The pond overdid the reptiles on the weekend, too much like Hot x buns and hollow, meaningless chocolate, and yet along with the nausea and the regret comes the never-ending insatiable appetite ... just that last after dinner mint, waiter, if you please ...
This day the reptiles were back in strength, and devotion to coal was the theme, together with the reptiles own insatiable lust for Klive's kash in the klaw ...
The dinkum love of clean, innocent, wondrous Oz coal purity test also led the top of the digital edition ...
The reptiles also trotted out the dog botherer for a full-throated bout of climate science denialism, but the pond has seen it all before and decided to send the doggie boy to the afternoon kennel ...
Instead the Caterist was to hand with an attack on those dreadful greenies... and you might say, what's so different about that to the doggie boy, and of course the pond has no answer, except to note that it's hard to tell between the farmers and the pigs when it gets to a chin wag ...
There is one difference between the doggie boy and the Caterist: the Caterist is shorter, and that will allow the pond to slip in the Major and the Oreo ... because if you're going to binge, binge in style, and if you feel like vomiting it all up, don't let the pond stop you ...
Coming from the land of Tuckyo Carlson, that talk of the appeasement of tyrants was wonderfully rich, and the pond could almost feel a Technicolor yawn swelling up deep within ...
Now the Climate 200 candidates are proxies for the diabolical greenies?
But last week weren't they diabolical proxies for the diabolical Labor party? The pond finds it so hard to keep up with the changes to the rules posted on the barn door ...
And so to the Major ... and the pond makes no false promises and offers no false advertising. As usual, the Major will bang on about the ABC and the Graudian and such like ...
So there you have it. SloMo did tremendously well, and yet none of it was due to him, it was all the state governments ...
But why does the pond insist on logic, when in the country of the blind, the one-eyed parrot is king?
1989! By golly the Major is in top form though once again the pond was reminded of the bleating in Media Watch ...
15 years ago? The pond is hopeless at maths and realises that when an event falls in a year might change the year count, but still 15 up against the Major's 33 years is pretty rich ...
But then the pond does sometimes refer to the Major's amazing search for the lost Order of Lenin medal, and that does prove that a goose finds it hard to change feathers ... so perhaps we should tar and feather everyone for ancient thoughts ...
Indeed, indeed, nothing to do with Labor, and in fact nothing has anything to do with Labor ever ... why, that victory in the second world war was solely due to the slashing arrival of the United States, the extended and vulnerable Japanese supply lines, and a jolly good nuking of the kind John Howard always applied ...
Or some such, the pond always gets a little delirious towards the end of a Major reading ...
So how would the reptiles react if SloMo accepted the realities of climate science and abandoned coal? Oh okay the pond was only joking ... there are some lands above the faraway tree that you simply can't visit ...
And so to the recovering reformed feminist, and herein lies a tale of deep unhappiness, with the Oreo acting as spiritual counsellor ...
You can see why the pond had to slip it in, and why the pond immediately prescribed a course of Dr. Oz supplements ...
Now back to the suffering Oreo ...
The Heritage Foundation? Happiness is a warm pile of Supreme Court judges ...
And it worked ... the pond felt strangely happy and ready to toss in a final gobbet of Oreo ...and it was a very short serve ...
Yes, you too could become a recovering, reformed feminist and write uplifting columns for the lizard Oz about the way the rapture is imminent ...or even a truly clunky line saying "we live in a happy country andn the time for women to realise their potential has never been better ..."
By golly, the Oreo is even more depressed than the pond realised ...
Never mind, in its eternal quest for happiness, the pond will settle for a couple of reheated infallible Pope cartoons ...
The Cater - ‘unnecessary or pernicious employment for graduates with blathery degrees’. And he, Cater, considers that part of the ‘woke’ economy? Self-satire at its sharpest.
ReplyDeleteHe's very good at self-satire isn't he - almost enough to make one think that it just comes naturally without any thought or intention.
DeleteThe Maj. brain-farting about Gonski: "When Turnbull launched Gonski 2 in 2017, the plan increased federal funding to schools by $30bn over 10 years. Then-opposition leader Bill Shorten claimed this was really a cut of $22bn over what should have been spent. The ABC, Guardian Australia and many at the Nine newspapers accepted Shorten's line that a rise was actually a cut."
ReplyDeleteAnd that utter goony-bubble was "Editor-in-Chief' of the Australian from 2002 to 2015. How to destroy a once moderately respectable broadsheet without having to work at it. How much nonce does it take to understand that a nominal increase can actually be a real decrease. Maybe Mitch. should have a chat with the folks progressively defunding the ABC that way - but no, he just wouldn't understand, would he.
Re-reading the Cater (if Dorothy has to suffer in putting this material before us, we should share the suffering) - much of what he identifies for criticism in policies of the Greens rather mirrors how Norway is set up now. Its social services, and health and medical support for its citizens, are similar to the other Scandinavian countries, while its state fund is similar in value to our nett debt. Its industries show how ‘the state’ can promote goods and services and carefully focussed hi-tech jobs.
ReplyDeleteOh, and what is undoubtedly an economically suicidal emissions reduction target. I mean - great uptake of electric vehicles, promoted by a government.
All in all - a noteworthy disaster. Which must be why Norway is well above us on the ‘GDP per capita’ tables - and with a more even distribution of that GDP across its capitas.
Now if only the Norwegians would stop exporting oil (major contributor to the state fund) and killing whales ...
DeleteI wonder if the Greens read Salon magazine:
ReplyDeleteIt's time to nationalize the fossil fuel industries: That'll trigger the right! Un-American, you say? Tell that to FDR, Nixon, Reagan, Bush and Obama, who all nationalized major industries.
https://www.salon.com/2022/04/15/its-time-to-nationalize-the-fossil-fuel-industries-thatll-trigger-the-right_partner/
Thanks Joe - interesting item - and looks like a site worth visiting again.
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