“All of us would regularly produce a Bugs or a Porky Pig or an Elmer Fudd, but we also had a special character too. . . . Friz’s was Yosemite Sam. We would tease Friz that if he ever exploded the result would be similar to what Sam did when he was angry.”
Freleng even admitted to serving as inspiration for the gun-slinging, brazen Sam.
“I have the same temperament,” Freleng told the Associated Press. “I’m small, and I used to have a red mustache.”
But were the Semitic Yosemite comedy stylings of the snake oil salesman enough to end the darkness?
The pond kept wondering what might come along that would lift the gloom. Would there ever be any light at the end of the tunnel? And then hallelujah, it came, like a bolt from the reptile cage …
There's more at the Graudian here, and for the first time the pond began to dream of a world without Murdochian reptiles.
Oh sure, they'd find a home elsewhere, they'd find like minds and continue on their way, but the mother ship would just be like a dream, the fond remembrance that the Hearst company now presents when recalling William Randolph Hearst (oh yes, vulgar people like the pond wandering around the castle, gawking at the weird habitat for lost lives, worthy of a spot in a Kubrick sword and sandal pic).
But this day, the reptiles are all gathered together in their usual weekend edition, and the result's a gigantic, ginormous pile-on, with comrade Dan somewhere at the bottom of the pile …
The pond deliberately sought out a reptile with something interesting to say on something else, and luckily the reporting of that remarkable revenue decline contained a gem in the middle …
Forget the cheap irony there in the middle of the News Corp boss urging people to use google to get a name, while at the same time the reptiles maintain their war with the tech giants.
Notice instead how the google machine is stuck between those reports of losses, alongside the lizard Oz doing their best to put lipstick on the Murdochian pig …
And then see how the bromancer, in classic reptile style, responds to this juxtaposition…
With digital fear and cyber loathing, and heaps of cyber paranoia, ladled out in a way that only the bromancer can … (and they always laugh at the greenies for having an apocalyptic mindset, as the bromancer details the cyber rapture soon to sweep us all away) …
Nota bene how the bromancer kicks off with an opening sentence of searing banality, as if cyber security shouldn't already be a big feature of any computer user's life, what with the full to overflowing tubes and all that ...
Ineeed, indeed, it would be difficult to carry off, and nonetheless, we must whip up a nightmare, a cascading wave of paranoia … when really shouldn't we be back in the 1960s, just cruising along?
As for precautions, why bother...
So how to whip up the appropriate level of fear? Why, wheel in the mutton Dutton, darkly explaining how there can't be any guarantee about anything (but perhaps his department should have cyber security powers worthy of the Chinese government, and use facial recognition to nail jaywalkers) ...
The bromancer was present in Londonnat a private discussion of the dark web? Couldn't he just have gone online? Does then silly billy think that being present in the flesh is the way it works these days? Sorry, the pond had started with the best of intentions, but already its interest had begun to flag …
As for the rest, the pond couldn't resist heading back to the good old days …
Stuxnet, discovered by Sergey Ulasen, initially spread via Microsoft Windows, and targeted Siemens industrial control systems. While it is not the first time that hackers have targeted industrial systems, nor the first publicly known intentional act of cyberwarfare to be implemented, it is the first discovered malware that spies on and subverts industrial systems, and the first to include a programmable logic controller (PLC) rootkit …
The worm initially spreads indiscriminately, but includes a highly specialized malware payload that is designed to target only Siemens supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems that are configured to control and monitor specific industrial processes. Stuxnet infects PLCs by subverting the Step-7 software application that is used to reprogram these devices. (wiki footnotes and more here)
The pond's pleased it got that out of the way, because you won't find any of that in the bromancer crap about bad faith actors that follows ...
Oh yes, the reptiles are keen to keep on peddling dinkum clean Oz coal, and making sure Gina's mob are happy about the iron ore situation … and now back to the paranoia, and experts of the Malware kind, the man who managed to fuck up Australia's entire online enterprise, or at least the delivery system. That surely must make him an expert of the reptile kind ...
Change the perception of reality among users?
What, like Fox News and Fox and Friends, and the Murdochian press, and such like try to change reality… so that you might emerge mind cleansed, thinking that the Donald is the solution to all your problems? And that Microsoft and the CIA having all your data is much to be preferred … because the Donald is the sort of man you'd buy a used car from ...
Um okay, Rowe certainly has conjured up a vision, and more visions here, and if that's your dream and you think the Donald and his CIA chums and William Barr are your friends, whatever, but can we just wrap it all up now with a last big fear and loathing question?
Actually we can never anticipate when fuckwits in the United States or Israel might release a virus into the system and see it go rogue, go wild, but what's that about the bromancer now turning up at the ipa? He too has retreated deep into Gina heartland?
By golly, the tentacles of corruption spread ever wider, and you don't even need the full to overflowing intertubes to do it ...
And so, because all the other reptiles are all piling on to comrade Dan this weekend for their entertainment, the pond thought it might turn to tender-hearted tyke Shanners for the second theme of the day ...
Small and local should be at the heart of aged care?
Where has she been this last week? Hasn't she heard the news? There is a solution, there is a cure for the elderly …
The elderly are a disease … and the Bolter is the cure …
But the pond should probably give the Angelic one a chance to make her case before pursuing alternatives ...
Say what? We should care about people in their dotage?
Cue the cure known as the preening narcissistic Bolter:
Most people dying of this virus are over 80. More than two thirds dying in this Victorian wave are in aged-care homes.
But more bungling: the federal and Victorian governments let the virus get into more than 80 nursing homes.
Surely putting a tighter lock on those homes makes more sense than trying to stop all infections everywhere by shutting businesses.
Note: 40 per cent of aged-care home residents die within nine months. The average stay is just under three years.
So Victoria’s bans are doing huge damage to — essentially — save aged-care residents from dying a few months earlier.
Indeed, indeed … there were a few who protested …and a few who noted that the Bolter wasn't quite on top of things ...
The chief executive of the Council on the Ageing, Ian Yates, said Bolt’s argument was totally unacceptable.
“It’s an attitude that certain kinds of lives are disposable,” Yates told Weekly Beast. “Logically the next step would be to ask, ‘Why do we have nursing homes at all, why don’t we just bang them on the head?’”
As the pandemic has worsened, Bolt’s rhetoric has sometimes been overtaken.
“Not a single person under 40 has died,” he said on Tuesday night. On Wednesday, the Victorian premier, Daniel Andrews, announced a man in his 30s had died.
“A lot of people are very upset with me,” Bolt said in an editorial on Sky News. “What I wrote was confronting, some thought it was brutal, but it was also absolutely true.” (Of course the pond got it from the Weekly Beast, the pond wouldn't piss on the Bolter if he was on fire).
But of course the Bolter had nailed it. Nobody young died, except for the young ones that did. Young 'uns only got a stuffy nose, unless they happened to die.
And what a sublime solution. Lock 'em up tight, out of harm's way, and if that doesn't work?
Why, surely a bang on the noggin is the kind thing to do, and entirely in line with the Bolter's political philosophy, and his leader's deepest thinking …
T4 Program, also called T4 Euthanasia Program, Nazi German effort—framed as a euthanasia program—to kill incurably ill, physically or mentally disabled, emotionallydistraught, and elderly people. Adolf Hitler initiated the program in 1939, and, while it was officially discontinued in 1941, killings continued covertly until the military defeat of NaziGermany in 1945.
In October 1939 Hitler empowered his personal physician and the chief of the Chancellery of the Führer to kill people considered unsuited to live. He backdated his order to September 1, 1939, the day World War II began, to give it the appearance of a wartime measure. In this directive, Dr. Karl Brandt and Chancellery chief Philipp Bouhler were “charged with responsibility for expanding the authority of physicians…so that patients considered incurable, according to the best available human judgment of their state of health, can be granted a mercy killing.”
Within a few months the T4 Program—named for the Chancellery offices that directed it from the Berlin address Tiergartenstrasse 4—involved virtually the entire German psychiatric community. A new bureaucracy, headed by physicians, was established with amandate to kill anyone deemed to have a “life unworthy of living.” Some physicians active in the study of eugenics, who saw Nazism as “applied biology,” enthusiastically endorsed this program. However, the criteria for inclusion in this program were not exclusively genetic, nor were they necessarily based on infirmity. An important criterion was economic. Nazi officials assigned people to this program largely based on their economic productivity. The Nazis referred to the program’s victims as “burdensome lives” and “useless eaters.” (here)
Why should we have to waste time, money, energy, food and all that other stuff on burdensome lives and useless eaters, given that they'll soon cark it anyway?
The pond bets that the Angelic one doesn't have a comeback to the sublime logic of a rampant fascist ...
Oh yadda yadda and all that stuff …
So Victoria’s bans are doing huge damage to — essentially — save aged-care residents from dying a few months earlier.
Lock 'em up, and if that doesn't work, kill 'em quick, put 'em out of their misery.
And just to prove that the pond is onboard with the reptile agenda, at one with the fascist ideology floating in the reptile ether, there was also this in the Weekly Beast …
What's the point in being alive? Somehow you feel you can't live?
Why not just kill yourself? You're a useless waste of space at the best of times, burdensome and a useless eater … a waste of digital space, useless killer thoughts surging through sociopathic brain …
Can't summon up the courage to kill yourself? Can't bite down on that capsule your mum thoughtfully slipped between your teeth as the only way out of the bunker?
Why not get someone to bash you on the noggin, or perhaps slip a bolt into the brain, the way they do in abattoirs …
By golly, the pond is really getting into this fascist reptile spirit. Sure there's a little tut-tutting and well-meaning clucking
“Quite apart from the fact that everyone in the community has parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles, and great-grandparents who have spent their lives contributing to the community and deserve dignity in their last years, Bolt’s comments are based on an erroneous assumption that Covid only affects the elderly,” Wake told Weekly Beast.
Dear sweet absent lord, what's this talk of dignity and erroneous assumptions?
Why, he's sounding like the Angelic one, and apparently she doesn't have the first clue about correct reptile thinking ...
Off to reptile correctional school for you, Angelic one ...
So Victoria’s bans are doing huge damage to — essentially — save aged-care residents from dying a few months earlier.
But on the upside it might explain why some people can't be bothered spending the money when there are more important things required in the middle of a pandemic …
And so to end on an up note …
Please, that's a fake news quiz.
That should be "Bolter or False", and remember always ...
"then there was that Jewish joke about Friz Freleng, fondly remembered in the LA Times here ..."
ReplyDeleteOh DP, you've done it again: first Disney, now Warner ... but when UPA and the fabulous Mr Magoo (and Jim Backus) and Gerard McBoing-Boing ?
So the Bromancer has decided to forgo God and turn his body, mind and soul to matters of "cyber security". Just another instance of the morons leading the imbeciles, I guess. And cyber security is of massive importance, of course, because it is a god-given commandment that everything in the world has to be web connected with everything else. World just can't function otherwise, can it.
ReplyDeleteOf course, I have absolutely no idea at all why the water supply or electricity supply control functions have to be made available over the web - does anybody ? Back in the long-gone prior era, before there was a 'universal web' remote operations had to be performed via secure individual lines that required comprehensive logon verification. Sure, it can be useful for trusted employees to be able to check on the current status of things but that can be managed by having separate management and information setups where data can only go in one direction (management->data) and therefore even if the data system is penetrated, no commands can be issued to the management system.
But I suppose that's way too simple for today's sophisticated computer managed systems. Oh well. So when Bromancer says: "Imagine disruption worse than COVID. Imagine vital equipment not working in hospitals. Even simple stuff like locating needed blood supplies." and I say: why is any of that accessible in a bi-directional way on the web ? then I'm just displaying my total out-of-dateness.
I did enjoy Shanana's statistics, though, and I can't wait to make it to age 85 (a mere 8 years which is roughly about when I expect my 11yo Siberian tricolour cat to depart the mortal coil) so that I can become one of those who has 13.61 workers to support me.
Of course what Shanana fails to grasp is: (1) the steady, albeit periodically up-and-down, increase in GDP per capita meaning that 'workers' in the future will be producing more per capita than they do now, and (2) when the revolution finally stops the hugely excessive monetary accumulation by "billionaires" and returns some semblance of proportion, then there will be more than enough to support all of us oldies for the few months that, according to the Bolter, is all it takes for us to shuffle off.
Or perhaps, just perhaps, we might start thinking like a collected and co-related society in which we can start to accept group responsibility for ourselves and each other instead of just pretending we are isolated men and women, and occasionally families, who have to be processed as some kind of separate, individual burden in the best Maggie Thatcher tradition.
I suspect that the operation of the intertubes would be black magic to Sheridan.
DeleteA lot of users of technology, me included, think they have deep understand of things when they really only have a very superficial familiarity with a finished product. I wonder if he could give a basic description of, say, IP addressing for instance?
As for "we might start thinking like a collected and co-related society". I have noticed in emergency situations like road accidents that people do act in a cooperative, if not always well reasoned, fashion.
It makes me wonder if the extreme selfishness, often synonymous with 'freedom' in reptile speak, is not a learned state.
Not sure I could give any kind of unresearched description of IP addressing myself nowadays, Bef. But I would truly like to know why apparently everything has to be accessibly web connected and therefore vulnerable to all and sundry.
DeleteAnd the universal response to 'disasters' - eg the 'Black Summer' bushfires, the current Lebanon disaster and many, many more - does show IMHO that 'collective and mutual responsibility' is in fact the norm for most of humanity most of the time. 'Extreme selfishness' is, in the sweep of human history, a fairly modern phenomenon.
Synonymous, I reckon, with the 'greed is good' capitalism that we've had imposed upon us since the beginning of the 'atomic family' age. And some do say that, for instance, Maggie Thatcher's "there is no society" has been misunderstood and/or misrepresented:
Why ‘there’s no such thing as society’ should not be regarded with moral revulsion
https://theconversation.com/why-theres-no-such-thing-as-society-should-not-be-regarded-with-moral-revulsion-136008
I can tell you are less than convinced by the good Professor's argument.
DeleteI guess a guy in the philosophy department can treat those words like an inscription on an ancient stele. Stripped of all context he can wander off and get lost in the semantics.
Most folk would view it in another way, as words out of the mouth of a politician which can be assessed by the policies implemented and the results of those policies.
Ah, Bef, to consider a difference without distinction, and to continue my question of a couple of days ago: nearly all politicians, and most academics, are both hypocritical and incoherent.
DeleteAnd maybe it can be no other way if you can't command, but must instead persuade.
I came across this today relating to the other Shanahan.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/aug/06/victorian-officials-dismiss-claim-of-secret-modelling-showing-daily-covid-cases-of-1100-next-week
It seems the bouffant one has mirrored Angus Beefhead Taylor by either, deliberately falsifying some modelling, or leaping on someone else's misinformation that happened to suit his preferred narrative.
I'll also pop in this example of a ratioed tweet (basically a pile-on)
https://twitter.com/InsidersABC/status/1291183854405836800
Once again, it's no wonder the reptiles hate social media.
I truly loved Dennis's claim that "Without disclosing any sources I co-operated fully with the Premier’s office in several phone calls this morning.
DeleteI also pointed out to them, as I do to you now, that the graphic image on the front of The Australian was not a reproduction..."
Sure you did, Dennis, sure you did; you just can't disclose those "sources" can you. Just like no reptile can ever "disclose sources", can they. Which is what leads lots of us to conclude that their "sources" only exist in their own heads.
"Why pregnant women face special risks from COVID-19". https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/08/why-pregnant-women-face-special-risks-covid-19
ReplyDeleteI'm sure the Bolter will have something to say about this.
Woah, woah, woah here!
ReplyDeleteBromancer: "....vastly more deadly than the flu...."
I don't think so sir! Messrs Bolt, Trump and Kenny all assured as back in March that COVID-19 was just a flu-like thing.
Honestly, please keep yourself in the factual lane - we do not need the horses being frightened at this critical juncture.
But, butt vc “This thing’s going away. It will go away like things go away...” We have that unconditional assurance from a very stable genius, you know.
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