The "reptile sluts for Clive" were at it again yesterday, and even today, when farewelling Bob in the digital edition, the reptiles still couldn't resist the siren song of cash-in-the-paw Clive, and never mind workers' entitlements Clive, and so there was more slutting to be done ...
Sure, the reptiles were more graceful in their tree-killer edition, but the pond knows that the reptiles have also been flooding airport lounges across the land with two page splashes by Clive celebrating his bizarre assembly of loser drop-kick candidates … because "reptile slutting for Clive" seems to be the new business model...
Speaking of eccentric attempts to sway the election, the reptiles also know how to pick tall tellers of tales …
Speaking of eccentric attempts to sway the election, the reptiles also know how to pick tall tellers of tales …
Well the pond has already voted, and so has no interest in self-interested millionaires, the thoughts of tykes - is it time to turn Australia into Alabama yet? - or old fogies blathering about Gough Whitlam.
Why not sound the alarums about Chris Watson or Andrew Fisher, or that's too early, why not a general warning about Billy Hughes or Joseph Lyons, inverted commas man? Yes, Lyons began as a Labor man, and look how that turned out …
No, the pond wanted something simple for a TGIF before the big day, and what better way than a piece by the dullest knife in the drawer, the man who can routinely be relied on to turn up a sausage short for the barbecue …
The pond understands that there are a few pond readers who can boast of achieving the Herculean feat of getting through the bromancer's recent sickly Everest profile of Anderson … but today's outing is a much easier climb, involving as it does the simplistic Andersonian form of climate denialism …
Um, could we stop right there?
The pond realises it's early in the piece, and Anderson has barely warmed to the task, but really, he's such a dumb fuck, and it seems reasonable to run Finkel's previous remarks on this sort of reptile game, available here …
"The fact remains that Australia's emissions per person are some of the highest in the world …"
The pond is sorry for the interruption, no doubt some readers might have expected Anderson to acknowledge Finkel's clarification, but when you're the dullest wide blade in the shearing shed, you can only expect a little blood and lavish applications of mindless tar …
In what delusionary world does anyone imagine that Australia can solve its, or the world's, climate problems by acting alone?
This is known in the trade as a straw dog, as are all the other half-baked disingenuous observations and fatuous comments about post-truth to be found in this deeply post-truth outing …
As for that reptile link to the bromancer's piece about Anderson's second coming, he's not a messiah, he's just a naughty boy, and the bromancer was deep in heresy country claiming he was some sort of Messiah, but for those up to the game, instead of clicking on that screen cap of the link, foolhardy souls can find the full bromancer profile at the bottom of this post…
Now there's an Everest of evangelical stupidity to climb, but the pond was more enchanted by the infallible Pope of the day, with more papal bulls here …
The pond particularly loved that Malware tin hat on the tail. Each day the pond notes a new power-consuming, expensive to maintain green node box turning up in the neighbourhood, with the usual gouging of the pavement, and shitty repairs done in tar, and mouths a silent curse for the onion muncher and Malware …
But as the talk is of dinosaurs, we must return to the evangelical … because everyone knows that Christ and the dinosaurs were as one …
Oh it's a great meme, and the pond apologises for not directly addressing Anderson's arguments, but truth to tell, from the moment he led with that Finkel, the pond claimed the Fink amendment …
Did someone mention evolving? Not in the world of Anderson, always a sheep short in the back paddock ...
And there you have it, that sycophantic celebration of the reptiles, and their climate denialism, and their other assorted luddite, dinosaur-laden approaches to life - is it time for Australia to go full Alabama yet?
Is it any wonder that the pond looks elsewhere for distraction, like the news that the famous Tamworth railway bridge has been used and abused?
For those who came in late, this is what the noble structure looked like … apparently railway buses now cross it daily … because what better way to run railways than with buses?
And this was the wretched sign it was recently forced to carry …
Fear not, the sheep will return Barners to the fold, because rural folk are used to stench, and even think that John Anderson is something of an intellectual.
After all, he devotedly reads the lizard Oz on climate science, so he must be, and wouldn't it be something to use the fuel he devised in an actual rocket…
Oh just fuck off with your "post-truth" bullshit, and your own attempts at post-truth, and fade away, or at least indulge in a personal rapture, and so leave a little room for the pond to celebrate the approaching feast with a Rowe cartoon, with more celebratory Rowe here …
By golly, you can always rely on Rowe … isn't that ring girl something to see? What a top model! Why the pond is thinking of a personal management gig, and is now awaiting interest from the UFC …
How to deal with a philosophy emergency: http://existentialcomics.com/comic/289
ReplyDeleteGood one Joe. Filing that one away for future. Cheers.
DeleteFrom the comic: "Apparently though, these mysterious postmodernists think that "everything is as true as everything else" (a position that no one has ever held)"
DeleteThe other day I was reading Thomas Taylor's 1792 parody of Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Women. The funny thing was the above is exactly what classicists and traditionalists used to accuse modernists of thinking 200 years ago.
The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.
Delete[Ecclesiastes 1:9]
Yeah, it’s all about the money and nothing else with these science pygmies.
ReplyDeleteCompare the pair.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/bob-hawke-there-is-not-one-outstanding-leader-in-the-world-20160708-gq1kgf.html
Never trust a farmer with shiny brown shoes.....ever.
Now Bobork said: "And to get things done you have to have capable people around."
DeleteBut then, the Onion Muncher says in Australia that "we sub-contract too much out to experts already".
So, was it the mighty Hawke and Friends who privatised the Commonwealth Bank, or was that subcontracted out too ?
Though if you ask an expert, you get told this: "The privatisation of the Commonwealth Bank was a financial disaster for the Australian public, although investors in the float did very well indeed."
John Quiggin: http://www.uq.edu.au/economics/johnquiggin/JournalArticles01/CBAPrivatisation01.html
So yes, I guess Hawke and Friends had all the expertise they needed to "modernise the Australian economy." No wonder Abbott remembers Hawke this way: “You might almost say he had a Labor heart, but a Liberal head,”
Yep, selling out the Australian people and destroying one of their most loved institutions while making profits for 'the big end of town' is a real "Liberal head" thing that Hawke and Keating were only too happy to do for themselves.
Totally agree GB. I was looking at Anderson’s rant purely from an environmental standpoint as Bobork (do like that.:) was a somewhat accidental greenie on some issues, plus I did approve of the header that there is not one outstanding leader on the present stage. Your Quiggin piece spot on.
ReplyDeleteYour point that the Onion Muncher’s statement is technically a correct observation is true also......H&K just ran with the whole Hayek/Thatcher philosophy......anything that is publicly owned is fair game to flog to the market.
As a youngish man with a wife and 2 kids, a mortgage and all the usual bells and whistles and working on a minimum wage in those days, the accords did no favours to me or other ordinary working peoples. And it worked out brilliantly for union membership numbers.
You could barely slide a cigarette paper between the two majors since ‘83. And nothing appears to have changed.
Australia is just another cheap commodity for corporates.
https://www.smh.com.au/opinion/exorbitant-costs-of-port-privatisation-no-way-to-fund-levelcrossing-removals-20150924-gjuc4r.html
That said, I can’t believe the Pond is going into mothballs. I will miss yours and others contributions....sigh!
Cheers.
Ah yes, the wondrous "Accord" as plotted between Bill Kelty (and his mate Lindsay Fox) and Hawke and Friends. Don't remember Martin Ferguson actually having much effective involvement, or Simon Crean before him.
DeleteBut all in accordance with the desires of the libertarian econorats at Treasury and particularly the "Productivity Commission" (an abomination that we still suffer today) very much along lines approved by Thatcher and whoever was speaking through Reagan in those days.
Yes, loonpond will be much missed in my life too. It's been a great decade, though I wasn't here right from the start.