Last night I went to bed early with a raging sore throat and a runny nose. If anything, those symptoms are a touch worse today. I’m not complaining. I’m actually very pleased.
Those little signs indicate my immune system is kicking in and it was kickstarted when I received my first dose of Keytruda (Pembrolizumab) yesterday afternoon at Westmead Hospital.
Keytruda is one of a limited range of new immuno-oncological drugs designed to firstly tear down the protective mechanisms that cancer cells develop and then supercharge the immune system to the point where the body itself can destroy cancer at a cellular level.
I’ve joked with friends that I might be soon seen in public wearing a cape and that I have already developed the superhuman powers of night hearing and communicating with cats.
Full column here.
As predicted, Mr Insider, another Barry Crocker of a Newspoll for PM Turnbull, makes 18 consecutive negative ones now. (Abbott scored 30) Surrounded by fools and incompetents he himself just cannot grip the levers of power and looks headed for an electoral wipe out the size Australia has not seen for some time. Goodbye Malcolm thanks for coming buddy.
http://tinyurl.com/ybg2s6ks
Terry Laidler in the Fairfax papers is spot on, statements from Catholic Archbishops are not going to make any great difference to the postal plebiscite.
he quotes figures of 60% plus support for SSM marriage amongst Catholics and I would add that Catholics have been happy ignoring their bishops on matters of sex for forty or more years.
For example, even regular attenders have been using contraception banned by the Church at much the same rates as non-Catholics, and if they go ahead and sack all the gays from Catholic Schools well they won’t have a lot of men.
No, the risk of a loss in the plebiscite is not going to come from the Catholics and Anglicans, but from new citizens from countries where SSM is not a thing at all, not even on the agenda.
Good comment, mate. It really was a very silly statement from Hart and massively counterproductive.
I’ve tried praying and I’ve tried contraception. Whilst both have worked, for peace of mind I’d recommend the latter. Also a long marriage can render both superfluous! I doubt it’s much of an issue in ssm’s.
Jack, We worked for a while with Terry on radio when we were still in Melbourne. He is a man of tremendous insight and understands exactly what is wrong with the Catholic Church as he is an ex-Priest himself. I cannot understand why the Catholic Church can’t see the harm it has and still is, inflicting on the members of their faith.
It’s got to the point where Catholic friends of mine are simply shaking their heads and walking away.
Another gain for Labor in Newspoll but let me tell you-nothing to crow about! We are at rock bottom now as far as government is going. As hopeless as he is, Shorten is still making gains over Turnbull. Bloody hell, Labor have much better blokes than this guy. This is the most hopeless govt we have ever seen and Shorten STILL cannot even get preferred PM over Turnbull’s incapacity to make policy, stop internal divisions and govern. Shorten and Labor should be at least 10 points ahead in all areas. As I keep saying, a good Khaki scare campaign, a terror move close to us and a few boats would see Abbott Dutts and Cormann in ‘We Will Keep You Safe’ mode and Shorten’s Newspoll gains will be tinder. Shorten needs to do much more than sit back and ‘coast into govt’ as Dennis keeps telling us. That said if the election is on policy rather than scare. Shorten will win hands down. Labor has been policy driven for a very long time so much so that the Looters have stolen a heap of them.
Surprised that SimonT is not in the tipping but the upside is he is not boasting about ManU. They looked pretty good last night.
Did remind him Milt, he may still be overseas.
Still, that hasn’t stopped him before.
And…ummm……CHELSEA!
Looky
We were warned.
https://twitter.com/TheToddWilliams/status/898614356404879363
Glad I didn’t waste any money on a visit to ANZ last night, opted for a screening of the Illinois nazi film instead, move em up, roll em out🐂
Much more entertaining.
ABs scored over over a point a minute in the first half, mainly from a shedload of missed tackles, then the wobblies almost a point a minute in the second half, but got lost for about 10 mins near the end. It was bad, but who scores 34 points against the ABs?
How To Know You’re In a Mass Hysteria Bubble
http://blog.dilbert.com/post/164297628606/how-to-know-youre-in-a-mass-hysteria-bubble
The reason you can’t easily identify what-the-hell is going on in the country right now is that a powerful mass hysteria is in play. If you see the signs after I point them out, you’re probably not in the hysteria bubble. If you read this and do NOT see the signs, it probably means you’re trapped inside the mass hysteria bubble.
Thanks Dwight, nice to know I am not in the bubble. Lot of people on here are I’m afraid. Well, not afraid, I knew it, but couldn’t quantify it.
How disgraceful is the Turnbull government to continue to allow Dual Citizens, including the Deputy PM Joyce, to sit in Parliament, Mr Insider. The Lib/Nats are in total disarray. Consecutive Negative Newspoll no 18 coming up for Turnbull, he and his failed government are “toast”.
I notice Joe Hildebrand and other News Corpse commentators have drawn a parallel between ISIS demolition of the statues at Palmyra and the removal of confederate statues. There is a difference, the statues at Palmyra are antiquities nearly 2000 years old, the statues of Robert E Lee and other civil war generals and soldiers are less than 100 years old, deliberately put up as symbols of white supremacy in the 1900’s to reinforce Jim Crow and in the 50’s and 60’s as a response to the civil rights movement.
Whether or not Lee, Jefferson and Washington were slave owners is not the reason that the Lee and the other generals statues were pulled down. Lee and the others fought to protect and defend an illegal rebellion in the defence of slavery. That it was about “states rights” is a furphy, look at all the deeds of secession of the confederate states and they all state quite explicitly that the reason for secession was the defence of slavery. Secession was universal supported by the poor whites because it meant that they were not the bottom of the very hierarchical heap that of the kleptocracy was the confederacy.
Just as you don’t see memorials to Hitler and the rest of the Nazis in Germany, likewise you don’t see memorials to Karl Doenitz, Heinz Guderian and Erwin Rommel, or U Boat sailors or members of the Afrika Corps, however bravely they fought.
BS UQ,
These folks are motivated by the same narrow ideological view as ISID and the Talib: Whatever they don’t agree with, must be erased. There’s no philosophy behind this, merely hatred of the “other”. These are the same people who are into suppression of free speech with their childish “no platforming” agenda, and are totalitarian in their goals. Their placards should all proclaim their real goal which is “shut up and submit”.
Yep.
It’s a continuation of the crap that is going on in Universities with safe havens and getting rid of stuff that might offend.
Scary times.
Spot on UQ. Until those moaning about revisionism also call for statues of Gaddafi to be put back up in Libya, or for that matter, the restoration of the lead George III pulled down by American revolutionaries at Bowling Green in 1776, you can file their complaints under “selective outrage”.
JOH, I don’t know about statues, but there was a portrait of his Gadaffyness in every room in Libya. They couldn’t have had time to burn them all yet.
Jack, I’ll be getting up a petition (soon, I hope) to urge all people get their cancer treatment for zero cost. If possible, not so much as a parking fee at public hospitals.
Meanwhile, I’m thinking what pathetic humbug is “say a prayer for that little boy”.