The more time the pond spends away from the reptiles, the weirder each return gets.
Now they're trying to match it with Fox and Friends? Well done Cammie, soon you'll be on the couch, and the Donald tweeting his regard for your skill at supine submissiveness … (apparently the vulgar call it arse-licking, but the pond deplores vulgarity, and will leave Cammie to play that sort of catch-up).
And Lloydie is still doing his denialist thing …
Since giving up the daily grind, the pond has discovered an alternative world of reading out there …
Well, being only a weekly visitor means now the pond can be fussy, picky, choosy, which is why it didn't bother with Dame Slap …
Chicks? Oh she knows how grab ‘em by the verbal pussy …
She did have a few kind words for the onion muncher, but was also pleased he was gone. As for making history? Serious work needing to happen? Doing exactly what?
Well on that, Dame Slap was mute, silent, as contemplative as a Zen Buddhist monk. She had nada, nihil, nothing, to offer, except a chance for SloMo to be like little Johnny … which will please some, who will now anxiously wait for the moment that SloMo gets booted from the shire …
It turns out bitching is easier than suggesting policy, but considering Dame Slap's idea of policy is the Donald and climate science as a UN conspiracy, perhaps bitching is the best way for her to go.
But that left a gap. What to fill the void for a meditative Sunday? The pond thought this topic was dead, even in reptile la la land …
But there was our Gracie, valiantly batting on …
But the more the pond read, the more disturbed it became. What had happened to our Gracie?
Dear sweet long absent lord, what is wrong with this woman? Is the parrot in the house? Could some of those atheist Perth corellas have pecked at part of Gracie's brain?
This is outrageous, appalling stuff. The pond is yearning for the day that any dinkum atheist can stand up in the Athena class up the road and explain that L. Ron Hubbard was a lunatic, while across the road, the biology teacher will be explaining in a creationist school that the evangelicals who run it are barking mad, but not perhaps as mad as those who think cannibalistic transubstantiation is a whiz …
We need an irreligious freedom act, and the sooner the better ...
The pond was shocked, and felt in urgent need of redress, and luckily the meritorious Merritt had also weighed in, in a most learned way …and as the pond had recently been surrounded by a flock of new lawyers and listened to the Honourable Acting Justice Arthur Emmett talk of Justinian codifying Roman law, and the astonishing role that his wife Theodora had played, the pond knew it was wiser to listen to Merritt than to our Gracie …
Persecution! Crucifixion? The suffering of the martyrs! Generations of politicians to blame!
Perhaps it stretched as far back as Billy Wentworth setting up Sydney Uni, or even Justinian himself! This was more like it ...
Funny really, the pond can remember a time when even hinting at being agnostic was barely acceptable behind closed doors, and with only a few carefully chosen members of the family, because everybody else would take the fence, and probably the gate too, and consign the whole family to hell …
That's the way it used to be in the days when Xians ruled the roost and nobody dared to stand up to them, and point out the absurdities, the bigotries, the festering hatreds, fears and loathings …
But the thing about the pea brains gifted by the long absent lord to dinosaurs and the meritorious Merritt means all this has long gone from the memory banks … and in empty fields, meaningless blather is a sure way to fill the silence ...
Uh huh. Tell all that to your average atheist. That's why there's still some angry ones around today, agitated at being told off for noting that the Pellists might love a frock, but really didn't care much about doing the Xian thing …
Not that the pond is angry, so much as bemused, because somewhere between our Gracie and the meritorious Merritt, the messaging has gone badly wrong … but one thing's sure. Merritt will win the matter by droning on so long even lawyers might fade away into the night.
The pond also listened to the Honourable Justice Bell urge the wet-behind-the-ears lawyers consider such idle matters as fairness for all, but the pond suspects he might rather be back at work fighting for the long-suffering children of that dreadful woman than reading merit-less love of church over secular state ...
Um, actually, shouldn't it make it unlawful under federal law to discriminate against somebody because of their lack of faith, or if you will, their devotion to secularism and atheism and any other -ism that irritates the heck out of fundamentalist bigots?
Ah but the religious have got that base covered, which means all the moaning and the whining is most peculiar …
Religious schools in Australia are exempted from a number of elements of anti-discrimination law that apply to government schools. While the precise legislative regimes differ from state to state, religious schools are generally permitted to give preference in admitting students on the basis of religion, and in some states are permitted to discriminate on the basis of religion, sexual orientation and marital status with respect to staff and students. (Greg Hunters pdf here).
And so on and so forth, so many chances to discriminate in so many ways, and still they want more.
Well you can never get enough freedom to be bigoted and prejudiced, and freedom-loving Merritt is just the man to sort it all out ...
Well that's more than enough meditating for a Sunday. Thank the long absent lord that the feds will be able to consistently support loonies in love with complimentary women and literal readings of the bible urging the stoning to death of hussies and homosexuals …
But now, as Lloydie, the Donald, Fox, the reptiles. climate science, liberty's hell's bells, and freedom, including the freedom to ride tanks wherever you like, have all been mentioned, what about a few cartoons celebrating those themes?
The UQ dean of law Patrick Parkinson (via the egregious Merritt): "The problem in Tasmania was that a state law was used against Archbishop Porteous on the basis of it causing offence to somebody."
ReplyDeleteSo, the 'Porteous Lie' will live on and be repeated endlessly: that Porteous was attacked because of what he said, rather than, in actual fact, how he said it.
But then I suppose it wouldn't be such a big deal if it was just admitted that Porteous used some offensive language, would it. Much better to lie about it all so they can turn it around and pretend that it is they who are offended.
How big is the swamp that murdochracy attracts these parasites from.
ReplyDeleteMaybe not as big as we might fear in some ways, ww, since the same old gang seems to be endlessly recycled. Dame Slap, for one, has been at it for decades. As Wikipedia puts it:
Delete"Albrechtsen has written for the Australian Financial Review, The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Sunday Age, Quadrant, Canada's National Post, The Vancouver Sun, The Wall Street Journal and The Wall Street Journal Asia"
And of course she's been with The Australian for quite a while now too.
Is Dame Slap (and/or her sub-editors) making a subtle pun, or just not being very literate? Either way it may be a little uncomfortable for ScoMo to maintain 'poll position' for three years....
ReplyDeleteI don't know if Merritt was smart in introducing the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. If anyone chooses to follow it up, there are all sorts of wonderful Articles in it which seem to be happily ignored and violated by the actions of the AbbTurnMo government. Little things like locking people up without charge, putting them in prison for trying to seek asylum, the list goes on and on.
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