The reptiles tried to sneak a quick one in on the pond, as if the pond wouldn't be dancing in the street with the news that the 'Gong is now the new home to Western Civilisation.
Weary crusaders can now drop into the 'Gong, though the pond is a tad miffed, because it always had a soft spot for Port Kembla (how many people know that the Australian movie Soft Fruit featured the mighty Kembla?)
The pond knew all along that the 'Gong was the true and proper home for Western Civilisation, with a long and proud tradition of bringing elevated culture to the primitive pagans who dwell elsewhere in the land …
Of course there'll be bloody Marxists who want to ruin the dream, and bloody snobs who cackle at how the dream ended up at a university not renowned for its status in academic la la land, and the reptiles have strangely failed to exult in their reporting …
Desperate, moi?
Meanwhile, the reptiles were trying to pull another swiftie while the pond was on its break …
An EXCLUSIVE on solar panels, more usually, commonly, even sordidly, known as an OZ BEAT-UP?
What could have provoked this?
Well there were a couple of reasons.
First there's the fine art of reptile distraction. You see, elsewhere, as in the Graudian, attention was being paid to a CSIRO report involving actual scientists making a report based on scientific observations …a terribly unsporting sort of approach, almost ideological, certainly theological ...
Graudian the details here …and send all angry letters about mis-spelled nouns used as verbs to the lizard Oz …
Make sure to moan about the decline and fall of Western Civilisation, and urge them to get onboard with the 'Gong solution …
And then there was news of a dangerous heretic, who required both reptile barrels …
Yes, the cad was a coal lover in disguise, and the reptiles needed to 'release the Bjorn' to teach him a lesson about scare stories and hyperbole …
Still blathering about a smart focus on green technology, while the reptiles rage at solar panels? That's just the usual seasonal idiocy ...
The reptiles presumably were spanking Harwin for being a hypocrite, but how poignant that the reptiles should see coal-loving as a dastardly example of double dealing.
Begone from the temple, you hypocrite, hie thee to the 'Gong to learn the fate of all those who deny the cleansing power of dinkum clean Oz coal, while seeking to profit from its carbon goodness …
As if 'releasing the Bjorn' wasn't enough, the reptiles released the Groan …
Now the pond had some saucy doubts and fears about breaking the holyday silence.
Would news of the 'Gong as the new home for crusaders, and Dame Groan rabbiting on about rogue heretics be as good a place holder as nattering "Ned", or the world-famous musings of one of the greatest climate scientists ever known, namely Moorice the heretic slayer?
No matter. 357k is the sort of price that must be paid to Grand Inquisitors ready to flatten state upstarts, and show the Angus how to conduct a beefy exchange with his lesser colleagues …
See how the reptiles reminded the lizard readership of those dreadful, dire coal links …
Meanwhile, in another bolt from the blue …
Graudian as above, and of course what Harwin and the state Liberals know, presumably from their polling, is that the climate science denialism of the feds, the reptiles and all the rest is pretty much on the nose with those remotely in touch with what's actually happening in the world … and so the more distance and sunshine that Harwin and the state Libs can put between themselves and the beefy Angus and the speaker in tongues and all the rest of them, the better, given the election looming in a few months time ...
But 357k will buy you a power of climate science denialism from Dame Groan, while Moorice might even do it for free, so desperate is he to match the Groan as a Grand Inquisitor expert at hunting heretics …
The climate wars? But, butt, billy goat Groan, everyone knows solar panels are killers, and dear sweet pure undiluted essence of dinkum clean Oz coal, oi, oi, oi, is the future of the country and of the planet … and soon trained crusaders from the 'Gong will spread far and wide to spread the joyous news …
And now, once again, oi, oi, oi, Io Saturnalia! and a little Ovid for the new year …
Behold, two-headed reptiles …
And now the pond will truly fall silent, though not without noting that the infallible Pope seems determined to find a match for the holyday season. Try hitching up with the Pope here …
Oh my my; Simon Benson: "A national audit has found up to one-quarter of all rooftop units posed a severe or high risk."
ReplyDeleteIt's "Pink bats" all over again. Oh, there'll have to be a big Royal Commission to assign blame where it belongs: onto the current Labor 'Gang of Four'. And more to the point, all those "severe or high risk" installations will have to be dismantled.
I wonder when we'll be told that "up to one-quarter of all NBN installations pose severe or high risk" ?
But then, from the 357k Slap: "...NSW households have been hit with a rise of nearly $400 in their annual electricity bills over the past two years"
Hmm. No source quoted for that '$400 over two years' figure, but then The Slap never conforms to basic standards of decent or honourable scholarship. More to the point, correct me if I'm wrong, but NSW for at least the last two years has been under the heel of an LNP government which raced to sell off NSW power infrastructure.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/nsw-closes-its-poles-and-wires-sale-with-3-billion-deal-20170511-gw2dqp.html
And for putting up with that, '$400 increase in bills in two years' is the reward for the people of NSW..
Just getting silly now. Traditional allies have deserted and the peasants have taken up their pitchforks and still they refuse to abandon their rather shaky position.
ReplyDeleteI suppose Groan is there at the discretion of Rupert not the Australian voter so it doesn't matter how silly her arguments get. I guess most folk would be prepared to look stupid for $375K.
Ross Gittins on privatisation in Australia
https://www.smh.com.au/national/the-experts-told-us-not-to-worry-20181211-p50lgs.html
In fact, Bef, the sillier Groanie's arguments get the better, because guess who she's aiming them at. Not that she's anywhere near as incoherent as The Master (aka Andrew Bolt).
DeleteIncidentally, have you noticed that since he "retired" Ross Gittins has never been so productive. Hardly a day goes by without him having something in print in the Nine press. But what he's saying about privatisation has been bleedin' bloody obvious for at least two decades: ever since that pair of noodlenuts Keating and Hawke totally fell for the IAC/Industry Commission/Productivity Commission's line of outright economic lies and bullshit and shovelled us all into the 'no win' state of neoliberalism.
Which was gleefully adopted and enlarged by that other dvckbrained pair: Howard and Costello. So basically from about 1983 until now, essentially, the country has been in the hands of moronic economic ideologues and "true believers".
And we sat back and let them get away with it. And we're still doing that. Such is life, eh ?
And by the way, if anybody is at all interested in a fine analytical exposition on the successes and failures of neoliberalism, try this (longish) read:
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Shows the likes of Dame Groan up for the tosser she is. Not to mention what ignorant, feckless little children Hawke/Keating and Howard/Costello were and are.
But I do wonder what Americans have against the word "from". Where I, and possibly many others, would use "from", Americans all seem to want to say "off of". Why is that ?
Because they can, GB.
DeleteYeah, there's always a lot of that going on Anony.
DeleteGB, in America, all prepositions take "of" in front of, in back of, at the side of, etc. Proper English (soon to be the vernacular of the Gonk, now that it is to Western civilisation what Svalbard is to seeds) may use "from", but only where strictly necessary (cf. before (arch), behind, beside, etc which take no preposition).
DeleteI think the real issue is not American or English, but our local mongrel pick-and-mix from both. That said, Dame Groan's bit would not be helped by syntactical consistency nor harmed by being reordered into a word salad. BS is BS.
Pitchforks? I think the peasants will be showing their love for their lords and masters with baseball bats, sometime soon.
Fred Nile was once a member of the Council of the University of Wollongong. An exemplar of Western values such as free speech, freedom of choice!freedom from government interference in citizens’ lives.
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