The pond can't take note of every piece of monstrous stupidity that gets to the top of the lizard Oz page, especially those which turn up late in the day as click bait, but the pond will make an exception for this desperate, pathetic attempt ...
What the fuck? Who are these "experts"? Don't the reptiles daily warn of the dangers of listening to "experts"?
What of historians ruined by the "toxic" impact of studying the past? What of the grand Judeo-Christian tradition which requires reptile celebration each day? Is there no room to zoom back a couple of thousand years to dwell with imaginary friends?
Who is this Sian Powell and did she make the mistake of publishing her toxic drivel outside the lizard Oz paywall?
And with that link, the pond's duty is done, with a warning that anyone who exposes themselves to the toxic sludge, deserves whatever might befall them ...
And so to today's grim business, an extended bout of black bashing.
Sure, it'll be dressed up as Albo bashing, but the real sport is to ensure that any talk of a voice is quenched, and to ensure that happens, the reptiles trotted out that ponderous, pontificating lump of golden age lead, nattering "Ned" ...
It goes without saying that Chicken Little "Ned" doesn't have the guts to come out and say directly that he's agin it.
"Ned's" style is to raise saucy doubts and fears, to dwell on the FUD, to talk of workability and yadda yadda, and here's more of that yadda ... prime bloated "Ned" FUD offered in an open-ended, unqualified and unlimited way ...
The pond knew that the grundle, grundling away yesterday about News Corp, was still a rank amateur in his herpetological studies.
The reptiles are going to keep grinding away, doing their best to establish a poisonous atmosphere.
It worked with the referendum on the republic, and it can be made to work again. Sure the voice will be trampled on, but the reptiles have got so little on Labor at the moment that they'll take anything, just for the pure spite of it ...
Hear the most patronising, condescending, pompous reptile scribbler of them all accuse others of being patronising ...
Um, that should have read "whether News Corp, and the chairman and the reptiles consent to giving a significant voice to pesky, difficult, uppity blacks, is entirely another matter ..."
"Ned's" work is almost done this day, but his final gobbet will offer a conundrum and the shadow of the reptiles as a final baleful threat, dressed up in the usual "Ned" way as the shadow of history, as if the pond hadn't learned from Powell that wallowing in history is toxic ...
Those who might think "Ned" was trying, in his tedious way to be balanced, should note the next prong in the reptile fork this day.
Of all the most wretched bits of nostalgia - take note Sian Powell - the reptiles decided to dust off toxic sludge from the past, and wallow in the thoughts of the onion muncher ...
Note how the "I" as prime minister sneaks in to everything this wallowing irrelevance offers, and note to that trading off on a snap of Noel in 2013.
Meanwhile, hapless Noel is off at the ABC, talking grandly of his vision ... the bloody cardigan wearers, while back at the lizard Oz, the reptiles make a nonsense of his hopes and dreams ...
There's more delusion
here, but here's the thing Noel. If you lie down with dogs, you come up with fleas; if you do the dance with reptiles, you'll end up with claw marks; and if you suck up to the likes of the onion muncher, expect to enjoy the putrid smell of raw onions on your breath from here to eternity, and that's a very unique long time...* (*ABC News patented and approved)
Uh huh ... here's a bit more of Noel, somehow imagining what's on offer would appeal to constitutional conservatives and the lizards of Oz and his old onion-eating mate ...
Um, Noel, why not have a word with your old onion-eating mate, who comes up with a zinger in his next gobbet.
Spoiler alert for "Ned". Here's how you do patronising and condescending, as in this par nonpareil about "Yolngu country", dripping, neigh oozing. with racial superiority ...
Still with the "I as prime minister", and still living in the past, and yet Sian Powell was rabbiting on about the toxic effect of enjoying old music, and so much for fucking Beethoven and Shakespeare and all the rest that the reptiles otherwise rabbit on about ...
And so to a final example of genuine toxic sludge ...
Sorry Noel, you picked the wrong horse, and likely enough your reward will be a trip to the glue factory, in company with the worst Australian prime minister in living memory, and as that includes the speaker in tongues, that's a significant achievement. Not that Sian Powell would know, because apparently the pleasure of knowing that the onion muncher is even more dire than Billy McMahon involves a dangerous wallowing in nostalgia ...
And so to a few brief notices in lieu of a bonus ...
You see, this day Dame Slap was blathering on about super in the usual way, what with reptiles terribly keen to get unions out of the game.
The pond has been down this road so many times with the Dame, that it were as tedious returning as to go o'er, and the only point worth knowing was that Dame Slap applied the blowtorch to the teals and the greenies ...
Dame Slap entitled to ask a few questions? So that's what a preening sense of entitlement looks like, or should the pond be talking of straw dogs, and the astonishing sight of Dame Slap expecting to bend the likes of the greenies and Pocock to her will?
Meanwhile the pond has to revert to a cartoon to discuss the dire state of the Dominator and his merry crew ...
Oh dear, both the immortal Rowe and Wilcox under the influence of scatological studies ... and now if non-cockroach types would just cease their laughter, the pond should also note that the bromancer was out and about regarding a review of defence, but was on his best dull behaviour, with this dull conclusion ...
You see how modest he is? Suddenly the bromancer is subsumed by "many strategic analysts", and so the pond will wait until the full-blown bromancer reemerges to rant about missiles, drones, sea mines and such like, along with a special mention of the complete uselessness of tanks ...
It'll come, the lid will blow, the volcano cannot be held in check long, and then the pond will be there to watch the lava flow ...
Meanwhile, it's left to the immortal Rowe to note another game that is fun to play, with more fun and games and cartoons to be found here ...
Oh yes, the pond gets a particular pleasure zooming in on that detail ...
"What of historians ruined by the "toxic" impact of studying the past?" Yeah, and what about a whole industry based on yesterday's "classical" music ? Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Mahler, Wagner and even Copland - all to be thrown into the landfill waste bin ?
ReplyDeleteNeedless Ned: "Yet the Australian people cannot be expected to vote in favour of a voice merely because of basic principle and recognition of Indigenous peoples." Oh yes I can: basic principle and recognition of peoples sounds good to me, there's no "merely" to any of that.
ReplyDeleteBesides, isn't Noodlenutted Neddy himself a hangover from the past that serious reptiles are warning us is not good at all: "people should face life as it is" Sian the Strident instructs us, and Nodding-off Ned sure ain't "life as it is".
So according to Ned: "Given that Indigenous people are spread across every section of the Australian community, virtually every proposal before parliament and government will be "matters relating" to Indigenous peoples." Strewth, sounds just like they're actual vocal, even voting, citizens like the rest of us, doesn't it. No wonder the reptiles are entirely agin it.
So, from Neddles: "That is, it [the Voice] would seek, by it's advice, to correct or reverse the parliament." And there's just nobody and nothing else in Australia seeking to do that, is there: no IPAs or Murdoch media, or Business Councils or religious organisations or Getups or trades unions or political party organisations or just groups of 'concerned citizens' that do that, is there. Not a single one; never has been, never will be.
Nedded again: "Aboriginal people see this in power terms and as the pathway to obtaning substantial polcy changes." And why shouldn't they; the Murdoch media sees their "voice" in exactly the same way, so there can't be anything wrong with that.
Seeing Noel Pearson calmly and logically show appreciation for the Albanese speech and intention on 7.30 was soothing and inspiring. The mutual respect between Pearson and the host was palpable.
ReplyDeleteIn an alternative world, it would have been a moment that caused Nullus Ned and the Onion Muncher to stop. To think. To consider. And perhaps back off for a while and leave process to the adults.
But no. Not this week. Do go on lads!
"Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer
DeleteThe slings and arrows of outrageous Murdochians,
Or to take arms against a sludge of reptiles
And by opposing screw them."
The mostly moratoriumed Muncher: "I'm all in favour of recognising Indigenous people in our Constitution, but not if it means making a race-based body part of our parliament and not if it means changing our system of government." Well good, since it means neither and therefore can be unstintingly supported by all of the "we are one, but we are many" peoples.
ReplyDeleteBesides, being a whitey pomegranate himself, the Muncher might just want to recall the White Australia policy when everything in Australia was 'race based', including the Constitution that studiously avoided any mention of "aboriginals", at least until 1967. Especially the right to become Australians and live, work and vote here. All those POC 'foreigners' were banned, even including the ones that were here first and who died on our battlefields for us (and were the first to take a cricket team back to the "Mother Country").
But hold on, when we say "whiteys" do we mean that the Irish and Scots and a few others (traces of Roman, Viking and Spaniards) were all the same "race" as the mixed-past Saxon-Brittanic-Anglo whiteys ? And if they were, where exactly does "race" come in to it ?
And here comes a Brittle Bromancer: "Many strategic analysts ahve argued that Australia needs much greater missile, drone, sea mine and de-mining capabilities, as well as more secure military and logistics supply lines, and a substantially larger air force to have any chance of sustaining any response in contested circumstances." Ok, I'll be Bro-Bunny: just how much of all of that do we need to be able to sustain a response against China for more that about 60 minutes ? And "secure military and logistics supply lines"? Does he mean we'll have to burrow a tunnel under the oceans to America to avoid having very vulnerable sea and air "supply lines"?
ReplyDeleteOoops
ReplyDeleteWomen may not live longer than men after all – study
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/aug/03/women-may-not-live-longer-than-men-after-all-study
Life expectancy versus life span.