The pond couldn't help but start the day with the usual dose of Sydney rain, and this bizarre juxtaposition ...
Yes, there was prattling Polonius getting agitated about the ABC getting worried about health issues, while at the same time there was Killer Creighton, on hand to pursue war against climate science by other means ...
Luckily the Polonial outing was one of his media doggie efforts, which the pond routinely ignores, even if they turn up early on a Tuesday rather than the usual Friday - though the pond did note that Polonius was still stuck in the 1950s, arguing that Vlad the impaler was a commie fascist rather than a fascist fascist, as if any of that mattered, what with fascists doing what fascists do ... and the obvious parallels between Vlad and Adolf more than just a re-hash of Downfall ...
At least ignoring Polonius created some room for Killer because there was a log jam of reptiles all with something to say, and all with their hands up ...
Because Killer was something of a pond teacher's pet, and managed the nifty trick of waging war on climate science in the guise of waging war on Vlad the impaler, he got the nod ...
Yes, in Killer's world, it's impossible to deal with climate science while bunging on a hot war, because while fucking Ukraine, we must keep in mind the need to fuck the planet.
Meanwhile, the pond was wondering, with Crikey, how things were going with the News Corp fascists ...
That was yesterday, and the news today? The pond did a quick survey of the headlines ...
Google at your leisure ... play fascist peekaboo with Polonius as you like, with that Salon piece offering the fun of the fair ...
Sure the pond could get into a semantic dispute with Polonius about the brand of fascism we're talking about ...
But the pond must resist the temptation, must continue on with Killer, busy killing off climate science.
Indeed, indeed, it's entirely possible that climate science is entirely responsible for Putin invading Ukraine ...
And so to a final gobbet of Killer howling into the wilderness ...
Splendid stuff, but wait, don't leave with just Killer's words buzzing in your heads, because the reptiles always have more to offer, including the onion muncher himself, narrowly pipped by Killer for top spot ... but what's the bet that at some point in his missive the bromancer won't deploy the same Killer trick?
Still no mention of the white ants of course ...
Former Trump advisor Col. Douglas MacGregor blamed the US for sending aid to Ukraine on Fox News and said we should stop demonizing Russia because "the population there is indistinguishable from their own."
It's the 'they all look alike' appeasement defense of Putin.
Trey Gowdy was a bit surprised at MacGregor's Putin appeasement and explained that eventually if Russia continues invading countries they will come across NATO members anyway.
MacGregor made believe he knows what's in the soul of Putin and said he has no interest in crossing west past the Polish border.
MacGregor claimed the US is exaggerating Russia's intentions "in our usual effort to demonize [Putin] and his country."
MacGregor then attacked Ukraine as not being a liberal democracy..
“We should stop shipping weapons and encouraging Ukrainians to die in what is a hopeless endeavor.”
“So when you say stay out of it, you mean no sanctions, no military aid, just let Russia take the portion of Ukraine they want to take?” Gowdy asked.
“Yes. Absolutely,” he replied.
MacGregor wants Russia to have any part of Ukraine Putin wants because they've been talking about it for years.
And then he said this was the most important reason not to aid Ukraine against Russia.
"And more important the population there is indistinguishable from their own."
That means Putin has a right to invade? How embarrassing for Fox News.
In their efforts to bow down to the Traitor Trump cult, Fox News puts on former Trump advisors like MacGregor who continually attacked NATO and wanted to pull thousands of troops out of Germany.
Putin lovers and Russia's useful idiots. And Fox "News" hosts them all. (C and L here)
Meanwhile, we have our own useless idiot, apparently unaware of what's happening at News Corp, and now it's time for him to do his Killer routine ...
Ah yes, and Polonius was agitated at the ABC talking of health issues. He should have realised that killing the planet was just as important as fucking Ukraine ...
And so to a final gobbet, courtesy of the WSJ ... and as usual the reported quote is more interesting in terms of source than actual usefulness ...
Look here and you'll discover some splendid precedents ...
The earliest strong match located by QI appeared in 1955 within a periodical called “The Commonwealth: Official Journal of the Commonwealth Club of California”. The club is a non-profit public affairs organization. The quotation appeared as a filler item. Emphasis added to excerpts by QI:[1]
Lenin wrote, “When it comes time to hang the capitalists, they will vie with each other for the rope contract.”
—Major George Racey Jordan
Jordan was a U.S. military officer who became a fierce anti-communist. Lenin had died in 1924; hence, the 1955 date was quite late. No documentary source was specified, and multiple researchers have been unable to find a match in Lenin’s writings.
Of course there's much more to it than that - follow the link - but the pond did like the idea of the onion muncher trapped in the 1950s ... now on with the quote ...
Only 2013-2015? It seemed like a nightmare that lasted for a knight on the barbie eternity, and now he wanders the earth like the Ancient Mariner searching for an audience, and luckily for them, it seems the WSJ had time to stop and listen before attending the wedding ...
But if the pond wanted inspiration, instead of some ancient, irrelevant loon blathering about Churchill, it'd seek out a cartoon ...
Uh oh, tanks, and of course that's the perfect segue, because the pond can never omit the bromancer ...
At this point, to remind us of the sociopath in the room, the reptiles helpfully ran a snap of Vlad the impaler ...
Instead we should brush up on our Vera Lynn and join in the song at the end of the movie ...
Don't know where, don't know when, but we hope we can meet the bromancer again ... and in the meantime, here's a final gobbet ...
Indeed, indeed, and the fresh challenges to News Corp will endure.
How many lickspittle fellow travellers, quislings and sell out merchants will they find for Faux Noise, while keeping the reptiles down under of the bromancer kind blissfully unaware of what HQ is doing? What they're doing for the "west" ...
And so with Dame Groan forced into a late arvo spot, it's on to the Rowe of the day, with more Rowe here ...
So, from Killer C: "...not trying to micromanage the world's climate". He really does have a way with micromanaging nonsense, doesn't he. Is there even the beginnings of a possibility that Killer will ever understand that we are currently macro(mis)managing the world's climate ? And have been for more than 100 years now - its about 126 years since Svante Arrhenius published his ground-breaking paper.
ReplyDeleteIt's just a message that the climate deniers will never grasp or ever admit: that "doing nothing" about our emissions has enormous costs that will persist not for just a few lifetimes, for millennia.
Norman Swan did not fret about low immunisation rates at least not in last night's Health Report but the first item was this
ReplyDeleteTwo recent research papers seem to confirm that the pandemic coronavirus did
indeed come from the Huanan Wholesale Seafood Market in Wuhan, in December or
late November 2019. While not yet peer reviewed, the papers do seem to put
paid to the theory that the virus escaped from a Wuhan virology lab.
The WSJ: "Tony Abbott was prime minister of Australia, 2013-15".
ReplyDeleteYes, but why ? Is it really all down to Parkinson's Law of Triviality where: "people will spend far more time and effort focussing on something trivial that they do understand than something complicated that they don’t" ? Or is it just that "if some knowledgeable type starts spouting big words about interest rates or health trust deficit management, this is going to alienate those who don’t follow or grasp such things" ?
Or is it really just that: "no matter how ignorant or stupid you think voters are, in reality they are much more ignorant and stupid than you can imagine."
Well, if you are interested, you can read all about it here:
Democracy v Psychology: why people keep electing idiots
"The 2015 election campaigns are under way, and it’s clear that doing or saying unintelligent things is no barrier to political success. Unfortunately, there are several psychological mechanisms that lead to apparent idiots being elected into powerful positions."
https://www.theguardian.com/science/brain-flapping/2015/apr/02/democracy-psychology-idiots-election
No longer is it The Catholic Boys Daily, or The Government Gazette, it's now "The Pamphlet for Geriatric Fascists" https://twitter.com/BernardKeane/status/1498399849984659459
ReplyDeleteWith your permission, DP - some of us gleaned Dame Groan's 'Electricity supply cannot be left to the private players. It’s an essential service and governments must be involved'.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if, in her time in South Australian academic economic areas, she read any of the history of the Electricity Trust there. What Playford did - conniving with Labor, if you please - was still subject of vigorous discussion in the larger houses in the leafy suburbs. I became acquainted with one lady, of a certain age, who several times told me that Playford was a traitor to his own class - and 'Father never cared for him'.
The lingering pain was because the Adelaide Electricity Supply Company had been a nice little addition to the share portfolios of the worthy, and that had all gone - at the stroke of a pen.
There are some wonderful speeches from the Upper House, as the Liberal Country members extolled the virtues of private property, 'free' enterprise and so on. The regular, plump, dividends were not mentioned as frequently.
It all goes in cycles.
Thanks Chadders, no permission is required, the pond is aware that Dame Groan has a fierce band of loyal, dedicated followers, and has done its best to cater for them. The news that Dame Groan is now a socialist in favour of publicly owned enterprises, and also a devotee of big government is exceptionally pleasing ... and who has not admired the venerable stobie pole, a tribute to government planning and aesthetics, and a tragedy this noble structure is not more widely used around the world ...
DeleteImagine that. Though Bolte did tolerate the SECV (which had been established in 1918, so just a decade or three older than SA's Trust) and it took that utter nong Kennett to sell it off as no less than 5 separate entities.
DeleteI think Playford and Bolte weren't all that unalike in many ways.
You might want to scan this, Chad:
DeletePlayford's lessons in power for the current SA Govt
https://indaily.com.au/opinion/2017/01/18/playfords-lessons-in-power-for-the-current-sa-govt/
That is quite a gem, GB, thank you. And, Dorothy - the Stobie pole should appear on more of those lists of Australian contributions to world technology. It is at least as significant as the Hills Hoist.
DeleteI think I've seen a Stobie or two even in Melbourne - if my alzheimered old brain could just remember where.
Delete"Take the UK, the West's second-strongest military power"
ReplyDelete...Tony Abbott
Heyyyyy Abbottttt,
Even Lou Costello would tell you that would be France.
Britain next then Italy and Turkey, then Germany
which has been getting a free ride for years
relative to it's economy and population.
You gotta be a bit tolerant of the Germans,JM. Being the primary instigators of WWII (and a major instigator of WWI) the Germans, like the Japanese, have tried to give a strong impression of being 'anti-war and anti-military'. Keep in mind that Germany originated a lot of very nasty war practices - eg from the shelling of Hartlepool in 1914 to the blitz on London in WWII (the beginning of 'total war'), plus, of course, the initiation of gas-warfare etc and lots of people still blame them for that sort of thing.
DeleteBut then I see now that a previous Japanese leader is pressing for the US (at least) to store nukes in Japan:
Japan should consider hosting U.S. nuclear weapons, Abe says
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2022/02/27/national/politics-diplomacy/shinzo-abe-japan-nuclear-weapons-taiwan/
How would that go down in the primary land of the Four ?
So is it time for both Japan and Germany to take up their previous militancy again ?
Hi GB,
ReplyDeleteI take your point but.
Germany for a long time was able to divert untold billions
into the economy and infrastructure instead of into NATO.
Actually I don't blame them, would we never spend a cent more
on death machinery. But the Germans could easily maintain
2 carrier task forces, one at sea and one back in port
for refitting and maintenance.
Letting their people put their asses on the line in the Persian Gulf
instead of it being just the Italians and French and Brits and us.
The old Prussian militarist class is long gone, Berlin can't use that
anymore as a reason they don't pull their weight, especially at sea.
As for the Japanese, because their constitution limits their force's
size what they have is superbly trained and modern.
Though they were mindful they weren't doing their share and other
avenues were used to make up for it.
For decades they have done an end run around budget and
forces limitations by pouring untold billions - secretly
taken from other budgetary items - into missile technology,
then handing over all their findings to us gratis.
Companies like Boeing then credited with another tech advance.
At least this was the case into the 1990's.
I guess what it boils down to is maybe there would
be more resources for projects here if the Germans had to foot the
huge bill to maintain 2 fleet carrier groups instead of me and mine
shelling out for 2 more US groups.
Don't mistake me, I would scrap and melt every one of those
weapons of war into Fords if I could.
I am just arguing the Germans pay their share if shares must be paid.
They shot at my father and 5 uncles for 3 years during the war,
maybe I feel they owe us.
Okay, I will get off my soapbox now.