For some reason too bizarre or perverse to analyse, the pond finds itself turning to the Major first on a Monday … yes, even though the Caterist and the Oreo are also out and about, it's the Major's deep desire to parade his neuroses that brings out the Freudian in the pond …
Take the irony in the header below.
Could it be any more compleat, coming from the man who went on an extended hunt for an Order of Lenin medal and came up with diddly squat? Finding facts? He couldn't even find a medal ...
There in the middle of that gobbet is a fine example of the denigration and contempt that the Major feels for those who think differently to him.
Note how he quotes "some metropolitan self-identifying Aboriginal people think", even while then going on to quote a couple of "metropolitan self-identifying Aboriginal people" and their thinking …yes Warren Mundine lives an aspirational life on Sydney's north shore and Prof Langton can be found proffing away at the University of Melbourne…
It's all about as gratuitous as the pond scribbling about self-identifying white people scribbling furiously from their 'leet eerie in Surry Hills that they'll be damned if they'll apologise for anything …
But the Major's parade of his neuroses has barely begun. Once again he provides evidence how hard it is for the reptiles to let go their use of the demonic word "Fairfax" … and soon enough he'll broaden out into a litany, a whining and a moaning and a keening about pet peeves, from the Donald through Brexit to climate science and the onion muncher ...
Actually it was the attempt to reintroduce knighthoods that definitively established that the onion muncher was stupid, and there's a fair argument that the search for Greg Hunt's walri secured his place in history … as people began Greg Hunting through wikis in a way up there with the hunting for the snark.
Oh yaroop garooar, as the fat owl of the Remove would say ...
But why is there so much publicity for the challengers?
Well the reptiles are genuinely terrified and fearful and so they report each fresh event as a potential catastrophe …
But why is there so much publicity for the challengers?
Well the reptiles are genuinely terrified and fearful and so they report each fresh event as a potential catastrophe …
There's no need to read Fairfax, sorry Nine, or the Graudian, to get news of the onion muncher … the reptiles are fixated, transfixed, by the challenge to the onion muncher and wicked women on the rampage in a witch hunt …
And there's another reason, one which has finally come back to haunt the reptiles of Oz …
More Wilcox at Fairfax, sorry Nine, here … and now back to the Major Mitchell's parade …
Yep, the paranoia's cranked up to eleven this morning, like a coal-loving air conditioner on a sultry summer Sydney day …
Oh and another thing that was in the lizard Oz paper yesterday …
We're in unprecedented times? Not in the Major's world … which is a world where the onion muncher is an expert on climate science and a revered lover of dinkum clean Oz coal, oi, oi, oi ...
No, no, you poor old humbug. Let it go. There was no Order of Lenin medal, and there is no Fairfax, and no it isn't Nine/Fairfax, it's just plain old Nine, and Lloydie is a dissembling, disingenuous ratbag who purports to be an environmentalist but is just one of your dinkum clean Oz coal lovers and covert denialists, while if the Caterist's expertise on floods in quarries is any guide, the less heard from him the better …
And still there you are, with your blather about climate science and talk of privileged feelings about the climate, and what the fuck has that got to do with climate science?
About the best that can be said for it is that 'privileged' is that at least it's a variation on 'virtue signalling' … but it has to be said that it's just as silly, and takes the cake for 'moral posturing' …another feeble variation. Come on, admit it, you wanted to use 'virtue signalling', didn't you, but were afraid of stepping on the dog botherer's toes ...
About the best that can be said for it is that 'privileged' is that at least it's a variation on 'virtue signalling' … but it has to be said that it's just as silly, and takes the cake for 'moral posturing' …another feeble variation. Come on, admit it, you wanted to use 'virtue signalling', didn't you, but were afraid of stepping on the dog botherer's toes ...
Meanwhile, harden the fuck up cattle, no trees for you, stand out in the blazing sun all day, it'll do you good, remember the Major is on the prowl, and he's as tough as the leather you'll soon become …
And so to the other meal of the day, and it was an easy choice …
Between the Caterists and the Oreo is an easy choice. After all, the thuggish Caterist, living off government money, is too easy a target, and the pond is titillated at the way that the Oreo and the greenies are locked in a death struggle …
Oh sorry, that's the other Oreos, it seems they're killing off the orang-utans, while our Oreo is busy nagging people about being losers and dropkicks …
It's marvellous to see libertarians celebrate the right of government to manage people's lives right down to the last dollar.
There's something in the Oreo that evokes memories of Xi and the great digital dictatorship celebrated by the ABC here …of course the social credit system is more than just a ham-fisted attempt to control the spending of people living on welfare, but give the Oreo and her chums time, and they too might work diligently towards a digital totalitarian state ...
There's something in the Oreo that evokes memories of Xi and the great digital dictatorship celebrated by the ABC here …of course the social credit system is more than just a ham-fisted attempt to control the spending of people living on welfare, but give the Oreo and her chums time, and they too might work diligently towards a digital totalitarian state ...
Note the Orwellian double-speak, whereby limiting and controlling the behaviour of people is dressed up as "empowering welfare recipients."
Oh this one is worthy of Xi …and targeting the poor and the defenceless and the vulnerable is a tremendously enjoyable sport ...
That last rhetorical flourish was pure Xi … bring on all-encompassing social control, and you'll feel liberated, and all impediments will be removed, and a thousand flowers will bloom … and so in that way of repeating history, we head back to the mission days, and the spirit of A. O. Neville shines down from the clouds and blesses the Oreo ...
And so to the Rowe of the day, which might require a little background, at least for those who weren't watching The Insiders yesterday …
The first off-air camera wobble should have given a clue that all wasn't well, but it took a full on air-collapse to have a few people scurry in front of the camera and rush to the aid of the camera person who'd had a turn while the interview with comrade Bill was proceeding.
Barrie Cassidy didn't handle the first moment well - he looked like a deer in the headlights, torn between panic and flight - but eventually he reassured everyone by saying the camera person had recovered …
Barrie Cassidy didn't handle the first moment well - he looked like a deer in the headlights, torn between panic and flight - but eventually he reassured everyone by saying the camera person had recovered …
So all was well, and Rowe could have his moment, with more Rowe to be recovered here ...
By golly, it's just like the fainting fit the Major, the Oreo and all the other reptiles are having on a daily basis of late …
Well that was a lovely start to the week, DP, and almost to the year. Two peerless exponents of psychological projection and of repeating the litany of Wingnut lies. Though I have to say that truly the Mitch is the incomparable master of both. But that's probably because he simply hasn't anything meaningful to say.
ReplyDeleteThe $50 billion supposedly spent on indigenes is an entertaining one though. The Mitch avers that "Aboriginal leaders Warren Mundine and Marcia Langton told me in 2015 that total spending on Aboriginal programs exceeded $50 billion a year".
So, Warren and Marcia are "Aboriginal leaders" who have special knowledge of how much is spent on "Aboriginal programs". Knowledge more special indeed than those who document the spending who claim that it was in fact only A$33.4 billion:
"At first glance, the most recent review of government expenditure on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Australians is quite staggering. It estimates that direct expenditure was A$33.4 billion, an increase of around 23.7% since the first report in 2008-09 (taking into account inflation)."
https://theconversation.com/government-spending-on-indigenous-people-is-rising-so-why-do-so-many-still-live-in-poverty-86210 - and there you can follow the link to the Productivity Commission's fully detailed report if you wish.
So, just another teensy weensy little lie about how much is spent on 'Aboriginals' in total. But nobody ever asks how that number is made up. Except for our good mate Ross Gittins, of course; he notes that the correct figure of A$33.4 billion works out to $44,900 per aboriginal:
"The report divides the $44,900 into "mainstream services" – services available to all Australians regardless of ethnic origin – and "Indigenous-specific services".
The latter account for just 18 per cent of the total – about $8000 a year per person. This proportion is down on earlier years."
https://www.smh.com.au/business/we-wont-succeed-in-closing-the-gap-until-we-do-our-homework-20171103-gze4gi.html
Oh yes, I realise that's the totally evil Fairax-Nine press, and therefore something that Warren Mundine, Marcia Langton and Chris Mitchell would never, ever read on pain of excommunication from the Holy RWNJ Brigade, but there it is. Lies, lies and more lies - it's all they know.
"But nobody ever asks how that number is made up" - same could be said of Biscuit Girl's references to welfare. The lions share is made up of aged pension but it's a convenient oversight unlikely to be picked up by the Oz reader. It's better to assume it's all going to unworthy bludgers.
DeleteAlso, expect more conflation of 'taxable income" with "total income" or even with wealth as the negative gearing/unused franking credits crusade warms up.
What is entertaining is that the 82% which comprises the "services available to all Australians" contains, of course, a component for expenditure on the military which is, after all, a major "service available to all". And if we are considering services not "available to all" but only to a specific group, then the Age Pension is a beauty: $23,826 pa for singles, or $17958 each for a couple. The price we pay for letting people live on after age 65 and be unemployed, I guess.
DeleteBut talking about "total income", consider the one about how there are all these undeserving types - mostly lower end taxpayers in fact - who get back as much or more in "services" (including the military) as they "pay in taxes". By which the RWNJs mean, but never say, as much as they pay in income tax alone. They never mention all the GST tax and fuel excise (which even we age pensioners pay) and various other government fees and charges (including council rates). Ah, the art of indirection - how the reptiles love it.