With the greatest respect to the reptiles (lavish doses of post-modernist irony included), the story isn't Kristina Keneally, nor even the omitted Francis Sullivan telling everyone to just shut up …
Rather, what's been going down features the reptiles and their slavish endeavours to prejudice the Pell appeal with assorted articles and commentators, as noted last night in Media Watch here …
Ah, the craven Craven … who could forget ...
And apparently at the bottom of that column, Craven made reference to his status at the ACU …
Cue a bit of bother …
Say what? "The University respects the judicial process and will not be making any comment until all legal avenues including any appeal have been concluded."
Somebody at the ACU had the first clue? But not the craven Craven? Who plainly can't read or understand what bizarro land Craven issued in a press release ...
Yes, the craven Craven has attracted attention to himself in an unseemly way … and even the odd reptile was unhappy …
That tweet here, and surely there's a cartoon for that.
Why yes, there's a Wilcox cartoon that can be run in relation to the fuss, with more Wilcox here …
Why yes, there's a Wilcox cartoon that can be run in relation to the fuss, with more Wilcox here …
But the pond refuses to comment on the matter to hand, until the appeal is heard, not having sat through the entire trial and heard the evidence presented to the jury … including the testimony of the choir boy …
And anyone else in that situation should just shut up, and if they don't they should be sanctioned …
But what to write about in the void?
Well the pond could just regurgitate a delicious story in The New Yorker headed The making of the Fox News White House …
Oh there were lots of bon mots in the yarn …
...According to Michael Wolff’s 2018 book, “Fire and Fury,” Murdoch derided Trump as “a fucking idiot” after a conversation about immigration. The aide says Trump knows that Murdoch has denigrated him behind his back, but “it doesn’t seem to matter” that much. Several sources confirmed to me that Murdoch regales friends with Trump’s latest inanities. But Murdoch, arguably the most powerful media mogul in the world, is an invaluable ally to any politician. Having Murdoch’s—and Fox’s—support is essential for Trump, the aide says: “It’s very important for the base.”
Murdoch may be even closer to Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner. Well-informed sources say that Kushner, an increasingly valued White House adviser, has worked hard to win over Murdoch, showing him respect and asking him for advice. Kushner has regularly assured Murdoch that the White House is a smooth-running operation, despite many reports suggesting that it is chaotic. Kushner now has an almost filial status with Murdoch, who turns eighty-eight this month, and numerous sources told me that they communicate frequently. “Like, every day,” one said.
Murdoch has cultivated heads of state in Australia and Great Britain, and someone close to him says that “he’s always wanted to have a relationship with a President—he’s a businessman and he sees benefits of having a chief of state doing your bidding.” Murdoch has met every American President since Kennedy, but, the close associate says, “until now a relationship has eluded him.” Still, Murdoch’s coziness with Trump may come at a cost. Roger Ailes, during his final days at Fox, apparently warned Murdoch of the perils. According to Gabriel Sherman, a biographer of Ailes who has written about Fox for New York and Vanity Fair, Ailes told Murdoch, “Trump gets great ratings, but if you’re not careful he’s going to end up totally controlling Fox News.”
Trump became famous, in no small part, because of Rupert Murdoch...
And again ...
Lord Monckton told more than 200 guests at UNDA that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change changed its 2001 recommendation that “long-term predictions of future climate states is [sic] not possible” to “the body of evidence points to global warming” due to one man rewriting the original report, which was in consultation with some 200 scientists. UNDA Vice Chancellor Celia Hammond said the university hosted Lord Monckton, a former adviser to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, in fidelity to Pope John Paul II’s Apostolic Constitution on Catholic Universities to be “immersed in human society” and not shirk difficult issues. (here)
Oh there were lots of bon mots in the yarn …
...According to Michael Wolff’s 2018 book, “Fire and Fury,” Murdoch derided Trump as “a fucking idiot” after a conversation about immigration. The aide says Trump knows that Murdoch has denigrated him behind his back, but “it doesn’t seem to matter” that much. Several sources confirmed to me that Murdoch regales friends with Trump’s latest inanities. But Murdoch, arguably the most powerful media mogul in the world, is an invaluable ally to any politician. Having Murdoch’s—and Fox’s—support is essential for Trump, the aide says: “It’s very important for the base.”
Murdoch may be even closer to Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner. Well-informed sources say that Kushner, an increasingly valued White House adviser, has worked hard to win over Murdoch, showing him respect and asking him for advice. Kushner has regularly assured Murdoch that the White House is a smooth-running operation, despite many reports suggesting that it is chaotic. Kushner now has an almost filial status with Murdoch, who turns eighty-eight this month, and numerous sources told me that they communicate frequently. “Like, every day,” one said.
Murdoch has cultivated heads of state in Australia and Great Britain, and someone close to him says that “he’s always wanted to have a relationship with a President—he’s a businessman and he sees benefits of having a chief of state doing your bidding.” Murdoch has met every American President since Kennedy, but, the close associate says, “until now a relationship has eluded him.” Still, Murdoch’s coziness with Trump may come at a cost. Roger Ailes, during his final days at Fox, apparently warned Murdoch of the perils. According to Gabriel Sherman, a biographer of Ailes who has written about Fox for New York and Vanity Fair, Ailes told Murdoch, “Trump gets great ratings, but if you’re not careful he’s going to end up totally controlling Fox News.”
Trump became famous, in no small part, because of Rupert Murdoch...
And so on and on, with the Murdochians helping a fucking idiot to become President, and now support him in every form of his fucking idiocy, functioning as the Pravda of the White House …and the senile old dotard once known as chairman Rupert is now a Kushner pawn, the man who secured a security clearance against the advice of almost anyone who understood the risks he posed ...
Oh there has to be a cartoon for that, something that brings the strands together …
But what of the local scene? Well the reptiles have been obsessed of late with the departure of the asbestos woman, and today provided another example …
There's blood on the floor - there will always be blood - and there's been a lot of coulda, woulda, shoulda of the Petie boy kind …
But where's the comedy?
Well by chance the pond had some left over Oreo from yesterday - apparently if you deep fry an Oreo they will last for days … you just need a pancake mix and a capacity for nausea …
No, the pond won't show a picture, just an ordinary Oreo can be an overwhelming sight ...
You see? There's great Oreo comedy from the get go. The uproar these last few days has been all about Bishop going … so what does the Oreo blather about? Replacing yesterday's men ...
Now for anyone who remembers the Oreo's rich connections to radical feminism back in the day - if you haven't heard, shame on you for not reading the pond - what follows is a rich brew, up there with the best deep-fried Oreo …and it will come as a relief to discover that she's not talking about men, she's scribbling furiously about selecting the right sort of woman to replace the wrong sort of woman … someone perhaps who might be further to the right of the mutton Dutton or at least Genghis Khan, and certainly with no connection to that wretched Malware or any of the soft-centred wets ...
Oh there surely must be room for a Pope cartoon around this point …
And there's more Pope here, as we return to Oreo shuffling the deck chairs, and making sure that Stalinist imperatives regarding the right sort of candidate are honoured ...
Is there a hint of envy here? There's the Oreo howling at the moon, and there's this young upstart on the rise, and yet everyone knows that famed internationalist Oreo is cited around the world, in Africa and even in the syllabi of Harvard University …and that means she knows the right sort of candidate, someone who will do a token nod to feminism while abandoning the ship for just causes … and what a ripper she is…
There is concern within the Liberal Party that if Professor Hammond is preselected for Curtin it could prompt an independent to campaign in the seat.
Like Malcolm Turnbull’s former seat of Wentworth in Sydney which the Liberal party lost last year, Curtin had a high yes vote in the same-sex marriage plebiscite.
In 2017, rainbow stickers on the windows of student associations at the university were torn down.
In an email to a student, Professor Hammond wrote: “While I believe the symbol is divisive, and the university does not support all that has come to be associated with the rainbow flag, the university does not condone the sticker being deliberately taken down in the way that it was.”
In an email to staff in 2013 in response to concerns over the status of campus groups that supported same-sex marriage, she said some clubs could “compromise the university’s Catholic identity and mission”.
In a speech last year, Professor Hammond said she believed it was important for Catholics to be consistent with their faith in their jobs.
“A true Catholic leader should not be somebody who puts the cloak of ‘Catholic’ on and the cloak off when it suits them,” she said. (here)
There is concern within the Liberal Party that if Professor Hammond is preselected for Curtin it could prompt an independent to campaign in the seat.
Like Malcolm Turnbull’s former seat of Wentworth in Sydney which the Liberal party lost last year, Curtin had a high yes vote in the same-sex marriage plebiscite.
In 2017, rainbow stickers on the windows of student associations at the university were torn down.
In an email to a student, Professor Hammond wrote: “While I believe the symbol is divisive, and the university does not support all that has come to be associated with the rainbow flag, the university does not condone the sticker being deliberately taken down in the way that it was.”
In an email to staff in 2013 in response to concerns over the status of campus groups that supported same-sex marriage, she said some clubs could “compromise the university’s Catholic identity and mission”.
In a speech last year, Professor Hammond said she believed it was important for Catholics to be consistent with their faith in their jobs.
“A true Catholic leader should not be somebody who puts the cloak of ‘Catholic’ on and the cloak off when it suits them,” she said. (here)
Lord Monckton told more than 200 guests at UNDA that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change changed its 2001 recommendation that “long-term predictions of future climate states is [sic] not possible” to “the body of evidence points to global warming” due to one man rewriting the original report, which was in consultation with some 200 scientists. UNDA Vice Chancellor Celia Hammond said the university hosted Lord Monckton, a former adviser to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, in fidelity to Pope John Paul II’s Apostolic Constitution on Catholic Universities to be “immersed in human society” and not shirk difficult issues. (here)
There must be another spare cartoon for that, just to provide a little comedy …
Well you know where Wilcox can be found, and now back to the ultimate pleasure, the sight of the Oreo, who once used to hang around with feminists, endorsing a decidedly unfeminist candidate, who already has had to go through ritual recantings and cleansings, in an attempt to do what ScoMo is doing to that lump of coal he so famously elevated in parliament, despite the ban on using props ...
It's a tricky task, redeeming Hammond, but then there's nothing like a feminist of the Oreo kind to do the job, and wouldn't you know it, the bloody Catholics are in the mix again, and making life tricky for a feminist of the deep friend Oreo kind …but even the reptiles didn't try to put a feminist dressing on this Catholic salad ...
A staunch Catholic? There must be a cartoon for that …
And now back for the rest of the feminist Hammond rap ...
And there you have it.
Here's what the Murdochians, in the manner of Fox News, have accomplished. They've pushed out anyone who could be described as moderate or wet, and are busy installing loons of the hard right and the fundamentalist Catholic kind …
And the result? Well surely there's a Rowe cartoon for that, with more Rowe here …
The pond would love to stuff him in the overhead locker, but there's never enough bloody room, is there, especially if you board behind the herd …
Guess the passengers will just have to put up with SloMo speaking in tongues to the Catholics …
Well I hate to have to keep on emphasizing just how rampantly ignorant the reptiles and their running dog lackeys are, but there actually is, at least in the minds of some, an International Men's Day. It is "celebrated" on the 19th of November, and Wikipedia has this to say:
ReplyDelete"International Men's Day is celebrated in over 80 countries on 19 November, and global support for the celebration is broad."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Men%27s_Day
But no "official" status (ie not UN or any such), so 80 countries or not, it's really still just a gleam in some men's eyes.
Ah, but International Women's Day:
"After the Socialist Party of America organised a Women's Day on February 28, 1909 in New York, the 1910 International Socialist Woman's Conference suggested a Women's Day be held annually. After women gained suffrage in Soviet Russia in 1917, March 8 became a national holiday there. The day was then predominantly celebrated by the socialist movement and communist countries until it was adopted in 1975 by the United Nations. "
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Women%27s_Day
So there ya go, just another bit of evil Commie agitprop even if it does mean that women in Russia got suffrage (1917) earlier than in America (1920) and in the UK (1918 partial, women over 30 and 1928 for all women).
"Feminism" is a wonderful thing, is it not: all things to many women, perhaps, but very few things to some.
ReplyDeleteFor instance, The Oreo says of Celia Hammond that in a speech she: "spoke about the type of feminism that encourages a default position against men and motherhood. Two years later she clarified her position in an interview with Honi Soit. Hammond is a strong believer in equal opportunity for women but thinks that during the 1980s feminism shifted from a pro-equity movement to one based on anti-male, anti-family politics that excluded women with dissenting views on issues such as abortion."
So there ya go: it's just totally evil to have a type of feminism - type ? does that mean there's various different 'feminisms', and not just one universal, all enforcing feminist orthodoxy ? Oh dear. How very strange - we're all used to the entire human race just believing and totally adhering to one, single orthodoxy, aren't we. And we're very used to self described 'feminists' not struggling in any way whatsoever to establish or defend their feminist beliefs in the public sphere. Must come from a life spent kow-towing to and obeying men then, don't you reckon.
But never mind, Andy Burrell clarifies it all for us:
"...former Notre Dame University chief Celia Hammond once refused to describe herself as a feminist because she claimed the movement had become "pro-abortion, anti-men, anti-tradition and anti-family.
In a 2013 speech, Ms Hammond revealed her socially conservative views as she railed against sex before marriage, and contraception, while arguing against "militant feminism"."
Ok, so "militant feminism" is a nogo, but militant primitive "Catholicism" must be enforced on women. Hokay. situation normal there.
And rhar's my bit for the day. Anybody else want to comment about anything ?
ReplyDeleteHi Dorothy,
ReplyDelete“MIRANDA DEVINE:…the allegations are so flimsy. It’s one man’s word against Cardinal Pell’s…”
And Albrechtesen at the weekend;
“Is the guilty verdict against Cardinal George Pell, convicted last December for sexual abuse crimes in a he said/he said trial, an example of this new form of justice?”
The reptiles are deliberately overlooking the fact that Pell was given every consideration by the Victoria Office of Public Prosecutions in not having to face multiple accusers in just one trial, outlining incidents that would have left any jury with the impression of a pattern of abuse stretching over decades.
Instead each accuser had to stand alone and the Victorian Courts went to extraordinary lengths to stop each jury from possibly being tainted by media reports of other cases involving the Cardinal including one were he had already been convicted.
Hardly a miscarriage of justice.
DiddyWrote
It just never seems to occur to the Devines of this world that all we get from Pell is just "one man’s word". And why, in God's name or outside it, would anybody believe a word that Mr Melbourne Response ever says ?
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