Thursday, April 08, 2021

In which the pond is plunged into an alternative reptile universe, bereft of the savvy Savva, full of bromancer and a keen Kean ...

 

 
 
 
 
The pond looked at the lizard Oz offerings early this morning with a despairing sense that something was wrong in the reptile universe ... something had interfered with the harmony and balance of the force.

Each Thursday, the pond obediently lines up, bowl in hand, for more savvy Savva gruel, with SloMo given a good porridging ... just look at this recent sampling ...


 

That's the way it should be, a stumbling, floundering PM always making bad things worse, what with rebounding scandals and holidaying leadership from the rear ...

Oh sure, there was the bromancer still keeping the war with China simmering, and sucker greenies and news from Tasmania, as if the pond cared for apples, but it wasn't right, and the sinking feeling turned into a black hole of despair when the pond turned to the top ...




 

Yes, there were damned 'leets ruining the y'artz for good yeoman Tamworth folk with a keen interest in Wagner - why haven't they put on a Ring cycle at the entertainment centre? - but even worse, the pond knew it had been lumbered with the bromancer patiently explaining how SloMo was good and just and right ...

 

 

What's the foreign editor doing scribbling about the vaccine? Well who better, because as usual it's all the fault of the nasty Europeans ... and with the naughty savvy Savva away, the bromancer can play ...


 

Absolutely clear eyed? 

Anyone with the memory of a gnat would be able to recall the first attempt by SloMo's mob to duck and weave. 

In those long ago days, it was all the fault of the states. But then the states refused to play patsy, as outlined in the ancient history section of the Graudian on 31st March, under the header NSW and Queensland premiers hit back after Morrison government blames states for slow Covid vaccine rollout ...

Inter alia a little bit of boxing as a blood sport...

...The Queensland Labor premier, Annastacia Palaszczuk, backed the NSW criticism, accusing the federal government of an “orchestrated attack against the states and territories”.
“It really is quite outrageous. I mean, God knows, they’ve got a lot to deflect from right now,” Palaszczuk said.
The agreement between the states and territories and the commonwealth leaves responsibility for 70% of the vaccination task with the federal government, Palaszczuk said. Like Hazzard, she said the state government was not regularly updated about supply.
“We need surety of supply by the federal government, and if the states are releasing their figures every day, I think that it is only fair, fair and reasonable, that the federal government releases its figures every day,” she said.
Miles, the state’s deputy premier, weighed in on Twitter, responding to comments made by Littleproud on Nine’s Today program on Wednesday. Littleproud said: “If the federal government hasn’t done their job, we deserve an uppercut. But let me say the states have been sitting on their hands, they’ve been too complacent. We are going to help the states but they have to admit they have a problem because they have done three fifths of bugger all and they are holding this nation back.”
Miles retorted that Littleproud should “give himself an uppercut”.

Clearly that wasn't going to fly, so a new villain was needed, and a patsy to write it up. Come on down, bromancer ...



 
Sheesh, it's just as well Killer Creighton isn't around to read this stuff, when everyone knows we are now in an Orwellian world where the baaing sheep are being stripped of their liberty ... but do go on, dispel the pond's fear that SloMo backed the wrong vaccine, talk of the risk, as doctors are wont to do before embarking on a procedure ...


 

 What to make of this reptile mixed messaging? One day Killer Creighton, the next day the bromancer ... and so much chaff producing so much bullshit ...

Is it any wonder that the pond turns to the reliable Rowe for a more interesting and timely view, with more reliable Rowe here ...




Speaking of arcane clocks and watches, the pond patiently kept waiting for the belated arrival of saviour savvy Savva ... but the reptiles know how to mind fuck the pond, which operates on an early morning deadline.

What to do? Well it was time to focus on a person "deemed of reptile interest."



 

This can be fatal, because being deemed of interest can quickly turn into a crusade, and before you can say Bornstein and muppet, or Yassmin Abdel-Magied or Christine Holgate, you're off to cruel exile ...

So it was with a heavy heart that the pond pinned the label "deemed of reptile interest" on the next victim, though he really already selected himself with his Malware follies ...

 

 
 
 
This is not where the pond wanted to be, and clearly the reptiles knew it, because there was a flurry of beguiling links just after the story started which the pond felt the need to remove, leaving a white void after only a few lines ...
 

 

Indeed, indeed, shockingly poor form, though the pond still misses the savvy Savva and must settle for a Rowe reminder ... it being fucking normal to head off to Hawaii ...

 


 

As for the reptiles, they were taking it all so seriously they offered up a breakout splash, with bonus timeline ...

 



 

All well and good, but the pond knew that at some point or another, we would have to get around to talking about the keen Kean and koal ... dinkum, clean, pure, innocent, sweet virginal Oz coal, oi, oi, oi ...


 

Yes, yes, the Malware follies, but is the keen Kean a koal lover?



 

Oh there it is, what a relief, a mountain of the lovely stuff, and keen climate scientist Kean supports dinkum coal, and has no time for that NIMBY upper Hunter squatter ...

What a pity that's a screen cap, and the pond only left it in to cop a view of that lovely black gold ...

Meanwhile, there was a lot more to come, what with talk of climate change activism, but the pond knew it didn't matter. He supported coal, and the reptile world was made safe, a bit like Joel ...



 

Now on with the activism ...


Dear sweet long absent lord, how foolish of the pond to expect actual climate science or talk of global warming to turn up ... instead we got a familiar serve of a kind on view elsewhere in the party ...

 



 

Never mind, a couple of gobbets and the pond will be done ... as the burning bush becomes a person of interest and dances close to the reptile flames ...


 
 
What the fuck? Climate activism suddenly turned into Days of our Lives? Never mind, just a gobbet of this tosh to go ...
 
 


 

Oh it's cruel, being an unplayable screen cap and all, but the pond just had to leave in that image of a beaming Malware ... smirking at what he'd done to the NBN, using hand gestures to indicate the size of the fucking ...

What a note to end on, and what a relief that there was three fifths of fuck all about climate change or climate science, but we ended up learning that Kean was keen on dinkum koal ...

And now for those who like to sing along with a song, the infallible Pope has devised a fabulous musical ...



 

Anyone wanting to pitch the infallible Pope a few tunes for the show can get their inspiration from the headlines ...



10 comments:

  1. The Bromancer regarding domestic manufacture of vaccines "At the time Morrison and Health Minister Greg Hunt decided to do this, industry and conventional wisdom was against it."

    Now I know I don't always pay attention the way I should but I don't recall any opposition to local manufacture. It does, however, sound like the sort of 'market forces' tosh peddled in the Oz.

    If you are not chained to the neoliberal model you might operate in a different way:

    https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/latamcaribbean/2021/03/31/cubas-five-covid-19-vaccines-the-full-story-on-soberana-01-02-plus-abdala-and-mambisa/

    "Cuba’s biotech sector is unique. It is entirely state-owned and free of private interests, with innovation channelled to meet public health needs and no profit-seeking in the domestic market. Dozens of research and development institutions collaborate, sharing resources and knowledge instead of competing, which facilitates a fast track from research and innovation to trials and application."

    None of the current problems were unforeseeable, it was just Smirko's political decision to make a bold announcement that has caused the current blow-up. Another exploding cigar.

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    1. Thanks Befuddled. Once upon a time we had the Commonwealth Serum Laboratories. Now we don't, see "More privatisation myopia - Commonwealth Serum Laboratories" by Bill Mitchell http://bilbo.economicoutlook.net/blog/?p=47110

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    2. Thanks Joe.

      Even people of more conservative persuasion that I know acknowledge privatisation is a crock but it doesn't matter because the high priesthood accept it as an article of faith that it is a good thing. And what a serviceable belief it is if you profit directly or indirectly from the proceeds.

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  2. Dorothy - My Source tells me that that ‘fearless reporter of all sides of the environment debate’ (to quote his bio.) Graham Lloyd has made another amazing discovery. Well, he has found a paper that, he claims, reveals an amazing discovery, and has revealed it, in turn, in this day’s Flagship.

    The Source sent me some of the words, mainly because she admires Lloydy’s way with words. In particular, to quote Lloydy, and not the authors of the paper ‘the findings add to the belief by some scientists that solar activity, including sunspots and cosmic rays, has a much greater impact on Earth’s climate than thought.’

    Now - it is unexceptional to believe that ‘solar activity’ has great impact on Earth’s climate, but insinuating ‘including sunspots and cosmic rays’ is quite a stretch.

    Of course, his does play to the readership of Limited News. Somewhat to the merriment of The Source, many comments cited Inigo Jones and his long-range weather forecasts derived, in the view of those sending in comments - from observations of sunspots. I believe in many cases it was not so much what the person sending in the comment understood of Jones’ predictions, but ‘My Dad swore by them.’

    Fortunately, there is a readily-accessible comment from the lead author, setting out in simple form what they found, why it might be useful, and - what not to interpolate.

    https://news.umbc.edu/meet-the-terminator-umbc-led-research-connects-solar-cycle-with-climate-predictions-in-a-new-way/

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    1. You mean - "Leamon acknowledges a concern that some people will try to use his study as evidence that climate change is caused by the Sun, not humans. That argument has long been made by deniers of human-caused climate change. But Leamon is clear that it misinterprets his findings"?

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    2. Which seems not to have registered with our 'fearless reporter', Befuddled. One pleasant discovery was that the original paper is readily available through the link on the UMBC news site. Too often, these days, I run up against publisher paywalls.

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    3. But, butt Bef, of course climate change is due to the sun; if there was no sun, there'd be no climate to change.

      However, this sunspot/cosmic rays/solar activity stuff has been around (including Inigo Jones in the Australian context) for at least two decades. And just in case anybody is in any doubt, cosmic rays have absolutely nothing to do with the sun - they are interstellar. But massive solar flares - as we get from time to time - can certainly affect Terran weather. But note that's weather, not climate.

      Anyway, here's an article from Skepticalscience about the so-called 'Svensmark effect' dating from 1998:
      https://skepticalscience.com/cosmic-rays-and-global-warming-advanced.htm

      And here's a Scientific American article from 2009:
      https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/sun-spots-and-climate-change/

      Of course, when the Sun turns 'red giant' and absorbs the Earth, there will no longer be any climate to be affected. Don't worry though, the increase in the size and temperature of the sun will kill all life on the planet - though some may survive for a little longer deep in the planet - in about 1 billion years.

      So yes, eventually, the sun will completely change the climate - does that mean that Svensmark et al are right ?

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    4. Hmmm. "Based on continuously collected cosmic ray data from an observatory in Finland..." Nope. "Cosmic" rays are cosmic - ie interstellar. Whoever was reporting Leamon probably got that wrong.

      "The polarity of the Sun reverses direction each cycle." Now I did not know that - most interesting, The polarity of Earth changes over time too, but nowhere near that frequently.

      But anyway, Leamon is quite clear he isn't talking about climate, so why would Lloydie be the least bit interested ?

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    5. Oh please, be kind, be fair, Chadders. Not only has Lloydie saved the Amazon, each day at the lizard Oz he helps save the planet with his astonishing insights into climate science. Only he knows we must worship the Inca sun god, Inti, because surely he is the son of the sun ...

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  3. Hi DP. Maybe the infallible Pope could use this Rodgers and Hammerstein tune?

    The MP Pervert

    Hear if you will of an MP pervert
    Sleazy Andy, slimy Andy Lay-ay-ming
    Hid in the bushes while he looked up girl’s skirts
    Smutty Andy Lay-ay-ming

    Skolled down a beer while he did a handstand
    Drunken Andy, dumbo Andy Lay-ay-ming
    Gave half a mil to his mates in Queensland
    Dodgy Andy Lay-ay-ming

    Scott got wind of this behaviour
    Naughty Andy, silly Andy Lay-ay-ming
    “Attitude training – that will save ya!’’
    Stupid Scotty Morrison

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