in which the pond leaves the cake out in the rain in a Thursday potpourri ...

Just when things are bubbling along nicely, something is likely to come along and quite ruin the pond's day ...

The pond thought that memories of Richard Harris had long been buried, that the wooden stake through the heart had worked and it would never ever again recall those insidious lyrics ...

MacArthur's Park is melting in the dark 
All the sweet, green icing flowing down 
Someone left the cake out in the rain 
I don't think that I can take it 
'Cause it took so long to bake it 
And I'll never have that recipe again
Oh no! 

But what a way to introduce the notion of a pond Thursday potpourri. It's not just MacArthur's Park's cake that's fucked ...

As the Donald contemplates doing over Paris, Ivanka continues to hustle ...

.... shameless really, and pathetic, not so much that Ivanka should exist, but that anyone should feel the need to clothe themselves in the brand ...

But enough of Ivanka, no need to dive into the deep end ...

I'm not aware of too many things 
I know what I know, if you know what I mean 
Philosophy is the talk on a cereal box 
Religion is the smile on a dog 
I'm not aware of too many things 
I know what I know, if you know what I mean, d-doo yeah 
Choke me in the shallow waters 
Before I get too deep

And speaking of Trumpism triumphant, the reptiles of Oz were wildly excited this day ...

Nation-building!

The Great Barrier Reef is melting in the dark 

All the sweet, green, purple pink coral flowing down 

Someone left the coral out in the coal

I don't think that I can take it 

'Cause it took so long to bake it 

And I'll never have that recipe again

Oh no! 

Strangle the pond before it gets too deep into thinking about nation building, because every potpourri has to have a bigot time out, and the latest bigot on  parade has come along splendidly and attracted world attention ...

Religion is a light in the fog? More like the canine teeth on a slavering dog ...

Even the reptiles of Oz came up with an angled backhand crosscourt lob ...

They even reproduced the tweet ...

The story ended in forlorn fashion ...

The barking mad is strong in this one ... with everyone eager to join in the fun, as at The Graudian here and The Independent here ...

“Tennis is full of lesbians, because even when I was playing there was only a couple there, but those couple that led, that took young ones into parties and things,” she said. 

Sweet innocent young ones! Parties ... and things!!

 “And you know, what you get at the top is often what you'll get right through that sport. 
 “We're there to help them overcome. We're not against the people.”

Except if they're in loving relationships and have children. But the best moment came for the pond with the invocation of Hitler ...

Spoken like a first class bigot ...she's got nothing against homosexuals and TG people except for them being the spawn of Satan, using devious Hitlerist and Stalinist tricks to warp minds and destined to spend an eternity in  hellfire ...

And speaking of mindless hysteria, the dog whistling continued apace ...

Naturally the pond went with the reptiles, home of the most refined forms of mindless hysteria ...

Hmm, radical Sunni Islam.

Whatever could that mean? Iran?

Nope, the Iranians are on the Shia side of the civil war, and while they do their best for terrorism, they really aren't as good at it as the Sunnis ...

Whatever could it mean? Let's see if the source of radical Sunni Islamic fundamentalism is mentioned  in the hard-hitting lizard Oz, if being lashed with warm lettuce and wet noodles and limp soiled feathers is your idea of a lashing...

Nope, it seems that radical Sunni Islamics spring up like mushrooms in a void, and then spread through the ether, and the reptiles don't know the how or the why of it...

Perhaps the next gobbet will name names ...

Ah, speaking of the onion muncher, guess who is sitting right alongside the Bolter at the Terror this day, so that pesky blacks and devious Islamics might cop a bucketing ...

But the pond still isn't certain about the source of that radical Islamic fundamentalism of a Sunni kind, though it was ever so pleased to see the bromancer join the Bolter in bashing the blacks ...

Never  mind, back to that quest for the source of radical Sunni Islamic fundamentalism ...

Good old Erica ...

Perhaps the pond could help ...

Saudi Arabia—not Iran—is the biggest state sponsor of terrorism in the world today and Wahhabism remains the source of most radical Islamic extremism. For years Iran has borne the unenviable title of “world’s biggest state sponsor of terrorism.” However, out of the 61 groups that are designated as terrorist organizations by the U.S. State Department, the overwhelming majority are Wahhabi-inspired and Saudi-funded groups, with a focus on the West and Iran as their primary enemy. Only two are Shi’a—Hezbollah and Kataib Hezbollah, and only four have ever claimed to receive support from Iran. Nearly all of the Sunni militant groups listed receive significant support from either the Saudi government or Saudi citizens. (Huff away with The Real Largest State Sponsor of Terrorism)

UK Terror it with What is Wahhabism? The reactionary branch of Islam from Saudi Arabia said to be 'the main source of global terrorism':

In July 2013, Wahhabism was identified by the European Parliament in Strasbourg as the main source of global terrorism. Wahhabism has become increasingly influential, partly because of Saudi money and partly because of Saudi Arabia's central influence as protector of Mecca. The Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia, condemned Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil), insisting “the ideas of extremism, radicalism and terrorism do not belong to Islam in any way”.

Somewhat paradoxically, however, members of the Saudi ruling class have applauded Wahhabism it for its Salafi piety - i.e. its adherence to the original practices of Islam - and the movement's vehement opposition to the Shia branch of Islam. In the 1970s, with the help of funding from petroleum exports and other factors, Saudi charities started funding Wahhabi schools (madrassas) and mosques across the globe and the movement underwent "explosive growth".

The US State Department has estimated that over the past four decades Riyadh has invested more than $10bn (£6bn) into charitable foundations in an attempt to replace mainstream Sunni Islam with the harsh intolerance of its Wahhabism. EU intelligence experts estimate that 15 to 20 per cent of this has been diverted to al-Qaida and other violent jihadists.

And so on and so forth ... there are any number of other sources.

So how did our fearless freedom fighter respond to the threat? You know, the one blathering about wake-up calls and never ignoring the evil of extremist threats ...

Well it isn't just the Donald who has happy snaps featuring world domination ...

Yes, the onion munching man talking of desperately needed wake up calls knew how to play the useful fool ...

   

And so to round out the potpourri a bit of papal wisdom, which might be freely applied to dog whistling onion munchers, with more excellent Popery here ...

And for those who lasted this long, some musical relief, or is it musical horror, thanks to the songs mentioned in this piece ... no complaints, any sucker who clicks the button has been warned ...