It should have been a day of triumph for the reptiles, with dinkum true blue clean Oz coal on the march … and never mind that it's a much down-sized exercise with bugger all jobs, how the reptiles love their coal.
Only yesterday the reptiles had published a piece explaining how the United States could afford climate change …why it might be only a mere $510 billion a year ...and who gives a toss about the rest of the world? Let the devil take the hindmost …and let coal run wild and free. It's an affordable indulgence ...
Yes, it's tremendously affordable, and yet there were saucy doubts and fears on other fronts … with nattering "Ned" wringing his hands, in a desperate state, terribly worried about the rights of Islamic fundamentalists and Scientologists and such like to go on preaching their godly (or perhaps E-meter) thoughts …
Indeed, indeed, who will stand up for the centuries-old, faith-based teaching mission of Islamic fundamentalists and such like? Only, it seems, nattering "Ned" and the lizards of Oz …because it's essential that gays and other wicked people can still be consigned to an eternity of hellfire (and who would dare to remove the right of Catholics to play the guilt card and shame?)
Surely even Moorice would appreciate how subsidising religious fundamentalism is the right way forward for any sensible government? Let the crusades continue ...
What a relief. The Morrison government will join the lizards of Oz in their crusade to protect fundamentalist Islamics, and no doubt your average fundamentalist Xian school too …creationism must get its tax-free government subsidy and institutional governmental blessing!
Of course as the infallible Pope noted today, there are many heretics out there, and where would religious schools be if they couldn't teach the hows and whys and the necessities of their persecution?
Oh the wicked hussies, the witches on their broomsticks, meeting in the middle and doing their hubble and bubble …
It's dangerous theological times, which is why everyone needs to head off to the infallible Pope for guidance here …
Meanwhile, speaking of infallible guidance, Moorice is also agitated this day, and as always, the pond must pay attention …
Now it should be obvious from the get go that the pond is completely on side with Moorice on the matter of subsidies …
… and no doubt Moorice will be demanding that the subsidising of fundamentalist schools must end by close of business today, so let's have at the road to hell being paved with subsidies ...
Ah, the pond knew the real problem at once. A lack of dinkum clean Oz true blue coal, oi, oi, oi, though perhaps the threat to religious freedom and the witches of the cross-benches doing the devil dance with old Nick himself, the malign Malware, might also be involved.
Who knows? Only Moorice has the truth, and the shining light, which will put ideological special interests and Surry Hill 'leets dragging down over $300k a year to the sword ...
Alas and alack, it seems the new exciting boom in coal is being held back, and never mind that just yesterday the lizard Oz, courtesy the WSJ, was explaining how climate change was easily affordable, provided a carbon tax was introduced lickety-split … the way this hoax maintains a hold on scientists continues to be inexplicable, but Moorice understands only too well the outcomes of fraudulent science.
And yet yesterday it all seemed so simple and so easy …
Bingo, we can have it all, tax reforms, welfare states, and beautiful clean coal, and all we need to do is build dikes, or flee to Woop Woop, where the temperatures are always sure to be pleasing …you know, Past four years hottest on record, data shows ...
And so to a final reason for reptile glumness. It seems there's some reptiles that suspect ScoMo is a flim-flam man, a bamboozler, a con man, a snake oil salesman, a sandbagger, a bilker, a diddler, and all that talk of going mano-a-mano was just a bit of braggadocious effrontery ...
Oh no, the zingers are winning. Not the zingers, that would only please Micallef ...
No wonder things are grim. Glorious coal triumphant, the future assured, and climate change easily affordable, with appropriate taxes and subsidies … and yet suddenly there's Moorice blathering about the economic ruin that subsidies will bring …
Even worse, somehow heavily subsidised fundamentalist schools will soon be unable to preach that the path to hell will be paved by subsidies, or possibly wicked gays or witches gathered at the cross-benches, way worse than Robert Johnson offering his guitar to the Devil …
And all the crusading reptiles can do is wring their hands, shout at the heavens, and pocket their $300k plus a year!
Is it time to look in the mirror with the help of Rowe? With more, always helpful, Rowe to be found here …
PS watch out for the rats scuttling through the house. Put out generous amounts of bait …
Not sure if you have access to Craig Kelly's facebook page, but the poor old chook has posted the Rowe cartoon with some degree of self-satisfaction, "Looks like I've started a fashion trend" and his oddball followers all congratulate him.
ReplyDeleteLooks as if Craig reads cartoons with the same alacrity he applies to climate data. Sad.
Why, vc, anyone can see in that cartoon, it's not the outlandish outfit ScoMo is wearing, it's that it just doesn't fit him all that well. Especially the top hat on his left foot.
DeleteDennis the Shanahan: "Labor has the upper hand because of Liberal divisions."
ReplyDeleteAcute observation, Dennis, old mate. And of course we all remember the time when the Lib+Country had the upper hand because of Labor divisions - basically as fomented by BA Santamaria in 1955 over differing views of the importance of the Communist Party. And we remember that it took the best part of 20 years for the Labor split to begin to heal. And we do all remember how, when he started to get just a bit of sense in his old age, that BA Santamaria completely disowned his almost lifelong obsession with "the evils of communism" when he finally realised that the evils of capitalism were even worse. Pity he couldn't pass on any of that sense to Polonius and The Muncher.
However, I did experience some amusement this am when I read that apparently Michael Kroger (you know, Dame Slap's prime squeeze) gave a list of all the policies that he reckons won the Victorian election for Labor. And now, apparently, the Labor folk are picking up Kroger's expositi9on and using it as an 'underground' election manifesto. Sheesh, you'd think after all this time that some people would have learned when to shut up.
But then clearly Moorice has no conception of this either, so he just rambles on spouting his madness to the world. I wonder if the AA folk know just what they've acquired in Moorice, and what plans they have to shut him up.
The push-back against outright idiocy is just sparkling today.
ReplyDeleteDig in. You'll be glad that you did.
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