Or is that just gloating at the breaking of republican hearts?
Well any republican - come to think of it, anyone at all - who invests their heart with Malware deserves to have it broken.
It's a full and rich day, as the post-celebratory haze clears, and we get back to right thinking democrats always willing to listen to the voice of the people ...
Meanwhile, only one rag, the Graudian, has maintained an interest in Australia's very own fundamentalist extremist wandering abroad in imitation of Candide ...
Don't worry about the US hosts. Just take a gander at Erica and his love of the swill of the people ...
Meanwhile, as always, the pond turns to the reptiles of Oz for a suitable level of gravitas and reflection, and as always, the lizard Oz doesn't disappoint ...
Naturally that aged reptile of infinite wisdom was on hand to explain why everything - Abbott, the republic - was simply too hard ...
Heaven forfend that anyone should actually ask the people rather than ponderous pontificating pundits of the Kelly kind somehow imagining they're in touch with the "vibe". The last time Kelly was in touch with the vibe Bing Crosby won the top 100. Why, the pond distinctly remembers Bing taking out the JJ gong in '35 ...
Anyway, pace Erica, anything the people proposers might propose is only there to be ignored ... and so the Kellys can keep tugging the forelock of irrelevancy. Because that's what irrelevant old farts must do, as they shout at clouds ...
But moving right along, the pond wonders when Australia Day became the day for bigoted moaning and whining ...
Now the pond has mixed feelings about the trend, because Miranda the Devine's splash represents something of a triumph for the pond.
It will be remembered by the few who care that the pond chivvied the Terrorists for the copious hagiographic illustrations of the Devine that dominated the Devine's stories, and got chivvied in turn for daring to note that three shots of the Devine was three shots too many ...
Triumph. Sweet victory.
This day there's not a single sign of the Devine's image as she goes about her usual whining and moaning and disgruntlement ...
Click on the rant, and it's the same, with a video substituting for a shot of the Devine...
Thus emboldened, it's now time for the pond to deplore yet again the way that the blogs provide easy access to such premium ranting ...
Now in all that, the only thing that's missed from the main digital edition is this wondrous illustration ...
But as Damian Parer probably rolled a couple of times in his grave, as did the two diggers who were featured in that original iconic image, perhaps that's just as well ...
Now if some wretched pacifist had done this kind of defacement, imagine the howls ...
As for the actual rant, what's to say? It's entirely predictable bit of hate and fear-mongering of the harridan kind, and the Devine added an entirely predictable coda ...
Come on Daily Terrorists, come on, you followed the pond's advice about the hagiographic head shots, now it's time to get rid of the blogs that make your entire business plan meaningless ...
The pond has your deepest interests in its heart.
Back to the main theme of the day, which is to observe the way that Australia Day has become the time for the reptiles to moan and whinge and whine ...
The reptile editorialist was also at it, in the Devine style ...
Yes, there's something truly wondrous and piquant about the whingers whinging about the whingers in a way that's just one long, pathetic whine ...
Naturally, being the reptiles it's all about "me, me, me", or, if you will, "them, them, them":
And because horse-racing and a bet on the nags represents our deepest, purest aspirations, and naturally it's up to the reptiles to honor what is truly great and wonderful about the Australian impulse for a gamble ...
Yes, indeed, why can't we have more doers calling for the euthanasia of ill older people, repeat violent criminals, infanticide and the aborting of the disabled ... (Greg Hunt it here).
Yes, people, it's time to get serious, in serious reptile style ...
Yes, people, it's time to get serious, in serious reptile style ...
Never mind, it's starting to become an extremely tedious and long haul, but the pond would like to acknowledge the dog botherer as being ahead of the pack of yowling, moaning hounds when he came out with this little hoppy toad yesterday ...
It's only worthy of posthumous study because of the profound ironies it offers. Anyone on an irony and salt-free diet should feel free to do something useful ...
It's about that point that the irony really kicked in. The petulant, posturing, preening, Kenny the dog botherer saying be gone to those who would call a spade a spade, when a satirist couldn't even call the dog botherer a dog botherer ... without facing legal action and an enormous carry-on.
In Kenny's dog bothering world, a spade is actually a QC's shovel, so it's begone to humour ...
But just for the record and to prove a point, here's the rest of the Kenny opus, which continues with the exemplary moaning and the groaning ...
Yes, it's more of that guff about the nags, our nation's noblest aspiration, and it's further proof that these days the editorialist reads their own commentariat, simply so that they can reproduce everything the commentariat says in the editorial the next day, and so navel talks to navel, and the fluff gathers ...
It's about this time that the pond always feels like sending a Tamworth greeting to the dog botherer.
Oh why don't you just fuck off ...
And take the fucking nags with you ...
The pond is intent on celebrating Australia Day, and how better to do it than to join in the joyous celebrations celebrated by First Dog, and you can find the full cartoon here ...
I'm so glad Devine has such scientific bases as her 'straw poll of friends and acquaintances' to back up her arguments. Makes them sound so much more - valid!
ReplyDeleteI ask the Oz editorialist, what's Adam Goodes then? An activist, or a doer?
ReplyDeleteIndeed. Adam Goodes, Lionel Rose and Evonne Goolagong. I see a pattern. And didn't the right-wing media, epitomised by Alan Jones, regard the selection of Galarrwuy Yunupingu 'a joke' at the time?
DeleteAll that, just to say how different the winner would have been under Abbott as PM.
ReplyDeleteMichelle Payne would be a good guess. Or the queen. Or perhaps even Leanne Whitehouse.
DeleteThank God Miranda is there to remind us that Mr Morrison is diminutive and that how dare he do his job by pointing out sexism and abuse in our military and why can't he just let our soldiers kill people because that always achieves something rather than letting that transgender Group Captain write excellent speeches by which I mean as a backhanded compliment because it was about an issue favoured by progressive elites that I always rail against and I wonder if Miranda was short of breath when she wrote that crap because I sure am!
ReplyDeleteGiven that Miranda and silly Chris and Dame Slap et al are going to end their careers having achieved nothing but a pile of intemporate and occasionally accurate rants and grumbles, surely the Australia Day could see fit to award a group prize to all the News Ltd columnists for services in keeping journalism shrill and parochial? I mean, it's not specifically useful, but it might give them that feeling of belonging that they seem to miss.
ReplyDeleteIt would, of course, be petty and pedantic to point at that at one point the Australian editorial refers to the Australia Day Council as "The Australia Council" - the Commonwealth arts funding body. However, given the sanctimonious pomposity of the Oz, it's only just to hold the rag to its own so-called standards and demand the resignation of the entire staff over such a slipshod item of journalism.
ReplyDeleteDevine, gathering fluff, a reptile lazily lifting (see below) a quote: "I don't think that there's a military solution to anything..."
ReplyDeletefrom ABC 7.30, 11/05/2015
DAVID MORRISON: Well I think you could be forgiven for seeing the period that we're in at the moment as a long war, but what that long war is against and what its eventual outcomes will be are very hard to specify. We've had enduring interests in the Middle East, as we do in all areas of the world. I mean, it's Australia's strategic practice and we've recommitted there again in a particular role and I think we'll make a difference.
LEIGH SALES: Can an ideology be defeated militarily?
DAVID MORRISON: No. I don't think that there's a military solution to anything. I think that the use of military force is appropriate where a government decides that that is, you know, the tool of statecraft that they'll use, but throughout recorded time, there's been - there's never been a military solution to anything. People have got to create the society that they want to live in it and then it's got to have all of the aspects to it that make life worth living.
LEIGH SALES: So how do you think a group like Islamic State should be confronted?
DAVID MORRISON: I think that they should be confronted the way they are being confronted. I mean, they are a brutish, thuggish organisation that is living to an almost-Seventh Century barbarity - level of barbarity and there is almost no opportunity to reason with them. So it leaves Australia, the civilised world, little recourse but other than to take military action against them. ...
Devine, gathering fluff: "This is a man who has derided the Anzac legend as being male and "Anglo-Saxon."
DeleteLEIGH SALES: In a speech in 2013, you described the Anzac legend as a double-edged sword. What did you mean by that?
DAVID MORRISON: Well, I mean, it is one of the great iconic narratives, Anzac, but some of the stories we tell ourselves about Anzac: overwhelmingly white, overwhelmingly male, overwhelmingly Anglo-Saxon - if those stories are given an undue emphasis, then how do you attract into today's ranks men and women who aren't male, who aren't Anglo-Saxon, who aren't rough-hewn country lads who, you know, never salute officers, particularly the Poms and who fight best with a hangover? I mean, that's all the story around Anzac, isn't it, but it's not really the true one.
LEIGH SALES: Is it an issue for the Army getting that broad cross-section of society in as recruits?
DAVID MORRISON: Yeah. Well I think the nation would want its Defence Force reflective of its contemporary society.
LEIGH SALES: Is it at the moment, do you think? ...
DP: "and so navel talks to navel, and the fluff gathers ..."
DeleteFrom where beyond Rupe's comfy sunny rock have reptiles rehashed copy (apt word) this day? If game for examples, see here, and Pete's (3rd comment below the fold this time there) earlier reverberating contribution here.
"The Right News" - awesome.
DeleteAs equally awesome as pointing out that the Russian army marched to celebrate VE Day and Mr Smith didn't see any women (therefore assuming women don't serve in Russian Army units).
Of course, it was a great example to highlight because many Russian women served in front line combat units in the Red Army and Air Force (sometimes unofficially) during WW2 - including the Lieutenant (yes, a female officer) who famously raised the Soviet Flag over the Reichstagg in Berlin.
Thanks, Anon, for all of the above. Excellent reminders of the context of Morrison's comments. As for the Quadrant & others, why oh why did I go and look? You did say "if game..."; you tried to kindly warn...
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