Thursday, February 29, 2024

It's not that it's a leap year, it's just a Thursday with the reptiles ...

 


It's not just that it's leap year day, it's that Thursday tends to be the cruellest day in the lizard Oz calendar ...




Instead of news of the Victorian bushfires, the reptiles decided to feature petulant Peta doing climate science denialism, turning climate science into a religion in the usual specious reptile way by talking of "gospels" in the SloMo manner ...

The pond won't take the bait - if it wanted that sort of tosh, it'd go the Bjorn-again one, not to left over onion-munching -  nor will the pond take the bait offered by cackling Claire. 

The keen Keane already covered that ratbag stirring in Crikey yesterday, Mardi Gras, police and yet another culture war get the Sydney media excited, (paywall) and her cackle was likely just another part of the excitation ...




That reference to the Sydney Morning Herald reminded pond of the events back in 1978, and the doxxing of the participants, which should have seen the Herald treated by gays the same way that The Sun is still banned in Liverpool ...

Belatedly, back in 2016, the wretched rag issued an apology ...

On the eve of the historic NSW government apology to Mardi Gras founders the "78ers", The Sydney Morning Herald has underlined its acknowledgment that discrimination towards gay rights protesters at the hands of police, government and media in 1978 was wrong and unjust.
On June 24, 1978, more than 500 activists took to Taylor Square in Darlinghurst in support and celebration of New York's Stonewall movement and to call for an end to criminalisation of homosexual acts and discrimination against homosexuals. The peaceful movement ended in violence, mass arrests and public shaming at the hands of the police, government and media.

Even then it was cloaked in the sordid, tawdry garb of "common practice" ...

Three days after the melee, Fairfax Media newspapers including the Herald publicly outed 53 people involved in the pro-equality march, publishing their names, addresses and occupations in the newspaper. Subsequent editions published the details of more protesters, including the names of 104 people facing charges resulting from a homosexual rights march the previous weekend in Sydney.
As was common practice at the time, the press routinely published the full details of people who appeared in court, regardless of the nature of the offence with which they had been charged.
The public lists saw many protesters further discriminated against, in some instances causing the loss of jobs and homes.
Apologising to the 78ers, Darren Goodsir, editor-in-chief of The Sydney Morning Herald, said: "In 1978, The Sydney Morning Herald reported the names, addresses and professions of people arrested during public protests to advance gay rights. The paper at the time was following the custom and practice of the day.
"We acknowledge and apologise for the hurt and suffering that reporting caused. It would never happen today."

Poofter bashing was common practice too ... and there's no recovering the hurt and damage done to lives ... and that's not how you do an apology. 

No, it's a Merseyside boycott for the pond ...

But with petulant Peta and cackling Claire red carded out of the reptile line-up, what remained?

Well the pond won't be going down the EV road with the reptiles ...




And the SloMo jokes have been done and dusted ...




And the Canavan caravan has left the station ...





And so had Dame Groan groaning, leaving the infallible Pope of the day stranded ...





The pond scoured the bottom section of the reptile pages for some quisling lick spittle Putinist ... and worse luck ...



...Killer had arrived to save the pond day with an impression of Tuckyo Carlson ...though the pond uses the word "save" in a loose eternal damnation SloMo liar of the Shire way ...





The pond will always give space to Killer to spread his special brand of Killer poison ... even the headline would have appeased Vlad the sociopathic invader ... and then Killer got into his appeasing stride ...




This strain of defeatism has been growing in the lizard Oz ... recently the pond noted a full blast of it from the swishing Switzer ...

What distinguished this Killer effort was the amount of pictorial window dressing ...






... but if you're just recycling Vlad the sociopathic invader's talking points, brevity is possibly useful ...




What about Crimea? What about Russian acquisition of Ukrainian land from 2014 on? If you're doing an impression of Tuckyo doing an impression of an appeasing Chamberlain, none of that matters ...




That reference to boofhead Boris is classic Putin speak, the puppet channeling the voice of his master. It's also channeling that prize anti-vax loon RFK Jr.


The pond is astonished it must allow boofhead Boris into the room, but between him and lickspittle Killer and Vlad the sociopath, what choice is there?

And so to a final bout of lickspittle lackey fellow travelling ... wherein Killer purports to care for Ukraine ...



Meanwhile, Sweden at last made it into the fold, and thanks to the sociopathic nature of Vlad the impaler's behaviour, NATO has expanded in a way not imagined before Vlad the impaler embarked on his war - yes, you can still use the word 'war' outside Russia - while the quislings assembled to help him out ...

Did anyone note in the reptiles' coverage that other news about the criminal gang and the puppets?




If words had any value, Killer and the lizard Oz would warrant an investigation ...

Then it was the turn of another genocide, thanks to the lizard Oz editorialist ...




It was yet more evidence for Media Watch's file on the lizard Oz coverage of Gaza ...

The pond has noted before the tendency of the reptiles to act as a branch of the AJN ...






The same impulse is at work in the lizard Oz ...





Meanwhile, if you want news of the genocide in progress, you must turn to other sources ...




In turn that creates a dilemma, what with Joe deciding to eat icecream while talking of the genocide ...



Even so, could the country really embrace the man who would be king?




Sadly the pond has learned to never underestimate the ability of the likes of Killer to indulge in an orgy of wild-eyed lickspittle fellow travelling ...




It's not that it's a leap year, it's just a Thursday with the reptiles ...


19 comments:

  1. "What about Crimea? What about Russian acquisition of Ukrainian land from 2014 on?" Another fine example of 'If I don't ever mention it again, then it never really happened' don't you think, DP ? But it really is fascinating how these loons think that Putin actually needed a 'legal justification' for his invasions of Crimea and Donbas.

    That's just exactly the kind of thinking that made Neville Chamberlain persuade himself that he had achieved "peace in our time".

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    1. Yes, GB, the pond used to hesitate about breaking Godwin's Law but if you see a Chamberlian appeasing Hitler and a Killer appeasing Putin, it's time to break the law ...

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    2. Oh the Killer is just a joy, isn't he. I especially liked the bit about "...driving Moscow into Beijing's arms has been a disaster." Sure it has ... a total and utter disaster which has allowed Beijing and Moscow to ruin the European and American economies and go on to conquer the Western World.

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  2. Recognition at last - ‘Dorothy Parker unmasked as mystery poet’. OK - borrowed from Will Pavia and ‘The Times’, but up there in the electronic bait box this February 29th.

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  3. Tyson Yunkaporta elucidates the reptile newscorpse time and right story / wrong story problem.

    "It's not that it's a leap year, it's just a Thursday with the reptiles ..." ... but in the real world the... "Right story is clunky, and it takes time—because it’s supposed to take time." ...
    Yet in Reptile lala land they always write to a mort-line and publish the Wrong story; "And that’s what we’re up against. That’s your wrong story. It’s really powerful because it’s incredibly ignorant, and it’s a way that a minority can subvert and control a majority. It’s a brilliant leverage point. It’s a brilliant psychotechnology. It’s probably the most brilliant invention ever made: the wrong story." TY.

    "Story is so powerful: a story can heal, a story can kill. Right story is clunky, and it takes time—because it’s supposed to take time."
    ...
    .. "So, it’s not confusing when you’re speaking the language, but it’s confusing when you try to explain it to other people—because they haven’t got any frame of reference for you, you haven’t got any frame of reference for them, and it’s all just a muddle. But I guess that’s what the world’s like, and it’s just an interesting time now because everybody’s speaking a different language from their own epistemology, from their own ways of knowing, that they’ve gotten confused with their ontology—their ways of being. They sort of mix these things up and everybody’s clamoring, speaking all at once from these things and demanding to be heard, a.k.a understood, a.k.a someone’s gotta stand in my shoes, but not you—you can’t have my shoes! [laughs] It’s all really weird. People are in bad relation. " ...
    https://emergencemagazine.org/interview/deep-time-diligence/

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  4. You've gotta just keep trying to say it, don't you:

    Dutton wants a ‘mature debate’ about nuclear power. By the time we’ve had one, new plants will be too late to replace coal
    https://theconversation.com/dutton-wants-a-mature-debate-about-nuclear-power-by-the-time-weve-had-one-new-plants-will-be-too-late-to-replace-coal-224513

    "The Coalition began calling for a “mature debate” on nuclear immediately after losing office." Exactly: they didn't want to face the difficulties of doing it themselves, they just wanted the idea around as a stick to beat Labor with.

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  5. "If this were to occur, particularly in large companies, the matter would be litigated before the sun sets."
    Only in the fevered world of the Dame Groan. Besides, where would they get the money to litigate?

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  6. The Gruadian has some interesting analysis of the recent Newspoll that claimed “overwhelming public support” for nuclear power facilities - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/feb/29/the-australian-newspoll-survey-small-modular-nuclear-reactors-smr-energy-grid-plan

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    1. You know what would be really, really good ? Small thermonuclear reactors ! Now that would really be something. Of course Planet Terra would have turned into a second Venus long before we ever are likely to get one of those, but oh, what a thing to have.

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    2. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/feb/28/turn-on-or-drop-out-new-rules-could-give-energy-consumers-more-power-on-the-home-front

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    3. Sounds too good to be true, doesn't it - which means it probably is. Surely all those "free market capitalists" of the LNP would never approve of it.

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  7. Oh my, 'projection' is everywhere you can look:
    John Crace: "...to realise that every criticism he [Rish!] made of Starmer was better aimed at himself."
    https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/feb/28/rishi-sunak-tories-unravel-imaginary-dragons

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  8. Off on another tangent, but this may be a harbinger of a future Friday foray from Holey Henry. OK - he may be required to continue with the reptile theme of ‘any mention of concern for Palestinian kids needlessly starving to death is 21 st century anti-semitism - and we do mean anti-Jewishism’, but this has given him opportunity to display some of his dilettantism in art, coupled with a hard shove to some of them pushy blacks.

    On this day, the Henry appears on the ‘Quad Rant’ with an essay titled ‘Authenticity and Indigenous Art’. It starts with reference to articles in, of course, ‘The Australian’ which constituted a ‘devastating expose’ of the APY Art Centre. Henry goes on with gratuitous response to a rhetorical comment from a Minister in the NT Government; Henry ‘A glance at the long list of Aboriginal corporations that regularly fail to meet their statutory reporting requirements would have readily answered the minister’s question.’

    But our Henry has found references to one Eric Michaels, which, apparently, set him off. Michaels is a Henry character - American, Jewish, who died young (40) from AIDS. Michaels’ involvement in indigenous Australian ‘culture’ was ostensibly to set up radio and television services for indigenous people around Yuendemu, into the 1980s, but seems he dabbled in many other areas of ‘culture’. What the Henry has seized on is an essay titled ‘Bad Aboriginal Art’. The Henry almost pontificates on the existence of ‘bad’ Aboriginal art, even though it is not clear what Michaels’ definition of ‘art’ was, for indigenous graphics, and, it follows, neither writer offers criteria for identifying ‘bad’ from ‘good’ of the work of the desert artists.

    Our Henry kinda hints that doing dot paintings with acrylics is contrary to authenticity, but he offers no way to make permanent versions of the sand representations that are the precursors of the dot paintings. It all rather fades away - while leaving the kind of taint that Windschuttle looked for in contributions to the ‘Rant’, and, presumably, the new editor also favours.

    Oh, at its end, the ‘Rant’ reminds its readers that Henry Ergas received the Order of Australia in 2016 “for distinguished service to infrastructure economics, and to higher education, to public policy development and review, and as a supporter of emerging artists”.

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    1. Umm, "what I call good is good, and everything else isn't" Chad ?

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    2. I think the Henries think that is why they have been sent among us, GB. We should express our thanks somehow.

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  9. SMR's everywhere! Wildfires everywhere!
    The Windy Deuce.

    Quiggin is wedged by writing that article Gru B. He has an economics hammer as big as Thor's, yet writes a normal politic-y article challenging Dutton et al to produce a plan. Which is exactly what coal and (sp)nuclear spruikers want! He should have crushed nuclear power with his economics hammer. Too easy.

    And can't wait to see some SMR dumpster wildfires! Gawd we are dumb and unimaginative.

    "Nuclear weapon factory forced to evacuate as Texas wildfires threaten plant
    "Several wildfires are scorching the Texas panhandle [most of Australia] with thousands evacuated

    "Wildfires sweeping across Texas briefly forced the evacuation of America’s main nuclear weapons facility as strong winds, dry grass and unseasonably warm temperatures fed the blaze.

    [Hottest last day of summer central west nsw today - can't wait to see the Nats bulldoze and strip, rip up farmland and grass for the central west SMR! BIG Lawnmower Man provides employment Gee Andrew Gee, the first smr-nimby. Oh. Not enough water? Site smr next to a dam! Hey- pfas! Oops!]

    "Since 1975 it has been the US’s main assembly and disassembly site for its atomic bombs. It assembled the last new bomb in 1991.

    "This satellite image from Planet Labs PBC shows the Pantex nuclear facility near Amarillo, Texas, on Saturday February 24

    "The Windy Deuce fire doubled in size on Wednesday afternoon, burning 90,000 acres at 25 per cent containment. That morning, it was at just 40,000 acres.

    "Multiple other fires, some much larger, are also threatening the Texas Panhandle 
    ..
    https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/texas-fires-pantex-nuclear-plant-map-b2504219.html

    Dumb and dumber...
    Small (minded) Modular Reactor Duttons produced by the LibNat Nuthouse production line. Expensive and dangerous.

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  10. How times are a-changin' - it's better to work and live in Australia than in Japan:

    As Japan enters recession, some young workers are leaving Tokyo to earn more in Australia
    https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-29/japan-cost-of-living-young-people-leaving-for-australia/103520934

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