The pond thought it might spend a traditional quiet Sunday with old favourites, with prattling Polonius setting the tone ...
Sorry, it's a bit early for a cartoon, but the pond needed some relief, because astonishingly, in the course of the read, while trying to cancel sundry other thoughts and opinions, Polonius resorted to the tired cliché of "cancel culture". It was as if Fox News had finally taken over the Sydney Institute ... but first the usual history lesson ...
It goes without saying that Polonius will have none of that nonsense ...
... and so to Polonius trotting out "cancel culture" while busily trying to cancel the thoughts of others that might disagree with him ...
Some might consider it passing strange that in this history lesson Polonius feels no need to mention Benny or his motives, or sundry other matters on the Israeli side, but that's what happens when you're intent on cancelling any real discussion ...
There's a chance of some two-state solution while Benny is pulling the strings? The settlers will be stopped? The evictions will cease? There will be a fair and just two state solution, as opposed to gulags and apartheid? Please, pull the other one ...
And so to the next selection, and here the pond faced a real dilemma, because it simply couldn't go with Dame Slap ...
The pond only glimpsed a bit of the Seven interview courtesy samples provided by Media Bites, Charlie Pickering etc, and quickly realised you can't stop tone deaf actors wanting to perform, while being tone deaf ... no need to add to that train wreck. No need to join Dame Slap in blaming the ABC, when somebody should have whispered a word to Seven and to the pair who thought bunging on a performance was the solution ...
No, the pond would have to revert to an old reptile favourite ...
You see, the pond is on a dollar for each time it sights Bjorn suggesting that the only solution to climate change is to spend more on green innovation ... and so far it's doing better than speculators in Dogecoin ...
There's nothing like Bjorn droning away, repeating himself endlessly, downplaying the science and the impact, blathering about undermining demoracy, before the real fear comes out, courtesy of a reptile snap of Greta looking like Jeanne d'Arc ...
You see? Even the reptiles get it, even the reptiles are compelled!
The Bjorn-again man has been displaced by a teenager. How cruel is that? How unfair!? And there's nothing the Bjorn-again man can do, except add to the pond's fortune by mentioning for the zillionth time how his solution is to spend more on green innovation ...
Ah green innovation. What a solution. Luckily we've got that covered down under, thanks to beefy Angus and SloMo, as celebrated by Jon Kudelka at the Saturday Paper here ...
Polonius needs to check historical facts before he drones on with yet another faulty history lesson.
ReplyDeleteThe tedious pedant says Israel has signed a Peace Agreement with Egypt and has been at relative peace with Jordon.
You think the nitpicker extraordinaire would know Israel and Jordon signed a Peace Treaty and established mutual Diplomatic Relations on 26 October 1994, something a damn sight more than "at relative peace".
He also fails to mention that Egypt and Israel recognise each other and have Ambassadors to each other.
Angus le Boeuf: "the wind doesn't always blow". Obviously never heard of the East Gippsland coast, has he. The only times the East Gippsland coast isn't subject to a 'strong winds' meteorological warning, is when it is subject to a 'gale winds' warning. But honestly, do these dumbkins not understand that the Earth's atmosphere is never still ? That the higher you go, the more regular and stronger the wind gets ? And that it's generally strongest and most regular above the sea and ocean (see Coast, East Gippsland and Sark, Cuttty) ? Which is why wind turbines stand so high and so many of them are out at sea.
ReplyDeleteSo then to Bjorn Lomborgless: "...Biden's new promise will at best reduce global warming by 0.04C by the end of the century." But hey, Bjorgy, at least it won't be increasing global warming - do you get that small distinction ?
Bjorn again: "Why shouldn't thousands of other special interests bypass democracy and appeal directly to the courts to deliver their preferred outcome."
Funny, I thought that appealing to the democratically appointed courts to rule on democratically passed laws was actually involving democracy. And that "special interests" appeal to the courts in a never-ending parade to get their preferred outcome delivered. So when, exactly, did that become "bypassing democracy" ?
Que ? "Despite climate change, young people's lives worldwide will be vastly better in 2100. In the UN's scenarios for the 21st century, people will live longer, be better educated and have more resources available to enjoy life while tackling unforeseeable and foreseeable challenges, including climate change."
Right, so there we have it: the temperature won't rise significantly, and neither will the oceans. There won't be any species extinctions except for the ones we want to bring about. Yay ! Paradise on earth at last, and all because Bjorn talked us out of doing anything about climate change.
(OK - see if this will be accepted)
ReplyDeleteYes, GB - I was puzzling over Bjorn's problem with courts 'undermining' democracy. Then I recalled that his known formal qualifications are in political science. When you have a hammer in your hand - problems tend to look like nails.
and - if you were feeling isolated yesterday - it had been difficult to get comment up, even with the Fiery Fox.
Ah yes, hammers need nails and nails call for hammers, and what a fine ecology that is.
DeleteYeah, there's days like that on the pond now and then - haven't had so many for a while. But then, when I apparently get no reaction, I'm never sure that it isn't just that I've left people mute - with rabid agreement, of course, not the other thing.