The pond trudged off to the Caterists this day more out of a sense of duty than of hope, but then perked up at the way that google is now helping the reptiles by talking of 'top stories'...
Yes, the Carterist is a "top story" ... and a creationist one at that, and surely the Caterist is a top expert on the dangers of chutzpah and an economy funded by taxes ...
All the same, the pond knew that, for all the roundtables and seminars organised, and the development of websites to disseminate information and articles, and for all the research, the Caterists probably didn't have much of use to say about the hapless croweaters ...
The pond once lived in that lotus land, and always waved to the great aunts on the verandah, near where the wisteria grew, and you didn't have to be there for long and hear the chatter about eastern staters to realise that vast swathes of the land, especially above Goyder's Line weren't much good for anything except mining or turning into a waste uranium dump so that they might be blighted and ruined for a humble 250,000 years ...and that should climate science predictions come to pass, it's going to be hard working the Eyre peninsula and it might get a bit tricky with the supply of tuna too.
Adelaide's pretty much not on the path to anywhere ... of course if you're coming from South Africa or Perth, you might care to consider a stopover, or you might just keep going to Melbourne ... and if in Melbourne, you might prefer just to head off to Perth, or go straight to South Africa ...
It doesn't even have the charm of Christchurch, as a way to catching a glimpse of the great walri migration that makes the Antarctic waters such a spectacular sight for expert climate scientists of the Hunt kind ...
Take away white goods and car manufacturing, throw in subs thanks to the mighty poodle, and manufacturing and the Playford vision is a little worn ...
You're left with great wine and people dropping in to see salt ruin the Coorong and the Murray as a business model ...
You're left with great wine and people dropping in to see salt ruin the Coorong and the Murray as a business model ...
The pond still loves the joint - a recent visit by a close one confirmed that life is still as cheap as chips, even if there's the genteel smell of rustication and decay in the air ... but at least light rail is on the move and the hipster living is easy, and there is, after all, more to life than being a bludger living off taxpayer cash in the paw in a research centre in Canberra.
Now there's an easy solution. Why not have a proliferation of research centres in Adelaide, or at least a multifunction polis? Sorry croweaters, just look at the resulting spray of blather you're likely to cop ...
Now there's an easy solution. Why not have a proliferation of research centres in Adelaide, or at least a multifunction polis? Sorry croweaters, just look at the resulting spray of blather you're likely to cop ...
Well so much for Keynes, but it should be noted that there's ordinary humble delusional, and then there's mega-Caterist delusional ...
It takes an almost infinite capacity for stupidity not to mention the obvious elephant in the room at the time of the BHP matter ... which is to say subdued commodity prices ....
That story with working links here, but even acknowledging the reality shouldn't obscure the way one mine will never fix South Australia's deep structural problems.
Nor will blaming the government - the main reason most people in SA have any sort of job is thanks to the government, in the Japanese/Chinese style of hiring people to pretend the joint is a hub of activity.
And who - except a Caterist living high off the hog of taxpayer grants - could argue with that?
And who - except a Caterist living high off the hog of taxpayer grants - could argue with that?
Soon enough it will be on to the matter of power, though by the pond's reckoning recent substantial blackouts in Queensland and Victoria haven't managed to generate the same amount of blather..
Well thank the long absent lord the federal government still keeps priming the Keynesian pump and so keeps the Caterists in business ...
Talk about a classic example of churn, since there doesn't seem any other reason for the phenomenon ...
Talk about a classic example of churn, since there doesn't seem any other reason for the phenomenon ...
Of course three fifths of the result is ideology and two fifths is stupidity, or on a bad day, the proportions are reversed, but at least the desiccated Canberra job market is kept safe for Caterists ...
It seems the country can at least create jobs in the Menzies research centre, though not with prudent spending of revenue ...
Follow not what is typed, croweaters, but what is lived!
Follow not what is typed, croweaters, but what is lived!
What a tiresome loon he is, how fitting that he should enjoy his reign at the head of the page ...
And so to David Rowe alerting the pond by way of twitter here, that he has done a magazine cover, and more covers for the magazine here ...
And so to David Rowe alerting the pond by way of twitter here, that he has done a magazine cover, and more covers for the magazine here ...
Did you see Lord Brandis with cape and bald head at the high court.
ReplyDeleteStrutting around as though he is qualified to stand with the members of the high court he is a fraud and will be laughed about in the future.
As for the rest of fraudsters from Murdoch land well we just have to watch how his mineons spread lies and half truths to mug punters from their shit rags.
The pond will look out for the bookcase man. It sounds like a jolly good sighting WW
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