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Or some such thing.
Actually the number of reptiles the pond wanted to spend some time with this day verged on zero, which is why it turned to the coal man himself for comfort ... as poor old Scotty from marketing had to pretend for a moment that he didn't love coal and it was all the fault of inner city 'leets ...
Did he really say "animal spirits"? Almost as stupid as yet again trotting out blather about inner city 'leets.
Some days it's hard to believe the enormous stupidity of the man, or perhaps his expectation of the gullibility of listeners, as he talks of achieving net zero, without ever bringing himself to saying that he will set a net zero target ... but then this rogue has form when it comes to smearing innocent bystanders with milkshake ...
Ah those were the days, and not so long ago, when measured by the cosmic clock or SloMo's emissions, which leads the pond to wonder, what fresh idiocy is this? The answer of course is that the reptiles must treat each fresh utterance of Scotty from marketing as the words of the Messiah, leading them out of the climate wilderness ...
Of course there's statistics and then there's statistics ... as might be found at Australia pumped out an extra six months' worth of emissions than previously recorded ... scribbled not so long ago in February.
Please allow the pond to smear a little of that milkshake around ...
Ah yes, relativism, how handy it can be ... and what a fine line of bullshit our man from marketing can spin, why it will keep the adoring reptiles busy for weeks, a veritable Q of climate science ...
By this time, the pond was almost prepared to concede that "Biggies" was a fine and sensible name for an award, along with the notion that there was no better Biggie than SloMo himself ...
The pond feels for Geoff ... you can type this shit, but it sure is hard to read it ... best you don't move your mouth when typing or you might feel like you've been smeared by a milkshake, or a Smallie.
And so what else this day in the reptile primeval sludge?
The pond knows that Dame Groan has many admirers, but really the pond couldn't go there. Not another screed from an inner city 'leet about super. And the wet Peacock thought that things had got a little dry? Well, der ...
The presence of two lizard Oz editorials proved just how underdone the commentary section was this day, all the more so as the company which had supported the Donald for four years in his supine attitude to Vlad the impaler suddenly decided it was time to get tough with Putin ... is there icecream in that milkshake?
There was nothing for it but to offer the venerable Sexton as the pond bonus, even though the pond didn't give a whit or a jot, or a fig or a toss, and thought the matter best left to the Scots and not some futile reptile scribbling empty advice while thousands of ks away ...
Indeed, indeed. Let them secede the pond says, if it means that inane comparisons between independence and the American civil war can be avoided ... but then the pond remembered it had consenually agreed to the smearing of milkshakes and carried on, relieved to know that it would all be over soon ...
Lock 'em up, and no doubt BoJo appreciates the advice of the venerable Sexton, in much the same way that Australians appreciate Scottish interventions in Australia, complete with stereotypical, clichéd, wailing bagpipes and haggis, but suddenly after reading all that, the pond felt radicalised and in the need of splitting with someone about something ...
As a way of recovering its spirit, the pond thought it might share a rousing, stirring final milkshake with the lizard oz editorialist ...
Yes, see how bold and visionary SloMo has been, and see how bravely the reptiles transcribe his vision into the digital ether ... and yet there's a fly in the milkshake, the unimaginative Smallies that ruin everything ...
Oh indeed, indeed, how shocking of risk adverse cowards to resort to consultancies ...
As for the rest, the funnies thing was the few readers who turned up to comment early in the day. What a cranky and weird lot subscribe to the lizard Oz ...
Protect people? Nuke 'em, the pond says ...
The pond does appreciate that it's hard for the reptiles, but this day has seen so much bullshit that the pond hasn't been able to enjoy its milkshake at all ...
And so to end with a reason for the Scots to appreciate all that's being done for them ... with more sage cartoon advice here ...
Oh and as for all that talk of milkshakes, even the reptiles couldn't swallow it ...
This is your brave, forward leaning visionary SloMo? Oh reptiles, wash out your mouths, or at least spit out the milkshake. Dumb as sticks ...
Dorothy - we understand that you prefer not to go near the Dame Groan. However, with your usual forbearance, would you accept comment from exchanges between My Source and I?
ReplyDeleteWe share some awareness of the Dame from her time in South Australia. After reading her contribution, supposedly in the area of economics, for this day, the Source posed a question. First up, the Source was trying to remember if the Dame, in the time when she was on actual staff at an actual university, was involved in examining students.
Neither of us can remember, but the Source’s hypothetical was ‘If you submitted this column in answer to an examination question like ‘Superannuation ensures funds for investment in the country, while providing income for contributors when they retire - discuss!’ - what mark might you expect?
The Dame lead off with ‘Compelling arguments for cancelling any further increase to the SCG . . . have never been articulated by a senior minister, although they were covered in the Retirement Income Review commissioned by the Treasurer.’
And that’s it! Most of the rest of the column is about minutiae of procedure in Parliament, and claims that certain players had insufficient spine to do the Dame’s bidding.
Oh - late in the piece the Dame identifies the ‘already generous SCG of 9.5%’ - which provides a supposedly comfortable retirement for an unspecified proportion of contributors.
In an uncommon show of agreement, the Source and I thought an examining Judith would mark 0, and no prospect of a post, for that attempt at distracting the examiner. So how does she get away with putting up a string of catch phrases (fees to union trustees of industry funds) for which Limited News charges punters good money?
Is that SCG or is it SGC, Chad ?
DeleteLast time I looked, the total superannuation funds in Australia could have bought out the entire Australian stock exchange and then some. In fact, a lot of super fund investment has gone overseas for lack of suitable investment vehicles in Australia.
So how does that rank as "funds for investment in the country" ?
Humbling moment - thank you GB (and apologies to others). It is SGC in the portion sent to me from My Source's digital access. The error is entirely mine, because I chose to retype what she sent, to render it down.
DeleteGB - as I am sure you know, Australian funds show interesting contrast with the Norwegian 'Oil Fund'. The Norwegian fund has one 'contributor' - payments from the petroleum industry - and is broadly required to invest out of the country, to remain independent of the condition of the Norwegian economy. Its value is about the same as the total of Australian super funds, but for one-fifth the population.
DeleteNorwegians have simply been so much smarter than Aussies. About one year ago, our federal pollies were bragging that we had become the biggest exporter of gas, surpassing Qatar. But, for much the same quantities of gas exported, Qatar levied 30 times the royalties that Australia receives from our export 'triumph'.
Well Norway only has a population of about 5.4 million compared with Australia's 25.5 million so it's got to do something to maintain its rate of nominal GDP per capita - $75,428 compared with Australia's $58,831 - and clearly the best way to do that is by actually charging for resources it sells rather than give them away like Australia.
DeleteBut then we sell all that iron ore and coal and wine and crayfish and barley to China, so we can afford to give lots of our stuff away just to retain the privilege of having a bunch of multinationals come in and dig it up for us.
As to 'super', well, it really is only a 'fixed rate income tax' that we impose on top of the variable rate income tax. A bit like the USA actually with its 'payroll tax' (FICA) where everybody cops the tax and the low income earners are given tax rebates to compensate - some greater than the tax paid in the first place. An Idea we could think about in Aussieland - one single fixed rate tax levelled on all income of any kind and a tax rebate for those who aren't earning much.
An excellent report Chadders, whatever the minutiae, though with the danger that the pond might consign all of Dame Groan to the comments section, where she might be better dissected at leisure ...with more wit than the pond can muster at the sight of her dismal offerings.
DeleteYou have included the editorial for our information. It includes mention of 'Leaders such as Chris Corrigan, who, together with government, helped transform Australia's waterfront industries.'
ReplyDeleteThis is simply a myth.
The issues aroused in the 1998 'dispute', triggered by one company, seeking to curry favour with Peter Reith, were resolved through the courts, where the company, and the government, lost on every issue of substance.
THANKS Chadders, one so rarely sees a reduction quite that honest and correct!
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DeleteIf you resort to facts Chad you will never realise what a compelling narrative the editor is crafting.
DeleteThe entire reptile enterprise is like this. Where their projects are implemented the golden opportunities turn into ugly disasters, but I wonder how many people really notice?
Befuddled - I am sure astute readers would have been triggered by the editorialist's 'together with government'. Naughty 'editor' ignored the IPA dictum, that government has no place in rearranging industry in any way - the market will do it. We are just waiting for the evidence to flow in.
DeleteAnother 'myth of Sisyphus' perhaps, Chad. "Camus claims that there is a fundamental conflict between what we want from the universe (whether it be meaning, order, or reasons) and what we find in the universe (formless chaos). We will never find in life itself the meaning that we want to find."
DeleteSo, if you can't find the "meaning" you seek, lie about it - and the reptiles and wingnuts do that so well.
Eh? The PM warns Australia's top executives about inner city 'leets'. I had no idea those guys lived in western suburbs fibro shacks.
ReplyDeleteElsewhere. Smirko states “the key to meeting our climate change ambitions is the commercialisation of low emissions technology”. Interesting that the technology has been commercialised for over a decade but one of the government's core missions has been to frustrate its implementation.
Of course, the technology they are talking about is basically vapourware like CCS that will probably never work at any scale. It's just something to waffle about whilst not actually doing anything.
Oh yeah, I'll be watching attentively to see how the $1bn SA Gov-Fed "investment" turns out. CCS bullshit yet again - but at least no coal.
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