Don't be surprised if the pond fails to appear tomorrow. The pond is off to an indictment party, and who knows what might happen there, and truth to tell, the pond is now so jaded by the reptiles' ongoing obsession with the Lehrmann matter and their blatant desire to politicise it, and for Dame Slap to use it in the manner of a vengeful harridan, that the pond feels the need for a mid-winter break.
Just look at the top of the digital page this morning and marvel that there are punters who would pay for this kind of monomaniacal level of ongoing, never-ending obsessive compulsive scribbling ... aided and abetted by the ABC recycling every reptile talking point ...
Um, Ellie, top criminal barristers might talk rubbish, but perhaps you should widen your conversational horizons ...
According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, one in five Australian women and one in 20 men have experienced sexual assault since the age of 15. Most assaults occur in private spaces, and most are against women by a man known to them.
Yet, almost nine in ten women (87%) do not contact the police.
Many are worried their experience won’t be taken seriously. They also worry they will face repercussions, whether personally, professionally or from the perpetrator themselves, if they report the assault. Suckered in again, with Ellie probably correct. Who needs another case as an example of not being taken seriously and turned into a political football, when there's already enough reasons to go around?
It wasn't any better in the commentariat section ...
The immortal Rowe might have been summarising the notion of editorial balance ...
And that's how the pond ended up with nattering "Ned".
At least the old dotard's return to serve up another dose of apocalyptic doom was familiar and strangely comforting ... especially as he managed to keep the end of the economic world down to four gobbets, a remarkable feat for an interminable natterer ...
Only Phil? Of course not. Phil's not got a canary in a coal mine's chance when it comes to being a warning oracle.
That's "Ned's" game, and after that opening, he got stuck into his oracular duties ...
Of course it's too cute. Even if it had been cute, it wouldn't have been cute for "Ned", because cuteness isn't his thing.
It's doomsaying and neighsaying that gets him going, and if it takes a stuffed economy so he can dance on the Labor grave, then so be it ...
Yes, we're deep into "Ned's" idea of danger. It's been awhile since the pond has celebrated his art, his gift for flapping about ...
And now the pond has spent enough time with Chicken Little in Hen Pen, and this is the last gobbet ... and what do you know, the pond should really have made a joke about realities ...
And there's the perversity of "Ned" and the rest of the reptiles in a nutshell. They must actively hope that the government fails, because how else could Captain Potato score the chance to restore the balance in favour of the fat cats, and lead the reptiles into a realities nirvana ...
Speaking of fat cats, the pond was pleased to see that Dame Groan has indeed lifted her productivity game, and was out and about this morning, if only because she reveals her deep, ongoing love of coal, and her ability to head north for the winter ...
As for the planet? Well it's the same as "Ned" syndrome. Dame Groan actually enjoys a good wildfire ...
There's nothing that pleases her more than to celebrate the ongoing love of coal in political circles ... and if she can help by jetting between the swallows of the south and the toads of the north, it's her pleasure.
"This could end badly."
Where has the pond heard that before? Oh that's right, it was only Monday that Major Mitchell was opining "It's scary."
As for that "Go figure", the pond is still trying to figure it. Dame Groan is a dedicated climate science denialist, so did that "this could end badly" refer to the planet?
But when are the local reptiles going to match their American kissing cousins and provide some
harmless amusement?
The mistake was surely expecting Melania to attend the circus when she already has her own clown at home.
As for bathrooms as a method of storage, the pond doesn't have a lock on its bathroom - the rule is that a closed door should be taken as a signifier - but in the United States, the pond understands that the door locks from the inside. Will anyone enlighten Kevin?
And why must the pond get lumbered with "Ned" and a pretty weak groaning, while the real comedy plays out elsewhere?
Even Ramirez has taken to enjoying the spectacle and the fun of the witch hunt ...
There’s Paul Kelly going on about the need to rein in inflation and how wages will increase inflation and then we get:
ReplyDelete“Psychology is critical with inflation: if people think inflation will stay high then it will stay high.”
So inflation is not fuelled by economic conditions, but the psychological condition amongst the public. That’s a new one.
Meanwhile, on a distant exploding star, Judith Sloan seems particularly upset at governments which spend royalties on the public rather than those political parties who simply ferret it into some grant or other for their donors and themselves. As for her aside; “Maybe Dick hasn’t heard about the Snowy 2,0 fiasco”, Sloan apparently forgets this was a Coalition scheme with Morrison as treasurer and actually touted as a means of to save the planet with renewable energy (apparently all a con by the Coalition, then?), but it is good to see her showing how poor the Coalition have been as economic managers.
Two suggestions:
1. Reduce Paul Kelly’s wages (it must be a six figure sum like Sloan’s)
2. Reduce Judith Sloan’s wages until her productivity improves, because she has no new ideas, just recycling the Coalition debt and deficit arguments from nearly a decade ago.
Ned is gaslighting us! He says that I can control something just by thinking about it, even though I have no control over it. I assure Ned that inflation is happening here in Massachusetts, no matter what I think. And I assure Ned that I am not causing it, but I know some of those who are - even the dastardly ABC has blown the whistle on them.
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If only the reptiles would read this site instead of expecting us to read theirs. It might enlighten (shock) them - as you have suggested Anony. AG.
So yes, Noodlenut Neddles is always right in there with the important stuff:
Delete"Pivotal to achieving a long-run Labor government is establishing Labor as the party of superior economic management, but that task, always complicated by the safety/safety platform on which Labor was elected, is now far more complicated still."
Yep, right in there and already recognising that:
Guardian Essential poll: voters trust Labor over Coalition to manage cost of living and inflation
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/jun/13/guardian-essential-poll-mortgage-holders-interest-rate-hikes-rba-labor
No doubt about it, Ned is right up there with everything of any importance.
Just a bit of commentary by John Quiggin:
Delete"If we think, as commentators including Reserve Bank governor Philip Lowe would like us to do, in terms of a wage price spiral, it’s obvious that wages have not been driving the process so far. Real wages have fallen back to levels last seen in 2012. Despite this, Lowe and the RBA would like to hold wages down, in order to achieve a rapid reduction in inflation to the preferred range of 2-3%."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/14/australias-supermarket-duopoly-didnt-start-the-inflation-crisis-but-it-is-making-it-worse
Wonderful how the likes of Phil Lowe just completely ignore reality and pursue some imaginary objective about "inflation rates". So Quiggin informs us that:
"It is possible that the long-term rate of inflation might settle about 4%, instead of the Reserve Bank’s current target of 2-3%. But there is nothing magic about this target. It was picked arbitrarily in the early 1990s, for reasons that are no longer relevant."
And we pay that nong (Lowe) over $1million a year for what ?
Oh no, here we go again:
Delete"Economists are tipping further interest rate pain on the way for Australians after an unexpected fall in the jobless rate."
All the way down from 3.7 per cent to 3.6 per cent. Oh dear, the Australian economy is ruined and Phil Lowe is never going to get inflation back down to between 2 and 3 per cent. No matter if he keeps on increasing the interest rate forever, it's just never going to happen - not even when the interest rate gets up to 20 or 30 per cent - or even more.
We're all already rooned.
https://thenewdaily.com.au/finance/2023/06/15/jobless-rate-june-2023/
Just a little something for the 'daily denialists' headed up by the Floodwaters Run Deep nong:
ReplyDeleteSolar economics compelling as costs fall, installs rise
https://www.msn.com/en-au/money/news/solar-economics-compelling-as-costs-fall-installs-rise/ar-AA1cuXed?
Medicare could use some attention to productivity. Allow me a touch of identity politics, as applied by miscellaneous sources of 'opinion' around the Flagship.
ReplyDeleteMy companion in life had a particular, relatively common, procedure. The provider told her she would qualify for a payment from Medicare for roughly half the total, and still hundreds of dollars. Fine, said the C-i-L, thinking that required no more than for the provider to tap another key. Not so easy. Eventually, we have to go to another town, to Medicare office, present valid Medicare card, harried person at desk gives C-i-L a form to fill out. Almost all of that is personal identity information, which has not changed in 12 years. Harried office person gives C-i-L address for us to post form, and documents from provider of procedure - to another address of Medicare, and suggests we look out for item in bank statement in about 3 weeks.
So - long time Medicare card holder, for procedure required every couple of years, no question it has identifying number with Medicare, and provider has Medicare ID. And claimant has to go to another town, wait in office, fill out details that have been lodged regularly with Medicare, and I try not to think of how this sheets home (in the nautical term) to a recent government, including a minister with, as I recall, post-graduate qualifications in information technology, and a rare genius in misapplying programs for social welfare.
We claim to be a first world country, in the 21st century. Productivity - bah, humbug.
Wau, you got away with it that quickly and that easily. How fortunate 😄
DeleteDame Groan: "Premiers Palazczuk and Andrews are essentially carbon-copies of each other." Boy, is she confused about sex and gender. So anyway: "...the jacking up of the royalty rates [coal royalties up from $7.2b to $15.3b] contributed a third of the additional revenue." Ok, so just a mere (15.3-7.2)/3 = $2.7b - just chicken-feed, a mere $519 per head - man, woman, others, adult, child. Can't do anything with just that, can she.
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