What a relief, what a way to start the week, and as usual the Caterist is showing the way forward. The pond has become exceptionally tired of the Donald, so much winning, and the war on China, so much winning, and what better way to change the topic than to turn to genuine old school religious loonacy?
In his usual way, the expert in the movement of flood waters in quarries manages to confuse and conflate a variety of issues, not least the need for a government grant to purchase a freezer truck. Why, the power of prayer should be more than enough to obtain such a truck. Just look at Margie's statement of beliefs for proof ...
The pond sees nothing in there about "Our lives will be successful and healthy if we get a government grant."
But back to the Caterist, cultivating the barking mad ...
Now is as good a time as any to explore the Caterist's own approach to religion, as movingly explained in an interview with Hope radio here ... (please don't ask about Hope radio or whether the pond has ever accidentally tuned in) ...
And so to a final litany of complaints, because there must always be a litany and a whine, and a call for government cash in the paw, it's the Caterist way ...
You lot are just hopeless ... and with that the pond turned to the latest Riddster outing in the lizard Oz ...
It takes a fair degree of hubris for someone to explain that everybody is wrong, except for the humble correspondent humbly explaining everybody's manifest errors, but the Riddster is up to the job ...
Of course the Riddster has fallen on hard times of late, and has taken to keeping odd company ...
Yes, he's got into bed with the likes of Pauline, the arm-breaker and Malcolm Roberts, and such like, all expert scientists, the lot of them, so the pond was disappointed to find that the next gobbet was so short ...
Yes, everything's for the best in the best of possible Pauline worlds, and climate science is but a butterfly dreaming ...
And so to a bonus, and here the pond was confronted by an agonising choice, because the reptiles remain steadfast in their war with China ...
The pond makes no apology for sticking with the Major.
Sure, the reformed, recovering feminist is an expert on bullying, always bullying her readers for failing to recognise her genius, but the Major has always been the go to reptile for bunging on a do ...
Of course the Major, in his infinite wisdom was right about everything, and the pond began to drift back to his glory days, as celebrated at the AFR ...
You can find those AFR pieces by googling - they're outside the paywall, with one here, the last one is here - but the pond found the link to Crikey irresistible, and offers up a sampler, with more here ...
How good is all that? No wonder Xi, and all those people who fail to share the Major's vision are quaking in their boots ...
Luckily there's just time to stroll back down memory lane with the Major, to the glorious days when the reptiles saw the Chinese devouring a never-ending supply of coal, and not just your average home-grown, accident-prone Chinese coal, but dinkum, pure, decent, clean, innocent, free-flowing Oz coal ...
Here the Major was on the 6th July 2020, celebrating the steadfast way that the Chinese dictatorship would continue to contribute to global warming, along with the helpful efforts of Nazi-loving Hindu nationalists ...
Here no stranded assets, no stranded assets here, only the Riddster and the Major assuring the world that things were in tip-top shape ... and that those weaklings, those wretched paper tigers, were on the run ...
Diversify our markets?
Wait, does that mean we'll have to find others to take our dinkum, clean, pure, innocent Oz coal? Perhaps Boris in the UK, what with the splendid new free trade agreement currently in the making? What's that you say, Boris pretends to think climate science might have a few points to make, and might not be so keen on dinkum coal?
Never mind, the pond has absolute faith in the Major. Anyone so full of himself and so up himself and so rich with his many certainties must be pretty much right about everything ...
And with the war on China taken care of, thanks to the Major, the pond could at least overcome its Donald weariness with another Rowe celebration, with more Rowe celebrations here ...
What a way to begin a week: Cater, Ridd and, oh gosh, the mighty Maj. Mitch. ! And we only just missed out on the orientalist Oreo You sure know how to spoil us commenters, DP, but can you keep it up all the way to Xmas ?
ReplyDeleteJust a few short comments today then - too early to start the 12 days of Christmas. Starting with the Cater: "Today she [Margaret Court] is vilified, her sporting achievements disrespected and honest convictions considered so unacceptable they cannot be uttered."
Ok, so apart from "her sporting achievements" actually being still quite respected, especially by right wingnuts and reptiles, it seems that for the Cater, all that matters is that they be "honest convictions". So for all of us who have "honest convictions" that Cater is a Grade A wuckfit, then that's all there is to it.
Moving on to the Riddler who wants to reassure us that, as a close associate of Hanson, Latham, Malcolm Roberts, the IPA and News Corpse, he is a man who clearly recognises organisations that are "poorly quality assured" and that are, or "have become political".
Last, and in every possible way least, is the Maj. Mitch. who would like us to clearly "acknowledge the good work of foreign minister Alexander Downer in managing a formula under which we quietly gave China annual feedback about human rights issues." Yep, it was Alexander who gave the Chinese all those useful pointers on how to suppress indigenous sub-populations.
Another great day in the big, wide world of homo sap saps.
The pond decided, GB, after that nutty as a fruitcake fest, to start the countdown to Xmas and go a little lightheaded this day ...
Delete'Tis the season for all that's folly, DP, so go for it (though it's still 9 whole days until my much favoured Saturnalia).
DeleteImagine leading a life where every thought, every action was conceived in the context of a "reward in heaven"!
ReplyDeleteNow as I understood it, Merc, the "reward in Heaven" was to join the other 100 billion or so human beings that are now and/or ever have been alive in a state of mindless ecstasy in which one sings praises to God for every nanosecond of eternity. I guess some might consider that a "reward". I hope they're all in tune and in tone.
DeleteI have no trouble understanding why some people have a problem with China, I just have a problem believing that the reptiles care about Uighurs, Tibet or whatever. They must have seen the light very recently because I cannot recall much being said in the past before D J Trump revived the Yellow Peril.
ReplyDeletePerhaps if they were genuine we would hear about the Saudis or any number of other authoritarian regimes. Perhaps a few words about small children detained on Christmas Island? No, funny that.
The most glaringly obvious characteristic of the reptiles and the politicians they are boosting is the simple incompetence, the inability to see what will follow from a particular action. If you wanted to do something, is this the way you would do it? What will you win if successful, what do you stand to lose? Who are you doing this for, will he be gone come 20 January.
All pretty stupid really.
https://johnmenadue.com/here-we-go-again-the-anti-china-merry-go-round/
Gregory Clark: "The Chinese do not accept fools gladly." Ahh, that would explain Tiananmen Square, then; the Chinese protestors involved must all have been fools.
DeleteAs always, there's heaps of fault on both sides, and very little goodness on either side. However, I really don't think that the Chinese need to be defended, as they've shown, they're quite capable of looking after themselves.
But I did like this bit from Gregory: "And all Chinese regimes, whether communist or not, do try to keep tabs on their citizens abroad..." Well of course they do. Remember all those Chinese workers building our railways back a century or so ago ? Well of course the Chinese regime of the time kept tabs on every single one of them.
There must be some sort of bile quota at News Corp, or some meterage indicating that there hasn't been enough poison spewed into the daily conversation on this day. Surely, and I kinda follow the news, Margaret Court isn't in the news at this particular moment - and surely marriage equality is done and dusted - then why the Cater column? The fact that this spiv gets paid for this flopping out this lazy garbage is frankly offensive - when there are thousands out there who actually work hard to make someone else's day better - sorry rant. And yeah, yeah, I get it, I just had a long day working for a living.
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