First the pond must give a token nod to the news of the day, and trouble at mill ... and the pond isn't even talking about the bald faced liar lying about his holiday junket ...
Rather, it seems that if you embrace freedumb loons, the loons will chant freedumb right back at you ...
Oh indeed, indeedy do, the freedumb man let loose a heap of snakes, including a few reptiles at the lizard Oz, and the tree killer edition also had to pay attention ...
More of the freedumb reptiles later, as the pond turns to the bromancer for consolation, comfort and security ...
Ah, the pond should have seen what's coming, as celebrated in that click bait video inserted as a distraction from the bromancer's blather.
The return of the third runway. and planes roaring overhead every five minutes, and the bromancer rubbing his hands with glee, as discarded or burnt up Avgas once again filled the pond's nostrils ...
Things then took a strange turn. With the greatest respect to JM, the pond's lone, brave correspondent from the United States, the bromancer turned to the United States as a model. Perhaps if the pond wanted vigilantism, and killer vigilantes armed to the teeth, roaming the streets or sitting in Congress, it might do the same, but perhaps not ...
In the meantime, never mind the nonsense of climate science, it's growth all the way, because the bromancer knows full well the bigger the cock, the bigger the man ...
Another click bait video, and the threat of more planes, and meanwhile, it's populate or perish, because ten billion people on the planet is surely not enough, and we must surely aim for twenty billion ... and that'll larn ya, climate science ... we'll be ever so secure, like warm little bugs in a bromancer bed ...
And then came a further surprise ... the Oreo on a Tuesday? No groaning, but a little weight-adding Oreo?
The reformed, recovering feminist used to be on a Monday, and the pond supposes that technically 11 pm is still Monday. But in the pond's sense of how a clock runs, she'd been held over, and given a Tuesday run instead of a decent groaning.
It made the pond feel deeply uneasy ... only to be swiftly bored ...
Small business must have tools? Has the Oreo gone mad, or perhaps returned to her anarcho-syndicalist feminist roots?
Doesn't she realise the solution is can do capitalism, and certainly doesn't involve can't do government.
Oh wait, pond presses finger to ear, mocking old style earpiece reporting, this just in from Bernard Keane, as keen as mustard four days ago in Crikey ...
Well that was fun, and a reminder that you shouldn't turn to tools for can do government tools ...
But now it's on with the reformed, recovering feminist's obsession with tools ...
Yes, yes, all that and more, and the pond is pleased to hear about South Australia, but as crow eaters know, eastern staters like the pond really have no interest in them, and mock the great aunts under the wisteria on the verandah, and so on and so ...but what about the tools? Where are the tools? There must be tools! Send in the tools ...
Funny or sad really, as you like it. The Oreo seems to have gone full Adelaide, full crow eater, and apparently the wretches are unaware of how things work in states with a Liberal government. In NSW, you produce your evidence of your vaccine status, via phone or print out, and move on ...
It takes no more than a nanosecond, and the pond is aware of at least one privacy commissioner happy to have privacy invaded for the purpose of getting on with life ... the pond supped with them, and getting into the restaurant took but a passing glance ...
As for crying out for can do government, the Oreo has missed the boat. Somebody give her a hose to hold ...
And now the pond has saved the best treat for last, naturally featuring the weakest, the most contemptible, the most vile and loathsome of the reptiles. (The pond understands that the Caterist also speaks well of the pond).
When it comes to freedumb, of course the dumbest reptile would be joining in the chant ... and rioting, if only symbolically, in his column ...
Now the pond could argue with the Caterist in approved above the Berrimah line style...
But the Caterist is too much of a fuckwit to understand a kind, amiable and mild suggestion to shove it where the sun doesn't shine, so instead the pond thought it might offer a pleasant distraction with a few cartoons ...
How about a Wilcox?
Yes and seat belts and stop signs and double lines and parking meters and car park tickets and so on and so endlessly forth, and no doubt the Caterist would like to zoom through red lights and drive on the wrong side of the road, crying freedumb and libery ...
And so back to the fuckwitted loons and the Caterist crying out for freedumb ...
An idiot talking of idiocy? A man who couldn't even work out the movement of flood waters in quarries, yet admittedly has a keen awareness of how to hold out a paw and get some government cash? Like a rat with a certain rat cunning ...
There was only thing to do, issue an urgent prayer to the infallible Pope for a little inspiration ...
Dear sweet long absent lord that's good, and the pond took a moment to think of the dear sweet outside toilet the pond has that backs on to the lane where once upon a time shit carters did their duty and carted away the shit in the cause of public good ...
Meanwhile, alas and alack, there's no one to cart away the Caterist, doing his standard Comrade Dan bashing routine, as the Caterist stands with the loons so ably illustrated by the infallible Pope ...
Here's a tip to the Caterist. Standing with rioting freedumb loons isn't the best look, not when you have your paw in the federal government till, and bashing comrade Dan is now a very old and ancient routine ...
In the old days, genuine conservatives would have deplored the sort of fuck-witted behaviour on recent display, but the Caterist isn't a conservative as Ming the merciless would have understood it ...
But why should the pond bother to argue with a fuckwit? Better just to end with an immortal Rowe, with the hunt for immortality always on hand here ...
Yes, the pond will go with that amendment, because truth to tell, the pond would likely have been struck blind or at least dumb if Rowe had stayed closer to his inspiration ...
Here we go again; the Bromancer: "Despite crowded areas in some of out cities..." Some of our cities ? Try Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane: 12.67 million in total out of Australia's population of 25.69 million = 49.3%. Just short of half of Australia's total population lives in three cities ! And guess what: there's a distinct shortage of affordable housing in all of those cities. Yeah, bring 'em in by the million, we can afford a lot of tents. Continuing: "...and poor transport infrastructure ..." Yeah, and a shortage of hospitals, schools, aged care establishments and ...
ReplyDeleteAnd on again: "... and overly centralised employment clusters within our big cities..." Yeah and the excessive commute time between work and home that our overly spread out cities impose on people now. Onwards: "... we are a radically under-populated nation - a land mass the size of the US, a population the size of Taiwan." Ok, so let's fix that, let's bring our population up to 165 million - half of the official US population. At a migration rate of 2 million per year (plus about 150,000 home births per year, but increasing), that should only take about 50-something years from now.
And just think how nearly all of them will be employed building houses, schools, libraries, shopping centres, entertainment centres, hospitals, roads, railways, airports, ship ports, petrol service stations (until we go EV in 20 or so years). Yep, just think what that will do to GDP. Only one question: with so many migrants, what will become Australia's official language ? English will be seriously drowned out by other languages in about 20 years at most into the future. And how will we teach them all cricket, ruggers (both kinds) and Aussie Rules - or are they all gone too ?
And lastly, how much food will we have to import to feed them all ? Australia is only a significant food exporter because our population is small. And what will that do to the deficits ? And to the environment.
Nah, the Bro doesn't think that way. At 30 million population, each man woman and child will be tasked with defending their own 25.64 hectares (you better check my maths). That should discourage any latter day Zheng He from invading whenever it is that they build all the boats.
DeleteAs usual, I went through the cycle of 'lying or stupid?', considered that the Bro suffers from brain-worms acquired in his youth that he cannot get rid of, and the always present possibility that someone has got into his ear and overridden anything else that might have been in his head. Since it sounded like the 'populate or perish' tosh of my youth I assumed it was the brain-worm.
The thing is, the population has been distracted by, and sometimes fighting and dying for, fears that are largely imaginary (think domino theory). Along comes an actual existential threat in climate change and what do they do? Fall back on the same old rubbish.
What does history tell us happens when populations that are forced to migrate? I suspect the displaced populations in Asia will not be heading China's way, I also suspect our neighbours will not be too happy if we try to keep the drawbridge up when they are getting overrun.
Hmmm ... brainworms you reckon. But wouldn't they have eaten his whole brain by now ? Or have they ?
DeleteAs to your arithmetic, Bef, my calculation comes to the following:
769,200,000 hectares, 30 million Aussies (approx) = 25.64 hec per head thus you were spot on.
So you reckon the boats will be coming all over again? Or will the Asians - particularly the Indians and Chinese of whom there is an awful lot so that they could swamp Australia without even being missed back home; much as is already happening (but at least the Indians speak English and play cricket) - just come the modern way in aeroplanes at about a million a year each ? I'm too old to learn Hindi and celebrate Diwali.
But I will say that immigrants to Australia were already arriving in significant numbers by commercial aviation and just never leaving when those LNP goons were congratulating themselves for having "stopped the boats" and now that airline flights are on again, so that will be on again and will again be completely ignored by the Mutton and his Duttons.
Not this type
Deletehttps://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/11/16/tapeworm-man-brain-seizures-study/
More like ideas planted by his elders (was he trained by Jesuits?).
Forgot to mention some relevant statistics:
DeleteFor the year ending 30 June 2020:
There were over 7.6 million migrants living in Australia
29.8% of Australia's population were born overseas
Australia's population increased by 194,400 people due to net overseas migration
Nearly every single country from around the world was represented in Australia's population in 2020.
England (980,400) continued to be the largest group of overseas-born living in Australia. However, this decreased from just over a million, recorded throughout the period 2012 to 2016
Those born in India (721,000) were in second place, with an increase of 56,300 people
Chinese-born (650,600) fell to third place, with 17,300 fewer people
Those born in Australia (18.0 million) increased 211,400 during the year.
https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/people/population/migration-australia/latest-release
The Oreo: "The government should defang the health department or give clearer advice on vetting cusotmers and provide all businesses with a digital tool for it." On last Friday my partner and I wanted to eat lunch in a Mornington pub. Since neither of us own a QR capable phone, we each produced our printed certificate of full vaccination and our driving licence to prove it was ours.
ReplyDeleteLunch was fine.
Wilkinson Publishing would like us to know that, on November 2 2021, they released a book by Dr Kevin Donnelly - ‘Christianity is good for us’
DeleteAnd, wait for it, on December 1 they are releasing ‘The Canberry Tales’ by - Rowan Dean.
But they list, as a ‘Best Seller’ - ‘Cancel Culture and the left’s long march’; a collection of essays edited by - yes - Dr Kevin Donnelly, and released back on April 13 of this year. Which gets us to the point. One of the contributors to Donner’s most recent is the Oreo, doing a number, apparently, on Herbert Marcuse.
Donners has an odd grab-bag of miscellaneous citations up on ‘Quad Rant’ just now - promoting the book - and quotes the Oreo thus -
‘Marcuse “justified a new form of inequality that would be made manifest by censoring right-of-centre freethinkers”. Such examples include no-platforming speakers like Bettina Arndt and Germaine Greer, the ABC failing to employ conservative voices’
Well, she was hardly likely to praise Marcuse’ reflections on consumerism, was she? What else is the mass of men for, if not to produce to consume to etc., with ‘marketing’ to guide them to the form of consumption for which to insert their plastic card into the slot?
While the collection of essays is offered as a ‘Best Seller’ (no actual numbers, you understand) Wilkinson Publishing is offering three volumes by Donners, all to do with ‘Cancel Culture’ at a special job lot price. Seems he has needed several attempts at getting it right.
Anyway - add Wilkinson Publishing to Connor Court as a useful hazard indicator; books that may not be worth the time even to read the reviews.
Printed agitprop via Wilkinson and Connor just doesn't have the same power as live tv (as in Fox News) does it. And Sky is still struggling to get up to the same impact as the old Parrot Jones radio - which impact, as shown on various occasions, was far less than was widely believed by "the right wing".
DeleteAnd as to this 'righteous right' and 'lousy left' stuff, that's all very old hat now, isn't it. It all came from the French parliament as I recall - those sitting a gauche versus those sitting a droit. I notice in the Australian federal parliament it's Labor sitting on the speaker's right with the LNP on the left. Personally, though I consider myself a luke-warm humanist, I'd never call myself "left". Woke, maybe, but never left.
However, "deplatforming" Arndt and Greer isn't such a bad thing, is it ? Though surely nobody really takes any notice of them nowadays anyway, do they ?
Good one GB, and vital information Chadders, and with a bit of luck the reptiles will do an Xmas review of those most excellent offerings, and the pond can feature it, and Donners will be back in the pond fold where he belongs ...because has there ever been a better loon?
DeleteHere raves the Cater re the demo in Melbourne: "Attendance estimates are rubbery and memories are short but you would have to go back to February 1967 to find a middle-class revolt of similar size against an intransigent Victorian premier."
ReplyDeleteMiddle class revolt ? What planet in which galaxy does Nick "flood waters run free" Cater live on. Sure, some of the protesters are "middle class: but:
White supremacist and far right ideology underpin anti-vax movements
https://theconversation.com/white-supremacist-and-far-right-ideology-underpin-anti-vax-movements-172289
And:
Why the Victorian protests should concern us all
https://theconversation.com/why-the-victorian-protests-should-concern-us-all-172140
"The protesters are a mix of groups, but the movement is riddled with far-right and alt-right extremists who, with their growing reach through social media and in the context of developments in the United States and Europe, pose one of the more significant challenges to Australian democracy in recent memory."
Right, lots of Proud Boys are middle class aren't they ?
Otherwise, I don't propose to make a list, but my old memory tells me that there have been a lot of large demos in Melbourne and the recent one was just one of many: we used to get quite a turnout for anti-Vietnam and anti-apartheid too.
And just a reminder: the anti-hanging demo took place in February 1967, the next Victorian election took place in April 1967 and Bolte picked up another 6 seats. And just for the comparison:
Victorian Labor’s pandemic bill would pass easily if electoral reforms were enacted before 2018 election; Labor way ahead in polls
https://theconversation.com/victorian-labors-pandemic-bill-would-pass-easily-if-electoral-reforms-were-enacted-before-2018-election-labor-way-ahead-in-polls-172241
"A Victorian state Newspoll, conducted November 11-17 from a sample of 1,030, gave Labor a 58-42 lead (about 57.6-42.4 to Labor in 2018 after accounting for no Liberal candidate in Richmond). Primary votes were 44% Labor (42.9% at election), 36% Coalition (35.2%), 11% Greens (10.7%) and 9% for all Others (11.2%)."
Oh dear GB, facts? What use are facts for a Caterist floating in a fact-free floodwater void?
DeleteYeah, you're right DP, but old habits never really die do they. Well, not when one gets too old to develop new ones to put in their place.
DeleteWell if you enjoyed the very augmented Heart Chad, then here's a couple you might enjoy of two fine ladies who never got the success or recognition I thought they should:
ReplyDeletehttps://youtu.be/CadP4dRemYk
https://youtu.be/Yy9ipA44oLc
Holly Near
DeleteJeannie Lewis
Not so keen on Lewis, whom the pond once filmed. Too much waver in the quaver ...
You may not be the only one to think so, DP. But my partner and me both enjoyed her - I especially liked her rendition of 'The Moon's a Harsh Mistress' because of the remote association with Heinlein.
DeleteBesides, there's plenty of quaver and vibrato in opera too.
GB - thank you for both. I held them over to the quiet part of last night, and pleased to be reminded of Holly Near.
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