In which the pond heads into the Oz editorialist heart of darkness ...

  

The reptiles did their best to show a modicum of grace on the front page, though the Terror couldn't resist continuing its celebration of the NSW government pissing two billion plus against the wall on thugby league, while the lizards of Oz gave space to Robb and China ...

The pond wasn't to be gulled this day - it felt in its gut that the war would continue - so it headed off to the heart of the beast to check out the anonymous Oz editorialist. Sure enough ...

Would this reveal the snidery still lurking in the sourpuss recalcitrants? Sure enough ...

"An unsatisfactory outcome?"

Yep, while most folks were dancing in the streets, the reptiles were moaning and wailing and gnashing their teeth in their usual way ... and with their usual lack of grace and generosity ...

Indeed, indeed, the right for faith based schools to teach bigotry, and a nice dose of creationism, must be protected ... or where will it all end?

What fun it is that the Oz editorialist is on side with fundamentalist Islamic faith-based schools. Here's hoping the next time that a school sets aside time to preach the importance of Sharia law, separates out girl students from boy, bans music, rages at homosexuality, urges a holy war on infidels or celebrates creationist science, the reptiles will be righteously on hand to insist on religious freedom ... so that evangelical schools can continue on practising and preaching pretty much the same sort of fundamentalist stuff (and let's have no more talk about scientological schools - everybody should be free to be taught, with government subsidy, about ways to support the cult church of delusions by tithing for the rest of their working life).

Credit to Tony Abbott for upholding our democratic values? Oh that's rich. Isn't parliament supposed to represent the will of the people and make decisions on behalf of the people who voted in their representatives? From henceforth, we must have wildly expensive voluntary opinion surveys on every issue?

Can the pond call for an opinion survey on the unhealthy influence of Chairman Rupert on Australian democracy?

As for the usual nonsense about the belief in the millennia-old tradition of marriage, it sounds like it's been scribbled by a reptile who probably hasn't opened a bible in some time. From the pond's experience of Murdochians, there's a lot of closet heathens in the building ...

What are we talking about here? The millennia-old tradition of polygamy?

(Much more here)

Hmm, the reptiles can't be referring to sex slavery, casual sex, or dress-up games with hookers, perhaps it's the "until death do you part" bit ...

Oh wait ...

Well at least the Pope showed some grace in his cartoon this day, with more Pope here ...

But when the pond gets on a roll with the reptiles, it seems to end up doing things in a twosome, and there was that second offering on the table ...

Now the reptiles are wildly excited about Sam the man, who shows an almost infinite capacity for putting his foot in it, and the reptile editorialist went right off the chart with righteousness ...

Indeed, indeed, China is not the only potential threat from foreign interference. There is another person at the web of an empire notorious for its interference in democracies such as Britain, the United States and Australia ...

Luckily Rowe provided a mug shot of him, found hanging in the Oz editorialist's office ...

Truth to tell, with his role in the Donald presidency, there's possibly only one more potent influence on the United States at the moment ...

Will the reptiles publish an editorial denouncing Chairman Rupert and his wicked foreign influence?

Probably not. You see the reptiles' chairman-driven pay packs adds to their general sense of prosperity and this makes them vulnerable to foreign influence ...

The reptiles face a tricky balancing act when dealing with foreign agents like the Chairman and the Donald, with the Chairman ably helping the Donald into power... and yet, the pond joins with the reptiles in saying that it is vital that the independence and freedoms of Australians be defended against the evil foreign influence of the malignant Chairman ... who helped a loser to power ...

Unhappily, the pond has every confidence that instead, the reptiles will continue to act in the age-old millennia-ancient honourable traditions of the bible ...

Lot and his daughters camp out in a cave for a while. The daughters get their "just and righteous" father drunk, and have sexual intercourse with him, and each conceives and bears a son (wouldn't you know it!). Just another wholesome family values Bible story