Given the recent fuss about microphones, the pond decided to do a little explore, and sure enough the two Musks of their day - Edison and Bell - always with a sharp eye for ripping others off and claiming the credit - still remain household names, at least in households not dedicated to bigotry and ignorance - while the man who filed the patent, Emile Berliner, remains largely unheralded, or worse, confused with Adolf.
Even more ironic, Berliner was an agnostic Jew ...
The pond did appreciate an attempt to give James West the credit for inventing a particular form of much used microphone, but the Jews have it ...
What else? Well it wasn't astonishing that Warnock won, it was astonishing that the state of Georgia came within a bee's whisker of having 50% of the state vote for a spectacular maroon of the first water.
What's that you say? Tamworth regularly supplies the vote that sees Barners score a seat in parliament, so perhaps the pond shouldn't be so righteous ...
Fair cop, and no need to mention the member for the Philippines or the rest of the loons and of course all this is a filibuster, as the pond must begin to explain why it can't be fucked covering the reptiles this day.
For a start, petulant Peta indulging in the now regular reptile sport of black bashing and so is right out ...
How tiresome and tedious they are.
It's the reptile way isn't it, to run the debate off the rails and then whine and moan at how the debate has gone off the rails ... get 'em coming and going, and that's how you can briefly fuck a country by telling an onion muncher what to do ...
The comments section was equally unappetising, a bucket of onions ...
The pond has never been able to develop a taste for that rat from the deep north ranks, the minor Milner, and where were all the reptiles to shed a tear and cry alarums at the latest reptile EXCLUSIVE?
Not dear, sweet, innocent, pure, dinkum, clean Oz coal? Where's Lloydie of the Amazon when he's needed? Guess it's back to nuking the country ... and then the planet.
Just as the pond was contemplating declaring an early start to the holydays, the bromancer turned up, to turn his gimlet eye on Georgia ... and there only being werewolves and vampires in the vicinity ...
... perforce the pond had to give the bromancer a run.
On the upside, it was short, though the usual bromancer humbug pervaded proceedings ...
Right at the end, the bromancer lets out a cry of pain, and spoiler alert, the pond will reproduce it here.
"Many accusations made against Trump are not true, or greatly exaggerated."
They can't resist, can they, still feeding the chooks the line of persecution and paranoia ... and yet ...
Okay, okay, the pond is feeling a little light-headed, and the bromancer does get around to recognising that Faux Noise and the Murdochians, have done their level best to encourage a disaster, and now it's a bit tricky walking it back ...
Finally, his only real crime, he's a loser? What about all the other crimes? He could have burned the constitution on fifth avenue if only he hadn't been a loser?
... except perhaps a festering, stinking swamp full of mugwumps ... (Republicans or Burroughs' kind, as you like).
And so to the bonus, and very reluctantly, the pond turned to the Killer ...
The pond finds the subject of Hunter Biden's cock a trifle weird, all the more so when the pond's partner began to speculate if it was of John Holmes' proportions ...
You can see that 12" wonder on parade in the Australian doc Not Quite Hollywood, but the pond recommends the fake one given to Mark Wahlberg in Boogie Nights ... (shame on Wahlberg for disavowing the only movie where he actually delivered a performance, but maybe he thought his real cock should have been shown).
Okay, the pond digresses yet again, though it's because of a deep shame.
You see, the pond can't be bothered arguing with Killer - he's such a futtock of far right punditry - so it turned to the good folk at
The Bulwark, and in particular Mona Charen's
Why the Right needs Hunter Biden.
Being former GOP types, they know where the bodies are buried, and the pond decided to deploy its notorious William Burroughs' cut and paste method to tackle Killer's paranoid ranting (luckily no mention of masks to set him right off) ...
Miranda the Devine for a Pulitzer? The pond wants what the Killer is shooting straight into the eyeball, so it can give its own eyeball an undiluted kick ...
Now it's true that Charen's argument could be summarised in a cartoon ...
... but please maestro, the first sample in the pond's filched William Burroughs' method ...
The only question here is whether Killer qualifies as one of the usual suspects?
The pond suspects he's just a part of the chorus, singing along ... though he does seem to have learned his lines and any hint of being out of tune would be hidden by the size of the choir ... and so it's on to the next Killer gobbet ...
"It's almost as if ..."
That's as in, "it's almost as if a fuckwit of the Killer kind was attempting to stoke paranoia and idle speculation" ... and putting his thumb up his arse ...
Meanwhile, what happens when you take your eye of the game, and you get a pick or a fumble?
Sorry, sorry, the pond was supposed to have left the bromancer behind and be doing its patented Burroughs' method, so here's another slice of Mona ... with the reptiles scoring a mention ...
And so on, and that sets the scene nicely for the final Killer gobbet, and how sweet it is not to argue, but to just provide a link to that Cathy Young
Bulwark note, which you can find here down the page under the header
About that Twitter "bombshell" ...
On with Killer imagining he's a bombshell, though he's sounding more like a dud rocket in an Oscar Wilde fairy story ...
Enjoy the Twitter files while you can? What a goose he is, and a corn-fed one at that, though turning him into a pâté would forever ruin the notion that it's a luxury item ...
And now for the pond to offer, in its lazy way, a final gobbet from Mona, because dammit, she deserves the final word after that Killer stew of nonsense ...
The Killer as Lady Macbeth?
Well if Rudi can dress up in drag, and the Oathkeepers and the mango Mussolini still cheer him on ...
... then surely the Killer could take a shot at it ...
Out, damned spot! out, I say!--One: two: why,
then, 'tis time to do't.--Hell is murky!--Fie, my
lord, fie! a scribbler, and afeard? What need we
fear who knows it, when none can call our Faux Noise power to
account?--Yet who would have thought the old man
to have had so much blood in him.
The thane of Murdoch had a Killer wife: where is she now?--
What, will these hands ne'er be clean?--No more o'
that, my lord, no more o' that: you mar all with
this starting.
Here's the smell of the blood still: all the
perfumes of the lizard Oz, the Times and the WSJ will not sweeten this little
hand. Oh, oh, oh!
Wash your hands, put on your nightgown; look not so
pale.--I tell you yet again, Herschel's buried; he
cannot come out on's grave... unless mayhap he really is a vampire ...
And after all that nonsense, how pleasing to end on a palate-cleansing infallible Pope, and be reminded of domestic games afoot ...
Is that Ted 'the man from Cancun' Cruz's face we see under the piano lid ? Hmmm.
ReplyDelete"Teen at Sen. Ted Cruz's home hospitalized after 'self-inflicted cutting' emergency call"
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/teen-at-sen-ted-cruzs-home-hospitalized-after-selfinflicted-cutting-emergency-call/video/354825d6522c568488901509da542adf
So indeed, the Bro has adopted the Slap's MAGA cap finally. Saves her from admitting she ever wore it, I guess. "Many accusations made against Trump are not true, or greatly exaggerated." he says.
ReplyDeleteWell that's kinda easy to say, isn't it. No mention of how "many" accusations that is, or how serious they are, but "not true, or greatly exaggerated" just rolls off the tongue, or the keyboard, without any effort, or any honesty, doesn't it.
But hey, that's the reptile way: "if I don't ever mention it again, then it never really happened" so just by never mentioning a great many of Trump's lies and acts of crookedness, they can be happily ignored. And the Bro is a past master at that.
I would have thought the notable thing about Trump is that the facts keep piling up
Deletehttps://abcnews.go.com/Politics/president-trumps-team-recovered-classified-documents-search/story?id=94721758
Bo Jo, Trump, Morrison and just about anyone the Bro supports all turned out to be who they appeared to be at the first glance, but apparently this isn't a pattern, it's just a series of unforeseeable surprises.
And Mutt the Dutt still to come, though he is working real hard at it.
DeleteAnd now we can also wait to see what John 'almost lost the seat again' Pesutto can contribute.
Setting aside the temptation to write 'If Miranda deserves a Pulitzer for her forensic coverage - Pul the other one'. Does our Killer understand what 'forensic' means?
ReplyDeleteBut set such indulgences aside - of course we should all be chastised by the opinions of Glencore's board and executives, even though that corporation seems to have the ethics of the characters who knock on your door and tell you they have a truck of readymix, surplus to a big order, and will do you a driveway - just as soon as you can run your credit card through this portable gadget they just happen to have with them.
More detail on Glencore ethics readily available on the 'Wiki' - for which I have recently renewed my contribution (declaration of interest).
I find it very hard to grasp that KillerC understands what anything means, Chad. He lives in a reptile/wingnut universe that I have no access to.
DeleteStrange to talk about an entity such as 'Glencore' having 'ethics' isn't it. How can a bunch of people who individually have no ethics form a 'corporation' that behaves quite unethically.
GB - much of the mention of Glencore in various news sites, and the Wiki, is to do with bribes paid to administration personnel in assorted African nations for access to resource prospects, coupled with minimal liability for royalties or taxes on their subsequent operations. Glencore administration responds to almost all of this with statements along the lines of 'We have set aside $1.5 billion to pay expenses and fines arising out of these (many) cases. We expect that penalties will not require all of that $1.5 billion, so all is well.'
DeleteI have now listened to 3 or 4 orations from Raphael Warnock and I have an idea
ReplyDeletehe studied many of Frederick Douglas's and Lincoln's speeches.
And like Lincoln he could be president one day, he is that impressive.
I also am very much afraid that both he and his fellow senator from Georgia, Jon Ossoff who is Jewish,will be the target of gun toting Neo-confederates and worse.
If they were both "removed" then the republican governor can appoint 2 GOPers to
replace them, the Senate then flipped, 51 - 49 for the Republicans.
Warnock and Ossoff pose an existential threat to the forces of darkness.
After all, if the militias and KKK can't prevent a pesky Black and a Jew from being
their senators, then what is the point?
If you think your outback ocker is a nasty piece of business, they have nothing on
your dedicated misfit, white trash from the Georgia outback.
It's comforting to think that we Aussies - inner city and outback - were never as 'trashy' as perhaps some outback Georgians were, and maybe are - but I've always wondered if it wasn't just lack of opportunity, or maybe that the Britain we Aussies (mostly convicted criminals in the early days) came from was perhaps more 'advanced' in some ways than our American cousins derived from.
DeleteWe never did grow a local KKK and we never did have an Andrew Kehoe and the Peterloo Massacre in 1819 had already happened in Britain before Australia really started to get settled in any serious numbers (Melbourne was started about 12 years later) - and I can't recall there ever being any such event in the USA.
Apart from which, we Aussies have never had a civil war that has, in some ways, never really ended. And in many respects that has played havoc with American society for many years, and, it seems, still does.
Jersey Mike - the writings of Erskine Caldwell were readily available in Australia, and I read many of his short stories in the '50s, when I was in high school. I actually had a copy of 'Georgia Boy'. His novels were seen as quite salacious here, and this clip suggests that was the attitude on your side of the big billabong too
Deletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npuA7dVvOWI
from 3:45, through to about 4:15.
Chadwick,
DeleteShelley Berman fan, eh? Got a laugh from him referencing Carol Lombard and
Will Rogers but I think the joke will escape the 21st century crowd.
GB,
I am glad both Australia and Canada never produced anything like our outback trash though sharing much the same immigration patterns.
They are a tiny part of the population but they do exist.
I think I shared before how my father's first job fresh out of the army was as a county agent for the the Agriculture Dept assigned to Alabama then Georgia.
He wondered why a particularly poverty stricken area's farmers never showed up for advice or how to procure aid that was readily available.
He drove out there but got lost on unpaved roads deep in the "pineys" as they say.
You have to remember Georgia is huge, the biggest state east of the Mississippi.
Anyway the sheriff - exactly like the good old boy one portrayed in 2 Bond flicks by Clifton James, according to dad -pulled up with lights flashing and chewed him out for being there, calling him a fool.
The old man was going to tell him he was just doing his job but the sheriff said the ridge runners in that area would have killed him just for his clothes much less his wallet, then sunk his car in a bog, he being obviously an outsider with no local kin
to avenge him.
You ever consider taking a walking tour across North America you might consider Canada,a stunningly beautiful country that is much safer and the Quebecois for instance are warm and friendly as opposed to their cousins in Paris.
I can't recall there ever being 'ridge runners' as you describe them in Australia, JM, so I'm thankful for that. As for North America, I do have an ex-colleague mate (ex because I retired these 14 years gone) whose daughters, both of them, have ended up in Canada and so that is where his grandkids are. But they visit - he and partner to Canada, they to Melbourne - and he does lovingly describe the Canadian scenery.
DeleteBut then, not every part of the world was the last major bit to have left Gondwanaland.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-12-07/fossil-discovery-queensland-museum-townsville-plesiosaur/101735306
Now Chad, what do you think about this:
ReplyDelete"Treasurer says it is not a ‘performance review’ but will ‘feed into our thinking’ about RBA leadership"
Reserve Bank review ‘will be relevant’ to Philip Lowe’s chances of a second term, Chalmers says
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/dec/08/rba-review-reserve-bank-australia-governor-philip-lowe
Is it even faintly possible that we might yet get a Reserve Bank governor who just vaguely has some idea what he's doing ? The current one clearly doesn't.
And what can be said about this:
The RBA keeps slamming on the brakes, but the economy has already very much slowed down
https://www.theguardian.com/business/grogonomics/2022/dec/08/the-rba-keeps-slamming-on-the-brakes-but-the-economy-has-already-very-much-slowed-down
We can't even seem to manage the economy of a middle-sized nation, but somehow think that maybe we can save the ecology of the world ?
GB - I did have contacts in the RBA, around 20 years ago, but can no longer claim to have met any of the top echelon personally. I do know at least one member of the board, and have already said on this site that I support the idea of trying to put board appointments beyond the capacity of state politicians to nominate business buddies, or those who have been good at raising funds for their party - and that should apply to every party. If that cannot be guaranteed in practice - then exclude the board from setting interest rates.
DeleteOh - the think I learned from the days of personal contact was that the job that people of talent in the bank structure really wished for was Deputy Governor. The Deputy always had a lot more leash than the Governor, and could say things that Governors practiced avoiding. Well, governors of recent time, other than Bernie Fraser.
Having learned that, I have tended to ignore what governors say, but try to search out what the deputy governors might say, as a way of finding out what, for example, the RBA research sections thought was significant.
The current governor and board have not served the country well, because they followed the fashion of the USA in making money practically free, in the hope that 'business' would take up that money to expand production, improve efficiency and productivity and develop entirely new products and processes. What was worse - even as it was obvious that 'business' was using that cheap money for share restructuring and mergers and acquisitions - actions that tend to lessen productivity - the RBA system persisted, presumably in the hope (we trust not in the belief) that it would all turnaround. That took
our housing 'assets' into crazy levels. None of the present governor, nor any of the board, deserve renewal of terms, and this government just might be prepared to clean them out.
Of course, it was the 'thing' I learned - although writing 'the think I learned' might have been a Freudian slip. ;-)
Delete"this government just might be prepared to clean them out" - two minds with but a single 'think', Chad and may we all learn of few more in the time remaining to us.
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