The weather on the northern beaches has been torrential albeit Brookvale Oval looks to have drained quite well. Time for Souths to put last week's defeat behind us. When Souths are on top, Rugby League is on top. #NRLManlySouths
If you are a professional rugby league player and you cannot safely mark the ball, you need a new profession. #NRLManlySouths
Souths need to regroup while this poor fellow is seen to - it is a wet day, play it down their end of the soggy field, make your tackles etc and the game will take care of itself. #NRLManlySouths
Souths in for their first try. This is what happens when Reynolds starts to general the team around the field. Great stuff by Latrell Mitchell. More of this please #NRLManlySouths
Even accounting for the weather, the decisions being made and the skill level so far is abysmal. Stop missing tackles and stop pushing stupid passes. It is killing the game. #NRLManlySouths
Outstanding try by Adam Reynolds - leading by example with a chip kick and regather. Needs his team mates to support him now. #NRLManlySouths
As good as Adam Reynolds is, the rest of his team need to start pulling their weight and supporting him. #NRLManlySouths
Latrell Mitchell's pay should be 'docked' for that idiocy that led to a Manly try #NRLManlySouths
Latrell Mitchell has just redeemed himself with a try. Souths 14, Manly 6. #NRLManlySouths
The weather is bad but the skill level is abysmal. Souths play the Roosters next week and this sort of shoddy play will not be anywhere near enough #NRLManlySouths
Souths in to score and seal the win. But this scoreline is absurdly flattering to us. Our skill level was poor (even accounting for weather) and we are leaderless absent Reynolds. We need a lot of work this week at training #NRLManlySouths
Even this melee was of a pathetically low skill level.
Not sure if the NY Times is just trolling but asking France to cancel Napoleon is, itself, a heroic request. The French, commendably, see Wokery as an American puritan idiocy, and refuse to countenance it. Even the French Left thinks Wokery is culturally effeminate absurdism.
If the NY Times wants 'multi-faith, multi race' history, well, General Franco's Army was mostly Catholic with a significant Moor Muslim component (Franco's own guard were Moor Lancers) ... and on capturing Madrid in 1939, Franco re-opened Synagogues the Communists closed & looted
Have been watching The Baader Meinhof Complex (imagine German Boomers reliving their youth) and, so far, the main takeaway is BMWs were much more reliable getaway vehicles in the 1970s. Also everyone - male or female - looked like Joachim Low for some reason.
One curious aspect of The Baader Meinhof Complex is that, bourgeois poseurs thought they all were ('nein' working class heroes here), they were actually trying to be urban guerillas in a way that the Antifa types would like to be but lack the fortitude for "the struggle"
In a globalised world where everyone's crisis is, apparently, yours, it was noticeable in The Baader Meinhof Complex (as with the real life Red Army Faction) just how much esoteric (for them) Vietnam and Arab-Israeli conflicts drove these young Germans.
I generally ignore most legal 'trends' (as actually practising lawyers tend to) but note two strong claims in 2021:
A/ 'Believe Victims'.
B/ 'Abolish prisons & a criminal justice that incarcerates innocent people on racist (etc) premises'.
You can have A or B but not both.
Judges, prosecutors, public defenders, etal, all have their own personal views, but that all goes to one side & cases turn on the evidence and whether the evidence supports the case that is being made. Especially in a criminal trial.
We are all (yes, even people you do not like) are presumed innocent (both in and out of a court) until we are found guilty of all elements of a specific crime beyond a reasonable doubt - by either a judge sitting alone or a judge with a jury - based upon *the evidence*.
Anyone doubting the rule of law - and the integrity of police investigations and prosecutorial discretions - is in for a torrid future should see today's unceasing media push for, in effect, prime ministers & premiers to become involved in and direct police investigations. Crazy.
I, for one, am sure the same media that believes Cardinal Pell 'got off on a technicality' - when his appeal was allowed, his convictions quashed & judgments of acquittal entered by a unanimous High Court - will treat these allegations of grave crimes in a sensible & calm manner.
The deafening silence of our very online and opinionated lawyer soviet - who have all kept quiet or ridden the digital herd, thinking this will never happen to them or their clients - is noted. Absolutely appalling.
Good morning all on this Ash Wednesday & the beginning of Lent
There is no doctrine in Catholicism that one “logs off” for Lent. That is abandoning the lay faithful & those whose salvation may depend on your periodically sound content. Reasonably sure Pius IX said always to post through Lent - indeed post through all of life’s travails
“Never stop posting - never log off, and remember that Purgatory involves a thorough review of all your bad content” ~ Clovis, ‘Against The Republic’ (date unknown)
Is there a *non-political* short explainer of why Victoria's Dept of Health cannot do (in terms of contact tracing etc) what the NSW Dept of Health does, so obviously & unusually well, every day? I just presume these two very large Health Depts regularly talk and exchange notes?
To take politics out, constitutionally, Quarantine is a Commonwealth responsibility (s.51(ix)) and the CTH, in Sydney anyway, used to operate the Quarantine Station at North Head until the mid 1980s. A revived national Quarantine infrastructure will (it seems) be needed.
Actually did a small thread on Quarantine last year fwiw provoked by the idiocies at that time as we were just beginning to deal with Covid. A strict quarantine enforced even against returning Australian soldiers from WW1.