The verdict is in, and their man Flinty is king of the heap, and other reptiles must bow and worship at his feet…
Even so, and even as the pond hesitates to lead with the seedy, shameless apocrypha above, the spirit in its noble words is right …
While Flinty dazzles and distracts, the pond must never forget its primary mission … to drive the reptiles from the internet and herd them behind a paywall, like John Wayne herding the cattle in Red River …
Even so, and even as the pond hesitates to lead with the seedy, shameless apocrypha above, the spirit in its noble words is right …
While Flinty dazzles and distracts, the pond must never forget its primary mission … to drive the reptiles from the internet and herd them behind a paywall, like John Wayne herding the cattle in Red River …
In this noble cause, the pond has decided to embark on a tour of the wilderness areas of the reptile empire, where the anxieties, explanations and rationalisations are just as acute, even if the star power is lacking.
Cue Paul Maley, in charge of national security, and spreading oil to calm the troubled waters, even as Don Jr. heads for the divorce courts ...
Oh dear, and there was the pond thinking that more than 45 million people, or 14.5% of all Americans lived below the poverty line in the United States, though it always knew that the Census Bureau was full of fake news …
Nonetheless, it seems that Maley, Mattis and the Donald have gradually become aware that Vlad the impaler is a thuggish dictator, and that all the Donald's kind words about the Ruski overlords might have been a little problematic …
Hmm, is there something to be said for that Christopher Steele dossier … well The New Yorker said much about Steele in a kindly way, here a few days ago … and currently outside the paywall ...
Hmm, is there something to be said for that Christopher Steele dossier … well The New Yorker said much about Steele in a kindly way, here a few days ago … and currently outside the paywall ...
Say what you will about the Trumpists, there's always a kind word to be found for the Trumpists in the lizard Oz ...
And there you read it, as if Maley was channelling the bromancer, and perhaps had aspirations to take over from him in the reptile pecking order.
"The Trump administration has brought renewed focus to US foreign policy."
Which is to say that global warming/science is a Chinese hoax …
Now there's knockdown steely realism for you.
Warning to the bromancer, watch out, there's a hot shot gunning for your title … stay sharp, stay steely realistic. You're not the only one who can talk about climate hoaxes and renewed focus ...
But what's this, lo, just as the pond puts down the Maley, a new story hits the deck, imported fresh from the WSJ ...
But what's this, lo, just as the pond puts down the Maley, a new story hits the deck, imported fresh from the WSJ ...
Never mind the lower case "russia", that's the way to treat pygmies and small powers …
After all if you're going to take and re-brand copy in a rush, where's the harm in a typo or two?
But how strange and wondrous it is that the steely realism and renewed focus keeps on being investigated by that pesky Mueller ...
After all if you're going to take and re-brand copy in a rush, where's the harm in a typo or two?
But how strange and wondrous it is that the steely realism and renewed focus keeps on being investigated by that pesky Mueller ...
Speaking of renewed focus and steely realism, and China, here, have a Kimmel ...
And so to the mutton Dutton, busily practicing the art of distraction …
Now it might have been noticed by some that Border Force has turned into something of a disaster.
Anyone with half an ear to the ground knew that the behaviour of its head in relation to his junior was the least of the organisation's troubles.
Long before that got an airing there were rumours of bullying and interdepartmental warfare more bitter than usual cardigan-wearing battles ...
The pond thinks it understands why.
That's the trouble with giving such a wide-ranging heavy set of responsibilities to a Queensland plod deep into a mess way above his pay grade …
Quick, wheel out the distractors, set the reptiles churning ...
Actually the pond only ran this one so it would have an excuse to run the Rowe of the day.
Please, give Rowe a hit, the AFR gallery is pretty useless, but at least there's a hundred oldies, while Twitter is the real deal, but whatever, here's someone who should be treasured and allowed to roam freely on the intertubes …
Maley: "UK Counter Terrorism are now investigating 14 suspicious deaths ... It seems the Kremlin's death squads have been busier than we thought."
ReplyDeleteAnd it seems the UK authotities have been just as lazy, thick-headed and incompetent as we've come to expect.
See: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/mar/21/last-living-suspect-harvey-proctor-vip-paedophile-ring-inquiry-will-face-no-charges
Or how about a few deaths at a soccer stadium ?
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/28/world/europe/uk-hillsborough-soccer-stadium-charges.html
To lose one or two is careless, but to lose 14 without even a hint of suspicion ? That's criminal dereliction.
Oh, and incidentally, Russia's GDP ($1,560 Brillion) isn't the same as Italy's ($1807 Billion), it is actually just about the same as Canada's ($1,600 Billion). And just ahead of South Korea ($1,498 Billion) and only about $200 Billion more than Australia's ($1,359 Billion).
"...the pond thinking that more than 45 million people, or 14.5% of all Americans lived below the poverty line"
Oh c'mon DP, you know America always has to be the biggest at everything !
"... as if Maley was channelling the bromancer, and perhaps had aspirations to take over from him"
Paul Maley ? A genuine junior proto-Bromancer that one. A little bit of succession planning, perhaps ? And I'll bet Paul is way cheaper that Greggie.