Oh sure Killer Creighton was out and about at the top of the section…
But these days the pond would rather drink bleach ...
How fair is that?
What have the lizard Oz reptiles got to offer by way of following the Donald line? Sucking up in a sycophantic way to conspiracy theories? A decent match for the nakedly supine Sharri, who has always struck the pond as a couple of planks short of grey matter, but big on a streak of crazed ambition? Perfect Donald fodder …and a Yankee all day sucker ...
Sadly, it's an epic fail for the lizard Oz reptiles, because the answer to all of the above is not bloody much, and the pond was plunged into despair this day by the fair lad from far off Troy …
Um, Troy, you do realise that if you look on the Donald with complete horror, you must also look on News Corp, the Chairman, Fox News, and yourself with complete horror, for all the enabling that's gone down?
What do you say when you meet Dame Slap at the water cooler.
The MAGA cap still a snug fit?
And what about the horror of scoring that dreadful Tom Jellett drawing designed for young folk and their phones, when everyone knows the reptile core demographic is 60+?
What a waste of space and the pond's time, the only upside the chance to run a couple of cartoons …
And it didn't get better anywhere else. In desperation the pond turned to the lizard Oz editorialist, and for some bizarre reason they'd decided to be inspirational …
Well it's what passes for inspiration these days, but at least it created a mood in the pond for an infallible Pope …
Oh dear, infallible Pope, surely we need more, surely we blather about core values and being ahead of the global pack, and a fresh game plan, and ignoring the Donald (Troy 101), and so on and so forth … and after the downer of those opening pars, the lizard Oz editorialist came through ...
The US maelstrom? Surely that is code for the Fox News Donald Twitter maelstrom? Troy, are you still there Troy?
The result? An immediate thirst for an immortal bubbly Rowe, which can always be quenched here …
And so to what passed for content this day, with the pond forced to celebrate the sort of humble achievement only a Dame Groan could manage …
It was a typical Dame Groan outing … her hated of renewables has been long and proud and cranky, the sort of crank you might find in an ancient vehicle, or perhaps Lloydie and Bjorn's institutes of climate science denialism ...
Now Dame Groan will perform a simple, but stunning feat in the course of her rant … but the pond will save its honourable mention of a job well done to the end …
In the meantime, have a cartoon to help you on the way …
Have you guessed it yet? Yes, the ostensible subject is reliable energy, and renewable energy, but there are a couple of large unnamed elephants in Dame Groan's living room ...
Well that talk of emissions hints at one elephant, a passing glance at climate science.
But no need to go there, because why bother with fake science, and besides, the pond was wildly excited by the prospect of an explosion in manufacturing explosives.
What better way to renew the world than blow it up? But there was still one large invisible elephant in the Dame Groan rant ...
Did you marvel at it the way that the pond did? Eternal damnation for useless renewables, and yet not a need to mention Michael Moore or coal!?
Coal! Dame Groan managed to get through her entire piece without mentioning the urgent need to deploy dinkum clean Oz coal, the only reliable way to continue to fuck up the planet and maintain Australia's proud contribution to climate science …
Okay, it's a minor achievement, a bit like Troy waking up one day and realising he's working for News Corp, but on a slow Tuesday, the pond must celebrate as best it can …
And that brings the pond to the final offering, and again the punchline is tucked right down at the bottom, because Bella is back …and the war on China continues ...
What's most praiseworthy about this?
The way that the reptiles continue to be the Pravda of the IPA? Or the ongoing war on the Chinese, which hasn't been going that well lately, what with the Chinese hinting at a war on barley … and with the singularly incompetent SloMo failing to build an alliance of interested European parties before deciding to stand alone with the Donald and attention-seeking Sharri and US conspiracy theories …
Who wouldn't want an independent investigation by WHO. And who has made the possibility of pressuring the Chinese a dead duck?
But enough of that, back to Bella's own war with China …which, for those who read the pond with any regularity, might lead them to think that Dame Slap perhaps has a case for infringement of copyright, and intellectual property, if only a Dame Slap column could pass for intellectual ...
Indeed, indeed, and all those US institutes, and a Catholic university and such like? Why they just add to Troy's rising sense of horror …
And so to the Bella punchline, a long standing favourite of the pond … and never mind the irony of Gina being busy selling iron ore to the Chinese..
Strange that Gina has rarely seemed to want a war with the Chinese, and yet is happy to fund the IPA as it goes about its war with China …is this some sort of displacement therapy?
More at the AFR here, though perhaps paywall limited …It surely makes universities seem like poor Dickensian cousins in makeshift rags, but contemplating that distraction has just slowed the pond down as it heads to its favourite punchline ...
Indeed, indeed, and we all know what a firm stand Gina has taken against the devious, deviant Chinese, enough to put UQ to eternal shame.
But what really attracts the pond to this part of the lizard Oz IPA propaganda machine is that line about Bella being "director of the Foundations of Western Civilisation Program".
It sounds terribly grand, and much posher than the pond's own directorate, "the Foundations of Herpetological Studies Program", targeted at students like the bewildered Troy, suddenly waking to realise he's in Apocalypse Now sounding off like Marlon Brando at the horror...
Every time the pond reads about the program and remembers the glories of Western Civilisation, and thinks of the IPA war on China, the pond wonders exactly what we should be studying?
Perhaps a few cartoons, some from that ancient treasure trove of Punch magazine and such like civilised offerings, might suggest topics for a few courses?
We haven't heard from Moorice in quite some time, perhaps a side-benefit of the virus, but an opportunity to hear Malware discuss trying to explain climate change to Moorice exists here on a fine interview on 3RRR where Tony Biggs talks with Malware about the book. It's all very cosy, but if you are short on time, head to around the 38th minute for the money shot.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.rrr.org.au/on-demand/segments/tony-biggs-interviews-malcolm-turnbull-the-extended-version
I had really forgotten the sheer scale of Moorice's madness. It's up there with Malcolm Roberts
DeleteJust one example https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2014/08/coal-baron-slams-maurice-newman/
Truffle's story is more of a cautionary tale of a boy who could have been a contender but was let down by his vanity and ambition.
Only an Onion Muncher could have, would have, appointed Moorice as chief business advisor (not to mention Chair of the ABC Board etc). But then Moorice is a born Englishman, just like Abbott.
DeleteDP - my source tells me there was some indication of ‘killer instinct’ in the offering from the Adumbrate Creighton today, but it came a fair way down, so - we understand. Is it possible to make bleach more palatable with Flavor Aid
ReplyDeleteThe Adumbrate one suggested - quite forcefully, by his standards - that economic relations with New Zealand be accelerated.
Now, those of us who had to try to deal with trade bureaucracy in Canberra have all known about what started life (?) in 1965 as the New Zealand Australia Free Trade Agreement. We recognise each other still by our now innate skepticism about ‘Free Trade Agreements’.
Most economic literature suggests, as gently as possible, that the phrase is an oxymoron, but if you had personal contacts in Canberra you knew that NAFTA, and its successor, the ‘Closer Economic Relations’ agreement sustained worthy, hard-working minions for the rest of their careers. But then the offspring of those minions, whose parents had advised them to get a secure job, knew that there would ALWAYS be a job with NAFTA/CER - and, no doubt, have home-schooled the grandchildren in the eternal prospects with those acronumbs.
Prospects aplenty, because, after 55 years, that exemplar of an FTA has yet to grapple properly with substantial tariff issues. Yet here is the Adumbrate one proposing (gasp) a common currency. Mind you, the AC thinks that trade negotiations between Australia and New Zealand have occupied only the past 30 years, so his sense of time may have concertinaed.
Other Anonymous
A common currency is a fine idea, OA, just as soon as EnZed becomes Australia's 7th state. Which was kinda mooted way back when, I believe, but was rejected for "about 1200 good reasons".
DeleteAt least the Adumbrate Creighton was looking a little further afield than John Durie, Senior Writer/Columnist, who has again picked up the mighty initiatives of the Business Council of Australia.
ReplyDeleteThe Korporaal, from what I would have thought was the superior authority of Associate Editor (Business), no doubt thought she had that covered in the weekend Flagship. But much has happened. The Korporaal’s 17 ‘working groups’ seems to have shrunk to 14 by the Durie’s count, which is either a significant change, or at least one of them has trouble with add-ups.
The Durie has included quotes from some of the ‘working groups’, including one that my source suggests I share with you all here, because, as she put it, I am not smart enough to make this up.
The quote is part of the standard plea for big reduction in most taxes, but finishes with ‘It’s not just a grab for lower corporate taxes but a push to boost the economy.’
It comes from the Managing Director of Wesfarmers, named, yep - Rob Scott.
‘New Scientist’ would call that nominative determinism.
Other Anonymous
You gotta admit it made sense once upon a time, OA: somebody called Smith was very likely to be a smith because he was probably the son of a smith and brought up in the home of a smith. And besides, smithying was a well rewarded occupation.
DeleteDunno if it quite works for a Fitzroy, though, but was probably good for a Carpenter. What about Eric the Red d'you reckon ?
Apart from that though, lowering corporate taxes is good for the economy when the newly richer go on their well-funded spending spree. Buying Beamers and Maseratis and private jets and very big yachts does heaps for the Oz economy.
Hmm, so Troy (or his non-existent subby) reckons that "Donald Trump is not the leader we need in a crisis". Well maybe not, but I reckon if the insane asylums hadn't all been closed down, he'd probably have made a good leader for an insane asylum debating team. BTW, do you know that a chess team from Bedlam once won a correspondence chess game against Cambridge University Chess Club in 25 moves ? But that's probably apocryphal.
ReplyDeleteOtherwise, Dame Antigroan says: "Unless the SA government takes a realistic stance in relation to energy and other matters, the place will just be a footnote in our economic history in 50 years."
And I thought it was already "just a footnote in our economic history" now. But I guess Groanie simply hasn't heard of Sanjeev Gupta and Whyalla and the technology of hydrogen powered smelting of iron into steel and plans to make 1.8 million tons per annum and so on and so forth. But then, why should she ? That's part of the real world entirely unknown and unknowable to reptiles.
Then we have the Baleful Bella repeating yet again the wingnut lie about Peter Ridd being "sacked ... for exposing flawed Great Barrier Reef science".. No doubt about it, once a lie enters a wingnut/reptile brain, it can never be shaken loose. But if you are at all interested, then the story can be found here:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jun/07/academic-peter-ridd-not-sacked-for-his-climate-views-university-says
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DeleteDame Groan's comments regarding the islanding of SA could be summed up in much the same way as the Caterist's comments yesterday. Trying to paint a conspicuous success as a big failure.
DeleteIf SA had experienced blackouts we would have never heard the end of it. As it is, the Dame is left to grizzle about a price spike.
Price spikes occur when outages happen and most of the outages are thermal units failing, not transmission towers blowing down (SA has been very unlucky).
https://www.tai.org.au/sites/default/files/P844%20Fossil%20fails%20in%20the%20Smart%20State%20WEB.pdf
As for Ridd, as far as I know the JCU appeal is still in play. He also keeps some odd company
https://www.desmogblog.com/peter-ridd
One might even say that Peter Ridd himself is "odd company".
DeleteThe Victorian brown coal generator plants are getting old now, I guess. One does wonder sometimes what the power generation setup in Victoria would be now if that wuckfit Kennett hadn't sold it all off and closed down the SECV.
I actually did some consulting work for SECV once - before it was flogged off - and two of the SECV guys were actually graduates in nuclear physics that SECV had employed when it was 'thinking about' going nuclear. It didn't, so all the nuclear physicists it had employed had to find alternative jobs - and two of them switched to ADP (or EDP to some as IT was called back then).
Quite bright lads, and both had made it into senior positions.
Dear Dorothy,
ReplyDeleteWhilst taking my government mandated exercise in this time of the coronavirus, I’ve started to appreciate the lower volumes of traffic on the roads and the much more sedate pace of life.
However in the past week I’ve found myself staring at the clouds (instead of just shouting at them) and I’ve been much impressed by the cirrus formations in an otherwise clear sky.
According to the ‘High Cloud Weather Map Symbols’ I’ve been observing a lot of filament of Ci or “mares tails” and dense patches of Ci in patches or in twisted sheaves often cross-hatched or in waves.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cirrus_cloud
It got me wondering why I was so surprised by these formations. Either I had been simply inattentive and hadn’t noticed them in recent years or that something else had changed.
One of the other notable thing about the sky in the current period is the almost total lack of jet planes. I therefore speculate that without all the man made seeding by water vapour and other particles from the jet exhaust that form contrails, more delicate natural cirrus formations can form instead.
The intertubes remain mute on the point however.
The other possibility maybe is that now that the UN are no longer controlling our collective consciousness via their mass Chemtrail spraying in order to usher in world government, I can now actually see the world as it really is.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2101611-chemtrails-conspiracy-theory-gets-put-to-the-ultimate-test/
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/06/aviation-s-dirty-secret-airplane-contrails-are-surprisingly-potent-cause-global-warming#
One or the other I suppose.
DiddyWrote
Being a lifelong Melbourne lad, DW, I have always gloried in the local clouds - mostly cirrus, I do believe, but varied and especially including, now and then, 'morning glory'. Not as spectacular as the annual Gulf of Carpentaria morning glory [ https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-10-04/cloud-surfers-ride-morning-glory-in-north-queensland/9010504 ], but attractive and refreshing. Melbourne clouds are delightful almost every day on which they appear (Melbourne does get completely blue skies too).
DeleteAnd I haven't read anything by Phil Plait in ages. He used to have his own web site - probably still has, I'll have to look around. But New Scientist went downhill years ago, unfortunately.
I was not aware of the magnitude of the chemtrails - it still seems a bit disproportional especially as most of the jets I see flying over Melbourne don't leave visible chemtrails. As to chemtrails versus CO2, the chemtrails dissipate but CO2 lasts for millenia, so I guess I'd still see CO2 emissions as the main problem. And if we can switch to hydrogen fuel, then there won't be sooty chemtrails anyway.