tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post7690801690213227069..comments2024-03-28T22:51:37.034+11:00Comments on loon pond: EXCLUSIVE: CENSORED!Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-17504833305582292072014-08-23T08:55:09.549+10:002014-08-23T08:55:09.549+10:00Yeay, Weird Al! The pond has its high heels on ......Yeay, Weird Al! The pond has its high heels on ...dorothy parkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00816807935021738560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-17197029491448602512014-08-23T08:53:12.826+10:002014-08-23T08:53:12.826+10:00Oh go on DW, just a little tipple, it won't hu...Oh go on DW, just a little tipple, it won't hurt, where's the harm in one little drink? What's that, you ended up sprawled addled-brained and senseless in the gutter? Oh well ...dorothy parkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00816807935021738560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-37962706064615463602014-08-22T22:16:13.832+10:002014-08-22T22:16:13.832+10:00Imagine if the real world was like Pope, Moir and ...Imagine if the real world was like Pope, Moir and Rowe. We'd be fucked.<br />What's that you say? It is????<br />Naaah, not possible.Dave Chttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08613111054135459691noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-55574745601473305232014-08-22T22:10:54.627+10:002014-08-22T22:10:54.627+10:00Murdoch vs Crikey is a bit like Kenny vs Hamster.
...Murdoch vs Crikey is a bit like Kenny vs Hamster.<br />A bunch of dog fuckers.Dave Chttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08613111054135459691noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-11388080693609078782014-08-22T13:38:47.097+10:002014-08-22T13:38:47.097+10:00George is a corporate climber, no different from i...George is a corporate climber, no different from if he worked for News Corp, or a trucking company. That's the way he regards is role - there is no care in that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-90217394483323706812014-08-22T12:22:08.421+10:002014-08-22T12:22:08.421+10:00Shanahan just can't let go of the past can he?...Shanahan just can't let go of the past can he? Still banging on about Rudd and the ALP leadership, and they put that right at the top of the front page.<br /><br />That's news?Iannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-57103376513685050242014-08-22T11:15:56.038+10:002014-08-22T11:15:56.038+10:00I liked this sentence from today's Pond
The po...I liked this sentence from today's Pond<br /><i>The pond suspects that once you start on a vice, it can prove to be terribly pleasant in a masturbatory way, and hard to stop.</i><br />It reminded me so much of Murdoch's first major venture into intervention with the newsflow. It led to the Dismissal and a huge amount of resentment on the Left, echoed in the anti-MSM rants in <i>Nation Review</i> and Mungo McCallum. At one point, Mungo cited a flyer seeking advertising for The Australian. The slogan chosen to win over the advertisers was that The Australian had "More Pulling Power". Mungo found it singularly appropriate.<br /><br />It is mystifying that The Australian in particular and other News Ltd rags get so much out of jihads against those perceived as some sort of threat, Accountability is important to everyone except themselves. No wonder they found so much to like in Abbott. Perhaps the sneering and counter-attacks is a means of coping with their unconscionable behaviour.<br /><br />And 'unconscionable' brings us to George Pell. It is surely bad enough that he should so brazenly attend an IPA celebration meeting. The Church he heads in Australia is nominally supposed to care for its flock, not those who are aiming to fleece it.<br /><br />But caring doesn't come easily to George, at least not beyond caring for Church assets. Presumably deviant priests represent an investment by the church and are thus entitled to be shielded.<br /><br />George is clearly not used to accountability such as he is currently facing at the Royal Commission. Otherwise how could he make such an appalling analogy with truck drivers? Goodness me, the entire basis of pastoral care is based on trust, as is the teaching of children. To breach that trust, even before we get to the dreadful damage done to victims and their families, is the gravest of failures.<br /><br />I doubt George is imaginative enough to deliberately insult, but to compare parishioners and children with people seeking an unlawful hitch with a truckie, and suffering the consequences, represents the worst denial of accountability. Imagine, it amounts to saying, "well, your kids took the risk". And as you say, a transport company in any case would at least be willing to rectify and make good on such failures.<br /><br />In <i> Gulliver's Travels</i> Swift mentioned a country that had the most severe penalties and death sentence for embezzlement and such fraud. "For you can take some defensive precautions against burglary and robbery. But there is no defence against a breach of trust." I'm not sure about capital punishment but otherwise he got it right.<br /><br />And those unable properly to defend themselves, such as children and animals, are rightly seen by most human beings as entitled to special protection. The abusers are loathed.<br /><br />To gloss over the indefensible puts the Church back where it was before Chaucer and Martin Luther.<br />Gorgeous Dunnyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10540625260311418333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-50669358584524000182014-08-22T11:00:54.081+10:002014-08-22T11:00:54.081+10:00All is forgiven DiddyWrote: Better late than never...All is forgiven DiddyWrote: Better late than never. My sin was to take the Foxtel trial, many,many years back,to get the cable to the depths of our rear unit, then promptly said, thanks but no thanks, I respect my children's future state of mind.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-51382159142602675322014-08-22T10:36:02.192+10:002014-08-22T10:36:02.192+10:00On the other hand, Pell comparing some of his prie...On the other hand, Pell comparing some of his priests to devious truckers has a sort of rhyming logic to it.malamuddyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06133605695480356379noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-79970784408787833102014-08-22T09:54:15.495+10:002014-08-22T09:54:15.495+10:00Hello everybody, my name is DiddyWrote and I used ...Hello everybody, my name is DiddyWrote and I used to read The Australian.<br /><br />It has been 4 years 2 months and 7 days since I last paid for any Murdoch owned content. At first I thought I could handle the robust conservative angle provided by the editorial and the commentators. I used to laugh at the right wing rantings of the Albrechtsen, the all the way with the USA jingoism of the Sheridan and the pontificating of the Shanahan. <br /><br />But then the doubts started, was Cater right, was my tertiary education and city location making me unable to comprehend the true Australia? I started to tell myself I could stop at any time or that I just bought it for The Times cryptic crossword. I hid my broadsheet leanings from my friends and family.<br /><br />Eventually it all became too much and I started to doubt if Antropogenic Climate Change even existed. The end came when I started to think Tony Abbott would make a great Prime Minister. I had hit rock bottom.<br /><br />My name is DiddyWrote and I used to read The Australian.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com