Henderson has been a fierce critic of ABC journalist Louise Milligan, whose book Cardinal won the Walkley book award.
Titled Cardinal Pell, the Media Pile-On and Collective Guilt, Hendo’s tome is published by the boutique rightwing publisher Connor Court Publishing, which has published books such as Stealing from a Child: The Injustice of ‘Marriage Equality’ by David van Gend and Green Murder by climate skeptic Ian Plimer…
Never mind, on with the nit-picking nitwit ...
Ah the old rats in the ranks routine, but surely Polonius will have to crank up to eleven if he's going to attempt to blame Pinocchio's dismal performance this past week on the rats in the ranks ...
But no, it's time for the usual tepid, torpid history lesson ... as if unity might trump pig iron ...
Oh good old climate science. What company was Polonius keeping with his publisher?
Green Murder by climate skeptic Ian Plimer…
Yeah, that'd be right ... and what an alarming dose of paranoia goes with it ...
Hmm, the pond is beginning to detect an increasing amount of nervousness in the reptile ranks. Rally around the flag boys, form the square. Oh no, the gatling's jammed, and the Colonel dead, and the sand of the desert is sodden red, red with the wreck of a square that broke, and the regiment blinded with woke dust and smoke ...
Perhaps it was wrong of the pond to discount the Keane thesis noted yesterday ... perhaps there is a messiah to hand, a hard man, a boofhead with steel-capped boots, who can sort out the defiance and the internal divisions and give the Speccie mob a clip around the ears ...
But which one? The head or the potato? Or do they mystically merge into a new form?
Luckily, Polonius prattled on for a bit about climate science, which provides a natural segue in to the next item ...
The pond has no idea why the reptiles stay so loyal to the Bjorn-again one, because he hasn't changed his messaging or his thinking this past decade, yet News Corp only recently went through a superficial hour of the woke when it came to climate science ...
There's nothing new to be seen here, just the usual pissing on the planet, but still the pond has to enter it into the record book ...
Now - spoiler alert - everyone knows what comes next and should be able to recite it off by heart. The pond itself has managed to enjoy a lavish lifestyle by living off the bets its won as to whether the lines would appear ...
If the pond could just find and smash that macro on the Bjorn-again one's keyboard, what a service to humanity it would be ...
The pond guesstimates that talk of the wonders of new technology as the solution to everything would diminish by at least 111.13%.
As for the context, here is the full final gobbet ...
Well there was nothing to see there, so the pond naturally did another quick segue, this time to an unhappy Angelic one ...
The reptiles have been all a fizz and a tizz about the new religious suppression laws, a bit like the fizzy sherbet cones the pond used to get at the Dungowan general store for a ha'penny, now freely available again, with quite a bit of competition between Aldi and Coles ...
But enough of memory lane when tykes and proddies could enjoy freedom to speak their religion: Catholic dog, sitting on a log, eating maggots out of a frog, or proddy dogs, god didn't love them enough to make them Catholic ...
Uh oh, this is sounding ominous, and all because a few wretched progressives thought they might love their own kind. What happened to the good old days when they might be tossed off a cliff or thrown into the Torrens as a way of expressing Xian love?
Well so much for contracts in the world of the Angelic one. It seems if you don't like a contract you've signed with an employer, then you can just ignore it and carry on regardless, with the expectation that there will be no consequences whatsoever ...
Oh it's a sweet deal, though the pond suggests that if you should happen to go the grope in an office or send a dick snap, you might regret following the Angelic one's advice ... there might just be a clause in the contract some fuddy duddy employer will drag out ...
Poor old SloMo harried by both the woke and fundamentalist tykes, and the fundie tykes winning the argument by comparing the marketing man to Mao ... though it was disappointing not to hear the Stasi and the SS invoked in the same breath ... nor, as we're speaking of religious tsars, any mention of the Pope and the Catholic church's splendid Index Librorum Prohibitorum, which surely set the gold standard for deciding what and what isn't soundly religious...
And so to a final offering.
Usually the pond would stop at three, much like the Ancient Mariner, but the pond is in the mood for a full-on reptile rant, and foreshadowed this rant yesterday, and it would not be right or proper to fail to deliver on the promise ...
Stevo, comrade Dan, punching bags, Stevo punching away, what more could anyone want on a meditative Sunday?
Beethoven? The pond really doesn't think you can blame the logarithms for having a crack at Beehoven's last ... the logarithms are just doing what a logarithms got to do ...
More disturbing is the way that Stevo seems oblivious to recent news ... which could have been found in the Daily Beast or the Graudian...
Oh fucketty fuck, not the masks. The pond thought that Killer had that bit of turf all to himself in the lizard Oz market ... and not more blather about gold standard Gladys, when Stevo in his very first gobbet seems to have forgotten about how upset he was about the achievements at that gold standard Canberra sheep station ...
There's more than a hint of anti-vaxxer in that gobbet and naturally that made the pond look around for some good news, and found it at C and L here ...
First to start with the spoiler ...
And then the text ...
It has to be said that there's a morbid fascination to be found visiting sorryantivaxxer.com ...
It reminds the pond of an uncle who during the holidays used to drag everyone around cemeteries to inspect gravestones, causes of death, years lived, and such like.
In later life, he turned into a hermit, and saw very few people, arguing with family members, and eventually dying alone ... they didn't find his body for a couple of days, and only then because the neighbours raised the alarm...
So it goes ...
Really, really fucking weird, and it certainly puts Killer Creighton in his place...
Poor old Killer couldn't manage that level of hyperventilating hysteria.
Personally speaking, having recently attended a Covid-inspired funeral service, the pond is grateful that this country decided not to follow the insanity abroad in the United States, and remarkably showed more competence - largely thanks to the states - than Boris or many European countries.
There's nothing that beats living as a lifestyle choice ... and being deeply conservative, the pond is in favour of a conservative approach to living.
You won't find the pond breaking stop signs, driving on the wrong side of the road, refusing to wear a seat belt, or tearing off a mask, and crying freedumb or death ... in fact, perhaps the most dangerous thing the pond does is read the likes of Stevo, because you never know when dementia might take a grip and you find yourself thinking he's sounding sensible.
Next thing you know you're out in the back yard howling at the moon ...
A full, A grade, certifiable loon, full of rhetorical flourishes of the adolescent kind, and surely a fitting way to end a Sunday meditation.
The pond devoured too many cartoons yesterday, but here's one for Stevo ...
And here's TT, with more at Daily Kos here ... and the spirit of Stevo is at one with these many splendoured freedumb fighters ...
"A full, A grade, certifiable loon, full of rhetorical flourishes of the adolescent kind..."
ReplyDeleteYep, even the old "is he a liar or just grossly stupid" is too gentle for that one. Can't recall the Pond has ever had one quite like that before, not even Aker Daker at his absolutely most brainless worst can compete. The thing I always wonder is, who's been keeping him alive all these years. And why ?
Ah, "precious bodily fluids"! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1KvgtEnABY
ReplyDeleteThe pond's favourite masterpiece, and anyone referencing their precious bodily fluids immediately goes into the pond's hall of fame, no questions asked ...
DeleteNow I know that lying is a complex matter, but the Christian religion has almost always condemned the telling of intentional falsehoods to people who have not forfeited their right to know the truth. So why does the Angelic Shanahana keep on lying ? As in this passage: "Unfortunately, in the current climate of ideological warfare - in which Catholic Archbishop of Hobart Julian Porteous was dragged before an anti-discrimination tribunal just for enunciating Catholic doctrine on marriage to Children in Catholic schools..."
ReplyDeleteNow that is total falsehood: Porteous wasn't in any way "dragged", there was no chain about his neck. He could have chosen to stand on whatever he thinks is a principle and refused to plead to a secular court. Wouldn't be the first time that has been done.
But truly, the core falsehood is the bit about "just for enunciating Catholic doctrine", just enunciating doctrine was never the point which was that Porteous had included terms and language that "implied criminal activity" on the part of the complainant, Martine Delaney who claimed that the language of Porteous's 'Don't Mess With Marriage' implied criminal activity.
So, just to emphasize the point, there was no "dragging" and there was never any complaint about Porteous's message, just about some of the language used to state it which was considered by the complainant to be gratuitously offensive. To repeat, the complaint was not against the substance of what Porteous said, but against some of his way of saying it.
In case you are curious, even the Catholic Church understood that:
https://www.catholicweekly.com.au/anti-discrimination-commissioner-reportedly-finds-archbishop-julian-porteous-in-possible-breach-of-act/
So why, against all the moral teaching of her God and His Church, does Shanahana keep on lying ?
...there was an equally strong patristic tradition that defended lying for a worthwhile cause and considered it necessary or even righteous in some cases. Exponents of this view include Pseudo-Maximus, Clement of Alexandria, Origen, Hilary of Poitiers, John Cassian, John Chrysostom, Dorotheus of Gaza, Palladius of Antioch, John Climacus, Paulinus of Nola, and the Angelic one of the lizard Oz. This second patristic tradition was summarized by Ambrose of Milan, whose argument, based on scripture, held that the Angelic one's actions were meritorious because "she undertook for religion, not love... she served religion... and the fatherland ... and Chairman Rupert ... and the patriarchy of the Catholic Church ..."
DeleteOr some such thing ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_views_on_lying
Yes, I did have a read of that one, DP, but I wasn't impressed by the cast of lie supporting characters. To be honest, I hadn't heard of any of them - other than the Angelic one that is. So I kinda went for the view that 'my God is omniscient, omnipotent and immanent; He doesn't need to be lied for'.
DeleteThough plenty of his puny followers might. Like Julian Porteous perhaps.
And, of course, to hunt out heresy - “a suspect, however powerful or distinguished, once hauled before the Inquisition, was judged guilty unless he could prove his innocence. This was an all but impossible task, so heavily were the dice loaded against him. The evidence of wives, children, servants and persons heretical, excommunicated, perjured and criminal could be used against a man, secretly and without their having to face him, their charges being communicated to him only in summary form. Perjury was pardoned if it was the outcome of zeal for the faith, obedience to a superior was forbidden if it hindered the inquiry. . . . . . Any advocate acting and any witness giving evidence on behalf of a suspect laid themselves open to charges of abetting heresy.”
Deletewith thanks to David Christie-Murray
Those who assemble specious arguments to show that the church (and, usually, they claim to speak only for THE church) has never done, nor countenanced, wrong, can always make a case that the procedures of the Inquisitions did not, actually, promote lying, and, well, zeal was - still is - an understandable and excusable condition of those who are emboldened by - er - faith.
I won’t invoke a ‘pub test’ on lying, because, in my limited experience of life - without lying, there would be little pub conversation.
Nah, Chad, what goes on in the pub is only fibbing, or at most porkying. Not real lying, surely.
DeleteOf course the bill is not about freedom of religion, it's about freedom for churches to be nasty.
ReplyDeleteBjorn, and his "most were unwilling to spend even $24 a year" - I wonder how many people would be happy to pay the hundreds of dollars per head for the Northern Beaches Tunnel? Any, outside the Northern Beaches? But we will be paying it.
Considering your teaching experience, DP, just a little something I was reminded of today:
ReplyDeletehttps://youtu.be/ttLJ4lTrux0
Margaret Roadknight! The pond was transported back to a stint at a Proddie church school in the centre of the universe, where the squatters' daughters spent their time arguing over who was a sixpennworth slut ...
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