It certainly pleased the pond, always looking for non-reptile ways to start the day ...
The pond thanks its correspondent for the joke ...and no doubt reformed, recovering feminists of the Oreo kind will be delighted by its sauciness.
And so, as Waugh might write, "feather-footed through the plushy fen of reptile stew passes the questing vole", with the pond still haunted by that poll ... Axios here, the full poll here ...
How fucked is the GOP? How fucked is the United States? What splendid paranoid riches Faux Noise and the Murdochians have bestowed on the country ...
And so to the reptiles, and what a disappointing lot were on hand this day ...
Mathias back from the dead, and speaking of how market-based economic principles would sort out climate science?
Some piece of piece-work about the rag trade, sounding far too woke for the reptiles?
Talk about the big pull out, and China's hegemonic ambitions, as opposed to invading a country and then leaving it a complete mess?
An indignant crow eater, agitated about being blamed for what they managed to fuck up?
How unfair is that, and an echo of a day-old piece served up in a previous triptych of terror in the lizard Oz ...
Poor reheated Penbo, poor plunging Ben, and how funny it is to see the reptiles mock the pious and piety.
Once upon a time, a reptile would doff the hat in the direction of Xian piety, but given all the carry-on at Hillsong, as reported in Crikey, it must be hard ... (sorry, paywall affected, but worth a read for the base comedy of clap happy sordid carry ons_.
And so to the pond trying to make the best of a bad hand, and thinking about going misère, but instead settling for a round with "Ned", while noting that the reptile columnists have been eerily and strangely silent about Xian Porter ...
Oh sure, the Xian crusade carries on in the news pages, but that's hardly the reptile spirit of things ...
More of Dame Slap anon ... even worse, the dominant story was of a failed reptile love ...
Barners deployed? Sorry Jacinta, sometime reptile favourite, it's off to the neddies with "Ned" ...
Melburnians must be tired and full of quiet despair, but the pond also suffers, because "Ned" scribbling is surely in one of Dante's outer rings of hell ...
As might be expected, in proper reptile style, "Ned" opens with nary a mention of the crow eater hotel quarantine bungle, the cause of all that's currently going down ...
The assault is sordid? How about the inept incompetence being sordid? Never mind, on we go ...
Does anybody imagine this sort of accounting will endear itself to Victorians? When you go "for the record", everyone knows you're flailing about like a prize loon ... but luckily this bout of "Ned" flailing has only one gobbet to go ...
Note how astutely "Ned" held back that bit about the quarantine failure in South Australia to the third gobbet. He might have led with it, but what good would that have done?
He might even have provided some alternative comedy, a little quiet relief, what with gorgeous George out and about on the Xian Porter matter, and Joel always on hand for a laugh about a cult ...
... but it's a grim day for the pond, and things got even grimmer when Dame Slap and her talk of activist judges hovered into view ...
Where's Dame Groan when she's needed? Come to think of it, where's Xian Porter? Off in another place, it turns out ...
So what attracted Dame Slap's attention instead?
Oh to be fair to Dame Slap, it does take her back to the good old days, when she fellow travelled with "Lord" Monckton, and scribbled furious warnings about the UN using climate science to establish world government by Xmas.
It's only a pond delusion to think that she might have shed that snake skin, and thought a little bit more about climate science, and even done a Maude Flanders, and shouted to the clouds "won't someone think of the children ..."
Heaven forfend! The very notion that Australian citizens carrying Australian passports have a right to return to Australia had the pond rolling Jaffas down the aisle in consternation ...
What next? Send Australian citizens to Kiwi land? Why this whole notion of Australian citizens having rights is a very slippery slope, and the pond has no idea where it all might end, but it's certainly nothing to agitate an IPA chairman ...
Never mind, there was only a little Slapping to go ...
Yes, we'll all be the poorer for it. What, climate science advising us that we're fucking the planet right royally?
Of course not, who would mention such a thing in Dame Slap's presence? The spirit of "Lord" Monckton lives on, and don't expect Dame Slap to scribble suffer the little children to come under her ... they can just bloody suffer, all right, safely suffering off in the future, and if the entire planet goes down, so much the better for the IPA chairman ...
Sure, we the people will be a whole lot poorer, what with rising seas, scarcer resources, difficulties producing food, yadda yadda, but worry not for the IPA mob ... they'll always have a Gina grant to help keep on keeping on, and a generous lump of coal in their Xmas stocking, and what more could anyone want ...
And so to the Rowe of the day, with more Rowe as usual here ...
"How fucked is the GOP? How fucked is the United States?"
ReplyDeleteOh, about as fucked as H Sapiens Saps has always been, I reckon DP. After all, just think about the QAnon types back about 3000 years ago, who accepted nonsense about having been 'exodussed' from Egypt then being handed a further bunch of nonsense on Mt Sinai that supposedly came from some invisible friend who created the universe in a week just to relieve "his" boredom.
Now tell me that isn't at least as silly and as disconnected from reality as anything QAnon ever came up with. And it's believed by many more - now and throughout millenia of history - than QAnon could ever claim. But good to see that the modern conspiracies are now usurping the old traditional ones.
Ever wondered what an extrusive universe, and more, might look like from the perspective of straddling the surface of an underlying substrate? One tends to intuit that it's the sort of thing that's very likely well within the imagineering capacity of an average hand-axe-knapper, flint-striker, or stoner.
DeleteErrr, no, Anony, not even once have I wondered that. But who knows ... one of these days, maybe.
DeleteFurther to yesterday's discussion regarding lab leak conspiracies
ReplyDeletehttps://www.smh.com.au/national/are-we-ignoring-the-hard-truths-about-the-most-likely-cause-of-covid-19-20210601-p57x4r.html?btis
“It takes focus away from the fact that the drivers of zoonotic spillover are human-induced environmental changes, and that needs to be addressed. I am concerned that an increased belief that the virus originated in a lab further detracts from the real and urgent need to enact preventative laws and policies.”
Warning: the last time (SARS-CoV-1 ?) it took the scientists 15 years to find the source: a bunch of bats in an outback cave. Is there any reason to think it will be any quicker this time ?
Delete"Journalism fell into a trap with the climate crisis. By balancing the arguments of scientists and deniers early on, the media gave the public a distorted view of the expert consensus."
That's not a "trap", that's just stock standard ignorant, biassed, lazy journalism that happens every time. Does Liam Mannix really think that what gets pushed out every day by the reptile press is them "falling for a trap" ?
Befuddled - 'New Scientist' has a useful article this week on coronaviruses of pets and other domesticated animals, which gives further useful perspective on the range of these bugs, and their known abilities to jump species and engage in all kinds of promiscuous exchanges.
DeleteIt is available, and, I think, downloadable, through 'Science Direct' at
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S026240792100926X
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DeleteThanks, very interesting.
DeleteSo much expertise out there but when I turn on the TV I usually find a journalist interviewing a politician, another journalist or a talking head from a 'think tank' - strange isn't it?
To me, the strangest part is that people pay good money to subscribe to the broadcast and print sources that endlessly recycle the many shades of conspiracy. But, then - there are 'women's magazines' at the check-out in the supermarket that simply make up stuff about 'celebrities' - and become impulse buys.
DeleteI confess to regularly reading the 'N.W Idea' Royals site - it's a diverting study in psycho-sociology. The way that lies, rumours and fantasies are cycled and recycled and varied and modified and repeated and contradicted is intriguing. Especially the way that the mag can print one story - frequently, but not exclusively, about Harry and Meghan - one week, then its reverse the next week and even occasionally in the same week.
DeleteA quite entertaining diversion for a very few hours of every week.
and while I am here - DP - thank you, and other contributor, for your lead item this day. Had me giggling uncontrollably for several minutes, with relapses. That is a good thing to happen on any day.
ReplyDeleteThe pond owes it all to the contributor. All the pond did was a bit of recycling. A little mulch and how the laughs grow, and it's true the pond laughed aloud and celebrated with the partner, who thought it vaguely sexist, but toujours gai, Archie, always toujours gai and what the hell ...
DeleteNow you couldn't have meant the pun on "cult", Chad, so you must have meant Nullius Ned's fine effort. Did you mean the very first paragraph ? Yep, that one had me rolling around in stitches too. Of course I'll roll around even more when, in two more days time, I will have passed 14 days since my first jab. Then I'll wait happily and hopefully to see if I can survive until my second shot scheduled for early August (Astra Zeneca, of course).
ReplyDeleteNeddles first para: "Australia's "leader of the pack" record on fighting Covid continues to falter as systemic mistakes by the Victorian government in policy and administration and by the Morrison government in the vaccination rollout and aged care undermine efforts to protect the public and the vulnerable."
But it really is "systemic mistakes by the Victorian government" isn't it; we should have just gone on with our ordinary lives, and learned to live with it. Or die with it. Or suffer extended periods of suffering with the "long version" of it. After all, that's what they would have done in Gladys's Covid paradise, isn't it. And looked for comparison to all those successful places - Taiwan, Vietnam, the UK - who are very clearly and successfully protecting the public.
Slappy's rant about Mordecai Bromberg's little bit of 'common law' hasn't really drawn much attention. And very deservedly so, since it's just part of "her" campaign against law, lawyers and the people who make use of their services. But anyway, Slappy serves up this: "It must be seductive creating new law. It sure beats the boring path of precedent. Any old judge can do that. When you craft new law, you get to play dazzling legal alchemist ..."
ReplyDeleteNow as far as I know, Common Law works this way: "Common law, also called Anglo-American law, the body of customary law, based upon judicial decisions and embodied in reports of decided cases, that has been administered by the common-law courts of England since the Middle Ages." So, Common Law is, in fact, created by the judgements of judges - how very strange.
Besides, as we all know, statute law supersedes common law, so if people don't like what "judges" may have decided, they can always petition their government to over-ride them. But I guess that saying so might just ruin Slappy's expostulation.
Embittered at aging, Dame Slap just wants the young 'uns to fry in future hell, and who can blame her? All this talk of precedent, when we should be talking of whether to use butter or olive oil for the frying ...
DeleteOh, no grandkids yet, then.
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