In which the pond has to gallop with a gee gee before munching on the usual Oreo ...

For some mysterious reason, the pond was extremely appointed and enormously pleased at the recent fuss in Canada, and the revelation of the enormous stupidity of the conservative leader of her majesty's opposition as he took to facebook to support a cacophony of delusionals ...

Uh huh, but what happens when the Muslims fight with the Jews who fight with the Christians getting agitated about the Christ killers and the apostate Islamic heretics? How to support all of them in their assorted divergent follies?

The pond formed a deep affection for Julie Payette the moment it read lines like ...

"Can you believe that still today in learned society, in houses of government, unfortunately, we're still debating and still questioning whether humans have a role in the Earth warming up or whether even the Earth is warming up, period," she asked, her voice incredulous.

"And we are still debating and still questioning whether life was a divine intervention or whether it was coming out of a natural process let alone, oh my goodness, a random process." 

 She generated giggles and even some guffaws from the audience when she said too many people still believe "taking a sugar pill will cure cancer if you will it good enough and that your future and every single one of the people here's personalities can be determined by looking at planets coming in front of invented constellations."  (CBC here)

It was as if Martin Gardner - the pond's current toilet reading - had become GG for a day, and naturally all the snowflakes went into meltdown at the thought of having an intelligent entity in the job, including but not limited to the remarkably stupid sounding Robyn Urback scribbling for CBC here ...

But that news of creationism and climate science can't distract the pond from its usual diligent survey of home affairs, and today is, oh precious, halloo hooray, Oreo day, and the news is gloomy ...

Et tu Oreo? The PM is losing the magic touch he displayed with the NBN roll-out? Fancy that ...

Now the pond would like to pause for a moment here and just roll that last par around on the tongue another time ... this is always the best response when confronting exotic flavours ...

Here you go, here's that pure peanuttery again ...

No nation is a multicultural nation. Multicultural ideology is tribal. Its full realisation requires the dissolution of the nation-state. Rather, Australia is a multiracial nation. The government should understand that it is precisely the push to codify multiculturalism as state ideology that creates ­demand for proof of national and patriotic loyalty.

Now the pond frequently mocks others for breaking Godwin's Law, but it felt strangely impelled to note the remarkably pure channelling of Adolf in that par ...

True, Adolf would be disturbed at the notion of multiracialism, but he'd celebrate the hate and fear of the multicultural ...

And so on and so endlessly forth, as the pond goes right out there this day with Canadians and Gee Gees ('tis the spring season) and Adolf, and of course a final gobbet of Oreo ...

What's that? We must now talk disloyalty, rebellion and perhaps even a decent bout of treason, as we throw off the yoke of our alien, foreign political oppressors and stand unbowed if bloodied, beneath the wattle tree?

The notion that the pond has a shared culture and common values with the Oreo and the lizards of Oz is one of the richer treats for the day ...

Sadly the Oreo was a solitary voice at the top of the digital page, as the rest of the reptiles were haring off down other tracks at the sudden realisation that the Donald wasn't of their trading kind, and the super rich had suffered another blow ...

The tree killer edition was also banging on about free trade ...

And what do you know, Chairman Rupert's old investment buddy had been tagged ...

With the arrest of Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, the prominent billionaire investor, Saudi Arabia has touched one of the richest and most influential investors in the world. Among Prince Alwaleed’s crown jewels: sizable stakes in Twitter, Lyft and Citigroup. He has gone into business with some of the corporate world’s biggest titans, including Bill Gates, Rupert Murdoch and Michael Bloomberg. (NY Times here and here).

By golly, tax leaks and billionaires taken down, and it's just like the good old days of the British monarchy .... and by coincidence, that's how the pond began the day, galloping off with the Canadian Gee Gee, so all that's left is a Pat cartoon,  resonating at one with the Oreo and regularly to be found on a Monday here ...