The pond keeps missing all the best and brightest the reptiles have to offer ...
... but the pond has had its dose of Trumpism, and is relatively immune.
The pond is also relatively immune to gorgeous George, going full AWOL with Alex ...
Naturally the pond looked to the reptiles this morning for an update, and was startled, shocked, to discover that there wasn't a single mention of gorgeous George on the front page of the digital edition. He'd been cancelled, erased, by the sort of rubber that would take out the best a HBBB pencil might offer ... and immediately the pond knew that there was a deep state, or at least a deep reptile conspiracy at work ... (and yes, the pond knows that's an old way to grade pencils, but for some reason, when thinking of gorgeous George, the pond is reminded of very thick lead-laden pencils)...
Never mind, all that's by way of an aside, because the Caterist was out and about on a Tuesday, and ready to follow up Lloydie of the Amazon's stunning news that zero emissions coal was just around the corner ...
Apropos of this, the wags over at Crikey asked a couple of questions ...
Dammit, Goldilocks has gone lower case? Not to worry, who better to mount a scare campaign about Goldilocks than the reptiles' resident expert in the movement of floodwaters in quarries?
When you want your science fresh from a student of sociology, the Caterist is your man ...
By golly, does the Caterist know how to sing up a climate scare campaign song, but ignoring his Herculean effort, the pond was bemused to read the keen Keane getting a tad concerned about gold standard Gladys ...
Silly keen Keane ... of course it's catastrophic and jobs-destroying, and cult-like. Just ask the expert in the movement of flood waters in quarries...
Ah, the old "radical cultish tendencies". and of course it's not an existential threat.
Why just yesterday the pond learned that we would have clean dinkum innocent Oz coal with zero emissions, possibly by Xmas, thanks be unto Lloydie of the Amazon, and so there's no existential threat, none at all, though if you sampled the keen Keane, you might get an inkling of double speak ...
Um, sometimes the pond would like the keen Keane to speak a little more directly, a little more frankly, so the pond might work out what he thinks of the natural born liar ...
But back to some fair average climate science denialism from the floodwaters in quarries man for a wrap ...
And here's a cartoon to go with that ...
And there's more bin nights here. The pond usually has its bin night on a Sunday, but the pond must now get its Tuesday dose of a jolly good groaning ...
Now the pond should forewarn people that it's just the usual groaning about furriners, and there's been some splendid news of late in the hospitality industry in the UK of late, what with anxiety about life without workers in the EU (Graudian) and Rocco Forte suddenly discovering, after fiercely campaigning for Brexit, that no-one wants to work in his fine establishments, and so the rules should be changed so he can obtain some of that sweet, cheap EU labour ...
Oh it was cruel of the reptiles to put up that snap of Dame Groan's worst nightmares ... those pesky, difficult furriners, coming south, like cane toads ...
Yes, the bludgers, damn them ... but sadly, only a few can score the cushy jobs, such as scribbling for the lizard Oz about the indolent ways of bludgers living the rich life on welfare ...
Dammit, they always want more cash in the paw, the greedy bludgers ...
Surely importing a few furriners will stop that sort of malarkey ...
Now what should an expert economist rely on when confronting this tricky situation?
Plenty of anecdotal evidence! It beats statistics hands down, because we all known there are damn lies and then there's lying data ...
As a Groaning goes, the pond marks it as only fair average - there's not nearly enough about the havoc pesky, difficult furriners will produce, the chaos that's about to unfold - but still the pond has done its duty, and delivered the groaning, and now offers a cartoon for those seeking to get on the groaning gravy train ...
And so to a pond bonus, and wouldn't you know it, the Killer has been out and about ... and before the pond begins, it has to lead with a spoiler.
You see, the headline should have read ... "I was fully vaccinated, so luckily when I caught Covid, it was no big deal" ... unlike the mug punters who took News Corp screechers at their anti-vax, anti-mask word, and paid the ultimate price...
Actually, the reasons for mandating vaccines are many and varied, not least the desire to avoid overloading the hospital system with fuckwits of the Killer kind ... though there's another benefit, in that cushioning the effects of Covid means they can go on scribbling furiously, and so they can downplay the experience which has resulted in the deaths of many others ...
The Hill wrote a little summary recently about a list that the Killer luckily missed out on joining ...
You might think that Killer would now seize the chance to be vehemently pro-vaccine, and pro-mask and all the rest of it, but that would mean thinking that the Killer was a thinker ...
Actually if you were vaccinated, you might be in a position to move on ... but some find it a little tricky to do the moving, like the unhappy people the pond personally knew who died of Covid ... and like some of the Killer's brethren ... pace the Hill story ...
The pond just wanted to insert that, so it could add its own coda: taking scientific and medical advice from Killer Creighton is perhaps not the most productive way for people to get their information ...
Mandatory? What next, Killer forced to wear a mask and go full Freudian with his fears?
Of course it could be worse. Killer could have gone the full gorgeous George ... (ABC)
In a curious way, citizen journalist Killer did get an important truth out to people.
If you want to go on writing fuckwitted stories about Covid, it helps to be vaccinated ... then all you've got to worry about is long Covid ...
Too early to say? No, that blather about being a "Covid survivor", while vaccinated, means that "long stupidity", as it's known in the trade, is an irremediable, irredeemable, possibly terminal, condition ...
And so to a final cartoon, just for the fun of it ...
Or how about this one? It catches the Killer Kristmas spirit nicely ...
" those pesky, difficult furriners, coming south, like cane toads ..." Haven't heard much at all about cane toads of late. Have they all died off from Covid ? Haven't heard much about rabbits either - have they (and the cats) all expired from that human created disease calicivirus ?
ReplyDeleteWhat did I say about rabbits ?
DeleteShooters called in as rabbits plague Parliament House in surging numbers during wet weather
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-12-07/nca-shoots-rabbits-near-parliament-to-control-numbers/100680890
Whatever happened to the calicivirus, folks ?
Perhaps our Killer had extra protection by using Alex Jones' special toothpaste, which the broadcaster assures punters, protects against Covic infection.
ReplyDeleteOh, for the record - Jones' toothpaste was offered for Covid.
DeleteDorothy, you hint at end of year ennui. I can understand that when I look at the Cater ambling into what he imagines is economics. Life is too short to try to respond in any structured way to what the Cater has put up this day.
ReplyDeleteSet aside his familiarity with technical jargon - ‘inherently squelchy sources’ - it is pandering to whatever the shrinking readership needs by way of validation, so there is no need for consistency, nor of logic. That is why he inserts ‘the acceptance that climate change is not only real, but an existential threat.’ as a ‘new test for purity’.
Climate change is real, so absolutely an existential threat. That link in logic should not be beyond a graduate sociologist of even a minor university.
Finally (because it is becoming sooo tedious) there is his attempt at the LNP response to anything proposed by any non-LNP candidate for the next several months - how any action on climate change will crash the economy.
So expenditure of (uncounted - Cater modelling) billions on capital works, to rebuild our energy systems will ‘reduce capital investment’ and, furthermore, reduce ‘the income of retirement savers.’
Right now, much of business is soaking up billions in acquisitions and mergers, with minimal effect on productivity, because, through an exercise in central planing, money is dirt cheap. Income of those virtuous ‘retirement savers’ is negligible because of the same risible interest rate set by the Reserve Bank. A whole array of base investment items simply do not exist noe. About the only alternative many such ‘retirement savers’ can think of is - buying more houses to rent out, and that is seeding much social disruption, particularly if the ScoMo administration manages to keep wages down, as the Dame puts it, ‘at prices (employers) want to pay’.
All happening now, the culmination of 8 years of LNP saving us from the dreadful spendthrifts on the other side.
Perhaps ScoMo can promise the $500 a year the Onion Muncher forecast as our savings from rescinding the previous carbon price. It would be no more difficult than any of his other promises - it’s not like he ever feels he has to deliver.
The Cater: "to rebuild our energy systems will reduce capital investment" What ? Does he mean that all that ultra expensive "gold plating" of the grid has achieved nothing ? That we have to do it all over again ?
Deletehttps://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-07-18/australian-gold-plated-power-grid/8721566
But being a sociologist "graduate" means that The Cater hasn't the faintest idea how much "grid" is needed. When all our electricity came from coal fired plants that had to be built close to coal to avoid major transport costs, we needed a big, country-wide grid (except WA, of course). But since nowadays much of our electricity comes from home-sited solar panels and both home and 'community' batteries; and solar and wind generators can be sited anywhere there's some wind or sun (Gippsland East coast anybody ?) a big, expensive, comprehensive grid just isn't quite so necessary.
Not that 'our Nick' will ever understand any of that.
https://www.ausgrid.com.au/In-your-community/Community-Batteries
Buying up residential housing has been the go quite a few times. There's an awful lot of families who had steady jobs in the Great Depression (lots of Public Servants, for instance) who came out of that time as significant property owners. Even more so now with that wondrous 'negative gearing' (which Shorten was going to kill) and reduced capital gains tax, thanks be to that truly great Australian PM (one of only two to be dumped from his own "safe" seat) John Winston Howard.
And apart from "acquisitions and mergers", there's always that old standby 'share buybacks' - been a fair few of them, too.
Ah, the wonder of a Killer C "brain": "Whatever, it's obvious vaccines do not stop transmission of Covid-19 which was the only justification, however flimsy, for mandating them." Now for how long has it been clearly stated that the vaccines are less than 100% effective at stopping 'transmission' - especially if you will go and spend time at 'superspreader' events ? Is it some sort of blinding revelation that only came to Killer C when he (and "three friends") exposed themselves in a superspreader event and thus copped a breakthrough ?
ReplyDeleteBut then, he says: "After eight months in the US, a country supposedly ravaged by the virus according to the mainstream media, it has been shocking to me how few people seem to know someone who has died from or with Covid-19." So there we have it: if it doesn't happen to him or to a more or less close mate personally, then it never really happened. So I wonder, until it happened to him and his mates, how many people did he know who had actually been infected with Covid ? Any ?
Oh, but: "Whether I've survived long Covid, though, it's too early to say." Here's hoping.
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DeletePeople like the Killer are the reason that wheelbarrow tires have "not for highway use" on the side and the chainsaw manual suggests you do not stop the chain with your hand. Every OH & S manager's nightmare, they cannot see the most obvious of risks and then assume if they cannot see the risk the risk doesn't exist at all.
DeleteThere are those who see the risk, or at least see it partially, who 'go for it anyway' to show just what fearless manly men they are - Rebel Without a Cause type stuff. But in the case of Killer C, I think you've sorted him, Bef.
DeleteI thought that, as usual, there'd be nothing worth mentioning in the Groany's effort today, but actually there is: "Enterprise bargaining has entered a death spiral. There are now only 10,000 agreements covering 1.8 million workers [close to 13 million total in the workforce]".
ReplyDeleteNow, who remembers when and by whom Enterprise Bargaining was made the core industrial relations process ? Yep, you got it: Prices and Incomes Accord in 1991 (Mark VII). And who produced that: "The Prices and Incomes Accord was an agreement between the Australian Council of Trade Unions and the Australian Labor Party government of Prime Minister Bob Hawke and Treasurer (later Prime Minister) Paul Keating in 1983. Employers were not party to the Accord. Unions agreed to restrict wage demands and the government pledged to minimise inflation."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prices_and_Incomes_Accord
Note how the Wikipedia article doesn't even mention Bill Kelty. And whatever happened to Martin Ferguson - he was a really important guy in his own lunchtime ?