As the 'loathe News Corp' love-in continues apace, the pond would like to honour the lizard Oz's infinite capacity at working the wrinkles in its digital edition. First came this today ...
What to say? It's a subtle tweak, but note the way a "Labor assassination" clawed its way to the top of the heap ... alongside "It's war", with SloMo our fearless generalissimo, news that the war with China is going well, and the indomitable Dame Slap ...
Well the pond cared not a fig for the rest, because the fiery Dame Slap, chairman of the IPA and spokesman too, a manly woman, was in the mood for a litany of grievances, whines and complaints, and so perforce was the pond ...
Oh it's so rich, and the pond had to roll a pack of Jaffas down the aisle just to celebrate ...
The chairman denouncing self-righteous grandstanding? But hasn't her entire life at News Corp featured self-righteous grandstanding? Isn't she, to be a little reflexive, indulging in self-righteous grandstanding at this very moment? Isn't she agitated that others have ignored her heartfelt feelings? Doesn't she regularly parade her modern IPA form of ideological narcissism?
So many questions, and so many more grandstanding grievances to follow ...
Oh fucketty fuck, she's still holding a candle for fundamentalist bigotry ...
Of course there are alternative points of view, as here (paywall affected) ...
I am concerned that a return of Folau to football while he stands by his social media statements would mean sport today would be condoning such tiresome homophobia. Such a move would do little to help build a fair and more equitable Australia.
Sporting figures shouldn't use their profile to denigrate and vilify others. Sporting figures have a responsibility to not spread speech that incites division or discrimination, but bring people together.
Australians and Australian sport do not want players espousing dangerous speech to millions of fans, some of which are young and impressionable, and perhaps LGBTIQ themselves. Further to this, there are many Christians who support LGBTIQ people, and the views and actions of the Australian Christian Lobby do not actually reflect the broader faith-based community.
This fact, as well as the way the Australian Christian Lobby is supporting bills in the NSW Parliament to silence transgender students and teachers, is why we should not take them seriously when it comes to their purported support for freedom of speech.
Well yes, it wouldn't be genuine Xianity without genuine hypocrisy and a load of hate and bigotry, but to be fair, Dame Slap has never minded a little poofter bashing, and she also has a subtle, nuanced way of supporting the Donald ...
Yes, never mind the others, never mind the Donald or his lawyers, never mind News Corp and Faux News, never mind all that, never mind the Terror and the ACL, it's especially rich to watch Dame Slap preach about warped moral codes, while supporting fundamentalist Xian bigotry and poofter bashing.
Coming away from this litany, the pond was reminded how News Corp and acolytes of the Dame Slap kind, have acted like a cancer, quickly killing democracy, going so far as to promote the big lie and an insurrection in the United States. The only cure is to call these pretentious anti-democratic pundits to account every time they trot out the usual bigoted bullshit ...
Does Dame Slap forget the time she scribbled about stepping out into the New York night with her MAGA cap? The pond doesn't. Does Dame Slap forget the time that she fellow travelled with "Lord" Monckton and talked of climate science being used to introduce world government, perhaps by Xmas? The pond doesn't ...
And now this ...
Ah the infallible Pope. What a way to cleanse the palate after a reptile feast.
And so to the bonus and a difficult decision ...
The pond has to admit it was tempted by the war on China, and even more by the magnificent Magnay, labeling Australians disinclined to die as a bunch of hysterical pussies ...
If only she'd show us how it's done, catch a dose, end up in an ICU, and then totter bravely back to her News Corp post ... proving that Killer Creighton had a tremendous ally.
But how could the pond forsake the Caterist, especially as in due course he would reveal he had solved global warming, in much the same way as he'd solved the movement of flood waters in quarries ...
The pond should note that it remains a meat eater, and it has no time for Richard Branson, though possibly more time than the time it allots to BoJo and David Cameron, or even Tony Bleagh, but we're splitting hairs at the invisible end of the spectrum here.
Even so, we must get through the meat-eating Branson hysteria to get to the nub of the Caterist point, one which will surely enthuse the pond's climate scientists ...
Of course it goes without saying that Branson is a hypocrite, but then what are we to make of a man who regularly accepts cash in the paw grants from the federal government in order to celebrate meat production as efficient and environmentally friendly?
But the good news is that after years of climate denialism and downplaying the effects of anthropogenic climate change, the Caterist has had an astonishing chance of heart ...
Luckily none of this involves virtue-signalling targets being scattered around like confetti, nor even "virtue-signalling" being tossed around in a mindless and moronic way ...
Yes, just stick the carbon in the soil and everything is sorted. So easy peasy, so simple, it made the pond wonder why nobody else had thought of it ...
And now for some astonishingly counterintuitive thinking arising from recent nameless studies, with no link, as all the best scientists do ...
23 million carnivores? Is the Caterist conceding that at least 2.36 million or maybe more Australians show alarming vegan tendencies?
Eek, the pond was suddenly rattled. Suddenly those vegan boasts that 12.1% of the population had turned to lentil loving seemed alarmingly true ...
How could we ever fix global warming with more meat eating if that was the case?
How could carnivores fix up the planet quix stix, by demonstrating their support for the insufferable stupidity of scribblers like the Caterist, busily denouncing the hubris of environmentalism, while explaining that if the entire country was turned over to agriculture, how much better it would be for bush creatures?
Kill a koala today, and save the planet, and trust the Caterist to know best while doing your koala killing. And have you ever thought that if in a fix in the bush, a koala might make a tasty meal for a desperate meat eater? If not, just remember to boil a galah with a stone, then toss the galah away and enjoy a rich meaty meal ...
Never mind, and now this, with more Rowe thisness always here ...
Now Nicky says: "Australia's 23 million, honest, decent, patriotic carnivores deserve an apology."
ReplyDeleteAnd the ABS says:
"Australia’s population was 25,649,985 people at 31 March 2020."
https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/people/population
So indeed, as you pointedly ask, DP, where did Nicky pull that 23 million number from ? Wasn't the same calculator he used for estimating the floodwaters, was it ? Now I grant that, at a rate of about 305,000 births per annum, and given the very young are unlikely to consume much beef per annum - let's say until about age 5 - and there's 169,000 deaths per annum thus removing some number of beef consumers - still I can't quite see that adding up to a running difference of 2.6 million.
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DeletePerhaps the beef producers have placed some cash in that particular paw. Figure 5 illustrates a trend apparent at the Beffudled residence - steadily declining red meat consumption.
https://www.agriculture.gov.au/sites/default/files/sitecollectiondocuments/abares/agriculture-commodities/AgCommodities201903_MeatConsumptionOutlook_v1.0.0.pdf
Most folk aren't considering becoming vegan or vegetarian they are just substituting as alternatives become more available.
Of course, he could be playing to to the angry gaffers yearning for an imaginary yesterday where nothing ever changed.
The days of "every good meal is meat and three veg" is kinda long gone, Bef. Though I can remember a time when breakfast was steak plus bacon and two fried eggs on toast. Long gone days, those. For myself and partner, we're down to: fish once a week, chicken once a week, ham once a week. Otherwise, steamed vegetables three times a week and scrambled eggs once a week. That's for the evening meal anyway. For breakfast, Carmans six days per week and Weeties once per week. For lunch a sandwich plus maybe a packet soup and a pink grapefruit. All most decidedly nourishing.
DeleteBut otherwise, think about it: for the vast majority of our days, nothing does change between breakfast and bedtime. Planet Terra keeps on spinning and the sun also rises. Hardly anything ever does change.
Well, nothing seems to change day to day, but at some point your wife, who always took pride in eschewing things technical, complains loudly about the broadband outages, retail transactions are cashless and your reflection looks rather wrinkly.
DeleteIt's very human not to notice stuff that doesn't happen in a relatively short timespan. It probably explains that distinction between news and emergence.
Yair, could be, Bef, something has to explain it. There's this little saying I like to occasionally repeat: when creeping entropy becomes galloping chaos. And sometimes it does - and then we have 'news' - and very often it doesn't - and then we have 'emergence' as a new world order makes its way into existence.
DeleteAnd nowadays it seems that we can have both at much the same time. One gets out of bed in the morning and there's already a new world order waiting on the doorstep, and one has to immediately think, say and do different things.
I know the reptiles have no memory and therefore no shame but since Killer is now a regular I thought I might check in on Sweden.
ReplyDeletehttps://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explorer?zoomToSelection=true&time=40..latest&pickerSort=desc&pickerMetric=total_cases_per_million&hideControls=true&Metric=Confirmed+cases&Interval=7-day+rolling+average&Relative+to+Population=true&Align+outbreaks=false&country=MEX~IND~USA~ITA~BRA~GBR~FRA~ESP~SWE
Oh dear, just as well a journalist's credibility doesn't rely on being right occasionally.
Ooh, Sweden's at the top of the leader board again !
DeleteAnd do remember that other reptile accomplishment: that if they never mention it again then it never really happened.
Apart from that, it's a fascinating concept "journalist's credibility" isn't it. How many, other than maybe Amanda, actually have any ?
Go Sweden, the pond says, go Killer ...
DeleteFar be it from me to judge Dame Slap, I am barely fit to sweep her floors. But I was a little concerned by consistencies within her wise screed. To wit:
ReplyDeletePar 2 - "Unproven and unproveable allegations"
Par 11 - "..unproven, and in Porter's case, seemingly unproveable allegations"
Par 14 - "....ABC....allegations they know cannot be proven"
Is all well at Dame Slap's gaffe? She seems to have a bob each way here. Did the news that the Child Abuse and Sex Crime Unit's approval of an interview with the alleged victim had been countermanded by a senior officer ion NSW force drop as the Dame scribbled?
Are we sure that due process has happened? Is she sure? Am I sure? It looks a little slippery at present. But what would I know?
VC, to add an element more often found in ‘No Idea’ - did you see the person still described as ‘romantically linked’ with Dame Slap - Michael Kroger - replayed on ‘Media Watch’ this week?
DeleteIt is still available on ‘iView’, and the spotlight swings onto Kroger from 6:57. For someone who was promoted (perhaps most enthusiastically by Michael Kroger) as the one who would return Victoria to proper, Liberal, management, he was remarkably incoherent.
OK - it was an interview on Sky, where facts, or careful articulation of one’s case, are not highly rated, but I wonder how the faithful can continue to watch Sky’s ‘stream of consciousness’ um - style.
Actually, the entire episode of ‘Media Watch’ is entertaining, as the mighty intellects at Sky get exactly the wrong perspective on their issue.
Reminder - among the many signs of Kroger’s supposed rising power and influence was his appointment to the ABC Board 1998-2003. I checked - he and the Dame did not serve on that Board at the same time. Her term started in 2005.
What can anyone know with any certainty VC, except that if Dame Slap scribbles it, there will be many questions and few reliable answers ... but really Chadders, did we have to be Krogered? The pond is easily triggered these days ...
DeleteI may have mentioned before how charmed I am by the reptile practices of projection and transference. May I remind about those things:
ReplyDelete"In context the difference between projection and transference is that projection is (psychology) a belief or assumption that others have similar thoughts and experiences as oneself while transference is (psychology) the process by which emotions and desires, originally associated with one person, such as a parent, are unconsciously shifted to another."
https://wikidiff.com/projection/transference
Now, consider this pronouncement by the Slappy:
"For those who claim to be progressive, it's especially rich to watch how their politics has become a warped moral code. It acts like a cancer, slowly killing democracy by making no room for the presumption of innocence, due process and the rule of law."
Just the tiniest soupcon of projection and transference there, perhaps. But then, it seems to be de rigueur in Rupert Murdoch land.
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DeleteI would like to see the recent studies with the counterintuitive suggestions. “Hooves break up the soil, improving its texture and encouraging plant growth” .
ReplyDeleteHere is what the NSW DPI advises graziers: “
“The cattle hooves can sink up to 15 cm into the mud, causing pugging or compaction in the soil below. This significantly reduces pasture growth because the dense compacted soil layer restricts the movement of water, air and roots through the soil. The soil structure has in fact been destroyed in the compacted layer.”
Sometimes there is a place for Henderson-style pedantry.
Other studies suggest, counterintuitively, that the earth is flat, and 2 plus 2 is 5.
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