In which Dame Slap does the usual refugee beat-up ...

Meanwhile, on another de-Devined planet ...

That seems about right, if as reported. After killing a cop, some 18 hours to give up, and then taken out ...

It's not a return to the bad old days of Roger Rogerson and Victorian cops roaming around like hit squads, nor a jump-to-it demand from the likes of the vitriolic Devine for Islamic blood to flow in the streets like the Peel river in flood ...

Meanwhile, speaking of other planets ...

Ah we can't have sensible or moderate. Not when the dog botherer's barking at the moon ...

It never seems to occur to minor Iraq war criminals like the dog botherer that they might be patronising the public, or that it might be in everyone's interest to protect national harmony. 

Nope, when your business model requires continual aggro, hate, fear and loathing, it's always time to promote national discord and national disharmony ... and for that the dog botherer's at the head of the pack of howling reptiles.

Speaking of howling reptiles, it's time to turn to Dame Slap and wouldn't you know it, it's time for the usual refugee beat-up ...

Now the pond doesn't know the individual circumstances in each case, and therefore will refrain from commenting on, or arguing about them. That's the point of having independent bodies to consider such matters ...

But it is worth considering the consistent way that the reptiles demonise, promote fear and loathing, and produce the sort of Eric Lobbecke sketch which precedes Dame Slap going right off ... Bill Leak might have been lost to the world, but the spirit lives on ...

Let's face it, if the cartoon below had been a portrait of a Jew, the phones wouldn't have stopped ringing for days ... but relax, it's just some Ahab the Arab dressed with lifejacket because that's what you need for a jetset lifestyle...

What the pond can also add is that it hopes that the reptiles and the mutton Dutton keep going with this line of attack. The results are already promising ...

The full story is at The Conversation here ...

1.6%! Oh there's a fine point there ...

Meanwhile, Dame Slap keeps on trying to fill the coffers of GetUp by maintaining the mutton Dutton rage ...

Yes, here's hoping that the mutton Dutton keeps shaking his head in disbelief, and Dame Slap keeps channelling his rage, because GetUp is busy raising funds, and every little bit helps ... including this last little bit of Dame Slap doing her best to promote disharmony in classic dog botherer style ...

What's the bet the Fairfaxians have committed yet another thought crime and outraged Dame Slap?

And while the pond has refrained from commenting on the individual cases, there is one line that invariably produces a comment, and it comes with that condescending line "Bleeding-heart faux compassionistas, be they in Labor, the Greens or on the AAT, should try to better understand our history."

Fortunately the pond isn't required to be politically correct, and so can cheerfully say, oh just get fucked, and shove that "faux" crap deep in a place where the sun doesn't shine ...

The notion that Dame Slap is keen on immigration from certain parts of the world is as absurd as the notion that Gary Johns has a kind word for moderate Islamics ...

The splash is of course exactly why Gary Johns and the reptiles of Oz are a problem.

"Islam is a problem" is a bit like the pond suggesting that "Catholicism is a problem". 

Actually there are moderate Catholics - the homosexual priest in the extended family is really quite sympathetic to the notion of gay marriage, for example. There are moderate Islamics out and about, and they don't threaten the pond's or even western liberty in general ...

Moderate religious followers, rather like moderate secularists, can bump along in a rough sort of way. Some even enjoy a drink or a hint of bacon, in much the same way as the pond used to titillate itself by mixing up fabrics. 

It's the fundamentalists and the extremists, the jihadists issuing fatwas like "Islam is a problem" that are the real problem, because they allow no shades, no varieties, no diversity ...

Whichever way you look at it, these sorts of fundie ratbags are the problem...

Now this sort of rant deserves a more detailed response than the pond has time to offer. In any case, the pond isn't in the business of defending any religion, especially those who have a fundamentalist streak, of the kind to be found in the Catholic Boys' Daily, in L. Ron Hubbard and in Islam.

And the pond has already written today about fundamentalist Islamics, and wished that the reptiles might address the elephant in the Saudi Wahhabist room ....

Is there some reason it never gets mentioned?

Oh dear. That might be a problem. The foreign press baron always willing to do a deal ...

So what's the chance Wahhabism might turn up in the world of Johns?

Hoping for a mention of Wahhabism is probably about as optimistic as hoping for a mention of persecution of TG and gay folk by Christians here, in the United States and elsewhere ...

Apparently it's okay to have a go at Islamics, and dress them all up as fundamentalist, when plainly that's not the case, while ignoring the rather large mote in the eye of other religions ...

But that's the business of useless fundamentalist idiots always wanting to promote disharmony ...

Never mind, last time, the pond attempted to provide an excuse for the recent talk of "clean" coal, which is much the same as talking of the clean cool taste of tar in the lungs after a fine smoke.

Why bother? Why not just run a cartoon montage?