Wednesday, October 28, 2026

A potpourri of reptile pleasures, with Dame Slap on offer in full for advanced students ...

 

The pond has become incredibly lazy in its approach to herpetology studies, and so when the intermittent archive has a little hissy fit, it throws a spanner in the pond's works when it comes to covering the the lizard Oz hive mind.

Of late the pond has preferred to do a collage, a montage, a potpourri (never fragrant), a medley, a hodgepodge, an assemblage, a miscellany, which allows fellow advanced students to study at their own pace and leisure.

And incidentally it saves the pond the time and the tedium of spending too long in company with the likes of "Ned".

Others might want to do this morning's Everest climb, but the pond is content to offer a teaser trailer and a link ...



Tempted? Feel a fire in the loins, a lust to read further?

How a Jess Wilson win could shape the attack on One Nation
A Liberal win in Victoria — where the party has surged ahead of both Labor and One Nation — could rewrite the federal political rule book.
By Paul Kelly
Editor-At-Large

That's enough of those hard yards for the pond.

No need to go there, and no need for the pond to indulge in the latest outpourings of the Australian Daily Zionist News, though the reptiles were so keen on this one it was top of the digital page early this morning ...

EXCLUSIVE
Landmark antisemitism plan revealed for nation’s schools
The national curriculum agency has proposed reforms mandating detailed Holocaust study and antisemitism education for Australian students for the first time.
By Lucy Carroll




Speaking of ethical conduct, will students be exposed to the latest example of ethnic cleansing, a latter-day genocide, with Gaza down there with the Warsaw ghetto?

Meanwhile, Mr Rubenstein lost the pond from the get go by talking about "Israel's vibrant democracy", which reminded the pond of talk in ancient times by rulers of South Africa of its "vibrant apartheid-based democracy"...

As Israelis began going to the polls, Benjamin Netanyahu still divided the electorate but there was far greater consensus on the existential threats facing the Jewish state.
By Paul Rubenstein




Vibrant?

Adalah, an NGO advocating for Arab rights in Israel, urges election officials and the police chief to intervene. Officers were reportedly asking voters for ID to enter the polls, although they lack the authority to do so, according to Adalah

Adalah, the Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, says it has received numerous reports of systematic delays at polling stations in Arab communities across Israel.
"There are numerous reports of severe slowdowns at many polling stations," Yeela Raanan, a member of a team monitoring election integrity in Bedouin communities, told Haaretz.
In many Bedouin communities, Raanan said, "people report waiting for hours, and polling station staff are taking a very long time to verify each voter's identity."
Haaretz has also learned of reports of police officers at several polling stations in these communities. In the southern town of Tel Sheva, 20 Border Police officers were reportedly deployed to a single polling station, while footage showed officers entering polling stations in Segev Shalom.
According to the reports, officers were asking voters for identification, a responsibility that Israeli election law assigns to polling station officials. Their presence was reportedly delaying and disrupting voting.
Adalah urgently wrote to Police Commissioner Danny Levy, Central Elections Committee chairman Justice Noam Sohlberg and the chair of the Be'er Sheva Elections Committee, demanding immediate action to ensure that voting could proceed unhindered.

At some point - why not here? - the pond likes to throw in a cartoon reminding students of what they might be missing in the real world, with thanks to the infallible Pope ...




Then it's back to the grindstone, and instead of AI, why not the war with China (no later than Xmas) to produce a little surge of fear and loathing?

By Rowan Callick

This is usually the turf of the bromancer, but he's been distracted of late by other weighty matters ...




No worries. 

Dictator comrade Xi has been studying the mad king and learning the finer points of how to run a country into the ground ...




And the pond was vastly relieved that after the Haines tragedy, the reptiles could get back to routine business with an outing that bashed indies, teals and greenies all in one go ...

By Will Glasgow




Splendid stuff, and with a dose of gassing the planet as a bonus ...

Sadly there is always an essay component for advanced students, a more detailed study of a reptile in full flight, from beginning to end, from alpha to omega, and this day it's Dame Slap ...




Um, that last line sounds a little stale, what with recent events in Serbia and Hungary (and who had Brazil on their bingo card?), but never mind, we're always up for mindless rhetoric, where a right wing populist mindlessly celebrates other mindless loon populists.

Some students, who might have come late to the story, might wonder why Dame Slap is getting all hot and bothered about Europe, but it's in her nature.

The pond always likes to remind these Johnny and Janey come latelies of Dame Slap's Trumpian origin story ...



 
Of course she's going to be down on Europe, and the perfidious French, and the recalcitrant Germans, and the rest of that unseemly mob ...and speaking of MAGA caps ...




Now back to bashing those bloody cheese eating surrender monkeys and their kind...




Back in the day the pond always liked to show the inspiration for Dame Slap, showing how she could dish it out to any of those cultists believing in the fake religion of climate science, showing her teaching style:





Just hard bloody work at climate science denialism, and as for keeping those naughty European pixies in line ...




Speaking of naughty children, and climate science denialism, the pond was still catching up with the latest reptile effort in that sphere, thanks to Media Watch ... Climate BOM-shell




Sorry, the pond is always getting distracted from the text at hand ...but it does sort of tie in with Dame Slap's hysteria about sovereignty, and climate, and her devoted denialism, and all that jazz, worthy of Brexit in its hey day (didn't that fall on very hard times?)




Oh if we wanted a belly laugh there's plenty to be found, and they're right up Dame Slap's MAGA cap-donning alley ...




And so to some good news, because every so often the pond doesn't need to resort to the intermittent archive.

Sometimes a featured piece can be swallowed whole...

By Our Editorial Writers
Public sector union boss claims rate rises are ‘economic sadism’

Sure, it's just a standard bit of Jimbo bashing, sure it's just a regurgitation of other bits of the hive mind, but remember this is a hurdy gurdy collage, and it's rare when the lizard Oz editorialist steps out into the limelight.

It deserves to be celebrated ...




Job done comrades, and you'll have your reward should the beefy boofhead from down Goulburn way ever produce a miracle and take charge of the economy ...

Meanwhile, relax, everything is looking good ...





And speaking of good ... and being on the up and up ... though he really did need a shoe, for the banging thereof on the table ...





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Tuesday, October 27, 2026

In which we'll all be rooned with Dame Groan, Geoff chambering a round, and the bromancer doing Australian Daily Zionist News duties ...

 

Sheesh, is Alt for Norge the new talking point for the week? What with the foul-mouthed mad king launching yet another attack on Norway ...

Relax, Norwegians, you're in good company: Canada, Greenland, Denmark, the sh*thole countries of Africa, Mexico, most of Europe and hapless, done down Ukraine ...and that's just for starters.

And speaking of Ukraine, who'd have guessed that Vlad the Sociopath would be accused of war crimes?Ukraine: Investigators find Russia committed war crimes by targeting civilians

And while mired in the excrement of state Russian TV, this opening to a yarn struck a chord with the pond:

There’s this old joke about a guy’s first day in hell. He’s being given the orientation: Here’s where we keep the pitchforks. Here’s where we make the printers. Then the time comes to pick his eternal punishment. The first room is fire and brimstone, eternal agony. “That’s not for me,” the man says. The second is full of people being eaten by animals. “Pass,” he says. In the third room, he finds people sipping coffee while waist deep in excrement. “I think I can handle that,” he says. The door closes behind him as a demon yells, “Coffee break’s over! Back on your heads!”

Alex Galbraith in Salon used that as a way into the cesspit that is Faux Noise host Jesse Watters' cesspit, Even Jesse Watters seems tired of pushing Fox News’ culture war.

But the pond thinks it's just as good an introduction to the daily inversion the pond experiences in the land of the lizard Oz reptiles...

For years now, the pond has done a running joke about Dame Groan living in the land of Said Hanrahan ...

And so around the chorus ran
"It's keepin' dry, no doubt."
"We'll all be rooned," said Hanrahan,
"Before the year is out.

Knock the pond down with a feather, the reptiles ran with the gag and stuck it in the header...with the Groaner taking us on yet one more road to roon (she has so many roads)...



Think? The pond should think?

Luckily this road to roon only ran to two more gobbets ...




So much fuss about something not going to happen? 

But that's what happens when you travel the road to roon ...and are likely to bump into all sorts of odd bedfellows or fellow travellers, including Walshie, because strangely the road to roon always leads back to some golden age ...




Speaking of the road to roon ...


 


Unfortunately the intermittent archive was having one of its hissy fits, so the pond was unable to find (or save) this featured yarn in the archive...



Bosses answer Jim Chalmers’ calls to nominate where he should cut
By Matthew Cranston and Thomas Henry

This might, or might not come in handy later ...

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation%2Fpolitics%2Fbosses-answer-chalmers-calls-to-nominate-where-he-should-cut%2Fnews-story%2Fc23dfe0c36ae3f2250050149c333d801

The canny Cranston and his mate assembled some grand suggestions, but the pond liked this one the best ...

Graham Bradley, the former president of the Business Council of Australia and former chairman of EnergyAustralia, HSBC, Stockland and GrainCorp, had a long list of spending cut ideas for Dr Chalmers.
“The government needs to reseize federal departments by eliminating duplication with state government agencies in areas such as planning, education, environmental approvals and licensing generally,” Mr Bradley said.
“The government needs to have the courage to impose means tests on many welfare payments, including NDIS (and) child care subsidies.
“It needs to reduce or eliminate federal subsidies for renewable energy projects even if this slows the energy transition and requires further life extension of coal generators. Unrealistic federal time targets are driving up costs.

Well played Gra Gra, another excuse for a toon while on the road to roon...



With the archive (briefly?) on the blink, the pond thought it might indulge Geoff chambering his round in just a couple of gobbets ... what with him being in condescending Dame Groan mode ...




The pond sometimes wonders what rags like The Daily Beast will do if they run out of mad king fodder - currently King Donald and his comical minions are an inexhaustible trove of treasures - but just as pressing is the question, what would the reptiles of lizard Oz do for kicks if they didn't have Jimbo to kick around?

Go on, Geoff, send him a condescending memo ... and make sure the graphics department helps out with a kinda blue snap of a man caught in a grimace ...




The hive mind preaching self-awareness?

The comedy never ends.

Now drum roll maestro, wheel in the immortal Rowe to set the tone for this issue of the Australian Daily Zionist News ...




Hat tip to that portrait on the shelf...




The immortal Rowe rarely misses a trick. Per Haaretz, sorry no archive listing ...

Australian billionaire James Packer reportedly paid Netanyahu's lawyer's firm $50,000 a month for two years. Saying the payments were unrelated to the trial, Packer denied the claim, saying the firm represents him in 'personal and business affairs'

Australian billionaire James Packer paid at least $1.25 million – 1.78 million Australian dollars or 3.85 million shekels – to the law firm of Amit Hadad, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's attorney, the Australian newspaper The Age reported Monday.
The investigation, published on the eve of Israel's election, uncovered a trail of monthly bank transfers of $50,000 over the past two years, from a bank account controlled by Packer's company to the account of the law firm representing Netanyahu.
On the same day the investigation was published, Hadad filed a motion on behalf of Netanyahu's defense team requesting that Packer and two of his employees be allowed to testify from abroad, with their testimony broadcast by video link to the judges in Israel.
According to the investigation, the first monthly payment was made on September 23, 2024, from a Citibank account belonging to Packer's legal firm to an account held by Hadad, Roth, Shenhar at Mizrahi Tefahot Bank. A source familiar with the details reportedly said the payments urgently needed to be investigated to determine whether Netanyahu had received an undisclosed benefit from Packer.
acker insisted that the bank transfers to Netanyahu's lawyers were payments for work carried out on his behalf, including "deal finding" in Israel, where he has business interests, and that they were unrelated to Netanyahu's trial.
The Australian newspaper also reported that a Netanyahu spokesperson asked for comment replied: "I couldn't give a monkey's about your questions. We are very busy. We have an election on right now."
Packer did not deny making the monthly payments but declined to comment. Hadad also declined to comment.
Packer's representatives responded that the law firm represents him in his "personal and business affairs." "Any claim that I paid even a single cent toward the legal defense of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is false. Anyone who claims otherwise risks being sued."
Packer was expected to testify as a key prosecution witness in Netanyahu's corruption trial in Case 1000, in which he and businessman Arnon Milchan are alleged to have provided Netanyahu and his wife with gifts and other benefits worth hundreds of thousands of shekels.

But the pond digresses. On with business, because it was the bromancer's turn this day to set the pace for the Australian Daily Zionist News ...




Splendid stuff, and as usual, that provided the pond with an excuse to head off to Haaretz to answer as to what Israel is for. The mall!

As Long as the Mall Stays Open, Israelis Can Live With War Crimes
Israel's liberal public wants to continue with its comfortable routines and consumerist lifestyle. Maybe sanctions that disrupt their vacations, binge-watching and shopping outings will force it to face reality?
Ofra Rodner

The pond would usually provide a link in the archive but this will have to do ...




Meanwhile, the bromancer was lathering himself into his usual frenzy ...




Stop right there.

The pond could overlook the spineless attempts at a little both siderism designed to downplay the current ethnic cleansing and genocide going down in Gaza and the West Bank, but the pond couldn't stand by while the bromancer tried to cleanse the Catholic church ...

At best the Catholic church for centuries had a deeply ambivalent relationship to Jews, as exhaustively laid out in the wiki Catholic Church and Judaism

For many centuries the church was the prime source of anti-Semitism and bigotry, and when the church got around to denouncing it in the strongest terms, what they were doing was denouncing their own wretched history.

Just a sample:

A few years later, within the responding Counter-Reformation, the Catholic Church begun a process of self-definition in the face of the various heterodoxies and heresies and in this context also reopened the question on the status of the Jews. While Jews would be still tolerated, the justification was now the expectation that they soon converted and thus initiate the Second Coming of Christ. In 1553, following the Bragadin-Giustiniani dispute, the Inquisition confiscated the Talmud and burned it first in Rome, then in many other Italian cities in 1553, as it perceived the Talmud as a hindrance to Jewish conversion. Two years later, Cardinal Caraffa, a Grand inquisitor and hardliner against heretics, dissidents and Jews, became pope and ended the more tolerant policies of his predecessors. In 1555, he issued the bull Cum nimis absurdum, in which he ordered the construction of the Roman Ghetto and imposed restrictions on the Jews, such as prohibiting them to engage in most professions outside of moneylending, owning real estate and limit them to one synagogue per city. Pius V went a step further and expelled the Jews from all cities of the Papal States except for Rome and Anconca.In 1593 Pope Clement VIII expelled the Jews from the Papal States with the bull Caeca et Obdurata. At the same time, the new Tridentine Catechism, result of the Council of Trent, acknowledged that the Jews had historically crucified Jesus...

Back to the bromancer, pinning the blame on the Islamics and trotting out the Nazi card... while skipping over the roles of the church, the Crusaders, the Inquisition, the pogroms and the like (as outlined in The Times of Israel, too long to quote here)




Actually the leaders of the current government of Israel have managed all the demonisation of Israel by themselves, wanton cruelty, and a level of vengeful destruction that has seen Gaza virtually obliterated, a kind of collective punishment that has led to many charges of war crimes ... and for what? So that mall life can carry on ...



Was it just a casual coincidence that writer Ofra Rodner referenced binge-watching in the land of the lotos eaters?

Possibly not, because the bromancer's solution was a little binge watching ...




And so the wanton cruelty, the immensely destructive collective punishment and the war crimes continue.

Speaking of war crimes, there's another criminal still out and about ...



Take it away Jamelle Bouie ... (though the pond humbly proposes it's not just Republicans who should have to answer for the mad king and the ketamine-fuelled Uncle Leon) ...




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Monday, October 26, 2026

In which the Major, the flood water whispering Caterist, and simplistic Simon jostle for attention ...

 

In the pond's absence, apparently the reptiles of Oz went into the mother of all climate science denying jihads.

The pond was blissfully unaware, and only caught up with the news when Graham Readfearn bobbed up in the Graudian with The Australian reports ‘widespread errors’ in BoM temperature data. Where is the evidence for those big claims?

The usual suspects - Lloydie of the Amazon leading the way - were involved, together with a couple of ring ins of dubious credibility and weird credentials.

There's no need to repeat Readfearn's debunking, but the pond did like the closing flourish ...

...Lloyd wrote that the audit report had been sent to the bureau “on behalf of Mr Berger” by the independent Tasmanian MP Andrew Wilkie, who received a letter back from the bureau explaining its investigations, and saying accusations of fraudulent or deliberate data manipulation had “no basis in fact”.
Wilkie told Temperature Check he wasn’t asked by The Australian to comment and “felt uncomfortable” the article might have been interpreted as him having doubts about the bureau’s integrity or its climate data.
“I found The Australian’s coverage of the matter to be quite feverish, and red meat to its audience, which flooded one article with about 1,000 comments,” he said.
He had “no reason to reconsider my trust in the bureau,” he said.
Attacks on the bureau’s temperature records have been orchestrated by climate science deniers for more than 15 years. Previous episodes have been described by scientists as “harassment”. One former bureau boss described the source of previous attacks as a “fever swamp” of climate science denial that had wasted scientists’ time.
On each occasion, The Australian newspaper, rather than the scientific literature, was the journal of choice for sceptics to make claims of a conspiracy within the bureau.
In the meantime, the climate isn’t paying attention.

That last line contained a jolly link to Global heating will hit at least 1.8C, UN warns, and there are ‘no good outcomes’

Global heating will reach at least 1.8C under even the most optimistic future, well beyond the Paris agreement goal of 1.5C, according to a UN report that warns every fraction of temperature rise intensifies destructive extreme weather, glacier melt, ecosystem loss, and island and coastal city submersion.
The report by the Nairobi-based UN Environment Programme confirmed overshooting the 1.5C goal inscribed in the landmark Paris agreement of 2015 was now “unavoidable” and, despite some progress in addressing the human-caused climate crisis driven by burning fossil fuels, likely in the next few years.
It said: “There are no good outcomes above 1.5C”.
Heating of up to 3C above preindustrial levels could lead to glaciers losing more than a quarter of their mass by 2100, raising sea levels by up to 13cm. Global food production could decline by up to 14% by 2050 if there are not effective strategies to adapt...

And so on, and fun times guaranteed for all, and while the pond said it wouldn't look back, these zealots are as bad as the mad mullahs of Iran (actually at least the mad mullahs acknowledge climate change is real, while doing little useful about it.)

The reptiles love to talk about climate cultists, religious climate zealots and so on, but it's all projection, since none of them are scientists, and they must rely on others to deliver the required bunkum.

Should this active conspiring in the destruction of the planet be celebrated? 

Probably not: as any good Xian white nationalist would know, it's way past time to invoke Revelation 11:18:  "The time has come to destroy those who destroy the earth!" (GNT version)

The pond wondered if the destroyers might return for a return bout of destruction, but this day there were fresh jihads to follow...with talk of Malware's folly featuring blather about the "administrative elite", which presumably doesn't mean the "Liberal leet".

The pond did a double take at the name of the author ...

Snowy 2.0: A monument to this nation’s energy policy hubris
In the mind of the administrative elite, there has never been an energy policy problem that could not be fixed by taking ever more power for themselves.
By Bruce Mountain

This mountain of a man tackling a mountainous problem briefly sounded like an Old Testament prophet lashing at the heathens ...

...Of course a minister, or prime minister, of the mind I am encouraging would have asked these questions before committing large chunks of taxpayers’ money. It is too late to dream of lemonade from these rotting lemons. But mindlessly flogging a dead horse does not make the best of a bad lot. The sunlight must be allowed in to begin to disinfect these weeping sores.
Australians seem to be fed up with the governing elite scrounging from the people’s pockets to fund their failing grand-plan vanities.
Those who don’t sniff this breeze and set their sails accordingly will get the comeuppance that is long overdue.
Bruce Mountain is director of the Victoria Energy Policy Centre.

The pond confesses that the VEPC had passed it by, but for the curious ...it's actually a bunch of Victorian academic boffins, at a centre set up with Victorian government money... almost, you might think, fellow travellers with governing leets...

Also out and about was the Major, himself a member of the reptile leets, revealing his usual taste for Islamophobia ...



Why do these reptile media leets always blather about Australian media leets? 

If the pond could banish just one word from the admittedly limited reptile hive mind vocabulary, "elite" would be it, both because of its monstrous stupidity and its hypocrisy ...

The Major blathered on in his usual Zionist way about Marxists and Greta and the left and Macron, and then went all "Western civilisation", as the reptile hordes are wont to do.

As the full piece is available in the intermittent archive, with the pond personally supervising the uploading thereto as Australian media elites ‘colour blind’ to the ugly truth of France riots, the pond decided to reduce this Major outing to just two more gobbets ...

This one's a bit of a gob stopper, reliably rabid ...



It turns out that the hysterical Major is prone to the Great Replacement Theory, an odd place for a Zionist to land ..

The “great replacement theory,” whose origins date back to the late 19th century, argues that Jews and some Western elites are conspiring to replace white Americans and Europeans with people of non-European descent, particularly Asians and Africans.
The conspiracy evolved from a series of false ideas that, over time, stoked the fears of white people: In 1892, British-Australian author and politician Charles Pearson warned that white people would “wake to find ourselves elbowed and hustled, and perhaps even thrust aside by people whom we looked down.” The massive influx of immigrants into Europe at the time fostered some of these fears and resulted in “white extinction anxiety.” In the U.S., it resulted in policies targeting immigration in the late 19th and early 20th century.
In France, journalist Édouard Drumont, leader of an antisemitic movement, wrote articles in the late 19th century imagining how Jews would destroy French culture. In 1909, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, an Italian poet and supporter of Benito Mussolini, argued that war and fascism were the only cure for the world. Fascism, then and now, worked to ensure white dominance.
This was followed by the eugenics movement, an erroneous and racist theory that supported forced sterilization of Black people, the mentally ill and other marginalized groups, who were all deemed “unfit.”
The 1978 book entitled “The Turner Diaries,” a fictional futuristic account of the overthrow of the United States government, further contributed to white nationalist ideas.
Collectively, these gave rise to a global movement that attracted a wide range of white supremacist, xenophobic and anti-immigration conspiracy theories. These theories were formally codified in the work of Frenchman Renaud Camus, first in his 2010 book “L'Abécédaire de l'in-nocence” and elaborated in his 2011 book “Le Grand Remplacement.”

Cue the Major, at one with Petey boy, and the notion of breeding like rabbits to avoid the grate replacement...



The long absent lord help anyone who feels the need to "Ask The Australian" and its version of AI nonsense, unless they're interested in climate science denialism or furriner hysteria.

On the other hand, that snap of Petey boy, grinning like a prize loon, says everything that needs to be said...and always provides a lift to the pond's day ...

Luckily the immortal Rowe was to hand to celebrate for the Major ...




Or should the pond have been welcoming the return of Wilcox, with talk of the great erasure being proposed by Zionists of a Major kind?



Meanwhile, the Caterist was out and about, and frankly the pond didn't have on its bingo card the notion that the flood waters whisperer would use the movie 9 to 5 as an inspiration...  In Australia, childcare has drifted from choice to control

It was such a curiosity that the pond decided to give the quarry whisperer a go, despite having personally saved the piece to the intermittent archive so that all could enjoy it at their leisure ...

On the other hand, no need to get too enthusiastic. Screen caps would do...




But surely it did get simple again, what with the Caterist simpering over 9 to 5, which the pond vaguely recalls was a Jane Fonda-inspired (not Hanoi Jane!) entertainment of a modest kind?

Roger Ebert gave the film 3 stars out of 4 and called it "pleasant entertainment, and I liked it, despite its uneven qualities and a plot that's almost too preposterous for the material." Ebert singled out Dolly Parton as "a natural-born movie star" who "contains so much energy, so much life and unstudied natural exuberance that watching her do anything in this movie is a pleasure."Vincent Canby of The New York Times was less enthusiastic, writing, "It's clearly a movie that began as someone's bright idea, which then went into production before anyone had time to give it a well-defined personality."
Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune gave the film 2.5 stars out of 4 and wrote, "The most pleasant surprise is the appearance of Dolly Parton, who with this one film establishes herself as a thoroughly engaging movie star. The biggest disappointment is that this Jane Fonda comedy about a trio of secretaries out to get their boss doesn't have more bite ... Instead of getting darker and darker, 'Nine to Five' gets lighter and lighter until it loses most of the energy it established so well early on." Variety stated, "Although it can probably be argued that Patricia Resnick and director Colin Higgins' script at times borders on the inane, the bottom line is that this picture is a lot of fun." Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times wrote that the film "appears to be an audience pleaser that never misses an intended laugh. However, it strays so far from reality for so long that it threatens to become mired in overly complicated silliness and to lose sight of the serious satirical points it wants to make. Happily, it does pull together for a finish that's as strong as it is funny."
Gary Arnold of The Washington Post thought the film "runs a merely weak comic premise into the ground with coarse, laborious execution". He thought that Dolly Parton was the film's "only reassuring aspect", as she seemed "an instantly likable natural on the movie screen, too".[19] David Ansen of Newsweek called the film "a disappointment ... It's not wild or dark enough to qualify as a truly disturbing farce and it's too fanciful and silly to succeed as realistic satire. Politically and esthetically, it's harmless—a mildly amusing romp that tends to get swallowed up by its own overly intricate plot."
Ronald Reagan wrote in his presidential diary that he and his wife Nancy watched the film on Valentine's Day 1981. He wrote, "Funny—but one scene made me mad. A truly funny scene if the 3 gals had played getting drunk but no they had to get stoned on pot. It was an endorsement of Pot smoking for any young person who sees the picture." (links at source)

Good old Ronnie Raygun, but hey nonny no, on we go ...




As for the Caterist's blanket dismissal of that blanket assertion, don't expect details of test results, and extensive discussion thereof, expect only a certain kind of quarry whispering blankness ... or even worse, expect a tedious trudge with the Tudge ...




If trudging with Tudge is the solution, the pond couldn't work out the question ...but did note a certain irony, with the Caterist strident about politicians interfering in family, while pushing the notion that the trudging Tudge could righteously interfere .

The pond also noted that once again Petey boy was front and centre ... we must breed like rabbits to save the very fabric of society!!

The Great Replacement Theory lives on in the hive mind!



As for the right of women to work? 

Get thee to a trad wife lifestyle, and begin your breeding program ...




That weekend infallible Pope seemed like a decent punctuation point, what with "Rage Corp" providing a generous sewer load of crapulence.

The pond decided it could skip the reptiles being wildly excited by its latest Newspoll, which featured at the top of the digital page ma ...



EXCLUSIVE
Newspoll: Wilson’s Libs on course to end 12 years of Labor rule
Victorian Opposition Leader Jess Wilson is likely to lead a majority Coalition government, according to the latest Newspoll.

It'll be what it will be ...and so the pond also skipped several other reptiles slobbering and slavering over the result ...

But the reptiles also made a big splash for simpleton Simon ...




The pond never has much time for simplistic Simon, but decided to give him a go, only to bitterly rue the result of this form of lazy, indulgent adventurism ...




That was a lot of general blather, and simplistic Simon continued on that way ...




This was all very well, but very contingent, and yet Simon had promised an earth-shattering prophesy. Would it come in the last gobbet?




Say what? 

"It may be" the most consequential for decades? 

He's willing to bet his house on the way that the future of both federal leaders "may be" decided by the end of next month?

Such bold predictions, such an incredible prophet, such an astonishing seer, but may be the pond wasted its time, may be this is a wretched reptile pretending to be prophetic, scribbling with as much assurance as the pond deciding that this may be the time it can pick a Melbourne cup winner ...

And so to wrap up proceedings with another immortal Rowe, which may or may not be relevant to the lizard Oz's AI ...




By golly that Drysdale painting could be found in almost every Tamworth home once upon a time, with the Hill End outing having its own wiki ...




And now for an AV distraction ... with the world's humanitarians now rejoicing at the company they're forced to keep ...






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