Thursday, April 28, 2016

Day 38, and the pond is distracted by those world famous climate scientists, the Bolter and the Pellist ...

Further things and stories the pond hasn't looked at, though the giving, cornucopian reptiles offer them up this day...


 

No, no, silly, that's not the roadmap with no idea of the toll ... you know, the one that might involve the climate doing over the planet ...

Some roadmap, some big bloody toll ... but don't expect Lloydy to count the cost, expect a fail to count the cost on that one, because that's Lloydy doing his only slightly covert denialist thing ... along with the newly reformed and chastised Malware denouncing his own past verbiage...


Well, that might interest the BOMsters and the poor buggers still left standing in a closet at the CSIRO - let them all congregate in Hobart and read the pond, the pond says - but the pond was looking for a lunchtime treat ...

Oh sure, there's the impending budget, and already the hand-wringing has begun amongst the reptiles ...

 

By golly, that snap of ScoMo looks like an up-angle flashlight shot out of a zombie or a psycho movie, but it's only a few days until we can all unwrap the prezzies and have a fine old time ...


Dear sweet long absent lord, someone kept a vintage mesh stocking from the 1950s, didn't open it up and plunder the treasures therein?

Xmas in early May?

Hmm, well, it's unseasonably warm. Settle, BOMsters, settle ...

Who knows what's in the May stocking, but there's only a few more sleeps, so the pond's happy to let Savva and Shannas toss and turn, savaged by their nightmares as they sweat in the late summer heat ...

And meanwhile the pond still steadfastly refuses to think about the gulags ... which somehow have transmogrified into the Tampa ... and a Tampa test ...



Oh Stalin himself would be pleased with that level of spin ...

With all these offerings, it takes an almost extreme act of perversity to turn to the Bolter and celebrate the Bolter celebrating the Pellists ... but if the pond can't be about supreme acts of perversity, what's the point?


The pond is routinely captivated by the way the Bolter is enraptured by the Pellist.

Perhaps it's because they're both amongst the world's leading climate scientists ...

Perhaps it's simpler. Perhaps it's because they're both barking mad fundamentalists.

Of course the Bolter's sanctimonious humbug and righteous hagiographic claptrap has to overlook a few recent and salient matters, as outlined in Cardinal Pell's credibility is on the line as Catholic church strikes back ...


And so on, there's more at the link, as meanwhile the Bolter goes about his hagiographic duty, presenting his fellow world-famous climate scientist as an heroic crime fighter ...


Well if the Pellist is fighting Vatican crime the way the Pellist fought to get rid of Searson, the Vatican is even more fucked than the pond suspected ...

As for philosophical and theological matters, the pond has absolutely no understanding what any of this might have to do with Jesus Christ and what he actually said and did ...

Oh wait, didn't he say, "suffer little children, suffer"?

That's right, and apparently teh Jesus was also an enthusiastic supporter of gulags ...

Now is there some way to bring all the themes of the day together? (And you can find more Rowe here).




2 comments:

  1. Arfur has pissed off the Senate. Can they get him for contempt? Apparently money laundering and circumventing law is OK if you are a liberal. After all, they have a right to rule, don't they? Let's just shoot the bastards.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQHOy06IBbo

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  2. Bolt repeats the half-truth that Pell was the first bishop in Australia to introduce compensation for paedophile priest victims. In fact, when Pell was appointed Archbishop of Melbourne, an Australia - wide program was well on the way to implementation, so Pell undermined the goal of a unified approach. His Melbourne Response provided a much lower maximum rate of compensation and included a silence clause as a condition. Thus many would argue that his purpose was to protect Church finances and status rather than to care for victims. Reading the chilling account of his treatment of Anthony and Chrissie Foster, parents of two daughters victimised by a Catholic priest, just reinforces that impression

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