Monday, February 08, 2021

In which the Major proves he's a splendid parrot, and the Oreo provides her usual succulent treat ...

 


 

Not good old Lou? What did he do wrong? Sure he told lies and promoted conspiracy theories, but that's just the reptile way ...

A shiver went through the pond. What if the Major was given the same treatment as poor old Lou? After all, the Major just tells lies and promotes conspiracy theories in the reptile way, and where's the harm in that?

Naturally birds of a feather flock together, so the Major Mitchell flocked to galah Kelly this day to offer him support on drugs and climate denialism. 

It's just another day at the pond, another start to the week, and as familiar as a pair of old slippers, and whenever anyone attempts to tell the pond that climate denialism has disappeared from the reptile stew, the pond always responds with a hollow, post-ironic Treasure of Sierra Madre laugh ...



For starters, what a stupid headline. Not everybody piling on the galah has been a lazy journo, unless SloMo has started moonlighting. And not everyone piling on the galah has been parroting left-wing opinions. Unless SloMo has suddenly become a left-wing parrot. Some are parroting climate scientists or medical experts, politics unknown, but then the Major is a lazy parrot himself, as we shall see when he has a Bjorn-again moment ...


 
 
What an admirable set of contortions in support of a former furniture salesman. But the Major gets even better at the waffle in his next gobbet ... 

 

The Major gets his science from a climate denialist blog? Now there's a worry. Next the Major will be quoting the pond quoting the reptiles as convincing proof that the loons are right.

As for the rest, poor old prime beef Angus and SloMo are realising that there's a new force at work in the United States, but it seems that the Major has yet to catch up. 

Aspirational blather doesn't cut it, and using a wretched blog as evidence is something lazy parroting reptiles can do, but is trickier for politicians ... and so on to more meaningless data in the pursuit of meaningless climate denialism ... oh, and of course, a dash of Bjorn blathering about the need to spend more money on research - a line only a Major parrot of the Mitchell kind could screech out yet again ...


 

What a lazy parrot he is, with that lengthy parroting of Bjorn ...

Meanwhile, as the pond mentioned that galah, it should follow up with the text ... just to reassure everyone that nothing has changed ...

 


 

Yes, the defiance is there, as well as the stupidity ...



 

Ah the old hydroxy rag, he just can't help himself, in the way most loons and obsessives can't, and what surprised the pond most was that a First Dog cartoon should still be relevant ...



 

Ah, that lukewarm wet lettuce leaf must have worked a treat ...

And speaking of treats, so to the pond's usual Monday treat ...



Probably beyond the pail too, but the pond was disappointed that the reptiles didn't link Bill with the finest flowing of western civilisation ...



 

Yes, Bill and the Oreo are one, but now on with the recovering, reformed feminist ...



 

What to say about all this? The pond wishes it had a million Oreos?



 

And so to a harrowing story of the recovering, reformed feminist recalling her time amongst the feminists ... with a discreet veil drawn over the word "cunt", because that's how the reptiles roll ...



 

Black people are reduced to their skin colour by many modern race activists?

So the Oreo and the Klu Klux Klan are one?

But enough of this gibberish, which is all you can expect from the Oreo any day of the year. 

The Oreo should remember that these days, in the shocking world of right wing cancel culture, anyone can be cancelled, including poor old Lou.

The pond will leave it to others to marvel at the talk of violent puritanism, as if somehow Martin Luther and Lex Luthor should be removed from the canon for having an attitude problem ...

Instead, with that talk of a black Shakespeare hanging in the racist air - no, the pond isn't going to list black or Asian authors in tune with humanity, because that's playing the racist game - the pond will turn to a recent Rowe for its wrap up this day, with Rowe doing more wrapping here ...




7 comments:

  1. Again, tough choice today DP. I am informed that the Bagaric has tortured the data (to borrow from Ronald Coase) to sort out the tennis players, without having them go to the inconvenience of hitting the ball around. A fine example of L A W 'law', I would think.

    But - a First Dog - makes it all worthwhile, particularly when it can be in response (presponse?) to the Major.

    As ever, in your debt

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    1. The pond does try to avoid sport whenever it turns up in the header Chadders, so it refused to barge in on Bagaric, but does appreciate your report on his activities ...

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  2. I do wonder, from time to time, just what set of wholesale nonsense it is that motivates a gormless reptile such as Maj. Mitch. But not for long when he comes out with "Craig Kelly pile-on an example of lazy journos parroting left-wing opinions". Now, you see, that comes from a man so very un-lazy that he's still pursuing - at least in his own tiny "mind" - Manning Clark's Lenin medal. Now don't you think, even for a moment, that Maj. Mitch. has given up on that.

    So anyway, we have this acute observation: "HCQ is used to treat COVID in India, the Czech Republic and some states in the US." Oh wau, nothing more need be said then because nobody is dying from COVID in India, the Czech Republic or some states in the US, are they. Having been treated to HCQ, they wouldn't dare, would they.

    But hang on, what about this: "The ABC fact check unit was forced to concede in December 2018 that Kelly was correct when he cited a study from Auckland University to argue many Pacific atolls were actually rising above sea level." Hmmm. "forced to concede" eh; well here's the ABC article:
    https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-19/fact-check-is-the-island-nation-tuvalu-growing/10627318

    At what point in that article was the ABC "forced to concede" ?
    Just for interest, this is the Auckland Uni article:
    Dynamic atolls give hope that Pacific Islands can defy sea rise - April 17, 2014
    https://theconversation.com/dynamic-atolls-give-hope-that-pacific-islands-can-defy-sea-rise-25436

    One last small observation: Maj. Mitch cites "[SMH] pieces by immunologist Robert Clancy supporting use of HCQ ... and Ivermectin." Now let us just see what Robert Clancy himself says:
    "Concerned by the controversy, the University of Newcastle, where I am an emeritus professor in the School of Biomedical Sciences and Pharmacy, has issued a statement stressing that I am not speaking on its behalf and saying it does not consider me a COVID-19 expert.

    These opinions are indeed my own. I am not speaking for the university (although over the years it has often wanted me to). As an immunologist, I am, however, an expert and I believe my opinions need some clear air
    ."
    https://www.smh.com.au/national/i-m-the-virus-expert-cited-by-mp-craig-kelly-vaccines-are-critical-but-he-s-not-all-wrong-20210204-p56zfc.html

    So I guess that's what Maj. Mitch. would consider as going to the science: taking the opinions of an emeritus professor who has been disowned by his own (ex) employer about a field that he has never conducted valid research into and is not considered in any way expert in. Yep, that's "science" as practised by the reptiles.

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    1. Sheesh, GB, the pond isn't sure if it can stand actual fact-checking and useful links, being dedicated to lazy reptiles squawking like galahs ...

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    2. Yair, my apologies DP, I just sorta get carried away now and then and react emotively to the gross denial of reality and reason. You'd think I'd be fully inured by now, wouldn't ya.

      Sorry.

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  3. In the article in The Conversation about Pacific Islands, there is a picture of Tepuka Island as an example of shape shifting and accretion. Just for fun I measured the area using the scale and outlines shown. In 1896 the island had an area of 12.36ha and in 2005 it was 9.45ha. Presumably there are others that increased because that one doesn't support the argument.
    Anyway, Kench doesn't say at all that sea level isn't rising, or that it isn't a problem.
    And if your house and taro fields are under sea water, it doesn't help that at the other end of the island there is a new pile of gravel deposited by the latest storm. Among other problems: who owns it?

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    1. Just don't expect the Lesser Kelly or Maj. Mitch to grasp any of that, NH; way too esoteric and recondite for them. And being hard and tough chaps, they'd never, ever "be forced to concede" anything.

      But hey, wait a few (maybe millions ?) of years and the coral islands will have taken over most of the Pacific: Hawaii will be part of the land bridge between Russia and Alaska.

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