The pond has been following the war on China with some fascination.
Yesterday it was speculation, today it's a breach, and now the same day the lizard Oz editorialist says 'nah nah' to the school bully, hurted you more than it hurted me ... (if the pond remembers the old school chant aright, best sung with the broken arm in a sling).
Oh yes, it's going exceptionally well, but the pond can't spend any more time on that war because this day nattering "Ned" signalled a changing of the reptile guard ...
Say what? Set a target? Where did this heresy come from? (Yes, the pond resisted the ever-present desire to show SloMo clutching a lump of coal in paw in parliament. There is too much of even the goodest, bestest of things).
Ah yes, the only way through this dross is with the aid of cartoon or three ...
Say what? A bow to conservative sentiment? But the pond has been suckled on climate science denialism and the noble deeds and thoughts of sage Senators, as celebrated by First Dog in full here ...
Phew that's better and whaddayaknow, nattering "Ned" immediately proves the point by talking of his blather as meaningless virtue-signalling... by an expert in portentous, bloviating bullshit ...
The pond guesses the problem is that the reptiles have been so hardened in their stance of climate science denialism and deep love of coal and hatred of renewables that it must be terribly hard to understand that the science doesn't really give a fuck what they think. As a famous statesman once said, it is what it is, and it will be what it will be, and if the reptiles are the solution and the answer, then there's a fucking huge problem and a gigantic question.
Sheesh, the pond is going to need another gobbet of First Dog just to get through "Ned's" final gobbet ...
Coal to the world .... and coal to China too ... and yet here is an infamous hypocrite singing his own loony tune ...
Um, what about a task on climate change that does something for the way the planet is slowly but surely being comprehensively fucked, you old loon? Oh right, you won't be around to see the benefits of your twofold task, a little holding together while doing a bald-faced shufty ... because you really don't care about climate science, do you, you shameless old hypocrite, it's just the climate denialist two step that you love to dance ...
And meanwhile, your precious love of coal, where's that at?
And now with the reptiles having helped to confuse and conflate once again, there's just time for Dame Slap carrying on the war on the ABC... in a way that almost made the pond yearn for a return of the Carry On franchise so that there might be an episode featuring Dame Slap ...
Again, though, Gambino's main interest in honor lay in the requirement of payment as a sign of respect. He granted a subordinate, Joe Paterno, supervisory rights for the crime family's affairs in much of New Jersey. Paterno was expected to hand over a certain percentage of the take.
Actually, and this is something that Dame Slap doesn't mention, she happens to be the current chair of the IPA, and we all know what respect means in the IPA ... hand over the take ...
That's more like it. Show us respect means give us all your money ... but will Dame Slap acknowledge her organisation's ongoing war with the ABC, will she indicate her status and standing as a member of that Mafia, Gina's jolly gang? Not likely ...
And there again comes that talk of disrespect from an IPA thuggee ... a woman who manages to sound both smug and boring, a sure tell when denouncing others as smug and boring ...
But will Dame Slap, in her condescending, smug, supercilious way, heed her own advice and take some holidays and quietly reflect on her thuggish ways, as well as her inability to acknowledge her role in the IPA Mafia?
In your dreams ...
And so to wrap things up, a few images on other matters from the infallible Pope and the immortal Rowe ... who couldn't resist a final Xmas farewell ...
Reading the Nullified Ned is getting to be a tad depressing. Consider:
ReplyDelete"As a pragmatist Scott Morrison, sooner or later. must make the critical yet increasingly obvious decision and commit to net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 in recognition of the inexorable momentum of global and local politics."
So that's what the slowly accelerating creep of dementia looks like. And Ned is 4 years younger than I am. To misquote some Goons: "Have you ever been to 2050 ?" "No" "Then I can speak freely." Even ScottyfromMarketing will be 82 in 2050 and well and truly into full-on decline (not to say that he isn't well on the way already).
But then, all humanity has to do is survive until 2,002,050 and all will be well again: the Earth's surface temperature will have moderated and biological diversity will be well on the way to being re-established. The Earth may even have made a few more tons of coal, too.
To propose an alternative headline for her viperous tirade of Auntie Ita I can only follow the adage that anagrams never lie and offer up a judicious rearrangement of Dame Slap’s moniker -
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Neat, Kez :-)
DeleteDame Slappy is truly getting carried away with delusions of her own self-importance, isn't she. She says: "You don't need to be a former ABC board member to be disappointed by the ABC chair's defensive, dismissive and dissembling response to criticism."
ReplyDeleteSo just exactly what did Dame Slap achieve during her term as an ABC board member from 2005 to 2010 - which partly coincided with Maurice Newman's term (2007-2012) as Chairman. Anything at all ? Or was it just one more opportunity for a demonstration of her considerable talents for an ongoing "defensive, dismissive and dissembling response" to life.
When, eventually, she finishes her term as IPA Chair, will anybody even remember that she was there ?
GB - was away on business yesterday, but to pick up on your comment - we lived in Adelaide in the first decade of this millennium, in the vicinity of ABC Collinswood, and got to know several fine folks in its production area. Their understanding of the board appointments by Alston and Ms Coonan (now, she has been in the news again, recently, hasn’t she - something to do with corporate ethics???) - anyway, their understanding of the performance of Kroger, Brunton, Donald McDonald, Windschuttle, Newman, the utterly unremarkable Ross McLean (they guessed he represented the proverbial ‘everyman’) and BOTH famous Dames - was that they had no capacity for agreeing on what to do, let alone how to do - whatever it was that J Winston Howard wanted of them. Even after the dread Marxist ‘staff rep’ was schuttled off the board - still incapable of reaching any kind of agreement.
ReplyDeleteIt was the time when some corporations were sending hapless executive groups into the wilderness on contrived ‘survival’ exercises. One acquaintance did speculate that it would be a good thing if the board of that time were sent on such an exercise - they were unlikely to make it through the first day, and might never be heard of again.
I kinda had that impression of ABC Boards then (and now ?) given what little I knew of the various members, but it's good to have some knowledgeable confirmation, so gracias for that.
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