Apparently there's going to be a horse race on today, or tomorrow, or whenever, but as a valued correspondent has noted - Interest in Melbourne Cup slips with more than half of Australians uninterested, poll suggests - who gives a hoof-flying fuck at the torturing of the horses in the name of an alleged "sport", aka opportunity to gamble, when surely two flies racing up a window pane to a honey jar would serve the same purpose ...
And so the pond is left this day with the usual reptile stew ...
What a relief. Instead of a dull old horse race, Fergo can maintain the war on comrade Dan, Ticky can stick up for gas company profits - can there ever be too much? - and Dame Groan can groan to her heart's content about renewables (who'd have guessed?) ... and while others might be content with small wars - like the one on the planet, and the one on renewables - the bromancer stands ready for the mother of all wars ...
Indeed, indeed, what could possibly be alarmist about touting world war three when sociopathic Vlad the Terrible can't even finish off Ukraine?
Why there was an ancient infallible Pope out and about at The Conversation, still celebrating the carving ...
Same as it ever was, with the plum-pudding always in danger ...
Sorry, the pond didn't plan on such an extended distraction from the bromancer, busy doing his own carving ...
Yes, don't fret, the bromancer has it all in hand, and there should be no blinking; enjoy Xmas, at least if the pre-war period holds, knowing that we can celebrate a major stoush to get the new year off with a bloody big bang ... and no doubt the bromancer has already signed up for active duty on the front line, because there's nothing like a world war to stir the reptile gonads and loins ...
But wait, there's still the war on the planet and the war on renewables, and we should never let that get stale, and as always Dame Groan is on hand on a Tuesday for a jolly good groaning about it all ...
The reptiles really caught the pond off guard with that illustration. Usually they'd feature satanic windmills or the tragedy of solar panels to go with a good groaning ...
As for the rest, the pond would like a dollar for every time the reptiles have slagged off renewable energy ... the pond could power the world for the next century on the resulting loot ...
What a race, and so many tips, but back to a final, very predictable groaning ... and even worse, the old biddie simply refuses to nuke the country, not when nuking renewables remains such fun ...
Heard it all before? The reptiles doing yet another murmuration in the sky like a flock of crapping starlings?
Of course ... and meanwhile, the younglings are glueing themselves to art works, apparently unaware that there's an office door entrance in Surry Hills available for a good glueing ...
Feeling a warm rush of urine on the back of the neck? Relax, it's just the reptiles' trickle-down economics at work ...
Oh, if only we could invite Liz down to give the country a good trussing ... but instead the pond will turn to another lizard Oz ed effort, a wondrous exercise in both siderism and pious hypocrisy ...
Why did the pond find this blather about violence so funny, given that the results of said violence aren't funny at all?
Some of it has to do with the delightful hypocrisy of the reptiles down under and their apparent unawareness of what their kissing cousins get up to in the United States ...
That full yarn could be found at Business Insider ...but just for the sake of clarity ...
Fox News host Jesse Watters criticized the police response to the attack on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband, arguing that the attacker is being dealt with more harshly because of who the victim is.
The assailant broke into Pelosi's San Francisco home on Friday and "violently" attacked her 82-year-old husband, Paul Pelosi with a hammer, leading to him being hospitalized, authorities said. He is expected to make a full recovery.
"A lot of people get hit with hammers. A lot of people get attacked. And a lot of times, they're out on bail the next day and it's a simple assault charge," Watters said.
The suspect has been identified as 42-year-old David DePape, and he faces several charges, including attempted homicide, San Francisco Police Chief William Scott told reporters during a press briefing.
The Fox News host did not defend DePape, who he said "looks mentally ill," but referenced popular right-wing talking points accusing the Democratic party of being soft on crime.
"The Democrats in the media have been ignoring the crime wave and only cover it when Nancy Pelosi's husband's attacked," he said.
Watters said he "wanted to see the alleged perpetrator being treated the same as if he attacked anyone else."
"We see people assault people all the time randomly with all kinds of weapons, and we see them released the next day. So I don't know why this guy is getting all of a sudden special treatment or different treatment because the victim was so high-profile," he said.
Several outlets reported sources saying that the attacker shouted "Where is Nancy?" when he broke into heir home just before 2:30 a.m on Friday.
President Joe Biden on Friday condemned the "despicable" attack and compared the assailant's words to those used by Capitol rioters on January 6, 2021, some of whom banged on the doors of her office while shouting, "Where's Nancy?"
The attack comes amid a rise in threats towards US lawmakers, according to the US Capitol police.
Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's homes were vandalized earlier this year, and an armed man was arrested near Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh's home after making threats.
Right-wing extremists committed about 75% of the 450 political murders in the US in the past decade, compared with the 4% by left-wing extremists, according to a study by the Anti-Defamation League.
So much for the lizard Oz editorialist's pious blather about coming together ... especially as the entire News Corp business model revolves around supporting a particularly appalling family of spivs, con artists and snake oil salesmen, doing their thing in the Daily Beast...
What a minor league sociopath he is, and yet the Murdochians at Fox News stick to the family like glue (hear that younglings, like glue) so that we can get more of this sort of base, abject tripe ...
What a putrid festering mess of sociopathic con artists, so when the lizard Oz editorialist piously scribbles about the crisis demanding all sides of US politics unite, please forgive the pond for telling said editorialist to fuck right off, and fix the useless sociopaths they idly continue to support ...
Luckily the pond didn't have to end on that note of anger, because Wilcox was on hand to help with the reptiles trickle down economics ...
There'll be tax cuts coming soon, and for the very best in the country ... thanks unto the con artists, scroungers, bludgers, snake oil salesmen and speakers in tongues to invisible friends, and their fellow travellers ...
By golly, is that a Tim Storrier they've got on the wall? Why you can rush off and use your tax break to pick up one for a snip at a fire sale price of $56k ...
Then you can settle back and enjoy watching the planet burn with Dame Groan and a glass of red ...
The Bro: "They [US B52s] could also fly from the Northern Territory to mainland China itself, unleash a payload and fly back." That's if they can actually get to China (ground and sea to air missiles, drones, jet fighter aircraft - and more of the above the closer they get to China). The only effective way to deliver a "payload" these days is via hypersonic intercontinental ballistic missiles, yes ?
ReplyDeleteBut hey, the sooner the better, non ? Throw a heap of nukes gaily around and before you know it there'll be less than a billion surviving humans and the planet - and all the genetic mutations upon it - will be saved from climate change !
It would be less difficult to shoot down a B29 than MH17.
DeleteGB,
DeleteSix times B-52's have crashed with nukes on board.
They have been flying since the 1950's, 75 still survive.
I am sure every part of the air frames have been replaced, but still.
Supposedly a crash wouldn't start a nuclear reaction, but a fiery 1968
crash in Greenland caused extensive radioactive contamination.
Now that could happen in Oz and all Air Marshal Sheridan focuses on
is these shiny new war toys that are way cool with their ability to kill millions
at one go. I would bet money he plays with little plastic ANZAC men from
WW2. As a wise philosopher once noted, "The kids at school reckoned he
had two dongers. Nobody could get that silly playing with just one."
So why chance a accident in
I'm probably not the only one who is just a little 'amazed' that the B52 bombers are still flying at all, JM. Accurate assessment of the Bromancer's physiology though :-)
DeleteA lengthy article by a supposed academic and 'contributor'. And its conclusion? "Hang on to your hats??"
ReplyDeleteOur Dame - ‘The trouble with spouting cliches . . . ‘ as a prelude to ‘it ignores the underlying physics, engineering and economics that drive electricity grids serving households and businesses.’
ReplyDeleteWith our Dame, ‘underlying physics, engineering and economics’ sits within the common definitions of ‘cliché’. The imagined fluttering of hands, waving us away from deeply complicated matters that would take too long to explain. Except that a reader might infer that the Dame was capable of explaining all of that - starting with those pesky ‘underlying physics’. For all the faith in ‘engineers’ that she has expressed in other times when she was writing about distributing electricity - I suspect no established engineer has had the occasion (been invited?) to explain to her that a lot of design of existing distribution systems follows agreed conventions, which are not supported by theory, nor, increasingly, by experiment.
Yes, there are some circumstances in which the line about ‘that is all very well in practice, but it doesn’t hold up in theory’ - is actually justified.
The ‘economics’? Perhaps, as a sometime economist, our Dame might groan out an explanation - within the capacity to understand of those who pay to read what flies from the Flagship - of why the ‘private enterprise’ Adelaide Electricity Supply Company was so bad at being a service industry - that a deeply conservative Liberal and Country League under Thomas Playford effectively nationalised it - in 1945; within the lifetimes of people still upright and breathing.
And that is without touching on the intense ‘gaming’ that is a feature of supposedly competitive suppliers now.
Glad you could find some things to say about today's Groaning, Chad. I tried but just gave it up as a bad job. Which is something that perhaps she ought to do.
DeleteI suspect various contributors will be offering the same tosh over the coming weeks in the hope they can distract from the success of the WA reservation scheme in holding down gas prices
Deletehttps://www.energyquest.com.au/western-australia-low-energy-price-paradise/
It rather undercuts the domestic supply shortage narrative and therefore threatens the gas lead recovery grift.
GB - it is such poor composition. Phrases dropped in to hint at intellectual authority, but actually masking simple ignorance, with no sign that she intends to inform herself. Even in her actual professional area of economics she happily rewrites stuff taken from briefings generated by lobby groups and industry bodies, with little or no attempt to aid her readers by focusing the issue to their circumstances.
DeleteBefuddled - yes - the same 'tosh' (good word) will be run past us, from the same sources, probably for a lot longer than the coming weeks - this can be column filler until the next election. It won't trouble our Dame - as a sometime director of SANTOS - a major gas supplier - she would have been well aware of Hugh Hudson's negotiations when 'Bondy' made his play for that producer - such negotiations including reservation for domestic use.
All I can say is...I loathe Greg Sheridan. Apologies to ABBA.
ReplyDeleteAs you beat the drum Bromancer
You are thinking of how long you've waited
For a pre-war night like this
At your escritoire Bromancer
You are talking to yourself
And softly stroking your grimoire
As you strain to hear the droning sound
Of bombers that are coming from afar
They are closer now Bromancer
Every hour every minute
As you clasp your rosary
Are you not afraid Bromancer?
For their victims full of life
And none of them deserve to die
Are you not ashamed to say
The sound of distant warfare
Always makes you high?
There'll be bombers in the air tonight
But you won't fight Bromancer
You're not signing up to go we see
You're such a creep Bromancer
Though you'll do your best to light the fuse
You've no regrets
If you had to start a war again
You would...you fiend...Bromancer
GrueBleen
DeleteLoathsome, that’s it. He will never have a new thought or embrace a new idea, he will just get older and more bitter.
DeleteOoops. Try again. Nicely said, Kez as always.
ReplyDeleteI do always have a lot of problems with the likes of the Bromancer though: does really really believe even a little bit of the "religion" he espouses ? What does his god say about the kind of things that the Bro repeats and repeats ? Is he ok with massively deadly wars because nobody ever dies because souls are forever ?
Is it really good to fly B52 bombers into China to drop nukes on their cities ? That is, if they can actually evade all of China's repulsive weaponry and make it to there. Does he really believe that some day there will be a rapture and all 'forgiven' human souls will be reunited in heaven ? And all the unforgiven reunited in hell ?
Today's Mr Ed: "The poor response [to Labor's budget] has enabled Peter Dutton to turn Labor's message on cost-of-living pressures, used to great effect in the federal election campaign, back on the Prime Minister." So there we go: nothing Albanese and Labor do will ever be any good and the Mutt Dutt will turn it back on them and win the next election - a mere 2 1/2 years hence - in a canter. It's all just too easy, isn't it.
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