Day 73 of MUC and day 26 of MOC, and News Corp maintains the rage ...

The reptiles have so many wars on so many fronts ... there's the battle to save super for the rich, and then there's the battle to dismantle the wicked gay agenda ... and especially Safe Schools ...

The reptiles of Oz have been waging this war for months now ... the intensity of the fear makes the pond wonder how many beards and handbags lurk in the bunker at Surry Hills and are frightened to come out into the daylight ...

The campaign finally forced Jeff Kennett to front up this day to the Daily Terrorists ...

So the Devine, in her homophobic Catholic fundamentalist ranting rage, got a few minor facts wrong?

Where's the harm in that?

And then Kennett felt compelled to point out a few obvious facts ...

Well this is all well and good - when the Hon. speaks, the pond rarely listens - but the reptiles are in the grip of a crusading war and an apocalyptic rage roughly equivalent to the paranoia that gripped Salem in the matter of witches ...

They've refined homophobia and poofter bashing into a story a day routine designed to demonise minorities ...

Frankly the pond isn't going to be able to rest until gammadion cross flies from the Surry Hills bunker and then the pond's work will be done.

Oh wait, no sense of humour is allowed, so by way of a contrast, let's look at the thoughts and deeds of one of the warriors they want to get re-elected in South Australia ...

Well of course the pond had to celebrate good old Cory.

He used to be a contender, and once proudly occupied a spot on the pond's banner just above the clown.

That triumph of twittering in a wittering way is as little long in the tooth now, but still, look at that shadowy figure on the left - does he worry about that position?; shouldn't he be raging at Twitter for a position on the right? - and admire the work of this eminence grise ...

Know thyself, and once you've known, and  dug a hole, keep digging ... it's the only guaranteed way out of the hole ...

Naturally Cory brought out the usual suspects - you can find them at New Matilda and the Graudian and similar - but the pond was more intrigued by this outburst at the HUN ...

Well yes, indeed and so on and so forth ... and then came this ...

Say what?

Stupid Xians daily link homosexuality to Nazism ... and then having paraded their stupidity, feel free to defend it ... as in Lyle Shelton defends controversial Nazi Germany Comparisons ...

But Shelton isn't the only one, which is why the pond has been breaking Godwin's Law daily and the swear jar is bulging at the seams ...

Shelton might even possibly not be the worst of them, that honour being reserved for the reptiles of Oz, who on a daily basis, and for months, have waged war and conflated safe schools and gays and gender theory with Marxism ...

They were at it again today ...

There's nothing radical about the notion of fluid gender ... gender identity is fluid.

The pond knows this well, and knows others who know it well ... because, for fuck's sake, if you change from male to female, or vice versa, you'd have to think there's a little fluidity involved ...

Have any of these 'phobes spent a moment talking about life with a member of the TG community?

Sadly, this provided a double-edged sword for the pond when reading the rest of Tuohy's piece ...

Alas, Wendy, you're working for an organisation, one arm of which is currently conducting a vicious homophobic war closely aligned with the values of a fundamentalist Xian who thinks nothing of leading with Nazi comparisons, and then when challenged, acts all hurt and confused ...

It really does tend to vaporise any authority anyone in News Corp might claim when attempting to preach about moral standards or behaviour ...

Cory Bernardi, Lyle Shelton, Miranda the Devine, the Bolter, and the reptile news desk, full of hate and fear mongering of the gay Marxist kind ... where's the difference, where's the light and shade?

Aren't they all bigoted and homophobic in the own way, and doing their worst in a vile culture war?

Never mind, it's around this time that the pond heads off for a good news story...

What's that you say? Australia records warmest autumn ever ...

Sheesh, beam the pond up Scotty, or perhaps we could get one of those thingies Arfur is peddling ... as recommended in the comments section of the pond this very day!

Now about that subdivision ...