(Above: and indeed it now is, and more Moir here).
The pond was watching the box not so long ago and was marvelling at how the brick with eyes had come along ...
When he first started in the game, he couldn't string two words together, let alone a coherent sentence. Now he manages actual answers and points of view, as well as independence from the Titanic.
The same can be said for Ricky Muir. He's scrubbed up quite nicely.
Even worked on his sensa huma ...
Even worked on his sensa huma ...
And scored his own plonk ...
There are some who might think giving someone a remedial career as a Senator is an expensive way of brushing up on oral communication skills and giving people a socially useful purpose in life (the pond had to mention 'communication' just to make clear it wasn't talking about Subaru or Lou Reed or Donald Trump).
But the pond thinks it's better than giving money to the Menzies Research Centre so that Caterists might stalk the land, and the pages of the lizard Oz...
Inevitably the latest spectacle this day features the Menzies-clad clot calling others clots without recognising his own intrinsic clottishness ... in some apparently clottish attempt to elevate the clottish tone of his abusively clottish approach to public discourse ...
The pond reached for its aspro (make sure it's the coated sort so your gut doesn't suffer while it deals with the clots) ...
Indeed, indeed, and it takes more front than Myers for the Caterists, indigent bludgers stalking taxpayers for grants to run their tribute to Ming the Merciless, to produce a coherent point on anonymous party donations.
It's in the interests of both major parties to hide the source of their cash in the paw, in much the same way as you won't get the Caterists mentioning their taxpayer funding when it comes to railing about big government ...
Time for a breather. This marathon is already starting to wear the pond down ...
Yes, it is Tamworth's problem, but thanks to the Caterists, the pond has learnt an important word for the week, and it's "populist".
You see, Lazarus is a populist. Hiss boo ... And so, it seems, were Rob Oakeshott and Tony Windsor. Hiss boo ...
But Bob Day and David Leyonhjelm are fair-minded independents ...
Let us examine the gossamer subtlety of the Caterist mind as the web-spinning reaches points of nuanced subtlety ...
There, did you catch the nuance? Liberals good, populists bad, Donald Trump, Clive Palmer.
As for conspiratorial logic, did the clot miss this little outburst?
As for conspiratorial logic, did the clot miss this little outburst?
Oh he's always good for a conspiratorial outburst ...
And when we talk of hubris, self-delusion and self-aggrandisement, we must not mention the Chairman or the Caterists who so faithfully toil in the vineyard for the Chairman and his ilk ...
And so the clot concludes with a final wringing of paws and a splendid burst of clottishness, but if it please m'lud, it is the pond's impression that both Ricky and the brick with eyes have a few yards to go before they might be deemed rhetoricians or populists ...
Besides, what's the ambition here? To bring about good legislation, or to produce, in a conducive way, "a smooth-running senate" that won't disturb anybody or do much of anything, except rubber stamp anything that happens to turn up ...
The Caterists, with their jibber jabber about a "smooth-running senate" seem determined to send the pond in search of candidates that will continue to ask troubling and difficult questions ... you know, like whether nineteenth century copper is the best way to head into an agile, innovative twenty first century ...
Questions, it seems, that Caterist clots can't manage ...
In the meantime, the pond seems to have attracted the odd Greens supporter, and as they seek to asure the pond that things are all for the best amongst the polo-necked black skivvy wearers, the pond wondered how it might be going in la la land.
After all, we can all remember when the ETU was right onside ... with the sparkies cheerful and optimistic ...
In the meantime, the pond seems to have attracted the odd Greens supporter, and as they seek to asure the pond that things are all for the best amongst the polo-necked black skivvy wearers, the pond wondered how it might be going in la la land.
After all, we can all remember when the ETU was right onside ... with the sparkies cheerful and optimistic ...
So how's it going now?
Imbecile? A special kind of arrogance? Oh that's so cruel and unkind ...
Yep, that tweet produced a little unhappiness ...
And there's plenty more here, but then you'd have to be a genuine clot not to know what was going to happen ...
And so to a special feature the pond thinks might be something of a public service during the coming weeks as we focus on Caterist heroes campaigning for re-election.
Today the pond celebrates the poodle and urges your urgent attention to his candidacy ...
How did that one slip in there? No, not the Joker. The clot ... thank the long absent lord, he's not a populist, just a poodle ...
Never mind, it's your problem crow eaters ...
Never mind, it's your problem crow eaters ...
"So how's it going now?"
ReplyDeleteNicely thankyou. Who is the ETU going to turn to? Laboral? Your Billista colours are showing by reading more into the feigned angry outburst at a keyboard by a couple of ETU strategists than is warranted by the transaction.
How can you give any credence to Di Natale being "surprised" or that he "didn't know"? FFS, how dumb or brainwashed can you get? Apart from not being able to be read into his tweet that initiated the responses they are simply ridiculous claims. ETU officials are simply about being seen to respond to the phony Laboral spin about their position on senate voting that some ETU rank and file card carrying laborals have recently bought. Where's the ETU going to turn? To liblab? IMO it'll make no big difference if they do now the Greens will have increased Senate and Reps exposure, but I don't think they will. I went to the meetings and actions in Brisbane, and the Greens and ETU together were at the core of protest against Newman. Fuck, at times even the Katters turned out, but as I recall Labor was nowhere to be seen. Fucken laborals, always ready to be sold another major bridge.
Very nicely articulated, Anony. Now, is there any actual point to it ?
DeleteAny point to it, GB? Fewer useless timeserving sell-out Labor arses on seats perhaps.
DeleteA whinge, GB.
DeleteThe pond is home to loons and it seems some worship at the font of the black turtle-necked skivvy ...but then stupidity is rampant and everywhere, and soon enough they'll have facilitated the return of a Liberal government with control of both houses. A triumph of policy astuteness that would make a Black Knight green with envy...
DeleteThat's your comeback? Labor koolaid is it? Another pathetic hollow rant for hollow old Labor. You've got nothing for all your desperate grasping of the old party line, and it's clear you know it. Have another drink to liblab.
DeleteHmmm dude what you got? Nothing but angry ranting at the simplistic level of an angry white man who knows what is right and good.
DeleteYou sound like Mr Jones in Dylan's song. Some thing is happening and you don't know what it is.
The funny, tragic and pathetic thing is that this simplistic, one might dare to say simple-minded loon, somehow thinks that loon pond is associated with either the Liberal or the Labor party or that even more peculiar beast, the Liblab ... but then anyone associated with the thought crime of worshipping turtle-necked black skivvy wearers has possibly deep personal problems the pond doesn't need to know about ...
DeleteAs for the deep recesses of anger that lead to the notion that it was a comeback, as opposed to a likely reality, what can you say? Let's see how it all turns out. The pond's own party, the Happy Birthday party, is sadly unlikely to have the balance of power, but if the skivvy wearer has miscued, and the Liberals gain control of both houses, what a groaning and a sighing and a lamentation and a casting of ashes there'll be ...
The Happy Birthday Party? Oh goody, a party for the duopoly twins replete with the same old party games. Musical chairs anyone, or pass the parcel?
DeleteAny miscue, as you put it, that advantages the LNP to that extent will be because Labor stupidly doesn't stand with the Greens but continues to attempt to split the progressive vote by heeding and echoing Dastyari and Conroy's loosing personally vested interest claims.
Sound like Mr Jones? Perhaps that's down to your echo chamber. Try Steve Jobs:
DeleteCome writers and critics
Who prophesize with your pen
And keep your eyes wide
The chance won't come again
And don't speak too soon
For the wheel's still in spin
And there's no tellin' who
That it's namin'.
For the loser now
Will be later to win
For the times they are a-changin'.
Try Jobs for what?
DeleteWhat is it about winning being a bad thing for everyone that you warmongers don't understand? Ever thought about winning people to your point of view rather than trying to win and insist that you do know what is happening.
You could try Leonard: he was far more interesting than Dylan with his sneering. Leonard also knows that things are gonna slide, slide in all directions.
"Try Jobs for what?" For answers to your feedback problem. "Some thing is happening and you don't know what it is" - like Jobs quoting Dylan quoting Mark's oracular pronunciation on Dastyari and Conroy: "But many that are first shall be last, and the last first."
DeleteSo now Di Natale is a warmonger. Wow! I doubt there is any sane reply to that tag that would satisfy you, so I'll leave you the last word echoing there with you.
Bye bye you carry on with your war mongering against them that don't think like you. There are lots of places you can go to win arguments about politics and hear lots of echoes from people who enjoy the type of interaction you prefer.
DeleteLC: ... I think of Bob Dylan, who gets the inflections of street talk, the inflections of conversation, and does that with such mastery ... where you can hear a little tough guy talking. You can hear somebody praying. You can hear somebody asking. You can hear somebody coming onto you. When you're composing that material and you know that it's going to occupy aural space, you can compose it with those inflections in mind. And of course it does invite irony because that irony can be conveyed with the voice alone whereas on the page you generally have to have a larger construction around the irony for it to come through. You can't just write, " What's it to ya? " If you sing, " What's it to ya? " to some nice chords it really does sound like, " Well, what's it to yah, baby? " But.just to see it written, it would need a location.
DeleteINT: How much connection do you feel with Dylan's music, or with others, like Joni Mitchell, for example? Whose music is closest to you now...?
LC: Well, like the Talmud says, there's good wine in every generation. We have a particular feeling for the music of our own generation and usually the songs we courted to are the songs that stay with us all our life as being the heavy ones. The singers of my own period, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Ray Charles, all those singers have crossed over the generations. But we have a special kind of feeling for the singers that we use to make love to.
Of course Howard liked the fact that you knew where Harradine stood. That was important so Howard could feather whichever nest Harradine happened to be cultivating. As long as the feathering did no long term damage to Howard's prospects, he was happy to deal with Harradine.
ReplyDeleteKnow your enemy, know what you need to offer them to get their agreement, know what it will take to make them turn. Howard had that knowledge in spades.
Yeah, but then remembering who and what Harradine was, it wouldn't be real hard for a Howard, supported by an Abbott, to know all you'd need to know about our "Father of the Senate".
ReplyDeleteIndeed, all three would have been in furious agreement about matters female in particular, wouldn't they.