Speaking of visionaries, the pond always drops everything the moment that the onion muncher wafts back in from the past, and the lizard Oz gives him pride of place in the triptych of terror ...
There, framed within the reptile demon of the day, the loose Cannon, the demonic Brookes, and a valiant reptile celebration of the war on China in Antarctica, with Sussan Ley herself making a guest appearance in the lizard Oz (safely tucked behind Lord Rupert's paywall so all must fork over their shekels to discover what our fearless leaders are thinking), the onion muncher is a beacon of safety and hope ...
Um actually Vlad the impaler has always been an autocrat, while long ago, it was clear that Chairman Xi was also an autocrat ... and what did we get for our money?
Dear sweet long absent lord, what a blast from the past, and for those interested in those pros and cons in 2015, head off here ... but in short ...
Not to mention doing a deal with a dictator adverse to human rights ...
Of course the visionary onion muncher has since tried many times to distance himself from that vision, which is all the more reason to pay attention to his current visions ...
Indeed, indeed, so unaccustomed to sacrifice, so easily bought with cheap offers, pathetic trinkets at the two dollar store, you know the sort, and also paying less for cars, clothes, electronic, and such like ...
What a most excellent vision from a most worthy visionary, ready to do the hard yards and make painful sacrifices, and yet how were things when the vision splendid unfolded way back in 2015?
There's a lot more at the BBC here way back when, including persecution, discrimination, torture, sundry freedoms and so on and so forth, but time to get back to the visionary for a final vision ...
Ah, of course fabulous Hungary beloved of Cucker Tarlson and others in Murdoch la la land. How goes it with human rights in Hungary. as noted last year?
Fabulous, fabulous, and the pond was particularly impressed by the brave way that the onion muncher chided his hosts and suggested that more might be done at home ...
And so on and so forth, and naturally the lizard Oz editorialist was at one with the onion muncher's vision ...
Indeed, indeed, minorities have never had a fairer go.
Just try being gay in Hungary at the moment as living proof of the infinite wisdom and insight of the onion muncher and the lizard Oz editorialist ...
NEWS FLASH: updated thanks to a reader, reminding the pond of this reassuring image ...
Peace and joy, and don't mind if I nibble on Ukraine as if it's a gum leaf ...
And so to the front page news of the day ...
No, it's not the reptiles still taking Clive's cash in their claw, so that he might continue to terrify the reptile readership ...
It was that item at the top of the tree killer edition, and also at the top in digital la la land ...
The reptiles went on about it at great length, too long for the pond, but in any case, the pond has a simple remedy. Send in Dame Groan for a jolly good groaning and that'll be finito for the loose cannon...
Dammit, the pond thought that at least the Groaner would have explained how it was all the fault of a too high intake of immigrants, overloading the system and causing all sorts of chaos ... but at least she slipped in a reminder that lower emissions are a never no mind, except perhaps when it comes to her own emissions, notwithstanding that her emissions are but a small overall contribution to the global emissions emanating from News Corp ...
So many saucy doubts and fears and the Groaner has many questions ...
And that's why the pond goes to sleep at night, so it might wake up in the morning to learn from Dame Groan that the sun goes down in the evening and waits until dawn to rise ...
And so to a Rowe celebrating the way that Dom has managed to run the railways on time ... or at least time for the election ... with more on time Rowe running here ...
Oh If only Tony had shirt fronted Putin back in the day, we wouldn't be in this mess.
ReplyDeleteHi L,
DeleteBut the fearless Onion Muncher did manage to slap a Koala straight into Vlad’s chest.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-03-03/abbott-and-putin-cuddle-koalas-in-brisbane/8323104?nw=0
That showed him.
DW
Irresistible, DW, and so the pond didn't resist but instead did a koala update, because you have to add the sizzle to the gum leaf sausage ...
DeleteDame Groan’s own ‘career’ as a company director is - um - interesting. Much of it was in the 1990s, and included - Santos, South Australian Ports Corporation, Mayne Nickless, SGIO (presumably the Western Australian one, the Queensland one merged into ‘Suncorp’ in the 1980s), and, according to one bio (‘Wiki’) ‘Primelife’ retirement accommodation, although we do not have a date for her time on that board. Presumably it was before the Babcock and Brown implosion.
ReplyDeleteNone of these was set on a path of growth into new technology by anything done during our Dame’s tenure. It would be tedious to relate detail - Santos has a woeful record of emissions management (well, only woeful if you have been taken in by that ‘climate’ scam!); South Australian Ports Corporation - largely owned by Canadian superannuation funds - continues to try to ‘develop’ Adelaide’s Port River as a deepwater base, consistently ignoring established international conventions on dredging and dumping to do so; does anyone recall what Mayne Nickless is up to these days - anyone? Up the back there? No?
No point listing her government appointments - because, as a noted advocate of free enterprise, she, no doubt, disdains people who accept multiple appointments to Government agencies.
So she is well placed to bear down on one of the founders of a particularly successful software company when he wants to venture into electricity distribution, in a way suitable to the 21st century. Much of the challenge is in the distribution - which is still caught between old-style network engineers and much smarter software, that could harvest what is on offer from renewables cheaply and reliably.
Now Cannon-Brookes did say that the AGL thing is only his night-time and weekend job, not his day job. Wouldn't want to undermine what made him a multi-billionaire.
Delete"Vlad the impaler has always been an autocrat, while long ago, it was clear that Chairman Xi was also an autocrat... " Now Vladimir [Ruler of the World] Putin is really just the Tsar of All the Russias and indeed has been that for a while. Whereas Xi is the Son of Heaven - a much higher rank - but has only been that for about 9 years.
ReplyDeleteBut what has me a bit interested is, as The Muncher says: "[Putin] restored Russia as a military superpower despite an economy smaller than Italy's." (In nominal GDP terms, Russia was $US1430.5 billion in 2020, Italy was $US1886 billion in the same year.)
Now that means either things are incredibly cheap in Russia or Russia makes all its own stuff - well, it is the second largest arms exporter after the USA. And I suppose all of this is because of the aftermath of WWII and the Cold War - which supposedly ended in 1989-91 but I'd say that a lot of Russians never heard that news - especially given that the post-Soviet Union began only with Gorbachev's glasnost and perestroika back in 1985.
So, what does Australia (and Italy) spend all its money on instead of spending it on armaments ? We're not buying all that many tanks, are we ?