The pond woke with an ominous sense that things were going to be dismal, or at least deeply weird, this day ...
Last night the pond had noted that the reptiles had featured some extraordinarily wet blather about the manosphere, and even worse a call on the 'leets to try to stop it ...
Dear sweet long absent lord, has the rot started? Where are all the reptiles when it matters?
Talk of pushing outrageous content to angry men as if it's a crime? Why it's the entire business model ...
Even weirder, the bro's piece - featured on the pond yesterday - had gone through something of a re-branding, as if to match up to Cameron's ominous piece ...
Now the bro is suggesting there's tough choices ahead?
That's why the pond is so irritated that Media Watch (and perhaps the entire ABC) has taken an early mark, and abandoned reptile watch. Turn your back, they do a chameleon routine, and suddenly there are tough choices ahead ...
And indeed there were tough choices this morning. There was Dame Slap perched in her usual spot at the far right of the digital edition ...
... always ready to fly off to planet Janet above the faraway tree ...and down below there were the usual suspects ...
Forgive the pond, it sins daily, but it simply couldn't go Coal Joel, though his column certainly did prove that COP28 knew how to draw an odd crowd of coal lovers and climate science denialists ...
Instead the pond was stuck with "Ned", apparently unaware that there'd been a bit of a tonal shift via Cameron and the re-branded bro ... and so the Everest challenge came far too early in the morning ...
What would Australia do? Well that's better than asking WWJD, because Jesus would bomb the shit out of them... none of that peacenik nonsense ...
As for Australia, surely we'd adopt a more measured gulag/ghetto approach, as suggested by Wilcox in relation to another matter...
And so to visit Planet Janet, for no particular reason, just because it's there and because the pond is feeling in the mood for a little white nationalism of the blonde kind ...
Besides, she seems to have dropped the Lehrmann matter, so the pond doesn't have an excuse to link to the Daily Terror's Inside Bruce Lehrmann's $50m party pad (relax, he just went to a party - the reptiles aren't too worried about the 100+k in rent as contra and as Seven shows, sometimes there's nothing like a bribe or a payoff as a way of doing gutter journalism) ...
Um, perhaps because the day the pond is at one with the likes of Dame Slap, it'll be time to head out to the Gap?
And long ago, the pond learned there's no such thing as a free lunch ...
What's worse is that the pond doesn't have a segue to the Rowe celebrating holy suffering at the hands of windmills, up there with the whales ...
Hmm, those shadowy figures look a lot like where the pond started, but as biblical metaphors have been raised, it's time for the next instalment of the pond's study of the bible, showing that there were a heck of a lot of fingers in that pie.
As always, the pond likes to do a traditional acknowledgement of source, with Richard Cohen's Making History published by Simon and Schuster ... remember to click on to enlarge ...
Heck, while in the Xian mood, the pond hopes that readers have caught up with The Violent and Extreme History of Mike Johnson's Old Legal Clients ....
It's behind the paywall, so perhaps a few samples, starting a little way into the saga ...
Tasty stuff, and very more-ish ....
A final gobbet, knowing there's a lot more at source for those who can get to it ... and there's also this piece in Politico, I Read Mike Johnson's Legal Filings. They Reveal a Distinctive Pattern ...
Aw heck, another gobbet ... the pond has suffered a lot this day and needs a treat ...
And speaking of spiritual warfare, as young earth creationists climbing on to the Ark with dinosaurs are wont to do, another serve of bible studies showing just how many cooks were needed to create that broth ... click on to enlarge, with the penultimate serve of bible studies tomorrow ...
So, Neddy: "World War II was an existential conflict where Allied leaders, notably Winston Churchill, targeted civilian infrastructure and population centres with massive civilian casualties." And as did The US in Japan.
ReplyDeleteI was beginning to wonder if that point would ever surface in the current discussion, after all there's no reason to talk about the fire bombing of Dresden and Tokyo and the Nuke bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, is there. Let bygones be bygones, and don't ever mention the German 'Blitz' that commenced in September 1940.
But we're better than that now, aren't we.
"...the colloquial tongue of the Mediterranean, that vernacular in which Polybius and Plutarch wrote, although ironically a language that Jesus and his disciples didn't speak and couldn't write..." Now that just can't be true, can it: Jesus is God (or at least Part 2 of the Trinity) who is therefore omniscient and would obviously have been able to speak and write in any language anywhere at any time. Wouldn't he ?
ReplyDeleteProbably not all at once. That's why an over-possessive devilkind, say, on an austere cliff-side overlooking a temptatious Jerusalem, at first, sounds like someone twiddling the dial between stations on a radio receiver, before co-tuning into a lingua franca apt for person, time, and place. Although, a pulmonic-ingressive extended-play kink likely remains somewhat disconcerting.
DeleteGood to see someone is doing their bible course GB, and at the end of it, you'll be able to explain to the pond how the Bible is the single, inerrant word of the long absent lord, whatever the many versions, translations, hacks, scribes and scribblers involved in putting together the myth-making ... and then the pond can send it along to Mike Johnson and his mates ...
DeleteOh that's easy, DP: whenever somebody presents a single, clear, unambiguous account of something, you know they are lying because homo saps saps just isn't that clear, rational and consistent.
DeleteTherefore, in the Bible, with lots of rambling, inconsistent spruiking, we know that most likely, hidden in there somewhere, is the real story. We just have to find out where.
A small diversion: "Many still hanker for how things were: but looking across the Channel, it’s completely illogical to do that."
ReplyDeleteI’ve got news for those who say Brexit is a disaster: it isn’t. That’s why rejoining is just a pipe dream
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/dec/05/brexit-disaster-rejoining-channel-europe-economy
The pond noted that one a little earlier GB and also noted that the Graudian might have deemed it a bit hot for the readership because they turned off the comments and invited emails ...
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Nah, not really. Much more fun listening James O'Brien fulminate on LBC ...
I think it's a bit of a disaster for quite a few Britons, but not all of them have actually noticed yet. Like a lot of Aussies and the 9 Abbott-Turnbull-Morrison years.
DeleteThe most impressive indigenous leader? The Guardian reports " Jacinta Price declined 52 ABC interview requests to discuss Indigenous voice referendum."
ReplyDeleteWhen you're "The most impressive indigenous leader" you don't have to prance for the opposition any more.
DeleteI did read closely the item on fact-finding tours of the east when it appeared on 'Crikey Worm, and it is useful to remind readers of material on Crikey, or here, of Hubert Wolfe. He is not wholly forgotten. I have his collection of newspaper contributions from the 1920s, titled 'Circular Saws', and try to limit myself to one each day. He had a remarkable life, rising steadily to some prominence in the civil service of the UK, while producing wry little stories for publication, having his verse set to music by Gustav Holst - in all, the kind of intellectual who graced that title in a way that those nominated by reptile writers now - Jordan Peterson, for example, - seem incapable of.
ReplyDeleteThey "seem" incapable of ? Ok, here's the challenge: nominate anything that they are actually capable of.
DeleteJust in case you're tempted to believe anything that a reptile ever says:
ReplyDelete"This year we [Helen Georgiou and Sally Larsen] independently both published papers looking at Australian students’ results. These papers both reached the same conclusions: students’ scores on the vast majority of standardised assessments were not in decline."
Are Australian students really falling behind? It depends which test you look at
https://theconversation.com/are-australian-students-really-falling-behind-it-depends-which-test-you-look-at-218709
Now here's something that I just don't understand - from a Sydney Morning Herald article:
ReplyDelete"A major study by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation based at Washington University, published by The Lancet in mid-2020, forecast the population of 23 countries to fall by 50 per cent or more by the end of the century. For another 34 nations it predicted declines of between 25 and 50 per cent. The proportion of old people in those places will surge higher as a result." "surge"?
Now I get that if there's fewer births, and/or fewer immigrants, that a nation's population won't increase, but to increase the proportion of old people, then surely the number of old people must increase by people getting older but without the existing old people dying in equivalent numbers. Is that what's happening ? Unless what's meant is that there's also a significant number of younger emigrants leaving the country. Maybe that's what will happen in Australia as the baby boomers increasingly move into the "old people" category while still being around for quite a few years.
But anyway, don't worry, Australia's population will grow: "Australia’s population will climb from the current 26 million to between 34 and 46 million by 2071". So, if we take the smallest rise, that's a population increase of 8 million (34 - 26) in just under 50 years, or a rate of 8,000,000/48 = 166,667 per annum. Now that's not too many houses, schools, railways, roads and tramways etc etc that will have to be constructed every year, is it ? We'll need a lot more politicians though as the number of electorates grows.
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/take-the-long-view-on-immigration-it-might-surprise-you/ar-AA1l32A7?