The pond is taking a break, partially because there are other pressing matters in the ether, and partially because attending to the reptiles has become tedious. Perhaps absence will make the heart grow fonder; perhaps the heart will grow harder.
Whatever, it'll be an indeterminate adjournment, and business will resume in due course.
Oh no, now I'll have to find way to fill my days with joy and happiness other than reptile tediousness. But absence, so they say, maketh the heart grow fonder, so do recuperate most heartily, DP.
ReplyDeleteThank you DP for guiding us through the recent reptile convolutions. Indeterminate is good - no mark on the calendar - so recuperate in the best way.
ReplyDeleteOh - and if they realise that the 'Flagship' is a loser in every way - they might even scuttle it while you are contemplating more serene scenes.
Be good to yourself, and be good to Buffalo DP.
ReplyDeleteBest wishes for good times ahead. And many thanks for the good times past.
You deserve a rest DP. Constant exposure to the reptile offensive leads to burnout and you have been a tireless soldier on the front line. Time for some R&R. We salute you.
ReplyDeleteBreakfast with DP is a ritual that mirrors my dismay with the Reptiles. Grrrr. Eating breakfast alone will not be the same. I'll continue to drop in each morning to check what's happening. Best wishes and I'm reassured that "business will resume in due course."
ReplyDeleteI will miss you DP but understand what an arduous job it is to be on reptile watch. Glad that "business will resume in due course". Enjoy your break.
ReplyDeleteIn the meantime, there are small wonders to contemplate: here's a politician that is a fine exemplar of the description: "very thick headed and very thin skinned": Nicolle Flint. Now who, in any proximation to their "right mind" would think that Nicolle is copping it because she's a woman rather than copping it because she's a duckheaded out-right LNPer ?
ReplyDeleteBut oh no, it's because the Labor folks and the Union Movement folks and the Getup folks are all agin her simply because she's a woman. Not because she's a vulnerable MP in a marginal seat with some abominable right wing opinions. Oh no, never that.
The vast Getup strawman again?
DeleteTake it easy DP.
ReplyDeleteThe reptiles are getting very tedious of late. It's hard to see them coming up with any new ideas and there's only so much humour to be derived from knowing exactly what they will do and say in any particular circumstance. Sort of making you bricks without straw (and clay) most days.
Maybe you can post some particularly egregious example of fuckwittery from time to time.
I mostly find it hard to know what Major Mitch. will come up with - it's really difficult to think down to that level, and stay there for a whole 'essay'. I mean, hudathunk Lenin medals ?
DeleteI do enjoy the backgrounding where long-term loon watchers point out the forgotten follies like UN world government and the passing parade of RWFWs that have become too ridiculous even for Murdoch.
DeleteFlint using parliamentary privilege to shift the blame onto the Labor party for her decision to leave parliament is not going to deliver the sympathy she wants.Her failure is her fault no one else's.
ReplyDeleteTo "attempt" to shift the blame perhaps - absolutely did not cut through. Was fisked through the day, and had evaporated by dinner time. Very annoying that this strategy cooked up by PMO gimps no doubt did lead morning news on ABC.
DeleteAs noted by several journos, the word "Labor" had not appeared in her historical complaining. Just a coincidental addition this week? Yeesh. Most comical of all was her trying to side-hitch the failing downwards Lady Downer into the net.
Laugh, we nearly sniggered.
No matter what crap is spouted by whom, vc, there's always some who will believe it.
DeleteAnd Scotty from Marketing having a memory failure when he said “She endured one of the ugliest campaigns I’ve ever seen against not just a woman but anyone in this country,” Mr Morrison said.
ReplyDeleteHis campaign against Mr Towke, who won preselection 82 votes to 8 for the seat of Cook, was not at all edifying.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/nasty-saga-you-nearly-missed-20091025-hem5.html
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What a lovely 'Daggy Dad' story that is. Surely a memorable entry for the long awaited ScottyfromHorizon biography.
DeleteMy Source has noted opinions here that reptilian output is now so predictable that it has become tedious. Well - insufferably tedious. To support the larger contention, she has relayed to me the Friday Henry, as an example of cleverness outwitting itself.
ReplyDeleteThe Henry was supposedly reinforcing the principle of presumption of innocence. He started with a bit of the Bible, then a soupçon of Schopenhauer, followed by a line of Latin ‘Actore non probante, reus absolvitor’ (with translation, to make the L quite redundant - but we must put the great unwashed in their place) but says this did not enshrine presumption of anything. The Henry even argues with Viscount Sankey’s ‘golden thread’ speech, in the House of Lords, in the case of Woolmington (the Wiki has a much more useful account of the case and its significance), which was within living memory of some - 1935.
So the Henry essentially argues against himself on presumption of innocence - even while, it seems, he is trying to bolster the position of Porter. Fortunately for Porter, the Henry is unlikely to be on his legal team.
The Henry’s best shot seems to be ‘None of that is intended to belittle the suffering sexual abuse causes. But instead of redressing injustice, allowing innocent people to be vilified by untrue allegations compounds it.’ Yep - no leading language there - which ‘innocent’ person are we thinking of? whose ‘untrue allegations’? Ever the classic scholar.
Our 'Enry does seem to be wandering down a long and winding laneway or two nowadays. So, for those who can remember:
Delete"Too Much Of Nothing"
Too much of nothin' can make a man feel ill at ease
One man's temper might rise, while the other man's temper might freeze.
In the days of long confessions, we can not mock a soul
When there's too much of nothin', no one has control.
Say hello to Valerie, say hello to Marion,
Send them all my salary, on the waters of oblivion.
Yes Peter and Paul were r-souls, but Mary was ok.