In which the pond stays comfortably numb with Dame Groan, before veering off into the dangerous turf of hate speech ...

The pond rarely spends time with Dame Groan, but her trick question ... "which dunce led us to this power impasse?" ... had the pond completely baffled, bewildered, perplexed, nay flummoxed...

Since when has the Dame taken to being so cruel about the onion muncher?

Well if the mind wasn't totally numbed by time with Caterist, then surely this would be novocaine for the soul, before the pond sputtered out ...

Was there ever a better litany, a more wretched wailing and shrieking of woe ... and it goes without saying that it's all the fault of hideous renewable energy, while hapless coal suffered, oh how it suffered, the sweet clean thing ...

Oh and it goes without saying that we'll all be rooned ...

Frankly the pond suspects that so far as the usual suspects are concerned, nothing will be an answer to our prayers until we abandon all this climate science nonsense, and return to the sweet embrace of clean coal ...

Must we be weaned from coal too quickly? Can't we stay hooked to the teat and suckle away, at least until people begin to whisper that it looks a little weird? Or the oceans start acting funnier than they are at the moment ...

Well nothing new was learned, and much was repeated, but at least the pond has managed to slip the dog botherer down the page ...

Of course it was the talk of how we cannot speak that compelled the pond to read that which it should not read ...

It's nonsense of course. The dog botherer never shuts up about it. He's always yammering on, shouting from the roof top, if not the steeple, and it's always the same, how he can't speak, followed by profuse abuse of Islamics ...

The chances of him shutting up about how he can't speak are infinitesimal, minute, minuscule, very tiny ... in much the same way as it always turns out to be the fault of the Islamics ...

In fact the chance of any of the reptiles shutting up about the Islamics is about as remote as the pond shutting up about its secularism, and how soon it might be possible to shut down the funding of all religious schools ...

Look at the reptiles blathering on in the Terror this day:

Who the fuck's pretending?

Oh okay, it's the favourite straw dog argument. We're all skirting around the facts, we need to name names, just the facts ma'am, otherwise the malevolence under the bed, the unnamed monster will jump out ...

But how canny to turn the latest attack to political advantage, Helen of Dale ...well done ...so there's an upside to people being slaughtered in the street? Theresa May will win? So lucky so many died for that, what with Corbyn making the precious flower wilt in the Welsh sun ...

And so to the obligatory reading of the dog botherer, speaking of that which apparently no one dares speak, apart from the entire fucking planet ...

Now the pond can understand why the dog botherer is sensitive about this.

As a minor war criminal, he worked in service to facilitate major war criminals as they went about the business of turning the middle east into a hugely bigly smelly pile of poo ...

That's why he doesn't like to talk about Western foreign policy, or the way he helped join in the crusade back in 2003.

The mentality lurked long before Republican rep Clay Higgins popped out of the woodwork to sound like a reptile on speed ...

Barking mad, and yet not a mention of Saudi Arabia ...

And yet not so far removed from the dog botherer when Clay murmured meet ...

"The irresponsible rhetoric coming from my colleagues across the aisle and the liberal media, regarding President Trump's executive order to strengthen America's immigration policy, is harmful to our country and is placing law enforcement professionals at risk due to incited protests," he said. "President Trump's executive order has simply restored sanity to America's immigration policy."

And now back to the dog botherer, still a little sensitive at the way he played a modest minor war criminal role in setting the middle east to burn ... burn baby burn ...

And there's the point, surely. Such is the way the fever and the hysteria has been lathered up that the pond now feels the need to shift the likes of the dog botherer and the Terrorists down the page.

This continual harping, this relentless form of hate speech, is deeply radicalising.

Every so often the pond feels radicalised, no small achievement because the pond feels roughly the same about all religions as it does about spotting a dog turd in Camperdown park.

The long absent lord alone would know about how moderate Muslims - frequently the victims - feel while under assault from barking mad fundamentalists coming at them from east, west and the White House ...

That followed a deliberately misleading and perversely wrong reading of a previous remark by Khan.

...later on Sunday, the U.S. Embassy in London directly contradicted Trump, praising Khan’s “strong leadership” in a tweet. Khan was actually informing Londoners not to be alarmed by the increased police presence in the city following the attack. “Londoners will see an increased police presence today and over the course of the next few days,” Khan said on the BBC early Sunday. “There’s no reason to be alarmed. One of the things the police and all of us need to do is ensure that we’re as safe as we possibly can be. I’m reassured that we are one of the safest global cities in the world, if not the safest global city, but we always evolve and review to make sure we’re as safe as we possibly can be.” In a video message, Khan condemned the “twisted and cowardly terrorists,” and urged unity in London. He also thanked police and first responders for their prompt response and bravery. (Huff here).

Successful integration? We need to work more actively with Muslim communities? By abusing the Mayor of London at the height of the crisis?

Sometimes if you can't say anything useful, you should just shut the fuck up ...

It's something the Donald, and a hugely bigly bunch of reptiles have yet to learn ...

And so to a Rowe which seems to be making some sort of useful contribution ... with more very useful Rowe here ...