They can't help themselves ...
Forget about sticking a snap of a potato above talk ot taking the voice away from politics...
Right beside, there was Dame Slap, intrepid journalist, reporter and commentator - has she got a Lehrmann leak for you - having a bash at Pearson, and down below in the comments section, there was the meretricious Merritt, "legal affairs contributor"... having a bash at Pearson ...
And right next to our Henry was an old biddie, who should know better, deploring opinion ... apparently unaware that the lizard Oz is full of journos who do opinion, and vice versa ...
Well it's going to be a full day, so best get on with the hole in the bucket man ...
Indeed, indeed, and at this moment the reptiles fluffed the chance to insert an amusing snap or two ...
Instead they shoved in a snap of a sociologist, perhaps to evoke fragrant memories of the Caterist ...
Now there's a combination of pictures. Never mind, it's a big day, must move on ...
The pond is pretty sure that the hole in the bucket's man parade of names will light a few fuses, but the pond was busy downsizing the next snap ...
Having missed cackling Claire last time, the pond was determined to give her a go ...
Couldn't it at least have been a cartoon?
At least Uncle Elon's logo was the same size, and so back to cackling Claire ...
Say what? They didn't say they wanted to be a host on Faux Noise and spew lies and distortions 24/7?
Talk about vulgar youff and their lack of ambition ... and on to the next downsizing ...
And speaking of harm, the pond couldn't resist running with Killer reporting on Uncle Elon's triumph ...
Here the pond should note that there are better stories about the great DeSaster ...
This popped into the pond's email box this morning ...
Well yes, and if you can access that story at The New Yorker you can read ...
“Make America Florida” might as well be the unofficial slogan of DeSantis’s campaign. When asked on Fox why he was running for President, DeSantis said that he wanted to bring his “unprecedented policy success” in the state to the national stage, and this, he promised, was a way to end the “culture of losing” that plagued Republicans during the tenure of the guy DeSantis refused to criticize by name.
One big problem for DeSantis, however, is that this Florida blueprint he seeks to export to the rest of the country is a cramped, churlish vision of America. His “touchstone” issues for appealing to the Republican electorate, as Jeff Roe, the G.O.P. operative who heads a pro-DeSantis super pac, told the Times, are fighting “corporate America,” fighting about what’s taught in schools, and fighting “acceptance around sexual orientation and transgender medical care.” My translation: Disney-bashing, book banning, and policing who uses which bathroom. Roe’s Never Back Down pac, it should be noted, claims that it will have a budget of as much as two hundred million dollars to spread this agenda to the nation.
The pond just wanted to get "cramped, churlish vision" into the mix ...
Now back to Killer ... and by this time the pond was too fatigued to take out the snap of "preparing to launch" and substitute it with the mango Mussolini's idea of humour ...
Screen cap! There's no need to see the rocket crashing ...
Put it another way ...
And here, have a cartoon to go with that serve of a cramped, churlish vision ... because if you're going to do that sort of bigoted bullshit, why not hire a jet engine?
Bird strike! Well it's a more amusing illustration than the snaps in the next Killer gobbet ...
Here we go again. The web content that never opens for the pond ... but looking at this penultimate gobbet, it's probably just as well ...because we're off to Paranoia City ...
Not to worry, there was just one frustration left for the pond ...
Was it this?
Anyone who wants to play the actual thing can head off to Gizmodo here ... the pond isn't interested in helping the mango Mussolini, and in the interests of balance, after noting the monstrous stupidity of Ron DeSaster and the sublime incompetence of Uncle Elon - with his rabid supporters nonsensically talking of hackers and DDoS attacks - it's only fair to forsake the immortal Rowe of the day to celebrate the Donald ...
*sigh* - you just had to go there, Henry, didn’t you? Defending the concept of “race” in the21st century - and the funny thing is that I get the impression that you really believe in it, rather than just arguing for the sake of argument. Leaving aside that the most common use of the concept of race has been to define The Other - and in particular to stigmatise those other “races” as The Inferior - I wonder how good Our a Henry is on the fine details? After all, at various times such disparate groups as Italians, Greeks, Swedes and even Germans have been been claimed to not be “white”. How do you manage to lump together all the ethnic variations of people all across the world who have some shade of brownish skin colouration as being in the brown or black “races”. What about all those those ethnic groupings across Asia - I don’t think we usually lump them together in homogenous groupings as “Orientals” or “Indians” these days, do we? Or perhaps in Henry World, things are still like that. I look forward to the next instalment of his stirring defence of 19th Century anthropology - perhaps classification by skull measurements? Or at least a robust call for the return of phrenology.
ReplyDeleteAh, Holely Henry: "the document [ANU voice support] is correct in claiming 'race is a social construct'; to deduce from that proposition the inference that 'there is no such thing as race' is absurd." Ah, the joys of English: 600,000 (or 750,000 or 1,000,000) words, and still we have to make each word have multiple, and often contradictory, meanings. So for Henry 'race' means both something that exists as a reality, and something that doesn't - it's just a 'social construct'. But for many, it's only a real thing - there are real 'racial differences' because there are 'real races'; despite the fact that for the Christians amongst them (and there are many Christians amongst them) all 'races' descend directly from the children of Noah - and especially from that terrible miscreant Ham who fathered all the dark-skinned people.
ReplyDeleteSo when Henry dismisses the Voice (pardon my use of 'V' and not the reptile approved 'v') as a "group A [which] will capture the benefits but not shoulder the costs, of any outlandish demands" he is clearly showing us how he practices the actual race discrimination that he wants us all to join in with.
The pond only uses the small 'v' out of perversity and because the fuckwitted reptiles don't understand how it undermines their own hysteria. It might be easy to get agitated about a Voice, but why all the hysteria about a voice? What's wrong with Aboriginal people having a voice? Such a bunch of dingbat dipsticks. That might sound like it was offensive if it was Dingbat Dipsticks, but it's just a cheerful conversation in lower case, the sort of thing you might expect if you've been given a voice ...
DeleteYes, spot on DP. But then I get that you actually think rationally about what you're doing and saying - an accusation I would never lay on a reptile.
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ReplyDeleteErgas: “...our rabble of academic lemmings”
As Merritt says, name-calling Henry misses his mark and, as Albrechtsen points out, every time Henry hurls vitriolic insults at specific universities and general academia, more and more students of those institutions, as well as the undecided voters (who, come to think of it, probably are not even reading Henry) will vote for the Voice.
Naturally, Henry gets stuck into La Trobe University because ex-Labor leader John Brumby is the current Chancellor and perhaps Henry is put out with the Vice-Chancellor having more credentials than Henry, which might explain that dig about cringe-worthy gold medals.
Well, I’m happy for Henry to, as he says, “chart one’s own course” while those he labels the tyrannical majority chart another. Rather confused that Henry says political decisions should be left to Caesar who apparently is the same thing as the political system, which doesn’t sound like he means a democratic political system, especially as he calls majority decisions tyrannical. But it’s fine for economics graduate Henry to have a say on the Voice, just not any other person from the academic world.
Nevertheless Henry’s open threat at the end should win friends and influence people.
Our Henry was in top form this day, but the notion that politics should be left at the front door of a university is so fuckwitted, the pond didn't bother to take up the matter. Why as soon as he walks on to campus, there's a guaranteed overdose of politics, with bonus racism and bigotry, and some pompous distortion of a biblical reference, so you can throw in theology to go with the ratbag right wing politics ...
Deletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9gOQgfPW4Y ; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lapeaVqH43g
ReplyDeleteVery good, Anony. After I'd listened to the second one (Sounds of the Earth), youtube fed me up this: https://youtu.be/941PHEJHCwU
DeleteBut if that's too depressing for many reasons, try this:
https://youtu.be/UQHaGhC7C2E
An English social survey just a few years ago found that 67% of people took little or no interest in politics, day to day. Probably not much different here. So when something like a referendum (or mail-back plebiscite) rears its head - well anything could happen. Where do the 67% go for advice, especially when they are not inclined to spend much time on it? Perhaps if the officialdom of your rugby or footy code, or netball association, or your alma mater, or your state government, endorses a view, well why not agree with that? And this is the problem for the reptiles, who face the reality that many broad, socially familiar organisations have already backed or will back The Voice. How many more organisations need to back The Voice before the the reptiles' political game is lost, and they trudge to defeat? As noted by Anony above, Henry exhorts us to chart our own course (to where?) lest there are those who may listen to familiar voices instead of ploughing through piles of political tedium. It may be imperfect, but that's how representative democracy works, and if Henry and Co cannot convince the NRL, or the Victorian Bar Council, or others, well that's the way it goes. Now if the Coalition would just move into the present, we would all be spared this endless diatribe of opposition. Sometimes I am tempted to join the 67%. AG.
ReplyDeleteWell I wouldn't categorise myself - or you - as amongst the 67% AG, but on the other hand I don't actually pay a lot of attention to political minutiae day after day either. The only people who do that are those who are either passionate or paid.
DeleteThe main problem, though, is that we'd like our 'paid politicos' to do a very much better job of managing a modern democracy. I look at the crap that Abbott-Turnbull-Morrison have bequeathed to us and fervently hope that Albanese and his crew can do better.
But then, hope dies eternal, doesn't it.
Let us put the science aside, as it involves the Henry’s attempt to offer a synopsis of human genetics to suit his sociological citations; it is only slightly better founded than advertising that assures the potential buyer that the new Mazdota 5 still contains the proven DNA of the Mazdota 4. The Henry claims that his grab bag of observations proves ‘how intensely politicised Australia’s universities have become.’
ReplyDeleteFrom odd bits of information, we believe the Henry was born in 1952, so would have entered University of Queensland around 1970 or 71. He writes of universities offering that most valuable experience of learning, in an environment in which people think for themselves.
He may well have thought for himself at UofQ in the early 70s, but one wonders to what extent he might have published those thoughts at that time. If he wants to claim that Australia’s univrsities ‘have become’ intensely politicised, then he must have been unaware of the intense politicisation of UofQ in his student days. Reminder - it was the flowering of Bjelke-Petersen, and while there were several, mutually exclusive, active groupings challenging the ‘Joh’ regime, there were plenty of staff, and students in particular faculties, who were ardent supporters. The young gennlemen in the school of agriculture, in particular, were ever on the lookout to resolve an intellectual discussion with a king-hit and some fancy boot work.
As we have no reminiscences from Henry of his student days, we have no way of knowing if he saw himself aligned with any of those groups. It seems he is writing the general reptile line about politicisation of universities becoming more obvious of quite recent time. At least by writing that, he does not lard it with the irritating ‘you knows’ of the Sky News ‘presenters’ as they advance their theses.
Ah, but our Henry is one of those who think the universe is centered on him, and that it follows him around wherever he goes and whatever he does. Therefore the only valid (ie 'rational' and 'reasonable') viewpoint(s) are the ones he espouses from moment to moment. And please do remember: "if I don't ever mention it again, then it never really happened."
DeleteThere's a lot of reptiles like that, in fact I can't think of one who isn't
Claire de Loony: "blackout challenge"...A Blomberg investigation found it led to the deaths of at least 15 children under the age of 12 over a period of 18 months." Where was that, in the USA ? The place where gunshots is the prime killer of children ?
ReplyDeleteBut anyway, just to go back a very few years to when "Every adult male qualified as a failed suicide." And we'd pretty much have to include a great many of the adult females as well now. I know I'd probably qualify [sigh].
Claire again: "Since the advent of social media, rates of hospitalisation for self-inflicted injuries among girls under the age of 14 have tripled in Australia." See what I mean ?
On again: "Given what we now know about the harms these platforms can cause, we might want to imagine what our world will look like 20 years from now if we decide to do nothing." Well I can tell you it'll look a lot more heat hazy, and more of it will be under water. Capiche ?
So, KillerC expounds: "the Florida governor remains a potent political force, a policy polymath..." Incroyable. So ok, they sent KillerC off to the USA so he could commune with all those other involuntary crazies. Nuff said, yes.
ReplyDeleteAs far as I can tell, Ron’s “policy” focus was on such delusions as the “woke mind virus”, gender issues, numerous other wokisms and several acronyms too cryptic for me to fathom. Economic policy, job creation, climate change (wot?) and other such trivial matters? Nuthin’.
DeleteNone of those things are of any concern to a well-off Floridian, are they ? Oh, but those evil wokies - that's policy polymathism for you.
DeleteI suppose it is too tedious to point out, yet again, that Ron's 'Covid freedom' equation had needless loss of around 50 000 lives on the other side. But, when it came to re-election time, the people who had truly suffered with Covid - were not there to vote.
DeleteAnd as we have discussed regularly - that is the kind of maths that appeal to our Killer.
Claire certainly was cackling today - to the extent that it’s possible for a headless chook to do so. I’m not sure why she’s so concerned about the TikToks -is it because she’s lagging several years behind and has only just learned of its existence? She also appears to be a bit of a sticky-beak, eavesdropping on the activities of various travellers. I wonder about her claim that _everybody_ is peering at a screen - what, regardless of age or apparent background. But even if that’s true, Claire, here’s the thing; they’re almost certainly not all on the Tik Toks. They may be on some other social media platform. Or messaging with friends. Or playing a game. Or checking the weather or their mails. Or - here’s a thought - possibly even reading a book, magazine or a newspaper- though I doubt too many are scrolling the Lizard Oz site. Believe it or not Claire, though smartphone thingies can be used for all sorts of purposes. - even to make phone calls and talk to people!
ReplyDeleteAs for that unspecified - and thus highly suspect - survey of the comparative ambitions of American and Chinese yoof - well, so what? Once upon a time, a lot of young Yanks probably wanted to be astronauts when they grew up. Or cowboys, or lion tamers, or princesses, or fire fighters; such fantasies are generally of bugger-all relevance to the occupations people actually enter. Come to think of it, what did you want to be when you grew up, Claire? I bet it wasn’t to become a whinging opinion scribbler for a dying masthead.
Oh I dunno, Anony, you never know what weird ideas those young female masochists get into their heads. And the Murdoch media still keeps attracting employees; most of whom wouldn't be able to get employed anywhere else, it's true; but still ...
DeleteErrr ?
ReplyDeleteMen can no longer skip, and we need to investigate.
https://www.msn.com/en-au/entertainment/other/men-can-no-longer-skip-and-we-need-to-investigate/ar-AA1bEmOp?
No, I can't.