In which the Oz editorialist gets down with the Donald and the pond's Oreo turns Halloween ...

The pond's spam trap caught an actual Donald lover in its web, though sadly the trap cut the defender off in mid-frenzy …

It seemed a pity to waste it on the long forgotten Devine story.

It cheered the pond up enormously - it was just like reading the Oreo - as the pond turned to the lizard Oz editorialist this day …

More of the extremists later, but first it's time to get down to business … can anyone spot the lizard Oz reptiles in the crowd?

Oh yes, we're at one with the Donald …

It's not just the bromancer that's beguiled by the Donald, the lizard Oz editorialist is in a state of rapture ...

Indeed, indeed, things are full speed ahead in the United States ...

No doubt there will be the usual horse's arse neigh sayers wanting to ruin the reptile picnic, but everyone needs to get on board with the Donald ...

Mates with the Donald?

Is that an attempt to drive the pond into the arms of Pauline?

The pond knows the problematic Pauline is important …

There she was, carrying on with last year's rhetoric about taxes, when everyone sensible knows that there's no point cutting payroll taxes. How on earth does that benefit fat cats and allow them to trickle down into the kitty litter?

But the reptiles pandered, and confirmed the importance of the EXCLUSIVE by assigning David Uren to regurgitate everything that Pauline had written ...

And so to dealing with the returnees, and who ya gunna call, who ya gonna munch on?

The pond knew it was important because (a) it was the Oreo, and (b) the reptiles switched it from head of the Opinion section to top of the digital world ma, and (c) blessed the Oreo with a Lobbecke cartoon, thereby guaranteeing it cult status amongst cultists …

Here the pond will admit it's torn.

The pond has no time for Daesh, but at the same time, lumping every one into the one ideological boat and damning them to hell seems … very Daesh …

Perhaps if they're Australian citizens, Australia should have an obligation to deal with them, rather than let them roam the world and wreak havoc. 

Perhaps in some cases there might be a case for turning the other cheek, though the Oreo is very old testament in her wrath. 

Perhaps individual cases should be judged on their merits …

It seems very Daesh to act the vengeful god and judge everyone collectively ...

Or perhaps we shouldn't worry about niceties and civilised behaviour, perhaps we should just become Daesh, perhaps we should just spew out the usual Oreo diatribe ...

Now the pond is aware that many could play this game, especially at a time when Syrian and Russian forces are bombing Syria to oblivion, which is why it's taken the chance, with this demonic talk of black widows, to suggest that perhaps Halloween should come early this year, for anyone with a spare Oreo ...

Now let's be fair. 

A trusted ally of the United States, Saudi Arabia, has maintained a regime of misogyny unrivalled in the modern world, and exported its Wahhabist fundamentalism to all corners of the world, in a way that makes the complimentary women of the Sydney Anglicans seem like small beer …

Strangely, very little was done or said about this for all the years that Saudi Arabia was expediently judged to be of use, but suddenly misogyny has been discovered … and how glorious it is that the western world should be led by a certified, self-confessed pussy groper in its illustrious battle against misogyny...

Well yes, if they're Australian citizens, Australia should deal with them … 

They're our extremists, though who will manage the extremism of the mutton Dutton is another matter … here, have another black widow Oreo ...

And so back for a final gobbet of a piece which makes the Oreo sound … very Daesh, very extreme, very hate-filled.

So much for being an Xian ...

Actually, the pond has never believed in collective guilt of the kind assigned to the Jews, blamed for every misdeed that had ruined Germany … or even bankers, tempting as that might be ...

Emotive language of the "brides of genocide, black widow" kind don't help matters at all … and sounds … very Daesh, very extreme, very hate-filled. 

The pond would cheerfully welcome any punishment dished out for anyone responsible for cruelty to a child, or to anyone else for that matter … though where that leaves the likes of Lord Downer and the dog botherer must be an open question.

If anyone has been involved in Daesh, let their individual involvement and responsibility be judged …

But as for the rest, the hysteria and the hate-mongering and the collective guilt, it would be like the pond chanting "stop the brides of the reptiles from aiding and abetting the lizards of Oz in the publishing of hate speech" …

Sheesh, it's difficult being a moderate in these extremist times, with Saudi Arabia and Daesh on one side, and the Donald and Saudi Arabia on the other, and the Oreo in a condition of full-blown hysteria sounding like Daesh on aggro steroids…

Can we just settle down for a few black widow Oreos, and enjoy a couple of cartoons ...