It takes a particular kind of perversity to watch nattering "Ned" writhe in the turbo-charged BBQ oven of Murdochian love for the Donald, but the pond has always had a streak of kink in it ...
"Ned", if he had the guts to go against the reptile propaganda line, would likely declare himself a never Trumper, but instead, such is the shallow and callow way of this old fogey down from the attic yet again, that he must borrow his routines, his clothing and his words, from a wretch at the WSJ:
Indeed, indeed, as we turn on the spit, it's all the changed world's fault. It's nothing to do with Fox News, the WSJ, the Murdochians or any of that ...
What a fine, elegant Pilate "Ned" would make, how he'd call for the bowl of water in regal style, and explain with a sorrowful sigh that it was all the doing of history, predestination rampant, no exercise of will ...
At the opposite extreme is the notion of double predestination, commonly identified with Calvinism and especially associated with the Synod of Dort(1618–19) and appearing also in some of the writings of St. Augustine andMartin Luther and in the thought of the Jansenists. According to this notion, God has determined from eternity whom he will save and whom he will damn, regardless of their faith, love, or merit or lack thereof. (here)
Yes, yer honour, the pond must keep up its theological as well as its reptile studies ... you see, it was all inevitable, and the result theologically predictable ...
Of course the pond was going to insert a few cartoons. How else to get through "Ned"?
Amazing really, "Ned's" ability to imitate wise men describing a camel, and yet somehow managing to leave out the two humps of Fox and Murdochianism ...
Even now, the Republicans and the Murdochians are all in on the Donald, and yet "Ned" somehow manages to sound as if he's aloof from the common herd, above the plebeian fray ...
The decent thing would have been to admit the role that the Murdochians played, and continue to play ... but "Ned" has all the awareness and courage of a man holding up a fish for the pond to contemplate ...
Oh what the heck, even Ramirez shows signs of weakening, and where's the harm in a few more cartoons?
And so, having cartoon cleansed "Ned" from mind, it's time for a little climate science denialism with the Caterist ...
What with the lure of the Donald, the reptiles - and so the pond - have been neglecting climate science denialist duties, but never the government cash in the paw Caterist, who knows what side his denialism is buttered on ...
The story so far ... SloMo has abandoned coal, dropped it like a hot potato, and never mind all those photos showing his love for it, it was a dud girlfriend, and anyway SloMo is inclined to be fickle and flighty ... and so the obsession is with gas, by any means, preferably by fucking the environment, so that the planet might continue to be fucked ... now, read on ...
Indeed, indeed, sacred sites are protected across the land. Why only the other day, the pond heard about the splendid effort by Rio Tinto, devotedly protecting an ancient sacred site ... and what do you know, Rio Tinto still has 1,780 approvals to destroy Aboriginal sacred sites, Juukan Gorge inquiry told ...
But that's an aside. It's worth doing a google (US Justice Department permitting) to see the many stories that are out there that tell a different story to the one being told by the government cash in the paw man ...
And so on, and on, but meanwhile, the Caterist is as expert in gas and gaseous emissions, as he is in the movement of flood waters in quarries ...
Starved of the benefits of modernity? What an elegant way to talk of fucking the planet ...
And so to a pond explanation. Usually Wednesday is Dame Slap day, but the Dame in recent times has shown a marked reluctance to discuss the Donald in any way, shape or form, and her ability to do climate science denialism and conspiracy theories has dropped off since she and "Lord" Monckton parted ways ...
Instead this day she resorted to the usual comrade Dan bashing, a sport beloved of reptiles keen to emulate the UK, Europe's and the US's success in battling the virus, and determined, whatever it takes, not to follow those dreadful Kiwis ...
The pond refuses to indulge the reptiles in their comrade Dan bashing, and so was left with no choice, but the pond does think that nattering "Ned" and the Caterist filled the Dame Slap hole nicely ... and now having mentioned Dame Slap, the pond also feels free to run a few cartoons on the topic, with more Rowe here as always ...
This relates to yesterday's Miranda Sublime link
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They have such intellectual depth on the right, don't they?
As for today's offering, push the button marked 'idiot' and out walks Cater.
Google "shale gas insolvencies" and start at the top or just go to this one if you cannot be bothered
https://ieefa.org/ieefa-update-australia-sponsors-a-failing-gas-industry/
Oh my, well it's not surprising that the only thing Miranda Sublime noticed was the Donald's big arse. And of course it is just so sad that a guy with such a 'generous' arse doesn't have the guts to speak up and ask for a bigger chair. But then, neither would Miranda, I guess.
DeleteAs to "shale gas insolvencies", well: "The very last thing the world needs is more gas." Hmm, well that may be, but if so, what are we and the Germans going to do about the hydrogen gas industry that SloMo says he wants to develop ? Oh:
Morrison government cuts funds to Australian-German Energy Transition Hub
https://reneweconomy.com.au/morrison-government-cuts-funds-to-australian-german-energy-transition-hub-67996/
But hold the geegees, here we go:
Australia, Germany working together on renewable hydrogen
https://www.industry.gov.au/news-media/australia-germany-working-together-on-renewable-hydrogen
Such an adroit little dodger, SloMo, isn't he.
Ned quotes Gerald F. Seib: "He [Trump] turned republicans away from four decades of Reagan-style national greatness conservatism to a new gospel of populism and nationalism."
ReplyDeleteRegan instituted "national greatness conservatism" ? It still, after all these years and countless exmples, is hard for me to grasp just how farcical are the tropes and catechisms of so very much of homo saps saps. But at least modern psych has helped me: if what I thrice repeat is true, then what I three thousand times repeat is not just true, but eternally and incontrovertibly and unquestionably so.
And hence the hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, decadely, millenially repeated "truth". Which is, by definition, eternally, unquestionably and incontrovertibly true. And thus we get the 'reptiles' and their like, generation after generation. And thus we have Nullius Ned now.
The Cater: "Shale gas has rewritten the business model of the energy sector and could change the business model of the NT. Darwin could be transformed from a government-funded service centre for Indigenous misery to the new Dallas ..."
Now one is driven to the inescapable observation that: "There are none so idiotic as those who simply cannot think even if they somehow realise that they need to and are supposed to." So, we have the Cater.
But even he might take a little caution, not only from what you've posted, DP, but also from the likes of this:
America’s fracking boom flounders as global prices and demand collapse
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/apr/25/fracking-america-boom-founders-prices-demand-collapse-covid-19
Does he really believe - no matter how many times he's told it to himself - that if America's fracking boom is dying (not just "floundering") that the NT will be able to create a whole new fracking bonanza ? Not when he still lies that "The shale revolution in the US has been unstoppable." "has been" being the key idea.
As to good ol' Slappy, DP, you reckon: "The pond refuses to indulge the reptiles in their comrade Dan bashing..." and that sounds about right. Especially when Slappy shouts out that: "Fewer people on the left are raising concerns about Victoria's lockdown which suggests for many of them, freedom, evidence and common sense don't count for much."
Which is still way better than counting them as serious negatives as Slappy et al do. Here, Slappy, read this and weep:
Australia's coronavirus lockdown strategy worked. Could this be a model for the US?
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/09/21/australia/australia-coronavirus-lockdown-intl-hnk/index.html
When the hydrologist Cater tells us that the fracking process involves only ‘small quantities of household chemicals’ I’m sure we all feel much more comfortable about environmental effects. Sprinkle of ‘Rinso’, perhaps?
ReplyDeletePerhaps one of those ‘benefits of modernity’ might be a company store near the site, offering household chemicals for household use, at a price competitive with the Ballarat IGA - plus, of course, freight, and handling charges, and other overheads unique to the Territory.
The financial side is a little more difficult, but we can feel similarly comfortable that investors will not be frightened-off by any prospect of governments seeking a proper return for the citizens it represents. I see a number around $9 bill, but spread, like ‘Vegemite’, across 25 years. That is unlikely to frighten investors when we get down to that important bottom-line, and, as the sociologist Cater warns, returns to indigenous folks should not have any semblance of ‘sit down’ money. Too much will not be good for ‘them’.
Now there's a real 'blast from the past' Chad: 'Rinso'. I thought Unilever had gotten away from that years ago, but apparently the use of the name 'Rinso' was purchased by the Southern California-based 99 Cents Only Stores back in 1992. Otherwise, except maybe in Indonesia, it's all 'Surf' now.
DeleteBut of course our accomplished hydrologist doesn't mention the methane released by fracking: that's a gas, not a liquid and he doesn't really know much about gas no matter how much of it he emits or from where. Methane is a much more powerful 'climate change' greenhouse gas than CO2, of course:
Fracking boom tied to methane spike in Earth’s atmosphere
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/08/fracking-boom-tied-to-methane-spike-in-earths-atmosphere/
An interesting one:
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