Today's the day the pond abandons all pretence that it has an interest in the pathetic local reptiles, locked away in a cellar and pretending all the interesting stories don't exist.
There's simply too much fun to be had elsewhere ... because there's nothing like a civil war to get the pond going, especially Jaw-Dropping Filings Reveal Civil War Inside Fox News.
There's too many more stories and links to note here, but a little searching will reveal rich rewards. The pond made out like a bandit watching MSNBC, and the pond's jaw did drop, but there was comedy too ...
Tuckyo was in great form and so were the comedians, doing a Chris Rock mike drop over the edited footage saga ...
The pond especially liked the cheeky ones that broke Godwin's Law, because in an emergency always break the glass ... JFK! NAZIS!: Tucker Carlson Mercilessly Mocked With Other Historical Rewrites
Then there was the triptych of terror, featuring petulant Peta as its centrepiece ...
What a relief, just regurgitating Gary Banks, and the pond realises that might trigger some correspondents, but the fun simply wouldn't match up to the pain ... while down below in the comments section ...
Yet more comrade Dan, and the pond's only regret is that it didn't have this immortal Rowe to hand for both the bromancer yesterday and corporeal Glenda today ...
Oh the cracks in that pitch turned nicely and as always it was in the details ...
Though the pond realised it was dizzy in the hand from all the excitement, it realised it had to run something, so why not a racist outburst by Barners, the Dilbert from up Tamworth way ...
Well, he got one thing right. He did not think, he doesn't think, and he will not think into the future, that's a cast iron promise, but he will do his best to stir up bigotry, fear and loathing, just to show that Pauline has nothing on Barners when it comes to racist bullshit ...
And so to the bonus, and the lizard Oz editorialist modestly held this out of the spotlight early in the morning ...
The pond has been here before and the pond was pleased to find an infallible Pope sheltering in The Problem with Carbon Credits and Offsets Explained ...
Meanwhile, there was just the matter of fitting concrete boots to the lizard Oz editorialist, as he (could it have been a she? Surely not, or else the patriarchy is in serious trouble) marched along with big oil and coal ...
Once again the Greens?
Once again the reptiles! If anyone can remember any time that the reptiles have offered anything other than climate science denialism, Lloydie of the Amazon, the Riddster of the IPA and the Bjorn-again one, please let the pond know ...
And dammit, the moment that the bromancer turns up again, the pond will likely recycle this infallible Pope, because it'll send him into an AUKUS submariner frenzy ...
Why it's a Robodebt joke as a bonus, but there reptiles have never gone there. Never have, and never will, and that's a cast iron promise ...
Do Carbon Credits/Offsets work like Indulgences for the Catholics? Buy your way out of hell with a few dollars under the confessional to the priest.
ReplyDeleteTruly the Infallible Pope is the one we have in 'Canberra Times'. Some kudos to 'Australian Community Media' for maintaining the finest traditions of Australian cartooning, against the pale travesties in reptile and 'Nine' media.
ReplyDeleteOh look: some more of that research that Bjornagain says we should be doing but that he never talks about:
ReplyDeleteElectricity from thin air: an enzyme from bacteria can extract energy from hydrogen in the atmosphere
https://theconversation.com/electricity-from-thin-air-an-enzyme-from-bacteria-can-extract-energy-from-hydrogen-in-the-atmosphere-200432
More on the dastardly, demonic, dictatorial Dan and no sign of Katrina Grace Kelly to give the reptiles the appearance of balance.
ReplyDeleteShe's disappeared, just like the Oreo. Has something evil their way come ?
DeleteSadly our Grace departed at the end of last year and wrote a maundering, sentimental, teary eyed farewell, which featured Dame Slap ...
DeleteA love of the written word, newspapers, specifically this newspaper, and what it brings to us was instilled in me in that job. The boss, a kindly man, explained what The Australian meant to our customers, how they read it in the early hours before they went about their daily lives, how it started their day, and how it shaped their knowledge, understanding and experience of life. The understanding of the importance of this newspaper, and how it must be brought to the reader, helped me overcome fear, rise early and ride down scary streets in the dark and the cold.
Once, I forgot a household and received a note telling me that I had ruined Mr and Mrs such-and-such’s entire day because their copy wasn’t there when they needed it. Reading this note was a scarifying experience – the feeling of letting someone down was devastating. The next morning, the family’s copy was delivered neatly bundled with a note of apology.
I left that job at 15 to work in a supermarket, but my love for The Australian endured.
Many years later, as a reader and subscriber, it seemed the federal Labor Party’s industrial relations policies, which it intended to take to the 2007 election, were not being adequately discussed.
So concerned was I that I rang the number listed as “head office”, and was put through to Janet Albrechtsen. After listening politely, Janet suggested I should write something and send it in. Aghast and in fear of rejection, I gasped: “I’m not a writer.”
However, I wrote something and sent it in anyway. The column was printed, and the rest is history. Once again, this paper helped me overcome fear. And here I am now, a writer, after all.
It is a difficult column to write, the last. The words have been agonised over in the imagination, and put down in a flurry of emotion. Sorrow, pride, and everything between, but all underscored by overwhelming gratitude.
It has been an honour and a privilege to write for you, dear reader. Thank you to all; to Janet for her outrageous suggestion, to The Australian for publishing me, and to you for reading me. Happy new year and all the best for 2023.
The pond let it go at the time, because there's only so much nausea needed in a lifetime, but at least she's out and about and doing something else with her life, and by definition, anything else would be more useful ...
Oh my, but she and I have just a little bit in common: "rise early and ride down scary streets in the dark and the cold". Except that my streets weren't so "scary" to a 10yo boy (and even less so later), but plenty dark and cold all right. Didn't leave to work in a supermarket either, just delivered other things (pharmacy stuff, green groceries etc).
DeleteAnd we didn't have The Australian back then, just the Argus in its last few years of life. Had the Age though, and the Sun (before the Herald merged with it and Melbourne no longer had an evening newspaper).
Oh well, write on Gracie, and don't forget to fully analyse all those "federal Labor Party’s industrial relations policies" so we never have that woke, pinky wool pulled over our eyes.
That snap of Joyce shows his character rather nicely. All suit, not much else.
ReplyDeleteOne wonders why Joyce gave up the leadership of the Nationals so blithely when he fought so hard to oust McCormack.
"It will give an extra franchise to some based on their DNA." Unlike the extra franchise given to some based upon their wealth, media might and political lobbying power, we presume.
Actually, if the Constitution should be blind to race, religion and one's political leaning or creed, it is odd that the schedule for the Oath parliamentarians take is:
" Oath
I, A.B., do swear that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to Her Majesty Queen Victoria, Her heirs and successors according to law. SO HELP ME GOD!"
[Note: the government site has the capitals, I did not put them https://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Senate/Powers_practice_n_procedures/Constitution/schedule#schedule_oath ]
Sigh-ops!
ReplyDelete"Brain waves control robot dog's moves
7 JUNE 2022
"While biological dogs respond to voice commands “sit”, “fetch” and “stay”, robotic dogs might soon take instruction via a person’s brain.
"This technology was demonstrated when Sergeant Damian Robinson, from 5th Combat Service Support Battalion, and Sergeant Chandan Rana, from 1st/15th Royal New South Wales Lancers, commanded a robot to go to several locations using their powers of concentration at Majura Training Area, Canberra, on May 11.
https://www.defence.gov.au/news-events/news/2022-06-07/brain-waves-control-robot-dogs-moves
Get a muzzle ops
"Rat Things (Snow Crash)
"The Rat Things (also spelled Rat-Things) are genetically-engineered dog-rat hybrid cybernetic organisms
Rat Things, also known as semi-autonomous guard units, were built to be the guard force for the 'Mr. Lee's Greater Hong Kong' franchise of city-states
However, they escaped and spread throughout the post-apocalyptic United States, killing people indiscriminately and wreaking extreme havoc and destruction wherever they went.
Appearance
Rat Things are specially engineered American Pit Bull Terrier clones, with genetic and biological modifications designed to optimize their strength, endurance, agility, reflexes, and aggression.
https://villains.fandom.com/wiki/Rat_Things_(Snow_Crash)
And in krappy The Kingsman - drug lord robot dog protectors taken out with 2 bowling balls to the head - one swung by! Elton John.
Sci-fi. Coming soon to your de-fence.
Today's Mr Ed: "Businesses will decide whether they are better off buying a carbon offset or looking for other ways to deal with the excess carbon dioxide emissions they produce." Yair "excess carbon dioxide emissions" as though every tonne of CO2 produced isn't still here with us screwing the climate for millenia whether or not there's been a "credit" and therefore every kilogram of CO2 actually passed into the atmosphere is a very long running "deficit".
ReplyDeleteSo maybe we plant a million trees, and for a few years they soak up some CO2 for growing, and then the growing stops, and the trees age and their substance breaks down or they're caught in a forest fire, and the CO2 they 'soaked' is passed into the atmosphere to stay there for millenia.
Nevertheless: "The market should be left to decide what is the most cost-effective way to proceed." Oh yeah, the omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent market ... now where else have I heard that description ?
But wait: "Done well, it is possible for there to be a positive environmental benefit because of the co-benefits associated with enhancing the productive capacity of nature." Oh yeah, no matter what we do it all works out for the best in the end. The Market wouldn't allow it to be any other way.
Your invocation of 'cost effective' triggered my recollection of this, from Kurt Vonnegut
Delete‘We’ll go down in history as the first society that wouldn’t save itself because it wasn’t cost-effective’
- even more relevant now than when the writer first said it.
But it's true, Chad, just think of the $trillions humanity would have to pay to save itself from the mess of its own making. Except that for the reptiles and their ilk, there is no mess; there'll just be a few warmer days now and then, and maybe a storm or two and some floods and droughts now and then, but all of it fully precedented, it's all happened, and worse, not so many years ago.
DeleteTimely and informative:
Delete"But there’s one glaring problem. Under the government’s proposed rules, there is still no requirement for polluters to actually cut their emissions at the sites where they are released into the atmosphere. Instead, companies can choose to buy carbon credits or offsets to meet their obligations. Incredibly, there would be no limit on the number of offsets companies can use.
You’ve probably heard about Australia’s rubbery offset schemes and questions of integrity. But there’s an even more fundamental problem. One tonne of carbon dioxide pumped into the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels is not the same as one tonne of carbon stored in the tree trunks of a newly planted forest."
A tonne of fossil carbon isn’t the same as a tonne of new trees: why offsets can’t save us
https://theconversation.com/a-tonne-of-fossil-carbon-isnt-the-same-as-a-tonne-of-new-trees-why-offsets-cant-save-us-200901