Wednesday, October 06, 2021

In which nattering "Ned" and Dame Slap do their best for the Catholic Boys' Daily, while Killer cries freedumb yet again ...

 

 

 



 

Is it the right time for nattering "Ned" to indulge in a shocking dose of Vatican bashing? In the Catholic Boys' Daily of all places?

Clearly "Ned" is deeply troubled, and possibly a tad confused, in the usual "Ned" way, where dementia is always just around the corner ...

 


 

Splendid stuff, and the pond presumes that "Ned" was a little late in preparing his column, or he might have noted another issue in relation to the Vatican and the Catholic church, easily goggled or followed on Twitter - the pond regrets that, not being a user of Facebook, never having been a user of Facebook, it doesn't have the first clue about recent Facebook follies ...

 



 

200+k? 330k? Oh it's just a figure ...

Moving right along, it was with a great sigh of relief that the pond saw that "Ned's" velvet words had been turned into his dulcet tones ... though sadly the player has been emasculated in this screen cap, rendered as chaste as a priest in a tale by Boccaccio ...



 

 

The pond is left to wonder if "Ned's" voice quavered with indignation as he got agitated about "moral infamy", outraged at the behaviour of Chinese communists, yet not managing to mention the behaviour of priests in France ... or in all the other countries where the moral infamy has been notoriously infamous ...



 

 

What's so funny about this? "Ned" bleating about the authoritarianism of dictator Xi, apparently unaware that the Catholic church has always been a deeply authoritarian body, and in its day managed to find an accommodation with Mussolini, Adolf and in later times, the highly unsavory mango Mussolini, dangling the promise of control of women's bodies in front of their slavering lips ...

 

 


 

 

Of course there are more snaps than the pond could throw a stick at, but you catch the seig heiling drift and one will do, before moving on to "Ned's" last short gobbet ...

 


 

 

Indeed, indeed, follow the reptiles instead and bung on a war with China. But what's this? "Ned" has boldly declared that Taiwan is an independent country and that, as Hong Kong demonstrated, the notion of one country, two systems is an unseemly farce, and so we must organise a defence pact with the beleaguered democratic country forthwith? Stand boldly shoulder to shoulder with them, as we did for Hong Kong folk?

Sorry, it was just a passing pond dream, but, as the Catholic church's lickspittle authoritarian ways have slouched out into the open, what better way to continue than with an indignant Dame Slap, boldy defending the Opus Dei way of life, because when you're running a Ponzi scheme, you need devoted breeders to help stack up the bodies ...

 

 

 

 

The pond should warn that the reptiles decided Dame Slap was the right forum to insert all sorts of click bait videos, featuring and celebrating the fundamentalist tyke, and they remain in situ, though carefully neutered as screen caps ...

As for the rest, the notion that the onion muncher's willingness to accept a wafer as human flesh and wine as human blood, and do the cannibal thing on a Sunday had no influence on his politics is something you might only find peddled in the lizard Oz, Catholic daily edition, or perhaps Opus Dei ... but do carry on regardless, Dame Slap ...



 

Actually the pond would happily stoop to attack a political leader for being a Muslim, a Sikh or a Buddhist, should their religion influence their politics, as it clearly has with the very Trumpy Dom. When you've got the reptiles turning to Mark Latham to offer a defence, your shit must seriously stink ... (though to be fair, the pond should mention that your average zen Buddhist wouldn't see the point of being a political leader and so give up the chance for self-improvement, and would never need a Mark Latham to carry on like a pork chop) ...

As for the rest, the selective blindness of Dame Slap is remarkable, and the pond has to turn to the genuinely infallible Pope for a reminder of what Dame Slap and the rest of the reptiles have turned a blind eye to ...

 


 

But that's probably too hard for Dame Slap, much more at home frothing and foaming with faux indignation ... only for a little hoppity toad to emerge in the next gobbet ...

 


 

Forget Dame Slap's attempt at a little bible bashing, Elmer Gantry will always do it better, at least if Burt has the lead role, but did you note that sublime "think climate zealots who deride as deniers people who are curious about climate..."

 Suddenly her "Lord" Monckton ways and Dom's very Trumpy ways are just idle curiosity? Oh just give the pond a serve of horse paste, so it might all end now ...

And that reminds the pond it has a bone to pick with Keane of Crikey, who recently picked three who had done the most for climate science denialism in Australia. Naturally Clive made the cut, but then came these two ...

 


 

Really Keane of Crikey? No bonus points for pretending to be moving towards meaningful coverage of the need for climate action?

Really? ... while Dame Slap in her standard "Lord" Monckton, climate science will produce world government by Xmas way, blathers on about climate zealots and cancel culture and all the rest of the usual reptile talking points.

But while we're on a break, the pond does commend this Crikey note about the "Major", though the Major's piece turned to digital fish and chips wrappings last Monday ...



 

A nice observation, but now the pond must return to Dame Slap for a final gobbet, and (neutered) click bait video ...




 

 

Ah, the freedumb defence ... or at least freedumb to be a breeder and who knows, with any luck, a chance to let a killer virus do its thing ...

Well the pond could waste time building a Crikey-style critique, but that chant of freedumb reminded the pond that the Killer was also out and about this day ... and so room had to be made ...

 



 

Now the pond understands that Killer is haunted by Victoria, and comrade Dan, and being made to wear masks and such like, but really the pond should note that the reptiles have routinely been against a bill of rights.

The pond realises it only just left Dame Slap alone, howling at the moon, but here's a short-form howl on the matter of a bill of rights ...

 


 

Ah freedumb and activist judges and all that, but back to Killer crying for freedumb...


 

 

Indeed, indeed, and the pond should note that Killer himself was mentioned in despatches in a lizard Oz editorial on the matter ...




 

Yes, speaking of bricks in the wall, we don't need no lousy Bill of Rights, teachers cry freedumb and leave us alone, or not as the case may be ... just remember death is a form of freedumb, and the right to infect your neighbour and perhaps kill them is certainly more important than wearing a mask and acting like some Batman with a Freudian superhero complex ...

 


 

 

It so happens that a friend of the pond lost her mother last week to the virus. The infection wasn't readily verifiable, but the threat was very real for her, life-takingly real, despite being vaccinated. She was of an age, and Killer has long demonstrated that he doesn't much care if the elderly get taken out. What the fuck, just another day in the killing fields ...

But is there some good news, something to lift the spirits? Well, spoiler alert, the latest Killer outing actually comes in the form of a book, and no doubt will turn up one day, free for anyone with time to waste, in a street library.

Lately the pond's street library has been full of this kind of dangerous goods, and the pond has had to spend much time defusing them and removing them from sight, lest they create a different kind of pandemic ... (it's tricky work, this defusing of bombs, and occasionally the pond feels like it's in the opening sequences of The Hurt Locker).

This was the latest bomb ...

 



 

Now it's true that one came from Melbourne Uni press, and is the sort of tosh you might expect from a libertarian seeking a refuge from the IPA in a cushy university job ... and it's true that Berg only ended up at RMIT ... but perhaps some day, Killer's noble work for Connor Court might see him end up in the Woop Woop Institute of Technology, peddling libertarian freedumb and a bill of rights to his students ...

For now ... last gobbets, gentlemen, please ...


 

Ah, climate change ... and so the virtuous circle is complete, and so the pond can turn to Rowe to sum up the day's proceedings ...

And here the pond should why it always refers to Rowe's Twitter account here ...

Well the cartoons arrive a little late there, but that's fair to the AFR, which keeps him in work ... and when they arrive, there's usually a tag attached, such as "let us prey" ...

 




 

And the tag always resonates with the cartoon at hand ... because after today's proceedings, what else is there to do, but prey for a muzzled hound, while the reptiles cry freedumb?

 




 


 

15 comments:

  1. "200+k? 330k? Oh it's just a figure ..."

    Yeah, 200+k by priests and other churchies, 330k if you add in all the lay offences too. Good to see just how productive the ordained are in practising their 'opus dei'.

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    1. I wonder how those who believe in institutional religion, and there's plenty of them at the Catholic Boys Daily, deal with these periodic confrontations with history. Do they just slip it into some mental wastepaper basket, deny its true or rationalise it in some unstated way?


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    2. "Don't say it in front of the children" perhaps ?

      The thing is, Bef, that quite frequently the parents are involved in maintaining the deception. After all, a priest wouldn't do that ! So what about all the sports coaches - swimming, gymnastics etc - who, though not priests, did much the same, but nobody spoke up for decades - or if they did, they were smartly silenced.

      Is it just a case of their subconscious saying "if I admit that, then I'd have to do something about it - better to stay silent." So it's remarkable how there can be all sorts of "dobbing" on the one hand, and silence on the other.

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    3. All that is true but I was thinking more about the way people who love institution/social hierarchy respond when really damning evidence of how it all works comes to light.

      All the small omissions and selective blindness allow it to happen but the institutions (church and others) work very hard to protect the in-group.

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    4. Of which a prime example is the pustulant Polonius: happy to defend Cardinal Pell until the sun goes nova, but never no mention of the appalling 'Melbourne Response'. If I never mention it, then it never really happened.

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  2. Nullius Ned: "Sorondo said 'the central value in China is work, work, work' ..." Oh yes indeed, the (in)famous 9-9-6 work plan: 9am to 9pm 6 days a week.

    But just in passing, surely this is simply an instance of the belief that while secular authorities come and go, the Church is forever. So if the Catholic Church in China defied Xi, it would be crushed and any survivors driven out of China for all time. But soon even Xi, like Mao and Deng, will be at most just a faded memory and the Church will re-emerge victorious and the first Chinese Pope will be appointed. Might take a few thousand years, but hey, God's got forever.

    After all, God is eternal, you know, and apparently in no hurry at all to declare the Day of the Rhapsody - for all we know, that could be billions of years away - there must be a lot of heathens out there in the universe that God wants his Church to find and convert.

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    1. "Might take a few thousand years, but hey, God's got forever."

      Imagine how many saints they'd create in that time, GB!

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    2. Enough to repopulate the Earth, you reckon Merc ? Oh no, sorry, they're celibate aren't they and the majority of them can't get pregnant anyway.

      Unless, like a virus, we have a mutant variant or two which can be impregnated by the Holy Ghost.

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    3. Mercurial, no doubt the spaceships necessary to colonise other planets would all carry relics of Saint Leibowitz.

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    4. As in "A canticle for ..." Chad ?

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    5. Absolutely, GB - in the best traditions of The Church in the earlier ages of exploration.

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  3. Dame Slap: "How did Abbott's Catholicism influence the nation when he was prime minister? He abstained from voting on same-sex marriage in parliament ... Our own handmaid's Tale featuring Abbott."

    How ? Like maybe his rampant masculinism and misogyny ? But let us not forget that Abbott's major Catholic success actually came when he was Minister for Health: the banning of RU-486 (with more than a little help from that other misogynist, Brian Harridine).

    "DAVID BANNERMAN: The Federal Health Minister Tony Abbott says he will not approve the use of the abortion pill RU-486 in Australia.
    Mr Abbott has told PM he's received advice from the Chief Medical Officer that RU-486 has a higher rate of 'later adverse events' that could require urgent intervention, than surgical termination.
    The Australian Democrats, though, have accused Health Minister Tony Abbott of skewing information about the abortion pill to support his own religious position.
    And the Australian Medical Association says that the Health Department advice on RU486 that Tony Abbott released today is plain wrong and ignores international research on the subject.
    The AMA also says that the drug will now continue to be denied to Australian women for political reasons
    ."
    https://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2005/s1507408.htm

    It did get legalised eventually though; patience is a virtue.

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    1. Slappy writes: "(Abbott) abstained from voting on same-sex marriage in parliament because he said he did not want to stand in the way of the plebiscite vote that supported that important reform."

      What crap! The only way marriage equality was going to happen was if MPs heeded the result of the plebsicite and voted accordingly. Abstaining is precisely standing in the way.

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  4. Killer C opines this: "In those countries that avoided harsh prolonged lockdowns, such as Sweden Japan and the US, constitutional rules were a significant factor."

    Ok, so just for the sake of it, the obvious comparisons:

    Country Cases Deaths Population
    Sweden: 1,153,655 14,868 10,173,028
    Japan: ...1,705,046 17,730 125,470,000
    US: ......43,910,849 706,114 332,915,073
    Australia: 107,171 1,307 25,788,215

    If Australia had the same rate of death as:
    Sweden: 37,689
    Japan: 3644
    US: 54,697

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  5. Hi Dorothy,

    Not very relevant but a bit of comedy gold as Sharri (as always spruiking her output) inadvertently exposes the Tangerine Tyrant to his most feared Kryptonite.

    https://twitter.com/cameronwilson/status/1445577958777782279?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1445577958777782279%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Faustralia-news%2Flive%2F2021%2Foct%2F06%2Faustralia-news-live-update-victoria-covid-cases-nsw-vaccination-target-perrottet-andrews-palaszczuk%3Fpage%3Dwith3Ablock-615d152f8f08dea16b52d22a

    DiddyWrote

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