In which the pond serves up a late dose of Killer, in case there are no other soporifics to be found ...

 

 

 

 

 

 

To say the pond was underwhelmed by the Killer's offering this day is a profound understatement ... where was the Freudian fear of masks for starters?

So the pond marked down Killer's contribution, dumped him from the early morning outing, and slipped him into a late arvo slot where few would notice or be bothered to read ...

But how to spice up the offering? Perhaps a cartoon-led recovery, taking a look at all the best that's been going down in the United States ...

 

 

 

Better still, Chris Christie's book looks like being a major flop ...

And with that warm-up, it's on with Killer's komedy stylings ...

 

 

Indeed, indeed, but the pond isn't panicking, because the USA is in fine shape ... with a vigorous opposition ready to seize the reins of power and govern in style ...

 

And they've got their priorties in good shape ...

 

 

 

 Indeed, indeed, despite the odd quirk, the Killer finds much to admire in the mango Mussolini ...

 

Speaking of vulgar youff, one theme seemed to be running through the recent US cartooning community ... a celebration of the finest deeds of said youff ...

 

 

 

Yes, with vulgar youff on the streets and eager to help out, the country is in fine shape ... and the pond sees it's filibustered its way to a final short gobbet of Killer speak ...

 

 

The pond always expects Killer to end with a fatuous cliché, but the least the pond could do is go hunting for the original source, to come up with this here ... 

 

To which might be added, to be an employee of Chairman Rupert at twenty shows a charming addiction to getting by; to be a reptile at forty, in the Killer way, casts doubt on the soundness of his mind ... and thankfully the long absent lord will intervene so the pond won't ever discover what he'll be like at eighty ...

And so to wrap up, it has of course been turkey season of late, and it's also pleasing to see that there's still positive signs in relation to climate science ...

 

 

And now, thanks to a correspondent who provided a link to more in the saga of the oscillating fan, here, a goodly supply of tweets dealing with annony mouse topics ...

 

 

In which the pond takes an elaborate detour before sending in the Oreo, there must be Oreos, don't worry, they're here ...

 

 

 

 

Sorry, the pond just wanted to make sure it was still banned in Hong Kong, and as there's no money grubbing commercial interest involved, there's also a chance to mock the craven behaviour of the House of Mouse ...

The pond gave up on The Simpsons about series eleven, but still, to have an episode disappeared is something to see ... and it provided a neat segue into an opening line by the keen Keane in Crikey ... (paywall affected) ...

 

Not to mention the outrageous fully public, unpunished behaviour of the likes of gorgeous George and the lesser Kelly, and the shameless way that the reptiles keep on taking cash in the claw from Clive ...

They were at it again today ...

 

 

You don't need to be anonymous to demonstrate an absolute lack of shame,  while still over at Crikey, (paywall affected), Cam Wilson offered this tidy conclusion ...

 

Perhaps best of all in the rolling coverage was this note about the oscillating fan ...

 

 

A since deleted tweet? 

So that's what the new law is all about, making sure cackling geese can troll themselves in full public view ... and then hastily take it down (though it is in cache for anyone compelled to feel the need to look it up).

And in turn that public trolling of self led to some excellent public trolling, as the walls of Jericho came tumbling down ...

 

 

Indeed, indeed, and the pond hungers for the day when not a single reptile can reference an anonymous source, under pain of a North Korean firing squad (no more Squid Games please) ...

But wait, isn't this a blog dedicated to the reptiles?  Shouldn't someone send in the reptiles, there ought to be reptiles, is the pond losing its timing this late in its career ...?

Don't worry, they're here, it's just that the pond sometimes wants to take a walk in the park, feels the urge for non-reptile distractions, and perhaps experience the chance to play with other children ...

On with the news of the day at the top of the digital edition ...

 

 

In its stupidity, the pond was expecting a full-blooded denunciation by the reptiles of the knee-jerk border pause reaction, but Killer Creighton was on tedious US duty and instead there was a serve of simplistic Simon ...

 

 

Hang on, hang on, did someone mention a chance to treat a virus as a sordid chance to seize on a political opportunity?

Oh that's right, the bouffant one was yesterday celebrating the chance for Scotty from marketing to dance on a few more graves ...

 

 

 

 

Never mind, that's old news, and the serious opportunity has been seized, and we can wrap up this strand with another gobbet from simplistic Simon ...

 

 

What an excellent way to govern. No mention of integrity commissions! 

But at least the pond had a Rowe on hand to celebrate the discovery of OmniTron ... (a pond patented brand celebrating new forms of the virus crossed with the House of Mouse) ... with more Rowe here ...

 

 

 

 And so to the reformed, recovering feminist, now apparently to be regularly found on a Tuesday ...

 

Really reptiles? That's your graphic? 

What a wretched effort, no wonder there's no credit ... but there is that wonderful tag, noting that people who "believe in queer ideology" might get a gig in a faith school, which might come as a surprise to all the gays employed by the Catholic church ...

Yes, the pond's extended family gay priest must do a little overtime as a sterling example of gays working for the church ...

But now on with the Oreo, and as the pond has already covered this turf, it can be tossed off in a couple of gobbets ...

 

What's remarkable in all this is not so much the malarkey on view, but the way the reformed, recovered feminist seems to have fully recovered and now talks blithely of radical movements.

Oh it's a long and winding road from Women's Studies International Forum and Sexual pleasure as a human right (pdf) or this special edition celebrated at Scarlet Alliance, Australian Sex Workers Association ... including but not limited to ...

 

What grand company the Oreo once kept, and if you hunt around you can still discover hints of dangerous radicalism ...

 

 

 

But that was then, and this is now, and the pond isn't going to go over its old thesis that when you scratch a heavily radicalised communist, you're only a stone's throw away from a heavily radicalised capitalist, or if you will, a Jesuit from an atheist, or a devout preacher of feminist causes to a devout preacher of the rights of religious fundamentalists to damn every one to hell, and in the interim, make sure they experience a living hell on earth ...

 

Weird shit ... and the pond wonders if the Oreo should take the Wilcox test ...

 

 

 

Never mind, it was a fine trolling ... and the pond loves a bit of trolling ...

 

Xian trolls, you might wonder? Well yes, we have many fine examples of anonymous leaks by expert Xian trolls ...

 

 

 

In which the Caterist and the Major begin the week with the usual bout of distraction, derision and uglification ...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The reptiles reacted with a fair degree of panic this day, unnerved by the prospect of the nation not holding its nerve ...  both in the tree killer edition and in the reptiles' digital offering ...

 

 

 

 

How did the pond know that the reptiles were seriously alarmed? Why as soon as the lizard Oz's editorialist trotted out that famous Churchillian wartime injunction ...

 

 

 

 

The pond could sense the reptiles in panic, as wild-eyed as horses neighing, what with the election just around the corner, and another wave perhaps in the offing ...

What a fabulous history that wording has, and the pond urges anyone interested to just do a google to see what turns up ...

 

 

Ah, the pond notes that we were alert, but not alarmed, way back in January 2020 ... and didn't that work out well ...

But enough of alertness, and even alarm, and on with the daily reptile comedy, and what better way to start than with the inimitable comedy stylings of the government cash in the paw Caterist?

 

 

 

 

Have faith? Genuine room? What on earth is a genuine room?

 

Even before the pond began, it was reminded of a correspondent raising the matter of of lying, but lying is only one of the names that might be offered when it comes to politics ... there's dissembling, distraction, concealing, disguising, masking, veiling, feigning, masquerading, posturing, and of course, how could the pond forget, with the matter right to hand, Caterist bullshit ...

That dogwhistle about the screeching fundamentalism of Margaret Court shows where the Caterist is heading with this one ...

 

And there you have it ... it's perhaps not an overt act of lying, so much as dissembling, misrepresenting, and distracting (not to mention reeling, writhing, derision and uglification) ...

For an outside view on that, here's the BBC ...

 

And here's the Graudian ...

 

 

Yes, if you explain your ethos - a fear and loathing of poofters, and a detestation and a mocking and a casting into hellfire for all eternity - you can pretty much do anything you like.

And there's a giant truck you can drive through all the Caterist crap about employment and students, thanks to that exemption under sex discrimination laws ...

It's called faith ... in a genuine room full of genuine Leviticus lovers ...

Every so often the pond weighs up which reptile contributor it has the most contempt for, the reptile most capable of the most distortions, contortions and malicious misinterpretations, and the Caterist is always a leading contender ... but then you could expect nothing less of an expert in the movement of flood waters in quarries ...

It's true that he's just echoing his master's voice ... as you might expect of someone who routinely holds out his paw for federal government cash ... but still the lack of shame is remarkable, almost breathtaking, the sheer sublime insouciance with which it's done ...

 

It goes without saying that the Caterist isn't much interested in social justice. The Menzies Research Centre, after all, prefers government cash in the paw, and the Caterist himself is chiefly skilled in ambition, distraction, uglification and derision ...

The pond however can offer up a Rowe as a counterweight to contemptible Caterist tripe, with more Rowe offerings here ...

 

 

 

 

And so to the rest of the reptiles this day ...

 

 

 

What a desperate, wretched and sorry bunch, and so the pond was forced to resort to that old standby, Major Mitchell, still reporting for duty ... and this time standing by to help out a little mate ...

 

 

Ah, the Major's going to do a blurb for prattling Polonius's latest offering, but before we get going, could the pond just provide a different image of the Pellist at large?

 

It's always haunted the pond. It seems to sum up exactly and precisely what was wrong with the Catholic church's response when it discovered it had pedophile rats in its ranks ...

It goes without saying that the Catholic church wasn't alone in doing this, as a recent report about Tasmania noted, ABC here  ...

 

And so on. 

Moving offenders between schools was one thing, public and Catholic schools were both at that game, but that noted, doing a perp walk with a notorious perp was Pellism at its most pathetic ...

And so on with the Major, doing his own perp walk with a perp ...

Dear sweet long absent lord, and the pond thought that the Caterist was the master of dissembling and distraction ...

Co-mingling the Donald and Pellists is surely a remarkable feat ... and if the reptiles manage to fit in a click bait video comparing the mango Mussolini to Ronnie Raygun, it'll be a total victory for Major nonsense ...

 

And yet, and yet ... images don't lie, nor do they involve reports of direct speech, so much as direct deeds captured in a moment ...

 

 

 

 

The pond spent many years covering the Pellists and their love of frocks, while hearing the odd tale about gay times and gay doings in the Pell ranks, admittedly from the gay priest in the extended family who exuded a fair old contempt for Pellism ...

But back to the Major doing a fair old bout of both siderism, or more to the point, one siderism in favour of his Polonial mate ...

Another click bait video? With the caption that it's a dangerous lie to propose that Trump supported white supremacists?

Oh in a way, perhaps, but there were good people, fine people, on both sides, and next time you hear a mob chanting "the Jews will not replace us", remember, they're just fine, good people expressing a view ...

Sorry, the pond just had to take a break from the Major, and now there's just one gobbet of derision, uglification and distraction to go ...

 

Um, might the pond suggest that the shameful stories of pedophiles in the Catholic church were true, and that the Catholic church's response was woeful and appalling, and leading that response was a man who showed his true colours in a snap,  lurking to one side, but still brazenly out there in public, supporting the insupportable ...

 

And as for all that blather about the mango Mussolini, with the Major doing his best for Trumpism ... please allow the pond to correct the record with an old TT cartoon ...