It should always be remembered that the bromancer is a fundamentalist tyke.
He might turn up on the ABC, smiling and blathering away, because that's the ABC's cardigan wearing two siderism at work in a woke way, but essentially, it's just a mask, and he's a fundamentalist tyke, and understanding and remembering this is the only way to approach today's offering ...
The pond isn't going to argue with a fundamentalist tyke, nor note the logic, as per Clarence, that the Supreme Court implausibly found in favour of contraception, same sex sex, same sex marriage, and mixed race marriages, so that Clarence might embark on marital life. Go Clarence, get stuck in to those snakes on a plane, or perhaps call on Sam to help ...
Three fifths of an originalist Supreme Court judge coming to you soon ...
The pond long ago gave up arguing with a fundamentalist tyke pretending that taking away rights is a form of democracy. So instead the pond will slip in a few cartoons ...
Now back to the fundamentalist tyke bullshit ...
It is of course a typical fundamentalist Catholic tyke debating trick ... seize on a single example of someone exercising a choice, while arguing in a way that deprives women of choice ...
The pond could dig up personal examples of its own ... like the adopted child who returned to the pond's extended family in search of its long lost natural mother, only for the mother, still a Catholic, still consumed by guilt, to reject any advances from the child.
Oh it's a tough world, and there's going to be much unhappiness, from the needless deaths in backyard abortions, to the victims of rape and incest carrying their assailants babies to term, to a boom in the Catholic adoption system, and never mind past horror stories of disposable bodies buried willy nilly, to children wondering why they were handed off for adoption, and what might have happened to their natural parents ...
None of this matters to your fundamentalist tyke ...
Uh huh, a fundamentalist tyke keen to crank up the Catholic adoption ponzi scheme system again would say that, wouldn't he, because there's nothing like being the product of rape or incest to induce peace of mind and harmony in an adoption ... and if your mother happens to die while giving birth, what a bonus sense of the rightness of the world ...
And as for dividing the country, where's the harm in a civil war?
The pond thought it would throw in that last cartoon as a reminder that there's going to be new and enhanced ways to kill off the excess of babies ...
And so to a last very short gobbet of fundamentalist tyke bullshit ...
Written by a complacent white Australian male, always available for ABC appearances ...
Luckily the infallible Pope has returned this day to celebrate the state of the union ...
What a relief to turn to the squawking of Bella of the IPA ...
Indeed, indeed, the game of woke and all that from Bella of the IPA, and the pond couldn't help be reminded of all those bloody Marxists ruining the country, as turned up in Crikey yesterday ...
It's a matter of some pride for the pond - in fact it's the pond's whole business model - that there are some marvelous fruitloops out there on public transport ...
Catch a bus today, or in Melbourne a tram, and watch out for the bloody Marxists all around you, and give thanks to Hollie for the warning ...
And speaking of fruitloops, today is Dame Groan day, and the pond hasn't forgotten the devotion and loyalty the Groaner's groaning inspires in the pond readership, but really today is a very dry as dust edition, and the bromancer and Bella have shown what the very best of the reptiles can really do ...
Of course the NSW government was up to its blatant misrepresentations and cooking and long stewing of the books long before the keen Kean turned up to supervise the simmering, but the pond suspects that this is a handy time for the Groaner to have a groan, because she surely must fear and loathe this simpering wet, always banging on about climate science ...
Sheesh, this is dry stuff. Of course it's entirely wrong for governments to fix things, it goes right against the grain. Special mental health levies ..."even on companies"!!!
Oh, as Marlon might say, the horror, the horror ...
Is there no end to the horrors the Groaner must confront, while no doubt still pocketing a healthy, if much reduced stipend, from Chairman Rupert ...
But because of the dryness, might the pond just slip in a leftover cartoon ...
What a threesome, and so to the final gobbet of groaning about all that bloody pork barreling, as if the country isn't in urgent need of federal carparks ...
Well it wouldn't be a decent Groan if the Groaner hadn't done a groan involving dear sweet innocent beloved clean Oz coal, and the important role it plays in state budgets and fucking the planet ... and now the pond considers its duties done for this day, and offers some pious advice as a closer, even as the pond knows that the advice will be ignored, such is the state of wilful ignorance, superstition, and stupidity these days in the union devoted to the Talibanisation of hand maidens...
Oh yes, the fundamentalist tykes are a joy; so the Bro tells us: "At the other end, the orthodox Christian view is that from the moment of fertilisation a human life is present and should be protected." So now we know, the soul is infused into a handful of cells busily trying to divide and replicate and diverge according to their genes. Fabulous. Except that, according to the Mayo clinic "About 10 to 20 percent of known pregnancies end in miscarriage. But the actual number is likely higher because many miscarriages occur very early in pregnancy — before you might even know about a pregnancy."
ReplyDeletehttps://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/pregnancy-loss-miscarriage/symptoms-causes/syc-20354298
So, are miscarriages merely God's abortions ? Why else would someone who is omniscient, omnipotent, immutable, immanent and transcendent and who creates universes and souls, design and make a creature (us) where so many souls don't even make it out of the womb ? Will God be arrested and charged in Texas ?
So the Bro tells us that: "The ethical concern about pregnancy termination has nothing to do with sexual morality, still less gender inequality. It is a genuine concern that human life should be protected as far as possible." Really ? Then how does war fit into that scenario ? Will war be outlawed too ? And why does God allow so many ensouled collections of cells to die before being born, some even before their existence is noticed ?
The Bro instructs us 'that human life should be protected as far as possible' does he? I would be interested in his suggestions for the findings of the 2017 review by Gavin Jarvis, of Cambridge, titled -
Delete‘Early embryo mortality in natural human reproduction: What the data say”
Jarvis main statement is ‘A recent re-analysis of hCG (human chorionic gonadotrophin) study data concluded that approximately 40-60% of embryos may be lost between fertilisation and birth, although this will vary substantially between individual women’.
Human chorionic gonadotrophin is taken as a diagnostic indicator that an embryo has implanted - so is not good for covering the about 7-10 days before that, while the fused cell (zygote) divides as it passes down the fallopian tube, seeking a place to settle. It is difficult to determine how many embryos of about 150 cells simply miss that opportunity.
It would have to start with a total re-design of domestic wastewater systems. Of course, it is very likely that the Governors of assorted southern members of what used to be the United States of America, who blather on Fox now in the same way as the Bro, and refer to 'all that we have learned in the last 30 years' and exhort their constituents to 'follow the science' - if is very likely that they have commissioned studies into how to 'save' all those lost zygotes/early embryos and bring them to full development. Aldous Huxley had a few ideas, as I recall.
A truly messy and very sub-optimal business, the biochemistry of living reproduction, isn't it. Still, those numbers quiesce my doubts about humans when I always wondered why so few 'intercourses' between apparently healthy and vigorous homo saps saps resulted in successful pregnancies.
DeleteI wonder how our statistics compare with other mammals.
I would be surprised if Bella even knows the difference between Rugby Union and Rugby League, let alone take any real interest in the goings on in the 15 a side game - but that of course doesn’t stop an IPA operative shoving in and pontificating. Rugby still has a very strong tweed jacket and leather patches brigade, so the description of the ARU as “woke” is laughable - unless you want to use that term to describe sacking a player (after numerous warnings) for repeatedly sending homophobic texts in clear breech of his contract. Bella may also be unaware that sports rename trophies all the time, for all sorts of reasons (not least commercial sponsorship - does Bella object to that?). “Wokeness” aside, might not the sport’s Powers That Be have simply decided it would be a nice idea to name a trophy after a couple of notable players, rather than a bloke who had no connection with the game of Rugby, and in fact died several decades before it became recognised as a sport? But of course, that would provide little opportunity for confected outrage.
ReplyDeleteThere's a few members of the 'tweed jacket and leather patches brigade' that would qualify as 'woke' now, I reckon Anony. The age of the Boomers is just about over.
DeleteBut a crusade against 'woke' is just a filler until they reckon they've got enough on the Labs to seriously go after them. After all, it is over 9 years since the last time they did that, and they're just feeling their way back into form.
IIRC St Thomas Aquinas believed that life began some three(?) months after conception. But what would he know? (see https://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/religion-and-beliefs/catholic-church-teaching-on-abortion-dates-from-1869-1.1449517 )
ReplyDelete"Is there no end to the horrors the Groaner must confront...". Well no, because she'll just keep finding new ones. Even so, I reckon she just might have got this one right: "But instead of fixing the supply side of the market, state governments implement schemes designed to assist first-home buyers, in particular. By driving up demand, they contribute to the problem they are seeking to address." In short, everything they do to supposedly make houses easier to buy just brings in more buyers which thus increases the house-price and makes them harder for first-home buyers to afford.
ReplyDeleteAnd they just never seem to notice that.
Now here's something:
DeleteA million homes sitting empty, ABS Census reveals
https://www.australianpropertyjournal.com.au/2022/06/28/a-million-homes-sitting-empty-abs-census-reveals/
Hi Dorothy,
ReplyDelete“Much reaction, naturally, is hysterical.”
Sheridan is either being even more offensive than usual or, as he has never struck me as the sharpest tool in the box, totally unaware of the origins of hysterical or hysteria.
Hystera is the Greek for the uterus or womb and for literally thousands of years going back to the Ancient Egyptians, female emotions or behaviour was attributed to issues with the womb. For the Egyptians disturbances were due to a wandering uterus.
The Greeks and the Romans followed suit in believing the womb was at the heart of female behaviour and the inability to have children or just the refusal to marry led to hysteria.
Later St.Augustine believed human suffering resulted from sin and so hysteria was thought to be due to satanic possession therefore requiring prayer or even possibly exorcism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hysteria
In one way maybe Sheridan is right.
These women are quite rightly angry, distraught and emotionally excitable, as in an all too real way, they have lost control of their womb.
:)³, and cue hysterical laughter ...
DeleteAs you are offering us a choice for the Bro's bone-headedness, DW - I would vote for 'never the sharpest tool'. Like many of his faith, who seem so sure that they, uniquely, are following the 'right' way, he is unlikely to process mentally the idea that what he writes could be offensive to those not of the 'true' faith. He just does not connect disparate recollections from his early teenage years in the redemptorist seminary with what other people might be experiencing, or thinking.
ReplyDeleteAh, well considering human 'generations', Chad, I would consider the invention of "religion" as the single greatest backward step of our species which several centuries of very successful science has been completely unable to overcome.
DeleteIt's all down to compartmentalisation, I suspect, as even some of our "greatest" scientists have also believed the most appalling, irrational nonsense. But maybe the real problem is that so very few of us make any real attempt to investigate the mutual consistency of the things we believe.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-06-28/church-of-the-flying-spaghetti-monster-attracts-more-pastafarian/101189332?utm_campaign=abc_news_web&utm_content=link&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_source=abc_news_web
DeleteThere is some hope, GB.
Thanks for that Chadwick - it's on my bucket list to view the Church in Colac.
DeleteOh my, a real Aussie Church of the FSM, and in Colac of all places. Enjoy your visit, Joe, but Colac is a little bit far for me to want to drive nowadays.
DeleteBut anyway, its 'all the benefits of religion without any of the bullshit of religion' I reckon, Chad, so thanks for the pointer. One of the main attractions about Loonpond is the number of people, and especially our gracious hostess, who do seem to have some rational consistency in their belief set as I dearly (desperately ?) hope I do.
The pond did enjoy that and would like to place it on the record ...
DeleteWhen Census night 2021 rolled around, Pirate Priestess Angela Carter and her husband Captain Colin "Cupcakes" Carter followed an instruction from their leader and selected the "no religion" option where the nationwide survey asked respondents about their religious affiliations.
Yet the Carters are actually among a growing number of Australians who consider themselves to be Pastafarians, or members of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
They are also ministers and owners of the only recognised church of their faith in the country, but they checked the "no religion" box because they didn't want to be counted as Christians in the census.
Their faith has been seen by some as a satire mocking other religions, but members of the largely online community say it espouses values of respect and common decency.
While the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster has varying degrees of acknowledgement in some countries, it is not recognised in Australia.
Nevertheless, its devotees are among a growing contingent of people turning their backs on more traditional religions, according to the latest census data.
It was Captain Cupcakes that did it for the pond ...
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-06-28/church-of-the-flying-spaghetti-monster-attracts-more-pastafarian/101189332