In which the pond remarks, with internationally acclaimed climate scientist Moorice, on one of Malware's rare mis-steps ...

This time of year, it's all about distractions ... 

Apart from the distraction of poor bear with little brain Sharri, driven from the lizard Oz and now scribbling for the Terrorists, what a tremendously distracting line she produced with "PM Malcolm Turnbull made a rare misstep ..."

Rare? If the pond ordered meat Turnbull rare, the barbie would be roasting it all day ...how about not mentioning a rail line in relation to the airport? Nope, that's not rare, that's infrastructure touchdown as usual, Malware style ...

But enough sublime stupidity, because it's time to turn to the unseemly sight of two fawning politicians arguing over who can slip cash into the paw of a Hollywood studio and DC comics, as if the buggers are short of a quid ...

$22 million?

Stupid people flinging money at bloated pirates touring the world shaking down governments, and succeeding on the basis of flimsy multiplier effects, which the pond confesses to having peddled in another lifetime of waste and folly and delusion ...

But speaking of pirates, that brings the pond to the recent triumphalism of doddery old Graham Burke, wanting the cartels to get back to the golden years ... Burkey was once reported as being worth $153 million, but you know how it goes with the greedy, they can never get enough ...

Sorry Gra Gra, by definition, the pond is now an investor in Aquaman, and it will download it for free in due course. 

It's likely that the pond won't actually watch it - recent DC Comics into film have turned into steaming piles of shit, like that recent humungous pile of crap Batman v Superman Dawn of Justice, which had the biggest Friday to Friday drop ever seen when the word of mouth spread that it was more tedious than watching paint dry ...

It makes the routinely silly ScoMos talk of jumping on board a success even dumber than usual. Shaken down by DC, and too dumb to know it ...

But now the pond must turn to more serious matters, and fortunately we have the world's greatest climate science turning his expert vision on important matters ...

Okay, okay, the pond confesses the only reason whatsoever to feature Moorice on the NBN folly is to be able to run an associated cornucopia of Pope cartoons ...

Before getting on to the main meal, let's warm up with a couple ...

And so to Moorice ...

Now that yarn about the coaster on a plane is a nice one, and we have been down that path many times before ...

Here, but actually the NBN wasn't conceived on the back of a beer coaster, though the pond can say with some certainty that Malware dragged his singular love of copper out of his arse ...

Of course the remarkably incompetent Conroy made any number of basic mistakes - from pork barreling the roll out to grandly talking, in the manner Burkey wanted, of a great big internet filter for everyone.

The worst part of the pork barreling was that the NBN rolled out to assorted areas without rhyme, or reason and without commercial sense. 

The way to have done it was to have upgraded high traffic areas, generated cash flow, and then moved on to more remote and expensive locations requiring ongoing subsidy.

And yet such was the inept planning that the remote areas have also been short-changed ... listen to the deafening wails about the speed and data caps on remote services which make them as irritating as dial-up.

As a result of all this, NBN has become hated in rural areas and gazumped in many city areas.

So the pond's son has both NBN and a rival commercial supplier providing fibre to the basement services, while the pond makes do with a choice between HFC - in urgent need of replacement - and sodden, corroded copper ... with the now exiled Optus doing absolutely nothing to maintain its service, and the NBN recoiling from the too hard to fix copper lurking in the inner city trenches.

All this was known, all this could have been planned for and acknowledged, but those in the know explain that Turnbull is a right tosser, singularly up himself in thinking he knows all there is to know about such matters ... and even now wrapped in the delusion that he steered the right course ...

Time for a little more Pope ...

The amusing thing is that far right loons and hysterics like Moorice have finally got around to realising that Malware didn't fix Conroy's follies, he doubled down on the delusional aspects ... and ruined whatever chance the nation had of obtaining a decent agile and innovative connectivity in the next couple of decades ... at least without expending further vast sums of money to fix up the assorted Malware fuck-ups ...

Actually there doesn't need to be limitations to capable government. 

The Snowy River scheme was perfectly competent, cities have been supplied with water and sewerage and electricity and roads and hospitals and schools, and the record of private sector rip-offs and failed private public partnerships would dent the hubris of anyone except a malevolent Moorice looking for the next main chance ...

Of course all this is just another attack on Malware, thinly disguised as a concern for getting decent broadband without the Malware built-in early obsolescence, which as already noted, has made his version of copper to the nation vulnerable to competition in high traffic areas ...

But it was the onion muncher and his minions, who treated nation building as a pawn for their political ambitions, that set the NBN on the road to doom ... and Malware on to the designated path of pawn and abject servile fop carrying out ably his designated assignment of destroying the NBN ... and in turn, Malware now refuses to admit his role as snake oil salesman ...

It's impossible to imagine how the Snowy River scheme might have ended up with this sort of abject, base politics, and yet now, years too late, expert climate scientist Moorice has arrived with the belated news that Malware - thanks to the onion muncher - has fucked it up ...

What to do, what to do?

Well the pond looks forward to pirating Aquaman at a very slow speed, and now can run a heap more celebratory  Pope cartoons, with a reminder that the immortal Pope can be found at papal HQ here ... 

Surely the NBN disaster has resulted in one of the richest veins in political cartooning since the time of federation.

Of course it's not the same has having decent FTTH in the pond's lifetime, but it's a compensation and a consolation ...