Sheesh, the pond is so tired of the reptiles' obsession with the Lehrmann matter and the Voice. Is there a brave warrior to hand, kitted out in the heroic garb of a modern Thucydides, or perhaps a Caesar, ready to valiantly defend any attempt to expose the Robodebt scandal?
Not possible, not in this day and age of enfeebled journalism?
Take that back, take it back at once, this is Friday, this is our hole in the bucket man day, and this day sees him in heroic defender mode, a blazing pillar of defiant glory ...
Oh yes, there's a billygoat butt to hand. Our valiant Henry isn't going to minimise the gravity of the issues. He's just going to minimise any mechanism whereby the gravity of the issues might be revealed, exposed, examined, judged or denounced outside the political tent. There shall be no pissing into the tent or out of it, nor even into the wind, and certainly no mention of stories such as O
ver 2000 people died after receiving Centrelink robo-debt notice, figures reveal ... why if you believe Kathryn Campbell, admittedly a stretch,
there were absolutely no deaths at all, not a single suicide, not a single casualty, except perhaps the death of her credibility ... sure,
Mothers who lost sons to suicide after Centrelink debts write heartbreaking letters to Senate, but what would they know?
Politicians are sacred beasts, moved in an Xian way, and above the fray. If you want to examine their workings, no matter how corrupt or scandalous, there is just one way ....that sort of thing is best left to cartoonists ...
And with a cartoonist to hand, what need of a Royal Commission?
Oh splendid, valiant Henry and at this point the lizard Oz reptile inserted one of two illustrations Put them where you will, when feeling triggered ...
The pond insists that its cartoon approach is much better than those wretched illustrations from the disembowelled corpse of what was once the lizard Oz graphics department ...
What's this, there's still more defending to do? Make way for our very own modern Cicero ...
Oh the suffering, and only a modern Demosthenes to hand to mount a valiant defence ...
And so to a last valiant word from the most valiant of the lizard Oz scribes ...
The message is clear. Let politicians run wild and free, and above all let them be unaccountable. It's the only decent thing to do ... you might get a chance to vote every few years, and by then it might well be a matter long gone and buried, especially if the same mob get back in, but that's your lot, and remember to thank our modern Demosthenes on your way to bury any chance of an inquiry into the matter ...
And so to another Friday regular, an outburst by cackling Claire, nuking the CSIRO yet again ...
Here the pond will concede that Graham and the CSIRO made a mistake. They took the bait, and were so concerned that they published the letter on their own site with the implicit suggestion that maybe it might not show up in the lizard Oz ...
But it did, on August 2nd, in this form, because angertainment is the reptile game ...
It was a mistake, because landing on 2nd August allowed cackling Claire to do a snipe of a kind familiar to those indulging in Ebay auctions ... and add to the angertainment ...
A better response would have been to adopt the pond's cartoon strategy ...
Meanwhile, cackling Claire can take potshots, without the slightest need to justify her position or show her own costs, or explain the how and why that nuking the country will make in terms of the climate science situation when it matters ... what a splendid distraction ...
There's a lot more at the link, but what a waste of energy, when cackling Claire, expert climate scientist, and expert climate economist is on hand ...
Actually if the pond might be sol bold, he surely wrote on X ... please, let us not devalue Uncle Elon's astonishing re-branding. You might still tweet, but when you go Twitter, you actually go X ...
As for Morrison, he's been running an endless thread on X mainly proving how great he is, but sadly the pond isn't an X'er and the reptiles interrupted with a snap ...
Surely they could have turned to a cartoon solution?
And that's about it, with Claire still cooking with gas, and there's one last fuel-injected gobbet to hand ...
If the claim is not based on evidence provided in the ISP and GenCost, what evidence does it rely upon?
Amazing really. The world and the full to overflowing intertubes is full of disputation on this very matter, and lots of evidence, one way and the other, but apparently that tremendous climate economist and devotee of nuking the country is singularly incapable of finding them...
Apparently including such caveats or taking notes of such matters might involve cackling Claire communicating responsibly, and the pond certainly wouldn't want to be responsible for that ...
Here the pond must pause to acknowledge the way that the reptiles delivered a double whammy this day in both the tree killer and digital editions in terms of reptile obsessions ...
They were on parade, the Voice, the Lehrmann matter, the Donald down the bottom and almost out of sight... but the pond only notes this so it can provide an excuse to run the infallible Pope dealing with one matter ...
... and the immortal Rowe dealing with the other ... and they say the pond's cartoon solution isn't a viable approach. As if ... Demosthenes would be green with envy ... or perhaps pale from an overdose of reptile CO₂ ...
DP’s weariness with the Lehrmann case is quite understandable. My gob was well and truly smacked, though, when I read that the former beak who ran the recent inquiry provided an advance copy of his report to the Reptiles on the understanding that they would make no use of it prior to its official release. Great Murdoch’s Ghost! If the bloke is really that naive I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that he gets his financial advice from a Nigerian prince. Of course the Oz minions were going to ignore any undertaking they might have given and use the report to continue their jihad; like that scorpion in the fable, it’s their nature.
ReplyDeleteWhat would the weak and the downtrodden of our modern dictatorship do without Our Henry to stand up for them? To think that one of the little people, like a defenceless former Prime Minister, could be subject to incessant derision, bullying and harassment, all because he oversaw an illegal government program that targeted, harassed and vilified some of society’s poorest and most vulnerable and likely resulted in numerous deaths? Thank heavens that Henry is here, to wield the sword of Justice! Of course what the silly old blowhard fails to admit is that neither Morrison nor any of the other former Ministers and bureaucrats named in the RC report have suffered any direct punishment as a result of its findings; they simply make recommendations for further consideration. Plus of course this RC was a travesty of justice, whereas the “Pink Batts” one was a triumph, because…. Well, because. Still, that’s Henry for you - a dedicated champion of rule and tradition, except when it doesn’t suit his particular preferences.
ReplyDeleteI see from the unacknowledged intro piccy for Holely Henry, that "Mr [Keith] Pitt has apologised to the welfare recipients unfairly targeted by [small r] robodebt". What, to all of the many thousands of them ? Including the ones driven to their death ?
DeleteNo wonder the National Party is always successful in elections with a direct line to The Trinity like that.
Alan Austin answered all of Henry's assertions nine years ago in Independent Australia eg https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/hip-royal-commission-submission-part-3-hundreds-of-lives-saved,6817
DeleteEven by Henry's standards this is one of the weirdest rants ever, almost totally disconnected from reality ("widespread house fires"??).
At one stage, there were warnings about incorrectly installed batts: "Real lives are at risk. It is the fire authorities that are warning of dodgy installers putting insulation over light fittings.
DeleteNew South Wales fire brigades have warned of a growing number of fires. There have been 26 in the state."
Bad, but hardly "widespread" - just more "media spin"?
Henry's just going from worse to worst: because of his love for Thucydides, he did at least seem to stay within some bounds of sense in the past, but now he's just joined the rest of the reptiles in boundless nonsense. Bit by bit the herpetarium is falling into the fully crazy world of the worst reptiles.
Even some of the reptiles are experiencing it:
Sam Maiden untroubled by The Australian’s blue on blue attack over Brittany Higgins
https://www.theguardian.com/media/commentisfree/2023/aug/04/sam-maiden-untroubled-by-the-australians-blue-on-blue-attack-over-brittany-higgins
Crikey looked at the statistics re fires related to home insulation, see https://www.crikey.com.au/2011/04/25/csiro-debunks-media-hysteria/
DeleteIn short, "The Home Insulation Program reduced the short term fire rate by approximately 70% compared to what was happening before it.
The Home Insulation Program was over 3 times safer than the industry it replaced in terms of the numbers of fire experienced within 12 months of getting insulation installed."
Hi Dorothy,
ReplyDelete“It is not too much to expect that our children will enjoy in their homes electrical energy too cheap to meter, will know of great periodic regional famines in the world only as matters of history, will travel effortlessly over the seas and under them and through the air with a minimum of danger and at great speeds, and will experience a lifespan far longer than ours, as disease yields and man comes to understand what causes him to age.”
That was Lewis Strauss back in 1954 when he was chairman of the US Atomic Energy Commission, (recently portrayed by Robert Downey Jr in the Oppenheimer flick).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Too_cheap_to_meter
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Strauss
Yeah, but then the first production nuclear power plant in the USA didn't commence power supply until May 1958, so I guess that Strauss still had 4 years of daydream heaven to go before reality started to creep slowly into the "too cheap to meter" world.
DeleteBut just for the sake of clarity here's Amory Lovins commenting on nuclear power in the USA:
"Of all 132 U.S. nuclear plants built (52% of the 253 originally ordered), 21% were permanently and prematurely closed due to reliability or cost problems, while another 27% have completely failed for a year or more at least once. The surviving U.S. nuclear plants produce ~90% of their full-time full-load potential, but even they are not fully dependable. Even reliably operating nuclear plants must shut down, on average, for 39 days every 17 months for refueling and maintenance, and unexpected failures do occur too."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_the_United_States
Yep, way too cheap to meter.
Ooops, that was me, DW.
DeleteTalking about wind power - which of course we were - here's a little something:
ReplyDelete"We’ve been laying foundations for the last year now. We’ve got a big boat out there, which has five of the enormous wind turbines on it and that’s circling around looking to start the installation. Hopefully we’ll see first power from this windfarm over the next week or so.”
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/aug/03/first-turbines-being-installed-at-worlds-biggest-offshore-windfarm-in-north-sea-dogger-bank?ref=biztoc.com
Can't build a nuclear plant - even a genuine SMR if any such things actually existed - over a weekend, even if they had been building the foundations for a year already and had a ship full of "modules".
Not only offshore wind, but also offshore solar:
Delete‘Limitless’ energy: how floating solar panels near the equator could power future population hotspots
https://theconversation.com/limitless-energy-how-floating-solar-panels-near-the-equator-could-power-future-population-hotspots-210557
So, the world is in chaos according to Holely Henry: "...it is worth remembering that the Home Insulation Program was at least as great a policy disaster, causing four entirely preventable deaths, provoking widespread house fires and costing billions of dollars of taxpayer's money."
ReplyDeleteBut was it a "policy disaster" at all ?
"Responsibility for the deaths of the four young men rests squarely with the businesses that employed them. The federal government was the customer. The notion that the deaths were ''the guvmint's fault'' is media spin."
https://www.smh.com.au/national/the-real-responsibility-lies-with-employers-20130707-2pk4w.html
So tell me, if any government policy results in any 'negative outcome' at all, is this the government's fault ? Or should the government simply stop making policy decisions because it can't guarantee that no negatives will ever result ? Does this mean that governments should not operate police forces because every police force - at least in Australia - has killed people.
Besides, over 1 million homes were insulated under the HIP before the program was prematurely terminated. That was something, wasn't it ?
And lots of money was spent into the economy which otherwise might just have gone into recession without it.
To seriously try to equate the HIP with the abominable and disastrous Robodebt smacks of serious panic by the reptiles trying to pin something onto Labor.
I always think of this when someone stands athwart history, yelling Stop!
ReplyDeletehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horatius_Cocles
“who will stand on either hand,
And keep the bridge with me?”
OK - Dame Slap here & Simple Simon over there.
Twenty minutes of my life I won't get back, but I committed it quite voluntarily - looking at what Aidan Morrison might have developed in other writings. The answer is - nothing much. He, and, in turn, the eClaire, have enmired themselves in accounting. Not actual economics - accounting. If either of them had any real experience of working in the public sector, they would have seen that there are fashions in public sector accounting (and in private; it is just that there it is directed at inventing plausible new kinds of 'assets', to be sold on).
ReplyDeleteDon't knock yourself out trying to determine what is THE ultimate standard of accounting (Pacioli got the main elements right a few generations back, the rest is simply tweaking) - the main requirement is to remain consistent in your analysis.
I could not glean any consistent conclusion from Morrison on preferred energy supply - he too easily succumbs to easy pejoratives, without offering a way forward. So he appears on the eClaire site (apparently has been there before) for no better reason than he, like last weeks Idel, wrote some words that the eClaire thought she could make into projectiles to put those CSIRO people in their place. Only in the minds of reptile readers has she come anywhere near that, and I suspect those readers have not seen that - it ain't economics, it is accounting. And that is not to invite more of those jokey definitions of accountants - as people good at doing sums, but without the charisma to be an economist.
If I have lost a few minutes here - I will save them next time I am tempted to track down a source that the eClaire has cited.
Oh just think of all of our time you've saved, Chad - and, of course, earned our gratitude.
DeleteThe thing is though, that the world, and especially the reptile world, is just full of people who've encountered a few words in their life that they don't really understand, but think they have therefore acquired superiority over the rest of us. I think it's called the Dunning-Kruger effect.
GB - not that I am given to easy pejoratives as a substitute for outlining a proposition - but I think the eClaire is a fair example of Dunning-Kruger on the Flagship.
DeleteThe Australian treats any Indigenous person against the Voice as some sort of great Indigenous leader, representing more than just themselves.
ReplyDeleteToday we had Anthony Dillon saying he agrees with Jacinta Price in that "we" need Leaders with ears and not the Voice.
I wonder why the Australian did not ask the Coalition's Indigenous Matters Spokesperson, Senator Price, why she is not at Garma, with her ears, listening to what Indigenous people have to say, as it is one of the major Indigenous meetings of the year.
Price, like the rest of the No people, is representing only her own self-interest, like Warren Mundine and Mr Dillon.
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