It's Thursday, so if you're feeling happy, why not clap your hands?
There are games to play and stories to tell ...
And now, feeling clap happy, on with reptile business, and thank the long absent lord, Clive is still doling out cash to the reptile claw ...
The only remaining question is whether the reptiles are being taken for a ride by Clive, or whether Clive is taking the reptiles on his horse and buggy, what with his ad about debt just below the reptiles pumping up another $2 billion splash of cash by the clap happy man...
Somebody must be winning, but given the sensitivities surrounding petulant Peta, the pond has decided to bump her to a late arvo slot, and there goes the pond's immediate chance to celebrate Scotty from marketing.
Instead the pond decided to take a different tack and welcome back Jack the Insider ...
Um, please Jack, don't be coy. What's this talk of her media platforms? Took to Twitter? Come on, say it aloud with the pond ...she's been taking to Faux Noise of late, and Faux Noise has been very taken with her ...
Wow, that's some media platform Jack. But why didn't you point out the calls are coming from inside your house?
Why did the reptiles try to distract the pond by presenting a neutral shot of Gabbard up against a black background?
Come on Jack, come on reptiles down under, we all know her new natural habitat ...
Um, no thanks, not for the pond, but the pond kept on going with Jack, wondering if he might ever drop that Faux Noise name into the mix ...
Ah, at last, as the conspiracy swirled, the one fact ignored by almost everyone at News Corp down under was ... come on Jack, don't disappoint the pond, say it out loud ...
Sorry, the pond must stop right there, it's not going to peddle Tuckyo Carlson, Cucker Tarlson if you will, claptrap ...
It's only there to remind Jack that he seems to have overlooked a few things...
Glenn Greenwald? Sure, we all know he's turned into a first class loon, but what about the call of the loon coming from inside the house?
Why give Greenwald a hard time for being a loon, when you're kissing cousins with that loon coming from inside the News Corp house?
Don't you pay attention to your work colleagues Jack? Your pious attempts to straighten the record are just so much spit on a hot griddle up against your American colleagues ...
Oh the suffering, oh the humanity, oh the horror, and all the pond can offer in recompense is an immortal Rowe, with more settling Rowe always to be found here ...
"The pond has decided to bump her to a late arvo slot".....thank you. Now Thursday is like every other day: breakfast with DP.
ReplyDeleteAh yeah, but the afternoon tea is a rip roarer.
Delete"And so on and so on Jack, please, pay a little attention to your workplace and your corporation. " Oh just a small variant of a tried and true reptile faith-item: "If I don't mention it, then it isn't there."
ReplyDeleteThat one even long predates the reptiles. But then nobody ever accused them of being creative.
DP - from your columns of the last couple of days, and several comments in response (such as GB - ‘It's lotsa fun reading the words of people on topics they know absolutely nothing about: like Noodled Neddy on economics and politics and people. And relying on a "Deloitte Access Economics partner" in Chris Richardson to comment on ‘reality’.’) - a phrase has been bouncing around in my memory bank, and I have finally traced it -
ReplyDeleteIt is attributed to John Steinbeck, but, as he reminds us, Ed Ricketts would have influenced his thinking on this, and so much else that Steinbeck wrote. Of man, he says ‘He has never become accustomed to the tragic miracle of consciousness’.
Steinbeck does elaborate a little on that - but it can easily stand alone, in the face of the Tuckers, Neds, Janets - oh, the whole, sorry, truly tragic list.
Looking at his offering off this day, I cannot include our ‘Killer’ even in the ‘tragic’ category - if only because of his ‘It’s also OK to say cloth masks didn’t work, as the evidence against them becomes overwhelming even for the numerically challenged.’ Yes, a lot of classical tragedies show how events derive from hubris, but our ‘Killer’ easily puts himself into a category below Tucker with that remark.
Perhaps, while he is the USA correspondent, ‘Killer’ might read some Steinbeck, rather than try to follow the pumped-up weekly ratings of the NY Times.
Yes a neato thought indeed, Chad. I think it is very clear that the "human mind" (so called) is very partitioned and compartmentalised. Nearly everybody has some 'problem solving' capability (just like apes and dogs and cats and ravens too, and probably octos as well) if only we can actually bring it to bear on a useful problem. Clearly the Kller, like all reptiles, cannot. Not unless the problem to be solved is "what lie must I tell here to stay in Roopie's good graces).
DeleteOtherwise, even the Killer might have to recognise the significant decrease in influenza deaths over the last couple of years. It probably would, in fact, be a good thing to continue the masking and social distancing forever.
But then, as Killer would reassure himself, "If I don't mention it, then it isn't there."
Add TB to that:
Delete"If we have learned anything from the past two years battling the pandemic, it’s that airborne diseases [such as TB] don’t respect borders and can wreak devastating domestic and global havoc.
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Prior to Covid-19, TB was the world’s leading infectious disease killer.
In 2020, 1.5 million people died due to this invisible global epidemic – marking the first time in a decade there was a rise in deaths."
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/mar/24/as-tuberculosis-resurges-in-the-asia-pacific-what-lessons-from-covid-can-save-australia
GB - for completeness, and apropos your comment here - Steinbeck added (of man) ‘Perhaps . . . his species is not set, has not jelled, but is still in a state of becoming, bound by his physical memories to a past of struggle and survival, limited in his futures by the uneasiness of thought and consciousness.’
DeleteWell Homo Saps Saps has only been around on this planet for about 200,000 years and mammal species generally manage a species lifetime of about 5,000,000 years, so basically - provided we survive nuclear and climate suicide - we have about 4,800,000 years to go in which to become something and to finally get over reservations about "the uneasiness of thought and consciousness".
DeleteBut neither I, nor, I suspect, my cat, will be around to see it. But we could, I suppose, turn into true zombies maybe 1,000,000 years down the track, and not be bothered by either anyway.
Nice change to include the "Insider", DP. Is he normally dedicated to maintaining at least some semblance of rational reality ? If so I could see why he's usually omitted - getting even such a faint ray of sense and sensibility from the Murdoch Press is very disturbing.
ReplyDeleteBut then we should all keep in mind that wondrous philosophical pronouncement from the long-serving Little Johnny: "It isn't a lie if you truly believe it." And ain't it wondrous just how many things Tuckyo Carlson and his loyal claque truly believe.
"Royal couple’s visit met with growing republican sentiment and pressure for reparations over slavery"
ReplyDeleteJamaica’s PM tells Kate and William his country is ‘moving on’
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/mar/23/jamaicas-pm-tells-kate-and-william-his-country-is-moving-on
By heck, just as well all the indigenous Arawaks/Tainos et al were completely wiped out across the entire Caribbean - think what kind of 'reparations' would have to have been paid to them. And it's good to see that Australia's 'Tasmania experience' was just based on civilised Judeo-Christian European precedent.