These days the lizard Oz frequently saunters beyond the valley of the caricature.
A large cyclone is bearing down on Queensland, putting thousands in peril. So what do the reptiles lead with as a story? Safety fears at Christian charities ...oh, and look over there on the right, there's a cyclone ...
And on the digital pages there's more of the usual obsessions ...
And then came further confirmation that the reptiles would breathlessly report on the onion muncher with an EXCLUSIVE if he farted or wiped the snot from his nose ...
Did they bother reporting any other minor back bencher's opinion?
Why do you ask?
And there were other things, the usual Islamic hysteria, and a SPECIAL INVESTIGATION which simply reported on the result of all the fucking useless fucking hysteria by the Murdochian reptiles in relation to the NBN over recent years, which has seen a vast amount of fucking useless money spent on useless fucking copper ...
You fucking useless luddites, take the fucking credit for all you've accomplished with your celebration of hybrids and your downgrading of fibre to preserve an antiquated future for Foxtel ...
You helped dud Australia. At least person up and take responsibility ...
But before the pond has an anxiety attack about the return of its Tourette Syndrome, it's time for a relaxing canter through this week's Caterist contribution ...
It conforms to that fantastic genre, "things we cannot afford", which the pond noticed was in full flower when it googled the Caterist text ...
And so on and on, about the things we cannot afford.
And so to the Caterist, whom the pond can only manage to afford by googling ...
Indeed, indeed. Might the pond lower its expectations of what citizens, the Caterists, the reptiles of Oz and the Menzies RC might reasonably expect from government?
Like cash in the paw grants in aid? In aid of what? Bloody blathering Caterists?
Talk about an impediment to growth ...
What's the bet that the Caterist will next rub the pond's nose in the disgrace that is the NBN, the result of much Murdochian campaigning to reduce the notion of fibre to rubble?
The NBN? Remember this from the Caterists back in 2013, hailed by the likes of the Bolter as visionary?
Actually it's called building infrastructure. It's not an unusual activity for government, as the roads and the wires outside the pond's house routinely remind the pond, and as it recalls when it turns on a tap or flushes a fucking toilet ...
Of course every so often, the government does fuck it up, and that's why the tooth fairy does keep coming back each year, giving out gifts to bludgers ...
Yes, that's bloody good evidence of the tooth fairy returning each year to drop a handsome coin under the Caterist's bedside glass of water ...
As for the rest, somehow the pond has built to peak irritation point with the useless bloody reptiles this day... probably arising from that talk of NBN speed when it seems all that was needed was just to drop a bloody cable in the basement.
Welcome to the reptile idea of the futurist NBN ...
And so to the final Caterist gobbet
We should start by cutting statins, or slashing government services?
How about we start with this useless, mindless bloody waste of public money?
Fuck all the rent-seekers, and the government grant blood suckers and the Caterist leeches living off the public teat, and while the pond's in full Tourette flight, fuck the reptiles for enabling, facilitating, condoning and applauding the degutting of the NBN ... and fuck their cheek for now mounting a special investigation in all they helped bring about ...
Well there's a few things that are still in the teapot that the pond can save on ... given that it's banished all Murdochian product from the house - yes, everything has once again gone and the pond is Murdoch skinny ...
Any company advertising on a Murdochian website might be a good starting point ...
It's moments like these that the pond needs a little medical assistance, and being allergic to statins, it's time to gulp down a relieving Rowe, with more Rowe guaranteed to provide relief available here ...
Every Cater's day I wonder if - apart from you and us, DP - anybody on this forlorn planet actually reads him. I suppose at least his English isn't as bad as Major Mitch, but that's about all that can be said for him.
ReplyDeleteI admire how Dorothy can read and comment on what is put forward by the commentators from Murdoch.To me I find it impossible to read the rubbish put forward by Murdoch leeches how these clowns sell their soul to be employed by this crooked man.
ReplyDeleteHi Dorothy,
ReplyDelete"The largest number of scripts subsidised by the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme, 16.5 million, is for statins, costing the government $240 million last year."
Yet again Cater demonstrates the shortsighted and blinkered thinking of the fiscal conservative, where 'cutting costs' has become such a mantra that they unable to acknowledge such spending actually saves money.
The following is from a US study but the savings would be comparable.
* Per capita expenditure on hospitalization would have been $89 higher in 2004 had new cardiovascular medicines not been introduced in the period 1995–2004, according to a study among 20 OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) countries.
* Use of statin therapy to treat high cholesterol was associated with a 27 percent reduction in other cardiovascular healthcare costs (e.g., coronary artery bypass graft, electrocardiogram) per patient versus placebo.
* Statin use avoided heart attack hospitalization costs of $4.4 billion and stroke hospitalization costs of $440 million in the U.S. in 2008. If all patients were treated according to clinical guidelines, the additional use of statins would have avoided hospitalization costs of another $2.5 billion for heart attacks and another $260 million for strokes in 2008.15
With moronic economic thinking like this it's the Cater we cannot afford.
DiddyWrote
Dearie me, DW, you might as well talk preventative health sense to a stone wall of rampant delusion as try to help the Caterist with facts or insight. Personally, and without malice, the pond hopes that the chosen way the long absent lord designates that he goes involves the heart ... though apparently being able to live without a heart, how likely is this?
DeleteUnfortunately, DW, I think DP is absolutely right on this one: blind, deaf, dumb and stupid. But at least we can appreciate your research on this topic.
DeleteHowever, if you are at all interested in the fine old art of persuasive communication (or rhetoric, as some call it) there's a couple of very interesting web posts recently that deal with this topic:
1. Tim Harford (the undercover economist):
http://timharford.com/2017/03/the-problem-with-facts/
and a very interesting, though a tad overlong, commentary on Harford's post plus one other on much the same topic:
2. Scott Alexander:
http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/03/24/guided-by-the-beauty-of-our-weapons/
Mind, I think Scott hasn't quite got the 'backfire effect' right - though possibly more right than its "discoverers", but I believe that it does exist, but it's neither consistent (within one psyche) nor universal (amongst us all, all of the time) - but we all exhibit it sometimes.
Enjoy.