.com/let-them-eat-weeds/
04/12/2020: ‘No
Evidence of Fraud’, they said. Well, here are several suitcases of fake votes
being counted with no-one watching in the wee small hours in
03/12/2020: Even
the mainstream press is beginning to doubt the Democrat win. If they
checked the truckloads (literally) of evidence eg here (https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/)
they would soon wake up: https://spectator.org/legitimacy-of-biden-win-buried-by-objective-data/
03/12/2020: Once
they give me some of this I will be able to remember what it is called: https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2020/12/419201/drug-reverses-age-related-mental-decline-within-days
03/12/2020:
Military lessons from Nagorno-Karabakh: https://ecfr.eu/article/military-lessons-from-nagorno-karabakh-reason-for-europe-to-worry/
02/12/2020: The Insurrection Act: There is a way out: https://thedonald.win/p/11Qkx3eTye/-breaking--sidneypowell1-just-re/c/
02/12/2020: Kilometres of prehistoric rock art – come on
02/12/2020:
Scott Adams, an expert in hypnosis and brainwashing (and Dilbert creator),
explains how the MSM and social media have taken over the country by deciding
information flow: https://www.scottadamssays.com/2020/11/26/episode-1199-scott-adams-part2-come-join-me-for-thanksgiving-and-catch-up-on-all-the-narrative-crackin/
01/12/2020:
What Goes On Beetlejuice: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/betelgeuse-star-dim-supernova-death-what-happened
01/12/2020:
Well Hello Big Blue: https://www.upi.com/Science_News/2020/11/19/Back-from-the-brink-of-extinction-blue-whales-return-to-South-Georgia/5301605794235/
01/12/2020:
The election was lost in four massive
vote spike updates in the small hours of the morning after the election when no
scrutineers were present to view the ‘counting. Most of them occurred too fast
for them to have been counted at all and had a Biden proportion
which was completely unbelievable (compared what his vote was tracking
elsewhere/elsewhen.: No. They were not ‘anomalies. They were clear fraud. This
is third world vote rigging of the worst kind. https://votepatternanalysis.substack.com/p/voting-anomalies-2020 Those involved with the attempted coup
should be charged with treason – and face the death penalty. Biden and
Harris richly deserve to be executed for this treason: https://noqreport.com/2020/11/28/those-involved-with-the-attempted-coup-should-be-charged-with-treason/
‘Twitter has banned the link to an article which I find credible, backed up by
off the record sources, that there was a bloody battle between the U.S. Army
Delta Force and the CIA in Germany when the Dominion server was confiscated and
brought back to this country for forensic analysis. Lives were lost and the
nature and location of their demise is not being fully disclosed’ Should
President Trump declare martial law if the
30/11/2020: Soros
does appear to have been arrested. Will he implicate Biden? https://richardsonpost.com/howellwoltz/19070/has-george-soros-been-arrested/
30/11/2020: One
Cicada Doesn’t make a Summer: I was just doing some work clearing our new
walking path in the bush up the creek behind our house yesterday (and again
today) when this big guy suddenly turned up on my arm. I had been lopping some
small branches with the machete and he must have been on one. Gave me quite a
start I can tell you! He (or she) must be around3″ (75mm) long – and what
a delightful green colour! Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2020/11/30/one-cicada-doesnt-make-a-summer/
30/11/2020: Millions
in
30/11/2020: We
are going back to the moon – and soon: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/11/27/artemis-i-stacks-up/
30/11/2020: A
Newly Discovered Fraud of 20,000 votes in Nebraska: https://thedonald.win/p/11QSH33bqD/urgent-my-lawyer-and-i-have-disc/ & https://thedonald.win/p/11QSH34hq3/sarpy-co-nebraska-exceeds-histor/c/ & (very telling) a Democrat’s evidence
about the Georgia fraud: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/11/officials-something-hide-enough-preponderance-evidence-doubt-result-democrat-elections-observer-weighs-corrupt-georgia-vot/
& 2,000 completely fake ballots (all
signed by the same person) found in just one county in the Wisconsin recount: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/11/exclusive-president-trump-individual-individuals-voted-illegally-wisconsin-gateway-pundit-exposed-earlier/ The FBI is now (finally) investigating: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/washington-secrets/new-fbi-requests-files-of-people-voting-in-multiple-states Now
major fraud in Virginia & Minnesota
have been discovered too.
President Trump is interviewed about the fraud: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0oNtzcKSAE&feature=emb_title
29/11/2020: Another
unexplained High Country death. What is happening up there? https://www.heraldsun.com.au/truecrimeaustralia/police-courts/sam-wilsons-high-country-murder-still-an-unsolved-mystery/news-story/7578f25f6eba05d03c7401dcd41f998c
29/11/2020: The
Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence and the Wow Signal: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/11/26/an-approximation-to-determine-the-source-of-the-wow-signal/
Extra reading Carl Sagan’s ‘Contact’ and the movie of the same name based on
it.
29/11/2020: Just
as you would expect ‘in contrast to most people’s assumptions, the number of
deaths by COVID-19 is not alarming. In fact, it has relatively no effect on
deaths in the
28/11/2020: A
handy summary of the Election Fraud for those who came in late. PS: There is progress that this apparent Biden
win will be overturned. There are moves afoot for legislatures to use their
constitutional power to appoint electors (especially when an election’s results
cannot be relied upon as in the present case). This is well advanced for
example in Pennslvania. Recounts continue in some states,
Update:
28/11/2020: The
ABC (and SBS) should be scrapped. The 90%+ of Australians who do not support
green communist politics are sick of bankrolling this evil nonsense: https://catallaxyfiles.com/2020/11/26/fake-news-their-abc-is-not-popular/
28/11/2020: Jordan
Peterson’s New Book (You owe it to yourself to familiarise yourself with
this seminal thinker): https://fee.org/articles/why-jordan-peterson-s-new-book-couldn-t-be-more-timely/
26/11/2020: Sidney
Powell’s Brief of Evidence in Georgia (opens as a Pdf). And Russell
Ramsland’s Affidavit (https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/18693929/1/14/king-v-whitmer/)
This is (the) hard evidence of fraud. You really should read both. Literally
hundreds of thousands of instances of fraud (in eg
26/11/2020: Absolutely
Astonishing fraud at the
25/11/2020: Cancelling
Citizenship. Yes we must if people refuse to give any loyalty to our country
and insist instead in being its enemies (or seek to spend their whole lives
just having a lend of us). I have long since argued that citizenship ought not
be conferred by birth and that it should be revocable (akin to the ancient
punishments of ostracism or outlawry). It should be earned and actively applied
for and come with duties (not just ‘rights’). Cancelling Benbrika’s citizenship
is a good beginning: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2020/11/peter-dutton-cancels-citizenship-of-muslim-terrorist-abdul-nacer-benbrika.html
25/11/2020: Budget
lunacy: If the Federal Government’s budget seems pretty crazy (it is) then
25/11/2020: So
many problems with the numbers – like this one (a million too many votes in
24/11/2020: It's Over Joe: Matt Braynard shows inarguably that we cannot rely on the result of the
2020 election because of the quantity of proven voter fraud. Therefore the
election result must be decided by other means ie either by legislatures
appointing Electoral College members or throwing the matter over to the House
to decide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XH9ihoLi1NA&feature=emb_title
This material will be filed in challenges to the election in (at least) six
states tomorrow. Those challenges will
obviously succeed.
24/11/2020: 97%
of Trump supporters believe the election was fraudulent and stolen – and you
think this will end well? https://twitter.com/jennaellisesq/status/1331301607443738624?s=21
But, The legal cases are just beginning. For example this group has begun to
file: https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/group-files-emergency-petition-wisconsin-after-finding-potentially-150000
This is the Ramsland Affidavit
(lodged by Lin Woods in Georgia) Do read it: https://t.co/M7J9IZ1cfk?amp=1 It
should open as a Pdf document You can open it from here: https://twitter.com/DrPaulGosar/status/1330725927051960322?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1330725927051960322%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fthedonald.win%2Fp%2F11QRyLnGSW%2Ftrump-rt-ramsland-affidavit--dom%2Fc%2F
even Dr Shiva (who invented email and diagnosed
the huge Dominion fraud) has one: https://thedonald.win/p/11QRyKf97e/its-unlawful-to-certify-any-elec/c/
Sidney Powell will file in Georgia Wednesday. How astonishing is this three weeks out Arizona ‘discovers’ another
6,000 Trump votes – this is after ‘certifying’ the election result: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/11/breaking-ballot-count-upload-error-arizona-6000-false-biden-votes-discovered/
23/11/2020: Shattering!
This is the ‘dragon’ Sidney Powell must slay: https://gnews.org/577635/
23/11/2020: Meanwhile
a Top Pathologist Describes Covid 19 as ‘The Greatest Hoax Ever Perpetrated On
An Unsuspecting Public’ (and an interesting survey: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/11/21/survey-results-where-are-all-the-sick-people/) : & https://www.thelibertybeacon.com/covid19-comparable-to-common-cold-swedish-doctor-exposes-how-weve-been-played/
& Matt Ridley argues against the efficacy of lockdowns: http://www.rationaloptimist.com/blog/the-new-lockdown-is-a-deadly-mistake/
& https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/top-pathologist-claims-covid-19-greatest-hoax-ever-perpetrated-unsuspecting-public
23/11/2020: You can’t fight a war from your lounge room however much the luvvies
(or transgender loving Angus Campbell) might wish it so - or without
getting your hands dirty and maybe a little bloody from time to time as well.
Get real! It seems highly unlikely in the extreme that anyone our SAS shot in
23/11/2020: The fight to save the
22/11/2020: A
World Without John Cleese Would be So Much Poorer: https://pjmedia.com/culture/tyler-o-neil/2020/11/22/hilarious-john-cleese-savages-transgender-orthodoxy-in-epic-tweetstorm-n1166266
22/11/2020: Bang!
Goodbye Cancer: https://www.timesofisrael.com/with-new-elegant-chemo-israeli-scientists-edit-genome-to-destroy-cancer-dna/
22/11/2020: They
seem to really enjoy cannibalism in
22/11/2020: Over half of Americans
believe the elections were fraudulent and stolen by the Democrats including 75%
of Republican voters and 30% of Democrat voters (indeed 32% of Democrats want a
special investigation into Hunter Biden). This latter group is important as
they know they did not vote for Biden/Harris and their far-Left agenda - and
that most of their friends did not either! This coup against the American
people is the greatest blow against democracy everywhere in my lifetime. It is
akin to the threats of Nazism and communism taken together. It cannot be
allowed to succeed. It cannot be ‘put right’ by the 2024 election because there
can never be another free and fair election if this heist succeeds. Those who
perpetrated it are traitors. There are tens of millions of Americans willing to
die in defence of their freedoms who will not allow these traitors to succeed.
Let’s hope that Sidney Powell and her little band of heroes succeed in having
this disaster overturned legally otherwise it will be overturned by force of
arms. Biden and Harris will never be President and/or Vice President. It
is unlikely they will even survive what is coming for them unless the matter is
resolved by the Supreme Court. As
When the Federal Electoral Commission
Chairman says that the ‘massive amounts of affidavits that we see in these
cases show that there was in fact fraud that took place’ it is serious stuff.Let
the arrests begin! https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/federal-election-commission-chairman-trump-campaign-bringing-legitimate
In Georgia they found a whole field of
four-leafed clovers in just a few hours, something which just does not occur in
nature: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/11/confirmed-georgia-stolen-tally-shows-massive-biden-vote-dumps-lost-votes-trump-vote-ratios-statistically-impossible/
Just this one batch of 23,000
identified fraudulent votes would overturn the result in
PS: If this
goes to the House (as we all hope - where Reps have a 30:20 majority ie a Trump
win) those 20 Dems will look very bad if they vote to support the fraud –
especially if they hope ever to have anyone vote Democrat again!
21/11/2020: Sidney
Powell is such an extraordinarily brave honest woman, such an astonishing
rarity. A little while ago I did not know who she was but have been most
impressed by the video performances she has given recently, but now I know
(having read this bio) and now I am absolutely certain that she is right and
will not be swayed or defeated. She is one of those unique individuals who will
not lie or shrink from danger. She is an inspiration. Frankly I had
forgotten that there were still such people in the world who are both brave and
true, but the age of hero(ines) has not passed. She has risked her all in
defence of Donald Trump but moreso in defence of the Republic and the idea of
freedom for us all. She has many huge malevolent enemies who will seek to
destroy her. I am sure she has drawn other heroes around her who will defend
her to the death, just as there are literally millions of American who are
ready to die for Donald Trump should it become necessary to do so. These are
such dangerous times. If you do nothing else today, read the bio. It will warm
your heart and restore your faith in the essential goodness of humanity: https://stream.org/i-know-sidney-powell-she-is-telling-the-truth/
21/11/2020: Israeli
research reverses aging: https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/anti-ageing-reverse-treatment-telomeres-b1748067.html
21/11/2020: Better
than Yoga – a female orgasm cult that cold change the world: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-8962029/Inside-orgasm-cult-investigation-FBI.html
21/11/2020: I worry about blood on the streets over this stolen election. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-trump-fraud-insight-idUSKBN2801D4 75%+ of Republican voters beleve it was
stolen and even a third of Democrat voters! The recount of paper votes in
Georgia meant it should have gone to Trump as they switched 81,000 votes
there by computer. Likewise Wisconsin (47,000 votes)
20/11/2020: This
is the go: https://www.csgmercy.com/products/beer-master-can-cover-sleeve?fbclid=IwAR2lmep3efhrok3LYKTusK8sRNtizf_j_RykQG33ZCay45NCE9JycNdEGi8
20/11/2020: Incredible fraud just
being let go during the recount. Thousands of printer generated ballots which
were counted as real. At least 7 affidavits (so far) from scrutineers (from
both parties!) who each saw hundreds of them in a row - all for Biden. This
will not go away: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/11/several-georgia-recount-monitors-describe-odd-batches-ballots-stood-pristine-sheets-perfectly-marked-bubbles-100-joe-biden/
Meanwhile, Lots of people support Trump – over 70 million of them: https://twitter.com/i/status/1327692815787290629 This is happening (cancelling Trump’s
lawyers): https://joannenova.com.au/2020/11/swamp-is-terrified-of-trumps-legal-cases-resorting-to-big-dollar-ostracism-cancel-culture-to-drive-out-lawyers/
We already knew about social media, Google etc cancelling all sorts of
(contrary) ‘opinion’, now financial institutions may have the ability to cancel
you as a person altogether: https://joannenova.com.au/2020/11/can-your-bank-delete-you-its-almost-like-the-start-of-an-american-social-credit-system/
Also, New statistical evidence of the enormous vote fraud in Pennsylvania. Electronic
voting machines are banned in
19/11/2020: Nano
Chair #2: Another version of an ultralight chair. I think this is the one I
will go with – once I have refined it a little further. As you can see it
weighs only two ounces (56 grams). It is slightly more comfy than my trusty
Cyclone Chair i have used for many years but may not be quite so durable. I
will be able to make t so. This is definitely my first prototype – made last
night. It gets me about 6″ (15 cm off the ground and has reasonable and
comfortable back support.
I made this entirely out of 1.25 oz/yd2 silnylon. I
started with a piece of 25″ x 37″ which I hemmed all around – like
so. The other strips (4 of) are 7″ wide also hemmed all round. In
future versions I will refine the pieces more. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2020/11/18/nano-chair-2/
19/11/2020: The Nano Chair: I first made a prototype of this chair half way
through 2017, but it has waited on some fancy fasteners to come to fruition.
This is #1 (of two) of my Nano Chair, a hiking chair which weighs less than 2
ounces approx 50 grams. No-one needs be without a comfy seat in the wilderness
ever again. I have made it in three colours so you can remember how it goes
together: Red = Rear. This is the bit nearest your bum which wraps around the
inflatable mat; Black = Back, the two bits which hold the back (the rolled up
mat together; and Yellow = Y, the piece which keeps the back of the chair from
falling over. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2020/11/18/the-nano-chair/
19/11/2020: Edward Snowden shows how to hack the voting machines – and he is a guy
who should know. If he asks Trump nicely will he be allowed to come back
(with impunity) from
18/11/2020: Good news today: The
county board of canvassers in Wayne County, Michigan refused to certify the
election results. If the state board follows suit, the Republican state
legislator will select the electors. And that’s
18/11/2020: This
is happening (cancelling Trump’s lawyers): https://joannenova.com.au/2020/11/swamp-is-terrified-of-trumps-legal-cases-resorting-to-big-dollar-ostracism-cancel-culture-to-drive-out-lawyers/
We already knew about social media, Google etc cancelling all sorts of
(contrary) ‘opinion’, now financial institutions may have the ability to cancel
you as a person altogether: https://joannenova.com.au/2020/11/can-your-bank-delete-you-its-almost-like-the-start-of-an-american-social-credit-system/
Also, New statistical evidence of the
enormous vote fraud in Pennsylvania. Electronic voting machines are banned
in
18/11/2020: About
Kevin Rudd’s fake New Corp Royal Commission petition which is littered with
fraud and fake names (such as ‘Jess Christ’ and ‘This Sucks’). I notice
however that he has no objection to the insane one-sidedness of the ABC &
SBS: https://catallaxyfiles.com/2020/11/18/the-petition-elect/
18/11/2020: 100% Indigenous: This
is the ‘cure’ for ‘indigenous disadvantage’. Since we can now chose our ‘racial
identification’ and it is deemed ‘discriminatory’ to require that people prove
any small fraction of ‘indigenous’ background (even 1/32nd or even 1/64th
ancestry) clearly it is time that any ‘discrimination towards the
non-indigenous (eg in disallowing them access to 2/3rds of the nation, or
access to certain educational, health, welfare, ‘services’, exemptions to
paying rates on their land etc (whilst still being required to pay for the
indigenous programmes) come to an end. The obvious way to end it is if everyone
simply becomes ‘indigenous’ by making a statutory declaration to that effect.
If this needs to be backed up by a supporting statutory declaration from a
fellow ‘indigenous person’ attesting that the application is accepted as
‘indigenous’ by them and their ‘community’ this also should not be too hard to
arrange. There is clearly already a huge cohort of such people ‘on the rolls’
so to speak, as the nightly television displays of blue-eyed, blond haired,
fair skinned ‘indigenous’ spokespersons clearly demonstrates. Once all of us
are ‘indigenous to Australia’ once again, we will then own Australia once more,
and can begin to address the real problems of ‘disadvantage’ – or at least the
issue of helping those (who for whatever reason) actually need (or deserve) our
support. As an addendum to this idea, since the other large part of
‘disadvantage’ involves ‘gender’ and since you can now (legally) chose it, I
think we should all forthwith chose to be women. This would clearly at the
stroke of a pen end all discrimination against women (and men) and have many
other interesting (and hilarious) consequences.
17/11/2020: It is a coup. We need to get used to saying it and fighting it with
every breath of our beings – else democracy everywhere is lost:
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/11/its_a_coup_just_say_it.html
The Great Generation managed to keep their courage and stare down the evils of
Nazism and Fascism for six long horrible years. Why even my generation managed
to maintain its opposition to communism for seventy years (until the Wall fell)
but has failed in its courage more recently in relation to
17/11/2020: Tony
Thomas explains the
16/11/2020: Space
X: Isn’t this just great? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KU6KogxG5BE
16/11/2020: Ultralight
DIY Bushcraft Chair: I have posted about this chair before but I have to
admit I had never made one myself. Well now I have – and I’m sold. I made this
chair out of a scrap of (approx) 2 oz/yd2 ripstop nylon from Spotlight I had
left over from another project. It took less than half an hour to sew and about
two minutes to construct with four sticks. Yes they are tomato stakes, not the
best material as the edges tend to cut into the cord.
Round poles would be better. Cutting straight green
hardwood saplings would be the surest way of getting a strong chair but if you
don’t want to do that you can collect and carefully test dry dead branches
found on the forest floor. The little 41 gram Sierra
saw is all you need to cut them to size. The two side poles are OK at 6-7′
but the rear one would be better a bit longer. (All these are 6′ tomato
stakes). I have used a piece of 1″ dowel at the front of the seat. It is
about 4′ long.
The chair will be more comfortable if this is also
lashed to the two side poles (about 2″ higher than you see it here). That
will allow you to sink into the chair more. It will also make it a bit harder
to get in and out – a factor if you are my age. If the three poles
(particularity the rear one) are a bit longer you will be able to lie back and relax
a little more.
I suspect you could use a piece of stout cord instead
of the front crossbar. This would make the chair more hammock-like and perhaps
more comfortable. You could put your inflated mat in it too if you wanted
ultimate luxury. It is quite comfortable enough as it is really. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2020/11/15/ultralight-diy-bushcraft-chair/
16/11/2020: ‘Deplatforming’
of conservative sites is the ultimate in ‘Newspeak’ and ‘Big Brotherism’. I
had not realized ‘Wordpress’ which I use on my hiking blog is so sinister. May
have to reprise: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/11/the_conservative_treehouse_is_being_deplatformed.html
16/11/2020: The
same algorithm email inventor Dr Shiva discovered stealing 100s of 1000s of
votes in Pennsylvania was also used in Michigan: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/11/caught-part-2-email-inventor-dr-shiva-finds-impossible-ballot-ratio-feature-michigan-results-caught/
and
Wisconsin https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/11/caught-part-3-impossible-ballot-ratio-found-milwaukee-results-change-wisconsin-election-30000-votes-switched-president-trump-biden/
Trumps lawyers Sidney Powell https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/11/sidney-powell-drops-bomb-sunday-morning-futures-cia-may-used-dominion-benefit-gina-haspel-fired-immediately-video/
and Rudy Guiliani https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/11/trump-attorney-rudy-giuliani-says-election-will-overturned-proof-cant-disclose-yet-video/
explain how it was used in all six states which are in dispute. They say this
election will be overturned before December and Trump will have won the
election. Sidney Powell says more than 100,000 people have come forward with
statements – too many to process all the evidence! PS: The almost ‘perfect’
deduction of 40% of the Trump vote in these jurisdictions (but not elsewhere)
has to be seen to e believed! Only a computer could do this.
15/11/2020: It does not get any more politically incorrect than ‘wokefishing’ -
though I suspect it is a thing: http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/index.php/2020/11/13/november-13-2020-reader-tips/
15/11/2020: This is our
This day is call’d election day.
He that outlives this day, and comes
safe home,
Will stand a tip-toe when this day is
nam’d,
And rouse him at the name of Donald
Trump.
He that shall live this day, and see
old age,
Will yearly on the vigil feast his
neighbours,
And say “That was the day he won
re-election.”
Then will he strip his sleeve and show
his scars,
And say “These wounds I had on election
day.”
Old men forget; yet all shall be
forgot,
But he’ll remember, with advantages,
What feats he did that day. Then shall
our names,
Familiar in his mouth as household
words—
Donald J. Trump, and all who stayed
with him,
And on his side and with him to the end
Be in their flowing cups freshly
rememb’red.
This story shall the good man teach his
son;
And election days shall ne’er go by,
From this day to the ending of the
world,
But we in it shall be rememberèd—
We few, we happy few, we band of
brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with
me
Shall be my brother; be he ne’er so
vile,
This day shall gentle his condition;
And gentlemen in
Shall think themselves accurs’d they
did not stay the course,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles
any speaks
That fought with us upon election day.
15/11/2020: The number of illegal voters in Arizona (alone) exceeds the margin by
which Biden allegedly won the state: https://thespectator.info/2020/11/12/arizona-rep-points-out-that-the-number-of-potential-non-citizen-voters-is-higher-than-bidens-lead-in-the-state/
When you just print 100,000 fake votes the
chances of their being real works out to be 1 in 10 to the power of 274! No
evidence of fraud. Move on: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/11/exclusive-georgia-difference-president-ballots-president-trump-biden-statistically-impossible-indicating-obvious-election-fraud/
& https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/11/ga-poll-watcher-expert-non-trump-supporter-affidavit-sudden-surge-20000-mail-votes-biden-early-hours-nov-5-approx-1000-votes-trump-disappeared/
Sidney
Powell s great: so glad Trump has her on his side: https://www.citizenfreepress.com/breaking/sidney-powell-im-going-to-release-the-kraken-im-going-to-expose-every-one-of-them/
14/11/2020: Trump will now have the
evidence he needs. He has seized the computers in
14/11/2020: DIY Tripod Stool Hack: You can dismantle a cheap $20) tripod stool
which you can buy just about anywhere to scavenge the top cover (which in this
case weighs less than 100 grams) to make an ultralight hiking stool – with the
aid of your new Pocket Serra saw I wrote about here: Ultralight
Tent Poles If you are handy with a sewing machine you can make your own
cover which will weigh less than 2 ounces (say 50 grams). This is a great way
to get yourself from ultralight hiking furniture. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2020/11/14/diy-tripod-stool-hack/
14/11/2020: Trump’s IT team has already discovered enough illegal or double votes
to overturn the results in at least
Hundreds
of thousands of unverified votes were counted in Nevada: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/11/former-nv-ag-bombshell-ai-computer-vision-experts-reveal-signature-verification-setting-200k-ballots-manually-lowered-40-video/
& https://thefederalist.com/2020/11/06/american-hustle-party-insiders-tell-the-true-story-of-how-philadelphia-elections-work/
These are real people who voted yet they
are showing up on the rolls as having not done so: https://thedonald.win/p/11Q8c6xUb2/please-help-my-vote-was-not-coun/
13/11/2020: Ultralight
Tent Poles: Tent poles can’t get any lighter than if you don’t carry any –
which is what I do/don’t. This is particularly weight-saving if you are young
and don’t need to carry hiking poles, something which I simply did not need
until I was nearly 65! Perhaps when I finally get my new knees I will no longer
need them either!
Instead of carrying poles I simply cut what I need from
fallen timber on the forest floor. In
I made my own one ounce (28 gram) for this purpose. See
How
to Carry a Saw
If you don’t have the tools/confidence to do this
yourself, Coghlans have come to your aid with this 41 gram folding ‘Sierra Saw‘
which has a 4″ (10 cm) blade. It is a lock blade folder which like all
pruning saws cuts on the pull stroke so you should not break the blade.
I picked up a couple from Aussie Disposals in Traralgon
(Vic) this morning for A$22.99 each (Nov 2020). Like all their products it is
well made and good value. There is a lighter pocket pruning saww (34 grams)
which i wrote about here, but it is very
hard to source one. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2020/11/13/ultralight-tent-poles/
13/11/2020: This woman’s (2 year old) dog voted in the Presidential election
(though it is not known who she voted for): https://www.citizenfreepress.com/breaking/my-dog-voted-in-the-presidential-election/
13/11/2020: Is this communism, or what? ‘As of 30 June 2020, there
were over two million public servants across the three levels of
Australian government costing $174 billion, yes billion dollars…The Australian
public sector accounted for 16.5% of the number of people employed as at end
June 2020. Up from 15.9% twelve months earlier. ’ https://catallaxyfiles.com/2020/11/12/private-sector-recession-public-sector-party/
Disturbing: 1 public sector worker for every 6 private sector workers.
Ridiculous.
13/11/2020: The fraud evidence is
overwhelming. He has already had a win this morning in a lower court in
13/11/2020: A small army
of IT geniuses is/are helping Trump get to the bottom of this election fraud –
so far they have identified 300,000+ fake votes in Pennsylvania alone (where
Trump trails by 20,000 votes): https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/11/faith-hundreds-pro-trump-volunteers-scouring-voter-data-already-nearly-300000-vote-discrepancies-identified-pennsylvania-alone/
Dominion Systems where much of the fraud occurred is basically a democrat
front: https://thenationalpulse.com/exclusive/dominion-dem-donors/
Here is what just one has found: https://noqreport.com/2020/11/12/it-expert-finds-multitude-of-flaws-in-dominion-voting-systems-solutions-allowing-easy-manipulation-of-vote-tallies/
In Michigan alone 138,000 votes were switched, changing the results completely:
https://joannenova.com.au/2020/11/electronic-vote-fraud-equation-revealed-in-michigan-in-4-counties-138000-fake-votes-for-biden/
12/11/2020: This is how the election is going really: Biden 226, Trump 232, with a Trump
win the most likely outcome after all the fraud, recounts etc are dealt with: nhttps://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/11/current-election-update-trump-ahead-states-ec-votes-legitimate-votes-history-biden-committing-greatest-fraud-ever/
12/11/2020: Just a little civics: ‘Thanks very much to the fellow who purchased
the
12/11/2020: Why does the
earth pulsate every 26 seconds: https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/environment/a34531984/earth-pulsates-every-26-seconds/
12/11/2020:
11/11/2020: 'O, what a tangled web we
weave’…So many smart people out there: Dr Shiva shows how millions of votes
were stolen: It is slow going, and nearly an hour long but you we it to
yourself to watch it through. This is how mathematicians spot computer fraud
and are able to calculate the algorithm which created it. Dr Shiva shows
exactly how many votes the computers stole (from Trump to Biden). Many more
than enough to have completely overturned the election result. These Republican
states (such as Michigan) will require a manual count of the votes before the
election results are certified to correct these computer 'glitches' and Trump
will have won the election. Watch and weep. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ztu5Y5obWPk&feature=emb_title
11/11/2020: The Computer Fraud: Based on this initial analysis
over 500,000 votes were identified that were switched from President Trump to
Joe Biden. In addition to
this another 2,865,757 votes were deleted: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/11/breaking-exclusive-analysis-election-night-data-states-shows-millions-votes-either-switched-president-trump-biden-lost/
In
Pennsylvania, 23,000 ballots have an impossible return date — earlier than
‘sent date’: https://www.citizenfreepress.com/breaking/pennsylvania-smoking-gun/
A Voting apocalypse: 10,000 rise from
the grave to vote (for Biden) in Michigan: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/11/huge-analysis-finds-10000-dead-people-returned-mail-ballots-michigan/
& https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/11/trumps-director-election-day-operations-tweets-photo-republican-poll-watchers-no-entry-list-philly/
& https://www.dailysignal.com/2020/11/06/a-pro-bono-lawyer-for-trump-campaign-shares-what-he-saw-in-pennsylvania/ For a million bucks’ reward there will be
whistleblowers: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/11/texas-lt-governor-dan-patrick-offers-1-million-reward-evidence-voter-fraud/
11/11/2020: How was this fraud co-ordinated: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/11/six-battleground-states-democrat-governors-pause-counting-election-night-coordinated/
And here’s how it will be undone. Attorney
General Barr has already sent out thousands of operatives into the field. Soon
people will start ‘singing’ to save themselves all over
11/11/2020: You may think this is a joke but in at least one case it fact-checks:
‘I threw out every Trump ballot I saw. Tens of thousands of them and so did all
of my co-workers’ https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/11/self-described-dem-party-worker-detroit-resident-brags-facebook-work-wayne-co-mi-threw-every-trump-ballot-saw-tens-thousands-co-worke/ and here’s another: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/11/trump-campaign-witness-saw-biden-harris-van-stop-las-vegas-nevada-center-unload-fill-boxes-ballots-video/ and another https://www.citizenfreepress.com/breaking/no-humans-verified-any-signature-matches-in-nevada/ Many more are coming in every minute, eg https://www.citizenfreepress.com/breaking/lindsey-graham-possible-ballot-harvesting-in-pennsylvania-involving-25000-nursing-home-residents/
& https://www.citizenfreepress.com/breaking/jason-miller-we-found-illegal-ballot-harvesting-in-georgia/
& https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/11/erie-pennsylvania-usps-worker-placed-unpaid-leave-blowing-whistle-backdating-ballots/
& https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/11/stunning-sworn-affidavit-former-mi-asst-ag-election-worker-assigned-new-names-voters-appeared-absentee-ballot-person-already-voted/
& https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/11/huge-exclusive-michigan-ag-dana-nessel-sends-cease-desist-order-journalist-demanding-erase-detroitleaks-video-showing-voter-fraud-training-face-criminal-prosecution/
11/11/2020: Real Clear Politics Pulls
11/11/2020: If just the illegal
non-citizens were removed from the electoral rolls Trump would have won easily
– and this is only a (small) part of the fraud. You cannot expect
the majority of the people to have faith in democracy (even lay down their
lives in defence of it) if clearly and demonstrably year after year the nation
is run and controlled by the minority and elections are never free and fair. In
the
10/11/2020: Real Clear Politics Pulls
10/11/2020: Pfizer Stopped Testing COVID-19 Vaccine Results in Late October,
Placed Samples in Cold Storage to Be Tested the Day After the Election: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/11/report-pfizer-stopped-testing-covid-19-vaccine-results-late-october-placed-samples-cold-storage-tested-day-election/
Advice: Don’t buy into related shares until after you see whether Trump
wins/loses. Of course Pfizer may have done this just to protect their own
interests – imagine if they had released these results just before the election
and Trump Biden won – he would have destroyed them. They may have been trying
just to distance themselves.
10/11/2020: It’s all in the Log Files: As I have said before this fraud will
be detected, undone and its perpetrators prosecuted and gaoled. An example to
hand: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1325592112428163072.html
Here we see the visual evidence of this fraud in
10/11/2020: This is how Hammer and Scorecard computer vote fraud works. Watch
Trump lose 20,000 votes in one second in
09/11/2020: Of course Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvnia all have Republican
legislatures so that they can simply appoint the Electoral College members if
they are not satisfied that the vote represents the people’s will (and may
do so, as has been done before) however in all three states their own
governemts have also ordered an examination of the elections in their states.
For example: Read
the letter… & https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/pa-house-speaker-calls-full-audit-election-returns-theyre-certified,
https://legis.wisconsin.gov/assembly/63/vos/media/news-updates/speaker-vos-directs-assembly-committee-to-utilize-its-powers-to-review-statewide-election/,
https://pjmedia.com/election/bryan-preston/2020/11/06/breaking-michigan-legislature-to-convene-special-joint-oversight-hearing-saturday-after-glitches-blow-one-election-give-6000-trump-votes-to-biden-n1131066,
https://pjmedia.com/election/bryan-preston/2020/11/07/michigan-legislature-subpoenas-election-officials-n1131235,
etc. There is also a mandatory recount in
09/11/2020: How likely is this? Folks so keen to vote for Pres Joe Biden they
didn’t bother to vote for the Senate or the House? There are a really lot of
these Biden only votes: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/11/identified-450000-ballots-miraculously-vote-joe-biden-sidney-powell-drops-bomb-sunday-morning-futures-video/
More than anything this is indicative of hastily constructed fake votes.
09/11/2020: It is coming undone: https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/11/07/detroit-ballot-tabulators-entered-names-of-non-voters-during-count/ & https://www.breitbart.com/2020-election/2020/11/07/nevada-whistleblower-says-he-witnessed-processing-of-illegitimate-votes/
From allowing clerks to fix spoiled ballots to permitting voters to escape ID
rules, Wisconsin election officials took actions that were not authorized by
legislature. https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/many-200000-wisconsin-residents-may-have-voted-absentee-without-having
Voting statistics reveal voter frauds
and demand a recount ‘as if someone
flipped a coin 100 times and got heads every time’. https://thenationalpulse.com/politics/pennsylvania-vote-anomalies/
The rescan of votes in
09/11/2020: It’s certainly not over: https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/11/wait_just_a_minute_some_very_good_news_may_be_coming.html
& https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/11/mathematical_impossibilities_may_be_what_trips_up_democrat_plans.html
& https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/11/hammer_scorecard_and_a_venezuelatechnology_election.html
It’s in the Log files stupid: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/11/there_are_no_software_glitches.html
08/11/2020: NB Bad Stuff: Suddenly a truck
arrives at 4:00am with 61 boxes of ballots. Within minutes this centre
processes 100,000 tallies (when it had only processed 7,000 all night. Go to
around 15:30 in the witness video: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/11/felt-like-drug-deal-asian-american-ballot-observer-detroit-describes-mysterious-van-dropping-off-61-boxes-ballots-4-video/
Wisconsin Election Clerks May Have Illegally Altered Thousands of Ballots:
https://www.breitbart.com/2020-election/2020/11/07/report-wisconsin-election-clerks-may-have-illegally-altered-thousands-of-ballots/?fbclid=IwAR0t2LSzv5K-uavZDqcXuILnt4ndvS_AzGSuvzICY0anD4XlITMSYP_IbU8
& Bucks County, Pennsylvania Board of Elections Director Confirms
“Spoiled” Ballots Were Illegally Handled and Destroyed: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/11/breaking-project-veritas-bucks-county-pennsylvania-board-elections-director-confirms-spoiled-ballots-illegally-handled-destroyed-video/
& A former Democrat Governor blowing the whistle on Democrat vote fraud:
https://www.citizenfreepress.com/breaking/rod-blagojevich-sounds-the-alarm-on-democrat-voter-fraud/
08/11/2020: There are 100,000 Provisional Votes still to count in
08/11/2020: It Ain’t Over Till It’s Over: News networks do not decide or call
election results. This Morning there are many reasons to think that the fraud
is real and that redress will occur. There were (at least) two (huge) computer
‘glitches’, the ‘Dominion System’ glitch and the ‘Hammer and Scorecard’ glitch
for example. Just one of these would be enough to overturn the result. Two
individual examples of the Dominion System glitch eg
07/11/2020: DIY
Ultralight 07/11/2020: DIY
Ultralight Chimney Rings: This is an update to my posts about a DIY
Tent Stove and Ultralight
Chimney. When you roll up the (eg .1 mm) stainless steel of titanium foil
to make a chimney (which will otherwise fit in your billy - when it is rolled
the other way) you need rings to hold the chimney shape.
I made my first set out of strips of foil which I
joined with a pop rivet. This works, and they can be trimmed so that they don't
cut your fingers (so much), but i suggested at the time this alternative:
making them out of stainless steel (or titanium) wire joined with
swages/ferrules/crimps.
You can source double-barrel (fishing) crimps. The ones
I found at Amazon were single barrel, and in the photo I have only crimped once
in the middle, though two crimps would be more secure. This method has
certainly reduced the weight of the rings, made them so they will not cut your
fingers and easier to fit in your billy.
This method has also brought the weight of the bands
down from around 2 grams each to (as you can see) .59 grams). This is for a 40
mm diameter ring. I will be making my rings/chimney 35 mm (so that rolled up it
will fit in my 5" high billy) so they will be slightly lighter than that -
probably around .54 grams each. I need around 20 of then - so around 11 grams
for the rings. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2020/11/07/diy-ultralight-chimney-rings/
07/11/2020: Voter turnout of 200% seems just a bit over the top. (https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/milwaukees-sky-high-voter-turnout-prompts-lawsuit-seeking-explanation)
You can be caught out by the numbers: http://joannenova.com.au/2020/11/biden-votes-pattern-fails-an-easy-first-test-for-tax-fraud/
But there was no fraud: https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/11/milwaukee_officials_have_some_explaining_to_do.html
I notice that already Zuckerburg has been ‘caught out’ throwing a quarter of a
billion dollars into this blatant vote buying operation.
07/11/2020: However, this farrago can be fixed (and has been in the past): https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/11/huge-exclusive-keep-faith-president-trump-will-win-election-based-constitution-per-retired-intel-operative-tony-shaffer/
& https://www.citizenfreepress.com/breaking/michigan-update-election-software-gave-6000-trump-votes-to-biden-same-program-used-in-47-counties/
https://www.theblaze.com/op-ed/horowitz-state-legislatures-rectify-election-fraud
07/11/2020:
07/11/2020: More evidence
of fraud (Claims)
- ‘
https://www.citizenfreepress.com/breaking/alert-why-does-biden-have-so-many-more-votes-than-democrat-senators-in-swing-states/ and even more sinister here: https://twitter.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/1324411235329191936?s=20 Systematic corruption and criminality in the
‘Democratic’ Party. It
will be interesting if this proves to be true ie that all official ballots are
encrypted in such a way they cannot be copied so that fake votes will be
revealed. It may well be true as this story from 2018 reveals: https://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/403148-dhs-chief-calls-on-election-officials-in-all-50-states-to-have The
rumour is that Federal officials have already been sent out by Trump to do
this: https://grayseconomy.com/2020/11/05/will-dhs-officials-follow-the-watermark-to-verify-the-election/ & http://enjoyingthejourney.blogspot.com/
06/11/2020: The
writer below itemizes the maths of the fraud pretty well I think https://redstate.com/scotthounsell/2020/11/05/excuse-me-while-i-call-bs-n275572while
these articles illustrates some of the tricks used: https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/11/05/pollak-seven-kinds-of-election-interference-from-fraud-to-censorship-legal/
& https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/11/count_and_recount_every_vote_until_you_win.html
& https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/11/breaking-project-veritas-nevada-usps-carrier-caught-tape-pledging-voter-fraud-remove-president-trump-office-video/
& https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/11/cant-believe-seeing-coup-registered-democrat-poll-watcher-details-corruption-philly-vote-counting-center-video/
& https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/11/stealing_pennsylvania.html
while this observer actually saw 130,00 Biden votes illegally delivered (ie
after the cut-off time) at 4:00 am in the morning – just as Pres Trump
predicted would happen the night before: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/11/watch-ballot-count-watcher-describes-least-130000-ballots-biden-arriving-three-vehicles-detroit-dead-night/
06/11/2020: It
is a coup. In the greatest democracy, the home of the free world, the light of
the world. In the middle of the night hundreds of thousands of votes simply
appeared out of thin air all 100% Biden with no oversight, no checks and
balances, no scrutiny when Trump was way ahead and it was mathematically
impossible for Biden to win. In a
country with non-compulsory voting where closer to 50% participation is the
norm, suddenly participation was (in the rigged areas) over 90% - in some cases
over 100%! The Dems stole the election. If it ends in civil war I would not be
surprised. All our money is out of the market which I expect to go into free
fall any time. You might catch more about it here: https://www.citizenfreepress.com/
or here https://redstate.com/ or here https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/
but you certainly will not get it from the conventional media, Facebook,
Twitter…they are all in on it. I suspect it will end in bloodshed. PS: Lots of
folk even came back from the grave to vote for Joe Biden (encouraged perhaps by
his similarity to themselves): https://www.citizenfreepress.com/breaking/118-year-old-dead-detroit-man-voted-for-biden/
With any luck though the delinquent states will be ordered (by the Supreme
Court) to have a re-vote for the Presidency (under closer supervision): https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-happens-if-the-election-was-a-fraud-the-constitution-doesnt-say/
& https://ballotpedia.org/Can_a_redo_be_held_for_a_presidential_election%3F_(2020)
or it can be fixed this way: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/11/breaking-state-legislatures-swing-states-may-end-saving-union-work/
First referenced article here: http://joannenova.com.au/2020/11/usa-2020-coup-in-progress/
05/11/2020:
Mastery of Fire: For a million years (or more) this has been a defining
‘element’ of human life, indeed so much so that certain ancients
considered it as one of four primordials: earth, water, air, fire. Indeed this
classification has a resonance to it still.
Early man learned that fire not only provided essential
warmth (and protection from predators) it reduced food energy dependence and
improved health, but that it added (energy and flavour) value to that food as
well. Of course this is still the case.
For the ultralight hiker the problem is how to get
fire’s many advantages at the lightest possible weight – hence this post. The
20 gram titanium roll-up stove can be used as a windscreen with an alcohol
burner or as a twig stove – if you want to save fuel or have run out of fuel.
This is so much better than a gas stove which might easily run out of fuel or
block up and be useless See Fuel Follies.
The empty gas canister alone weighs probably seven times this!
The 32 grams for this set up (the cosy weighs 12 grams)
is so much lighter than any gas set-up with nothing to go wrong. I just use a
couple of spare tent pegs – 5.5 grams each – (for the pot stand) I carry anyway
in case I need them for tent anchor side tie-outs on particularly windy nights.
It also produces a substantial warmth at the door of your tent on a cold
morning when you have your first cuppa of the day. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2020/11/05/mastery-of-fire/
05/11/2020: Unbelievable: Seven Milwaukee wards report more 2020 presidential
votes than registered voters: https://mkecitywire.com/stories/564495243-analysis-seven-milwaukee-wards-report-more-2020-presidential-votes-than-registered-voters-biden-nets-146k-votes-in-city
Voter ‘turn out’ at 90% was higher than
we get with compulsory voting but in seven wards it was greater than 100%.
05/11/2020: Dems are such blatant crooks. No scrutiny allowed while they cheat.
They have kicked out everyone with a GOP badge out of the room and won’t let
anyone in. BUT they are still counting and only Dems are in the room. police
are barricading and supporting this: https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Fi%2Fstatus%2F1324117887368499202%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR0RAI0f3PMBwgDMAuP--69gRnxxWXVg8MPiavneT9R-wmaDCz23hVVjPZE&h=AT0gw7bmIIzsdS6YM5dCOQvbLGBZP1hqoF9uKYv4VNFlz67NxBd-FXHwtcZRtGDcE0foRWPWtGQmaNmfcZOUpbS06Vza7U_WA76FJ5EhrGWY26Gox4ztom2-n08GwArfgvg&__tn__=H-R&c[0]=AT2f4xESOSESeUaJrGagj-OVlB5GC01aZjR1K6b58xN_4kIChTJFJSX8MzxFn3xEfQ7RQ2uwp3uGFEmLIDQV8buLpfxmxNZ4MWQcOA0qFTKQDgh199C2u4rFLZflYTAW_8hFgjBVNXkox5G4
05/11/2020: Massive Voter fraud: So while everyone was
asleep and after everyone went home, Democrats in
04/11/2020: Trump is clearly talking about
enormously major electoral fraud. His team has clearly detected it and will
have the evidence. Important people will go to gaol over this and
Trump is right that the remaining votes need to be secured and the matter be
sorted by a third party – which does just happen to be the Supreme Court. If
you look at the maths of the states in doubt, basically seven ‘Republican’ and
two ‘Democrat’ it is impossible for Trump to lose or Biden to win. The margin
of votes already counted is too great for the difference to be made up by
counting the remaining votes even if all voted for the same person which they
would not have. They would fall in a similar way to those already counted plus
or minus a predictable amount say 10-15% either way, not enough to make up a
deficiency of say 80-90% if the votes had already been counted and one
candidate was already say 10-12% ahead. Yet clearly this level of fraud is just
what his scrutineers (or others) have detected. I noticed during the day people
posting Youtubes of some fraud: box stuffing, refusal to admit scrutineers, etc
but apparently it was more massive than that – otherwise he could just have
allowed the count to proceed to Biden’s inevitable defeat - as he really has
clearly lost – in a big way. For example, it is mathematically impossible for
him to catch up in Pennsylvania with 75-88% of the votes counted and Trump
ahead by 12% with of over 5 ¼ million votes counted (630,000 ahead). With say
12% of voted still to be counted Biden would have to secure more than every
single uncounted vote. The same situation applies in every ‘Rust Belt’ (ie
Democrat controlled state) and in
04/11/2020: By 9:30 am (just a little over
an hour after voting opened in Florida Trumps’s vote had surged ahead of the
Democrat’s (and the Dow went up 500 points in half an hour). If you
look at
04/11/2020: If only we had a Tucker Carlson. If only we had a Donald Trump.
Good luck today Donald. May you have every success and go on to drain the
dismal swamp that political and social life has become: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FI_aK6W-jp0&feature=emb_title
03/11/2020: Public ‘welfare’ needs to rid
itself of its ‘incentivisation’. If you reward something you will get more of
it. That is why we have so much bad behaviour today. If you want to
reduce dependence on the public purse that purse needs to become much less
generous and the rod somewhat heavier particularly as the virus has robbed us
of so much of our national wealth. For a start I propose this: Everyone should
have a ‘right’ (only) to wholesome bread (say 2,500 calories per day worth)
clean water (say 10 litres for drinking and washing), access to a (squat)
toilet, a roof overhead of a night – I work outside when it rains. Haven’t
washed away yet in over 70 years. Canvas is fine for a roof – I have spent
years of my lfe under less, one blanket, a wooden board to sleep on, minimum
clothing for climate/decency: two sets, one clean, one on the line. If they
want more they will have to make an appropriate effort to obtain it at a set
minimum hourly/tonnage rate. I would suggest people be provided with a large
concrete space appropriately gridded and furnished with discrete measured heaps
of sharp sand and a No 10 shovel. Moving a tonne of sand from one grid square
to an adjacent one will be rewarded with a set dollar amount per tonne with
which they can purchase other goods (eg jam, tea, meat, etc) at a set rate. At
5’ tall and 66 years old my wife Della can easily move ten tones of sand a day
and have lots of time to ‘smell the roses’ – and frequently does, for enjoyment
(ie both of those things). That ten tonnes should provide anyone with enough
money to live in very modest comfort, say the current minimum dole payment
approx $300/week. If they want more then they will need to ‘improve’
themselves. I believe that if this regime is implemented immediately the
several million people on ‘welfare’ will very soon ‘improve’ themselves so that
they are no longer on welfare a year later. If I am wrong after one year, I
will reconsider. Let’s give it a try. It’s our money after all!
03/11/2020: It
is happening again: How Much The 2016 Polls Missed By In Every State… https://www.citizenfreepress.com/breaking/exactly-how-much-the-2016-polls-missed-by-in-every-state/
but the Dems and others are again not going to accept the result. In
03/11/2020: Two days out from the election
Kamala (who very likely will end up President – after all the default choices
are her or Mike Pence) admits to being a communist.This will not go
down well. Here it is, Kamala: ‘Equality and equity are not the same thing,
(equality is not enough because) not everybody’s starting out from the same
place…Equitable treatment means we all end up at the same place’. This is
literal Communism. Translation: ‘Equitable treatment means you all end up a
pile of skulls.’ Hilary is helping out by promising an avalanche of radical
left legislation: https://moonbattery.com/hillary-promises-blitzkrieg-of-radical-left-legislation/
02/11/2020:
Press censorship on this scale is an enormous evil (perpetuated by Biden and
his associates), and what do you suppose happened to Hunter Carson’s documents?
(https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/10/the-case-of-the-disappeared-biden-documents.php):
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/heres-censored-biden-story-forced-glenn-greenwald-quit-firm-he-founded
Meanwhile Biden’s corruption is
incontrovertibly confirmed: https://pjmedia.com/election/victoria-taft/2020/10/30/boom-hunters-smoking-gun-email-implicating-joe-biden-just-blew-up-n1107034
PS: I notice the story is back online on Twitter after the firm’s shares
crashed 20%! Maybe the people don’t support such censorship after all but would
like to be allowed to make up their own minds? However, it just didn’t work and
the voters are roaring back to return Trump with a stunning victory. Just you
wait and see: https://townhall.com/columnists/wayneallynroot/2020/11/01/las-vegas-oddsmaker-announces-final-prediction-trump-electoral-landslide-coming-n2579146
02/11/2020: ‘The
whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain
of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.’ Bertrand Russell For example, no worry about ‘global warming’:
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/10/31/roger-revelle/
02/11/2020:
Indeed they do –unless you happen to be one of their chosen ‘elites’: https://catallaxyfiles.com/2020/11/01/western-governments-have-absolute-contempt-for-citizens/
01/11/2020: 9
Days Trekking the EBC: (A Year Ago Today) Della: ‘And so we are back! 9
days trekking along the Everest Base Camp trail, Lukla to Dingboche. Our final
climb above Dingboche was as high aa Everest Base Camp, but I never wanted to
experience the cold and privation of the last 2 days of the trail, so we were
happy to call Dingboche our goal. And it was beyond amazing: I never expected
it to be the journey of a lifetime, but it was… The soaring beauty? The time,
whilst walking, to contemplate my life…? I only know that I felt more energy
and happiness than one small, imperfect heart can hold, and each day that heart
swelled further with gratitude for all the people whose loving support put me
there: my husband and lifelong guide, my family support-crew back home who kept
our home base running amidst their already busy lives, my friends who cheer me
from these Facebook pages daily, and my outstanding cardiologist who saved me
just moments from death exactly a year ago and then solved (though not quite
“cured”) my heart problem. So many people – giving so much: No wonder my heart
soared. The cynic that usually inhabits my soul might suggest that all this
emotion was a side-effect of the steroids that I was prescribed to help prevent
altitude sickness.. Who knows?!
01/11/2020:
Ghost Shrimp and Other Small Fry: This post is an accompaniment to my recent
post Small
Game. It is not so hard to supplement your hiking rations with some tasty
protein after all. A couple of hundred grams of protein will meet your
daily requirements, whilst 500+ grams will be nearly enough for your total
daily food needs. This is just not that hard to get. A good place to look is in
the water
Of course if you are traveling along the seashore there
will be shellfish aplenty on every rocky promontory, and at least in
There are pretty much no shellfish anywhere which are
actually poisonous (if fresh) though few are as delicious as pipis (which only
need to be lightly steamed open), so shellfish represent a ready food source –
testified to by the huge ‘middens’ of such scattered all along our coasts
left by earlier denizens. Often these are 5-10 metres high! Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2020/11/01/ghost-shrimp-and-other-small-fry/
01/11/2020: Look
particularly at the steep decline in the case fatality rate: https://issuesinsights.com/2020/10/29/5-more-covid-charts-democrats-and-the-press-dont-want-you-to-see/
01/11/2020:
Biden will steal the family home. Hidden in his agenda is this wicked plan.
Don’t think this will go down well when/if it gets out: https://rosebyanyothernameblog.wordpress.com/2020/10/29/biden-to-take-family-homes-from-children/ Bizarrely they also plan to retract
Trump’s tax cuts and steal a few thousand each from middle class voters, of
course whilst also banning the family car & etc, etc. What maniac is
writing their policies?
01/11/2020:
Macron: ‘The goal is to build an Islam in
31/10/2020: They
are taking ‘hate speech’ to a whole other level in
31/10/2020: 33.1%!
The
31/10/2020: The reaction to the Nice
attacks is truly terrifying. (eg Mahathir thinks ‘millions of French people
should be killed). We really must end Moslem immigration and indeed reverse
it eg by paying those already here to leave even if it eventually costs a
million dollars for every one, but I imagine we could manage it at a tenth or a
hundredth of that.
30/10/2020: Must
not let Della see this or I will have to be out hunting every day: Antlers
in Jackson Wyoming.
30/10/2020: I
like coconuts too but are you going to climb that tree: https://nypost.com/2020/10/28/costco-pulling-products-allegedly-made-with-forced-monkey-labor/
30/10/2020: The
physics is settled: There can be no more warming from CO2 or water vapour: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/10/26/study-suggests-no-more-co2-warming/
29/10/2020: The
Spooky and Dangerous Side of Black Licorice: I used to love it too until we
worked out it was giving me terrible leg cramps: https://www.realclearscience.com/articles/2020/10/27/the_spooky_and_dangerous_side_of_black_licorice_111589.html
29/10/2020: The
bed as a private space only shared by partners is a recent invention: Groucho
Marx ‘Anything that can’t be done in bed isn’t worth doing at all.’ https://www.fastcompany.com/90404121/the-bizarre-secret-history-of-beds
29/10/2020: Biden
will lie about anything to become President, but attempting to cover up his
criminal son’s vile pedophilia is utterly beyond the Pale. Mind you he is a
creepy touchy-feely guy himself so one does not look far to see where the apple
came from: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/10/breaking-exclusive-hunter-biden-pictures-half-naked-exposed-certain-minor-joe-biden-lying/
Meanwhile all over the net Tucker’s interview with Bobulinski itemising
Biden’;s corruption has been taken down, but you can still get some snippet and
transcripts here: https://pjmedia.com/election/bryan-preston/2020/10/27/bobulinski-the-bidens-are-compromised-and-lying-about-joes-knowledge-of-hunters-deals-with-china-n1099404
28/10/2020: Absolutely
Steve Kates: Andrews is the worst political leader in
28/10/2020: How the fake news and polling see the
result, ie 310: 228 in Biden’s favour. Trump needs another 42 Electoral
College votes: Let’s consider him winning
27/10/2020:
Astonishing: Touching Down on Asteroid
Bennu: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/10/23/touching-down-on-asteroid-bennu/
27/10/2020:
The Madness of Crowds. Nothing
better illustrates this bizarre phenomenon than the current covid
pseudo-crisis, ‘climate change’, demonizing fossil fuels, fantasies about
‘renewables’, socialism, and like ‘boojums’ – of course, they are all linked. I
am I hope a rationalist yet I am astonished that people can be led en masse
into such folly and that it has become dangerous to wave a pin anywhere near
the miraculous balloons of hot air they have generated with their crazy
‘plans’. I trust Trump is right and that no-one will ever even mention ‘Covid’
again after November 4 when a red tide sweeps away so much (if not all) of the
above nonsense. What a ‘paper tiger’ it has been. A ‘disease’ most would never
know they even had except for the existence of an expensive, invasive and
elaborate test – and which 99% throw off in a couple of days. A disease which
kills only those who were going to die anyway – and then only if they are sadly
neglected by leftist health administrators and the like by denying them cheap
and effective treatment. Yet it has been used to shut down the capitalist world
as if it was the “Black Death’ when it was never even the Hong Kong Flu let
alone tuberculosis or small pox (which did not). The other ‘boojums’ are
equally spurious. It all so reminds me of that wondrous Lewis Carroll Poem,
‘The Hunting of the Snark’: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43909/the-hunting-of-the-snark
Just some important quotes to illustrate how the elaborate ‘fantastification’
works: ‘What I tell you three times is
true.’, ‘One could see he was wise,
The moment one looked in
his face!’, this wonderful ‘road map’: ‘Other maps are such shapes, with their
islands and capes!
But
we've got our brave Captain to thank
(So the
crew would protest) "that he's
bought us the best—
A perfect and absolute
blank!’, ‘beware of the day,
If
your Snark be a Boojum! For then
You will softly and suddenly vanish away,
And never be met with
again!', ‘And summed it so well that
it came to far more
Than the Witnesses ever
had said!’– do you suppose this member of the crew was ‘Joe Biden’? ‘There was one who was famed for the number
of things
He
forgot when he entered the ship’ And finally: ‘In the midst of the word he was
trying to say,
In
the midst of his laughter and glee,
He had
softly and suddenly vanished away—
For
the Snark was a Boojum, you see.’
The Hunting of the Snark
Fit the
First
The
Landing
"Just
the place for a Snark!" the Bellman cried,
As
he landed his crew with care;
Supporting
each man on the top of the tide
By
a finger entwined in his hair.
"Just
the place for a Snark! I have said it twice:
That
alone should encourage the crew.
Just the
place for a Snark! I have said it thrice:
What
I tell you three times is true."
The crew
was complete: it included a Boots—
A
maker of Bonnets and Hoods—
A
Barrister, brought to arrange their disputes—
And
a Broker, to value their goods.
A
Billiard-marker, whose skill was immense,
Might
perhaps have won more than his share—
But a Banker,
engaged at enormous expense,
Had
the whole of their cash in his care.
There was
also a Beaver, that paced on the deck,
Or
would sit making lace in the bow:
And had
often (the Bellman said) saved them from wreck,
Though
none of the sailors knew how.
There was
one who was famed for the number of things
He
forgot when he entered the ship:
His
umbrella, his watch, all his jewels and rings,
And
the clothes he had bought for the trip.
He had
forty-two boxes, all carefully packed,
With
his name painted clearly on each:
But, since
he omitted to mention the fact,
They
were all left behind on the beach.
The loss of
his clothes hardly mattered, because
He
had seven coats on when he came,
With three
pair of boots—but the worst of it was,
He
had wholly forgotten his name.
He would
answer to "Hi!" or to any loud cry,
Such
as "Fry me!" or "Fritter my wig!"
To
"What-you-may-call-um!" or "What-was-his-name!"
But
especially "Thing-um-a-jig!"
While, for those
who preferred a more forcible word,
He
had different names from these:
His
intimate friends called him "Candle-ends,"
And
his enemies "Toasted-cheese."
"His
form is ungainly—his intellect small—"
(So
the Bellman would often remark)
"But
his courage is perfect! And that, after all,
Is
the thing that one needs with a Snark."
He would
joke with hænas, returning their stare
With
an impudent wag of the head:
And he once
went a walk, paw-in-paw, with a bear,
"Just
to keep up its spirits," he said.
He came as
a Baker: but owned, when too late—
And
it drove the poor Bellman half-mad—
He could
only bake Bride-cake—for which, I may state,
No
materials were to be had.
The last of
the crew needs especial remark,
Though
he looked an incredible dunce:
He had just
one idea—but, that one being "Snark,"
The
good Bellman engaged him at once.
He came as
a Butcher: but gravely declared,
When
the ship had been sailing a week,
He could
only kill Beavers. The Bellman looked scared,
And
was almost too frightened to speak:
But at
length he explained, in a tremulous tone,
There
was only one Beaver on board;
And that
was a tame one he had of his own,
Whose
death would be deeply deplored.
The Beaver,
who happened to hear the remark,
Protested,
with tears in its eyes,
That not
even the rapture of hunting the Snark
Could
atone for that dismal surprise!
It strongly
advised that the Butcher should be
Conveyed
in a separate ship:
But the
Bellman declared that would never agree
With
the plans he had made for the trip:
Navigation
was always a difficult art,
Though
with only one ship and one bell:
And he
feared he must really decline, for his part,
Undertaking
another as well.
The
Beaver's best course was, no doubt, to procure
A
second-hand dagger-proof coat—
So the
Baker advised it—and next, to insure
Its
life in some Office of note:
This the
Banker suggested, and offered for hire
(On
moderate terms), or for sale,
Two
excellent Policies, one Against Fire,
And
one Against Damage From Hail.
Yet still,
ever after that sorrowful day,
Whenever
the Butcher was by,
The Beaver
kept looking the opposite way,
And
appeared unaccountably shy.
Fit
the Second
The Bellman's Speech
The Bellman
himself they all praised to the skies—
Such
a carriage, such ease and such grace!
Such
solemnity, too! One could see he was wise,
The
moment one looked in his face!
He had
bought a large map representing the sea,
Without
the least vestige of land:
And the
crew were much pleased when they found it to be
A
map they could all understand.
"What's
the good of Mercator's North Poles and Equators,
Tropics,
Zones, and
So the
Bellman would cry: and the crew would reply
"They
are merely conventional signs!
"Other
maps are such shapes, with their islands and capes!
But
we've got our brave Captain to thank
(So the
crew would protest) "that he's bought us the best—
A
perfect and absolute blank!"
This was charming,
no doubt; but they shortly found out
That
the Captain they trusted so well
Had only
one notion for crossing the ocean,
And
that was to tingle his bell.
He was
thoughtful and grave—but the orders he gave
Were
enough to bewilder a crew.
When he
cried "Steer to starboard, but keep her head larboard!"
What
on earth was the helmsman to do?
Then the
bowsprit got mixed with the rudder sometimes:
A
thing, as the Bellman remarked,
That
frequently happens in tropical climes,
When
a vessel is, so to speak, "snarked."
But the
principal failing occurred in the sailing,
And
the Bellman, perplexed and distressed,
Said he had hoped, at least, when the wind blew due East,
That
the ship would not travel due West!
But the
danger was past—they had landed at last,
With
their boxes, portmanteaus, and bags:
Yet at
first sight the crew were not pleased with the view,
Which
consisted of chasms and crags.
The Bellman
perceived that their spirits were low,
And
repeated in musical tone
Some jokes
he had kept for a season of woe—
But
the crew would do nothing but groan.
He served
out some grog with a liberal hand,
And
bade them sit down on the beach:
And they
could not but own that their Captain looked grand,
As
he stood and delivered his speech.
"Friends,
Romans, and countrymen, lend me your ears!"
(They
were all of them fond of quotations:
So they
drank to his health, and they gave him three cheers,
While
he served out additional rations).
"We
have sailed many months, we have sailed many weeks,
(Four
weeks to the month you may mark),
But never
as yet ('tis your Captain who speaks)
Have
we caught the least glimpse of a Snark!
"We
have sailed many weeks, we have sailed many days,
(Seven
days to the week I allow),
But a
Snark, on the which we might lovingly gaze,
We
have never beheld till now!
"Come,
listen, my men, while I tell you again
The
five unmistakable marks
By which
you may know, wheresoever you go,
The
warranted genuine Snarks.
"Let us
take them in order. The first is the taste,
Which
is meagre and hollow, but crisp:
Like a coat
that is rather too tight in the waist,
With
a flavour of Will-o'-the-wisp.
"Its
habit of getting up late you'll agree
That
it carries too far, when I say
That it
frequently breakfasts at five-o'clock tea,
And
dines on the following day.
"The
third is its slowness in taking a jest.
Should
you happen to venture on one,
It will
sigh like a thing that is deeply distressed:
And
it always looks grave at a pun.
"The
fourth is its fondness for bathing-machines,
Which
it constantly carries about,
And
believes that they add to the beauty of scenes—
A
sentiment open to doubt.
"The
fifth is ambition. It next will be right
To
describe each particular batch:
Distinguishing
those that have feathers, and bite,
From
those that have whiskers, and scratch.
"For,
although common Snarks do no manner of harm,
Yet,
I feel it my duty to say,
Some are
Boojums—" The Bellman broke off in alarm,
For
the Baker had fainted away.
Fit
the Third
The
Baker's Tale
They roused
him with muffins—they roused him with ice—
They
roused him with mustard and cress—
They roused
him with jam and judicious advice—
They
set him conundrums to guess.
When at
length he sat up and was able to speak,
His
sad story he offered to tell;
And the
Bellman cried "Silence! Not even a shriek!"
And
excitedly tingled his bell.
There was
silence supreme! Not a shriek, not a scream,
Scarcely
even a howl or a groan,
As the man
they called "Ho!" told his story of woe
In
an antediluvian tone.
"My
father and mother were honest, though poor—"
"Skip
all that!" cried the Bellman in haste.
"If it
once becomes dark, there's no chance of a Snark—
We
have hardly a minute to waste!"
"I
skip forty years," said the Baker, in tears,
"And
proceed without further remark
To the day
when you took me aboard of your ship
To
help you in hunting the Snark.
"A dear
uncle of mine (after whom I was named)
Remarked,
when I bade him farewell—"
"Oh,
skip your dear uncle!" the Bellman exclaimed,
As
he angrily tingled his bell.
"He
remarked to me then," said that mildest of men,
"'If
your Snark be a Snark, that is right:
Fetch it
home by all means—you may serve it with greens,
And
it's handy for striking a light.
"'You
may seek it with thimbles—and seek it with care;
You
may hunt it with forks and hope;
You may
threaten its life with a railway-share;
You
may charm it with smiles and soap—'"
("That's
exactly the method," the Bellman bold
In
a hasty parenthesis cried,
"That's
exactly the way I have always been told
That
the capture of Snarks should be tried!")
"'But
oh, beamish nephew, beware of the day,
If
your Snark be a Boojum! For then
You will
softly and suddenly vanish away,
And
never be met with again!'
"It is
this, it is this that oppresses my soul,
When
I think of my uncle's last words:
And my heart
is like nothing so much as a bowl
Brimming
over with quivering curds!
"It is
this, it is this—" "We have had that before!"
The
Bellman indignantly said.
And the
Baker replied "Let me say it once more.
It
is this, it is this that I dread!
"I
engage with the Snark—every night after dark—
In
a dreamy delirious fight:
I serve it
with greens in those shadowy scenes,
And
I use it for striking a light:
"But
if ever I meet with a Boojum, that day,
In
a moment (of this I am sure),
I shall softly
and suddenly vanish away—
And
the notion I cannot endure!"
Fit
the Fourth
The
Hunting
The Bellman
looked uffish, and wrinkled his brow.
"If
only you'd spoken before!
It's
excessively awkward to mention it now,
With
the Snark, so to speak, at the door!
"We
should all of us grieve, as you well may believe,
If
you never were met with again—
But surely,
my man, when the voyage began,
You
might have suggested it then?
"It's excessively
awkward to mention it now—
As
I think I've already remarked."
And the man
they called "Hi!" replied, with a sigh,
"I
informed you the day we embarked.
"You
may charge me with murder—or want of sense—
(We
are all of us weak at times):
But the
slightest approach to a false pretence
Was
never among my crimes!
"I
said it in Hebrew—I said it in Dutch—
I
said it in German and Greek:
But I
wholly forgot (and it vexes me much)
That
English is what you speak!"
"'Tis
a pitiful tale," said the Bellman, whose face
Had
grown longer at every word:
"But,
now that you've stated the whole of your case,
More
debate would be simply absurd.
"The
rest of my speech" (he explained to his men)
"You
shall hear when I've leisure to speak it.
But the
Snark is at hand, let me tell you again!
'Tis
your glorious duty to seek it!
"To
seek it with thimbles, to seek it with care;
To
pursue it with forks and hope;
To threaten
its life with a railway-share;
To
charm it with smiles and soap!
"For
the Snark's a peculiar creature, that won't
Be
caught in a commonplace way.
Do all that
you know, and try all that you don't:
Not
a chance must be wasted to-day!
"For
'Tis
a maxim tremendous, but trite:
And you'd
best be unpacking the things that you need
To
rig yourselves out for the fight."
Then the
Banker endorsed a blank check (which he crossed),
And
changed his loose silver for notes.
The Baker
with care combed his whiskers and hair,
And
shook the dust out of his coats.
The Boots
and the Broker were sharpening a spade—
Each
working the grindstone in turn:
But the
Beaver went on making lace, and displayed
No
interest in the concern:
Though the
Barrister tried to appeal to its pride,
And
vainly proceeded to cite
A number of
cases, in which making laces
Had
been proved an infringement of right.
The maker
of Bonnets ferociously planned
A
novel arrangement of bows:
While the
Billiard-marker with quivering hand
Was
chalking the tip of his nose.
But the
Butcher turned nervous, and dressed himself fine,
With
yellow kid gloves and a ruff—
Said he
felt it exactly like going to dine,
Which
the Bellman declared was all "stuff."
"Introduce
me, now there's a good fellow," he said,
"If
we happen to meet it together!"
And the
Bellman, sagaciously nodding his head,
Said
"That must depend on the weather."
The Beaver
went simply galumphing about,
At
seeing the Butcher so shy:
And even
the Baker, though stupid and stout,
Made
an effort to wink with one eye.
"Be a
man!" said the Bellman in wrath, as he heard
The
Butcher beginning to sob.
"Should
we meet with a Jubjub, that desperate bird,
We
shall need all our strength for the job!"
Fit the Fifth
The
Beaver's Lesson
They sought
it with thimbles, they sought it with care;
They
pursued it with forks and hope;
They
threatened its life with a railway-share;
They
charmed it with smiles and soap.
Then the Butcher
contrived an ingenious plan
For
making a separate sally;
And had
fixed on a spot unfrequented by man,
A
dismal and desolate valley.
But the
very same plan to the Beaver occurred:
It
had chosen the very same place:
Yet neither
betrayed, by a sign or a word,
The
disgust that appeared in his face.
Each
thought he was thinking of nothing but "Snark"
And
the glorious work of the day;
And each
tried to pretend that he did not remark
That
the other was going that way.
But the
valley grew narrow and narrower still,
And
the evening got darker and colder,
Till
(merely from nervousness, not from good will)
They
marched along shoulder to shoulder.
Then a
scream, shrill and high, rent the shuddering sky,
And
they knew that some danger was near:
The Beaver
turned pale to the tip of its tail,
And
even the Butcher felt queer.
He thought
of his childhood, left far far behind—
That
blissful and innocent state—
The sound
so exactly recalled to his mind
A
pencil that squeaks on a slate!
"'Tis
the voice of the Jubjub!" he suddenly cried.
(This
man, that they used to call "Dunce.")
"As
the Bellman would tell you," he added with pride,
"I
have uttered that sentiment once.
"'Tis
the note of the Jubjub! Keep count, I entreat;
You
will find I have told it you twice.
Tis the
song of the Jubjub! The proof is complete,
If
only I've stated it thrice."
The Beaver
had counted with scrupulous care,
Attending
to every word:
But it
fairly lost heart, and outgrabe in despair,
When
the third repetition occurred.
It felt
that, in spite of all possible pains,
It
had somehow contrived to lose count,
And the
only thing now was to rack its poor brains
By
reckoning up the amount.
"Two
added to one—if that could but be done,"
It
said, "with one's fingers and thumbs!"
Recollecting
with tears how, in earlier years,
It
had taken no pains with its sums.
"The
thing can be done," said the Butcher, "I think.
The
thing must be done, I am sure.
The thing
shall be done! Bring me paper and ink,
The
best there is time to procure."
The Beaver
brought paper, portfolio, pens,
And
ink in unfailing supplies:
While
strange creepy creatures came out of their dens,
And
watched them with wondering eyes.
So
engrossed was the Butcher, he heeded them not,
As
he wrote with a pen in each hand,
And
explained all the while in a popular style
Which
the Beaver could well understand.
"Taking
Three as the subject to reason about—
A
convenient number to state—
We add
Seven, and Ten, and then multiply out
By
One Thousand diminished by Eight.
"The
result we proceed to divide, as you see,
By
Nine Hundred and Ninety and Two:
Then
subtract Seventeen, and the answer must be
Exactly
and perfectly true.
"The
method employed I would gladly explain,
While
I have it so clear in my head,
If I had
but the time and you had but the brain—
But
much yet remains to be said.
"In
one moment I've seen what has hitherto been
Enveloped
in absolute mystery,
And without
extra charge I will give you at large
A
Lesson in Natural History."
In his
genial way he proceeded to say
(Forgetting
all laws of propriety,
And that
giving instruction, without introduction,
Would
have caused quite a thrill in Society),
"As to
temper the Jubjub's a desperate bird,
Since
it lives in perpetual passion:
Its taste
in costume is entirely absurd—
It
is ages ahead of the fashion:
"But
it knows any friend it has met once before:
It
never will look at a bribe:
And in
charity-meetings it stands at the door,
And
collects—though it does not subscribe.
"Its
flavour when cooked is more exquisite far
Than
mutton, or oysters, or eggs:
(Some think
it keeps best in an ivory jar,
And
some, in mahogany kegs:)
"You
boil it in sawdust: you salt it in glue:
You
condense it with locusts and tape:
Still
keeping one principal object in view—
To
preserve its symmetrical shape."
The Butcher
would gladly have talked till next day,
But
he felt that the Lesson must end,
And he wept
with delight in attempting to say
He
considered the Beaver his friend.
While the
Beaver confessed, with affectionate looks
More
eloquent even than tears,
It had
learned in ten minutes far more than all books
Would
have taught it in seventy years.
They
returned hand-in-hand, and the Bellman, unmanned
(For
a moment) with noble emotion,
Said
"This amply repays all the wearisome days
We
have spent on the billowy ocean!"
Such
friends, as the Beaver and Butcher became,
Have
seldom if ever been known;
In winter
or summer, 'twas always the same—
You
could never meet either alone.
And when
quarrels arose—as one frequently finds
Quarrels
will, spite of every endeavour—
The song of
the Jubjub recurred to their minds,
And
cemented their friendship for ever!
Fit
the Sixth
The
Barrister's Dream
They sought
it with thimbles, they sought it with care;
They
pursued it with forks and hope;
They threatened
its life with a railway-share;
They
charmed it with smiles and soap.
But the
Barrister, weary of proving in vain
That
the Beaver's lace-making was wrong,
Fell
asleep, and in dreams saw the creature quite plain
That
his fancy had dwelt on so long.
He dreamed
that he stood in a shadowy Court,
Where
the Snark, with a glass in its eye,
Dressed in
gown, bands, and wig, was defending a pig
On
the charge of deserting its sty.
The
Witnesses proved, without error or flaw,
That
the sty was deserted when found:
And the
Judge kept explaining the state of the law
In
a soft under-current of sound.
The
indictment had never been clearly expressed,
And
it seemed that the Snark had begun,
And had
spoken three hours, before any one guessed
What
the pig was supposed to have done.
The Jury
had each formed a different view
(Long
before the indictment was read),
And they
all spoke at once, so that none of them knew
One
word that the others had said.
"You
must know—" said the Judge: but the Snark exclaimed "Fudge!"
That
statute is obsolete quite!
Let me tell
you, my friends, the whole question depends
On
an ancient manorial right.
"In
the matter of Treason the pig would appear
To
have aided, but scarcely abetted:
While the
charge of Insolvency fails, it is clear,
If
you grant the plea 'never indebted.'
"The
fact of Desertion I will not dispute;
But
its guilt, as I trust, is removed
(So far as
relates to the costs of this suit)
By
the Alibi which has been proved.
"My
poor client's fate now depends on your votes."
Here
the speaker sat down in his place,
And
directed the Judge to refer to his notes
And
briefly to sum up the case.
But the
Judge said he never had summed up before;
So
the Snark undertook it instead,
And summed
it so well that it came to far more
Than
the Witnesses ever had said!
When the
verdict was called for, the Jury declined,
As
the word was so puzzling to spell;
But they
ventured to hope that the Snark wouldn't mind
Undertaking
that duty as well.
So the
Snark found the verdict, although, as it owned,
It
was spent with the toils of the day:
When it
said the word "GUILTY!" the Jury all groaned,
And
some of them fainted away.
Then the
Snark pronounced sentence, the Judge being quite
Too
nervous to utter a word:
When it
rose to its feet, there was silence like night,
And
the fall of a pin might be heard.
"Transportation
for life" was the sentence it gave,
"And
then to be fined forty pound."
The Jury
all cheered, though the Judge said he feared
That
the phrase was not legally sound.
But their
wild exultation was suddenly checked
When
the jailer informed them, with tears,
Such a
sentence would have not the slightest effect,
As
the pig had been dead for some years.
The Judge
left the Court, looking deeply disgusted:
But
the Snark, though a little aghast,
As the
lawyer to whom the defence was intrusted,
Went
bellowing on to the last.
Thus the
Barrister dreamed, while the bellowing seemed
To
grow every moment more clear:
Till he
woke to the knell of a furious bell,
Which
the Bellman rang close at his ear.
Fit
the Seventh
The
Banker's Fate
They sought
it with thimbles, they sought it with care;
They
pursued it with forks and hope;
They
threatened its life with a railway-share;
They
charmed it with smiles and soap.
And the
Banker, inspired with a courage so new
It
was matter for general remark,
Rushed
madly ahead and was lost to their view
In
his zeal to discover the Snark
But while
he was seeking with thimbles and care,
A
Bandersnatch swiftly drew nigh
And grabbed
at the Banker, who shrieked in despair,
For
he knew it was useless to fly.
He offered
large discount—he offered a cheque
(Drawn
"to bearer") for seven-pounds-ten:
But the
Bandersnatch merely extended its neck
And
grabbed at the Banker again.
Without
rest or pause—while those frumious jaws
Went
savagely snapping around—
He skipped and
he hopped, and he floundered and flopped,
Till
fainting he fell to the ground.
The
Bandersnatch fled as the others appeared
Led
on by that fear-stricken yell:
And the
Bellman remarked "It is just as I feared!"
And
solemnly tolled on his bell.
He was
black in the face, and they scarcely could trace
The
least likeness to what he had been:
While so
great was his fright that his waistcoat turned white—
A
wonderful thing to be seen!
To the
horror of all who were present that day,
He
uprose in full evening dress,
And with
senseless grimaces endeavoured to say
What
his tongue could no longer express.
Down he
sank in a chair—ran his hands through his hair—
And
chanted in mimsiest tones
Words whose
utter inanity proved his insanity,
While
he rattled a couple of bones.
"Leave
him here to his fate—it is getting so late!"
The
Bellman exclaimed in a fright.
"We
have lost half the day. Any further delay,
And
we sha'n't catch a Snark before night!"
Fit
the Eighth
The
Vanishing
They sought
it with thimbles, they sought it with care;
They
pursued it with forks and hope;
They
threatened its life with a railway-share;
They
charmed it with smiles and soap.
They
shuddered to think that the chase might fail,
And
the Beaver, excited at last,
Went
bounding along on the tip of its tail,
For
the daylight was nearly past.
"There
is Thingumbob shouting!" the Bellman said,
"He
is shouting like mad, only hark!
He is
waving his hands, he is wagging his head,
He
has certainly found a Snark!"
They gazed
in delight, while the Butcher exclaimed
"He
was always a desperate wag!"
They beheld
him—their Baker—their hero unnamed—
On
the top of a neighbouring crag,
Erect and
sublime, for one moment of time,
In
the next, that wild figure they saw
(As if
stung by a spasm) plunge into a chasm,
While
they waited and listened in awe.
"It's
a Snark!" was the sound that first came to their ears,
And
seemed almost too good to be true.
Then followed
a torrent of laughter and cheers:
Then
the ominous words "It's a Boo—"
Then,
silence. Some fancied they heard in the air
A
weary and wandering sigh
That
sounded like "-jum!" but the others declare
It
was only a breeze that went by.
They hunted
till darkness came on, but they found
Not
a button, or feather, or mark,
By which
they could tell that they stood on the ground
Where
the Baker had met with the Snark.
In the
midst of the word he was trying to say,
In
the midst of his laughter and glee,
He had
softly and suddenly vanished away—
For
the Snark was a Boojum, you see.
27/10/2020: The Bidens are toast. Biden Corruption: Trickle Of Information Becomes
Flow Becomes Flood Becomes Avalanche: https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2020-10-23-biden-corruption-trickle-of-information-becomes-flow-becomes-flood-becomes-avalanche
And now an anti-communist Chinese website is publishing Hunter Biden’s drug and
sex tapes. God alone knows what they will post next: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/10/go-chinas-gtv-releases-videos-hunter-biden-sex-tapes-smoking-crack/
Or this: “Today, I went to a Trump rally” In Democrat Majority Greenwich, Ct.
“I wanted to see one up close for myself...and it was an eye-opening experience”
https://100percentfedup.com/today-i-went-to-a-trump-rally-in-democrat-majority-greenwich-ct-i-wanted-to-see-one-up-close-for-myself-and-it-was-an-eye-opening-experience/
For more on Biden’s links to the Chinese Communist Party: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/10/forget_the_hunter_biden_sex_tapes_the_real_news_is_much_bigger_than_that.html
BTW: Facebook simply refused to post 2
out of 4 of these links!
26/10/2020: Trouble is, Ted Bailleu & Tony Abbott were so rare as recent
politicians in Australia who took action to seriously rein in (rather than
increase) debt, so that eg Vic’s finances were back in the black to the
tune of a few hundreds of millions and Australia’s would have headed in the
same direction. Yet, we dumped them. This is the lesson the pollies understood
from this: Spend! It is why (eg) US & Oz debt continue to mushroom.
Unfortunately there will be a day of reckoning for all this recklessness (note
the derivation, ‘reck’ = ‘care’ OE). When the ability to pay finally runs out,
we will have paid to breed a vast horde of utterly useless folk who can no
longer be sustained – and we will refuse to continue hand-outs to them. We have
40%+ of the population today on some kind of ‘welfare’ or another. Who will
‘care’ for them then? What then will be the consequence?
26/10/2020: ‘There may be nothing to these allegations, even if one of Pell’s
accusers bought a property worth nearly $500,000 just a month after one of the
alleged payments’ but Vicpol refuses to investigate the movement of over a
million dollars even though other police
forces have already made arrests: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/opinion/andrew-bolt-latest-twist-in-george-pell-witch-hunt-puts-victorian-authorities-in-firing-line/news-story/1511f7eb1471a7b69bf969885a1990cf
26/10/2020: Statistical
analysis of 118 studies proves 'efficacy' of Hydroxychloroquine. Think of the
lives that could have been saved if Dan and Anastacia hadn’t banned it. They
should be indicted for murder. : https://www.skynews.com.au/details/_6204459728001
25/10/2020: Total
Precipitable Water and the Greenhouse Effect: As seen in the graph above, this
article shows that declining humidity in the upper atmosphere
fully offsets the greenhouse effect of increasing humidity in the lower
atmosphere. Eliminating the water vapor feedbacks from climate models would
reduce the multi-model mean equilibrium climate sensitivity from 3.2 °C to
1.7°C and would reduce the social cost of carbon dioxide calculated by the FUND
economic model, with two updates, from 2018US$‑1.79/tCO2
to US$-7.14/tCO2at 3% discount rate. The negative signs indicate that climate
change is beneficial. https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/09/29/total-precipitable-water-and-the-greenhouse-effect/
25/10/2020: Assessing Risk:Folks
are very bad at this and likely to become alarmed when they learn that the risk
of something (plastic bottles?) causing death is 1/100th of 1% or the like…but
the very moment you are born (even if you could expect to live 100 years) the
risk of your dying is 100%. In any given year that chance is exactly 1% -
though some years are worse than others…if the average age of death is 80, then
the chance of your ding in any given year up to your 80thbirthday is 50%
divided by 80 or .625%, but as 50% die after they are 80 then the chance of
your dying in the next 20 years is 50% divided by 20 or 2.5%, but the vast
majority of those over 80 die before their 90th birthday so that the real
chance of dying between 80-90 is more like 50% divided by 10 (years) or 5% per
year, ie 1 in 20 – consequentially about the same as your risk of dying of
coronavirus at that age if you should contract it! No surprise, is it? Life is
fraught with dangers, but we should not so blight the enjoyment of our lives as
by overly dwelling on the danger. There is a sensible balance between risk and
preparedness and a sensible costing. In the current so-called ‘pandemic’ we
have horridly inflated the cost. We could never have afforded to spend $100,000
saving each and every life, mine included. There is just not enough money to do
that. Our normal governments’ annual health budgets have always reflected that
fact. Yet in the current ‘crisis’ we have spent upwards of 500 billion dollars
in Australia (and rising) saving a purported 16,000 (elderly) lives, lives
which would have been taken anyway as the above analysis of risk shows, a spend
of over 30 million dollars per life, over 300 times what we would ‘normally’
think to be ‘too much’! We will literally never cease paying for this reckless
and useless waste. And we have carelessly thrown so many freedoms away to do so
as well! If our population was a static 25 million people then we could expect
a little over 1% of them to die in any given year or 250,000 people, around the
population of one of our smaller cities (Hobart or Newcastle for example – or
around two Hiroshimas per year)! Sounds awful doesn’t it? But it is just
normal! Could we have ‘saved’ those supposed 16,000 lives – 6% of the total, or
would they have just died from something else? The normal chance of death in a
lifetime is 100% after all. No country has experienced an excess death rate
from this virus. Indeed in
24/10/2020: The Importance of Blasphemy – an important essay. It is one thiong
to have the ‘freedom to believe’ but it is more important to have the freedom
not to believe, to instead base one’s life on facts and evidence rather than on
some medieval (or even more archaic) shibboleth or dogma. As the third wave in
Melbourne shows we are at great danger from the failure of a significant
religious group (moslems) to identify as Australians first (and do the right
thing); even more the murder of Samuel Paty in France illustrates the dangers
presented by this extremist group in our society: https://quillette.com/2020/10/21/the-importance-of-blasphemy/
24/10/2020: Sooner or later we are going to have to live with the virus. All that
has been done to date only delays that day. Any vaccine will only prevent a
percentage of cases anyway, perhaps 2/3. If cheap freely available drugs such
as Vitamin D, Zinc, Hydroxychloroquine and Ivomec were marshaled against it (as
well as more serious efforts made to protect the elderly) 80%+ of deaths could
be prevented as well. The ‘so-called second-wave in Europe and etc is
enormously less deadly (probably mostly because thse who were going to die from
it already have): http://joannenova.com.au/2020/10/where-are-the-deaths-ten-reasons-the-first-and-second-covid-waves-look-so-different/
And it really was a huge protest yesterday in Melbourne against the lockdown: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2020/10/huge-protest-today-in-melbourne-against-the-andrews-government.html
24/10/2020: Biden is unfit for any office which does not have bars on the windows.
His son’s laptop is a stunning record of infamy: https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/10/biden-crime-family-comes-undone-daniel-greenfield/
During the debate he assured the
audience that he had never expressed opposition to fracking, but here he is
opposing it multiple times: https://twitter.com/i/status/1319466667676749824
and Bobulinski’s evidence of Joe
profiting hugely from corrupt deals with China will bring his campaign to an
end: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2020/10/damning-statement-from-tony-bobulinski-ceo-of-bidenchina-entity.html
23/10/2020: Poverty/Disadvantage - This supposed
connection is highly spurious: As a child I grew up in what could only be
described as a ‘poor’ family. We had no running water or electricity, no
heating, no sewerage or septic tank, no ‘family’ car, no television, no ‘made’
road, adequate but (likely) protein poor diet, no ‘holidays’, very few toys, no
‘treats’, second-hand/repaired/home-made clothing, (I personally wore no shoes
until I was in High School), haircuts performed at home, we grew most of our
own food (so nothing out of season); we all suffered from boils (Vitamin
deficiency or inadequate washing facilities?)…the list goes on. We never felt
ANY sense of disadvantage. Certainly there was nothing about this situation
which prevented us from excelling. Both my parents were quite literate, had
beautiful flawless copperplate handwriting and were well informed about world
events and the progress of ideas. ‘The Poor’ today are rich beyond my parents’
dreams of avarice (not that they had them anyway), their homes and lives
crammed with sci-fi gadgets and robots beyond imagining, their stomachs full of
a cornucopia of overly nutritious goodies…their minds and spirits are
unbelievably vacuous however, and they are unable to do anything. For example,
I recently posted some advice about fire lighting on a hiking website only to
receive the comment that ‘fire-lighting’ was not in someone’s skill-set, so
they would stick to ‘reliable’ gas stoves. Similarly posts about wonderful DIY
hiking gear which is virtually free and better than anything you can buy for
hundreds of dollars are the least-visited posts on my webpage (eg https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2020/10/21/tent-stove-progress/ ) ‘Disadvantage’ is all in the mind.
23/10/2020: OMG: It just gets worse and worse for the Bidens: Confirmed Footage Of
Hunter Biden Raping And Torturing Little Chinese Girls: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkxLQyuCUtM&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR0CxAyt8vMSBFQ7Or59HyG9qVr5V7Z9gqFfZiLu1t2e5NuyW8ukasxn2mE
Of course the ‘fake news’ eg the Washington Post is running a front page about
Biden’s dietary preferences: https://althouse.blogspot.com/2020/10/how-washington-post-is-keeping-up-with.html#more when a Biden insider whistleblower confirms
he witnessed Joe involved in Hunter’s ‘business’ deals: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/10/breaking-whistleblower-releases-statement-personally-witnessed-former-vp-joe-biden-involved-deals-hunter-biden/
23/10/2020: In 1917
22/10/2020: So many ‘problems’ arise because many
people are ‘orally fixated’ instead of auditorally. Their problems arise
from what they choose to put in their mouths and have come out of them. If they
paid more attention to their ears (eg listen to good advice) their problems
would disappear. Surely more than enough money has already been spent on
brochures and education programmes explaining eg why smoking is bad for you,
how to avoid diabetes, drugs are bad, exercise is good, etc? I add advice about
not spouting angry vile stupidities out of them, blaming others, one’s own
‘disadvantage, etc. The individual alone is responsible for one’s own
situation. No-one else is. No-one else is able to lift you out of a bad
situation either. If you don’t ‘pull yourself up by your own bootstraps’ no-one
else will or can! ‘Victims’ (and perpetrators) of domestic violence, the
‘diabetes epidemic’, aboriginal ‘disadvantage’, poverty, homelessness…they are
all the individual’s fault. The ‘victims’ alone can help themselves. Not a cent
of public money should be spent on such ‘social problems’. People must take
responsibility for themselves. For example, if people are on ‘welfare’,
unemployed and unemployable, morbidly obese, diabetic, illiterate, smokers,
drinkers, drug addicts, neither grow nor consume fresh fruit/vegetables,
attempt to subsist alone on junk food (proven how many times to kill lab
rats?), it is their own fault, their own problem. The sooner they either lift
themselves up or are gone from the planet, the better.
22/10/2020: At
CO2 roughly 50% up from supposed pre-industrial levels (ie 280 to 420 ppm) we
should see roughly half the warming we
should see roughly half the warming (if the forcing was linear – it
is rather less than lineal) but there is no evidence that temperatures today
are any different (subtracting ‘normal’ natural variations - as if you can)
than they were in say the mid C19th when (eg in Oz) we recorded the hottest
temperatures we ever have! If the first half of the doubling has produced close
to zero warming then the second half of the doubling can only produce less than
that in fact – which is a cooling! Don’t fret. https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/10/20/crisis-looms-in-alarmist-climate-science/
22/10/2020: When
‘science’ follows the left. This is just an example from the issue of
vaping which surely is at least less dangerous than tobacco smoking (which is
legal) and ought therefore to be allowed as a more ‘healthy’ alternative for
would-be smokers (which I am not), but that does not fit the left’s agenda and
unfortunately here the Libs follow the Left down every rat-hole they create, so
that there is no alternative. So, we have had bans and changes to many
previously congenial things: decimal currency, the imperial system, crackers,
drinking, drink driving, smoking, traditional marriage, the place of
Christianity in society, homosexuality and pedophilia, climate, forest
management, gun ownership, hunting and fishing…if you give an inch they will
take a mile (not sure what that is in decimals)! https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/10/when-science-follows-the-left.php
21/10/2020: Even
plants have rudimentary intelligence and memory: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/how-venus-flytraps-store-short-term-memories-prey/amp?__twitter_impression=true
21/10/2020: Covid
was deliberately created and released by the communist Chinese Government.
No doubt this was a response to the
21/10/2020: This
Biden corruption thing is just so big. Even the FBI is complicit in the
cover-up as well as nearly all of the Press and media (and of course our own
ABC). It makes ‘conspiracy theories’ of all sorts more attractive as there
seems to be no way forward for ‘truth’ except a prayed-for Trump victory, and
maybe a bit more ‘swamp draining’. I am just astonished they have not
assassinated him! They may yet. Unfortunately there are many parallels in
Australia: the Labor Party’s links to China and the corrupt ‘Clinton
Foundation’ spring to mind, as does the recent Pell money trail but I am not
specially enamoured of the Libs either. Where is our own Aussie Trump: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2020/10/its-a-scandal-that-mainstream-media-is-ignoring-this-us-senate-homeland-security-report-on-biden-cor.html
& http://joannenova.com.au/2020/10/one-minute-we-were-america-then-next-we-were-china/
20/10/2020: Tent
Stove Progress: I took a break from tree planting this morning to have a
play with this prototype stove (and to try out my chimney).
I have made this one out of two (6" dia 2' high - 15 x 5 cm) stainless
steel bird feeding bowls from the local $2 store. They weighed 78 grams each.
I have joined them together with the simple expedient
of drilling three holes around the rims and pushing a piece of wire through the
holes and into the ground. Tent pegs would work better and would secure the
stove very safely in the vestibule of the tent. The collar thing I am using for
a fuel guide tube is just a $2 plumbing fitting from Bunnings. I will come up
with something better/lighter.
The chimney is just sitting in the hole I drilled with
the Lenox hole saw at the moment. The twigs you see in it are 1/2" to
3/4" (12-19 mm). These are easily broken over your knee and can be split
(carefully by pushing a fixed blade knife through them to get at the dry
heartwood. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2020/10/20/tent-stove-progress/
20/10/2020:
20/10/2020: Glaciers
around the world reached their greatest size in four thousand years by 1850.
Then abruptly the world began to warm. Arctic sea ice lost 40% of its thickness
by 1940… the dramatic warming was due to an increased transfer of
heat through the atmosphere by a strengthening of the winds carrying heat from
southern parts to the Arctic: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/10/13/greenland-and-the-1950s-climate-consensus/
20/10/2020: The
real death toll from Covid though is pretty much the same as the 2017-8 flu
season: https://nypost.com/2020/10/17/how-the-media-is-misreporting-covid-19s-death-toll-in-america/
20/10/2020: You
just can’t buy crowds like this; thousands of people line the streets of
19/10/2020: A
good news story for Australians: Cardinal Pell celebrates his first mass in
19/10/2020: Willis’s
cartoons of Mohammed are the best. I think even the good prophet would have a
laugh at them: https://rosebyanyothernameblog.wordpress.com/2020/10/18/cartoon-bob-interviews-the-prophet/
19/10/2020: Indications
of a good Trump win are growing, thank goodness. There is no-one else out
there who stands for the mainstream, for the traditional values of the middle
ground: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/world/joe-bidens-popularity-wanes-amid-hunter-biden-rehab-and-foreign-interests-email-scandal/news-story/bd7d6e872facf99032f7261956db56a7
The graphic shows how emeritus political scientist Helmut Norpoth’s model
predicts the result. He has been right 25/27 times (You have to hope he is
right):
18/10/2020: My
First Ultralight Chimney: I am slowly working my way through the many
issues involved in constructing ultralight wood burning stoves for tent
heating, cooking and electricity generation. This will take some time. The most
important first step however involved whether I could construct an ultralight
roll-up chimney without having to be able to weld such lighteweight metal foil
materials. This is my fist attempt and though it was a success I am not
completely unwounded (neither is Della) and we have learned much. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2020/10/18/my-first-ultralight-chimney/
18/10/2020: Meanwhile
more fraud about dangers to the Reef which has moved about quite a lot over
the last 20,000 years anyway as sea level see-sawed during glaciation events.
Imagine how far out to sea (or non-existent) it must have been when you could
walk to Tasmnania only 15,000 years ago. It is the nature of coral reefs that
they occur in shallow seas. If sea level was 50 or more metres lower (as it
was) then they did not exist anywhere near their present locales: http://joannenova.com.au/2020/10/half-the-reef-destroyed-but-they-wont-release-the-data/
& https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/10/15/half-the-corals-dead-but-not-in-real-life/
18/10/2020: Seems
like Mars’ oceans have gone underground with up to a third covered by
subterranean ice sheets: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/10/16/cliffs-in-ancient-ice-on-mars/
18/10/2020: ‘After the game, the pawn and the king go
in the same box.’ Roger de Hauteville
17/10/2020: A
lesson from the life of Geoffrey Chaucer who (barely) lived through some
interesting parliaments (the ‘Merciless’ and the ‘Wonderful’ for example): http://assistantvillageidiot.blogspot.com/2020/10/chaucers-near-execution.html
17/10/2020: Will
17/10/2020: Fatherlessness.
Probably the greatest threat to a civilised society, ‘As a first-year
obstetrical resident, I delivered 150 babies in three months. Only one of the
mothers was married. Most of these girls were 11 years old…’ https://pjmedia.com/columns/larry-elder/2020/10/15/fatherless-households-a-national-crisis-n1056125
16/10/2020: What
Our Children Learn in School: ‘Our public schools are run, for the most
part, by liberal administrators, and teachers are drawn, usually, from the
lowest quadrant of academic ability among college graduates. There are
exceptions, of course, but the overall level of instruction in the public
schools is abysmal. And that isn’t the worst of it: teachers who are marginally
able, at best, to teach the subjects for which they are nominally responsible
often devote themselves to political indoctrination instead’ Listen:
(This is a Yr 9 Geography class) https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/10/what-our-children-learn-in-school.php
16/10/2020: Biden
is a crook. Hopefully this will bring him down: https://nypost.com/2020/10/14/email-reveals-how-hunter-biden-introduced-ukrainian-biz-man-to-dad/?fbclid=IwAR2Rw8-jGAY3gPLLI6n_j2vAcq4TFSTs0_03oTw3lzSmw8DnoLkYMmYO6Rk#
Zuckerburg is trying hard to shut down this story and has thrown $400 million
dollars against Trump. If Trump id re-elected that power will be emasculated,
as it should be. Powerful people should not be able to shut down free speech.
Nonetheless the story grows and grows: https://spectator.us/hunter-biden-ukraine-burisma-election-2020/
& https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/10/15/senate-judiciary-committee-will-subpoena-twitter-ceo-jack-dorsey-over-ny-post-censorship/
& https://www.skynews.com.au/details/_6200811085001
16/10/2020: Has
to be true I think: https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/10/14/nolte-study-signs-tell-us-polls-might-be-missing-hidden-trump-voters/
15/10/2020: Sad:
Green Dreams Fulfilled: Around 10:00 am this morning the house shook to
what we thought at first was an earthquake but it proved to be Engie blowing up
one of the dredgers at the Hazelwood mine (about five kilometers away). There
is now no way electricity production can be restarted quickly or cheaply at the
Hazelwood Power Station ste though it could have been replaced by a modern coal
plant which produced 70% less CO2 for a couple of billion – probably around the
cost of the decommissioning! And you could have had electricity once more at
under 20 cents per kilowatt hour! A whole new complex will have to be built
when the country finally comes to its senses and realizes that we cannot have
renewable electricity – it is just a ridiculous and impossible expensive
extravaganza. If you want a carbon free future (no particularly good reason why
you would but) Nuclear Yes. Renewables No. So sad to see it die: https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=5zUK5HSWDv8&fbclid=IwAR0x9HI4eFK-Fu3dBgVc-PlZFjkUd1yHZAzb7V62Bb9QP79ZOSwo66rd_2Q
15/10/2020: The
UN is quite mad. Even its own data puts the lie to its own propaganda: http://joannenova.com.au/2020/10/peak-climate-religion-un-says-earth-to-become-uninhabitable-hell/ NASA Expects Global Cooling – you’d
think this would be headline news: https://finance.townhall.com/columnists/mikeshedlock/2019/01/30/amidst-global-warming-hysteria-nasa-expects-global-cooling-n2540500?
And in
15/10/2020:
‘Emergencies have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual
liberty have eroded’. Friedrich Hayek. The science is
settled: lockdown supporters are self-interested
lunatics and anti-science denialists: https://www.news.com.au/world/coronavirus/global/coronavirus-who-backflips-on-virus-stance-by-condemning-lockdowns/news-story/f2188f2aebff1b7b291b297731c3da74#.7daqw
Listen to the experts: The centre
for disease Control (US) First Said Not
to Wear Masks, Then to Wear Masks, Then Masks Were Better than Vaccines – Now
New Evidence Shows Masks Are Ineffective: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/10/cdc-first-said-not-wear-masks-wear-masks-masks-better-vaccines-now-new-evidence-shows-masks-dont-work/
15/10/2020: Do
people really want ‘political correctness’: https://www.city-journal.org/cultural-revolution
A great essay. ‘Over the past 20 years, virtually all the most progressive
large states—New York, New Jersey, Illinois, and California—have suffered
massive outmigration, while red or purplish states like Florida, Texas, the
Carolinas, or Arizona welcome more and more Americans to resettle there.’ This
makes those states more ‘marginal’ politically, but it also focuses the
campaign challenges. ‘It’s up to Americans everywhere, regardless of their
party registration, to put a halt to a cultural revolution that our children
may otherwise inherit.’
14/10/2020: Joe
is such a hit. This video should prove popular: https://twitter.com/i/status/1313983383198863360 In contrast to that we have this: Signs
That Trump Isn’t Going to Win on Nov. 3: https://townhall.com/columnists/kevinmccullough/2020/10/11/signs-that-trump-isnt-going-to-win-on-nov-3-n2577841
14/10/2020: The
Covid Zone:
See Also: https://catallaxyfiles.com/2020/10/14/doctors-warn/
14/10/2020: Secrets
of human happiness #2: Start following Brietbart and Sky instead of the
‘fake news’, ie: https://www.breitbart.com/#
& https://www.skynews.com.au/ & https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/
& https://www.foxnews.com/category/world/world-regions/australia
13/10/2020: Now
folks pray to the Government to save them. This is what they used to do:
(from) The Book of Common Prayer, ‘O most powerful and glorious Lord God, at
whose command the winds blow, and lift up the waves of the sea, and who
stillest the rage thereof; We, thy creatures, but miserable sinners, do in this
our great distress cry unto thee for help; Save, Lord, or else we perish’.
Frankly, even as an atheist I do not find prayers to ‘almighty government’ to
be an improvement.
13/10/2020: What’s
not to like? So many here would vote for a party/individual who promised
this platform (especially when in his first term he kept all his promises - and
then some) unlike every politician in history. Go Donald:
Here is the full list:
JOBS
- Create
10 Million New Jobs in 10 Months
- Create
1 Million New Small Businesses
- Cut
Taxes to Boost Take-Home Pay and Keep Jobs in
- Enact
Fair Trade Deals that Protect American Jobs
- “Made
in
- Expand
Opportunity Zones
- Continue
Deregulatory Agenda for
Energy
ERADICATE COVID-19
- Develop
a Vaccine by The End Of 2020
- Return
to
- Make
All Critical Medicines and Supplies for Healthcare Workers in The
- Refill
Stockpiles and Prepare for Future Pandemics
END OUR RELIANCE ON
- Bring
Back 1 Million Manufacturing Jobs from
- Tax
Credits for Companies that Bring Back Jobs from
- Allow
100% Expensing Deductions for Essential Industries like Pharmaceuticals
and Robotics who Bring Back their Manufacturing to the
- No
Federal Contracts for Companies who Outsource to
- Hold
HEALTHCARE
- Cut
Prescription Drug Prices
- Put
Patients and Doctors Back in Charge of our Healthcare System
- Lower
Healthcare Insurance Premiums
- End
Surprise Billing
- Cover
All Pre-Existing Conditions
- Protect
Social Security and Medicare
- Protect
Our Veterans and Provide World-Class Healthcare and Services
EDUCATION
- Provide
School Choice to Every Child in
- Teach
American Exceptionalism
DRAIN THE SWAMP
- Pass Congressional
Term Limits
- End
Bureaucratic Government Bullying of
- Expose
- Drain
the
DEFEND OUR POLICE
- Fully
Fund and Hire More Police and Law Enforcement Officers
- Increase
Criminal Penalties for Assaults on Law Enforcement Officers
- Prosecute
Drive-By Shootings as Acts of Domestic Terrorism
- Bring
Violent Extremist Groups Like ANTIFA to Justice
- End
Cashless Bail and Keep Dangerous Criminals Locked Up until Trial
END ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION AND PROTECT AMERICAN WORKERS
- Block
Illegal Immigrants from Becoming Eligible for Taxpayer-Funded Welfare,
Healthcare, and Free College Tuition
- Mandatory
Deportation for Non-Citizen Gang Members
- Dismantle
Human Trafficking Networks
- End
Sanctuary Cities to Restore our Neighborhoods and Protect our Families
- Prohibit
American Companies from Replacing
- Require
New Immigrants to Be Able to Support Themselves Financially
INNOVATE FOR THE FUTURE
- Launch
Space Force, Establish Permanent Manned Presence on The Moon and Send the
First Manned
- Build
the World’s Greatest Infrastructure System
- Win
the Race to 5G and Establish a National High-Speed Wireless Internet
Network
- Continue
to Lead the World in Access to the Cleanest Drinking Water and Cleanest
Air
- Partner
with Other Nations to Clean Up our Planet’s Oceans
- Stop
Endless Wars and Bring Our Troops Home
- Get
Allies to Pay their Fair Share
- Maintain
and Expand
- Wipe
Out Global Terrorists Who Threaten to Harm Americans
- Build
a Great Cybersecurity Defense System and Missile Defense System
- https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/08/24/donald-trump-releases-second-term-agenda/
These people are
working hard for a Trump victory: https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/10/11/rioters-topple-abraham-lincoln-teddy-roosevelt-statues-in-portland-museum-windows-smashed/
12/10/2020:
12/10/2020: An
interesting chart. I can’t wait to see the 2020 bounce when Trump wins. It
seems to me that the stock market is currently factoring in his winning. It
will obviously crash (as it did when Obama won) if he loses. https://www.predictit.org/markets/13/Prez-Election
12/10/2020: I have this problem too (for ‘New Yorker’
substitute (preferred) group: ‘I find
the average New Yorker so breathtakingly ill-informed, I prefer to converse
with animals, or even trees’: https://www.takimag.com/article/goodbye-cows/
12/10/2020: What
a loss Adam Lindsay Gordon’s death was. Our greatest ever poet, almost
forgotten today: https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2020/09/the-poetry-of-adam-lindsay-gordon/
11/10/2020: New
Tent Pegs: I tend to buy a lot of tent pegs because I am always making new
tents/tarps and I like to have them all complete against need. I have found
Aliexpress to be a good source (if you can wait for delivery). The 'Tito' brand
there is quite satisfactory, for example.
I favour a Shepherd's hook shape for most of my tent
pegs in titanium (for lightness) and around 6" long for most uses. The
plain ones are usually the cheapest/lightest but a bit of colour on them does
help to prevent their loss. Of curse you can always dip the heads in some paint
and wait for them to dry.
It is a good idea to always put pegs in the ground and
take them out in the same order (placing them immediately in a pocket/bag) and
to always count them as you do. Always go over the last night's camp-site with
a fine toothed comb before you quit it as there is often some small item you
missed/forgot - such as a tent peg.
There is a right (and many wrong) way/s to 'plant' tent
stakes. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2020/10/11/new-tent-pegs/
11/10/2020: Today's
garden highlights: Leeks are now into the harvest phase and tonight's asparagus
pick was ample. We did justice to both in tonight's tea of an omelette with
leek, garlic, asparagus, ham and cheese. The lilac is a special triumph for me.
I planted it about 7? years ago and have been disappointed by it's refusal to
flower. Last spring I decided that it must need more light, and so persuaded
Steve to do a bit of chain-sawing in the canopy behind it. No flowers that
spring, but autumn saw a few
experimental first flowers which blew me away as it was totally unseasonal.
Obviously it was a trial run, because...voila!!!! The only downside? Lilacs
have the most delicious scent, but somewhere between this shrub's planting and
flowering I have lost most of my sense of smell (not Covid-related) - so that little pleasure is one that I will
never enjoy. Not complaining though, as their visual beauty is quite enough!
11/10/2020: Meanwhile,
Nuclear Fusion Energy Could Be Closer Than Thought – let’s hope so: https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/mit-scientists-nuclear-fusion-energy-could-be-closer-thought
11/10/2020: Senate
investigation reveals Hunter Biden was a crooked as Trump alleged and Joe was
deep in it – as with the Russiagate hoax. These Dems are just so blatantly
rotten no honest person can vote for them: https://aclj.org/government-corruption/senate-report-reveals-hunter-bidens-profiteering-during-the-obama-biden-administration-went-further-than-previously-thought Expect this to ‘hit the fan’ big time
(if it were not for the ‘fake news’): https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2020/10/president-trump-declassifies-all-documents-re-clinton-email-abc-4-corners-russia-hoax-scandals.html
New film ‘Trump Card’ exposing how
crooked the dems are should be interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oK4OGh6HOzc&feature=emb_title
11/10/2020: Over
6,000 Doctors, Public Health Professionals Sign ‘Great Barrington Declaration’,
Urging End to COVID-Restrictions: https://legalinsurrection.com/2020/10/over-4000-doctors-public-health-professionals-sign-great-barrington-declaration-urging-end-to-covid-restrictions/
& https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2020/10/bbc-reports-on-global-anti-lockdown-movement-health-experts-hold-grave-concerns-over-lockdown-harm.html
Interesting: Stats Hold a Surprise:
Lockdowns May Have Had Little Effect on COVID-19 Spread: https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/10/stats-hold-a-surprise-lockdowns-may-have-had-little-effect-on-covid-19-spread/
There you have it: Dr David Nabarro,
WHO’s Special Envoy on COVID19: ‘Global catastrophe: doubling of poverty.. of
child malnutrition. We really do appeal
to all world leaders—stop using lockdowns.. Lockdowns just have one
consequence: making poor people an awful lot poorer’
10/10/2020: Remarkable:
Three generations of one family which span all of America’s history: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/07/us/lyon-gardiner-tyler-jr-dead.html I remember my own grandfather used to say he
had known someone who was on the First Fleet, which seems unlikely but may well
have been true.
10/10/2020: Getting
it done -
10/10/2020: You
need to understand that the American people are watching the Tucker Carson Show,
something like this (BTW: Imagine our leftie journos letting their guests talk
without interruption): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vs71_gkaAuY&feature=emb_title For non-video folks text here: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/10/must-see-victor-davis-hanson-delivers-passionate-defense-trump-american-worker-authentic-america-represents-video/
09/10/2020: News you don’t hear: Pence clearly beat Harris hands down (link
below). And consider this from Bin Laden’s niece in the Spectator, ‘Being
pro-Trump has caused me more grief than being Bin Laden’s niece: And why do I
support Donald Trump? Look at his record. He has stood up to China, kept
America out of new wars, solidified ties with Israel, overturned the disastrous
Iran deal and obliterated Isis. Domestically, he removed handicapping
regulations to American economic growth, rebuilt a depleted military, brought
back manufacturing and revamped dying industries by renegotiating trade deals
and cutting taxes; he has achieved energy independence, curbed immigration —
all of which contributed to setting record unemployment rates. He has tackled
neglected issues such as human trafficking and unjust incarceration — and given
America a chance at restoring her principles, pride, independence and true
place in the world as beacon of liberty and hope for all.’ https://catallaxyfiles.com/files/2020/10/Being-pro-Trump-has-caused-me-more-grief-than-being-Bin-Laden%E2%80%99s-niece-_-The-Spectator.pdf
& https://babylonbee.com/news/kamala-harriss-ratings-plummet-as-people-realize-theyd-have-to-listen-to-her-voice-for-next-4-years & https://spectator.org/polls-trump-biden/
09/10/2020: Well
said, Rowan Atkinson on free speech; alas that we have lost it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiqDZlAZygU&feature=emb_title
09/10/2020: ‘As my 18th birthday approached, adult life looked bleak. I had a
victim mentality, and felt as if I was owed something better.’ He figured
it out. ‘most people I meet in the world just smile and say hello, even with a
mask on. They seem to find life tolerable and even enjoyable. I see people
going out to fish or mountain bike. I see tradesmen hustling. The healthiest
people are the ones who picked a real tangible goal in their own life, and are
working toward it.’ https://quillette.com/2020/10/05/a-poor-farriers-journey-to-political-sanity/
08/10/2020: After
all, Not all the scientists agree on the best approach to Covid: https://unherd.com/2020/10/covid-experts-there-is-another-way/
08/10/2020: Biden
illegally colluded with Obama and Hillary in the Russian hoax new evidence
from the CIA files presented to the Senate show. Trump will have a field day
with this, but the ‘fake news’ are refusing to run with it: https://catallaxyfiles.com/2020/10/07/fresh-from-bitch-slapping-virus-trump-crushes-russia-hoax/
08/10/2020: Waste
and inefficiency in the ‘aboriginal industry’. This important article
underlines how poorly targeted expenditure is and how it largely fails to meet
those most in need, eg: ‘And yet,
the number in need is modest. To reinforce just how small is the remnant group,
and how grossly overblown is the industry built on their backs, a study of the
most vulnerable children and their families in New South Wales has shown that
of the 1000 individuals who required the greatest amount of money to administer
to their needs, 78 per cent were Aboriginal. The total estimated future cost of
this group to the age of forty is $2.3 billion, an average cost of $2.3 million
per person. Left unstated is that each would be unlikely to make any
contribution to society through employment and taxation. Aboriginal expenditure
amounts to $33 billion per year, which suggests that a very large number of
Aborigines are in receipt of programs and benefits that reward identity, not
need.’ And how aspects of so-called ‘aboriginal culture’ (eg family formation)
are the problem rather than the solution:
https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2020/09/the-cruel-deception-of-aboriginal-self-determination/
08/10/2020: Vitamin
D is an awfully cheap ‘cure’: ‘The world’s first randomised control trial
on vitamin D and Covid has just been published. The results are clear-cut…Half
of those not given Vitamin D became so sick that they needed to be put on
intensive care. By comparison, only one person who was given Vitamin D
requiring ICU admission. Put another way, the use of Vitamin D reduced a
patient’s risk of needing intensive care 25-fold. Two patients who did not
receive Vitamin D died. And while the sample is too small to conclude that Vitamin
D abolishes the risk of death in Covid patients, it is nonetheless an
astonishing result, and corresponds with Prof Backman’s assertion that correcting vitamin deficiency might cut
mortality by half. The Government should now act on this latest evidence’: http://www.rationaloptimist.com/blog/britains-vitamin-d-deficiency/
07/10/2020: Woolly
dogs and fish – a fascinating insight: http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/59723
A true shaggy dog story: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/10/10/a-true-shaggy-dog-story/
07/10/2020: Our
07/10/2020: Let’s
see if people really want Kamala for President – surely not if they are in
their right minds: ‘Look, I get it. Trump is indeed the word’s largest asswhole.
He’s crass, he’s brash, he’s vulgar, he shoots from the hip. He’s stream of
consciousness, telling us all exactly what he thinks at any moment … and that’s
simply not done in polite society…But I didn’t vote to hire him because of his
wonderfully modulated and non-abrasive personality. I voted to hire him because
at the moment he’s the asswhole we need, for a simple reason. He’s the asswhole who gets the job done’:
https://rosebyanyothernameblog.wordpress.com/2020/10/05/kamala/
06/10/2020: ‘A
happy society, a prosperous economy and low unemployment are not the objectives
of good government. They are the byproduct of good government.
But a focus group, a private poll and a lobbyist will never tell you this. To
suggest, as will likely be suggested in today’s budget, that the solution to
our national economic ills will be found in having a spend-a-thon is as wrong
as suggesting that we can solve our debt burden by getting into more debt’.
Yes, today’s budget is/will be quite insane – the ‘Long March through the
institutions’ as I mentioned earlier – this time ‘conservative’ parties! https://catallaxyfiles.com/2020/10/06/tafkas-budget-10c/
06/10/2020: The
Long March (through the institutions). A brilliant essay: ‘The working
class are too bright to be conned by Marxist idiocies, believing that all those
things Marxists consider “false consciousness” — religious faith, patriotism,
the family — are actually quite important. But there is an endless gullibility
among the effete professional classes: their liberalism is boundless…’ Rod
Liddle in the Times: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/comment/the-revolution-will-be-televised-lefties-but-a-right-wing-big-beast-will-lead-it-zd7nwhsxz
06/10/2020: Well
said Donald: ‘Don’t be afraid of Covid. Don’t let it dominate your life’
(as he is about to leave hospital). Now people, can we please move on to
tackling real problems like the economy, the enemies of freedom, securing world
peace, how to promote progress, the quest for human happiness, where does your
lap go when you stand up, and so forth! New
WHO Data Reveals Coronavirus Less Lethal than Last Three Major US Pandemics —
And they Destroyed the Economy for This: ‘Our current best estimates tell
us that about 10 per cent of the global population may have been infected by
this virus’. That suggests 780 million infections but ‘just’ 1 million deaths,
a case fatality rate of 0.13 per cent. https://news.un.org/en/story/2020/10/1074692
& https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/10/new-data-reveals-coronavirus-4th-worst-us-pandemic-last-100-years-destroyed-economy/
PS: He looks good to me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2f2jrj_1RcM&feature=emb_title
05/10/2020: How
evil it gets, (yet Vicpol were deep in this): Italy’s top newspaper, the
Corriere della Sera, reports: “700,000 euros sent to Australia through various
wire transfers may have been used to ‘buy’ the accusers in the paedophile trial
against Cardinal George Pell.” https://www.heraldsun.com.au/blogs/andrew-bolt/vatican-scandal-money-sent-to-australia-to-get-george-pell-jailed/news-story/82c32edf8c4eebdcb7acb2ee69efa4ea
How easy is it to get someone to testify
against you if someone pays them a million bucks to do so? But it did not
matter how utterly implausible (nay, impossible) the accusations were; Vicpol
is a deeply corrupt (Marxist) organization. I hope you remember that a number
of independent witnesses gave statutory declarations all along that Cardinal
Pell was always visible to them at the front of the church at the very time the alleged offences were occurring at
the back of the church.
05/10/2020: Hopefully
President Trump will be back at work tomorrow or the next day (and win the
election!) Meanwhile this is what Kennedy’s health was like: https://catallaxyfiles.com/2020/10/04/the-health-of-the-president/
05/10/2020: Tucker
Carlson and Mark Steyn are men to watch. They are such a refreshing change
from the hysterical lock-step evil mind-set of the ‘conventional’ leftist
journos: http://joannenova.com.au/2020/10/is-tucker-carlson-becoming-the-new-trump/ & https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6BAzMDpdiI&feature=emb_title
04/10/2020: Hearing
Aids: I have always thought they were rather too expensive. Now down to $1: https://newatlas.com/lochaid-hearing-aid/
04/10/2020: New
‘real’ (Land Rover) Defender for 2021: https://newatlas.com/automotive/ineos-grenadier-4x4/
04/10/2020: Has
there ever been another time when the future of the free world so hung on the
health of one man (perhaps FDR?) If Trump bounces back after a few days
having thrown the virus off I suspect it will be an enormous boost for his
campaign. I for one anyway certainly wish him (and Melania) the best of health!
03/10/2020: Beware
of the Dog: https://twistedsifter.com/2020/09/ancient-beware-of-dog-sign-from-over-2000-years-ago-pompeii/
03/10/2020: A
supernova may have initiated the Ice Ages 2.5 million years ago: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/10/01/nearby-supernova-may-have-helped-to-initiate-ice-ages/
03/10/2020: Rude
parrots are removed from public view but ‘our ABC’ can still spout filth with
impunity: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-54340425
02/10/2020: Interesting
Review of the new play, ‘Wonnangatta’ about the 1916 murders there: https://theconversation.com/wonnangatta-review-australian-theatre-writing-at-its-provocative-and-powerful-best-147184
02/10/2020: Why
is California/Victoria burning? The people who actually live in the forests
know they are ‘managed’ abysmally: http://coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2020/09/substantial-ca-forest-management-changes-needed-especially-if-you-think-the-fires-are-caused-by-climate-change.html
02/10/2020: I
noticed this myself: Joe Biden
and Chris Wallace Started It by Interrupting Trump Numerous Times First (then
Wallace proceeded to lecture Trump about giving people their two minutes’ of
uninterrupted time…Many other similar observations here: https://catallaxyfiles.com/2020/10/01/further-reflections-on-the-first-debate/
& https://catallaxyfiles.com/2020/10/01/further-reflections-on-the-first-debate/
And if you think Biden is not a crook, think again: https://richardsonpost.com/howellwoltz/18338/biden-and-kerry-corruption/
01/10/2020: Khayyam’s
Table: Omar Khayyam of Naishapur (I prefer the
old spelling) was a tent -maker, as I have observed before. In the past the
truly great seminal thinkers were all tradesmen of one sort or another, that is
they did not expect their thinking to pay their wages, but earned their living
with their hands – as you ought. It would be better by far if we had remained
with this system instead of being burdened with a horde of useless quarrelsome
university parasites – of enormously lesser intellectual worth too.
Socrates was a stonemason (sculptor, if you like).
Jesus a carpenter – and Nasrudin – well there was never someone else quite like
Nasrudin. ‘The Exploits of the Incomparable Nasrudin’ by Idries
Shah is the best book you have never read. You
can read it for free here
I promise you it will have you rolling in the aisles laughing! And if you have never read the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam as you
should, I have reprinted it all here: Oh
Come With Old Khayyam I think it was the most
important book I read as a teenager. I am so
grateful that an ancient lady next door (Mrs Sewell) gifted me her copy of it –
which I still treasure.
I wonder whether Khayyam had a table he worked on or
whether he laid out his tents on the ground as I have done until now, but my
knees do no want me to continue to do so, so I have made myself a large folding
table for the purpose. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2020/10/01/khayyams-table/
01/10/2020: You better
believe it: Climate emergency’ means house arrest: COVID ‘has revealed the
inner-tyrants of many politicians’ ‘Under the pretense of a ‘climate
emergency,’ politicians and bureaucrats will increasingly impose Covid-like
restrictions on our jobs, transportation, food choices, housing and much else
based the purported need to ‘reduce greenhouse gases’. https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/09/30/ugly-climate-emergency-soon-to-justify-house-arrest/
01/10/2020: Why
The Incentives Are Stacked to Overreact to Covid: ‘And many of our Western
deaths have been among the very old in care facilities where the average life
expectancy pre-COVID was numbered in months.’ http://coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2020/09/why-the-incentives-are-stacked-to-overreact-to-covid.html
01/10/2020: Just
three key points where Trump won the
debate: Hunter Biden and voter fraud. The fact that Hunter flew to
Moscow on the vice-presidential jet
and took $3.5 million in bribes there is damning, as is this morning’s
discovery of 100,000 ‘problem’ votes in New York alone: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/business/work/us-presidential-debate-2020-donald-trump-takes-on-joe-biden/news-story/59960d0caea67d0882dafd7a1cb1891a
but most of all the roll-out of this rapid test which will allow the country to
open up right now is a game-changer: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/09/theres_a_gamechanger_out_there_that_should_end_the_wuhan_virus_paranoia.html
then there is this car full of ballots: http://joannenova.com.au/2020/09/a-car-boot-full-of-ballots-bought-for-800-a-vote-or-for-nothing-at-all/
30/09/2020:
Ardent Leisure were yesterday fined $3.6 million for (negligently) causing the
deaths of three people. Andrews and his ‘gang of eight’ have negligently
caused the deaths of over 750 people. He/they are unfit to govern, and should
quite properly be prosecuted with the full force of the law (and punished) for
this unnecessary manslaughter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FDC4kKmCJ4&feature=emb_title
30/09/2020: Tax:
Look, the Taxation Department will make sure you pay the taxes you have to; it
is no-one else’s business, but there is usually no reason to pay income tax.
Those who do so are choosing to ignore rules which allow them to not do so, eg
legally available deductions and incentives. There is nothing ‘morally
superior’ about dupes who ignore the detail of their tax situation and end up
paying more taxes (for governments to squander on wastrels) than they needed
to. That is all. I do not chose to give the government one cent more of my
money than I have to (as close to zero as I can make it!). On the other hand I
never take a cent of money from the government. Actually I don’t even believe
in the idea of government, and would see it abolished everywhere, everywhen –
but that is a lesson for another day: http://coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2020/09/a-brief-primer-on-corporate-accounting-and-taxes.html
Mind you the NYT story is a lie. Its own data shows Trump paid $1,000,000 in
2016 and $4,200,000 in 2017 for example: http://ace.mu.nu/archives/390533.php
30/09/2020: You
might well think: This is bullshit. Let’s just get the virus and get over it as
we have every other cold/flu which has come along. The loss of economic
activity and freedom is not worth a handful of lives. However, if 10% of those
infected never recover then the long-term effects of this bio-weapon are
profound and we may need to firm up on a strategy of elimination – as China has
been doing: http://joannenova.com.au/2020/09/the-doctors-who-still-havent-recovered-from-a-likely-bioweapon/
& https://www.heraldsun.com.au/coronavirus/footy-and-restaurants-still-off-limits-in-new-covid-normal/news-story/5d7f515f4689d62e03a4c022ce70d6c1
29/09/2020: High
Flying: Into Vic's high country with The Grey
Flyer. At last our draconian Covid restrictions have been eased a bit
and we are able to get away hunting/hiking for a few days by ourselves. It is
almost too late for this year's deer hunting season though, as soon it will be
too hot. Next week looks good to start canoeing (though truth to be told, I have already
been out)!
I had been yearning to get away all winter. I would
like to have had better weather. It rained a lot - and even snowed. Also,
unfortunately it was close to a full moon which always makes hunting less
productive - or at least harder, as you have to go higher, harder for me these
days with these old knees which had become sore again because of all the
ploughing through mud the last month with the lambing. Because of it I have not
been able to walk on my toes (as I
recommended) which really helps, but I will be back to it now as the ground
dries up a bit.
After a 4 1/2 hour's drive and a three hour walk, we
are set up for the night. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2020/09/29/high-flying/
29/09/2020: I think freedom ended with the invention of
the phrase, 'when it is safe to do so' ! The ‘Precautionary Principle’
ought to be outlawed: it is a prescription for totalitarianism!
29/09/2020:
Apparently it was cold while I was away (but I was quite comfortable in my
tent, thank you), the coldest it has been for fifty years even! So much for
‘global warming’ or ‘selective reporting’; as I prefer to call it: http://joannenova.com.au/2020/09/global-warming-causes-snow-in-sa-and-victoria-and-coldest-day-for-50-years/
29/09/2020: FYI: I am alive. I have been walking 80 km
through the trackless Gippsland bush for a few days with Honey. More info
soon.
24/09/2020:
24/09/2020: Vale
Jake Gardner (at the hands of BLM really) – of course this is just what the
woke ‘counter culture want, ie the death of anyone who disagrees with them or
opposes them, just as those same leftists have murdered over a hundred million
people over the last century: https://www.steynonline.com/10642/last-orders-at-the-hive
24/09/2020:
Moral Grandiosity: ‘While I feel guilt for my own bad actions or omissions,
the kinds of things that are under my direct control, I do not feel guilt that
my own life has been a comparatively fortunate one, probably more fortunate
than that of the majority of mankind. On the contrary, I feel gratitude, or
perhaps, more accurately, I should say gladness. I feel sorrow for the
unfortunate, but not guilt toward them since I am not responsible for their
sorrows. True, I did nothing to deserve having the opportunities that I have
had, but I did nothing not to deserve them, either. I took the world as I found
it and for me to feel guilty about my comparative good fortune would be a sign
not of moral sensitivity or virtue, but of moral grandiosity. Moral grandiosity
has probably done more harm in the world than indifference, inasmuch as it
recognizes no limits to its power to bring about a supposedly better world.’
Dalrymple: https://www.takimag.com/article/guilt-complex/
PS: This is a ‘must read’.
23/09/2020: A Failure of Reason:
I have commented about this before. The reduction in human CO2 output this year
has had zero effect on the percentage of CO2 in the atmosphere. I expected this
because the human component of CO2 (identifiable by isotope analysis) has
changed hardly at all since we were able to measure it around 1954 ie around
3-4%. Yes natural CO2 sources represent 97-97% of all the CO2 in the atmosphere
– and always have! Therefore a reduction in the human component will have
always little effect. CO2 has risen recently mostly because of the Medieval
Warm Period 800 years ago – as the Ice Core data showed long ago, that is the
lag time between warming and CO2 increase. Warming leads CO2 by 800 years. We
still don’t know the reasons for this natural warming however. The ‘scientists’
have cause and effect reversed. The warming of the oceans (so long ago) slowly
releases the CO2 which cannot be held in the warmer water – and that CO2 leads
to a blossoming of life all over the world such as we are seeing now. Two areas
the size of
23/09/2020:
Covid as scam: I have been thinking this too. Whilst not discounting that
people do actually die from the virus (as they do every year from flu etc) it
has seemed to me that the panic and hype and insistence on drastic government
action is symptomatic of other leftist plots (such as the climate scam,
immigration, welfarism, poverty etc) anyway it is being used by such people to
try to force an agenda, well multiple agendas. Already we have spent far, far
too much and given up far, far too many freedoms. Better by far to die! Nikos
Kazantzakis’ title for his amazing famous book, ‘Freedom and Death’ was well
chosen. You can’t have one without the other.: https://catallaxyfiles.com/2020/09/22/whats-really-going-on-with-the-global-pandemic/
23/09/2020: Some
good news for Dan: At last we seem to be getting on top of he ‘unknown’
cases of the virus. Our tracking has improved exponentially it seems A couple
of weeks ago Sutton was admitting that ‘more than half’ of cases were not being
tested. For the ‘unknowns’ to have plummeted (as they apparently have) this
must have turned around somewhat. The Premier is still making idiotic decisions
(like not fining the Fountaingate cluster spreaders) so there is no certainty
about the future, but there is some hope: http://joannenova.com.au/2020/09/victoria-its-democracy-and-medical-science-and-getting-better-fast/
Mind you in Europe this ‘second wave’ seems awfully milder – evidence surely
that we need to just start living with the virus and just use the readily
available (safe) cheap remedies (Hydroxychloroquine, Ivomec, Bendaryl etc) to
treat it: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/blogs/andrew-bolt/coronavirus-the-dying-stops-in-europe-are-we-more-immune-than-thought/news-story/ed7a2fd5f4b537af65acc81f3a5052d0
22/09/2020: The
Grey Flyer: I have just finished making and erecting my new tent (‘the Grey
Flyer0 – it is a very windy day!) in the garden, as you can see ahead of a trip
I am planning soon. I just couldn’t resist finishing it so that I could take
advantage of the 150 grams of savings compared with my Deerhunter’s
Tent #2 which this is a slightly ‘shrunk’ version of (using 5′ wide
material at 1.1 oz’yd2 instead of 5′ 6″ material at 1.25 oz/yd2).
I have used the ultralight
groundsheet I made for the $30 Aricxi
Tent but it is a little small for this tent. Its dimensions are 7′ x
4′ x 2’6″ (210 x 120 x 75 cm). I will make a larger one to fit this
tent. It is going to be big enough for Della, the two dogs and myself, and
still large enough to swing 1-2 hammocks underneath as well.
As you can see it weighs 476 grams including ten
shepherd’s hook tent pegs (416 without). In the .93 oz/yd2 which i made the Siligloo
out of it will weigh349 grams -= that’s including the groundsheet by the way,
plus 62 grams for the ten pegs = 411 grams! Read more: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2020/09/22/the-grey-flyer/
22/09/2020:
Moke: We had one in the mid 70’s, bought second-hand for $1300 (they cost
about $2200 new in c1975). I think they will be a bit over-priced at $35,000
though: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/motoring/motoring-news/aussie-favourite-mini-moke-makes-surprise-return/news-story/a8d8c2e5708a3c2c97ccde63b520a82a
22/09/2020: Another Spring: (Della:)"I enjoy the spring more than the
autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older" - (Virginia Woolf).
Spring in my garden today: Even 10 minutes gazing at the plants or pulling some
weeds lifts my spirits. The brooding skies this afternoon created the right
light and the perfect backdrop for the delicately coloured spring blossoms, and
after very mixed results from the winter veggie patch this year (slugs, rabbits
and early-bolting cauliflowers), I was also delighted to see the sugar-snap
peas starting to produce pods and the garlic looking solid enough to rival the
leeks...
..."The lark's on the wing;/ The
snail's on the thorn;/God's in his heaven-/All's right with the world!"
(Robert Browning, "Pippa's Song").
22/09/2020:
Biden and Ginsberg herself (once) agreed Trump should appoint a new Supreme
Court judge: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2020/09/democrats-for-trump.html
& https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2020/09/the-late-justice-ruth-bader-ginsberg-the-president-is-elected-for-4-years-not-3-his-powers-continue-.html https://catallaxyfiles.com/2020/09/21/the-biden-rule-on-judicial-appointments/
22/09/2020: It
had never occurred to me that any vaccines used aborted foetuses, but
unfortunately this is the case. However, if an alternative vaccine route is
possible I think it should be used if only to increase the likely uptake of the
vaccine because certainly there will be people who will reject a vaccine which
their conscience tells them includes (unacceptable) foetuses: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/qed/2020/09/on-the-use-of-fetal-tissue-in-vaccines/
21/09/2020: Yet
Another Use for Toilet Trowels: I have recommended that you always carry a
metal trowel particularly as an aid to procuring
survival water. A hatchet or
machete is also vital for this if you ever travel in dry country – as who does
not? Such a trowel is also a powerful tent
anchor in sand or snow or other loose material.
If you have bought ultralight shoes such as my
new Topos which have a tendency to fold inwards as you put them on – at
least when new(ish) and if your old fingers are kind of arthritic as mine are
and you have trouble fishing the bits out, then you will already know a
shoe-horn presents itself as one of mankind’s greatest inventions – but who
wants to carry one just for that purpose when a trowel will serve just as well
– and you already have one? Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2020/09/20/yet-another-use-for-toilet-trowels/
21/09/2020: Alternative
Fire Lighters: You will already know that I always carry a couple of Mini
Bics for fire lighting. They are hard, if not impossible to beat at
approximately 10 grams each. I recently added a 1.5 gram rubber Thimblette
to prevent my burning my thumb especially when you need to hold the flame on
for a protracted burn.
Much as I love them they do have drawbacks. They could
explode for example though this is very unlikely and would probably require a
welding splash or the like to cause it. They can fail (but anything can – one
reason why I always carry more than one. You can probably think of others) and
they are difficult to light after they become very wet eg by being submerged in
a river, so that if you need to get a fire going quickly eg after you have just
fallen through ice (or for some other reason you want an alternative lighter) I
thought I would look into that ‘problem’. This is not an extensive survey, but
just a few ideas. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2020/09/20/alternative-fire-lighters/
21/09/2020: Sketchers: Yet another lightweight shoe. This one the Sketcher Go
walk claims to be only 206 grams in Mens US Size 9! Only A$99 (September 2020)
so maybe worth giving them a try even just as ‘river crossing’ or camp shoes.
Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2020/09/20/sketchers/
21/09/2020: ‘In order to let the trees live, let the coal come to the surface!’
István Széchenyi (1790-1860) Just as true today as it was a century and a half ago!
There is no future for ‘renewables’. There is no sanity to ‘zero emissions by
20250’ or any other such magical date. Indeed there is no ‘climate sensitivity’
– as I have posted about many times before (scroll back to see): ‘It is by no
means certain that the increase in the atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration
is due to man. In fact, only four to five per cent of the carbon dioxide in the
atmosphere is of anthropogenic origin… The true carbon-climate sensitivity, as
deduced by William Happer in a recent article in Atmospheric and Oceanic
Physics, may be around 1 to 1.5 degrees Celsius… Yet the periodic dynamic
changes of the largely unknown (or fragmentarily known and difficult-to-grasp)
natural forces surpassing both human imagination and human ability to influence
nature by a vast order of magnitude have always toyed with Earth’s climate as a
plaything… A series of “extreme” weather events which have been declared a
consequence of “climate change” have turned out to have geophysical and/or
solar origins… the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
(UNFCCC, 1992) distorted the concept of climate change in a way that is
incompatible with science: natural causes were simply excluded from the concept
of climate change... The good news is that some former media and climate gurus
have already converted in an ecological sense: Michael Moore (the producer of
the movie Fahrenheit 9/11) has released his documentary on biomass and solar
energy fraudsters (Planet of Humans); Time magazine’s former “Environmental
Hero” (Michael Schnellenberger), on the occasion of the premiere of his book
(Apocalypse Never), publicly repented the sins of environmentalism. Finally, in
Alberta, Canada, the documentary “Global Warning” providing a startling account
of a place (Calgary) where an energy policy totally subordinate to climate
policy has already won, has been nominated for an award.’ https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/09/19/dissent-in-hungary/
21/09/2020: How foreshortened would the
Democrats like Trump’s term to be. He has until January 20th still
of his first term in office. That’s still 10% to go. How much of the previous
90% did the Dem’s try to deny him with their Russian hoaxes and etc? Let’s be
adults here. In a democracy we chose the government/leader then stand back and
let them do their job. Of course everyone wants it to be their own team who is
running things, but that is not always the case. Ginsberg has been an execrable
Justice presiding over constitutional obscenities such as same sex marriage
which are a vile distortion of the intent of the writers of that document - who
lived at a time (let’s remember) when homosexuality itself was punishable by
the death penalty, so could clearly never have intended that the right to same
sex marriage was enshrined in the constitution. If you want the constitution
(or law) changed to allow or compel something (new) you need to get it past the
people, not force it on them by bending foundation documents completely out of
all understanding. That is the sort of creature Ginsberg was. She should not be
replaced by anyone of a similar deviancy. Trump is right to move to nominate
the best person to replace her now, not to kow-tow to her ridiculous
death-wishes (which mostly included American democracy itself, let us
remember). Think of all the people awaiting a decision from that court having
to wait a further six months, and the cost of such delays. There are quite
enough delays in the justice system already. I preferred the ancient Athenian
notion that the trial and its decision’s execution should take place
immediately after the offence and (if humanly possible) within a single day! https://richardsonpost.com/neil-braithwaite/18284/biden-confused-over-scotus-vacancy/
20/09/2020:
Simple Ultralight Groundsheet: I just made this simple groundsheet for my Aricxi
tent (and for a new tent I am working on ahead of a trip I am planning next
week). It is made from some 1.1oz fabric I sourced from
The fabric has silicone on one side and polyester on
the other. I really like the handle of it (and the dull polyester surface. It
is (finished size) exactly 7′ by 4′ at one end and 2’6″ at
the other (210 x 120 x 75cm) with just a reinforcing patch and tie-out at each
corner (which will tension to one of the existing tent pegs).
You really don’t need sides on a groundsheet. If water
is running across the ground you can lay some sticks under the uphill side to
prevent its running onto the sheet. In the 1.107 per square yard (37 grams/m2)
fabric it weighs 95 grams finished. It cost me less than A$10 (September 2020.
Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2020/09/20/simple-ultralight-groundsheet/
20/09/2020: Typical Leftist ‘caring’. Who is most (financially) impacted by the
Covid response? The poor, of course: http://coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2020/08/wait-you-mean-that-the-economic-damage-from-covid-lockdowns-does-matter.html
20/09/2020: ‘Hayek,
writing in 1945, notes that it had become fashionable to downplay the wisdom of
the streets and assume that the experts, armed with lumps of aggregated
information, knew best. Yet, as he pointed out, ‘these facts are never so given
to a single mind’, which is why commentators, like central planners, so often
get it wrong’. Nick Cater.
20/09/2020: Prisoners of Conscience: Andrews is a piece of scum. His thugs
fined protesters safely objecting to some of his absurd laws but walked right
past hundreds of others who were blithely defying his bans. He also excused
others (because of their religion- guess which one) who knowingly and wantonly
spread the virus – just as the same people let it out of hotel quarantine: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/coronavirus/daniel-andrews-slammed-as-protesters-fined-but-lawbreaking-spreaders-escape-scotfree/news-story/8701bd0503089dd904edfcdf55a4b5f4
See More: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/blogs/andrew-bolt/how-victorias-mad-inclusive-policies-made-the-virus-disaster-worse/news-story/67a48586a641548c7040d9b33c57621b
19/09/2020: I was only going to stab you - a tribute to being woke: https://davidthompson.typepad.com/davidthompson/2020/09/i-was-only-going-to-stab-you.html?fbclid=IwAR0w1cUZdKHmggnbrKkOQVWecRwZpkmu7SnEvY1FJAIZ3_CfS3q_uP9Nn9k
19/09/2020: Little things that prevent you getting work done in
19/09/2020: Our denial of coal is just eco-lunacy, as Terry McCrann writes: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/business/terry-mccrann/terry-mccrann-the-power-stations-we-must-have/news-story/4f582c063d4dd9ab31bf2fed4119885a
- and note again Willis’ observation that ‘climate sensitivity’ is just a
nonsense: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/09/15/cooling-the-hothouse/
19/09/2020: White elephants the Government needs to scrap. Snowy #2 and the
submarine deal are obvious low-hanging fruit – as is the ridiculous NDIS. With
nearly 2 million public servants in
18/09/2020: Joe Hiden: Poor old Joe – he really can’t walk and chew gum at the
same time, can he? Is a Harris administration really what the American
people want? I very much doubt it: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2020/09/devastating-compelling-trump-campaign-commercial-with-the-truth-about-joe-bidens-teleprompter.html
Here he is without a telepromter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sExGofYTfuI&feature=emb_title
18/09/2020: Can You Keep a Secret: I know I can so if this had been one you
would not be reading this! When we were at the coast the other day I found a
mysterious small oblong block of what we both took to be marble at the time but
it was surprisingly heavy. We popped it into the superlight
daypack to have as a keepsake as you do – even though it is no doubt like
practically everything else probably illegal to do so. Read more: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2020/09/17/can-you-keep-a-secret/
18/09/2020: Wonnangatta Murders #16: ‘A new theory (August) has emerged in the
case of missing campers Russell Hill and Carol Clay…with speculation the pair were
attacked inside their tent now mounting’. At this glacial rate they will start
looking for the bodies along the Zeka Track where I suggested they look at the
outset in early 2021! https://www.heraldsun.com.au/truecrimeaustralia/police-courts/police-suspect-missing-high-country-campers-attacked-in-tent/news-story/e6ba88d14ab1dd1134ae135dd917afcb
But detectives have now (September)
turned to ‘overseas sources’, so at least they have some lead/evidence which
might solve this most puzzling case: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/truecrimeaustralia/police-courts/overseas-experts-called-in-to-help-solve-missing-campers-mystery/news-story/8f874aec4bacbf04dc808270f598363d
18/09/2020: When even the leftist Chris Ullmann sees that government response to
Covid was excessive and counter-productive then the likes of Dan, Annastacia
and Jacinta are doomed: https://catallaxyfiles.com/2020/09/17/the-case-for-calling-off-the-covid-dogs/
17/09/2020: NASA data shows wildfires down by 25% - so much for ‘global warming’: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/09/16/irrefutable-nasa-data-global-wildfire-down-by-25-percent/
17/09/2020: Trump has all along called it
‘The
17/09/2020: And this brave Andrews whistleblower/defector shows that the whole
government response to the virus was wrong: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2020/09/victorian-treasury-insider-explains-why-he-quit-rather-than-be-silenced-by-the-andrews-regime.html
16/09/2020: Cancel Culture and me. I have recently received two typical
‘Unfriendings’ from leftie ‘ex-friends’ of 20+ years. For example: ‘Can't stand the bullshit. Too much shit in my life I don't need your
bullshit conspiracy theories and racism. Have a nice life.’ My response: ‘Your
scatalogical obsession reveals a sad decline in your intellectual ability, as
does your one-sidedness and shrinking from a diversity of ideas and opinions. I
have looked back through my posts (viewable here: http://www.finnsheep.com/Steve's%20Blog.htm). I was raised
among aboriginals in
16/09/2020: Nuts
to ‘climate sensitivity’! Willis simply blows it away! What a wonderful
breath of fresh air. Do read this: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/09/15/cooling-the-hothouse/
16/09/2020: So,
Scott will build a new (gas) generator! Good start. Get real Scott though
and build (some new) coal and/or nuclear generators. The era of the
‘renewables’ scam is surely over. Only kindergarten kids could still believe
that any cheap or useful energy could be extracted from sunbeams (or as
Jonathan Swift styled it so long ago, cucumbers) or wind (duh!): http://joannenova.com.au/2020/09/winning-labor-party-drops-2030-renewable-target-libs-build-gas-plant-still-scared-of-climate-bullies/
& https://catallaxyfiles.com/2020/09/15/no-wind-in-dans-sails-scomo-on-fire-sort-of-and-leave-it-to-lean/
PS: I realize these decisions wilol upset Laura Tingle and other ABC parasites
– maybe time their apron strings were cut permanently too – they could maybe
learn to shear sheep!
15/09/2020: So
Blue: http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/59562
15/09/2020: Do
you think people will vote for this (people celebrating the ambush shooting of
two police in the head), or vote for law and order and Trump? You chose: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2020/09/black-american-videos-himself-rejoicing-at-shooting-of-2-la-sheriffs-no-one-present-went-to-aid-the-.html
& https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/09/hope-btch-dies-blm-chants-31-year-old-la-police-officer-mother-ambushed-shot-head-try-breach-hospitalvideo/
15/09/2020: Mind
you our own police did not exactly cover themselves in glory with the ‘arrest’
of a mental patient by running over him with a car or their ‘storm trooper’
tactics at the Vic market (what idiot chose those uniforms?): https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2020/09/new-video-shows-victoria-police-schutzstaffel-drive-a-car-into-the-man-they-then-stomped-on-the-head.html
& https://twitter.com/i/status/1305004087906164737
14/09/2020:
P.J.O’Rourke is just great. Here’s a sample, ‘The 19th century spawning of
idle, dreamy, feckless young people arrived just in time for the Marxist
intellectual fad. And Marxist thinking among intellectuals is a fashion trend
that has never gone away.
Intellectuals
like Marxism because Marx makes economics simple — the rich get their money
from the poor. (How the rich manage this, since the poor by definition don’t
have any money, is beyond me. But never mind.)
Real economics are more complicated than anything that
intellectuals can make sense of.
Also, living in an ivory tower teaches few economic
lessons — even fewer now that intellectuals have banned the ivory trade.
Marxism puts inarticulate notions of a sharing-caring nicer world into vivid
propaganda slogans. Slogans such as: “From each according to his ability, to
each according to his need.” Which may be the most ridiculous
political-economic idea that anybody has ever had.
My need is for Beluga caviar, a case of Chateau
Haut-Brion 1961, a duplex on Fifth Avenue overlooking Central Park, a bespoke
suit from Gieves & Hawkes in Savile Row, a matched pair of Purdey 12-bore
sidelock shotguns and a 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO that recently sold at Sotheby’s
Monterey auction for $48.4 million.
My ability is … Um … I have an excellent memory for
limericks …
There once was a man from
To each according to his need … What don’t kids need?
My 16-year-old son needs Mom to drive to school with his lunch, his homework
and one sock. Never mind that she packed his lunch, did his homework and washed
his socks — one of which he left behind this morning along with his homework
and his lunch so that she has to drive back to school even though she just
returned from driving him to school.
From each according to Mom’s and Dad’s ability, not to
mention the ability of Mom’s and Dad’s Visa card credit line and the bank loans
we took out to pay for school tuition.
The grim truth is, kids are born communists.’ Read on: https://nypost.com/2020/09/12/pj-orourke-this-is-why-millennials-adore-socialism/
14/09/2020: How
Dan actually works – it’s quite chilling: https://catallaxyfiles.com/2020/09/13/if-you-read-one-op-ed-today/
13/09/2020:
Carpe Diem. ‘Seize the Day’. There are only a certain number of them.
No-one knows how many or ever will.
‘Some days are diamonds‘ as the song says – and in my (fortunate)
experience, most are. Anyway one where you keep on breathing in and out has to
be a good one.
It was a beautiful spring day, 23C at Licola, wind at 9
kph NNW and river height of 1.87, absolutely perfect conditions for canoeing my
beloved
Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2020/09/13/carpe-diem/
13/09/2020: When
will we hear from the PM and the Liberal Party on this terrible theft of private property rights? https://www.heraldsun.com.au/business/terry-mccrann/terry-mccrann-clive-palmer-has-a-right-to-challenge-wa-government-in-court/news-story/f226ca6713ecb008bba885daf79d8045 & https://catallaxyfiles.com/2020/08/28/democratic-banana-republic-of-western-australia-part-too-many/
13/09/2020: The Science is Settled – well, not quite yet: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/09/10/49-nasa-scientists-call-bs/
13/09/2020: Dan just ahead of ‘Don’t Know’ and behind ‘Don’t Know His Name’
(O’Brien – you may have to learn it!)
and it’s no surprise: https://catallaxyfiles.com/2020/09/12/well-maybe-perhaps/
12/09/2020: 75 Years on – this is a ‘must watch’: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/final-account-film-review-venice-2020
12/09/2020: These are cheap remedies Dan. End the bans. They reduce mortality
enormously. Vitamin D, Zinc, Hydroxychloroquine, Ivomec, Azithromycin…Use them
and let us open up a little: http://joannenova.com.au/2020/09/vitamin-d-reduced-the-rate-of-icu-admission-from-50-to-2-do-black-lives-matter/
And Scott, this is a national disaster.
You must act: https://catallaxyfiles.com/2020/09/10/how-do-we-come-out-of-this-alive/
12/09/2020: Koalas and other thieves and freeloaders: We are obliged to share
our lambs with the local eagles. The ewes don’t agree with this policy either
but they can’t do much about it. Bizarrely enough we can get a permit to shoot
up to five of them (every year) though we have never done so, but we are not
eligible for any compensation for the lambs they eat! I have always taken the
view that the eagles are public property and our lambs are private property. I
would be fined if my sheep intrude onto public property. I think it is
reasonable that the pubic pays for the upkeep of their eagles which involves
compensating us for the lambs the eagles eat. Frankly I am terrified by this
koala issue. Again government is deciding it can make rules which effectively
confiscate private property without paying compensation. The native and
introduced vegetation on private land no doubt supports a variety of both
native and introduced animals. However all this property (including the
vegetation and the animals) are in fact private property. Declaring that the
‘native’ component is ‘public’ property is in fact confiscation and has been
compensatable since at least Magna Carta and is specifically protected by a
Section of the Australian Constitution. At great expense and trouble we have
erected wildlife proof fences to protect our private land and animals from the
depredations of foxes, cats wombats and kangaroos. At the same time we have
planted thousands of trees for the amenity of both native and farm animals –
and our own. We are happy to have chosen (native) birds and animals protected
behind our fences (just as our sheep are). We would not be so happy to have to
take the fences down to allow the ingress of kangaroos, koalas or any other
native animal whose ingress and egress would in fact jeopardize the purpose of
our fencing and our planting etc – by also allowing back in foxes and cats, and
by eating all the grass.On a ten acre paddock next door (which we used to rent
there is at present a mob of over thirty eastern grey kangaroos. We used to run
about the same number of ewes in that paddock when we rented it up to about ten
years ago. You could not run a single sheep on it today unless you fenced out
the kangaroos which have been allowed to breed up unchecked in the neglected
bushland behind us. The kangaroos have eaten the grass down to the ground.
There is nothing sacred about native animals. There is just the same need to
manage and care for them as is the case with farm animals. However, if the
public wants to essentially confiscate private land for public purposes (such
as wildlife conservation) they must pay for that confiscation. This has been an
accepted principle of British justice for a thousand years: https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/opinion/anna-caldwell-coalition-infighting-doesnt-help-anyone-in-the-city-or-the-bush/news-story/e22835dfcd1cee13e63624c128135369?from=htc_rss
11/09/2020: Just like Rousseau's ‘noble
savage’ which has proved to be a misnomer for ‘violent savage’ the idea of
savages as grand conservationists is just nonsense.For example,
‘aboriginal’ Australians all-but ruined this wonderful continent turning it
from pretty much a lush ‘garden of Eden’ into a pitiless desert and so
denutrifying the soils to the point that not much else would grow but dreadful
weeds such as gums, wattles and poa tussock over vast areas. To their great
credit European Australians have since improved on most of that enormously so
that we can now feed over 100 million people world-wide: https://quillette.com/2020/09/06/the-myth-of-harmonious-indigenous-conservationism/
11/09/2020: Things look better with gaslight: 75 riots a month fueling the ‘racial
divide’. Bad news indeed. Folks will definitely vote for Donald rather than
have more of this: https://rosebyanyothernameblog.wordpress.com/2020/09/06/things-look-better-with-gaslight/
11/09/2020: IMOK – Indeed I am off to canoe again the Macalister for the day.
Something like this: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2017/10/18/silver-river-endless-sky/
10/09/2020: When our General Blamey accepted the Japanese surrender 75 years ago
yesterday (on Morotai) he said ‘he did not recognise the Japanese as an
honourable and gallant foe, recalling the treacherous attacks made by them
against China, the British Empire and USA, and the atrocities that had been
inflicted upon prisoners of war.’ Be warned, we are seeing the same behaviour
from
10/09/2020: Just more Green madness. Forests felled to make green electricity;
mountainsides covered with bird & bat killing machines, deserts paved with
(similar) solar, ‘organics’ requiring 28% more land for agriculture which could
have been wilderness, vast forests cleared to create ‘biofuels’, etc, etc.
These people are nuts: http://joannenova.com.au/2020/09/green-groups-save-the-coal-underground-but-destroy-the-forest-above/
And of course, no-one wants to buy an electric car; not even 4% of motorists
ever! http://joannenova.com.au/2020/09/a-quarter-of-the-uk-wont-even-buy-an-electric-car-in-their-lifetimes/
10/09/2020: At
last some figures. For example NZ has spent 190 times the ‘normal’ spend on
‘saving’ each individual life from Covid 19. I have been saying this all year
(since January). Any individual life has
an economic cost/worth. Much as
day-dreamers may want to say, ‘You can’t put a cost on human life’ you only
have to divide the size of the economy by its individual members to get a
figure which puts the lie to that. You just can’t throw the whole economy away
on saving an individual life or even a small fraction of them. Governments have
always set limits even if we did not know exactly what the limits were - and
were sometimes whimsical in demanding that particular individual lives be
‘saved’ no matter the cost. Tony Bullimore springs to mind. The best public health measures have always
been those whose per capita cost vs return was lowest. Clean water/sanitation
were the most important (in the C19th). Nothing since goes anywhere near them.
All along we needed to learn to live with this virus and manage it – once Scott
failed early on to keep it out by waiting too long to shut the door and then
all failed to stop its spread. Elimination was an unlikely strategy and a
vaccine is only likely to be one of a number of management ‘tools’, (if it
works at all) just as cheap drugs such as Hydroxychloroquine, Ivomec, Zinc,
Vitamin D, antibiotics, etc should be. The blunt truth is that (new) diseases cull
the human population. They always have and always will. I have all along
accepted that I (and my loved ones) may well be among the culls. That is also
as it has always been, though we personally have made every effort to avoid it
– more effort than any of our governments so far have I must say: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/coronavirus/us-vice-presidential-nominee-kamala-harris-says-she-does-not-trust-donald-trumps-coronavirus-vaccine-claims/news-story/f89c2d0e7e45281899de965d799ae0f9
PS: Most of our lock-down rules have been unnecessary or onerous and should
never have been implements: bans on playing golf, going fishing, hunting or
camping by oneself or with members of our household for example. They should be
scrapped forthwith. Dan’s roadmap is a farce. PPS: This woman is an electrician
but she has more common sense than the ‘experts’ which have so far been
informing government policy: https://catallaxyfiles.com/2020/09/09/tabitha-alloway-rule-by-experts-is-tyranny-shrouded-in-science/
PPPS And now some indication of why Victoria’s second-wave has been less deadly
than the first: masks increase asymptomatic infection over symptomatic: http://joannenova.com.au/2020/09/good-news-more-masks-means-more-asymptomatic-infections-and-less-severe-ones/
09/11/2020:
Ultralight Tyvek Wallet: Given my predilection for this wonderful material
it will probably not surprise you that I have carried a Tyvek wallet for many
years. I have probably worn out half a dozen over the years. I guess they
usually last me 2-3 years before they look so shabby I feel I must
replace them – as I have done today, as my new ones have arrived, at
last. the post is so slow at the moment.
The ones I am using work purchased from Dynomighty and cost me US$ 16.95 each
plus some delivery, so perhaps A$25 each in my hands – something like that. I
think this is reasonable value. You may find them elsewhere more conveniently.
The wallets weigh between 13-14 grams empty and are
wonderfully thin and well-sized. I find most wallets far too big for jeans pockets
pretty much in every direction. Already i have too many cards in this one and
need to cull them again. Some can go onto my phone using an App such as Stocard
– which I use. I notice there are no notes at all for the two billfold
sections, a tribute to the virus! Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2020/09/09/ultralight-tyvek-wallet/
09/09/2020: Vale
John, My Facebook Memory from five years ago today. Time passes so swiftly:
‘Last
night I learned of the death of one of my oldest friends, John Seamer whom I
have known since we were in Year 10 (1964), so 51 years! We were very close at
University and in our twenties. Having now lived most of our lives half a
continent apart with irregular phone calls and even more irregular visits, I am
surprised at the depth of feeling of loss I have this morning: You may guess I
‘hear Time’s wing’d chariot hurrying near’ – and it is true. You may well think
there is time aplenty to do all those things you dream of, but for John there
is no more time at all, so I hope he did not die with many regrets of things
left undone. I had planned a three day hike with Spot in my beloved Gippsland
mountains starting this morning, so I will waste no time leaving that
particular ambition undone…’ I am once again planning on a multi-day hike in
the Vic mountains with just my dog. This one may not be strictly legal and I
just don’t care. I would pay the fines if necessary.
09/09/2020: The Gaslighting Effect – a ‘must read’: http://maggiesfarm.anotherdotcom.com/archives/35445-Media-Gaslighting.html
09/09/2020:
Steve Kates puts this disaster in perspective perfectly, ‘There will
eventually have to be a reckoning. How did we let this happen and how can we
make sure it never happens again? This non-crisis will eventually come to an
end’: https://catallaxyfiles.com/2020/09/09/why-has-the-covid-crisis-not-disappeared-already/
Now we learn this. Those Covid tests are
crap: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/09/07/covid-19-testing-1000-times-too-sensitive/
09/09/2020: ‘How
many sheep do I have to shear to pay for some lazy bugger on the dole?’ Too
many people just don’t want to work! Weeks ago I posted about all the
‘worker wanted’ ads on businesses in our local area – and that are still there
– because of ‘Jobseeker’ and ‘Jobkeeper’ which I said at the time need to be
renamed with the (dirty) word ‘work’ in them. Another example,
08/09/2020:
McCrann is pefectly right: Andrews’ resignation is the essential
circuit-breaker for
‘Almost all of those Victorian deaths — something like
655 of the 675, and counting — were a direct result of the criminal negligence
of the quarantine debacle.
It’s not me claiming that, it’s what the Premier’s own
Chief Health Officer, Brett Sutton, has said; that genomic tracing indicated that
almost all the cases in the “second wave” came from that source.
The quarantine catastrophe was a direct result of
decisions made by the Andrews Government.
The cases and deaths alone were bad enough; what has
made it worse, so much worse — in terms of governance failure — is the
economic, financial and broader destruction, seeping deep into the lives of all
6.5 million Victorians, that the Premier has mandated.
That he has mandated, arguably unnecessarily and even
punitively. It doesn’t seem to have even occurred to the Premier — silly me, of
course it wouldn’t occur to him — that all this
devastation he has mandated is precisely
the most crushing and irrefutable condemnation of his and the government’s
inexcusable failure’. https://www.heraldsun.com.au/business/terry-mccrann/terry-mccrann-victorias-premier-must-quit-over-his-governments-ineptitude/news-story/5c61be1c41f282439074d267b749b83d
07/09/2020:
Fathers’ Day at Seal Cove: Due to the Covid lock down none of our children
could visit us but Della and I could still go for a drive together. Such
freedom. That’s what we all fought for!
We headed down to a secret place along the Gippsland
coast where we thought we might be able to scramble down the cliffs to a
private cove. I won’t say whether it is legal or not to go there. There are
many things (simple pleasures) I will never live long enough to enjoy legally –
likewise my tiny dogs who though they are good Australians who pay all their
taxes on their dog food (and will never take a dollar of tax in return) are yet
forbidden from so many parts of our beautiful country – though they are devoted
‘leave no trace’ believers!
Anyway we are always off-track walkers and really only
want to go where we will find no other people anyway so what odds? It turned
out we could (even in my seventies – women as is well known, do not age) though
it is pretty steep and thick in places. It turned out to be a really beautiful
little cove about a kilometre long. Some great fishing to be had off the rocks
I would say, and with hog deer walking right down onto the beach of a night! We
saw many of their tracks. A paradise all our own! Read on: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2020/09/06/fathers-day-at-seal-cove/
06/09/2020: ‘When people get used to
preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination,’ Thomas
Sowell
06/09/2020: How theft became justice - Now there is a book: https://catallaxyfiles.com/2020/09/04/in-defense-of-looting/
06/09/2020: Dan the Man, ‘If brains were taxed you’d get a refund.’ Well said
Matthew Guy: https://www.facebook.com/matthew.guy.58323/videos/746482112800234
If you haven’t watched this video exposing what tyrant Andrews is imposing on
people in their own homes, you should: https://www.facebook.com/australianlibertyalliance/videos/324201368696707
05/09/2020: It’s Over Dan: You can’t lock the people down any longer.
Thousands of protesters in Albert Park. It’s pointless anyway now that Sutton
has admitted that 50% of people with symptoms are refusing to be tested – so
how many without symptoms? The level of testing keeps falling but real cases of
the virus are obviously increasing exponentially – even in lockdown. We must
now give up and just live with it: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/coronavirus/police-warn-of-consequences-ahead-of-planned-antilockdown-protest-in-the-melbourne-cbd/news-story/1a5e95917ab191adfd96d55296424933
Courtesy of Thomas Osburg - Andrews
invents the numbers: We
are watching a Government fail and fall today.
05/09/2020: This is what a tyrant Andrews is. He is cancelling people’s
Shooter’s Licences and confiscating their firearms if they are accused of
‘breaching health regulations’ eg by going for a walk alone in a public place
without wearing a mask or suggesting people should protest Dan’s onerous
restrictions or camping out alone overnight (in the wilderness) whilst lawfully
hunting (eg waiting for hounds to return). This is a dreadful over-reaction.
People may have costs of thousands of dollars and a wait of years to get their
lawful rights back again: https://nationalshooting.org.au/blog/f/nsc-launches-action-on-vicpols-covid-19-licence-threats?fbclid=IwAR33io6XWnoLxOiBKzDQDdNKoUSNPta5oW1OMF1AgnIXkDoqmreAVTJtWJg
05/09/2020: Something I didn’t know - Pine
Cone Preserves - Soft young cones make a sweet jam believed to have health
benefits in
05/09/2020: What
05/09/2020: Good
on you Tony! Fair comment I would say, ‘Gillard created this bullshit narrative
about Tony. I don't think she ever got over being knocked back my a happily
married man of great integrity. Tony saw Gillard for exactly what she is.’
Women who know him well have a different narrative: What his (gay) sister says
about him, ‘It is nothing short of dishonest..to label hm a homophobe and
misogynist’, and Peta Credlin, ‘Do you think that
somebody who hated women would hire me? It's complete and utter rubbish.’ https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2020/09/tony-abbotts-sister-rises-to-defend-him-from-ignoramous-pommy-commentators-and-gillard.html
This is how Kay Burley, the MP who accuses Abbott of being a misogynist treats
other women. See her here choking another woman: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1028007/Pictured-The-incredible-moment-Sky-TV-presenter-Kay-Burley-grabbed-rival-throat.html
04/09/2020: Oddly enough as a sheep breeder, I would have culled this ram – just
don’t like its head. Looks unviable to me. Perhaps a bad photo. We all take
them sometime: https://www.news.com.au/technology/science/animals/texel-sheep-double-diamond-sells-for-record-666000/news-story/46ed88944dd80cfed1daf1ac882cd76c
04/09/2020: Gertude Himmelfarb should be a set text in our schools. For example, ‘The
beasts of modernism have mutated into the beasts of postmodernism-relativism
into nihilism, amorality into immorality, irrationality into insanity, sexual
deviancy into polymorphous perversity. And since then, generations of
intelligent students under the guidance of their enlightened professors have
looked into the abyss, have contemplated those beasts, and have said, 'How
interesting how exciting.' Today, students in some of the most distinguished
departments of literature are all too often reading books about how to read
books. Literary theory has replaced literature itself as the fashionable subject
of study. Structuralism and deconstruction, gender theory and the new
historicism, reader-response and speech-act theory-these are more hotly debated
than the content and style of particular novels or poems.’: http://maggiesfarm.anotherdotcom.com/archives/35423-Book-du-Jour-On-Looking-Into-the-Abyss.html
04/09/2020: ‘We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of
relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end,’ George Orwell. I have always said people should respect
the police and do as they say, but who can respect this Andrews stooge
Cornelius: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2020/09/victoria-police-on-protests-blm-were-not-able-to-stop-people-protesting-anti-lockdown-well-be-out-in.html
& in addition: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2020/09/fmr-high-court-chief-murray-gleeson-where-summons-is-available-arrest-is-quite-wrong-its-a-serious-a.html
03/09/2020: 75 Years Ago Yesterday the Japanese finally surrendered. The
heroes of the Enola Gay had done a great job. If maybe you wonder whether they
really were such evil monsters you have been living in a dream world.
03/09/2020: Good on you Charlie Hedbo – we must not be intimidated or overrun
by this vile creed which must be abolished from all civilized lands. BTW1: Good
luck with trying to find a copy of these cartoons anywhere on our ‘free press’:
https://catallaxyfiles.com/2020/09/02/no-mo/
BTW2:
03/09/2020: The great Brett Sutton (hearthrob of the Left) now admits that over
50% of people with symptoms are not being tested –something which was
apparent to me some time ago. He has no plan to make this happen. The virus in
02/09/2020: I have long argued that life years (lost) is a more appropriate metric for assessing
various elements of public policy such as road speeds, alcohol percentages,
compulsory seat-belts and so on. Here’s how that idea works out with Covid:
‘Combining these analyses, we found that an estimated 18.7 million life-years
will be lost in the
02/09/2020: Harris and Biden actually support this violence and anarchy, and call
on it to continue whilst Trump calls for ‘law and order’. Who do you think you
would vote for? https://www.heraldsun.com.au/blogs/rita-panahi/antifa-and-blm-protesters-continue-their-reign-of-terror/news-story/7bcb9103329b7e029944fc681f780763 Here is what she actually said, Riots
won’t stop and neither should they: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIdbdSWR9_U&feature=emb_title Here are some others, Pelosi etc calling
for more violence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yYplnEkbqU&feature=emb_title
01/09/2020: Senators Hanson and Roberts completely demolish the CSIRO’s false
narrative of anthropocentric climate change - I’m so glad I put these
people first on my ballot paper – they seem to me to be the only ones in the
federal parliament who have Australia’s interest at heart: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2020/08/senators-pauline-hanson-malcolm-roberts-press-conference-call-for-csiro-chief-to-go.html
01/09/2020: Covid has killed less than 10,000 people in the
31/08/2020: Thanks Matt Ridley, Let’s have an end to environmental pessimism – the
future is bright, ‘Why is the wolf population increasing, the lion
decreasing, and the tiger now holding its own? The answer is simple: Wolves
live in rich countries, lions in poor countries, and tigers in middle-income
countries. It turns out that we conservationists were wrong to fear economic
development in the 1980s. Prosperity is the best thing that can happen to a
country’s wildlife…What else might we achieve by the year 2060, when I shall be
102? Even though there will then be more than nine billion people, it is almost
certain there will be larger forests, more wildlife, cleaner rivers, and richer
seas, because that is what is currently happening. Most people who deny this,
and insist things are getting worse, are simply wrong.’ http://www.rationaloptimist.com/blog/against-environmental-pessimism/
31/08/2020: As with ‘unprecedented’ I have had quite enough of the word’
vulnerable’ which I can at least both spell and pronounce – unlike the great
majority of the chattering classes. Until this situation has been corrected
by draconian legislation I think the word should be banned. I think it is
highly undesirable anyway to draw people’s attention to the fact that some
members of society seem to have as their key distinguishing characteristic that
they are ‘piss-ants’. Some common misspellings which I am sure we have all
heard recently on the 7:00 o’clock news: vanurable (0.1%) vulenable (0.5%)
vunarable (0.7%) vonerable (4.1%) vulnerble (1.6%) vunerable (54.3%) vulnable
(0.3%) vounerable (0.9%) vurnrable (0.1%) vunurable (0.5%) voulnerable (1.2%)
vulnrable (1.8%) vlunerable (0.3%) vulnerbale (0.3%) volnerable (2.8%)
volnerble (0.3%) vulnarable (2.4%) vulnorable (0.3%) vulnurable (1.2%)
vulterable (0.3%) vurnarable (0.3%) vonurable (0.3%) vurnerable (1.2%)
vaunerable (0.3%) vurnable (0.4%) vunrable (8.8%) vunrebale (0.3%) vunerabal
(0.3%) vulnreable (0.3%) valunerable (0.3%) vulenrable (0.3%) velnerable (0.1%)
vulernable (1.8%) vounurable (0.3%) vonrable (0.7%) vunlerable (0.3%) vulerable
(3.4%) vounarable (0.3%) vaulnerable (2.4%) vaulnurable (0.3%) vulberable
(0.3%) vaunrable (0.7%) valnerable (0.4%) vonarable (0.3%) valnerble (0.5%)
vulnarbal (0.3%) vulneraalbe (0.3%) vulnerabie (0.3%) vulneranle (0.3%)
vulnerval (0.3%) vunarble (0.3%) vuneralbe (0.3%) vurenable (0.3%) http://www.etymology-online.com/vulnerable
31/08/2020: We surely all know by now that Andrews’ response to the coronavirus
(like everything else the buffoon does) was utterly feckless, but pretty much
every government’s response has been hopeless and hugely destructive. If
communists did engineer this so-called ‘pandemic’ (and we need look no further
than those Reds in the WHO really) they could not have done a better job of
harming capitalism. Let’s hope they have not destroyed it utterly. The awful
socialist responses employed by so many countries (including our own Liberal
government in Canberra of course only served to whet the appetites of statists
that a command economy is the solution to everything - when every sensible
person surely knows from a long experience of history that it is the answer to
nothing – and simply ‘the road to serfdom’. Medically speaking it was also
totally wrong: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/qed/2020/08/when-panic-is-mistaken-for-policy-2/ Can I remind you again about Coyote’s Common Sense Solution: http://coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2020/08/a-framework-for-thinking-about-lockdowns-and-why-they-are-counter-productive.html PS: I
think it is no accident that governments are not doing virus antibody at the
same time as they are doing screening tests. This would be very easy to do,
though it would add to the cost. However it would disclose that the measures
taken had been an abject failure and that some huge percentage of cases (in
some countries as high as 90%) had been undetected and caused no ‘harm’
whatsoever. Indeed the overwhelming majority of people had not even noticed
they had the disease. Note this salient fact also, hardly anyone dies from coronaviris – only 6%: ‘Table 3 shows the types of health conditions
and contributing causes mentioned in conjunction with deaths involving coronavirus
disease 2019 (COVID-19). For 6% of the deaths, COVID-19 was the only cause
mentioned. For deaths with conditions or causes in addition to COVID-19, on
average, there were 2.6 additional conditions or causes per death’: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm?fbclid=IwAR28Fr355s4TIug2-Yjz9xuSKSA_oLat-I2LrcoPX_P5R3T44aYAeIEwZQE
30/08/2020: Our
Addendum: https://catallaxyfiles.com/2020/08/29/in-victoria-they-make-the-covid-numbers-up-and-even-tell-you-what-theyve-done/
Coyote’s Common Sense Solution: http://coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2020/08/a-framework-for-thinking-about-lockdowns-and-why-they-are-counter-productive.html
30/08/2020: Black Lives mattered – how
30/08/2020: The Democrats stand for anarchy: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/blogs/andrew-bolt/if-trump-fans-acted-like-these-leftist-fascists-would-the-media-stay-quiet/news-story/495bbc0454c4c83374b47697cc430e57
& https://www.heraldsun.com.au/blogs/andrew-bolt/media-left-excuses-mostly-peaceful-violence/news-story/898d9959aed41d19820f83021f4ec839
Prediction: They will be eaten alive at
the polls. Fear of reprisals: This is what you get when you intimidate people.
I have stopped ‘doing’ polls too: https://www.zerohedge.com/political/silent-majority-over-10-trump-voters-wont-admit-preferences-pollsters
29/08/2020: Do you wonder why? Trump’s Approval Rating Soars: https://www.lucianne.com/2020/08/26/trump_approval_soars_to_52_percent_up_with_blacks_and_democrats_42018.html
Dem supporters rioting in the streets can only help too: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/opinion/rita-panahi/racial-unrest-can-only-work-in-donald-trumps-favour/news-story/88dcf6955646ecddb419f91de49e037a
29/08/2020: Who
could have known? After all the rioting, the truth is George Floyd Had ‘Fatal
Level’ Of Fentanyl In His Body At Time Of Death: https://thefederalist.com/2020/08/26/new-documents-show-george-floyd-had-fatal-level-of-fentanyl-in-his-system/
29/08/2020: Have you noticed
28/08/2020: Something
is happening here and you do know what it is don’t you Mr Jones: https://switchelphilosopher.blog/2020/08/22/the-holodomor/
28/08/2020: One
hopes our defence forces are listening, as we certainly are ‘surrounded and
outnumbered’: https://warontherocks.com/2020/08/when-youre-outnumbered-lessons-from-two-british-masters-of-irregular-warfare/?singlepage=1
28/08/2020: Suppose
we just ask those elderly folks lying sick in hospital whether they would like
to try the HCQ procedure: Dr. Harvey Risch Professor of Epidemiology in the
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at Yale, ‘I conclude the evidence
is overwhelming, there is no question that for the people who need to be
treated and are treated early, it has a very substantial benefit in reducing
risk of hospitalisation or mortality…The evidence in favour of
Hydroxychloroquine benefit in high risk patients treated early as out-patients
is stronger than anything else I’ve ever studied. So scientifically there is no
question whatsoever’ https://catallaxyfiles.com/2020/08/25/sutton-death/
27/08/2020: So after 3 years, what have Trump and his administration accomplished?
A real lot. Here’s a list of some of them: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2020/08/so-after-3-years-what-have-trump-and-his-administration-accomplished.html
Trump’s
Winning Agenda: https://spectator.org/a-potential-landslide-agenda/ One hopes. (Not just not Joe Biden or
Kamala Harris - though both are big pluses!) I see Biden is not only coming after your SUV but also your
Superannuation. Singing from Shorten’s playbook? What is it with these
socialists? He is just as likely to succeed: https://www.forbes.com/sites/ebauer/2020/08/25/joe-biden-promises-to-take-away-401k-style-retirement-savings-whats-that-mean/#2a446e6d4eb0
27/08/2020: Today
is the 78th anniversary of the
27/08/2020: Do
You Notice Something Wrong? Yesterday
26/08/2020: The first confirmed re-infection with Covid. The good news is that it
is five months since his first infection and the second was more mild. This
indicates that ‘immunity’ is working, if not perfectly. It also indicates
that where the virus has ‘raged’ they likely have a kind ‘herd immunity’ though
it does not perfectly protect from (re)infection. We could use this datum to
predict exactly how many cases we would have if we opened up - which we must
sometime anyway. It also illustrates the importance of developing and utilizing
a full arsenal of treatments, particularly cheap treatments such as Hydroxy and
Ivomec + Zinc: http://joannenova.com.au/2020/08/reinfection-and-t-cell-immunity-does-the-common-cold-give-us-protection-against-coronavirus/
26/08/2020: What an absurd law – who are they trying to protect? https://www.heraldsun.com.au/truecrimeaustralia/police-courts/letusspeak-victoria-blocks-sexual-assault-victims-from-using-real-names/news-story/5273c23f7e2fbe5a0e3dbf6965125326
26/08/2020: News you don’t hear from
25/08/2020: WA’s Attorney-General Quigley is no doubt the most retrograde
legislator since King John, why we have the Magna Carta which amongst other
things expressly forbade the sovereign from stripping private property from
free men without just compensation – yet this is exactly what Quigley has
done to Palmer (and his shareholders!) Still you wonder why I am so opposed to
socialism in all its forms? Please read on: https://catallaxyfiles.com/2020/08/23/dont-invest-in-australia/
Of course that’s what it means: ‘Don’t
invest in
25/08/2020: The perfect ‘syllogism’:
25/08/2020: Dan has extended his ‘emergency’ for another year and in SA they have a
two-year virus plan. Of course in neither of these socialist totalitarian
visions is the simple expedient of protecting the elderly and making proven
treatments available (such as Prof Borody’s - the Doc who cured ulcers). Anyway
get yours today: http://covexit.com/australian-gps-can-legally-prescribe-ivermectin-triple-therapy-protocol-professor-borody/?fbclid=IwAR3ZLXwDULkKAvhwaz1toDwpz_5PzRN6g0cf0p-nrl9EoX278UCJaDrqRtE
& https://catallaxyfiles.com/2020/08/25/why-are-our-politicians-not-allowing-hcq-to-be-used-in-australia/
& https://www.heraldsun.com.au/blogs/andrew-bolt/coronavirus-but-wheres-the-zinc/news-story/5345c134e1edf161b3b9721d5431a546
& https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/08/24/hydroxychloroquine-in-covid-19-treatment-actual-usage-in-the-usa/
PS: The safety of these medicines (Hydroxy/Ivomec) has been proven over seventy
years. Surely this is preferable to en enforced ‘Godot’ vaccine which is
completely unproven? Remember Thalidomide? https://catallaxyfiles.com/2020/08/24/have-these-people-never-heard-of-thalidomide/
24/08/2020: ‘Big fleas have little fleas on their backs to bite’em – and so on ad
infinitum’: http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/59398
24/08/2020: The Parallels between the climate an covid ‘scams’ are instructive. Both
are ‘creations’ of the Left (in more ways than one) and vehicles for control,
rent seeking, etc). The article makes clear how the ban on Hydroxy/Ivomec works
– the Left have ever been willing to murder millions to further their aims, and
clearly to pay for their ‘dachas’ too PS: I notice many have bought sea-side
dachas/mansions even in defiance of their climate ‘faith’: https://richardsonpost.com/brian-c-joondeph/18079/covid-and-climate-policy/
However a friend alerted me to this: Go
Ivermectin: https://www.facebook.com/Mark.M.Aldridge.Independent/videos/10158708671749124
24/08/2020: Kamala Harris was the Sponsor of the Green New Deal and Biden has now
endorsed it as a core platform. It would require a radical transformation of
society and cost 50% of GDP (its proponents claim). For one thing the
automobile would be gone! Now, ‘The latest
23/08/2020: Prediction: One will be
23/08/2020: I too have had a ‘brush’ with the Left - having (even) been a
member of the Labor Party for a while in the 1970s (I am ashamed to say). Even
then they were beyond criticism or dissent (a key reason for my break with
them) but they have just become worse and worse. I too expected some to
acknowledge once the Wall fell that the excesses of Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot
etc were truly evil – and that they were sorry about the 8 million people they
(as supporters of communism and opponents of the Vietnam war - which happily I
was not) had been accessories in the mass murder of. But they never did. Never
will. ‘The always guilt-free Left have awarded themselves “total intellectual
impunity”—being Good people they can never
do Bad. That they did not deal with their
responsibility in supporting one of the most murderous political philosophies
in history denies them any essential credibility.’ I now feel that it is my duty to oppose them with every fibre of my
being. https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2020/07-08/the-great-escape/
23/08/2020: Imagine: 6 cents a day of
Vitamin D preventing 40% of
respiratory deaths: http://joannenova.com.au/2020/08/wow-vitamin-d-deficiency-may-cause-40-of-respiratory-deaths-in-older-people/
22/08/2020: Imagine Bill Clinton lecturing Trump about the ‘correct way to use the
Oval Office’! Tell that to Monica – and Epstein! These Dems are just the
most terrible crooks: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2020/08/bill-clintons-speech-about-the-proper-way-to-use-the-oval-office.html
Some more thoughts about that here: https://richardsonpost.com/howellwoltz/18023/obama-biden-hillary-swamp/
As for Obama, I think this heading says it all: The worst president of my lifetime discusses the best: https://catallaxyfiles.com/2020/08/20/the-worst-president-of-my-lifetime-discusses-the-best/
What was there to like about that commie Moslem quisling? Imagine one of Biden’s priorities being re-allowing men back into
little girl’s toilets: https://catallaxyfiles.com/2020/08/20/bidens-top-priority-allowing-men-back-into-the-girls-toilets/
He is also going to make face masks compulsory from Day 1 of he Presidency.
That should go down well!
22/08/2020: Prof Blainey (remember ‘Triumph of the Nomads’?) on what a monstrous fraud
‘Dark Emu’ is – ‘domesticated’ wombats kept in pens. Really!: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/opinion/andrew-bolt/andrew-bolt-will-abc-use-taxpayers-money-to-promote-bruce-pascoes-fake-history/news-story/2557c9ca121835b36cbdbfcc1d10bd42
I know it is behind a paywall, but this one isn’t: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/bennelong-papers/2020/08/another-load-of-emu-droppings/
22/08/2020: The 1968 Hong Kong Flu killed 1-4 million people world-wide and
about 100,000 Americans (so about like Covid 19 really), but they did not even
cancel
21/08/2020: Long Coleoptile Wheat – the new Green Revolution may boost yields by
40%. Take that Global Warming: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/08/20/global-warming-crop-resilience-aussie-farmer-helps-csiro-develop-long-coleoptile-wheat/
21/08/2020: Fight back: Understanding the imminence of the Marxist victory over
everything: http://joannenova.com.au/2020/08/the-marxists-have-forced-out-the-conservatives-now-theyre-coming-for-the-liberals/
21/08/2020: Andrews is such a liar. The Governor really should sack him, install
a caretaker government and call an election (with the Gov no doubt being a
Labor Party stooge this is unlikely) but 1% of people were breaching isolation
not the 27% Andrews claimed; this is risible. If he had been fining them from
the start this also would never have been happening. I fear that now what is
happening is that lots of people (half?) are refusing to be tested because they
do not want the even more onerous restrictions that testing would impose on
them. Of couse this means that there will be more virus out there. It may be
ten times as much as the testing reveals anyway. Long since time we rolled out
the quite safe and effective treatments/preventatives we have (some for over a
decade) such as Hydroxychloroquine &/or Ivomectin + zinc + antibiotic and
re-opened the economy: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/opinion/rita-panahi/rita-panahi-andrews-testing-numbers-game-stacks-the-odds-against-us/news-story/2fa5abf341c5cce3b74175308b1fab97
20/08/2020: The Secret
of Fire: Fire lighting is a profound 'secret' which if you do not master, you
might come to a time when you do not survive at all because of your ignorance. Take the time and patience to learn to be its master: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2020/08/19/the-secret-of-fire/
20/08/2020: When folk remedies work: Anglo-Saxon eye salve cuts swathe through
bacterial biofilms: http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/59203
20/08/2020: Gas a Commie Today: We should try this here. I suspect there is more
public support for police here too than for demonstrators: https://babylonbee.com/news/portland-police-make-millions-after-offering-citizens-a-turn-throwing-tear-gas
20/08/2020: When at last the leaves fell from the bullshit trees, an apocryphal
(but bloody funny) tale: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/qed/2020/08/when-the-leaves-fell-from-the-bullshit-trees/
19/08/2020: DIY Unbreakable Shoe Laces: Make your own unbreakable shoe laces.
That way you don’t need to carry a spare. You can buy Aglets (ie ends) cheaply
enough A$3.88
per 100 plus 50 ft 2.3 mm black
Kevlar line A$24.92 (pictured) to make your own unbreakable shoe laces. You
just need to measure the cord accurately, to cut the Kevlar with a hot iron to
seal it, crimp the aglets on – and away you go! https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2020/08/19/diy-unbreakable-shoe-laces/
19/08/2020: ‘If you think this year’s controversy is bad, consider that
hydroxychloroquine is given to relatively few people with COVID-19, all sick,
many with nothing to lose. It enters the body, and leaves fairly quickly, and
has been known to us for decades. COVID
vaccines, which advocates will want to be mandatory and given to all
people—healthy and not, young and old—are being rushed past their normal safety
precautions and regulations, and the typical five-to-10-year
observation period is being waived to get “Operation Warp Speed” done
as soon as possible. This is being done with the endorsement of public health
officials—the same ones, in many cases who are saying HCQ is suddenly extremely
dangerous.’ This essay (by a respected MD) is about the most balanced I have
seen regarding the ‘progress’ of therapy against Covid 19: https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/science/articles/hydroxychloroquine-morality-tale
Particularly liked this, 'He told Paris Match: I am Nietzschean, I am looking
for contradiction, trouble to strengthen myself. The worst is the comfort: It
makes you silly ... The more humans you have, the less they think differently.
The “politically correct,” the “compliant thinking” are only a mass effect, to
be avoided, even if it is difficult to resist! ... To follow the herd no brain
is needed, legs are sufficient ... I don’t like movements, I run in the
opposite direction. In general, that is where there are nuggets.'
19/08/2020: Remember this about the Greens: ‘At the edge of a forest, German
soldiers point their guns at rows of naked people who follow the Jewish
religion. Among them are young mothers clutching their babies. The shots echo
through the woods and the dead bodies fall into the ground. Down the road,
while this is happening, their German army comrades are busy establishing
nature walks and bird sanctuaries and planting trees. The Nazis conducted
horrific experiments on children (I have seen footage so upsetting it can’t be
shown on TV) but at the same time they banned medical experiments on animals.
The same Nazi monsters who committed crimes of unimaginable barbarity also
advocated vegetarianism, organic agriculture, forest preservation and
homeopathic healthcare. How can we possibly explain this? What was the
connection between the inhuman brutality of the Nazis and their gushing
idealization of ‘Nature’? http://www.martindurkin.com/blogs/nazi-greens-inconvenient-history
19/08/2020: About ‘oaths’ and the meaning of ‘words’: Marriage as an
institution is redolent with many ancient, tested practices such as the
swearing of oaths. Traditionally oaths are/were sworn on that which you hold
most sacred – in this case and many others that meant ‘on your life’! That is
the origin of the phrase ‘Till death us do part’. You are swearing ‘on your
life’. ie ‘on pain of death’ to be true to your word: in this case, ‘I do’! I
am living proof that it is not so very hard (and certainly not in the least
unpleasant) to remain married for fifty years. Many folks today want to hijack
or dilute these ancient customs. This is most unwise. In another example a
‘naturalised’ citizen is better than one simply ‘born and raised’ because the
former has sworn a binding oath. Many older Australians swore these oaths at
the beginning of every school day though I doubt many under about forty have
ever sworn fidelity to their country which has given them so much. Indeed many
seem to pride themselves on having just the opposite view. Too many have no
loyalty, but only expectations that their country will provide for them:
nothing about duty enters their heads at all. The daily oaths my generation
swore spoke only of our duties (‘I honour…I salute the flag’ etc) and nothing
of our entitlements. We already had our lives after all, as so many not
fortunate enough to be Australians had not. ‘Entitlements’ are always provided
by the hard work of our fellow citizens: they are always charity. A citizen
should avoid (on their life) becoming a recipient of charity. Similarly, the
swearing of an oath (on your life) means that you hold that which you are
swearing on more precious than your life. New citizens have thought carefully
about this. Old citizens should too. We do right to honour our soldiers who
have placed their lives between us and our enemies. Those who think otherwise
are quislings and traitors, never citizens. Citizenship should be revocable and
ostracism should accompany its revocation.
18/08/2020:
18/08/2020:
18/08/2020: Through a glass darkly – it is difficult to assess the impact of
policies from a distance (whether it be physical or social) but I notice for
example that Biden has vowed to transform America’s energy with an all-out war
on fossil fuels (and a husge ‘renewable subsidy scheme just at a time when
‘other people’s’ money has long since run out. Of course this is just at a time
when the ‘environment’ is rating lowest as an important issue in the public’s
mass-mind, now not even getting into the top ten. Shorten already lost an
election trying to steal people’s SUVs remember? He also want so destroy
suburbia and turn everywhere into clones of the awful democrat run
18/08/2020: Covid 19: Monoclonal Antibodies sound promising – and we may have them
soon: http://joannenova.com.au/2020/08/antibodies-against-the-covid-spike-not-the-shell-predict-survival/
17/08/2020: Exponential Growth: ‘The mass-energy-information equivalence
principle will show that information is a physical, dominant, fifth state of
matter, and digital bits will outnumber atoms on Earth’ https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/08/16/digital-content-on-track-to-equal-half-earths-mass-by-2245/
17/08/2020: Lest we forget - Esssingon Lewis: ‘He formed a syndicate called
the Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation, which in 1939 built the first Australian
military aircraft, a simple, lightly armed trainer-plane called the Wirraway.
Later came fighter bomber aircraft that really held their own. It was
remarkable that we mass-produced planes before we mass-produced cars,’ https://catallaxyfiles.com/2020/08/16/essington-lewis/
17/08/2020: Our Government’s fake studies against Hyrdoxychloroquine (some
where people were deliberately and negligently given potentially (and sometimes
really) fatal doses ie 10 times that normally recommended – or the wrong
medicine ie one with a similar name (not unlike the US man who mistakenly drink
fish tank cleaner) are a disgrace. The efficacy of ivermectin (Ivomec) is
similarly being ignored even though it is crystal clear that these two
compounds taken in association with the recommended quantity of zinc sulphate
are the best ‘cure’ we have yet – and have reduced the death toll where they
are being used by 80% or more, especially if taken early in the course of the
disease: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/andrew-bolt-morrison-government-banning-hydroxychloroquine-makes-no-sense/news-story/178d6f912298066a4ad529bfcf42ae83
PS: In Vic Andrews has banned doctors from prescribing hydroxychloroquine but
you can still get a script for Ivomec (Strolectol), whilst Zinc Sulphate is
freely available from online pharmacy suppliers. It is (usually) recommended
that people take a broad spectrum antibiotic (Azithromycin) in combination with
this therapy (mainly to mop up secondary infections). ie Hydroxychloroquine 200
mg twice a day + Azithromycin 500 mg + Zinc sulfate 220 mg once a day for 5
days. You will (likely) eventually contract this virus – perhaps even after
there is a vaccine (as vaccines are very rarely 100% protective), so you should
be prepared to have the best available protection against it. Keeping up your
Vitamin D and Zinc levels (combined with social distancing and hygiene) also
remain your best defences against contracting it. It certainly can be deadly
and/or debilitating, particularly in people with other health issues.
16/08/2020: Lest We Forget. 75th VP Day. Some question the decision to
bomb Horoshima and
Pictured Leonard With his fiancée
Clarice 1941 and on the beach at
16/08/2020:
Solving the ME problem! Trump certainly gets things done. Four more years,
please https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/israel-uae-agreement-trump-james-carafano
16/08/2020:
There goes Private Property – and many other things: This WA Bill is just a
shocker. Hopefully the Fed Govt will find a way to quickly squash it: https://catallaxyfiles.com/2020/08/14/democratic-banana-republic-of-western-australia-part-3/
16/08/2020: Vote
Democrat? This should do the job:
15/08/2020: Fuel
Follies: Of course you know what this is; it’s a very silly empty fuel
container which weighs 5.1 oz or 147 grams. Lots of unwise hikers lug these
stupid things around!
Let’s look at it another way. A lightweight bottle to
carry alcohol (meths) in might weigh 10-20 grams. My lightest burner weighs 7
grams. (but I usually use one of Tinny’s
Gnomes) Perhaps I need a windscreen? That might add 7 grams too – but
you will use twice as much fuel whatever you use if you don’t have a
windscreen, so let’s ignore it for the sake of the exercise:
17 grams from 147 leaves 130 grams of fuel. A ml of
alcohol weighs 0.7893 grams so this 130 grams
represents 164 mls I use about 7 mls to boil a cup
of water, (4-5 with a cosy
-but that would add weight too) so that 164 mls represents 23 cups of coffee. A
meal represents 2-3 cups of coffee.
I take about 500 mls of alcohol for all my cooking for
a ten day trip, so this 164 mls is more enough for a normal long
weekend’s cooking. If you consider the gas stove that I am not carrying
(another 85 grams of fuel or 107 mls) you can see that switching to alcohol
would equate to this one empty container representing cooked
meals for about five days! If you consider the
227 grams (287 mls) of gas you would have had enough fuel (with alcohol (164 +
107 + 287 = 558) for a ten day trip!
Now do you see why I do not use a gas stove. There is
also this to consider: it has happened to me (car camping): What
f the jet on the gas stove should block up?
Unless you are carrying a spare jet 9and a small spanner for replacing it (are
you?) the you will be doing no cooking at all!
There is just no similar problem with an alcohol stove.
And have you thought about ow explosive a gas canister is? You could easily blow up a truck with one. Just an exploding
Bic lighter will pretty much blow your hand off! I know I think of replacing
mine with flint and spirit lighters (such as the peanut).
Gas just makes no sense – and when you consider its
environmental impact: the fact that it is normally extracted from undersea
wells miles offshore, fracking, transport, the risks of environmental disaster
etc it surprises me that all the ‘leave no trace’ brigade (of
which I am not one) pretty much all use it!
Of course I am getting lazier and lazier (as well as
older and older) so I have decided just to carry this
20 gram stove and no fuel at all (most
trips).
See Also:
DIY
20 Gram Roll Up Hobo Stove
PS: You can make your own alcohol stove
too. I have several posts about this. Try a
search in the bottom left hand corner for ‘stove’
15/08/2020: If pedophilia is just sexuality then burying them all is just
gardening! (Anon)
15/08/2020: Hard
to believe that hiking isn’t racist: https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/05/the-unbearable-lightness-of-being-liberal.php but is
it more racist than jogging: https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/05/which-is-more-racist-hiking-or-jogging.php And
now camping is too: https://www.thepiratescove.us/2020/08/11/la-times-camping-is-totally-racist-you-know/
15/08/2020: Whether you like Clive Palmer or not the WA Govt’s law cancelling the rule of
(property) law is just so awfully undemocratic: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/blogs/andrew-bolt/clive-palmer-on-the-thieving-western-australian-government/news-story/9fd0792694808371f0d86579b93180ed
14/08/2020:
Asparagus Dreaming: Della: Today’s job was the asparagus bed: This is a
perennial crop, and having planted the crowns about 30 years ago, we have
little to do each year other than cut off the dead fronds each winter.
Gardening guides say that you can do this once the
fronds turn yellow in autumn, but that is hard work, I found, as each thick
frond has to be cut by hand with secateurs. So over the years I have put the
job off later and later until I discovered that August is the perfect time. By
then the stems are dead enough to come away with the gentlest tug, and so the
work is minimised.
So here are today’s before and after pics, along with
the first taste of asparagus for the season. Another reward in leaving the bed
looking untidy all through the cooler months is the early shoots that are
waiting to surprise me beneath the bleak canopy. Tonight’s dinner
accompaniment!
Most impressive. I wish I could do a ‘show and tell’ for my
day’s work on the fence, but at the end it still just looks like a fence even
though I am exhausted! An asparagus bed (like a good fence) will pretty much
last a lifetime. I will not have to build either again anyway.
14/08/2020: ‘Animal Farm’ aside, George Orwell can still teach us a lot – an
instructive essay: https://quillette.com/2020/08/08/george-orwell-and-the-struggle-against-inevitable-bias/
14/08/2020: ‘We shall defeat them by proving once more that a free individual
living in a free community with a free tomorrow in front of him (or her) is
worth a nation of slaves’. (Menzies) But is
14/08/2020: ‘The
tragic thing about Kamala Harris’s selection is that the DNC picked a woman of Indian
and Jamaican parentage to be a generic double for an African-American.’
Talk about wearing your black face on your sleeve: https://catallaxyfiles.com/2020/08/14/resorting-to-black-face/
Remember when she believed Biden was a dirty old man: https://thefederalist.com/2020/08/11/flashback-kamala-harris-said-she-believed-bidens-rape-accusers/
13/08/2020: The
Best Hiking/Hunting Shoe Ever: I received my new Topo Hydraventure 2 shoes
from Injinji about a month ago. The new model is even better than the old one.
Look at that tread.
310 grams in US size 9.5: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2020/08/13/the-best-hiking-hunting-shoe-ever/
13/08/2020: 78 Years Later Teddy gets the VC. I can’t imagine what ‘judges’ up
to now expected people to be doing in order to ‘win’ it. Teddy should have
‘tried harder’ I guess.: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2020/08/her-majesty-the-queen-approves-award-of-victoria-cross-to-the-late-teddy-sheean.html
13/08/2020: Not so cool then - Marijuana use during pregnancy linked to autism in
babies. Wow: https://edition.cnn.com/2020/08/10/health/weed-marijuana-pregnancy-autism-link-wellness/index.html
13/08/2020: Dementia Joe and his commie kewpie golliwog Kamala who accused him
of groping her earlier –if you remember – not only the first ‘black’, ‘woman’
but the first ‘Asian’ too. She is everything, just ‘ticks all the boxes’ and
should be a big winner for the far-left, far-out Dems I don’t think. I foresee
a big Trump win in November. She is so far-Left she makes Bernie Sanders look
like a Republican – and if Biden wins (since he is clearly mentally incompetent)
she will be President: http://joannenova.com.au/2020/08/kamala-harris/
Mind you the Dems are up to big-time dirty tricks with their postal vote push
to completely subvert the democratic process and just be able to appoint their
own President whatever the people may want. Read about it here: https://richardsonpost.com/brian-c-joondeph/17958/democrats-pushing-mail-in-ballots/
& https://catallaxyfiles.com/2020/08/12/kamala-harris-meanest-most-horrible-most-disrespectful-senator/
& https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/08/12/flashback-sen-kamala-harris-supported-eliminating-senate-filibuster-to-pass-green-new-deal/
12/08/2020: Prometheus has a lot to answer for – but Boy, have we ever been
sitting around the campfire for a long while: https://www.livescience.com/when-did-humans-discover-fire.html
12/08/2020:
12/08/2020:
11/08/2020:
Aricxi $30 Tent Review: It took quite a while to get here what with Covid
19, but it came a couple of days ago. I am as pleased with it as I thought I
would be when I mentioned it in this
post back in April. The tent is very well made and well thought out. For
most people it will be big enough for two people and will certainly be a palace
for one. It really does only weigh 320 grams including the guys!
I will make a few improvements to mine. they are all
things you could do with a little bit of competent hand sewing which will make
the tent even better. I use the word ‘tent’. this has been the normal word for
a folding ‘roof’ you sleep under for thousands of years. I do not
understand the absurd distinction between tent/tarp some wish to draw insisting
that if it does not have a floor or bug protection it is somehow not a ‘tent’.
You can always simply add these features, or dispense with them… https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2020/08/11/aricxi-30-tent-review/
11/08/2020: ‘Jack the Dancer’ has been around a long time: http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/59291
11/08/2020: Homeostasis
(thermo-regulation) is one of a mammal’s most interesting (defining) features.
It is also an important feature of the climate whose temperature has
varied so little over such a long time
that any rational person would long ago have concluded that the earth has a
thermostat – just that we don’t clearly understand how it works: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/08/09/undeniable-truths/
11/08/2020: Aged care: We spend billions on this heartwarming phrase and are
currently spending millions on an enquiry which has so far found that we have
got just one of the words correct. Apparently there is nothing strange about
this sentence I heard on the news this morning ‘Leaving ‘loved ones’ locked in
their rooms for days seeing no-one, not even staff’. All this ‘care’ to protect
us from a virus perhaps? Please can I just have ready access to a couple of
small blue pills so I can peacefully exit this life at a time of my chosing
without having to prove that I am in unbearable pain in order to ‘qualify’…they
don’t even have to be blue really. I saw an ad on the tele the other night
telling me I could ‘save’ $6000 on a new kitchen ‘stove’ - they are now called
‘ranges’ because you can charge several thousand more dollars for the extra
letter. I think $500 is quite enough for a simple device to cook your dinner on
– there are plenty of perfectly good ones for free at the scrap metal dealers
or the tip anyway. Instead of spending all that money on a stove I think
spending just a small amount on a kitchen window seat so there is somewhere
warm and comfy within the centre of the family for the grandparents to sit and
enjoy their declining years would be much better really. When I was a small
child an old man (Mr Shields) lived in a small tin hut (a garden shed really)
in the paddock next to us for years. My mother used to tell me not to ‘bother
Mr Shields’ who curiously never seemed to mind being ‘bothered’ by a small
curious venturesome boy – so I thankfully ignored her. We enjoyed many happy
times together yarning and having mugs of billy tea on a log beneath the gum
trees next to his small creek. When we were in
10/08/2020: ‘Auction of the Souls’. Was a terrifying film about the (Turkish)
Armenian genocide - in case you need to be reminded what will be you fate too
under a future Islamic caliphate. Extermination is the sole purpose after all
of all the Islamic immigration the West has been having: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TT_JTcvV0OY
& http://www.genocide-museum.am/eng/online_exhibition_6.php This is a later interview with the heroine of
the film, Aurora Mardiganian, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTlqnStssEA
10/08/2020: Are Fake News Polls Hiding a Potential Trump Landslide? I
certainly hope so. Convincingly argued and evidenced anyway: https://richardsonpost.com/brian-c-joondeph/17917/fake-polls-trump-landslide/
10/08/2020: A
lot to take in I know but please read on (and open the links): Terry McCrann on
hydroxychloroquine: ‘After the unrelenting tidal waves of Trump Derangement Syndrome-driven
media and medical expertism attacking the drug, the Swiss which had been using
it widely in late May banned its use. I have no information on whether they
defined it as a “poison”. What happened? What’s called the “Case Fatality Ratio Index (CFRI)” for
the virus rocketed — and I mean, tripled. So, just 13 days later, the Swiss
revoked the ban. What happened then? The CFRI collapsed back to its prior
HCQ-using levels. Bluntly, fewer — many fewer — people died. Apparently, the
drug that’s a poison down under worked to save lives in
09/08/2020: New insights into photosynthesis are helping explain where all the CO2
went: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2020/08/from-viv-forbes-how-to-sterilise-the-great-barrier-reef.html
09/08/2020: The marine life food chain depends on filter feeders; nutrients are
enormously important...Wonderful lateral thinking from Viv Forbes: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2020/08/from-viv-forbes-how-to-sterilise-the-great-barrier-reef.html
09/08/2020: American comedian George Carlin, ‘Political correctness is fascism
pretending to be manners’ – as we bid an (un)fond farewell to free speech: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/free-speech/2020/08/an-age-of-wretched-and-rotten-rhetoric/
08/08/2020: In the name of God Dan, go! If only Scott could take over
08/08/2020: Expunging Discriminatory Nomenclature in Ornithology. When do we want
it? Now: https://rosebyanyothernameblog.wordpress.com/2020/08/05/the-name-that-cant-be-spoken/
08/08/2020: Countries which have been using hydroxychloroquine to fight the virus
have reduced their death toll by 80%. Well done banning it Dan: http://joannenova.com.au/2020/08/countries-that-use-hydroxychloroquine-may-have-80-lower-covid-death-rates/
& https://www.archyde.com/efficacy-of-hydroxychloroquine-confirmed-on-3451-italian-patients-30-reduction-in-mortality/?fbclid=IwAR0J5J8kz6mTtxUIrKn1tWfuZizIO6RUu_ncA_71ntlSj5vP1KqtbaoQsn0
07/08/2020: A Poignant 76th Anniversary - The
07/08/2020:
Charming people: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/truecrimeaustralia/ominous-signal-as-isis-urges-fresh-attacks-on-australia/news-story/0942e5f46649bf704fff10d7001b82ab
07/08/2020: Some interesting reflections about the working class, a vanishing
species alas; having worked with my hands most of my life without
succumbing to addiction or criminality I find it a bit outré though: https://quillette.com/2020/08/02/my-life-pouring-concrete/
06/08/2020: DIY 33 Gram Roll Up SS Hobo Stove: I am over carrying heavy stoves
– and fuel. This one will do me. I will produce a version in titanium which
will weigh about half what this one does in stainless steel, so under 20 grams!
And no fuel to carry. Good enough? https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2020/08/06/diy-33-gram-roll-up-ss-hobo-stove/
06/08/2020: I suspect this is right: This is the issue that will see Trump
re-elected overwhelmingly, ‘The first thing Americans want from their government
is safety, defense of their property and lives. By a 20% margin black Americans
support the police.’ https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/08/portland-what-does-it-mean-david-horowitz/
06/08/2020: As usual, so well stated Anthony Dillon, ‘This shared reluctance
has allowed the problems that have been facing Aboriginal children for decades
to fester. But these children are Australian children, therefore all of us,
both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal, are entitled to an opinion. Aboriginal
affairs is everyone’s business. All Australians are entitled to say “these are our children, and it is our
moral duty to save them”. Viewing Aboriginal people as a group separate from
other Australians, as we have been tirelessly encouraged to do, has only ever
failed. It may generate incomes, status, university careers and guest spots for
the gatekeepers on ABC talk shows, but it is quite literally killing those who
most need help.’ Please read the full article. We all need to own this issue: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/bennelong-papers/2020/08/a-moral-duty-in-black-and-white/
06/08/2020: After such an ‘unusual’ year I am hoping we can retire the word
‘unprecedented’ which I have always found rather pretentious. Now I find it
impossibly repetitive and jarring. I am hoping to not hear it again for a long
time.
05/08/2020: They keep ‘discovering’ the world’s tallest trees - and ignoring
the even taller ones which used to exist in Victoria: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/04/worlds-tallest-tropical-tree-discovered-climbed-borneo/?cmpid=org=ngp::mc=crm-email::src=ngp::cmp=editorial::add=Compass_20200801&rid=401F76E6763B0B094694A8EC247EC256 & https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2015/01/20/our-largest-trees/
05/08/2020: Time to remember Martin Luther King – how morally and
intellectually different (and better) he was than the present day cohort of
‘black rights’ advocates: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/bennelong-papers/2020/08/the-scorned-wisdom-of-martin-luther-king/
05/08/2020: Covid Cure: Maybe you didn’t fancy taking sheep drench (as I
recommended back in January) but now the Prof Thomas Borody who cured ulcers
recommends it too. I suggest you get yours today before Dan bans it too: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/coronavirus/how-a-2-head-lice-treatment-could-treat-covid19-patients/news-story/cb6681303329fdb27f390eaa3179fe28
(Paywalled - try Google) NB you need Zinc and an antibiotic too. PS: We can’t
keep on living like this. We have to try out the obvious cures on a larger
scale instead of banning them. This is concerning this morning too: https://catallaxyfiles.com/2020/08/05/seriously/
04/08/2020: Virtually no danger to people from low-level radiation. This
should be a big boost to the nuclear power industry which ought to be seen as
the solution to cheap clean energy: http://www.thegwpf.com/another-nail-in-the-lnt-coffin/
04/08/2020: Well, they are criminals. The knowingly infected couple who
recently traveled to Orbost and infected lots of people are criminals. If
someone dies surely the act constitutes manslaughter, and is attempted
manslaughter anyway. (It is certainly ‘conduct endangering life’ under section
22 of the Crimes Act 1958 (Vic). This crime carries a maximum 10-year jail
term.) Charge them with that. Gaol them without parole. Clearly they can’t be
trusted – until the crisis is over. It will be a salutary lesson for others.
Hanging had two positive outcomes: removing the scum from the community (and
their genes) permanently and ‘pour encourageur les autres’ as the saying goes.
And yes, I never thought it should be abolished as I have said many times. I
think Dan Andrews should be hanged for example. Over a hundred people dead
because of his negligence already (and an economy destroyed). How bad do you
have to be before you pay the ultimate price? Similarly Rudd and Gillard
murdered over 2,000 boat people who are on the bottom of the
04/08/2020: Look at it this way: One of these states is not like the others, one
of these state leaders just doesn't belong.
03/08/2020: Dan’s Lockdown is such a fraud: It is just a continuation of his
‘rewarding failure’ policy which has done so much to get us to where we are
now. All along he has refused/failed to punish those who do the wrong thing (eg
refuse testing in hotel quarantine –remember that? Or break quarantine –
remember that? Or insist on protesting in the streets – remember that? A third
of those infected are still not at home when phoned or called upon – and
nothing is done to punish them! Remember that? It is just so much easier now to
punish those who do the right thing. And now I may not (for example) drive
across Gippsland (where I live) when I would neither stop nor see anyone - to
spend a few days hiking or hunting completely by myself! As if that measure
would do any good to circumvent this virus! I doubt his hugely expensive and
disruptive lockdown will do any good either unless it is accompanied by a
strong desire to punish the evildoers. His own side! Yeah, sure! As a reminder
here is my post from ‘08/07/2020: This is all the fault of incompetent
commie clown Andrews. Needless to say I said you should never vote for
him/them. Still though all the people who did the right thing are in lock-down
those faux ‘Australians’ who were paid to return by us (when they were told to
return in March), and all those who refused to be tested and all the commies
who broke restrictions so they could have racist protests are to blame – and
Andrews abetted all of them. He still refuses to compulsorily test just as he
will fail to keep the same type of people locked down, so the virus will be
impossible to control.
03/08/2020: ‘Twitter, Facebook and YouTube banned a video of doctors promoting
hydroxychloroquine, a drug that some studies and experts say can stop
people dying of the coronavirus’. So not just Dan Andrews then. A whole cohort
of Lefties wants you to die of the virus when you would not die from the ‘cure’
even if it did not work (though there is very good evidence that it does -
which you may not now see!) Shall we just add that death toll to the tally of
two hundred million or so killed by
these people (100 million from malaria as a result of the unnecessary,
concocted - and now overturned ban on DDT alone). 100 million from their
murderous regimes. All these people are indescribably evil: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/blogs/andrew-bolt/ban-on-hydroxchloroquine-video-is-lethally-dangerous/news-story/f9dea977b525faeb3708e1b3e241e949
03/08/2020: Some young people are crazy: in the middle of this pandemic, after
ten o’clock last night a young man had climbed over our locked front gate
ignoring the ‘Beware of the Dog’ sign, walked the fifty yards in the dark up our
driveway then tapped on the window pane right next to me at my desk where I was
working on my most recent post (A Moondarra Maelstrom) looking for a lost
puppy! The night before someone had broken into a neighbouring property, stolen
a car and done ‘wheelies’ all up and down the road! As a consequence of that I
had mentioned to Della (and then to the young man) the desirability of having a
loaded gun leaning up against the table at all times so one could fire a shot
or two ‘over their bows’ so to speak just to get their attention! This young
fellow was lucky I had not done so already as he gave me a very big shock I can
tell you! I suspect it is not legal to use a firearm for this purpose anyway,
so I had not. Our dogs did not bark as they and Della had gone to bed. Some
help they are when you need them. No-one has climbed over our locked front gate
since I installed it over ten years ago, and no-one has ever walked in to our
house in the dark and knocked on the door in thirty years! I am not ready for a
repetition of this experience I can tell you. We have not had a very restful
night’s sleep. There will be an electric wire on the top of the gate next time
he passes. PS: If he had read the Facebook message correctly about someone
having found his lost puppy in our road he would have seen their contact
details and not gone door to door in the dark frightening the life out of
people. I mean climbing over a locked gate is breaking and entering, a serious
enough crime. Multiple child-raising failures there in him I feel.
02/08/2020: A
Moondarra Maelstrom: We took a break from building the fox-proof fence this
afternoon to have a stroll on the Wirilda Track which snakes along the
beautiful little Tyers River North of Morwell. For many years it has been the
02/08/2020: Duh! Hedonism Leads to Happiness – please send wine: https://www.media.uzh.ch/en/Press-Releases/2020/Hedonism.html
02/08/2020:
These quite mad ‘dark emus’ are wholly ignorant of farming. For example,
they think this, ‘The colonists ignored
Aboriginal methods and brought their own, which were poorly suited to the
landscape…We can only assume it was a combination of ignorance and cultural
blindness, because it is clear that the land was well managed prior to
colonists, and degraded in such a short period of time after their arrival.’
Apparently an ‘agricultural policy’ which turned Australia from a fertile
paradise into a notorious desert only able to (barely and meanly) support c
300,000 people is preferable to our agriculture which sustains over 100 million
people (world-wide) with a very fine diet indeed – and yet allows for a richer
wilderness than anything the aborigines left behind. What utter poppycock these
people spout (and supported by the public trough): https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/bennelong-papers/2020/07/bruce-pascoes-tribe-dines-on-young-minds/
02/08/2020: Our State Government is more than shambolic. There ought to be a
mechanism for dismissing them and appointing a caretaker government until such
times as elections can be held in such an emergency as this: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/opinion/rita-panahi/rita-panahiabsurd-lockdown-rules-wont-save-us-from-incompetence/news-story/c5892ee19690a6bf9cceeafa1abfee51
01/08/2020: Della: Swallows: Yesterday Steve saw some of our swallows return
for the season. Sadly, one small member of the flock made it bravely across the
world to our verandah home and lay down to die of exhaustion. It was small,
very young and so light - no doubt not quite old and strong enough for the
journey. I gently buried it next to one of my roses, to no doubt feed a host of
insects that will in turn feed her family flock.
And so my mind turned to A.D.Hope's "The Death of the Bird"... and to
that morning's news of the death of one of
our daughter's childhood friends, and then to other recent deaths that have
touched us, and so to all the suffering of those dealing with death during this
pandemic.
"The Death of the Bird" has some
very poignant lines: Not comforting, no sugar-coating, just some raw insight
into the way things are.
It was not happy contemplation, but
necessary sorting of my thoughts.
Hopefully some time in the paddock fencing
with Steve today will lift my small bout of melancholy.
I recommend the poem, especially the 2nd
half.
The Death of the Bird
For every bird there is this last migration:
Once more the cooling year kindles her heart;
With a warm passage to the summer station
Love pricks the course in lights across the chart.
Year after year a speck on the map, divided
By a whole hemisphere, summons her to come;
Season after season, sure and safely guided,
Going away she is also coming home.
And being home, memory becomes a passion
With which she feeds her brood and straws her nest,
Aware of ghosts that haunt the heart’s possession
And exiled love mourning within the breast.
The sands are green with a mirage of valleys;
The palm-tree casts a shadow not its own;
Down the long architrave of temple or palace
Blows a cool air from moorland scarps of stone.
And day by day the whisper of love grows stronger;
That delicate voice, more urgent with despair,
Custom and fear constraining her no longer,
Drives her at last on the waste leagues of air.
A vanishing speck in those inane dominions,
Single and frail, uncertain of her place,
Alone in the bright host of her companions,
Lost in the blue unfriendliness of space,
She feels it close now, the appointed season:
The invisible thread is broken as she flies;
Suddenly, without warning, without reason,
The guiding spark of instinct winks and dies.
Try as she will, the trackless world delivers
No way, the wilderness of light no sign,
The immense and complex map of hills and rivers
Mocks her small wisdom with its vast design.
And darkness rises from the eastern valleys,
And the winds buffet her with their hungry breath,
And the great earth, with neither grief nor malice,
Receives the tiny burden of her death.
01/08/2020: How long do butterflies and moths live? Longer than I thought
anyway: https://www.butterfliesandmoths.org/faq/how-long-do-butterflies-and-moths-live
01/08/2020: A
Phone in Your Fob: If you work outdoors doing physical work as I have done
most of my life you will realise that most smart phones are quite unsuitable.
It is just about impossible to carry them in such a way that they will not
break. I used to carry my small (4″) Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini in a padded
pouch suspended from my belt but I still broke screens/phones.
The fob pocket was invented just for the purpose of
protecting a pocket watch in these circumstances – so you need a phone which
will fit in your fob. Fortunately there are a few such.
This is my Atom in a pair of very worn farm jeans. As
you can see from the attached mud in the lanyard hole it has done some pretty
hard work around the farm helping build fences , deliver lambs, rebuild
vehicles & etc. There is a wonderful
new model. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2020/07/31/a-phone-in-your-fob/
01/08/2020: The
Donald: He really is a nice man – and alert, intelligent sensitive,
good-humoured…Pretty much everything Biden is not. No wonder Biden won’t debate
him, and the ‘fake news’ spends so much effort trying to demonise him. This is
a marvelous interview. It will change your mind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1260&v=vRWr9dI8-Jw&feature=emb_title
01/08/2020:
Atishoo Akbar: Yes, I think this is shameful too (especially after the
outbreak in
31/07/2020: Latest from the Gulag: Hydroxychloroquine: We have a safe harmless
‘cure’ which has been used by hundreds of millions of people for over 70 years
yet just when we need it, Dan bans it, but forces old people to die in
misery. He has already killed nearly a hundred Victorians. He should be
arraigned for mass murder: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2020/07/anyone-know-why-this-order-is-in-place.html
PS: You have to take it in association with zinc though: its effect is in
transporting zinc within the cell to kill viruses. This is why it appeared
ineffective in some trials. the antibiotic is because so many people succumb to
secondary (lung) infections. Ivomec also seems to have proven effective
anti-viral properties which improve your chances of survival. as a prophylactic
you need to keep up your Vitamin D3 and Zinc levels. these are your best chance
of being able to throw off (lung) infections you encounter.
31/07/2020: The Don going in to bat for free speech; the power of these tech
companies certainly needs to be constrained: http://joannenova.com.au/2020/07/censorship-is-weapon-1-trump-orders-online-tech-giants-to-stop/
31/07/2020: Government. You wanted it. I have long lamented that I did not but…we
have three levels of Government in Australia (at least two too many); we have
over a million public servants, too many of them paid over $100K per year -
more than twice what I have ever earned by hard work. We also have literally
millions at the moment who are being paid (handsomely) not to work, while Della
and I struggle to get our new farm fence finished against this year’s lambing
season alone – but are now supposed to wear masks while we do if we are on the
outside of the fence. The country also has 10,619 ‘recovered’ Covid 19 cases
(as of this morning). Way back in February I argued that we needed to
‘manpower’ these people into treating people in the gravest danger of the
virus. Nonetheless hundreds of elderly people have been allowed to suffer
without any care at all (and many to die) in nursing homes in
30/07/2020: ‘Green steel’ at four times the price. Just like other idiotic
green policies, this one should also be righteously rejected – when will they
declare an ‘open season’ on these harmful idiots? https://catallaxyfiles.com/2020/07/28/david-bidstrup-guest-post-green-steel/
30/07/2020: So, an ‘asylum seeker’ burned down
30/07/2020: David
Dungay richly deserved to be executed, long before he died from his diabetes: ‘Dungay
already had a lengthy criminal record, including robberies with violence and a
weapon, before he was jailed for the attempted rape of his girlfriend, just 16.
He’d tried to sodomise her, then beat her with a broomstick, chased her with a
brick and punched her in the head. Dungay was also jailed over an armed
robbery. He and three mates broke into a house, where they found a 61-year-old
man, his sick wife and his 91-year-old mother in law. They bashed and stabbed
the man so badly that he needed 27 stitches…’ Maybe you would like to invite
folks like this into your home or become friends with them? https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/opinion/andrew-bolt/andrew-bolt-black-lives-matter-protesters-ignore-truth-on-david-dungays-death/news-story/7778af710a21e96dbcf8be1d9a3348ca
29/07/2020: Frydenberg is perfectly right to champion Thatcher and Reagan’s
economics. The crazy Keynesian spending we are seeing in the idiotic
response to this virus is destroying the capitalist world’s economies (as
29/07/2020: If you believe in free speech find a few bucks to help Peter Ridd’s
fight in the High Court, and write a letter to the government urging they
do something to constrain JCU and the like institutions who think they can commit
intellectual fraud with impunity: http://joannenova.com.au/2020/07/peter-ridd-will-take-it-to-the-high-court/
29/07/2020: BLM are completely unwilling to ‘own’ the enormous problem of black violence and crime. Yes, there is a
reason why ‘aborigines’ are ‘over-represented’ in custody and other anti-social
metrics: their behaviour is exponentially worse than the rest of the
population’s (eg ‘the appalling rates of abuse that see Indigenous women 35
times more likely to be hospitalised due to family violence than other
Australian women’). This is their problem, their fault. No-one else’s. The rest
of
28/07/2020: Some interesting examples of doing without the police (including
28/07/2020: A
Brief History of Slavery: https://www.spectator.com.au/2020/07/slaves-come-in-all-colours/
28/07/2020: Imagine
contemplating cancelling Aristotle because of one view he expressed about
slavery (even though he had been a slave himself!) Gone would be the entire
underpinning of logic, philosophy, science and so much more: https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/why-are-we-even-contemplating-canceling-aristotle/
27/07/2020: Just
take a look at this lightning: https://www.drroyspencer.com/2020/07/lightning-strike-video-close-up/ BTW Did you realize that the longest
lightning bolt yet seen was over 700 miles?
27/07/2020: In
the real world (think advanced countries like
27/07/2020: Watching
the Three Gorges Dam Burst and Flood
26/07/2020: Paleology
is full of surprises: There is increasing evidence of a human presence in the
26/07/2020: Is
this the world’s most fanciful ‘renewable energy’ project? https://catallaxyfiles.com/2020/07/23/david-bidstrup-guest-post-singapore-sting/
26/07/2020: We
already have the cure (Zelenko’s) I first referenced back in February (and
Ivomectin, likewise). We can save millions of lives (and whole economies). All
this is cheap and effective if implemented early as with any good medical
practice/solution. Could we please stop playing games and just use common
sense: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2020/07/letter-to-president-trump-from-us-doctor-behind-hydroxychloroquine-study-urges-widespread-adoption-o.html
25/07/2020: Get
on with it and fine the pants of these people Andrews, you tosser: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/national/coronavirus-australia-conspiracy-theorist-slammed-over-dumb-stunt/news-story/cbed06cc67db8a8bff8e30b5c46970fc
25/07/2020:
25/07/2020: The
hottest time in the Christian era were during the
25/07/2020: The
Anti Free Speech Movement is Just Horrifying. I simply have to oppose it
with every fibre of my being. I know this will and does involve me in many
nasty attacks, but so be it. The right and duty to say what you think is just
too important to lose because of bullies. I will continue to call a spade a
bloody shovel: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/07/23/the-media-is-now-opinion-checking/
24/07/2020:
Unihertz Jelly 2: I have had their Atom phone which I am delighted with for
a couple of years now. It is just great to have a phone in your fob pocket.
This new one has a slightly bigger screen which will be appreciated, more ROM,
is still dual SIM but now expandable with a microSD card. To me this is the
ultimate phone! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jellyphone/jelly-2-worlds-smallest-android-10-4g-smartphone?ref=thanks-share&fbclid=IwAR0nS9JJXF6xhPBAIXZeVjAQNKugXUbtQIPUc0X7DCs_9SAlfbsiFsFHxYs
24/07/2020: The
Lees/Falconio ‘Crime’ #3: Having watched the
recent doco (‘Murder in the Outback’ and read several accounts of the
‘incident’ I am not convinced that NTPol established that a crime had been
committed as Joanne Lees described. So far as I can see we have almost
exclusively her unsupported word about its existence but contradicted by
certain salient irrefutable facts. The veracity of her ‘word’ should also be
measured against the fact that she did indeed lie under oath at the trial about
details concerning her affair with Nick Ridley. What are the other
contradictory facts?
First, there were no footprints other than
Lees at the crime scene. No man’s and no dog’s. This was in dry soft country
which takes a print well and was examined by four blacktrackers the next day
who found none. Just taken alone, this is impossible.
Second is the blood. There was just not
enough blood consistent with someone having been shot and left to bleed out on
the tarmac whilst the assault apparently took place. I have to put sick sheep
down from time to time, and of course I have shot many deer. The amount of
blood produced is normally what you would expect if you kicked over a 4 litre
red paint can. That is a pool half a square metre or so and half a centimeter
deep!. The small amount of blood on the road is more consistent with a small
cut or nose bleed – or with a deliberately self-inflicted wound intended to
leave a small amount of blood for the purpose of establishing the
‘verisimilitude’ of a concocted story. The telling thing about the blood
residue is that no firearms propellant residue is associated with it. In the
case of a gunshot at close proximity this is just impossible. When a gun is
fired distinctive chemical traces are propelled outwards at over 1,000 feet per
second. There is no way to conceal this.
Third, the absence of the assailant’s
DNA at the crime scene (and on the Kombi) is extraordinary. If someone
assaulted and man-handled her as Lees described his DNA would have been all
over her (everywhere he touched her, and on everything he handled) – not the
single tiny speck which might easily have been acquired accidentally from some
object such as a chair (eg at the Red Rooster café) which both had visited
separately hours before.
Lastly her (shifting) descriptions of
his vehicle, the dog and the offender. The vehicle initially had a space
between the seats through which she was thrust into the back of the vehicle.
This is very unusual, but I have seen it. Later she changed that description
meaning that she was taken around to the back of the vehicle where she failed
to see Falconio’s body. Really? The dog was definitely brown and white.
Murdoch’s dog was black and white. Initially the offender was (much) younger
with a different build, hair colour, facial hair and most compellingly well
under 6’.
The truly striking thing about Murdoch
(apart from his very distinctive build) which no-one could fail to notice
(particularly if you were being assaulted by him) is that he is barely under
7’!
My guess is that she and Falconio
‘cooked up’ the whole story together (for the purposes of insurance
fraud/publicity money – who knows? She has made around a million out of it, and
who knows how much insurance money went to Falconio in some foreign country?
They also clearly had an accomplice/s
to spirit Falconio away. Either the person Lees was seen talking to at a
roadhouse earlier (which she denied – another lie) or the folk in the red car.
There were three men altogether in the red car. If one assumes one was Falconio
then the others were there to drive the red car and the ute which Falconio was
later seen driving by two reliable witnesses in Bourke. So there are four
people out there who know what happened, though Murdoch is not one of them. I
would guess that the strange behaviour the truck driver noticed concerning the
red car’s lights were that they were being used to light Falconio’s way back
from planting the Kombi in the bush – also why only his and Lees’ DNA were on
it. As soon as the truck driver arrived all jumped in the red car and sped off
even though he spoke to them. Strange and suspicious behavior, and clearly
somehow involved in the ‘incident’.
NTPol’s involvement in ‘creating’ the
crime don’t put them above suspicion either. The fact that an unassisted police
constable ‘visited’ the scene weeks later and managed to ‘find’ objects which
had been ‘missed’ by the forensic team and four blacktrackers beggars belief.
Once they had a match to the only (stranger) DNA present (the tiny speck on the
back of her shirt) from Murdoch’s brother (whose DNA was on file, police set
about to entrap him – and ‘colluded’ with a known criminal and liar to do so.
They also clearly contaminated and mishandled key ‘evidence’ such as the
manacles, and botched the photo ID process. The whole case hardly covers police
in glory.
In any case Murdoch has already served
more than a life sentence (now 16 years) for a crime which it seems to me never
actually occurred. This is more than enough whatever happened. He should be
released immediately.
24/07/2020: Apparently there are
‘millions’ of casualties in
24/07/2020:
Black Lives Matter must go ahead because…‘Chronic diabetic Dungay
registered four consecutive dangerously high blood-sugar counts on the day of
his death and had to be restrained from eating the biscuits lest they kill him.
He wasn’t executed for hogging the Iced Vo-Vos. Forcibly sedated for his own
good, Dungay died of cardiac arrhythmia during the commotion. A tragic event
that could have been avoided had the 26 year-old not been convicted and
imprisoned for assault occasioning actual bodily harm, aggravated attempted
rape and robbery in company (home invasion). Deputy State Coroner, Derek Lee,
refused to accept submissions recommending manslaughter charges against the
five officers involved. Dungay’s death is being used to prosecute a war against
Australian society.’ https://catallaxyfiles.com/2020/07/23/anarchy/
23/07/2020:
Andrews will force you to wear a mask when you are out and about by yourself
nowhere near anyone else but he will not bring the full force of the law
against those who knowingly infect others. The man is a bastard!
23/07/2020:
Frozen in time – an interesting mystery solved: http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/59146
23/07/2020: A
horrible tragedy for free speech: I believe the government should act first
against JCU then second to ensure what ought to be a common law right let along
an academic right. Too many ‘rights’ in this post, but what the decision is
cementing is the ‘right’ to a University enforcing falsehood – which is just
what it has done. Truth certainly should win out in the end. The law ought
never be used to suppress it.: http://joannenova.com.au/2020/07/ridd-appeal-jcu-spent-a-fortune-to-win-the-case-and-trash-its-own-reputation/
22/07/2020:
22/07/2020: The Terrible
Things People Do to Each Other - All Lives matter: The Murders of Channon
Christian and Christopher Newsom: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murders_of_Channon_Christian_and_Christopher_Newsom
22/07/2020: Has
the Labor Party (at last) seen the light about ‘climate change’ ie that it is
rubbish: https://catallaxyfiles.com/2020/07/20/another-labor-split-on-climate-and-energy/
21/07/2020:
Forced Organ Harvesting in
21/07/2020:
Falconio: Too many holes in Lees’ story and the case against Murdoch. He
has already served 16 years for a ‘crime’ which might never have occurred. It
is long enough. He should be released. The key thing to me is that four
blacktrackers could find no evidence that any other person (or dog) had been
present at the crime scene (apart from Lees). I can assure you (after a
lifetime of hunting – 65+ years), that if there had been a dog present I would
have found its tracks – and so would an aboriginal tracker, who would be an
even better hunter than I am. Therefore the only ‘evidence’ that a crime had
occurred was Lees’ testimony – and she lied on oath during the trial about her
affair with Nick Riley. Normally such perjury would be enough to dismiss all
her uncorroborated testimony: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/truecrimeaustralia/crimeinfocus/peter-falconio-murder-questions-that-remain-a-mystery/news-story/394c54fd3a5de5ec4d8b0f0e442a4cd2
21/07/2020:
Covid 19, the ‘Magic Bullet’ – Interferon is loking very good (80% efficacy) in
this trial – maybe add it to your store of Ivermectin and
Hydroxychloroquine, etc if you could get your hands on it: http://joannenova.com.au/2020/07/interferon-beta-reduced-risk-of-severe-covid-by-80/
21/07/2020: DIY
Roll Up Hobo Stove or Windscreen: I made this last night out of some
aluminium flashing. The aluminium will most likely not stand up to the intense
heat of a fire for long, but as a prototype/proof of concept I am happy with
it. Some .5mm (soft) stainless steel foil has arrived this morning in the mail
so I will be able to try that soon instead.
I may even need a harder stainless steel or even
titanium. It took me less than an hour to make on (a piece of plywood so as not
to damage) the kitchen table after dinner.
I have made this (exactly) just wider than my 1100 ml
pot so that as little heat as possible escapes and so that I can make a carbon
fibre cosy to conserve heat when I am burning alcohol in it (such as with
one of Tinny’s
Gnomes). Preliminary results show a saving of at least a third in
fuel usage! I have ordered some fire-resistant thread (aramid) to sew the cosy
up with.
Because it is a cylinder it will press up against the
inside of the pot (it fits completely inside) so that it takes up next to no
space. It doubles as a wood stove and windscreen. This prototype weighs exactly
40 grams. I can see that the .5mm stainless steel one will weigh considerable
less, probably less than an ounce (~30 grams)!
It would be easy to include a further piece of the same
material in the pot to protect the ground and create a dry fire-lighting floor
as the height of the is stove is greater than its diameter: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2020/07/20/diy-roll-up-hobo-stove-or-windscreen/
20/07/2020:
Finnsheep: If you have read this blog regularly you will realise that I
have been a farmer for many years. For the last few decades a sheep farmer. And
more specifically Finnsheep, but not just any Finnsheep. These sheep are the
result of forty years of very careful, very practical sheep breeding. I believe
they are the best Finnsheep, and possibly the best sheep anywhere in the world:
https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2020/07/18/finnsheep/
Our aim has been to produce a sheep which will
successfully raise 3-4 good lambs every lambing on pasture alone and in every
kind of weather – and we have succeeded! At the same time we selected the sheep
to produce 4 kilograms or more of soft long fine wool per shearing. This has
never been done before. You can find out (much) more about our sheep on my main
sheep page here: finnsheep.com
20/07/2020:
Nearly 7%! It is a nasty virus. We should try to eliminate it if we can. Donald
Trump is simply wrong about its ‘harmlessness’. The stats do not bear this out.
They have remained much the same throughout (despite ‘better’ treatment).
20/07/2020: Wonnangatta
Murders #15: An interesting item on the ABC - Russell's reported earlier
'altercation' a year earlier with the 'Button Man' is a revelation - as is the
statement that he had also camped at the button man’s camp on the trip previous
to their disappearance): https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2020-07-19/how-four-people-disappeared-without-trace-in-victorian-mountains/12455124?nw=0&pfmredir=sm&fbclid=IwAR0xXWGgMKtgUixrO8VQoDgWnfiay7Hww35o-i12Dz_pk6gq-3KoAzmhLik
19/07/2020: We
have the planes sitting idle. We have the airline staff. Now is the time to rid
ourselves of the people who really don’t want to be Ausralians. How long
would it really take?
19/07/2020:
Maybe you wonder why the police sometimes have to shoot ‘suspects’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=52&v=aXpYqjKd8cE&feature=emb_title
19/07/2020: At
least Princess Anne is sane – pity she wasn’t the oldest child: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2020/07/princess-anne-sticks-it-up-crazy-charles-over-his-climate-change-greenie-madness.html
18/07/2020: The
climate modelers’ ultimate ‘get out of gaol free’ card’. Whatever happens
(including global cooling) we can’t be wrong. Oh dear: http://joannenova.com.au/2020/07/climate-modelers-can-be-wrong-for-the-next-thirty-years-and-still-be-right/
18/07/2020: When
you think of Xi remember this about Chairman Mao: He said ‘in 1957 upon the
50th anniversary of the Russian Revolution that a nuclear war could
be won by the Communist Bloc, even if it led to the deaths of half the
population of the world: ‘Half
dies, half lives — but imperialism would be razed to the ground and the
whole world would become socialist’’. This is Macbeth on steroids! As with
the appalling death cult, Islam communism has always and ever will be about
death, not life. The more dead the more ‘purity’ has been produced! The only
question is whether Xi’s regime implodes before it visits some alarming
calamity on the world. At the moment he does not seem particularly troubled
that his policies are actually hurting
18/07/2020:
Black Lives matter? Kids in alleged rape of boy, 5, on Cape York (from
today’s ‘Australian’) ‘A five-year-old boy was allegedly gang-raped on a beach
by other children from a remote Indigenous community on Cape York this month…A
study, headed by then Griffith University professor Stephen Smallbone, into sexual abuse in several Indigenous
communities in north Queensland was so shocking it was kept secret for more
than three years.The Smallbone report, released in 2016, found that sexual
offences in Aurukun — just south of Napranum and with many familial and
traditional links — were reported at a rate 6.6 times higher than the norm in
the state between 2001 and 2012. The mean age of victims was 14…The study also
reported that the incidence of sexually transmitted disease — mainly syphilis —
was a staggering 56 times the state
average, including the infection of 29 children younger than 10. Police
could decide against formal charges and go instead for the restorative justice
process if they assessed it would be difficult to prove an offence, for
instance due to the age of those involved. The
17/07/2020:
Those early men were amazingly clever, as this delicate hand axe illustrates.
The fact that they managed to cross the Wallace Line (in Indonesia) nearly a
million years ago shows that they could build sea-going ships back then, which
certainly implies many complex intellectual achievements including language
(for complex co-operation) and no doubt story-telling and history. I think it
is only a matter of time before their remains are also found in
17/07/2020: This
is the only way forward if you want a ‘carbon-free’ future: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/07/15/new-ontario-power-record-895-days-reliable-uninterrupted-24x7-zero-carbon-power/
17/07/2020: According
to the Smithsonian (no less) this is what’s wrong about ‘being white’! I
can’t find a single thing wrong myself. This is the poster-child par excellence
of the inmates being in charge of the asylum:
16/07/2020: New
population forecasts are more hopeful than those when I was growing up which
saw population rise as inexorable and the world’s population out-massing the
earth in the next few centuries. Clearly that couldn’t happen. None of the
demographers foresaw the effect of capitalism and democracy as suppressors of
population growth though. The stabilization and gradual decline of the
population will be good news for wilderness and wildlife which are already
benefiting from this phenomenon in the richer countries such as Europe,
16/07/2020:
Absolutely. Stan Grant is not a ‘race victim’. In fact I am old enough to
remember when he was a ‘white man’ and had white skin too, not the colour he
has ‘painted’ on now. You can look back though some old photos of him to see
what I mean. Why it was only a handful of years ago that SBS started up this
weird ‘black face’ make-up game. Plenty of other ‘aboriginal’ (and other)
people before Stan were outstanding successes in life (because of their own
internal qualities and good fortune) and plenty more will be again. This
victim/blaming ‘game’ is just wrong and indeed racist twaddle: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/opinion/andrew-bolt/andrew-bolt-why-stan-grant-must-stop-playing-the-victim-card/news-story/d88691890052db6b27cef85c7854e21f
16/07/2020: A
narrow (but crucial) victory for civilisation in
15/07/2020:
Doubts about ‘aboriginal history’: Present day ‘aborigines’ were clearly
not the ‘first Australians’. Note for example a line of deer in the ‘Bradhsaw
Paintings’ or a prehistoric ship with a rudder, or the (recent C20th) existence
of a ‘race’ of pygmies on
15/07/2020: Nic
Cater makes several good points. I said several times way back in Jan-Feb
that we could not afford to spend $100,000 each (or any similar sum of money)
saving my life or similar lives. At the time we already had proven safe
treatments such as Ivermectin and Hydroxylchloroquine etc which would have
saved 90%+ of the lives we have lost since then (but the medical Left who have
been in charge - think the commies in WHO) have (still) refused to use them;
all this without any economic destruction, let alone the shredding of our
liberties! https://www.theaustralian.com.au/commentary/coronavirus-we-are-locking-down-the-economy-and-our-future/news-story/ffa5e56159233413f48f1b560767c55d?fbclid=IwAR0Z-7-qZnNbViBoaAjLAF04R7C4zaeTOZ8zVz-2KhqjJd2bZlftX1q5Ojo
15/07/2020: So
it was Whitlam (the Republican) and not Kerr who cried ‘Save me Mommy’!
Such a bombastic and incompetent man. No wonder he lost the 1975 election in
such a landslide -and the economy did not fully recover until around 1983 from
the destruction he and his team of fools had wrought. https://www.heraldsun.com.au/blogs/andrew-bolt/kerr-letters-expose-gough-whitlam-as-the-republican-sellout/news-story/ba51bac106bb0c51e41a898a219b973e
14/07/2020:
Quote of the day: Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.
— Milton Friedman
14/07/2020: How
Cholesterol Experts Were Wrong about fat: http://joannenova.com.au/2020/07/for-80-years-cholesterol-experts-said-eat-less-fat-but-they-never-had-any-evidence/
14/07/2020:
Covid 19: Bring on the sheep drench: http://joannenova.com.au/2020/07/more-cheap-potential-covid-treatments-ivermectin-saves-50/
13/07/2020:
Quote of the week: ‘A Government Department is the nearest thing to eternal
life we will ever see on earth.’ -
Ronald Reagan
13/07/2020: Were there links between
(financial) crooks in the Vatican
13/07/2020: David Leyonhjelm on the role of
the police force - always interesting reading: https://catallaxyfiles.com/2020/07/11/david-leyonhjelm-guest-post-the-problem-with-the-police/#more-124614
Sir Robert Peel's nine principles of policing were as follows:
- To
prevent crime and disorder, as an alternative to their repression by
military force and severity of legal punishment.
- To
recognise always that the power of the police to fulfill their functions
and duties is dependent on public approval of their existence, actions and
behaviour, and on their ability to secure and maintain public respect.
- To
recognise always that to secure and maintain the respect and approval of the
public means also the securing of the willing co-operation of the public
in the task of securing observance of laws.
- To
recognise always that the extent to which the co-operation of the public
can be secured diminishes proportionately the necessity of the use of
physical force and compulsion for achieving police objectives.
- To
seek and preserve public favour, not by pandering to public opinion, but
by constantly demonstrating absolutely impartial service to law, in
complete independence of policy, and without regard to the justice or
injustice of the substance of individual laws, by ready offering of
individual service and friendship to all members of the public without
regard to their wealth or social standing, by ready exercise of courtesy
and friendly good humour, and by ready offering of individual sacrifice in
protecting and preserving life.
- To
use physical force only when the exercise of persuasion, advice and
warning is found to be insufficient to obtain public co-operation to an
extent necessary to secure observance of law or to restore order, and to
use only the minimum degree of physical force which is necessary on any
particular occasion for achieving a police objective.
- To
maintain at all times a relationship with the public that gives reality to
the historic tradition that the police are the public and that the public
are the police, the police being only members of the public who are paid
to give full-time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen
in the interests of community welfare and existence.
- To
recognise always the need for strict adherence to police-executive
functions, and to refrain from even seeming to usurp the powers of the
judiciary of avenging individuals or the State, and of authoritatively
judging guilt and punishing the guilty.
- To
recognise always that the test of police efficiency is the absence of
crime and disorder, and not the visible evidence of police action in
dealing with them.
12/07/2020: Falconio Again: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/truecrimeaustralia/crimeinfocus/peter-falconio-murder-joanne-lees-stepdad-says-bradley-john-murodch-is-innocent/news-story/126d6d963e3a206f9956e6549689b82e
New 2020 Channel Four four part doco ‘Murder in the Ourback: The Falconio and
Lees Mystery’ about this available here and there, eg Pirate Bay. Murdoch was
convicted on the basis of a single tiny piece of his DNA he almost certainly
left at an Alice Springs Red Rooster Lees visited shortly after he left it and
on the basis of a very blurry photo of someone at least 4’ shorter than him at
a roadside servo. If he had assaulted her as she claimed his DNA would have
been all over her and it just wasn’t. Otherwise there are just so many weird
things about this ‘murder’ including highly reliable sightings of Falconio days
after his supposed death. Lees was clearly lying to police (and it is also
clear they thought so too). She also lied under oath while giving testimony at
Murdoch’s trial (There is proof of this). Her version of the ‘events’ beside
the Stuart Highway
12/07/2020: Should
the ‘Black Hills’ be renamed? Anyway who stole them? Imagine being given a
billion dollars ‘compensation’ for something you stole! https://rosebyanyothernameblog.wordpress.com/2020/07/08/will-whoever-stole-the-black-hills-please-return-them/
12/07/2020: ‘Someone’
blew up
11/07/2020:
11/07/2020: Dan
the Man – no need for an inquiry; this is how it shambled: https://catallaxyfiles.com/2020/07/08/even-if-you-already-understood-daniel-andrews-is-an-incompetent-fool-wait-till-you-read-this/
& https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/how-a-catalogue-of-failures-turned-victoria-into-a-virus-timebomb/news-story/da01b73b37ce3c88eb18c3f8c73bb15d
11/07/2020: Our
BOM as ‘cancel culture’ heroes make strenuous efforts to delete
11/07/2020:
Meanwhile: Temperature Hits 100 Degrees Above Arctic Circle, Just Like 100
Years Ago: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/06/23/climate-change-temperature-hits-100-degrees-above-arctic-circle-just-like-100-years-ago/
But two weeks later it is snowing in
summer in the very same place: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/07/07/remember-when-we-
were-told-the-arctic-is-on-fire-and-we-should-all-be-terrified-its-snowing-there-now/
10/07/2020: In
Praise of Empires – what an important an insightful essay: https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2020/07-08/in-praise-of-empires/
10/07/2020:
Conrad Black is right; the media (class) is determinedly counter-culture, anti-capitalist
– frankly wicked and unhinged. The only hope is that Trump (despite his
flaws) wins a a second term. Else, I feel the western world is doomed: https://www.nysun.com/national/press-now-plumbs-its-own-depths-of-depravity/91183/
10/07/2020: If
we have to have this pandemic it is good that it is becoming less deadly. In
the
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2020/07/compare-and-contrast-us-daily-new-covid-cases-with-daily-deaths.html
This is why: https://reason.com/2020/07/06/as-covid-19-cases-surge-daily-deaths-and-the-case-fatality-rate-continue-to-fall/
and another one: Restrictions on
Hydroxychloroquine Contribute to the COVID-19 Cases Surge: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/07/05/hypothesis-restrictions-on-hydroxychloroquine-contribute-to-the-covid-19-cases-surge/
09/07/2020:
09/07/2020: Meanwhile,
A Beautiful flight over an icy crater on Mars: https://www.sciencealert.com/new-mars-footage-let-s-you-take-a-flight-over-the-korolev-crater-on-mars/amp?fbclid=IwAR23Qtl8YwjV2w3jc5T7x5uzymrfSmCMTd2r84ndLEQIk-8lgqH1ytGZxW0
09/07/2020: The
Three Gorges Dam is now at serious risk. Poor
09/07/2020: The
Tyranny of Cancel Culture: ‘The reaction to Trump’s Mount Rushmore speech
has provided a fascinating insight into contemporary wokeness, into the outlook
of those convinced that they are in possession of all the correct thoughts and
that they must now cleanse and reorder the minds of those who are not… This is
cancel culture’s most grotesque achievement: to chill everyday discussion; to
make examples of prominent wrongthinkers in order to warn the entire
population; to enforce and police parameters of acceptable thought and to make
it clear that anyone who steps outside of them risks, in Trump’s words, being
‘censored, banished, blacklisted, persecuted and punished’. It is real, it is
wrong, and it is destructive. It harms individuals and it shatters liberty. It
induces fear in ordinary people and it stultifies public debate. A healthy
society is built on freedom, openness and the rights of dissent and intellectual
experimentation. Cancel culture undermines all of those things. That’s why it
must be defeated.’ https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/07/06/the-tyranny-of-cancel-culture/
This from Iowahawk: David Burge: ‘Noam Chomsky was a Cambodian Genocide denier
who defended Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge, and today I learned cancel culture
has gotten too wacky even for him.’
08/07/2020: An
American President’s Greatest Speech – no, not the
08/07/2020:
08/07/2020: This
is all the fault of incompetent commie clown Andrews. Needless to say I
said you should never vote for him/them. Still though all the people who did
the right thing are in lock-down those faux ‘Australians’ who were paid to
return by us (when they were told to return in March), and all those who
refused to be tested and all the commies who broke restrictions so they could have
racist protests are to blame – and Andrews abetted all of them. He still
refuses to compulsorily test just as he will fail to keep the same type of
people locked down, so the virus will be impossible to control.
07/07/2020: Why
‘culture’ is important: https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2020/07/a-viral-new-bird-song-in-canada-is-causing-sparrows-to-change-their-tune/
07/07/2020:
Beavers cause global warming – might be time for a new hat then: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/07/01/climate-scientist-anyone-who-wants-to-predict-the-future-of-the-permafrost-should-be-sure-to-keep-the-beaver-in-mind/
07/07/2020:
Quote of the week: ‘The problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem
isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know
what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.’ ― Thomas Sowell
07/07/2020: The
Terror that is
06/07/2020: What
does one do when the virtue-signalling market is flooded? https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2020/07/boris-johnson-s-fianc-e-carrie-symonds-calls-for-end-to-monkey-slavery.html
06/07/2020:
Another climate catastrophist (along with Michael Moore) has recanted. Now
Michael Schellenberger says it was all a mistake. Sorry for all the alarm and
the countless billions of dollars wasted – not to mention the millions of lives
and billions of animals destroyed (eg by their clearing tropical forests to
grow biodiesel) & etc. (And hypocritical Kevin Rudd spends $17 million on a
beach house!) These people: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/06/29/schellenberger-on-behalf-of-environmentalists-i-apologize-for-the-climate-scare/
06/07/2020: This
is what the United Nations thinks of human rights. Just take a look at the
countries voting for the crushing of Hing Kong. The UN is a joke (at best) and
needs to be reformed/abolished – almost certainly the latter. There is already
too much government: https://catallaxyfiles.com/2020/07/06/what-do-you-call-a-vote-of-despots-and-tyrants/
05/07/2020: Racist Fish:
05/07/2020:
Don’t believe in the police force but require private security? The City of
5/07/2020:
Lessons from Mengele: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/06/22/revisiting-mengeles-malignant-race-science
5/07/2020:
Hydroxychloroquine: Improving Survival in Hospitalised patients by 50%: https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/02/health/hydroxychloroquine-coronavirus-detroit-study/index.html
Taken earlier in this combination will produce even better results: This is the
prescription which has saved millions of lives:
1. Hydroxychloroquine 200 mg twice a day for 5 days
2. Azithromycin 500 mg once a day for 5 days
3. Zinc sulfate 220 mg once a day for 5 days
4/07/2020: Will
the Three Gorges dam Burst? This is what ‘losing the mandate of heaven’
looks like in
4/07/2020: The
Tiniest of Knives: Just as a follow-up to my recent utility
knife post I have recently become aware of these two wonderful little
knives, one of which must just about qualify as being the tiniest
of knives at .169 oz (4.8 grams) – less than a credit card, they say in
their ad! The other is a cheaper,
slightly heavier version of the Dragonfly
knife: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2020/07/03/the-tiniest-of-knives/
4/07/2020: The
Coming Great Koala Plague: http://joannenova.com.au/2020/07/koalas-extinct-no-chance-its-just-another-man-made-boom-n-bust-cycle/
4/07/2020:
Cosmic Mysteries – Disappearing Stars: https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2020/06/a-massive-star-has-disappeared-without-a-trace/
4/07/2020:
Independence Day: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men
are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain
unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of
Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men,
deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever
any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of
the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying
its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to
them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence,
indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed
for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that
mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right
themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a
long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object
evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it
is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for
their future security.’
3/07/2020: Ten
people who ought to be permanently out of work – on bread and water,
(instead of being allowed to waste $10 million dollars): https://catallaxyfiles.com/2020/07/02/our-new-national-brand-plagiarism/
3/07/2020: Our
Defence surge is necessary, but it has been too long coming. This vital
area has been botched for too long. Howard made some improvements but they
needed to be built on, not squandered (as Gillard did). Then we had Malcolm
with his ridiculous submarine contract to be delivered long after 2032, 2
operational subs, <50 tanks, etc, etc. Meanwhile the communist dictatorship
in
03/07/2020:
Pentridge and Old
02/07/2020: The
Carry-on Knife Problem Solved: It is such a nuisance arriving at your
destination and not having your favourite knife available for those simple tasks
like peeling an apple, opening a box, cutting a rope etc. It is also awkward to
have to post your knife ahead for pick-up or buy one then throw it away or post
it back - but there is a better way, as they say: the folding utility knife: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2020/07/02/the-carry-on-knife-problem-solved/
02/07/2020:
02/07/2020:
Michael Flynn hits back. We are at war with socialism. The very future of
civilization is at stake: https://www.westernjournal.com/exclusive-gen-flynn-dont-act-2-people-control-98/
02/07/2020: And
in case you thought Covid 19 was not bad enough
01/07/2020: One
of the world’s greatest economists and intellectuals Thomas Sowell turns 90: https://catallaxyfiles.com/2020/06/30/thomas-sowell-turns-ninety/
01/07/2020: Well
said Anthony Dillon: ‘Walk a mile in our shoes before you criticise.’ Maybe
they should try walking a few yards in the shoes of the police just to see what
it’s like…If they really want to help make things better…footage of
black-on-black violence, of child abuse and community dysfunction would be a
catalyst for conversations about the need to address real problems rather than
largely notional ones’. https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/bennelong-papers/2020/06/when-the-facts-fade-to-black/
PS: Anthony
Dillon identifies as a part-Aboriginal Australian who is proud of both his
Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal ancestries. PPS: In all this there is probably
nothing less helpful than the ‘Stolen Generations’ Myth. In fact there was no
stolen generation. People have been unable to name even 10 out of a supposed
100,000 and none had succeeded in proving the truth of their claim before the
law. Meanwhile aboriginal women - and children especially continue to suffer
terribly: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/blogs/andrew-bolt/what-jessie-stephens-never-heard-about-the-stolen-generations/news-story/fcb4e97d695339d2e2c3beb39165f2c5
01/07/2020:
Masks and Vitamin D – nearly as good as a vaccine (Effectiveness: 75% + 40%).
Use them: http://joannenova.com.au/2020/07/cheap-ways-to-starve-a-virus-masks-reduce-spread-by-70-distance-by-80/
01/07/2020: Keep
Skippy.This is nuts: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/rendezview/miranda-devine-nation-brand-are-wrong-to-propose-replacing-the-kangaroo-with-wattle-as-australias-national-symbol/news-story/fbaaf97893136b57b094af1d9f11eb34
30/06/2020: So,
1,000 people in
30/06/2020: What
it’s like to live in a city full of moose: https://weather.com/safety/news/2020-06-12-living-in-a-city-full-of-moose
30/06/2020: Why
can’t people see and learn from their mistakes? Koestler called it the
‘ghost in the machine’ – humans have a fatal (intellectual) flaw. Is there a
cure? I don’t know: https://www.aier.org/article/why-facts-dont-matter-to-people/
For example: https://catallaxyfiles.com/2020/06/29/a-tale-of-two-or-three-energy-policies/
30/06/2020:
29/06/2020:
These people putting everyone’s lives at risk need to be publicly whipped.
Let’s get seious people. These people are also risking the billions we have
already spent on this. Such selfishness should be rewarded with something they
will understand at once. Say fifty strokes of the lash! Yes, I am utterly
serious: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/coronavirus/new-saliva-test-fasttracked-to-coronavirus-hotspot-suburbs/news-story/f7e706de36bbf5c7b47cec1b5de77e7e
29/06/2020: The Greens are just thoroughly evil. ‘For cobalt alone, over 40,000
Congolese children, as young as four years old, slave away alongside their
parents in mines, for a dollar a day, risking cave-ins and being exposed
constantly to filthy, toxic, radioactive mud, dust, water and air. That’s today
– for today’s battery, solar panel and wind turbine needs. Imagine how many
would be needed to serve the Green New Deal. 400,000 perhaps? 4,000,000?’ The
Greens must be destroyed. https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/06/22/greens-promote-child-slave-labor-and-ecological-destruction/
29/06/2020: Terriblisation: I think this is the chiefest cause of human misery.
Some folks just can’t help but cry, ‘Woe is me’ at the drop of every merest
hat! There is no sense to this constant litany that all is terrible. An immense
logical fallacy is involved: the external world is wholly indifferent to us
(and everyone else). It is neither good nor bad, and entirely uncaring. Nor
should it be. It is inanimate. It is not peopled by malevolent spirits or any
other sort of boojums. It is the little man
riding in your head who is responsible for this mis-identification, not some
big man in the sky. It is he (or she) who discerns all as being terrible. It is
your response, to what is more like than not no calamity at all. Sometimes it is,
though. A young friend of mine posted recently on the ‘secret’ of his
happiness. Judged by what the external world has ‘done’ to him, you might think
he has no ‘right’ to be happy. The love of his life was wrenched terribly from
him in her early twenties. He chooses instead to be happy – as she would have
wanted! She loved him, you see! Because of her, he has a duty to be happy. And
so he is. I could mention many other people
known to me whose circumstances have been anything but fortunate but who
rise above them. To end the terribilisation, you have to make a choice, to
slough off that despond, to pass it by, to not be rapt in it. Let it pass. Move
on. So many joys await…
29/06/2020: Did
you realize that there are people who believe that if there is a type of work
you don’t want to do you shouldn’t have to do it, but that someone else
who does want to do it should do it
instead and then pay taxes to you so you have the choice to refuse, and do
nothing. The mystery is, ‘Who are these people who want to do that work and
pay the taxes so you have the right to refuse?’ Strangely I have never met a
single one of them. I suspect they may be mythical beasts like the Yeti,
dragons, gnomes…
28/06/2020: The
sense of entitlement is just mind-boggling: 30% of those ‘returned’
so-called Australians flown back and quarantined in 5-star hotels at our
expense refuse to be tested for Covid 19! Many/most continue to fraternise with
others in ‘quarantine’ or break it in other ways, spread it throughout the
community and still speak of ‘rights’ – as if they should not be shot down in
the street like mad dogs if they want to spread contagion like diseased
animals! I am so sick of the ‘welfare mentality’. How is it I get to be a slave
to these people as if I wanted to build their pyramids and such? Why would I
take money out of my pocket and hand it to them voluntarily when they do
nothing for me to earn it? It only happens because I am compelled to do so. The
most important right is the right to private property. These spongers steal my
property at every turn with impunity. Oh, what a vile tyranny socialism is! But
it will end – in their bitter tears, mark my words! & https://www.heraldsun.com.au/rendezview/peta-credlin-victorias-covid19-case-number-spike-risks-australias-economic-recovery/news-story/86b84993d3e00d442a01f118b17aa75e
PS: If I refuse to be tested please can I have a
holiday for fourteen days (now 24 days) in a Five Star Hotel at no cost to
myself? Is it any wonder there are takers? I/we have never in our lives
afforded to stay in such a hotel! Fortunately I have never wanted to either; I
do prefer to sleep out on the ground in the wilderness!
28/06/2020: All
around our district businesses have signs out the front saying ‘Workers
wanted’. I have not seen anything like it since the Sixties. For example
the local wrecker where I bought ‘new’ doors for the Disco I bent a little bt a
while back has had this sign up for nearly a month. He says no-one will apply
because they are being paid double (by us all) not to work! ‘Jobseeker’ and
‘Jobkeeper’ are just insane plans. This is not the way to get
28/06/2020:
Chess is racist because white always moves first, but it would be just as
racist if black always moved first. Oh dear. PS: Tooth paste is racist too
– and bread, milk, clouds, ice, elephants...No, not all elephants.
27/06/2020:
Those BLM folk do realize don’t they that Islam still has black slaves whom
they continue to abuse, chain, rape, castrate whilst these activists look
on uncaringly as Moslems are the ‘downtrodden’, don’t you know? https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/qed/2020/06/black-slaves-matter/
27/06/2020:
Western Civilisation – where did it go? ‘All it took was one generation of
neglect, just one, and poof, the reserve of bourgeois values necessary to maintain
Western Civilization all disappeared. And I'm not sure it's possible to ever
get it back. Because, as G.K. Chesterton once said, “if men will not be
governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand
commandments.”: http://ace.mu.nu/archives/388860.php
27/06/2020:
Wonnangatta #14: A few more clues in today’s Herald Sun ‘interview’ with a
close friend of Russell Hill: Mr Ashlin says, ‘Russell would never, ever leave his vehicle’. (So they really did
not go for a walk and get lost. We can definitely discount that). He also says
that during their final conversation (of Russell) ‘He was sparkling like
normal, he never had a worry in the world. The way he was behaving was like he
had done any other time up in the bush. He was upbeat during our last chat’.)
So there was no indication (to his friend) that there was anything about what
happened to Russell that he had any
apprehension about). “During their final conversation Mr Hill announced he
was at Wonnangatta station and soon planned to drive to Dargo, about 70km away.
He had not been there before and asked
for directions’. (This is a surprise to me). ‘Something that puzzles Mr
Ashlin about the mystery is why Mr Hill went camping alone in the area of the
King Billy and Bluff Track between March 11 and 13 before the pair’s trip. “He
never said boo about it, it was a surprise,” he said… “I don’t know why he went
on that trip, it was only an overnight
stay, and a six-hour drive each way. There is something strange about it.
Robyn can’t work it out either.”’ – Perhaps
he met his murderer/s on that occasion? Did he have (unknown) business with
him/them?
There is also this photo of Russell camping (on a sunny
day):
You will remember that Russell’s hat was on the dash of
his car and that the car was locked and the keys missing. Russell clearly took
precautions against sun exposure. This pretty clearly shows that what happened to them happened on the night of the 19th
March as he would clearly have taken his hat if he went for a walk on the 20th.
Mr Ashlin also said: ‘He’s been attacked, I believe there is more than one person
involved.’ He does not explain why he thinks this. Perhaps it means nothing
– but it is quite difficult for one person to lift (two) bodies into a 4WD
(even moreso if it was a tray/ute) by themselves. (Two people are also more likely
to be caught than one acting alone). The more people who know the more likely
the truth will leak out. https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/friends-last-conversation-with-missing-high-country-camper-russell-hill-revealed/news-story/3ab69d511adaa85926918fa8f92ab088
26/06/2020: Up
to now this was the greatest
26/06/2020: Mind
you if this is what Trump has to beat he won’t have a very hard time doing it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0VTlipoNWQ
26/06/2020:
Interestingly penguins would benefit from Antarctica melting (not that
something twice as big as
26/06/2020: The
two greatest evils of the last millennium remain communism and Islam – and
they are still both with us, and still doing us harm. Maybe not so much as the
hundreds of millions each have murdered (more for Islam) but the recent Covid
19 outbreak in Vic illustrates both. Both these vile creeds had a hand in it:
both groups broke the health protocols and social distancing rules we all had
to obey to protect everyone – because they are (both) just ‘better’ than us and
don’t give a damn! The BLM are communists – I supposed you knew that. Of course
what I am saying here is now ‘hate speech’ because it has become illegal to
call out evil for just what it is. But seriously how can any creed (both) which
murders millions (annually on average!) ever be confused with something good?
If I am to be prosecuted for pointing out that murder is evil we have descended
into the pit a really long way – and I suspect we have! PS: If you can’t read
this it’s time you paid for a subscription to the Herald Sun: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/opinion/andrew-bolt/why-we-need-to-probe-if-tribalism-is-behind-new-coronavirus-spike/news-story/d1611a9e5f7b5191dcbedcb81c104ac3
& https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2020/06/muslim-end-of-ramadan-celebration-responsible-for-large-cluster-of-victorias-coronavirus-cases.html
PPS: Yes, there are others too in Australia who refuse to join the ‘team’,
(some recent arrivals, some a result of generations of ‘pay to breed’ experiments)
who refuse to see that we are all in this boat together and all need to pull
(at the metaphorical oars) together. Frankly there is no place for them either
wherever they may have been born. Citizenship ought properly be a right which
is earned, not conferred by birth. Those who refuse to take up the
responsibilities of citizenship should first of all be deprived of its
benefits, then (if they continue in their unmended ways) be deported – in the
unlikely case that anyone would want them, any more than anyone (else) would
want to employ those who ‘work’ for the ABC!
25/06/2020: The
Ultralight Hairdresser: Of course you could just go about with your hair
looking like an untidy birds' nest but few girls especially would want to. I
have carried the same old comb below (3 grams) for twenty years. I own that I
could probably have found a slightly shorter, lighter one but there is some
sentimental attachment.
The broken tooth was courtesy of my daughter Irralee
when Canoeing the Seaforth on the Dusky
Track (2009) as she had forgotten to bring something for her hair!
Memories. https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2020/06/25/the-ultralight-hairdresser/
25/06/2020: Teddy Roosevelt was the first President to
invite his black American friend (Booker T Washington) to dinner at the White
House something the Democrats decried for years, yet the mob wants to take
his statue down: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=253&v=cxxHV5vu1Mo&feature=emb_title
25/06/2020:
About the folly of rushing into a hydrogen economy: https://catallaxyfiles.com/2020/06/24/hasten-slowly-with-hydrogen/
Surely we have already had enough Green disasters. I would just like to continue
to fill up my tank with Super for a little while longer yet.
25/06/2020: The
Political Genius of Donald Trump (arguably the greatest President ever),
‘The Democrat’s ‘latest presidential candidate looks as if he has just wandered
out of a retirement home with an idea of what he’d like for lunch but no idea
of how to get to the dining room.’: https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/06/the_political_genius_of_donald_trump.html
24/06/2020: Just
what you need, a Pocket Sized Bottle Rope Maker: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/grimworkshop/pocket-sized-plastic-bottle-rope-maker-turn-trash-into-rope?fbclid=IwAR1NueTgoIm6DLEh34Ov5uOovDdqK6Qkf32iL9W9UsFrp2z9DmMXn0OLlOY&ref=6teva8
When one thinks about the many wonderful uses to which used drink bottles can
be put (eg bottle rockets) one wonders that any are thrown away ever.
24/06/2020: I
warned at the start (Xmas) before anyone had shut their borders that if
countries did not act it could be worse than a World War. Now the
24/06/2020:
Unpunished rapist Bill Shorten pontificates that Heydon should be stripped of
23/06/2020: What
a loss Michael Crichton’s death was. 20 Years On,
23/06/2020: The
Greens are still in favour of slavery (as well as numerous other awful
evils such as mass murder (For example, they have killed 100 million people
from malaria alone through their ban on various safe insecticides). The Greens
must be destroyed: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/06/21/blood-batteries-climate-advocates-grappling-with-the-gruesome-extractive-price-of-renewable-energy/
23/06/2020:
Scott is going to shut down Arts faculties no longer bastions of ‘the best that
has been thought and said’ but breeding grounds of communist and anarchist
insurrection. Will he also shut down the ABC and SBS too please so that the
rest of us can get on with building productive lives?
22/06/2020: A
Hobo in a Roller: If you are a really up-market hobo you can buy this
ready-made Tomshoo Brand titanium (of course) hobo stove from Aliexpress
for US$14.94 (June 2020). It weighs 55 grams (1.9 oz). Dimensions are : 80 mm
(high) x 91 mm (dia) / 3.15 x 3.58 in – so a little smaller than mine
1250mm x 100 mm / 5″ x 4″ (height/dia) and 92 grams (but free). https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2020/06/22/a-hobo-in-a-roller/
22/06/2020: Yet
Another Green Evil: ‘There is growing pressure on the Australian Royal
Commission investigating Bushfires to investigate how greens in positions
of authority allegedly hijacked forestry management, to frustrate efforts to
protect property and lives by back burning, to manage forest fuel load’. The
Greens must be destroyed, (to plagiarise Cato – and
22/06/2020:
Whose lives matter? ‘In 2018, there were over 600,000 violent incidents between
black people and white people. In nine out of ten of those black people were
the offenders and white people were the victims of the violence’. Thoughts
from a couple of prominent African American intellectuals: Booker T Washington
1911: ‘There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping
the troubles, the wrongs and the hardships of the Negro race before the public.
Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they
have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs – partly because they
want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the
Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.’
Thomas Sowell 2020, ‘Racism is not dead, but it is on life support — kept alive
by politicians, race hustlers and people who get a sense of superiority by
denouncing others as racists.’ https://rosebyanyothernameblog.wordpress.com/2020/06/20/black-lies-matter/
22/06/2020: Two
weeks and now the second wave: Thanks a lot George Floyd. As if it weren’t
enough that this piece of criminal scum wasn’t simply drowned at birth which
would be the best idea for such ferals, (or preventing their breeding in the
first place), people defying Covid 19 restrictions beginning with the absurd
communist BLM protests but rippling outwards from there as authorities proved
to be ‘paper tigers’ have brought us (not just here in Victoria – lots of
places) a second wave. Just when we about had this thing extinct in
21/06/2020: A
Caldera Cosy: You will have seen the Jetboil and similar devices supposed
to save fuel. I suppose they do but there is something wrong with the whole
concept of carrying canister stoves. This ‘device’ saves fuel on
an alcohol stove.
I have made one for my caldera cone
which is an important component of my Cookset
but soon to be upgraded my myself to an improved model. My ‘cosy’ will still
fit however as I won’t be changing my pot.
I have made this truncated cone ‘cosy’ from a piece of carbon felt (because it is insulating but doesn’t burn) to see how
much fuel would be saved if all the waste heat that escapes out the top of the
cone and along the sides of the pot had to be directed into the water in the
pot. https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2020/06/20/a-caldera-cosy/
21/06/2020:
There are two kinds of people… http://maggiesfarm.anotherdotcom.com/archives/35123-There-Are-Two-Kinds-of-People.-People-Who-Divide-People-Into-Two-Kinds-of-People....html
21/06/2020: Why
536 AD (not 2020) was the worst year ever: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/11/why-536-was-worst-year-be-alive
21/06/2020:
Covid 19: If you look at
21/06/2020:
Wonnangatta Disappearances #14: Since the ‘botched’ search for the missing
autistic boy Andrew Rule seems to have leaned more back towards natural causes
(and away from his ‘Button Man’) to account for Russell and Carol’s
disappearance. There is one ‘new’ element in Andrew’s report concerning the car
keys. It had always been reported that the vehicle was found with car keys
‘inside’ it ie (I assumed) unlocked. Andrew now claims it was locked but with
(spare) hidden keys. If Russell had the keys ‘in his pocket’ (as Andrew says)
this makes one lean towards believing they disappeared in the bush without
other human intervention and the search just failed to find them. Of course the
keys (and other items) could also have been taken away by a third party (eg to
enhance the mystery). The matter is so
redolent of the earlier (unsolved) murder in 1917 (read Wiki) that it will
continue to haunt us. If their bodies are still lying somewhere (lost) in the
Wonnangatta bush I guess it is likely some hunter will find them during the
next hunting season. The gates are now locked until November. https://www.heraldsun.com.au/truecrimeaustralia/police-courts/others-in-wonnangatta-valley-could-hold-key-to-missing-camper-mystery/news-story/18e03a60915f689fa25deae9c9a2ae8f & https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonnangatta_murders
PS: I have since read this morning's Herald Sun and there is another piece of
information contained in the teaser' to the story above: that Russell's hat was
found on the dash of his car. Now, if he went for a walk during the day he
would very likely have taken his hat. I also always lock my car when I go to
bed even when camping in the bush. These two items (keys and hat) taken
together indicate strongly to me that they disappeared the night before and
that there was foul play. BTW. I had 'forgotten' (early reports were confused)
that police did not arrive on the scene for days. The trail was definitely cold
by then, and no doubt lots of other campers had thoroughly confused the 'crime'
scene, so police have definitely had a difficult case to solve here. Hopefully
they have some clues we don't know about from phone evidence etc.My wife is
definitely more reluctant to visit the Wonnangatta we love until this 'mystery'
is solved - if it ever is though. The 1917 murders (they certainly were) are
still unsolved
20/06/2020: Our
own JR, ‘Spot’ won’t like this. You Can Now Buy Spot the Robot Dog—If
You’ve Got $74,500: https://www.wired.com/story/you-can-now-buy-spot-the-robot-dog/
20/06/2020:
Rejuvenation: This sounds promising, ‘Replacing half of the blood plasma of
old mice with a mixture of saline and albumin…has the same or stronger
rejuvenation effects on the brain, liver and muscle than…young blood exchange’:
https://news.berkeley.edu/2020/06/15/diluting-blood-plasma-rejuvenates-tissue-reverses-aging-in-mice/
20/06/2020: Do
the descendants of Australian slaves feel that there has ever been ‘systemic
racism’ or that they have been given a raw deal? No, they don’t: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/bennelong-papers/2020/06/systemic-welfare-not-racism-is-the-real-issue/
However, the whole idea that such
(‘blackbird’) slavery occurred at all is an invention. Read historian Keith
Windschuttle’s depiction of the real history of this phenomenon: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/bennelong-papers/2020/06/the-myths-of-south-seas-slavery-in-australia/
Interestingly the Guardian which has
been instrumental in concocting this slavery meme is being forced to shut down
on account of its founder having been
made rich by slaves: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blAqycSix8U&feature=emb_title
The same phenomenon informs the American debate on this: Most people might not
realise that it was the Democrats who
were pro-slavery and the Republicans who were abolitionists!
19/06/2020: A
Hobo’s Breakfast: It costs nothing at all (and only a couple of minutes) to create your own
safe wood burning hiking stove which will
cook you up a wonderful breakfast (below) in just a few minutes without having
to carry any fuel at all (or any other stove) with you into the wilderness. A
big saving.
You only
need a few simple hand tools such as those
pictured (or similar) which I’m sure you have in your kitchen or workshop. A
can opener which will cut out the side of the can (not the top). A ‘church key’
such as used to be used for opening beer cans (Remember?) and a pair of
super-tough scissors (or tin snips) for completing the stove ‘door’ opening: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2020/06/18/a-hobos-breakfast/
19/06/2020:
London 1945: Della’s lovely mother Dorothy was there (all through the Blitz
- her home was blown to smithereens above her head), one of the many pretty
young women in the crowds who celebrated in the streets whilst Vera sang this
(we both peer through the footage looking for her), but the ‘boys’ were still
away (Della’s father Bill’s war had by then moved from North Africa to Northern
Italy and beyond). Now they are all gone.
19/06/2020:
19/06/2020: Congratulations to everyone who guessed rightly which founder of a
major world religion was a slave owner and advocated slavery (his religion
still does). Unfortunately (?) there are no statues or images of him to be torn
down (in fact you can be murdered for creating one) but perhaps people should
be banned from being named after him.
18/06/2020:
Mostly Perspiration: According to Thomas Edison that’s what genius is – and
he should have known, with his 2,000 patents. Each took countless experiments,
lots of trials and error before he got it right. Tim Tinker
is the Thomas Edison of the ultralight tent stove. For years he has been
working away at his miniature radiative beauties in his eternal quest for the
perfect stove. I would like to showcase just two of his many creations: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2020/06/17/mostly-perspiration/
18/06/2020: A
Lava Bomb Map. Fascinating: http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/58893
18/06/2020: Everyone’s
life matters: Watch a 15 year old girl being savagely attacked by thugs at a
major
18/06/2020: If
you behave this way towards police officers whether you are black, white
brindle or orange, you deserve to be shot down like a mad dog. That is all:
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2020/06/deadly-force-was-justified-as-this-crook-tries-to-choke-a-nsw-policewoman-to-death.html
18/06/2020: Calling out BLM. A very well –reasoned letter from a black History
Prof who thinks that this movement is the worst thing to come along for
black people since slavery, ‘If we claim that the criminal justice system is
white-supremacist, why is it that Asian Americans, Indian Americans, and
Nigerian Americans are incarcerated at vastly lower rates than white Americans…
As an example of the latter problem, consider the proportion of black
incarcerated Americans. This proportion is often used to characterize the
criminal justice system as anti-black. However, if we use the precise same
methodology, we would have to conclude that the criminal justice system is even
more anti-male than it is anti-black.’ https://rosebyanyothernameblog.wordpress.com/2020/06/12/a-letter-smuggled-out-from-the-berkeley-gulag/
17/06/2020: Small
Game: Was once the bushman’s standy-by. It is usually abundant, enormously
varied, relatively easily to take, involves little waste or preparation and is
varied and nutritious. Of course much of it is also illegal. You will notice
that in my post about the journey to Cromarty
not so long ago everyone used to take a rifle to obtain extra food on the
journey
It is a bizarre contradiction really that the folks
(who require such bans and who mandate such poor management of public lands
through ‘conservation’ strategies such as National Parks) should also be
responsible thereby for the episodic vastly destructive wildfires which are so
destructive of such wildlife – whilst the larger animals (deemed pests by
the same folk) such as deer and brumbies survive better.
Where (and when) game is plentiful though (and only
being reserved for the next apocalyptic inferno anyway) and considering 90+% of
every season’s annual production would normally only perish over the lean
seasons of winter/summer through starvation also, I see no rational reason why
one’s larder ought not be supplemented with it – as it always used to be… https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2020/06/17/small-game/
17/06/2020: Feral Humans? Of course there are. And just as the nation was once
over-run and eaten out by rabbits and is till beset by countless other pests:
foxes, wombats, kangaroos, corellas, etc we also have a plague of unproductive
and destructive people. It is so much easier to destroy a thing than make it.
Some people just excel at this, and particularly at destroying value, not least
financial value. How easy is it to burn money?
One of the chiefest reasons I am
opposed to the welfare system is that it is all about waste: wasting money and
wasting people’s lives. Lives which might be made better through productive
work and self-improvement, but instead they are made into ‘ferals’ unable or
unwilling to contribute meaningfully to society and simply become a drain on
it.
‘Free stuff’ is just social and
economic lunacy. It is certainly never going to make for human betterment. It
is nothing like the just rewards of hard work and personal effort. It is also
quite insane to simply pay people to breed. If that is all that people are
‘good for’ – and the results clearly show they are not very food for that, they
should not be permitted or encouraged to breed – as a livestock breeder I would
soon be broke if I followed that sort of selective breeding practice as our
welfare system promotes (and so will our society be too).
I know that most every responsible
productive working woman uses some sort of effective family planning strategy
so that they only bring children into the world who are wanted and whom they
can support and nurture. Many use the long-acting implantable contraception
which has been available now for years. These last for more than a year.
Instead of society simply being
‘obliged’ to provide for the unwanted children of the welfare classes, I think
it would be more than reasonable if women of breeding age who are recipients of
welfare were required to annually submit a doctor’s certificate attesting that
they had a current such implant to prevent pregnancy as a condition of
receiving welfare.
It is one thing to be unable or
unwilling to support yourself (and so become a burden to others). It is quite
another to willy-nilly bring more of your like into the world to increase that
unwanted burden even further.
You should understand I only consider
this an interim step: I want to abolish the welfare system altogether and move people
on to productive lives. We need to use both the goad and the reward to achieve
this but achieve it we must before we are quite over-run.
Already we have nearly 50% of the
population on some sort of welfare or another. Sometimes this is just a nonsensical
‘robbing Peter to pay Paul’ whilst at the same time robbing Paul to pay Peter –
with the only advantage going to the ‘bean-counters’ and other parasites who
maintain the system..
17/06/2020: Should farming be banned: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/06/15/farmers-fear-the-european-green-deal/
17/06/2020: Dexamethasone:
Some good Covid 19 News for once: https://www.9news.com.au/world/coronavirus-treatment-updates-dexamethasone-breakthrough-from-uk-scientists/6f637d91-857f-40c2-9565-aef03e072e95
16/06/2020: Remove
the historical statues or remove separate ‘indigenous’ (ie racist) funding?
It is our common history, warts and all – and should never be forgotten or
papered over. I have enough problems accepting that people should be funded
according to ‘need’ when all my instinct tells me that ‘suffering’ is just the
‘sauce’ that people ‘need’ to encourage them to make an effort to get
themselves out from under whatever terrible situation they might ‘find’
themselves in, become like the rest of us who have pulled ourselves up ‘by our
own bootstraps’, ‘stood on our own two feet’ and ‘given life as good as you
get’…but I can accept funding according to ‘need’ for some things - perhaps eg
old age pensions for those who are already far too old to meaningfully make a
contribution any more, but I cannot accept funding based on ‘race’. This must
be abolished: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/statues-destroyed-overseas-reignite-debate-over-victorias-colonial-monuments/news-story/061da1ecead13da0eb5230c8bd8b5ae6
16/06/2020:
16/06/2020: Another
perspective: David Leyonhjelm is right (as usual). Likely it is true that
in the long-term no lives have been saved at all (just deaths deferred) but economies
have been destroyed which almost certainly costs more lifetimes than would be
swallowed up by an epidemic which could have been better managed eg utilizing
cheap available therapies and preventatives, such as I have discussed here many
times. I am surprised no-one has mentioned (to date) for example) the utility
of negative ion generators in removing (infective) particles from the air
indoors: https://catallaxyfiles.com/2020/06/14/david-leyonhjelm-stop-listening-to-public-health-doctors/
15/06/2020: Plumbing
the Depths: You can repurpose many humble plumbing fittings into wonderful
ultralight hiking tools. Take this cheap 19mm (3/4″) irrigation tee from Bunnings
for A$1.54 (June 2020) .
I have carried one to sit the sharp end of my hiking
pole in so it doesn’t pierce the floor of my tent. An end joiner works well for
that purpose too – and is lighter. You can set it up to start with using your
cook pot, then switch after you have your tent pegs in.
They are also just excellent for driving a tent stake
into hard ground without damaging the stake – or your hand! This one weighs 14
grams. https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2020/06/14/plumbing-the-depths/
15/06/2020: Low
Dose Radiation for Coronavirus: http://joannenova.com.au/2020/06/low-dose-radiation-may-save-people-from-coronavirus/
Another perspective: David Leyonhjelm is
right (as usual). Likely in the long-term no lives have been saved at all
(just deaths deferred) but economies have been destroyed which almost certainly
costs more lifetimes than would be swallowed up by an epidemic which could have
been better managed. I am surprised no-one as mentioned (to date) for example)
the utility of negative ion generators in removing (infective) particles from
the air.: https://catallaxyfiles.com/2020/06/14/david-leyonhjelm-stop-listening-to-public-health-doctors/
15/06/2020: Wonnangatta
Murders: Vicpol is not exactly ‘quick off the block’. It ought to have been
clear to any competent intelligent observer that two murders had been committed
when their burned ot campsite was discovered at 2pm back on 20st
March. They started looking ofr people/evidence far too late in the day. If
they don’t know who did it by now they are really up against it in solving this
one. My guess is that they do, but the evidence has been allowed to wither on
the vine: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/truecrimeaustralia/police-courts/police-believe-russell-hill-and-carol-clay-met-with-foul-play-in-high-country/news-story/91216a7379a8cebf96f62f2bb1c098bc
PS: I know that their search procedures are clearly crap (as evidenced by the
recent failure to locate a missing boy), but two elderly people do not just
disappear in such suspicious circumstances as this.
14/06/2020: Is
Falconio actually still alive? Stranger things have happened. I admit I hadn’t heard this one though
credible witnesses who reported seeing him after his death, the absence of a
body, Lees’ more than somewhat bizarre and changing accounts, the appearance
and disappearance of police evidence, highly questionable DNA, many aboriginal
witnesses (whose testimony supported Murdock) and etc all cast the rather
unpleasant Murdock’s guilt into serious question. If he had been anywhere near
as attractive as Lindy Chamberlain he would long since have been freed: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/truecrimeaustralia/crimeinfocus/youre-not-getting-those-four-hours-back-viewers-trash-peter-falconio-documentary/news-story/0c68974a37f71f27ccb725e0013a52fe
14/06/2020: Winston S. Churchill (whose
memory it seems ought’ to be obliterated): ‘An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last…Each
one hopes that of he feeds the crocodile enough the crocodile will eat him
last. All of them hope that the storm will pass before their turn comes to be
devoured. But I fear – I fear greatly – the storm will not pass. It will rage
and it will roar, even more loudly, even more wildly.’
14/06/2020: A couple of important vids about the current protests, one from John
Cleese: https://catallaxyfiles.com/2020/06/13/questions-that-need-answers/
and this: Joe Biden Says George Floyd’s
Death is Bigger than Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/06/wth-joe-biden-says-george-floyds-death-bigger-assassination-dr-martin-luther-king-jr-video/
Baloney!
13/06/2020: All Thumbs: Sick of burning your thumb when lighting the fire or
the stove with your Mini Bic? I know I am. Here’s the ultralight (1.5 gram)
solution. J. Burrows’ Thimblettes from office
supplies for just 64 cents each. You can store one on the end of the lighter
(as shown) so it is easy to find. One has already gone into my cookset: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2020/06/13/all-thumbs/
13/06/2020: Moving on and rising above rather than rising up: I’m sure most of
us have bad things in our personal pasts which we can still only recall with
anguish. I know my own father’s terrible protracted death when I was 13 remains
a pivotal one such for me – and I have had others, but so has everyone else
unless you have lived a particularly blessed life.
Again most of us are of mixed race or
at least mixed heritage and there are terrible things in our pasts in the
C18th, C19th and particularly the C20th. Very few of these things were the fault
of anyone living today. Their causes and effects are a matter for scholarly
conjecture not for iconoclasm (or monument desecration).
My Irish ancestors (I am 3/8ths ‘Irish’
– whatever that may be) endured the terrible potato famine in which so many (of
their relatives and friends) perished for example. My (4/8ths) English
ancestors (my patrimonial) originating near Ely in Cambridgeshire endured the
enclosure movements and the many excesses of the Industrial Revolution (though
it did eventually bring wonderful benefits). In a twinkling they all
disappeared from the tiny village of Stuntney (near Ely) where they had bided
for many centuries - in a twinkling, scattered (by the enclosure movements) to
the large metropolises and the colonies, (or dead).
When the Romans arrived Stuntney was
deep in the marshes where (later) Hereward (no doubt a remote ancestor) made
his last stand against the Normans, earning him the memorial (on his headstone)
‘the last of the English Men’ – meaning in those days the ‘Britons’, ie those
who were there before any of Celts, Romans, Saxons etc. There remain no Joneses
at all there today though they probably watched the Romans building their
causeway across the marshes to their village, but there are many of us
elsewhere.
My 1/8th French ancestor endured the
Franco-Prussian War (he was decorated) before migrating to
When I was growing up all the older
people around me always urged me to emulate him. It was always glowed with a
sense of pride to any praise that some thing I had done showed that I was a
‘true Sanlaville’ (his patrimonial) even though he was definitely what we used
to call ‘touched with the tar brush’. This was not then (probably ever) any
‘bar sinister’ or impediment (still less is it today), nor anything any friends
or relatives took any notice of at all (let alone adverse).
Those C18th and C19th colonists to
He reports that he colonists took up
their orphaned children and raised them as their own (giving them their names
too), as you would. As any decent human being has always done! Della had
ancestors on the First Fleet and relatives ‘born’ in those early days. There is
no telling whether they were a part of this generation of orphans. Who needs to
know? They were all precious to their parents and to their descendants and
friends.
More recent generations (my parents for
example) lived through truly calamitous events in the C20th: the Russian and
Chinese revolutions, the great depression the two World Wars. I had uncles in
service in various theatres of war and a relative lost in the dreaded Sandakan
Death March for example. Nonetheless I remember my parents’ generation as folk
with an uninhibited sense of the joy of life; rather than being people dwelling
on the dire experiences of the past, they ever taught us to look forward to a
happier future.
The past is replete with intriguing
stories, astonishing deeds, tales of awful sufferings. Many things. It should
never be lost – or painted over. Neither though should it be dwelt upon, nor
bizarre efforts at ‘reparation’ or recompense made. We would all be paying
money with our right hand to our left hand (or vice versa) to compensate for
the supposed ills visited on one ancestor by another!
That vile notion of ‘race’ which should
have long since been relegated to the dust bin of history needs to be wholly
expunged from our language and consciousness. We are all (as I sad yesterday)
only members of the one human race. Instead of there being ‘recognition’ of
‘aborigines’ in our constitution or Departments of ‘Aboriginal and Torres
Strait islanders Affairs’ and the like, there should only be Departments of
Human Affairs.
Insofar as any amongst us is
unfortunate enough as to need special assistance (for whatever reason: poverty,
illness, disability, isolation etc) this should be available to all equally as
a result of need, never ‘race’. Neither should any other ‘benefits’ devolve on
people because of their supposed (often astonishingly minor) membership of any
particular ‘race’.
13/06/2020: The wonders of modern technology: an entire
Roman city mapped without any digging at all: http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/58829
13/06/2020: ‘Sidere mens eadem mutato’,
12/06/2020: Australians
have a constitutional right to instant gratification.
12/06/2020: Good
news for those struggling with home ownership: You
Can Buy Land on Mars Only US$35/acre. Great value.
12/06/2020: ‘Patients in
12/06/2020: I
find all this historical ‘revisionism’ deeply worrying. The latest bid in
the great aboriginal grievance poker antic is that somehow despite a ready
supply of convict ‘slaves’ nonetheless aboriginals were slaves. Slavery was abolished
throughout the Empire as long ago as 1833, but the convict system persisted
for nearly another 50 years! Now, my great-great-grandfather was a convict. I
am 1/16th convict – a larger proportion than would qualify me as an
‘aboriginal’ ‘entitled’ to compensation. Della’s great-great- grandfather (on
the First Fleet) was a member of the NSW Corps in charge of supervising
convicts. Every day I seek and receive ‘compensation’ from her for this
historic injustice. Of course I do. This fine-point nit-picking about ‘race’
has to stop. There simply are no ‘races’. There is only the human race – and
the genetic relics within some of us (like me, eg of red hair and blue eyes)
that reveal our ancestors once actually did breed with another ‘race’, the
Neanderthals! But as regards breeding. I have been for most of my life a
livestock breeder – and I like to think a fairly good one. When you are
‘grading up’ livestock (from a base breed) to another breed (which we do all
the time), you cross and recross (three times) until you have reached: first ½,
then ¾, finally 7/8ths purity at which point they are considered to be ‘pure’
of the ‘new’ breed. This is because for each generation, for any individual
gene (eg the black gene in sheep, deemed undesirable because of the cost of
bleaching the wool before it is dyed, not because blacks are ‘inferior’) only
half of the progeny carry the gene. The next generation only a quarter of the
offspring carry it, the third generation only an eighth carry it – and so on.
So to consider yourself one-eighth anything (whether convict or aboriginal –
supposing such things were heritable, which they are not!) belies the fact that
you have less than one-eighth chance of carrying the gene at all (indeed it
might not have been present in all of the original stock). Rather you have aan
87.5% chance of not being ‘aboriginal (for example) at all. Yet you may claim
‘aboriginality’ under current legislation if you are one thirty-second (or less
through ‘identification’). This is racist cant. It simply flies in the face of
reason and science – let alone common decency. You should instead ‘get a life’
and ‘stand on your own two legs’. The only people who have any claim to
‘aboriginality’ are those (few) who are 100% ‘aboriginal’ whatever that may
mean, but it is long since time such petty grievances and fanciful notions were
put firmly behind us and we all faced life on equal terms: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/opinion/rita-panahi/rita-panahi-how-latest-cultural-purge-is-rewriting-our-history/news-story/4ee01e60e662f8bff3a0cb87ccbf7320
& https://catallaxyfiles.com/2020/06/11/jacques-barzun-on-affirmative-action-written-in-1956/
11/06/2020: The
Last Straw: You can bend over the end of a drinking straw then if you fold
it in along the middle slightly you can slip a cut off piece (say about 1"
onto it to lock it in place. It will hold liquids such as iodine
or sunscreen perfectly well, as well as powders such as salt, pepper and
spices, or safety equipment such as matches,
strikers, fore starters etc. I'm sure many other uses could be imagined. https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2020/06/11/the-last-straw/
11/06/2020:
11/06/2020: Mt Disappointment and the Wonnangatta ‘Murders’: I as stunned as
you were that a two day ‘search’ by 400 people (obviously including the very
same sort of ‘specialist’ police used in the Wonnangatta search) failed to find
this 11 year old boy within less than 30 metres of clear going along the creek
or adjacent to the Road 1. First the Herald Sun Photo. Then one taken from
Google maps Satellite view, the third is also from Google maps showing the type
of vegetation there.
Google Maps shows the distance from
Road I to the creek to be approx 150 metres. You can’t imagine deer hunters
taking more than 15 minutes to find a deer they had shot in that situation. Yet
the searchers never found the boy even though he was not much more then 100
metres from his last seen location (not even the 300 metres the Herald Sun reports),
barely out of sight, and you would definitely think a search would circle out
from this location with the ‘known’ that lost children do not travel far and
seek to hide in thick patches. Unsurprisingly he was found by a lone bushman
who was not part of the official search. Well done Ben Gibbs.
This leads me to reprise Vicpol’s
statement that the Wonnagatta ‘couple’ cannot be in the search area. Now while
I think it is vanishingly unlikely that two older (experienced) people could both
get lost and die close to a familiar camp, I can also see that Viocpol’s search
protocols are absolutely hopeless. Vicpol is obviously largely headed up by and
manned by complete idiots! I still think the most likely situation is that
Russell and Carol were murdered and their bodies dumped, but after the finding
of this child (if the gates were not now locked) I would be going up to the
Wonnangatta myself for a few days to check out all the hollow trees and logs
& etc in the vicinity of their campsite.
It just keeps happening, ie someone
else finding the person (usually their body, alas) pretty much within sight of
where they went missing - there have been several examples of this just in the
last year alone. Vicpol's training and procedures need a serious shake up. I
think clearly when someone goes missing Vicpol need immediately have procedures
in place to to call on volunteers eg from Deer Hunting groups to search for
them ie people who are used to actually being in the bush (without getting
lost) and who are skilled at looking for things. Arrangements could be made for
them to be paid for their loss of wages in just the same way as for volunteer
fire fighters: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/bushman-hailed-a-hero-as-william-callaghan-found-on-mt-disappointment/news-story/831d6a10e6664bb954bb9f3dfbf5113c
11/06/2020: Experts:
10/06/2020: Skara
Brae – What a wonder! https://archaeology-world.com/scottish-farmer-discovers-5000-year-old-lost-city/
0/06/2020:
10/06/2020: Few of us have no other ‘race’ in our genetic make-up. I know both
Della and I do, as recently as our grandparents or great-grandparents -
though it might not be obvious when you look at us, neither is it important to
us one way or another: The only race we all belong to is the human race. It
does not matter a jot whether you are black, white, orange, brindle or spotted
- underneath we are all red. As Shylock says, ‘If you prick us, do we not
bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh?’ I would rather see more of the
laughter. Listen to Morgan Freeman and others on this video, please: What The
Left Won't Tell You About The Plight Of Black People And The Myth Of Systemic
Racism: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=292609615461210 Everyone’s lives matter. BLM is a profoundly
racist movement no different really than the racist ideology of the KKK and the
Nazis – whom all our parents and grandparents fought a hugely destructive war
(over sixty million lives lost) to defeat. It frightens me (as it would have
Martin Luther King) that these people once more seek to divide us.' PS: As I
watched the clips in the video from Martin Luther King’s speeches I was
reminded starkly of what a fine spiritual, inspirational, intellectual man he
was whose life was exemplary and whose memory deserves to be cherished. It
contrasted so starkly with the wretched life and character of the man who is
currently being lionized as to seem to me tantamount to sacrilege. I think too
that King’s violent assassination was so unjust and intentionsl, such a bizarre
contrast to the facts and intentions of his life and death (as so too Ghandi,
Lennon etc) that to ‘celebrate’ Floyd’s life as compared with King’s life just
shows how much civilization has crumbled.
10/06/2020:
09/06/2020: Ultralight
Pot Lifter: I found this enchanting post on a chat forum this morning: ‘For
the last 5 years I’ve been needlessly carrying this extra 0.40 Oz with my
Evernew titanium pot. Now I can manage just fine with one handle’. – thank you Wayne Adelkopf. I do admire the lateral
thinking here. It is just such genius which made
And .4 of an ounce is 11.5 grams (which, if you have
been following A
Lazy Man’s Guide to Hiking and Hunting works out like this: ‘A
saving of 10 grams now doesn’t seem so silly does it when you see that it is
the same as shifting 100 kg (200 lbs) one metre (yard)!’ In this case 115 kg – try lifting that! (or just over 250
pounds) – a not inconsiderable amount!
09/06/2020: Have
you seen the ASX this morning? Up nearly 200 points in a few minutes. What
a lovely sea of green! There is hope! People should understand that this
represents and improvement in the nation's savings and investment in the
future. Every worker has a tithe on their income paid into superannuation for
their retirement much of which must and should be clearly invested in our
leading enterprises. We all share in their prosperity, and our retirement
income depends on it.
09/06/2020: Protestors
spell out the word “love’ with burning homes. Fake news or no this is just
incredible. No civilization can long survive (or tolerate) this sort of thing.
It requires so much less energy to destroy a thing than build it. Clearly many
people need a serious lesson in the value of hard work and thrift. Too many have
lived too long with free stuff provided by the insane largess of the public
purse. In a truly free market people would soon learn what their true worth to
society was. I think a degree of suffering (of having to live hand-to-mouth for
example) would be a salutary lesson for many of the coddled generation who can
do such dreadful things. What really is the value of public servants and folks
on welfare for example? Once what necessary public servants society thought
they needed (very few) were well paid so as to discourage corruption (Sure,
that worked). But now armies of them are created as a reward to the party hacks
and rag-tag followers for no good reason at all, each performing meaningless tasks that are of no
conceivable ‘good’ to society. Why, in the C19th it was clear that a
schoolmaster ought to be paid such a wage as would enable him to support (in
modest comfort) a wife and children because his value to society was such as to
merit this ie imparting necessary skills such as literacy and numeracy and
important social values such as hard work, integrity, self-worth, respect for
others,m service to one’s country & etc. But so few even attempt to do that
now that it would be much more reasonable to make it clear to them (a salutary
lesson) that their value to society is really much less than that of a plumber
or electrician and even less than a cleaner or day labourer! And we expect
teachers to be doing some socially useful work whose meaning we understand. Not
so the vast army (outnumbering the real army by a couple of orders of
magnitude) of several million public servants. As to the welfared class
(another several million), what is their ‘social worth’?…don’t get me
started. http://joannenova.com.au/2020/06/powerful-protesters-spell-out-love-with-burning-homes/
09/06/2020: The
details about Christian Brueckner are just chilling and sickening. Surely
the Left won’t make his prosecution another cause célèbre for hero worship like
that of other scum they seem so fond of lately. I am just so disturbed by the
awful reversals of values which appear to be going on all around me: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/truecrimeaustralia/madeleine-mccann-case-christian-brueckner-investigated-as-police-search-for-exgirlfriend/news-story/cf3e24ace7674716e94e6269970196c0
09/06/2020: Indeeed,
let’s have a one month trial without police. I am all stocked up and ready, are
you? I suspect that the shrieking, namby-pamby, limp-wristed leftist
nutters clogging our streets at the moment and demanding the disbanding of
police forces don’t realize that many of us own several .308s with which we
could clear the streets of them pretty damned quickly if there were no police! https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2020/06/this-guy-changed-my-mind-lets-have-a-one-month-trial-with-no-police-give-him-a-go.html
08/06/2020: A
Cure for Knee Pain? (Preliminary observations)‘Always listen to the experts
– and then do something else’, as the old saying goes. I thought I had about
tried just about everything with my knee/s (as with my back (in retrospect) and
had about bitten the bullet that there was nothing for it but once again the
dreaded knife – though I know that too is a solution replete with
unsatisfactory outcomes, except for the surgeon’s new Porsche! The cold laser
seemed to bring some relief, and an exercise cycle which I have not been as
religious with using as I should (I’m sure an unsurprising revelation) had not
been the ultimate panacea either, but a couple of scraps of information/wisdom
niggled at the back of my mind. The orthopedic surgeon commented (aside) that
they had no explanation why some folks were ‘bone on bone’ and yet free of pain
(and disfunction) yet others not.. The same has been noticed about backs, and
on autopsy of many other things besides. The body (and even more the mind)
remains a great mystery still. Another person (referring to the benefits to be
obtained from the cold laser device) said that I would (probably) have to learn
to walk all over again. Like many simple truths such as ‘Give it time to heal’
one tends to ignore - when you begin to see some sort of benefit from something
(such as the cold laser), and ‘less is more’ ie don’t overdo something which
seems to have benefit. That is not necessarily how things work. Anyway I
decided to have a go at learning to walk again. This is something (strangely
enough) which I have emphasized again and again in my hunting advice – but one
tends not always to listen to one’s own advice, or anyone else’s! Strange!
About ten days ago I decided to try it out though. Now, particularly my left
knee has hurt for the last seven years every time I put it down, so I thought,
‘What if I am putting it down wrongly?’ & ‘Can I walk without pain?’ So I
decided to experiment. Like the hunting walking I always advocate, ‘Softly,
softly’ is the way to go. Can I just glide ahead with as little impact as possible,
taking small steps and walking on my‘toes’ (at least the balls of my feet)
instead of clumping down with my heels as people are wont to do – with no pain.
The answer is that I can. It may be (is) slower, and it may look strange. I
have never been over-much concerned about what odd ideas others may have
anyway. I long ago eschewed the common throng anyway – as Horace advised long
ago (‘Odi profanum vulgus et arceo’). I have now switched to my Topo walking
shoes (because they have no heels and so facilitate this odd method of
locomotion), but…So far I have walked
completely without pain for ten days! This is good! Try it! PS: Something I failed to mention:
Never straighten your knee, or 'lock' it backwards. People often do this when
they are standing. Always maintain the bent shape of the knee. Stand on your
muscles, ligaments etc, not on your joints. They were never 'designed' to stand
this sort of mistreatment. So too back. I have learned (now) that the chief
cause of back pain is poor stance and weakening of core body muscles. PPS: Read also my previous ‘report
about cold lasers here: I Kneed You
Knee arthritis is ‘associated’ with inflamation. Evidently ‘no-one knows’
whether the inflamation is the cause of the arthritis or vice-versa or whether
they just occur together. The pain however in my experience does not seem to be
doing me ‘any good’. I endure it because I either value the aciviuty that
brings it on (hiking, hunting etc) or need to do the thing that seems to bring
it on eg work, for some other reason. But if I can go about my business
whatever it is without the pain I would choose to do it. I only did not know
that I could avoid the pain whilst remaining active. (Too much sitting has its
negatives too). But this ‘creeping about’ I am doing at present allows me to do
things I want or need to do without endureing the pain so to me it is a win-win
– whether it is actually ‘doing me any good’ – whaterer that may mean I leave
to the philosophers and the shamans.
08/06/2020: Peaceful Protest: only 27 Police Officers Injured! This from the BBC,
clearly just as bad as our awful ABC. Is this the end of Western Civilisation?
Police officers are assaulted and injured whilst carrying out their duties of
protecting the public, and the culprits are not made to pay dearly? All this in
defence of a piece of multiple-times gaoled criminal scum caught out of his
head on drugs, carrying drugs, whilst committing a criminal offence, wandering
the streets knowingly infected with Covid 19, resisting arrest...Why , I think
it would be perfectly reasonable to shoot down a mad dog like that in the
street on sight without further ado. No matter what race sex or creed they
were. And that it would be a public service to do so - which might attract a
modest reward! PS: I like that the horse bolted into the demonstrators. Good
idea horse. Too bad the police rider was injured though. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-52954899
08/06/2020: White lives matter? ‘If you are getting arrested by the police for
a violent crime, your chances of being killed by the cops are greater if you
are white then if you are black. In 2015, for every thousand white people
arrested for a violent crime, four white people were killed by
police. In 2015, for every thousand black people arrested for a violent crime,
two black people were killed by police.’ https://rosebyanyothernameblog.wordpress.com/2020/06/02/watching-violence-in-black-and-white/
& http://maggiesfarm.anotherdotcom.com/archives/35078-Is-it-your-protest-strategy-to-piss-me-off.html
08/06/2020: When
Greens seize power reason and freedom take a back seat - German officials
threaten Naomi Seibt with prison for ‘denialism’: ‘Hello, everyone. My name is
Naomi Seibt and I am a new member at the Heartland Institute. And I’ve got very
good news for you. The world is not ending because of climate change. In fact,
12 years from now we will still be around, casually taking photos on our iPhone
18s, Tweeting about the current President on Twitter and ranting about the
latest celebrity gossip. However, we are currently being force-fed a very
dystopian agenda of climate alarmism that tells us that we as humans are
destroying the planet and that the young people especially have no future: that
the animals are dying, that we are ruining nature.
I truly believe that many members of Antifa, Fridays
for Future groups, Rebellion Extinction, I really believe that many of them
have good intentions but they are genuinely scared of the world ending, and
scared that their parents and grandparents are ruining the planet, that it’s
breaking relationships, it’s breaking up families, and we at the Heartland
Institute, we want to spread truth about the science behind climate realism,
which is essentially the opposite of climate alarmism.
Many people are now actually developing mental
disorders, and referring to it as eco-anxiety and eco-depression. And I believe
it is important that we act now and change this entire mainstream narrative of
fear-mongering and climate alarmism, because it’s basically just holding us
hostage in our own brains.
With all of that said, don’t let an agenda that is
trying to depict you as an energy-sucking leech on the planet get into your
brain and take away all of your passionate spirit.
I don’t want you to panic. I want you to think.’ https://junkscience.com/2020/05/monckton-german-officials-threaten-naomi-seibt-with-prison-for-denialism/
07/06/2020: Ultralight
Ultracheap Deer Hunting & Some Ripping Yarns: I am often approached by prospective
deer hunters for advice, particularly about what they need to acquire before
beginning hunting. How little both in weight and dollars do you need to spend
(supposing you already actually own nothing – unlikely)? I have put together
here some suggestions (with links to previous posts).
Here is a photo from many years ago (c1990) of me with
a young stag taken off my foxhounds at the bottom of Deep Creek near Walhalla,
Gippsland. Note ex-army boots, woolen trousers (patched), Aussie Disposals shirt
& hat. The deer would have been shot with my old SMLE. One shot. Thirty
yards. It is dead right where it was running. (More about this at bottom of
page). Lesson: You don’t need to spend a fortune to (successfully) hunt deer: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2020/06/06/ultralight-ultracheap-deer-hunting/
07/06/2020: I
very much fear there can be any justice for officers who struggled to apprehend
and restrain drug crazed criminal George Floyd as he perpetuated his latest in
a life of violent anti-social criminal mayhem and nihilism. Only the
weirdest of lunatic Leftist revisionism could make him out a hero. Why blame
the man for his vile conduct when you can blame the most wonderful society that
has ever existed on earth?
07/06/2020: Folks
are calling the BLM activists who smash things, assault the police, burn
buildings, loot etc ‘anarchists’. I have no doubt there are some among
their number who even style themselves such – but it is not so. The heirs of
this C19th philosophy are not such philistines as these but your local cricket
club, church and credit union who run their own affairs cooperatively with the
willing participation of their members. That is what ‘anarchism’ really is. The
perception that individuals acting collectively have no need to create or have
an over-riding government. Frankly, such 'anarchy' is a good idea. There should
be more of it, not less. As for the rabid abuse, smashing and looting - the
people should quite properly take this matter into their own hands and bring a
quick and fatal stop to it. It is not the right of the mindless mob to destroy
what the quiet labor of many have faithfully built.
06/06/2020: A Hiking Food Compendium: Folks are
always asking me, ‘What do you eat on the trail?’ I have posted about this
again and again, but I just thought I would bring all my posts about this
together as one compendium. When you get tired of eating all these you could
just quit life or hiking I guess. These are mostly our own recipes (tried and
true). I have freshened this post up a lot (04/06/2020)
A couple of these are to enjoy at home, but most are
from dry ingredients which make the meal as light as possible (calories per
gram is all!) and use supermarket bought rather than specialty hiking meals as
they are both cheaper and tastier in my opinion: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2020/06/05/a-hiking-food-compendium/
06/06/2020: 06/06/2020: Let’s all Pretend: ‘Let’s all pretend that people still playing
pretend beyond their 11th birthday say anything worth listening to...Let’s all
pretend a Republican now serves as mayor of Minneapolis rather than for one day
out of the last 59 years. Let’s all pretend Democrats do not enjoy a political
monopoly over every big city plagued by the worst violence. Let’s all pretend
white supremacists and Nazis and Russians destroyed American cities rather than
the people who vote for the people saying white supremacists and Nazis and
Russians destroyed American cities. Let’s all pretend that one cop’s inhumanity
indicts the entirety of law enforcement but many activists’ violence says
nothing about the protests… Let’s all pretend that a drugged-out man, who had
just ripped off a store, with a long history of addiction and violent crime,
including a home invasion in which he pressed a gun to a Hispanic woman’s
stomach, demanded drugs and money, and ransacked her house as an accomplice
pistol-whipped her, amounts to this generation’s Emmett Till’ https://spectator.org/americas-make-believe-moment-george-floyd-minneapolis-riots/
Candace Owens: ‘People out here really trying to make a meth and fentanyl user
who dropped a white baggie during his arrest, and who once put a gun to a
pregnant woman’s stomach -- and did 5 stints in prison -- the next Martin
Luther King. I really cannot.’ Frankly anyone who thinks George Floyd does not
deserve to be dead is seriously deluded!
06/06/2020:
I have been advocating this for years: ‘If
06/06/2020: It’s not us you see: Humans do Ultimate Paris
05/06/2020: Surely Minneapolis US
05/06/2020: You may
have thought day-old bread was pretty bad (29/5), but how about this 2,000 year old
pita loaf: http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/58774
earlier post: (https://catallaxyfiles.com/2020/05/29/english-bread-regulations-in-the-18th-century/)
05/06/2020: Robbing
Peter to Pay Paul: I think this headline: ‘The Morrison Government's Scheme for Some Taxpayers
to Pay for Other Taxpayers Home Renovations’ from
Michael Smith’s excellent blog says it all!
05/06/2020: A Sense of Proportion: I guess the core thing about being ‘conservative’ (being ‘normal’ as I
would view it is) a sense of proportion. Things having their place. Making an
appropriate response to things. Measured. Considered. Not rushing hastily to
‘radical’ reactions or behaviours. Lots of things ‘offend’ me as being ‘out of
place’, ‘inappropriate’ or just ‘bad manners’ as we once used to style it –
though I do not ‘take offence’ – as has become fashionable.. I find for example
that ‘snowflakes’ as we sometimes style a generation or type of person who
can’t perhaps even take a mild joke (against themselves) can simultaneously
rejoin with the vilest rejoinders or even violence. I had an example of that on
one of my websites of just yesterday: I rejoined with a mild joke towards a
young person who (refusing to bother reading carefully what I had written) had
made one of your typical smart-aleck uninformed comments. His rejoinder was to
(first) claim that I had started it (ie no sense of responsibility for his own
actions) then launch into a (mildly unpleasant) ad hominem attack (‘attack’ is
the right word). His behaviour was quite out of proportion (Badly brought up’
we once would have said) which I pointed out to him - on which he took his bat
and ball and went away – but without offering an apology (still harbouring
those bad manners, you see). I don’t ‘enjoy’ the news every morning because it
is ‘reported’ by dreadfully one-eyed people with an axe to grind speaking in a
dreadfully aggressive tone, emphasizing all the wrong words – or all the words
(in a wholly inappropriate manner). Just basically beating me about the head
with the news in a manner which once was reserved only for the ‘opinion’ pages,
and even there in a much milder, more civilized manner. Of course here I am
talking about the ABC/SBS mainly but we get ‘feed’ from all these other news
‘services’ where the like contagion seems to have taken over too. So with this
‘George Floyd’ phenomenon. Everything about it is totally out of proportion. Of
course it is a pity when an alleged criminal dies in police custody or whilst
being apprehended. It is also a pity when a policeman dies whilst performing
like duties of arresting or detaining alleged criminals and the like. Neither
of these are things most people would want happening but most people understand
that though most everyone will want to and try to prevent them happening that
nonetheless they will sometimes happen. That when they do they will be investigated
in the normal way and if charges or other remedial action are needed this will
occur, and finally if justice requires some punishment that this will happen
too. We also understand that along the way there will be appropriate processes,
rights of appeal and so on. Blowing one such event out of all proportion (even
exaggerating it to the level of ‘tragedy’) just dismays me. When I see vast
crowds of people inflamed (by such a mundane event even to acts of violence,
pillage and looting and innocent people killed (not petty criminals) as a
result of it (and its reporting) I almost despair. I would so like people to
regain a sense of proportionate response to things. PS: I also lament degrading
of language: a ‘Tragedy’ is when we (slowly & in detail) witness a worthy
individual destroyed by forces (even his own character) beyond his control –
it’s not just finding a body in the street or on the beach!
04/06/2020: Born With a Wooden Spoon in My Mouth: If your wife loses your ultralight titanium/aluminium hiking spoon
whilst doing the washing up (while you are folding up the tent) in the
Franklin-Gordon wilderness (as my lovely wife, Della did - and she will never
be allowed to forget it, poor thing!) or a similar disaster strikes, then it
might be a good idea to be carrying a spare...but one can hardly be expected to
heft the extra enormous weight of another 9 grams, so here is a lovely 2 gram
hiking spoon. https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2020/06/04/born-with-a-wooden-spoon-in-my-mouth/
04/06/2020: Wonderful objects out there waiting: an Einstein
Ring. What next a Dyson Sphere? https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/06/03/astronomers-find-cosmic-golden-needle-buried-for-two-decades/
04/06/2020: The
Genius of Mathematics: Just hard to believe how brilliant some people are: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srinivasa_Ramanujan & https://www.popularmechanics.com/…/conway-knot-problem-sol…/
See (Stephen Fry) film: The Man Who Knew Infinity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlXHwMgS06c Something to
watch tonight when there is nothing worthwhile on TV!
04/06/2020: Yes
we need a Royal Commission into the ABC. It is violently biased. It urgently
needs to be reformed or abolished – so too SBS: https://catallaxyfiles.com/2020/06/02/we-urgently-need-a-royal-commission-into-the-abc/
All protests should be suspended until
the curve of violence is flattened: http://americandigest.org/all-protests-should-be-suspended-until-the-curve-of-violence-is-flattened/
03/06/2020: A 9 kg Rabbit – and I did not even know you could
house-train a coney: https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/home/pets/giant-pet-rabbit-cocoa-puff-almost-as-big-as-kids-photo/news-story/42c54a8d677a820bc37a98f99d3b990d
03/06/2020:
About time: Prestigious medical journal urges outpatient use of
hydroxychloroquine regimen for COVID-19: https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/coronavirus/hydroxychloroquine-plus-azithromycin?fbclid=IwAR3Nwk4ZxzCWzSq23TgQQapN8G6sscFGXVZeiDBhH8_nTThaR-CGb4y_iwA
BTW: Looks like I will be getting out the sheep drench of Coronavirus hits
around here. Trials show it is very effective with patients well after just
four days: http://joannenova.com.au/2020/06/ivermectin-kills-headlice-and-also-coronavirus-in-a-few-early-trials/
03/06/2020: Rita
Panahi: ‘One of Trump’s greatest assets is being blessed with deeply stupid
enemies…Dozens of police officers have been attacked during the nationwide
protests and at least six people have died, including African-American federal
officer Patrick Underwood, but there’ll be no protests for his unlawful
killing…The media…seem proudly clueless about the fact most Americans care
about law and order and don’t want thugs, Antifa criminals or other anti-police
activist groups terrorising them with impunity. https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/opinion/rita-panahi/rita-panahi-trumps-moves-soothe-lawabiding-americans/news-story/57ec1206093ee6f1d557c2c17577aef5
To avenge (the criminal) George Floyd, Joe Biden’s supporters murdered (worthy)
black Americans Dave Patrick Underwood and David Dorn: https://catallaxyfiles.com/2020/06/03/they-aint-black/
I also like this (black lady) store owner’s take on ‘black lives matter’: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2020/06/black-woman-in-new-york-with-lecture-for-black-lives-matter-thugs.html
02/06/2020: My
Kind of Sheriff Too: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2020/06/my-kinda-sheriff-our-people-like-have-guns-if-you-try-to-break-into-their-homes-im-recommending-they.html
02/06/2020: Keep
up with your Vitamin C. As well as Vitamin D and Zinc Vitamin C really can
cure acute respiratory illnesses: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/05/31/vitamin-c-in-covid-19-prevention/
NB: Vitamin D and Zinc Sulphate to
prevent or cure Covid 19: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/05/04/vitamin-d3-and-the-chinese-virus-coronavirus/
& http://www.rationaloptimist.com/blog/race-to-cure-covid/
02/06/2020: I
was glad to hear Trump call out Xi the other morning. The Communist
dictatorship in
02/06/2020: My
Kind of Sheriff Too: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2020/06/my-kinda-sheriff-our-people-like-have-guns-if-you-try-to-break-into-their-homes-im-recommending-they.html
02/06/2020: No,
mindless insurrection is not ‘peaceful protest: https://www.weaselzippers.us/449653-black-firefighter-spent-his-life-savings-to-open-a-bar-then-minneapolis-looters-burned-it-down/ Fair
Point Steve Kates: ‘My understanding of what took place is that that this
chap Floyd commits some crime, gets arrested, resists arrest, is held down in a
dangerously illegal way and dies. Autopsy says there were other factors in his
death but still, we can all accept that in some important sense the cop
well-exceeded permissible limits. So he should be suspended, prosecuted and if
convicted jailed. No element in this story seems about the fact that George
Floyd was black and the police were white. And then there are riots and
looting, and the most interesting part of the scenes of looting is that not one
of the looters appeared to be even slightly in fear of their lives, or even in
fear of being arrested. What’s the plan going forward? To forbid a black person
to be arrested by the police? To allow mobs to burn your cities down? What
principle of justice follows from any of this that should now be introduced
that wasn’t there before?’ https://catallaxyfiles.com/2020/06/01/nihilism-on-the-streets-of-america/
01/06/2020: A
Lazy Man’s Guide to Hiking and Hunting: Work equals force by distance,
where a single newton of force represents the amount of force needed to move one kilogram one meter. The equivalent imperial
unit is the foot-pound which is self-explanatory.
Image: Sisyphus: ‘In Greek mythology Sisyphus or
Sisyphos was the king of Ephyra. He was punished for his self-aggrandizing
craftiness and deceitfulness by being forced to roll an immense boulder up a
hill only for it to roll down every time it neared the top, repeating this
action for eternity.’ Wikipedia
An example, if you chose a pair of shoes which each
weighs 100 grams (1/10th of a kilogram) more (than another shoe) and
you walk 20,000 half metre steps in a day, you have moved the equivalent of an
extra tonne (1,000kg) during the course of the day (.1 x .5 x 20,000) a
distance of one metre.
That is a lot of extra effort. If I asked you to shovel
a tonne of manure from this pile here to that one a metre away there you would
think it was a lot of work, and maybe wouldn’t want to do much else for the
rest of the day! (It would be a pile approximately a cubic metre/yard say 3′
x3′ x 3′). But that’s just what 100 grams in each of a pair of
shoes adds up to, yet you are likely carrying several kilogramss extra
somewhere in your kit! How many tonnes of s—t is that? https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2020/05/31/a-lazy-mans-guide-to-hiking-and-hunting/
01/06/2020: Mars
Here We Come. Go Dragon. (thirty seconds in): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZolorqY2AM
01/06/2020:
‘New’ Games With Irving Finkel: http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/58766
01/06/2020:
Black Lives Don’t Matter. This is racist cant. Everyone’s lives, liberty and
property matter. Neither am I denying right to peaceful protest but when
protest becomes riot involving property damage, assaults on police and other
persons such behaviour must be stamped out immediately if necessary by the
reading of the ‘Riot Act’ followed by shooting directly into the crowd if they
refuse to disperse – what the ‘Riot Act’ involves. I am also tired of the
‘excuses’ for such anti-social behaviour. If police sometimes act wrongly (or
appear to) both of which are inevitable though every effort should be (and is)
made to avoid them, the law must nonetheless be allowed to take its course. It
took a year before a (black) policeman was charged with the murder of a (white)
Australian for example, but in the present case it only took four days for a
(white) policeman to be charged with the murder of a (black) man. There are
(apparently) no other colours! The respective races of perpetrators and victims
are properly irrelevant. Justice needs to take its course. There are also
avenues of appeal and a right to peaceful protest if it appears not to be doing
so, but this wholesale (organized) mayhem (by the extreme Left) is another
matter entirely - and Trump gave one of his best speeches ever about it (and
other things): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWQTv4v3aDI&feature=emb_title PS: I do not think what is happening is what
Abraham Lincoln meant by this, ‘This country, with its institutions, belongs to
the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing
government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or
exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.’ 1st inaugural address.
31/05/2020: 1400
Posts: My daughter Merrin started this blog for me four years ago on 26 May
2016 so I am surprised I/we have been so busy, but today this is my 1400th
post! Just thought I would take a few lines to highlight the last 100 posts
which have occurred over the last six months or so: I guess the highlight in
our memories of the last 100 was our walk on the Everest
Base Camp Trail back in November 2019. Now
read on: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2020/05/30/1400-posts/
31/05/2020: Wonnagatta Murders (cont): A tiny bit of new information in the
Herald-Sun this morning: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/truecrimeaustralia/police-courts/missing-campers-time-frame-narrowed-to-18hour-window/news-story/f14372ce134482e3ae4c265c01284d82
Police have narrowed the time frame a
little. ‘Mr Hill talked via his radio with a friend at about 6.30pm on March
20…He spoke only briefly because darkness was descending and he wanted to set
up the camp site. The next day, other High Country visitors came across their
camp at about 2pm. They saw fire had destroyed a tent and camp furniture and
had also scorched the side of Mr Hill’s Toyota LandCruiser. Those passers-by
believe it had been out long enough to have gone cold. It was not smoking at
that point... search and rescue squad officers, who have run major operations
in the surrounding area, were convinced they would have found some trace of the
friends if they were still there… it was possible something had gone wrong
while the pair were out exploring the bush. But both getting into the kind of
trouble which led to death was less likely… Investigators are now trying to
track every person who was in the area.. there were a lot of people in the High
Country that weekend… Mr Hill had been in the King Billy and Bluff Track area
from March 13 to 16 on a separate solo visit with his new drone. He also took
the drone on the trip with Ms Clay the next week… Anyone with any other
information on the disappearance or who has any CCTV or dashcam footage can
call Crime Stoppers.’
Sunset occurred on March 20 at Mt Hotham Vic at 7:22pm Twilight at 7:48pm https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/australia/melbourne?month=3&year=2020 Deep in the Wonnangatta Valley (which runs roughly North-South) and close up against the Western side in the narrow Dry Creek Valley, sunset/twilight would occur much earlier, at least an hour. When Russell said it was ‘getting dark’ so h