It's probably as entertaining a weekend as the pond has had in some time, not that you'd know any of it from the lizard Oz.
Tuckyo committing a hideous crime with pineapple pizza - no wonder he wanted to fuck chocolate lollies - and much fuss was made about his departure, and it was still echoing about, though not in the lizard Oz ...
By the way, that Sky News explanation came from the Bolter and was clearly a lie, though a suitable match to the lying ways of the canned pineapple loving Tuckyo:
“Tucker was actually sacked … by Lachlan Murdoch, the day-to-day boss of News Corp.
“And the scoop is that he was sacked essentially for thinking that he was bigger than Fox News.”
“And the scoop is that he was sacked essentially for thinking that he was bigger than Fox News.”
The Chairman is in his dotage and didn't have blood on his knife, and it's just to do with Tuckyo's ego? Pull the other one ...
The immortal Rowe had a fitting cartoon for the Bolter and all the rest of the lying reptiles ... and he could clearly sniff out the truth of what went down ...
With the comedy so rich, it was time to reach for a red card and ensure a very dull Wednesday. Naturally Dame Slap was sent from the field...
Whenever a reptile talks of 'groupthink', you instantly know it's an exercise in projection ... and what is it with paying attention to Morgan, notoriously weird when it comes to Markle, and so full of morganatic malarkey, and as for the notion that lawyers are doing it for money?
Projection ...pure Slappian projection ... as the one time lawyer takes the chairman's shekels to back the no case ... though why she had to shark poor Ellie Dudley can be left a mystery ...
And so to below the fold, and the pond couldn't help but let out an involuntary groan ...
That's all there is? If it's not rabid ranting about the voice, it has to be defence and NDIS?
The only interest in "Ned's" piece was his unerring ability to sound like a pompous twat ...
The reptiles decided to break up "Ned" with snaps, and the pond went with the flow, but did want to note this change of header in yesterday's piece by the Dibbster ...
Such is the art of the reptile, but the comedy was only a temporary relief from "Ned", because the pond knew at some point that the portentous pedant wouldn't be able to resist a listicle ...
Phew, invasion's not the real issue? That's a relief. For a moment there the pond thought that time wasn't on our side and we might have little or no warning ...
Now on with blather about triumph of the will and the message ...
Phew, there were only three major problems in "Ned's" listicle, and he got through them quickly, presumably because the tree killer edition had already done its best to generate hysteria ...
Yep, it's the old rhetorical question ploy.
The pond can play that game.
"Will the reptiles ever leave their bubble?" "Will the reptiles ever notice what's happening at HQ?" "Will the reptiles ever take note of the bleeding obvious?" "Will the reptiles keep avoiding tasty M&Ms?""Will the chairman ever carry a baseball bat?"
Never mind, it's on with the groaning, though these days the pond only does it because some correspondents perversely enjoy the outing.
It arrived a day late by Dame Groan's usual schedule, but it might as well not have arrived at all ...
Once again the reptiles decided to break up the text with tedious snaps, and once again the pond went with the flow.
Well if you can't fuck a green M&M, life quickly loses its meaning and you might even get tempted by a Wilcox cartoon ...
Sorry, sorry, that would have been handy for a different groaning, but all the same it's more visual fun than a wide meaningless shot of the chamber ...
Now back to the groaning ...
Now that should set off a good groaning down the track, but for the moment back to your islands, we're groaning about those bludgers pretending to have a disability, and ruining everything ...
The principle involved in preserving the balance of power as a conscious goal of foreign policy, as David Hume pointed out in his Essay on the Balance of Power, is as old as history, and was used by Greeks such as Thucydides both as political theorists and as practical statesmen. A 2018 study in International Studies Quarterly confirmed that "the speeches of the Corinthians from prior to the Persian Wars to the aftermath of the Peloponnesian War reveal an enduring thesis of their foreign policy: that imperial ambitions and leveling tendencies, such as those of Athens, Sparta, and Thebes, should be countered in order to prevent a tyrant city from emerging within the society of Greek city-states.
Come on, it's such a tedious, predictable bit of groaning about the NDIS, of course the pond was going to seek relief, and do an ancient Henry routine, much as the reptiles decided the best thing to do to distract from the groaning was to feature a snap of comrade Bill in comical pose ...
As for those with disabilities? If the pond might just channel Dame Groan - the pond can feel her ectoplasm strongly - fuck them, it's off to the snow country with them ...
And with that, it's Tucker time, and a chance to explore new job opportunities, what with the lad having burned his way through the main cable channels, and even PBS ...
Following a recent nostalgic viewing of a few old Warner Brothers cartoons, I’ve discovered that Ned’s pompous pontifications are much more tolerable if read in the voice of Foghorn Leghorn.
ReplyDeleteBlimey, Chad, even Chris Richardson reckons we've got the resource take wrong:
ReplyDelete"Economist Chris Richardson says the purpose of the tax is simple — to capture a share of any excess profits generated by oil and gas projects operating in Australia, typically in Commonwealth waters.
But he says there is just one problem — the PRRT does not really work."
Tax shield on super gas profits leaves Australians looking like 'chumps', economist says
https://www.msn.com/en-au/money/markets/tax-shield-on-super-gas-profits-leaves-australians-looking-like-chumps-economist-says/ar-AA1akMqz?
Seems to be a bit of a fashion with some of the economic commentating class, GB. I wonder if there has been a bit of selective briefing to hint that this national government might, just might, act like a national government?
DeleteI did applaud Richardson telling the chumps that they have been chumps. That might help to get their attention.
Naah, they're immune to that sort of thing, I reckon.
DeleteBut anyway, Albanese and his mates have been acting like at least they reckon they ought to try to be a "national government" - the first one we've had since Juliar.
Much more entertaining than the Groaner:
ReplyDeleteHere’s an AI view of Rupert Murdoch
https://jabberwocking.com/fox/
Stuart Wood, KC: secretary of the Samuel Griffith Society, founded by former Chief Justice of Australia Harry Gibbs, former senator John Stone, businessman Hugh Morgan and legal academic Greg Craven. One of its aims is to “defend the present Constitution”. The Society, along with the H.R.Nicholls Society, Bennelong Society and Lavoisier Group was promoted by the late business leader, Ray Evans, who was president of the H.R.Nicholls Society and who campaigned against climate change mitigation. And there is Janet talking about groupthink!
ReplyDeleteEvery paragraph of Paul Kelly’s writing brings a laugh but it was difficult to stop laughing after this: “This leads to the pivotal question: are Anthony Albanese and Richard Marles warriors with the conviction to reposition Australia to respond to the challenge from China and threats to the regional order?”
LOL. The politicians are never the warriors in any real wars. They send others out to do that. The only actual wars where politicians are warriors are their internecine wars which reminds me of that wonderful Pope cartoon of Abbott as the revolutionary atop the hills over parliament.
Keating is right in saying Foreign Affairs has been taken over by the military, but he forgot to mention that the media is being taken over by the military, or is that the warriors? How much military advice can News Corp provide? Well, never too much and, of course, Kelly has such experience as a military strategist, although his biggest asset in this regard is that ifthe enemy is reading this, then he’ll be sure to send them into such a deep slumber that like, Rip Van, it’ll be a long time before they awaken.
Joan suggests spending be cut, but not on nuclear subs (estimated cost between 268 and 368 billion) $400 billion) or stage three tax cuts (estimated $243 billion, but blowing out by another 11 billion) or the inland rail (already blown out to 31.4 billion). Spending on NDIS will only cost 90 billion and other the Rewiring the Nation, Housing Australia Future Fund and National Reconstruction Fund will only add up to $40 billion or so by comparison. Well, we can all see where the savings could best be made, but poor Joan, despite wearing her blue-tinted spectacles, cannot see it. When Paul Kelly said that “Implementation of the DSR will demand national sacrifice”, I guess he wasn’t talking about himself or Joan, just those on the NDIS.
Oh c'mon Anony, of course the politicians don't do the real 'warrior' work. Never have. But if China isn't going to invade us - same as the Japanese in WWII, the cost is too high - then what exactly are they threatening us with ?
DeleteOh I know: they're going to sink all the ships and shoot down all the planes - transporting people and goods for the Australian economy. Even those planes that fly eastward across the Pacific, the Chinese will down them with long-range hypersonic missiles, won't they. But will they sink all the ships and down all the planes from the USA ?
'Cos after all, the Chinese can do their trading overland via Russia, their newly acquired suzerainty. But then, I guess we can always surrender and join the suzerainty ourselves, can't we ?
Thank you for the profile of Stuart Wood (with postnominals), Anonymous. Some of the fun for the casual sweep of the accessible electronic bait is to follow-up on an unfamiliar name, just to see how far their scolex has been everted into the reptile viscera.
Delete"Whenever a reptile talks of 'groupthink', you instantly know it's an exercise in projection ... "
ReplyDelete"The Joy of Sect
...
"The scene during the six-hour orientation video where those who get up to leave are induced to stay through peer pressure and groupthink was a reference to the Moonies and the est Training. The show's producers acknowledged that the ending scene of the episode was a poke at FOX as "being the evil mind controlling network."
https://simpsons.fandom.com/wiki/The_Joy_of_Sect
I've always thought that's the wrong name, Anony: group reflex is much more accurate where there is no actual thought involved.
DeleteOk, well Ned is busy doing his well established 'old fart lost in the wool bales of his mind' act, so, moving right along to The Groany. She grandly informs us: "The only weak light on the hill is that the Coalition has offered bipartisan support for any reasonable measures that the government proposes to rein in the NDIS." Yeah, the opposition's "support" - that'd be quite enough for people to continue believing that the Coalition is by far the way better economic manager, wouldn't it. Well the only "reasonable measures" that come readily to mind are all about abandoning large numbers of NDIS-using folk to their fate(s). That'll work a treat, won't it ? Enough to get the Coalition re-elected, maybe ?
ReplyDeleteThe only thought that comes to mind here is: what could/should we already be doing (and should have been doing for generations) to reduce the need for people to spend a lifetime dependent on the NDIS in order to achieve a life in the first place. An ounce of prevention, they tell me, is worth a ton of cure.
So I don't know, maybe we're already spending tens of $billions a year on prevention and early recovery - are we ?