A tale of two cities? More like a tale of two alternative universes and alternative facts.
It's easy enough to find stories of accumulating NSW and Sydney summer heat records, as at the ABC here, but the reptiles sheltering in their Surry Hills 'leetest bunker don't seem to have noticed.
Instead there's the usual supply of this sort of story ...
Yes, but apart from teenage readers of the lizard Oz? The pond worries daily about they way they're being exposed ...
And there's this sort of editorial ...
... which can be contrasted with a papal witticism ...
There's more papal insights here, but it helps explain why the pond sought refuge in a solid bit of onion muncher savaging by a stern Savva ...
Poor Malware. Even when he's right he's told to shut up ...
And so to the savaging ...
The little foxes? How did Lillian Hellman get into the story?
Well no doubt they know who they are, and no doubt Savva is just recycling crumbs and attitudes from deep inside the Malware bunker, but what fun to read of Abbott and his acolytes coated in body parts ...
Indeed, indeed, and those driven nuts by Malware have a steadfast supporter and companion in the Savva ....
Yet this very day, there's Erica out and about and scoring a front page on L'Age ...
Naturally the story was given a good egg beating by the Fairfaxians ...
It is of course deeply, laughably cynical, and complete nonsense.
Erica doing a Comrade Bill?
The pond would link to it, but it's so over Fairfax's forced videos - why don't they just stick to selling real estate?
Back to the savaging Savva for a final bit of insider talk ...
Ah, it's all about respect ...
Even while scribbling insider tales of Malware woes, the reptiles can't help themselves in their desire to select Islamic fundamentalists and give them a hard time, while ignoring all the other fundies doing the rounds.
Well, if respect is the name of the game, when is the pasty Hastie going to denounce fundamentalist creationists of the deplorable climate science-denying kind?
In your dreams ...
When are the reptiles going to mount an assault on fundamentalist Jews encouraging Jewish boys growing up in Australia being taught that it's right to refuse to shake a woman's hand if she offers it ...
In your dreams ...
Apart from the funny hats at the head of the piece, this very lengthy profile of cultist fundamentalist Jews contained this line about shaking a woman's hand ...
First the funny hats, because the pond likes seeing hats almost as much as it likes Pellists in frocks ...
Wear a funny hat, score heaven...
Then the handshake ...
Adass men aren't allowed to touch their wives in public, let alone other females ...
Shock, horror, outrage. Stop the presses, and make frequent mention of the outrage in the reptile press ever since that story surfaced in 2011?
Oh don't be silly ....in your dreams ...
And so to a final matter.
Having spent five long years in Armidale, the pond deeply appreciates and understands the desires of some to work in a McDonalds, as foodies are wont to do ...
Canberra-based public servants are doing their work in a McDonald's fast food outlet in Armidale because there is nowhere else for them to work in the northern NSW town where they are being forced to relocate. The national pesticides authority boss told a Senate Estimates hearing on Tuesday that she and her colleagues were using the restaurant's free wi-fi to work because they had no base in Armidale and that she was having a tough time convincing its public servants to move from Canberra to northern NSW as ordered by the Coalition government.
The Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority are now trying to recruit regulatory scientists from overseas in an effort to continue its work after the forced relocation to Armidale, in the heart of Agriculture Minister Barnaby Joyce's electorate ... (here)
Go bush? Armidale's the heart of Barners' electorate, and not Tamworth?
There will be a gnashing of teeth about that, and as for talking about importing damned pesky furrin' scientists, to what avail the front page of the Terror this day?
There will be a gnashing of teeth about that, and as for talking about importing damned pesky furrin' scientists, to what avail the front page of the Terror this day?
Burger off? But who will feed the scientists as they go about their work?
Oh yes, the boondoggle and the pork barrel runs deep with Barners ...
The upside? It results in a David Rowe cartoon, and more Rowe here ...
Savva continues the Reptiles' obsession by characterising Abbott's decision not to amend 18C and cut the HRC's funding as a betrayal "of everyone from pensioners to high income earners (who) were told they had to sacrifice". Yep, if only he'd done those things, everyone would have happily accepted the Budget cuts that affected them; pensioners and other low income earners were just desperate for 18C to be dumped... What bloody planet do these scribblers live on if they genuinely think that these are major issues to the general public? Even dunderheads like Morrison have enough sense to realise that they're worth highlighting, and yet the News Propaganda Corps continue on and on.
ReplyDeleteOnce a Jew never an Australian
ReplyDeleteThe Turnbull-Abbott skirmish may not help the pm but Abbott is a just a backbencher and certainly without authority to represent Australia and travel to Europe to “discuss regional security issues”.
ReplyDeleteWTF is going on allowing this schmuck to travel the world at taxpayers’ expense as he pretends to possess commanding knowledge on matters he knows SFA.
https://twitter.com/TonyAbbottMHR/status/836751196752752640
"Adass men aren't allowed to touch their wives in public, let alone other females ..."
ReplyDeleteReminds you of all that lovely Sumptuary Law in the early Puritan settlements in America, doesn't it, especially the bit about no public contact - and even no public display of affection of any kind (eg smiling at each other).
Just goes to show, I reckon, that all humans are basically crazy in the same way - they must avoid each other but they can't leave each other alone (especially the "opposite" sexes).
Nice demolition DP.