The pond only starts with the bubble-headed booby - talk of the woke is the last refuge for scoundrels and reptiles - to note to the reptiles that perhaps loons scribbling about the woke might be the first columnists for the chop ... and because this loon reminded the pond of the epic Truss back-flip, U-turn, call it what you will, that sent James O'Brien right off ... with the concept of a 'coma quota' likely to be very handy when it comes to the pond's experience of life with the reptiles ... (with Crace on hols and no sign of hide or hair of the Hyde, the pond gets its jollies where it can).
For those who missed it, the Graudian provided a short summary here ...
Liz Truss has said an £8.8bn black hole in her savings budget caused by her abandoning a policy to cut public sector wages was not part of her “central costings” for funding a range of spending pledges, as she suggested the policy had been a “mistake”.
She also defended her stance on Brexit as a former remain supporter, claiming that the disruption she was concerned about prior to the referendum did not happen, despite the long queues recently seen at Channel crossings at the start of the school holidays.
Quizzed for the first time in front of Conservative members on a controversial policy that she was forced to U-turn on earlier this week, the frontrunner in the Tory leadership race said she never intended to slash the pay of teachers and nurses.
She made the comments despite her campaign having announced on Monday night a policy designed to reduce expenditure on civil service staff outside London.
“It was misinterpreted … by the media,” Truss told a crowd of Tory members in Cardiff, for the third hustings of the campaign.
A policy done and dusted within 24 hours, and it's all the fault of the media.
English politics seems to keep on giving endlessly and the prospect of someone that's a bigger and even more incompetent clown than Boris taking charge is intriguing ... though the long absent lord help Britain as it happens.
As for the bubble-headed booby, why does she want to return to old, hurtful, hateful ways? It's the reptile spirit, full of bullying and minority bashing, and perhaps reflects childhoods where the best sport was to take the different out the back of the school toilet and bash the shit out of them ... or in the case of mean girls, give them a good clawing and scratching, and a reminder that they'd never be the prettiest, and why not just eat a sleep-inducing apple?
Meanwhile, back at the lizard Oz, it was dinkum, clean, innocent coal all the way, digital and tree killer ...
Being a sucker for reptile trolling, the pond couldn't resist that teasing link to Carr nuking the planet, and so it gave up thoughts of starting with the hole in the bucket man ... though the pond couldn't work out if the whole Carrstrophic thing was a wondrous bit of satirical writing up there with Swift's idea of how to deal with surplus children ...
And so to a final gobbet, with the pond still undecided about the ancient politician's ability to troll ...
John Locke? Such a quaint turning back, and yet the pond found this abstract irresistible ...
Indeed, indeed, why would those pesky, difficult, uppity blacks want to speak for themselves when they might have the benefit of our Henry colonialsplaining to them the virtues of Victorian thinking?
Meanwhile, the Riddster was triumphant ... the pond had expected it, and had been standing by ...
The pond only decided to go with the triumphalism because it gave the pond a chance to link to this splash in the Graudian ...
What a soothing, heat reducing, everything's for the best in the best of all possible Riddster worlds opening there was to that splash ...
The devastating intensification of extreme weather is laid bare today in a Guardian analysis that shows how people across the world are losing their lives and livelihoods due to more deadly and more frequent heatwaves, floods, wildfires and droughts brought by the climate crisis.
The analysis of hundreds of scientific studies – the most comprehensive compilation to date – demonstrates beyond any doubt how humanity’s vast carbon emissions are forcing the climate to disastrous new extremes. At least a dozen of the most serious events, from killer heatwaves to broiling seas, would have been all but impossible without human-caused global heating, the analysis found.
Most worryingly, all this is happening with a rise of just 1C in the planet’s average temperature. The role of global heating in supercharging extreme weather is happening at “astonishing speed”, scientists say.
“The world is changing fast and it’s already hurting us – that is the blunt summary,” said Prof Maarten van Aalst, the director of the International Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre. The world is currently on track for a rise of at least 2.5C. Based on what we have experienced so far, that would deliver death and destruction far greater than already suffered.
The studies analysed used a scientific technique called attribution to determine how much worse, or more likely, an extreme weather event was made by human-caused global heating. The technique’s power is in drawing a direct link between the disasters that people suffer through and the often abstract increase in atmospheric greenhouse gases caused by the mass burning of fossil fuels since the Industrial Revolution. It brings the scientific reality of the climate crisis crashing home.
The climate information website Carbon Brief compiled a new database of attribution studies of more than 500 events – every such study available – and shared it exclusively with the Guardian. The analysis of the database and interviews with the world’s leading attribution scientists shows beyond any doubt that we are already deep into the era of climate death and destruction.
The pond will leave it there to finish off the Riddster's triumphalism, enjoying his brief moment in the sun ...
And there you have it. Whenever anyone asks the pond about the Riddster, it's enough to say that he went full IPA ... it's what happens to a lot of reptile minds.
When down on luck, Gina's mob offers some recompense ... though the pond still hasn't got to the deep mystery surrounding Dame Slap, briefly the chairperson and yet nowhere to be seen in the current list of Gina's lickspittle lackeys and forelock tuggers ... why even the Riddster gets a mention, alongside the onion muncher, but Dame Slap has been disappeared, and such is the lack of interest and attention to that wretched band of no-hopers, nobody seems to have noticed or cared ...
As for the coal beat-up, the best the reptiles could do was trot out simplistic "here no conflict of interest, no conflict of interest here" Simon ...
There was a Rowson to go with that Graudian story ...
But at the lizard Oz, they're still riding the clean dinkum innocent sweet Oz coal train ... with simpleton Simon promising the fire next time, apparently unaware that there's already plenty of fire to go around ...
The planet's fucked, and yet the reptiles go on in their dream world ... as if the economy is somehow separate from the heating, and as if climate science was entirely irrelevant, or best case, a distraction from the things that batter ...
And so to the hole in the bucket man, and the pond has only admitted our Henry on sufferance.
The pond is completely over the reptile bashing of the voice, the ritual of the daily black bashing, and ruled out petulant Peta yesterday for indulging herself, and should have done the same this day with our Henry ...
But the offering is so quaint, what with the man harking back to Victorian times and Ming the Merciless, that the pond simply didn't have the heart to send the pauper away empty-handed ...
Property lies at the heart of John Locke's Two Treatises of Government. The creation of property and its preservation constitute the foundation of the state of nature and civil society, respectively. Property, its origin and protection, are also central to England's colonial settlements in America and, by extension, to the Earl of Shaftesbury's Carolina. Locke's chapter on property is, simultaneously, a philosophical treatise expounding the natural right to property as the basis of civil government, an exposition of the economic benefits of the English plantation, and a defence of England's right to American soil. Locke uses the language of natural law to answer the questions posed by his patron's colonial policies in America. Within the specific context of the colonial debates about New England and Carolina occurring in England, Locke's chapter on property is an economic defence of England's colonial aims and methods in America. It is also an ethical justification of England's appropriation of American soil. (here)
Good old colonialism. Is there nothing it can't do? How many ways there are to justify appropriation ...
As for appropriation of ancient philosophers, that's what happens when all you've got is a telescope pointing the wrong way, and some chest beating about the 1967 referendum ... and then to compound the colonial mind set, our hole in the bucket man goes full Victorian ...
It was surely by this time easy to see why the pond had wanted to avoid the hole in the bucket man this day, but then it got even worse, with a dose of Ming the merciless ....
And that's how you play the hole in the bucket game. Note many dreadful errors, and then turn to the 1950s ... oh it was too much, and hadn't the reptiles recently run a piece deploring the way that some people lived in the past because they liked old pop music?
Never mind, it seems that this kind of endless black bashing is all the reptiles have left at the moment ...
Perhaps it's because other forms of bashing haven't been going so well, as outlined in Crikey (paywall), by Christopher Warren, which ended this way ...
“Woke inclusion” head-to-head with “deeply held religion” — in rugby league! For News Corp, this was too good to be true, a yarn just begging for the culture wars beat-up.
Turned out, it was a trap. Through Foxtel, News Corp is the NRL’s cable and streaming broadcaster, reportedly paying over $200 million a year for the rights. Sure, any controversy is good for ratings, but paying those bills calls for an audience well beyond the right-wing culture warriors who read their pay-walled mastheads.
Within 48 hours, News Corp found it struggling with the old question: what if you started a culture war and nobody came?
It started off okay for News. Although NRL boss Peter V’landys brushed the issue off with “we’re inclusive”, he stumbled with enough both-sidesing to give space to News’ jersey critics.
It was left to Manly’s rival on the night, Roosters coach Trent Robinson, to clean up for the code’s leadership in his pre-match interview. “To not be inclusive and not say ‘It’s OK to be who you are’ is unacceptable,” he said in congratulating Manly for the club’s stance.
On Fox Sports’ nightly flagship program NRL 360, players and coaches pushed back at attempts to enlist them. “Really?” asked former English prop James Graham. “That’s the hill you want to die on?”
Balmain star Benny Elias went further, saying that refusing to play in the rainbow jersey was “disgraceful”.
Finally, it fell to former Manly half-back and coach Geoff Toovey to shut the debate down: “I do believe that hopefully there is a higher power up there somewhere and I hope whoever it is that they’re not a bigot.”
By Thursday, the company was in clean-up mode with its more diverse rugby league audience. Fox Sports switched its Twitter feed to promoting pro-pride commentary, while over on its public-facing news product, news.com.au, op-eds supported the Manly position. In Thursday night’s match broadcast the battle front went largely unremarked.
The culture warriors had already moved on, to the proposed rainbow lighting at Melbourne’s Shrine of Remembrance to mark a display: Defending With Pride: Stories of LGBTQ+ Service.
News Corp’s Herald Sun tabloid led the way, creating a story drawing on outrage from commercial broadcaster Neil Mitchell and “veteran advocates”. Within days, they’d scored. The shrine cancelled the lights after threats and abuse of staff.
It quickly turned into an own-goal, with greater reporting about the display delivering an opportunity to put the issue up in, um, lights — metaphorically, at least. On Instagram the Shrine called them out: “We have seen something of what members of the LGBTIQ+ community experience every day. It is hateful.”
But on Sky after dark, the warriors were plodding on, with commentator Rita Panahi accusing supporters of the lights as “wanting a backlash, so then they could play the victim, and say look at us, we’re being oppressed again”.
Never mind the score — there’s always another outrage to beat up.
So it goes. The pond started with the bubble-headed booby bashing the woke, but it seems that the game is a tricky one, and so black bashing and making sure that a voice for Aboriginal people is extinguished will be the outrage to beat up for the rest of the year ... and our Henry is just the latest in an endless conga line of reptile thugs ...
And so to end proceedings with an immortal Rowe .... celebrating along with the Riddster ...
Damned chattering, wine-swilling women, but what's that figure in the background?
Why he looks like he's just about ready to nuke something or somebody ... is there a Carr in the house to help him with a Carrstrophic nuking?
Not really that relevant to Henry’s offering but I did come across a reference to Locke in some other reading (Why nations fail) that confirms that what he said was purely aspirational and not to interfere with the business of making money.
ReplyDelete“Another similar attempt was made later in 1663, with the founding of Carolina by eight proprietors, including Sir Anthony Ashley-Cooper. Ashley-Cooper, along with his secretary, the great English philosopher John Locke, formulated the Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina. This document, like the Charter of Maryland before it, provided a blueprint for an elitist, hierarchical society based on control by a landed elite.”
Basically, a manorial structure run for the benefit of a talentless elite. It all fell in a hole of course with the resultant structure largely dictated by pragmatism rather than philosophy.
“In all cases it proved to be impossible to force settlers into a rigid hierarchical society, because there were simply too many options open to them in the New World. Instead, they had to be provided with incentives for them to want to work.”
The point? It seems that philosophers, like economists and the odd (very odd) physicist who get published in the Oz will support almost anything if enough pennies cross the hand.
Befuddled - were you hinting that an odd physicist asserted that work by AIMS some years back was 'untrustworthy' only because it did not support consultancy work he had done for an industry sending sediments and other pollutants down stream to the Great Barrier Reef? If we are thinking about the same odd physicist, in the last few days he seems to have had a revelation - monitoring by AIMS is now to be accepted as trustworthy, because it supports one of his speculations.
DeleteAIMS is quite clear that its methods have been carefully controlled during this period - so successive observations are properly comparable. Essentially, they have not changed, so what part of the odd physicist's scientific reasoning has changed?
As an aside - I must say I have been in awe of an odd physicist's ability to persuade persons who did not know him personally, to subscribe amounts into the $millions, for his personal benefit. I suspect that is way more money than he pocketed from his consultancies.
No, no, Chad: the Riddler's scientific reasoning hasn't changed, the world has changed to conform to his scientific reasoning. Can't really be too critical with people who he (mistakenly) thinks have finally come to agree with him. Either that, or he's a bit disturbed by all of the science community's characterisation of him as a braindead r-soul.
DeleteBut Mr Carr what about Small Modular Reactors?
ReplyDelete"On Friday, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) announced that it would be issuing a certification to a new nuclear reactor design, from a company called NuScale, a small modular reactor"...
"The NRC will still have to weigh in on the sites where any of these reactors are deployed. Currently, one such site is in the works: a project called the Carbon Free Power Project, which will be situated at Idaho National Lab. That's expected to be operational in 2030 but has been facing some financial uncertainty. Utilities that might use the power produced there have grown hesitant to commit money to the project."
operational in 2030 but has been facing some financial uncertainty? Hmmm.
It's still only "a new nuclear reactor design", they can't even point to a working prototype, yet. So no wonder that the utilities "have grown hesitant to commit money to the project" they have no idea how much the electricity is likely to cost.
DeleteAlthough the Henry implies that he brings intellectual rigour to the discussion on ‘A voice’ in our constitution, he really is of a piece with Abbott and Abbott’s Booby, the contributors churning out their tedious repetitions for ‘Quad Rant’, Blot and his ilk on ‘Sky’, taking turns to have Senator Price as their favoured guest, ready to be fed a long statement from the Booby, or Blot, and say ‘Yes, that’s right!’ on cue.
ReplyDeleteThey all claim an intellectual high ground, that anything to do with ‘A voice’ will be divisive, so, in turn, lead to the ruination of the country. Some go further, and assert that such division is inherently demeaning to the target group.
None of them sees any contradiction right now in patronising a particular group of Australians, disapproving the behaviour of some in the communities of that group - well, Abbott called the quaint custom of people living where their ancestors had lived for perhaps 50 000 years a ‘lifestyle choice’, so not real communities then - and treating social problems in those communities with utter authoritarianism, maintained by uniformed members of the armed forces.
But these ‘solutions’ are only ever applied to persons of an identifiable kind - and in identifiable places - not to the rest of the country. I cannot recall any suggestions that the military might go around so-called sporting or social clubs in, say, Sydney, checking that persons are not taking money that would be better spent on their home and family, and ramming it into machines that have been very cunningly designed to trigger an emotional response in the user, that offers a few hours mental escape from the realities of their homes and families. It sure as hell is not about any real prospect of gaining money - poker machines are a remarkably efficient tax on stupidity.
As for the same military checking the IDs of young persons in what we are supposed to call ‘clubs’; and otherwise loading those who have taken in too much alcohol into padded wagons to return them to their homes, with stern lecture to parents, because - well, in those other communities, so much of the problem with the young comes from inadequate parenting. There have been some popular cartoons on just that issue.
Yep - rigour and consistency. The Henry can pummel you with quotes to the extent that you do not notice his own lacunae.
The whole 'anti-Voice' pileon in Murdochia has been very consistent and wide-reaching. Now, does that mean that somehow the reptiles in particular have all independently come to the same conclusion, or is it due to powerful demonic influence from the overlord.
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And while we're thinking of such things,
And while we're thinking of such things, what about DP's point about The Slap having become virtually, or maybe even actually, persona non gratia within the IPA ?
DeleteOooh:
ReplyDeleteWhat Is “Quiet Quitting” And Should You Try It?
https://junkee.com/quiet-quitting-tiktok/337935
That's new - nobody before has ever been hit for slacking on the job, have they. After all, the retiles all still have their jobs, don't they ?
Well, here’s a blast from the past - the SMH has been caught out promoting shonky “structured water”. It’s prompted comparisons with the efforts of Paul Sheehan, the Herald’s long-departed Magic Water Man. Ah, memories! https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/aug/05/sydney-morning-herald-slips-up-on-shape-of-water-nonsense
ReplyDeleteAhh, Ms Meade was running just a bit late today, good to see she's finally made it - and that she knows, and remembers, the wonders of Sheehan's "magic water".
DeleteAfter all, water has a lot of the foundation element of the entire universe in it so it must be magic: "God must love hydrogen atoms because He made so many of them."
Hi GB,
DeleteH2O is a remarkably stable molecule (magic, structured or otherwise) maybe more stable than we realise;
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/16/science/the-water-in-your-glass-might-be-older-than-the-sun.html
Delicious - Anony, thank you.
DeleteYeah, the Sun (ie Sol) is very much a youngster at only about 4 1/2 billion years old compared with the post 'big bang' universe at over 13 billion. So just about everything is older than Sol though our 'universe' didn't contain much other than hydrogen, some helium and a little bit of lithium until lots of early suns had gone nova.
DeleteSo just about everything in our bodies - and especially the carbon - was formed in supernova a very long time ago.
And talking about physics (sorry about the diversion, DP) here's the really important news:
ReplyDeleteOffshore wind energy locations unveiled
https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/national/2022/08/05/offshore-wind-energy-australia/?breaking_live_scroll=1
"Mr Bowen said consultation for the offshore wind projects near Gippsland would begin straight away. Details for consultation for the other five sites would be announced in due course.
It’s estimated the Gippsland proposal would be enough to power 1.2 million homes in Victoria, with the industry to create up to 8000 jobs a year once fully operational.
The announcement came a day after the Albanese government’s climate bill passed the House of Representatives."
Have I ever mentioned that the wind always blows on the East Gippsland coast ?