In which the onion muncher does his very best to distract from the Caterists ...

The Terrorists can't get enough of the onion muncher and his "provocative intrusions" ... hmm, the pond never paid attention to the size of his hands, so isn't quite sure what is meant by "provocative intrusions"...

Elsewhere in the Murdochian tabloid world, the onion muncher's "provocative intrusions" aren't quite so celebrated, and seem tinged with an element of regret, as in the Currish Snail ...

So quickly do "provocative intrusions" turn to unimpressive "sounding offs" that cause headaches ...

The Snail isn't keen on the jihadist, no matter that they had patiently re-branded and claimed as their own the opinion piece by the onion muncher that "he wrote in The Courier Mail." 

And such is the magic of these things, that the Ray Hadley Morning Show on Sydney's 2GB magically transmutes into Hadders on 4BC. 

Fools, don't the toads know they're blindly swallowing poison from the south, and even worse, poison from the north shore, pretending to be fibro when everyone south of the border knows it's a silvertail ...

"As a former prime minister" ...

Dear sweet long absent lord, he's full of shyte, and mano a mano crap, and it served as the basis for a lovely Rowe cartoon ... with more lovely Rowe here ...

Smiles aside, here's the thing. 

It makes it terribly hard for the reptiles of Oz, and specifically the Caterists, as they go about the business of selling the unsellable ...

Look at that unfortunate juxtaposition. There's the Caterists heroically trying to demonise Comrade Bill and support the cause - after all, the taxpayer cash in the paw needs to be put to good deeds - when the reptiles are all over the growing internal frustration arising from the "provocative intrusions" ...

Even when the pond turned to google, the juxtaposition was stark ...

Unhappy in the west, unhappy in the north, unhappy in the ACT ... yes, this day the Caterists reveal they really are a bunch of whining, squealing, well-fed Canberrans ...

Now the pond doesn't intend to rehearse the arguments over Adani, or the reef, or the shonky company located in some tax haven, not when it can get its easy jaffa-rolling laughs from assorted Caterist lines ...

Isn't that opener a beauty? "Just because you're spending other people's money doesn't excuse you from making choices."

Like getting paid to write for the Murdochians while pocketing cash in the paw from taxpayers?

And then there were the jokes, along the lines of beret-clad Canberrans and carbon fearmongers, when all that does is induce the pond to talk of beret-clad taxpayer grant bludgers and feral fuckwits ...

As for talk of inflated pay packets and fanciful allowances, the pond does hope the Department of Finance urgently looks into the matter of more taxpayer cash in the paw for the MRC, because the pond now must move on to the next Caterist gobbet pushing the case for dinkum Oz coal, oi, oi, oi ...

Say what? The Caterists aren't still fighting a rearguard action on the Franklin Dam?

What is it with the urge to destroy world heritage sites? Never mind, there's an interesting commentary on the role of the High Court available here ...

Meanwhile, it takes a fair fucking cheek for a complacent Caterist to talk about middle-class trendoids. The pond was taught to look at the hands to see if a man had ever done an honest day's hard yakka - which is to say being put to work like a mule so that the smart arse fancy pants could make a quid or three off your sweat.

Please, look past the smug, self-satisfied, ever so complacent and self-regarding smirk to the hands...

Doesn't look like he's managed even a decent day's kayak-paddling, but they also toil, those who fill out application forms to get their hands on taxpayer cash in the paw ...

After John Oliver's poignant plea to the French to do the right thing, in French, the pond is moved to suggest to the Caterists Avoir un peu de saleté sur tes mains garçon ...

And so thankfully to the final gobbet ...

Now the pond doesn't want to rehearse all the aspects of Adani, and the matter of climate science and the reef and the whole damn thing ... there's always the Graudian for that, as here ...

But as the Caterists started off by talking about the cost of a public transport project, with the taxpayer allegedly throwing in a tenner for every dollar, it's worthwhile checking the subsidies that are being proposed for Adani ...

This was done by Rod Campbell back on 31st August 2015 when Business Spectator was a thing and he decided to give gorgeous George a kicking ... the text can easily be googled ...

And at $900 million in taxpayer cash in the paw - oh let's just round it out to a billion, because in due course that's the least it would become - it's a lot of subsidy for not many jobs. We can agree on that ...

Others can do the math - google tells the pond that a billion divided by 1,500 amounts to some $666,666.666667 repeating, and at the thought of so many devil's numbers the pond fell into a fainting fit and rushed off to hide under the bed, but not before adding a final gobbet...

Ah well, we know how it's done, thanks to the Caterists ... really, department of finance, have you thought about offering $266,666.666667 repeating for the next grant?

And so to a Pope cartoon, with more mother of all bastard papal splendour here ...