In which the pond has a Friday frolic with the onion muncher ...

The reptiles are off on a crusade to save western civilisation this morning - they have been setting out every day of late - and this gives the pond the chance to pay attention to the narcissist attention-seeking onion muncher's latest forays ...

Unfortunately tragic events elsewhere have distracted from the onion muncher's efforts, though 'their ABC' sent Fran Kelly off this morning to Morwell, ensuring that this was another day the pond didn't listen to RN.

After all, if it wants news of Hazelwood, it'll tune in to the onion muncher ...

But first that story about Abbott being 'confident'.

That turned up in their ABC here ... and what was Abbott 'confident' of?

"I very much respect Peter and I am confident that what he has been trying to do is to secure the best possible way of realising the commitment that we took to the people at the election," Mr Abbott said.

He's confident the mutton Dutton doing his very best? He's a try-hard trier having a go ....

But is the onion muncher confident about the mutton Dutton's solution?

Mr Abbott would not specifically say whether he supported the idea of a postal vote when asked by reporters in Canberra.

And that's 'their ABC's' notion of an onion-muncher story ... is it any wonder that the pond turns to the HUN?

After all, if the pond wants luddite delusionalism, why not go direct to the source?

Now the pond senses that, but for tragic events elsewhere, the HUN reptiles and their onion-munching pet would have been at the centre of attention ...

You see, it wasn't just onion-munching climate denialism. In the usual reptile way - do the column, then do it again in a beat-up 'news angle' - here was a news report to go with the onion muncher piece ... and a special video clip which thankfully the pond's photo cap has reduced to stillness and silence ...

Oh yes, it was a dramatic, "exclusive" intervention ... and a poor hapless hack was assigned to regurgitate the onion muncher's words, while trying to lather up a frenzy ... with the ideological Frogs naturally ripe for a pounding ...

The HUNsters also whipped out the Bolter to join in the game ...

It was the usual paranoid chatter about betrayal, with nary a hint that the world might be in a bit of a pickle or a warming stew.

And it was more of the usual "said to cause dangerous global warming ..." but it didn't take long for the Bolter to drop the pretence and arrive at the news that we're in a game of pretends ...

And that's climate science for the Bolter. A game of pretends ...

Now others might head off to read stories such as Arctic ice falls to record winter low after polar 'heatwaves' and read ...

“Thin ice and beset by warm weather – not a good way to begin the melt season,” said NSIDC’s lead scientist, Ted Scambos. Prof Julienne Stroeve, at University College London, said: “Such thin ice going into the melt season sets us up for the possibility of record low sea-ice conditions this September.” The Arctic ice cap fell to its second lowest summer extent on record in September 2016, just ahead of the lowest ever mark set in 2012. “The long-term decline is a clear indicator of climate change,” said Nasa scientist Walt Meier.

So many people playing pretends ... but the HUNsters knew they were on a premium winner ...

Oh indeed, indeed ...

The pond has been here so many times before, and the only thing that ever made sense were Rowe cartoons like this one (with more Rowe here).

There's nothing like paying to read a futtocky failed onion munching fool maintaining the rage and continuing on endlessly with mindless inanity ...

The pond decided to treat the HUN "exclusive" with the dignity and respect it deserved ... and headed off to read it with the croweaters, operating under the delusion that somehow there was more than one gigantic Murdochian brand ...

The pond wasn't expecting anything by way of intelligence ... rather it expected to pick up a few Bolterisms along the way, and who knows, perhaps that HUN video about Hazelwood would turn up like a bad penny even in the 'Tiser, no longer the paper the pond once knew ...more "The News" on tabloid HUN steroids ...

Oh indeed, all good points in that opening salvo ... sure brown coal is more emissions-intensive, but sure climate science is just a Chinese conspiracy, so where's the harm ...

But now it's time to get on with "spot the Bolterisms" ..

Yes, there was the Bolterism:

"There's no doubt that climate change obsessions have played havoc with Australia's energy policy."

Actually there's absolutely no doubt that climate science denialism and onion munching luddite brown coal-loving head in sand fuckwittery has played havoc with Australia's energy policy, and Malware's government is still trying to deal with the fall-out, as well as the rest of the country ...

Not to mention the absolute lie, peddled by Abbott, about the way that electricity prices would drop ...

Some might care to drift back to a 2015 fact check by their ABC here ... "Mr Hockey's claim is wrong."

It was worse than wrong. It was a furphy, designed to distract from the need to address the fundamentals in the energy system while attempting to provide a coherent response to the agreed findings of climate science ...

We had years to plan the transition, we had years to structure solutions, but those years were wasted by onion muncher obstructionism, and now irony of ironies, there's talk around the land of the need to put a price on carbon.

Instead of a messiah to lead us out of the wilderness, we copped an onion muncher blathering about Jesus ...

Well with that in mind, it's time for a final game of "spot the Bolterisms" ...

The pond couldn't decide which was best ... the notion that abandoning brown coal was a catastrophe, presumably because there's no such thing as climate science, or blaming it all on the perfidious French socialists, as opposed to marketplace realities ... or the bizarre notion that the government should spend a squillion, either by way of gigantic subsidy, or by way of direct takeover, seeking to keep Hazelwood going ...

On the one hand, it might seem like the usual onion muncher fairy tale ...

... but on the other, it's the usual narcissist attention-seeking, aimed at white-anting Malware, by maintaining the usual level of wrecking, undermining and sniping, fuelled by the reptiles' willingness to give the onion muncher space to rabbit on about the way Malware might achieve greatness by following all the onion muncher's policies ... no matter how failed or delusional or reprehensible.

It's obvious enough why he does it, but why do the reptiles encourage it? Why do they give space to a proven failure?

But for tragic events elsewhere, this would have been a big item around the nation ... 

After all, 'their ABC' sent Fran Kelly to Morwell, presumably to beat the drums and conduct a funeral dirge for brown coal and perhaps even raise the spectre of the perfidious socialist French ...

Yep, it's another dreary day in Australian denialism and denialist energy policy ...