The pond knew it was going to be a tough time at the Catholic Boys' Daily when it took this snap yesterday just as a keepsake, as a memento for all the times that the pond scribbled about the frock-lover and his columns in the Daily Terror …
But the world moves on, and our Henry, it turns out, is even better at dragging lost, bedraggled corpses out of the bushes …
Say what? It's all thanks to the onion muncher waving a pamphlet in the air back in 2006?
For a minute, the pond thought that our Henry was part of a devious plan, but the Bolter himself had dismissed the possibility …
Well if the onion muncher himself pout it that way, how could the pond pout it out that our Henry was pouting out his column as part of the very same devious plot?
Instead the pond would just have to pout it to readers that our Henry should be given his usual hearing ...
Indeed, indeed, the perfidious useless French, what an angle they make. It was good of our Henry not to compare the French with the impeccable planning on view in the USA. How that would have shown up the cheese-eating surrender monkeys …
It struck the pond that our Henry was taking a long time socking it to the perfidious French, and a singularly short time explaining how it was all to the greater glory of the onion muncher, but please give him time ...
Strange, it wasn't so long ago that our Henry was raging at economists …
And urging people to think about getting back to work … you know, in the usual style …
Yes, back then it was analysing trade-offs and counting the allowable number of courses …
And at another time only a week ago, our Henry was bust trying to protect the bottom line, and saving the unhappy rich from a fate worse than death… paying taxes …
But it seems these sorts of duties have proven too strenuous for him and our Adam, so it was simplistic Simon's turn this day …
You know ...
But all this might suggest that the pond isn't taking our Henry seriously, or his love of the far-sighted onion muncher, and the pond apologises if it seems to have pout it that way ...
So the onion muncher waved a pamphlet, in 2006, and then we forgot about it, with the only war gaming done in 2008, and by 2020, there were many critical weaknesses in the system, and yet it's all thanks to the onion muncher …
A masterly exegesis … worthy of a cartoon …
At least with Henry duty over, the pond could turn to the ritual hunt for signs of the cult master …
Vlad the impaler is in trouble? He might not be the only one ...
Funnily enough, the pond couldn't give a tinker's curse toss if Vlad's plans to turn himself into a lifetime dictator had hit a few rocks, and so the pond inevitably had to turn to the Pellists …
The reptiles were surprisingly subdued yesterday in their response, at least in the lizard Oz. Oh the chief Pellist himself was surprised, but higher up the page, the reptiles pout out a different angle …
It was left to Fergo to command the commentary section this day … and he was surprisingly subdued, it being the findings of a Royal Commission after all …
Only bail? Well at least his reputation must have taken some sort of a pummelling if this was the best the reptiles could off ...
Oh sure in Murdochian tabloid trash land, the Bolter was pouting things differently ...
But the pond would rather pull out rotting teeth with a pair of rusty pliers, as its uncle was wont to do, rather than read the Bolter.
The Fergo defence, the best the lizard of Oz could offer, it must be ...
Hmm, some nice deflecting and attempts to shift the blame, and some classic reptile distractions in there … but the pond couldn't help wondering what an infallible Pope might make of it …
And what of the lizard Oz editorialist, following in Fergo's footsteps?
Could they summon up the old defiant Bolter Pellist spirit?
Sheesh, we're back with Fergo again?
Oh well, might as well knock off the final gobbet …which alarmingly begins with a "but" and everyone knows that the hairs on the pond's neck tremble when a billy goat butt rumbles over the bridge of sorrowful sighs ...
So that's the best the lizard Oz can offer by way of defence? No righteous craven Craven? No blathering Brennan? No one else from the Catholic Boys' Daily doing a Bolter?
Never mind, as usual, the pond prefers the way the immortal Rowe pout it, with more immortality to hand with a click here …
Since I wasn't educated by the papists, it all came as a big surprise when the kiddy fiddling allegations started coming to light. It wasn't a surprise to the catholic kids I knew. They all seem to have a list of which brothers were intent on buggering and which ones were simply intent on beating the students. This was the Diocese of Maitland after all.
ReplyDeleteDavid Marr's comment in the Graudian yesterday "Mighty ecclesiastical careers aren’t often made by men with slipshod memories who don’t know what’s going on around them. But that was the picture of himself Pell painted to the commission: a priest who didn’t gossip and didn’t keep his ear to the ground, and a bishop who didn’t ask hard questions and compel investigation."
Given that everyone seemed to know, it seems incredible that the RWFWs thought they could tough this one out. It now seems that a lot have quietly snuck out of the camp, but I do expect that Polonius will be unable to remain silent, so I await his ramblings.
PS - Cut and run
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It all comes down to whether you believe that you are under God's protection or not, doesn't it. Most high-placed Catholic clergy - eg Pell - act as though if they don't 'admit' something, then God will never find them out. In short, they either actually believe that God is powerless and incurious, or they don't believe in God at all. I reckon it's mostly the second option. What was it you said a while ago Bef: "the power that an institution confers".
DeleteI am rather curious though - even if we will never know - as to whether any of them, including Pell, ever actually engaged in 'confession'. Somehow I can't believe that Risdale, for example, ever did. Or Pell. I'm reminded of a 'story' I encountered many years ago, about how a Catholic nun always wore her habit when having a shower. "But," said the interlocutor, "why do that ? There's nobody in the shower recess with you." "Ah," replied the nun, "you forget Almighty God."
So with a peeping Tom God that can't see through a wet habit, what did Risdale, or Pell, ever have to confess ? But I can't say I'm in any way sorry that Pell spent some time in jail, he deserved it for instituting that abomination called the 'Melbourne Response'. The only regret in my mind is that a bunch of Catholic parents - just some, not all - at the very least deserve some condemnation for disbelieveing and/or ignoring their own children.
St Pat's can do it for someone who was eventually acquitted and is now technically innocent. Pity Tennis Australia couldn't be as committed to doing the right thing and rename Margaret Court Arena.
DeleteTrouble is, Merc, once we start doing that, where do we stop ? Perhaps we should rename Melbourne because Lord Melbourne wasn't much chop either:
Delete"Melbourne does not rank highly as a Prime Minister, for there were no great foreign wars or domestic issues to handle, he lacked major achievements, he enunciated no grand principles, and he was involved in several political scandals in the early years of Victoria's reign."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lamb,_2nd_Viscount_Melbourne
Well I'd kinda be in favour of that, but what should we rename that big burg to ? Are there any real hero-ines whose name isn't already widely used ?
The Hed over Holely Henry's piece says: "Coronavirus: Australia is fortunate Abbott took action years ago". Henry then proceeds to show that by the coming of SARS-CoV-2, nothing Abbott's Health Department did was still around - eg "The last serious national "war-gaming" if our health system preparedness occurred in 2008." And even the H1N1 which was "ably managed by Nicola Roxon" had "faded out of sight and mind."
ReplyDeleteClearly, one of the sights and minds it had obviously faded out of was Abbott's. Otherwise, as PM, he could have simply revived it, couldn't he, instead of trying to revive and award knighthoods (and he only managed two of them, anyway). So what is it exactly that we should be thankful to Abbott for ?
The Henry praises the Onion Muncher, but still no mention of when we are likely to receive the household saving of $550 from the departure of that TAX. Which pretty much characterises the Henry's line on economic wisdom these days. We had the two-thirds benefit for one-third the cost, although that has not been taken up by the ‘National COVID-19 Co-ordination Commission’, even though it is money for jam.
ReplyDeleteSo some of my brain cells ambled off in speculating about the SI unit for inductance. Yep - the Henry. Although it commonly manifests itself as microhenries. Is there a parallel with this Henry's vapourings about economics and other aspects of governance? Do his revelations rate whole Henry units, or are they more at the scale of microhenries? One is tempted to look for something down at the picahenry level, not that we would willingly - picahenry.
OK - apology for that - it all gets just so tedious, doesn't it?
Other Anonymous.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuwxmBLwe8Q
DeleteOr you might prefer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0GlCCy7lF4
GB - a little late, but double thanks for those clips. I learned the words from the Carson Robison original, in the late 40s, because it was played about once every hour by the beach broadcaster for Kirra Beach SLSC.
DeleteThis was before that string of beaches became known, pejoratively, as the 'Gold Coast' as proprietors of blocks of flats and often dubious 'guest houses' cranked up their tariffs to take advantage of the 'southerners' from Sydney, and a few from Melbourne, who were able to travel up for their two-weeks each year.
Queenslanders of that time thought it highly amusing when, as them southerners, in turn, established businesses along that strip, there was a successful move to apply that name, officially, to that strip development.
Other Anonymous
Welcome OA. That's a song I've kinda known for somewhat more than half a century. Along with this one:
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As to Queenslanders and "southerners", you are aware, but of course, of the "mexican-proof fence" which indeed evaporated once the Gold-coasters worked out there was easy money to be had.