In which the pond reverts to Akker Dakker's reliable capacity for abuse ...

The pond is full of remorse and deep regret ...

By wasting time with the fickle bromancer, the pond has left insufficient room for quality time on a meditative Sunday for its one true love, the reptiles of the Terror ...

Now it's true that this day there's a blow-in from the south, and Penbo doesn't sound like a genuine Sydney Terrorist, and he seems to be saying something like this ...

Well that's not a fit subject for a Sunday meditation. How the pond misses the good old days when the Pellists infested the Terror ...

Even more bizarre was the sight of Miranda the Devine channeling Carlotta ...

Now the pond doesn't mean to get into an originalist argument about whether Carlotta is "Australia's original transgender woman" - better to leave that to Estelle Asmodelle making her claim in her self-serving wiki here

Sadly Carlotta's wiki here tells Greg Hunters ...

Carlotta, who was born in Balmain, New South Wales, as Richard Byron, had a sex change operation in the early 1970s. It was not the first such procedure in Australia, but due to her celebrity status it became the first to receive publicity in the country.

Well no, it wasn't the first such procedure, and in reality, despite the howls of the Devine and others in the Terror stable,  gender fluidity and flexibility has been around for a long time, as recorded by the HUN in a partially paywall protected story, which can be found by googling these words:

De Lacy Evans presented as a woman when he first landed in Australia and took a job as a maid at a Melton public house before he left and started to dress full time as a man. 
He then tracked down Mary Delahunty and married her at St Francis’ Roman Catholic Church in Lonsdale Street in Melbourne.

Many other examples of a diverse and fluid gender kind abound in the nineteenth and twentieth century, but the pond always had a soft spot for Eve Langley, if only because reading her book The Pea-Pickers helped inform the pond's thinking at an early age.

Langley's story and her desire to be a man isn't a happy one - ADB her here - as she ended up in Katoomba with many dolls and a bunch of cats, and undiscovered in death and body gnawed by rats, but nobody said being a writer was easy ...

All the same, seeing the Devine channel Carlotta was too much for the pond, and so the pond went further afield in search of gnawing Terror rats ... and what a disappointment petulant Peta turned out to be ...

The pond knew at once what she was banging on about ...

The urgent need to ban Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Oh sure everybody has had their fun recently with Shakespeare's use of 'dotard' ...

Will you not push her out? Give her the bastard. Thou dotard! thou art woman-tired, unroosted By thy dame Partlet here. Take up the bastard; Take’t up, I say; give’t to thy crone. (here with other references thanks to a reader).

But the real filth, the real perversion is that naughty play, still putting the wrong ideas into the heads of impressionable schoolchildren ... as any Greg Hunter can discover here ...

One aspect of the story which now seems problematic is Juliet's age. As the story occurs, Juliet is approaching her fourteenth birthday. She was born on "Lammas Eve at night" (1 August), so Juliet's birthday is 31 July (1.3.19). Her birthday is "a fortnight hence", putting the action of the play in mid-July (1.3.17). Her father states that she "hath not seen the change of fourteen years" (1.2.9). In many cultures and time periods, women did and do marry and bear children at an early age. Romeo and Juliet is a play about Italian families. Lady Capulet had given birth to her first child by the time she had reached Juliet's age: "By my count, I was your mother much upon these years that you are now a maid." (1.3.74–75).

Now the right's and petulant Peta's silence on child marriage in Shakespeare is deafening, but no doubt at some point, she'll give up her her special treatment of the wretch, and join the pond's crusade to ban Romeo and Juliet for the way it encourages law-breaking ...

Yes, there are actually laws in relation to what constitutes child marriage (and genital mutilation and all the rest of it), and deary me, how the pond is tired of fuckwits of the petulant Peta kind using Islamics as a way of beating up on leftists, when they spend an awesome amount of time joining up with Daesh and other Islamic fundamentalists to beat up on gays and SSM ...

Speaking of which, that provides the pond with the perfect throw to its one remaining Terror delight ... the fearlessly, eternally bigoted harvester of hate, Akker Dakker ...

By golly, when everything else turns rancid, and the Devine is off with Carlotta and petulant Peta is just off, the fat owl of the remove can be relied upon to maintain the rage and the hate, with an air of preening condescension ...

A veritable wall of smugness ...

For some strange reason, the pond was reminded of a Wilcox cartoon, as if Akker Dakker was reflexively imitating the onion muncher practising his swing (with more Wilcox here) ...

Now watch and admire as Akker Dakker does a pivot, and swings away at HR, feminists, sports, the AFL, and the Stalinists who make life hell for the hapless toad ...

Indeed, indeed, and the pond is always pleased when Suetonius is indirectly evoked in a tabloid, because that ancient suddenly made the pond's Latin and Roman studies incalculably more interesting.

Of course it's true that Nero is hardly the best advertisement for marriage in general, but the pond has to admire the way that Akker Dakker sailed right past that talk of Nero kicking his pregnant wife to death ...

After all, it wasn't so long ago that some thought that marriage legitimised rape.

There's a story about that in the lizard Oz by Caroline O, she of Wilson fame, which included these words about events back in 1962 ...

Sydney barrister David Bennett QC said: “Australia (was then) a very unenlightened society. It still imprisoned people for consensual acts of homosexuality. The idea that a man could be guilty of the rape of his wife would have been laughed out of court.”

Strange how the notions of marriage have changed over the years, except in the minds of the eternally bigoted and the homophobic ...

Unsurprisingly, Akker Dakker's heart remains unenlightened, and it still solidly rests in the 1950s ... just watch him go 'bah humbug' to all that hippie touchy feely talk of love ...

He's still brooding about Coopers - will they ever let it go? - and now he's yearning for a referendum because that might have passed and sorted things?

And now if SSM eventually passes into law - no sure thing the way that the reptiles are saying yes, but actively featuring no stories at the top of the page at the drop of a hat, and no thanks to the onion muncher and Malware - it will lead to an increasingly divided nation ... because elsewhere in the world where SSM is a reality people have moved on, but here in Australia the bitter, bilious, rancorous, venomous hard right will keep on maintaining a poisonous, vindictive, vengeful, mean and nasty campaign of hate? 

Who would carry on like that and why?

Oh, say no more ... (and find more Rowe here)... only Akker Dakker and the onion muncher and perhaps the Donald and Kim Jong-un could promise to maintain the rage and the hate ...

But the pond does feel the need to reproach Akker Dakker.

There's nary a word in his piece about the way that SSM and climate science are deeply entwined, and the way that this has resulted wickedly corrupt science ...

Surely the toad of the Terror should have made mention of this remarkable phenomenon, up there with his talk of the suffering of Coopers ...

Yes, it's another nicely warm day in Sydney ...