In which the pond visits the Oreo to learn about amateur hour clowns diagnosing the Donald ...

Whether taste inclines to a fruity punch, or a cookie dough, Monday is the day for a blast of pure Oreo pleasure...

Now forget the official reptile splash, which is quite misleading.

The Oreo this day is banging on about amateur hour as clowns diagnose the Donald...

This is perhaps a tad harsh, but extremely fair, because elsewhere in the rag there was a clown diagnosing Trump's recent triumphs ...

Even worse, the news of a joint cyber security venture with Vlad the impaler brought all sorts of impudent clowns out of the woodwork ...

Three Republican senators - Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, John McCain of Arizona and Mario Rubio of Florida - blasted the idea. "It's not the dumbest idea I have ever heard but it's pretty close," Graham told NBC's "Meet the Press" program, saying that Trump's apparent willingness to "forgive and forget" stiffened his resolve to pass legislation imposing sanctions on Russia. "There has been no penalty," McCain, who chairs the Senate armed services committee, told CBS' "Face the Nation" program according to a CBS transcript. "Vladimir Putin ... got away with literally trying to change the outcome ... of our election." "Yes, it's time to move forward. But there has to be a price to pay," he added. Rubio, on Twitter, said: "Partnering with Putin on a 'Cyber Security Unit' is akin to partnering with (Syrian President Bashar al) Assad on a 'Chemical Weapons Unit'." (Reuters here).

And there have been other clowns out and about ...

Dammit, News Corp recyling the ABC here:

“He has a particular skill set: he’s identified an illness in Western democracies, but he has no cure for it and seems intent on exploiting it,” the veteran journalist said. And according to Uhlmann, we all need to give up on any hope that the speeches written for Trump and delivered by the man himself are any reflection of his true thoughts. “It’s the unscripted Trump that’s real: a man who barks out bile in 140 characters, who wastes his precious days as President at war with the West’s institutions like the judiciary, independent government agencies, and the free press.” The reporter added: “Mr Trump is a man who craves power because it burnishes his celebrity. To be constantly talking and talked about is all that really matters... and there is no value placed on the meaning of words, so what is said one day can be discarded the next.”

With these recent Donald successes behind him, no wonder the Oreo was ready to turn her guns on the clowns:

Now as an aside, the pond should mention that Monday is the pond's favourite day of the week. There's nothing like the expectation of a treat, and then the treat delivering ...and it seems others enjoy the same treat ...

The pond recently stumbled across this appreciation of all the Oreo has to offer ...

The good professor clearly can't get enough of the Oreo, and ended his piece demanding yet another treat or three ...

Rather than invite university experts on the subject to share their insights, however, the editors allow ill-informed columnists to dine out on cliches in prosecuting the dreary culture war with which they have been obsessed for decades. The public would be better served by genuine debate rather than relentless campaigning under the guise of journalism.

The good prof's prayers have been answered, and so we must continue with further Oreo insights into the clowns and the Donald, up there with some other great showbiz hits ...

Here the pond must request that anyone inclined to make a comment such as "sigh, another Monday, and further evidence that the Oreo is a barking mad howler at the full moon" please refrain, unless they've conducted a due and proper examination, and been granted proper authorisation for such a statement ... though the pond can at least report that "barking mad" doesn't seem to be a defamation of the good citizens of Barking, London ...

The pond will acknowledge that eating at least two Oreos is a sufficient ethical basis for offering a professional opinion.

And so to the last cookie in this Monday jar of delights ...

It's hard not to read this latest outing as a poignant cry for help from the Oreo ... certainly an unelected expert shielded from public scrutiny about her possible political bias ... and quite possibly an amateur hour clown given to diagnosing critics of the Donald ... 

The Oreo is given to all sorts of idle self-serving promotional guff of the most mealy mouthed kind, done in the style and manner of the Donald ...

The pond certainly wouldn't want to create a barrier between mental health professionals and people of politically incorrect persuasion who might one day need their help, especially the ones given to Napoleonic grandiose claims about being in the top ten, no matter that such claims were later stricken from the record ...

 

Acclaimed as one of the top ten smartest people in Australian universities?

Is there a shrink in the house?

And so after the richness of a cookie dough Oreo, and if a little drunk on the spiked fruit punch Oreo, the pond always recommends a cleansing Rowe sorbet, and by sheer good fortune, the Rowe of the day is on topic, with more topical punch Rowes here ...