Speaking of cow pats and reptiles festering in the warm autumnal sun ...

(Above: and more excellent portraits of cow pats and dog killers at Rowe here).

Et tu, little Johnny, Howard admits he told Abbott to ditch Credline and replace Hockey with Turnbull...

It makes for sad reading, especially when the reptiles put this at the top of their digital page ...

Bear that in mind, but first the pond would like to take a little detour through the strange mind of the oscillating fan ...

Say what?

Well if anybody wanted an explanation as to why the oscillating fan's such a dropkick and a loser, and a desperate attention seeker to boot, and why his book about Abbott failed to attract any significant attention, the pond now feels it's done its duty to anybody ...

Moving right along, please allow the pond to revert to that bit about Abbott being the worst PM.

It's about the right time to quote from a lizard Oz editorial advising the populace to vote for the wall puncher, not so long ago, back a few mere years in 2013 ...

Now this is poignant, and with rich shards of irony dappling the quartz, because this day the reptiles turn their editorial mind to culpability ...

Naturally the venom is directed at Tony Windsor ...

Yes, Windsor has invoked an unfortunate sense of déjà vu, the days when the feral reptiles launched an unremitting campaign of outrageous negativity, not just petty undermining, white-anting, and sniping, but outright scorched earth, take no prisoners, obliterate the landscape warfare, in support of a man who came to be judged as the worst Prime Minister in living memory ...

A new Essential Research poll provided exclusively to The Australian finds that 34 per cent of voters judge Mr Howard (1996-2007) as the best prime minister since 1972. Mr Hawke (1983-91) was selected by 13 per cent as the best, and Whitlam (1972-75) by 10 per cent. Tony Abbott (2013-15) was again ranked last, with just 2 per cent of voters seeing him as the best prime minister. 
Malcolm Turnbull, who has been prime minister for six months, was rated highest by only 3 per cent of voters.

The 2% man!

Now the pond just wanted to place the following in some sort of context, because the reptiles are going to pile on Windsor like a flies on a cow pat in the summer Tamworth sun in the coming weeks.

Barners might be a useless son of a gun, but he's their son of a gun, and they'll do anything to demean and trash Windsor, while in their own singular, humourless way, refusing to pause for a second to look at their own wretched record ...

Here's how it's done ...

Put it another way: scant achievements no match for the reptile editorialist's delusions.

Now as for the reptiles raging about the Greens' agenda, let's ignore the headlines in other rags, because the pond can only take so much irony in a day ...

Let's just note the part the reptiles played in the destruction of the NBN, which is to say, the provision of fibre to the home, which will now happen over many years and at great expense, as the current fucked-up roll out is replaced in larger population areas ...

The reptiles support for this process probably constitutes the greatest dissembling crime against a major infrastructure project the country has seen ... the pond shudders to think what might have been when it came to providing sewers, water, power poles, telephone lines, the Snowy, etc etc ...

Their nattering obfuscatory negativity in relation to joining the twenty first century - inspired by their twentieth century business model - was probably only exceeded by their destructive behaviour in relation to climate science, which, if even medium projections come to pass, might make fibre to the home a moot, luxurious point ...

But can you expect any apologetic reflection by the reptiles on their persistent, ruinous folly?

Of course not, it's pile on Windsor time, because a doofus like Barners needs reptile support ...

Talk about unadulterated cheek ...

“Look….I just – I’m always sceptical of the idea that the way that anybody’s going to change the climate – and I’m driving in this morning and we’re driving through a frost – is with bureaucrats and taxes. “All that does is….it’s a self-fulfilling prophecy. I make you feel guilty so I can get your money and put it in my pocket and send reports backwards and forth to one another,” he said. “No. This just – this is part and parcel of it … since Dorothea Mackellar talked about, you know, droughts and flooding rains … It will rain. It will rain again and those people will be back in production. “We’ve got record prices in beef and sheep for them to enjoy. We’ve got to look after them until they get to that point because then they’ll deliver bucket-loads of money back into our economy,” he said. “There’s a logic behind this. It’s not a permanent removal of rain … You’ll have wet periods. You’ll have dry periods. Our job is to look after people, to make sure that they get back into production and we’re doing that.” 
Joyce’s comments follow the publication of yet another climate denying op-ed from Abbott’s senior business advisor, Maurice Newman, in The Australian. (here).

Before the carbon tax in 2009 the present Minister for Agriculture Barnaby Joyce said the carbon tax would be “the end of Australia’s sheep industry”. 
‘‘I don’t think your working mothers are going to be very happy when they are paying over $100 for a roast,’’ he added. In Parliament this week, asked whether he had found a $100 leg of lamb, Mr Joyce dodged the question. At Woolworths this week a leg of lamb was on special for $15.10. It normally sells for $20.38. As it happened the Treasury modelled the price of lamb when it modelled the carbon tax. It said the price would rise by 0.4 per cent, suggesting the price might have climbed 20 cents. It’s impossible to tell because, for food, the expected movements were difficult to notice.  (here at Fairfax).

And so on and on, the pond could fill up an entire page with Barners' follies and nonsense, and still have room for another page of his climate denialist thoughts ...

And now the reptiles want to demonise Windsor while giving Barners a free pass and sundry free kicks ...

It doesn't matter if the man's a fuckwit, he's their climate sceptical fuckwit, and that's all that matters.

Now the hagiography has begun afresh, with the Daily Terrorists following yesterday's page demonising Windor with this bit of rampant forelock-tugging ...

Great, the pond understands the tracks are made of copper for superior performance, the engine relies on new-fangled coal-powered steam, and it'll be fast-tracked to be delivered just after 2050 ...

Will no one stand up for Windsor, who at least can manage to string together a coherent sentence?

Oh alright, it was only The Beetoota Advocate, here. But at least they have a sense of humour about the man likely to be voted the worst deputy PM ever in some future poll, despite the exceptionally tough competition ...