The pond couldn't help but notice that the 'reptile sluts for Clive' were at it again yesterday, and then were at it again this morning …
It's easy enough too stand between reptiles and their principles - if you can find any - but be wary of standing between reptiles and some advertising cash in the paw …because the pond has discovered that being crushed in a reptile stampede is a bit like watching Clive build the Titanic or deny workers their entitlements …
As for the rest, the pond notes that the climate denialists were out and about again, it being important to offset 'slutting for Clive' with the provision of denialist corn for the chooks …
Essential carbon dioxide? Is that the same as absolutely unique carbon dioxide? (with thanks to News 24).
But this is a farewell tour, and so there's no time for doddering old fart denialists of the ancient reptile school, because attention must be paid to the savvy Savva daring to dream the dream …
Apparently SloMo has been doing the rough equivalent of a trip around the world in a dinghy, managing it all by himself … and has now ended up in a bout of nattering negativity worthy of the onion muncher …
Is this the best the reptiles can do for him? It's not time?
That's about as positive as Billy McMahon moaning that he didn't get enough support from his ministers ...
Where he'll take them? Oh that seems clear enough, and how the reptiles will dance with joy …
And so to that little awkwardness about SloMo's imaginary friends, creationism, the rapture and such like ...
Yes, yes, but what of the onion muncher, who featured in this day's Rowe …
Final season? The savvy Savva sees the show as running longer than Coronation Street ...
He wants to do a Bernie or a Biden? The long absent lord save us all …
But can he somehow manage it? Well, it's not for lack of keen reptile attention. Today they were at it again, raging against the dying of the light and that wicked GetUp!
Offensive posters? But what about that offensive onion-munching? More endless years of onion munching?
And nor, the pond suggests would it work for the onion muncher, regardless of his longevity, though it would work for cartoonists, with more full Rowes available here …
And so to another reptile, though the pond won't miss the bloviating of nattering "Ned" … this day getting agitated about the Xians yet again …
Here's the thing.
Ask your average reptile how they feel about religious freedom when it comes to sharia law … or for that matter Scientologists ripping off mugs and taxpayers with E-meter scams, and scoring education grants from the federal government …
Suddenly the reptiles don't feel so free or so fancy …
Yes, there's religious freedom and then there's religious folly, but don't expect nattering "Ned" to lift his eyes above his Xian navel …
Yes, there's nothing like a little mission for religious education, mingled with the joys of poofter bashing …
Ah, little Timmie, having an anxiety attack about Brunei, and never mind the anti-gay attitudes that litter the Murdochian rags …
And so back to nattering "Ned" moaning and sighing about religious freedom, and the right to distill essence of hate and bigotry, because after all, that's what religions are for ...
They still can't get over it, can they? The reptiles have always been reluctant to accept SSM, just like the bigoted homophobic fundamentalist Xians, whom they seem to think make up their most loyal demographic … apart, perhaps from devotees of Clive, anxious to see his lizard Oz ads tip him into a balance of power situation ...
And a lot of good those laws on the grounds of sex have done when angry Sydney Anglicans still wander around talking of complimentary women …
And as for the rest … it seems like there's already plenty of freedom to do the rounds, if you give up the squillions, as the long absent lord suggested, and adopt vows of poverty and loonacy ...
Yes, that's so fucked up, the reptiles are sure to make him a crucified martyr …
Never mind, the pond has heard it all before …which is why it's always better to end on an infallible papal note, with more encyclicals by the Pope here …
Savvy Savva: "If Morrison wins, his task will be made easier if Abbott loses his seat. If Morrison loses narrowly and stays on as opposition leader, which he should, the monumental task of rebuilding also will be easier if Abbott loses his seat."
ReplyDeleteSo, we see that it will just help the Morrison Party greatly if Abbott loses his seat. Goforit, Tones ! and hold on to that seat.
Not that it's really about Abbott - more about an American "Shorten" perhaps - but this is a lovely read (and especially the comments):
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Trump before Trump and "Leadership Down", eh ? Yep, I kinda think we're almost there: a year or two more of SloMo will do it.
Hi Dorothy,
ReplyDeleteJust two days away from the general election and the savvy Savva manages to pen a piece almost completely free of any policy discussion whatsoever.
Like a dog returning to its vomit all she can focus on is the fate of the onion muncher. Sod the future of the country, the important battle is for the soul of the Liberal party.
Nattering Ned of course is still obsessing over SSM and the right of the religious to be bigots. Is it a critical issue? According to a totally unnecessary plebiscite 61.6% of the electorate don’t think so.
That’s the best analysis from the sole national broadsheet, Abbott and the sensitivities of god botherers.
DiddyWrote
"SSM and the right of the religious to be bigots."
DeleteAh it's all about the religious nutters' belief in their total and unalloyed ownership and possession of "their children" and thus their right to push any crap into their kids' heads and have it acted on "religiously".
In any real democracy, making juveniles attend a school "chapel" would be a serious offense. School is for learning, Kevvie Donners repeatedly tells us, not for compulsory indoctrination - and especially not in a very old fairy tale that is well past its disuse by date.
But aside from Nattering Neddy, you wouldn't really expect Savvy Savva to talk about SloMo's non-existent policies, would you ?
Look, GB, I think we can agree that there is nothing wrong with being religious. They can't help it. It's not being religious that's wrong, it's when they do religious things. Especially in public, ooh that's just yucky. But if they want to dress up funny and carry on with their prancing about and that funny babbling thing, as long as they do it in the privacy of their own homes, who are we to complain?
DeleteSigned: a tolerant atheist
Yeah, but the trouble is that they don't just do it in the privacy of their own homes, do they. They want to impose their madness on everybody else and that's why there's "religious" schools with compulsory chapel with a bunch of basically defenceless kids being indoctrinated into their parents' insanity. And far too often, it works.
DeleteBut mainly, I'd like to break this belief that they have that they totally own and control their children - that is utterly pernicious.
Apart from a few dissensions like that, I'm a very tolerant atheist also. So how did you respond to Israel Folau's happy wishes for our future ?
Thank you for helping keep us sane for so long. I am sure you will have no difficulty in finding other, much better, things to do with your mornings. I agree that the content of certain mass media has gone past the point where it was amusing to scan through. It is now so boringly predictable that the only decent (?) thing for the sons and heirs to do (never the daughter, of course, who actually had some talent) - for the sons and heirs to put it out of its misery; the misery renewed daily by its 'opinion' writers. You will have the satisfaction of knowing that whatever you are doing, each morning, will be so much more fulfilling and satisfying than being an 'opinion' writer, staring at the screen, hoping for a hint, a revelation, on what his/her opinion should be for the day.
ReplyDeleteWe never hear anything about the daughter these days, do we. I wonder what happened to her.
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