The pond likes to begin the reptile day by scanning the lizard Oz headlines …even if it means shedding copious tears for the suffering of the rich …
The poor, poor possums … thank the long absent lord they have Davey in their corner, reminding the lumpenproletariat of their extraordinary luck, while comforting the unhappy rich by reminding them of their excessive generosity. Here, have a slice of cake with Davey ...
And then there was Dame Groan getting agitated about the furriners flooding the country, and the reptiles having to resort to the ABC to be reassured that the onion muncher was under control…
Yes, as images of Dr Hannibal Lecter in his mask flooded the pond's mind, it seems we must read the reptiles to learn about what went on, on their ABC, because to watch the actual work of the cardigan socialists would be unseemly …
And there was the flip-flop man at the top of the page, preparing to do his latest flop-flip …
But none of this much mattered to the pond because today was Caterist day …
Hmm, GetUp! gets down and dirty? Why they should be washed, and who better to do the washing than a Caterist?
And what do you know, knock the pond down with a feather, the reptiles have done a revamp, and come up with a much cleaner, spacious herpetarium …
Unkempt figures?
Never mind, as soon as anyone starts talking of ugliness, the pond has to race around the house smashing all the mirrors, as a reminder that maybe arguing about people's looks rather than people's ideas isn't the best way forward … even if it's the sort of approach favoured by anally-retentive, envious Caterists ...
And it's easy to see why the Caterists get agitated. $2.4 million in kickbacks?
Why it makes the Caterist offerings look measly …
Say what? The Caterists only trouser some $230k or so a year, while those bloody Kiwis make out like bandits?
It's bloody outrageous, no wonder the Caterist feels like a thumb in a dyke, and the dam about to burst ...
Indeed, indeed, and here's a tip from the pond. If you pay your taxes, fear not, the federal government will ensure the Menzies Research Centre gets its fair and proper share … so that the propaganda in favour of Malware's government can continue apace …but don't expect each column to carry a warning, along the lines "in the spirit of a little honesty from this hired advocate, the Menzies Research Centre trousers a little cash from the federal government each year, but dammit, it's not nearly as much as all those other clever lobbyists"…
But enough of standard Caterist ironies, it's time for a final gobbet from a consummate rent-seeker, as he goes about his daily business of denouncing rent-seekers ...
Indeed, indeed, "Nick Cater is executive director of the Menzies Research Centre, which receives a tidy sum each year from the federal government."
There, fixed, and speaking of special interests, wasn't it fun to see Ellen Fanning roast Lord Downer's IPA-loving spawn on The Drum last night?
Here for tweet and active link …and by golly the pond might have to start watching their ABC again if this is what's going to be on offer …
And of course that led to Mike Seccombe's splendid piece in The Saturday Paper here … the pond can't resist a sample, it's such a tasty cake of rent-seeking (though it might cost some their one free read) …
What was it the Caterist said, as he refused to acknowledge the federal government's support for the Menzies Resource Centre at the bottom of his piece?
"The activists who complain so long and hard about the vested interests of others seem strangely reluctant to have the spotlight cast on themselves."
Well you can take the Menzies Resource Centre and double it with the IPA and have a good horse laugh about all of it … though who knows what might happen should the dam burst …
And so to the infallible Pope, with more Pope here …
By the way, the pond receives no money from no one (which means, in Alice terms, fancy being able to see nobody and at such a distance too), and cedes no controlling interest to anyone, and if anyone wants to support anyone with a click, give the Pope his due … these days Fairfaxians need all the help they get before they turn Nineians, if such a thing can be …
What was said by Fifield on Q&A last night should be repeated by every member of the Labor party to all journalists when being interviewed is that the difference between the liberal party and labor is in the philosophy of the two parties.
ReplyDeleteFifield said he wants more of what people earn is that they keep more so that indicates to all the viewers they do not believe in having a social conscious.
So they would do away with Medicare,the NDIS,unemployment benefits. These are things that they will not say publicly, think back too 2013 when Abbott said no funding cuts to medicare to school funding or the ABC.
So what we have learn't is don't listen to what they say watch what they do.
What I would like is the labor party to expose the members of the liberal party who are members of the IPA that is controlled by Murdoch and Hancock and when we see articles in Murdoch Tabloids that these opinions are written to meet the ideology of the funders of the IPA.
"Your granny gets to pay for it through her electricity bill."
ReplyDeleteMy, DP, the Caterist is dropping the juiciest of phrases, isn't he. I think this one might go down in the Caterist Hall of Fame - All Time Most Meaningless.
Hmmm: "Migrant intake out of control" by Judith Sloan.
ReplyDeleteYair, just a weensy little while after Mutton Dutton and 'Murder Mal' have moved to significatly reduce the annual inflow of non-refugee immigrants. She sure is good at stating old stuff like she's the first to have thought of it.
Or is she (gasp) actually accusing Mutton and Mal of having lost control of Australia's borders ? Too many social-security-dependents-in-waiting flooding into our sunburnt land, despite the massive girt of sea ?