Just prattling Polonius and the dog botherer to go, and then no more pencils, no more books, no more reptile dirty looks ...

 

The pond looked at the comments section yesterday and thought it had already done a hard weekend's work ...

Thanks to the routine red carding of Dame Slap, there was only a little mopping up to be done.

One mop head the pond won't be worried about studying is the oscillating fan, still rabbiting on about the newly adjusted and recalibrated tax breaks. 

Nor will the pond be joining Paige in her "nightmare". The pond was reminded of the 2007 film Lucky Miles, an asylum seeker comedy made back in the days of innocence ... (well innocent if you were unaware the lying rodent existed - you could find the whole thing on Vimeo here).

It's also good news that Kudelka has returned from a long break ...

That left just prattling Polonius and the dog botherer for the pond's Sunday meditation, and that was more than enough.

Of late the pond has reached the same stage with Polonius as it has with "Ned". 

His assorted fixations and obsessions are both tedious and extremely limited. Outside Pellism, the Catholic church and the evils of the ABC there's nothing to be found. Does he have a life? Is it possible to have a life when reading him? Probably not ...

This weekend's outing was yet another return to Pellism ...

What to say? You might think it's Polonius going off on the Victorian courts and cops and socialist left types, but the clue to the punchline is that quoting at the start of the Sydney Fisher of men (women only if they can attain complimentary status of a tyke kind).

If you thought that, you'd be the sort of all-day lizard Oz sucker that Polonius loves. The real point of it all is to return for the umpteenth time to the suffering of the Pellists, the injustice of it all, yadda yadda ...

Usually the pond would celebrate the Pellists' love of frock wearing for a bit of light relief, but the pond is tired of defaming frock lovers. 

The pond is also too tired to remind stray passersby of all the terrible things done to victims of the Catholic church during the reign of the Pellists.

It might soon be time to retire Polonius to a late afternoon slot. This monomania isn't interesting, even if its deep weirdness is all too familiar ...

Speaking of corruption, and of a badly broken religion, incapable of self-reflection or reform - standard bigotry about abortion and SSM being the norm - there's a handy collection of infallible Pope cartoons here ... (essential for lovers of the one true Pope)

Turning to the dog botherer, as the pond must, is there any upside? 

The pond hears the cries of those about to suffer, and good news, there is. 

In his righteous indignation, for once the dog botherer has forgotten about climate science ...

Sadly however, the downside is a helluva downside, because we're back with the suffering of everybody except those being subjected to genocide in Gaza ...

Apart from the usual up himself styling about his worldliness, the thing that sticks in the pond's craw is the willing confusion of antisemitism with a refusal to condemn the notion that Benji's form of fundamentalist Zionism is the only way forward.

The pond is reminded, in a both siderist way, of the treatment that the Murdochians have routinely dished out to Islamics.

Clementine Ford is the new punching bag - as you'd expect of a feminist with tatts - but back in the day, the reptiles led a fatwah of the first water ... per the wiki on Abdel-Magied: 

...An essay originally published by the Griffith Review in April 2017 was reprinted in The Guardian on 6 July, along with a short introduction describing the extremity of the behaviours to which she had been subjected. She had been trolled relentlessly after her Q&A appearance and Anzac Day post, including being sent videos of beheadings and rapes with suggestions that the same should happen to her. She was subjected to daily death threats on social media as well as abusive telephone calls, forcing her to change her phone number, move house and delete social media accounts. She later said that she had become "Australia's most publicly hated Muslim".

Some continued to threaten her publicly, including on National Radio; "She has fled the country and is blaming all of us," Prue MacSween said. "She says she’s been betrayed by Australia and didn’t feel safe in her own country. Well actually she might have been right there, because if I had seen her I would have been tempted to run her over mate."

Other commentators said that she had been the victim of "character assassination", Islamophobia and her feminism. Susan Carland likened the media frenzy after the Q&A incident to a witch-hunt, saying that The Australian ran four front pages as well as 26 editorials and opinion pieces, and every major news site in the country had run at least one piece on it. The Murdoch-owned Newscorp media had been particularly vicious in their attacks. Randa Abdel-Fattah wrote "Abdel-Magied has come to represent everything that Islamophobia hates – but actually loves – about 'the Muslim problem' ", and that her critics would have preferred her to stay in Australia.

You know ...

The dog botherer was one of the rats climbing aboard the crusading rat pack ...chipping in here and there, with snide dismissive remarks ...

When activist Yassmin Abdel-Magied spoke at the Australian National Univer­sity this week, rather than engage in debate about her political posturing over Anzac Day she assumed victim status and blamed media and political organisations. “Those sorts of power, those institutions of power are geared against people like me,” she said, “because they see votes in it and because fear is so much easier to sell.”

It was a lazy effort, as it was when she suggested our parliamentary democracy “doesn’t represent anyone” yet rejected the idea she should give it a go. “You know how to get to office,” Abdel-Magied said. “I have to go to preselection, which works really well, and I have to go through all these other systems which for women and for people of colour are actually biased.” What a cop-out.

Or what about these hypocritical crocodile tears, while staying on the slagging bandwagon:

Sky News host Chris Kenny says although former ABC broadcaster Yassmin Abdel-Magied has “criticized Australia and fled the country,” she is not “above taking money” from Australian taxpayers.

Mr Kenny said he “would never condone” the way Ms Abdel-Magied was treated online for her “provocative” views on Anzac day and Australia’s border protection policies which ultimately led her to leave the country.

Ms Abdel-Magied is “not above taking money from Australia,” Mr Kenny said as she has recently accepted a $20,000 arts grant from the commonwealth to “help her out” with her writing during a six-month residency in Paris.

Taking to twitter, Ms Abdel-Magied thanked "Allah" and many people on twitter, but Mr Kenny said perhaps she should have thanked “the good taxpayers of Australia” who are “stumping up again” to assist her career.

“There are lot of citizens of this country who are often highly critical of so much about our past, our institutions or our policies, but it never seems to prevent them accepting our largesse,” he said.

He would never condone. He was part of the lathering, the whipping up of the frenzy.

It's truly wondrous how the persecutions and the demonisations suddenly slip from mind and all is empathy ...

Usually the pond would run some alternative mentions of the hell innocent civilians are going through in Gaza.

But that wears thin by dint of repetition ... and does nothing to dissuade fundamentalists of all persuasions. 

You won't find any of the reptiles referencing stories in Al Jazeera ... though there are horror stories in abundance as the genocide continues unchecked and jolly Joe feebly talks of a ceasefire...

There have been scenes of chaos and panic at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis as Israeli forces stormed the medical facility in the southern Gaza Strip and Palestinians tried to evacuate.

The Israeli army has besieged the facility for weeks, isolating thousands of patients, medical staff and displaced families – many of whom remain trapped inside. Verified video footage showed those who tried to flee on Thursday came under attack after leaving the hospital.

Gaza Ministry of Health spokesperson Ashraf al-Qudra said Israeli troops were forcing 95 medics, 191 patients and 165 displaced people into an old building at the medical centre under “harsh conditions” without water, food or milk for the children.

“The Nasser Medical Complex is witnessing a catastrophic, worrying situation because of the dwindling medical capacity as fuel is set to run out in the next 24 hours, which directly threatens the lives of patients, including six on respirators in intensive care and three children in incubators,” al-Qudra said in a statement.

And so endlessly on, but you won't find any of that in the lizard Oz ...

And after denouncing Hamas, what about denouncing those perpetrating the slaughter, the collective punishment, the collective displacement, with the aim of clearing out the population, either by way of death or deportation to Egypt and other nearby places ...

Don't you worry about any of that ...

The authorities stood up against the relentless demonisation by the Murdochians of Islamic communities?

Now there's a laugh if it wasn't fully sick ...

Remember Akker Dakker in full flight back in the day? (Sorry, the pond doesn't link to reptiles, even the Billy Bunter kind).

...These are just a few of the hurdles placed in the path of Muslims who want to be fully accepted as Australians — hurdles that cannot be scrambled over or around because there cannot possibly be a duality of beliefs which encompasses both the democratic ideal of equality that frames the Western outline of governance and the supremacy of an extremely vengeful and blindly demanding worship. Under the politically ­correct constructs of multiculturalism, Western populations have been lectured and hectored and bullied by so-called progressives toward the entirely false notion that all ­cultures have equal value. Clearly, they don’t. Although the Western ­feminist clique has largely been silent about the brutality meted out to their sisters in most Muslim countries, it is frequent. Even here, there have been honour killings, forced marriages of girls to older men they have never met and, of course, there have been incidences of female genital mutilation ­conducted for cultural reasons. Cultures that stone women to death, and lop off hands and heads, cannot be placed in the same context as those that have, after centuries of debate, decided cruel and unusual punishments should be abolished. Nor do homosexuals get off lightly, although the Western homosexual marriage lobby has little or no time to publicise the plight of those who have been thrown off rooftops ­because of their sexuality. Their vitriol, as with the ­bilious feminists, is focused on the Vatican. It may well be that the overwhelming majority of Muslims in Australian reject the appalling injunctions contained in those Koranic verses which most appeal to those who are seduced by Daesh/Islamic State or al-Qaeda and the ­vision of a medieval caliphate replete with slave women. If this is so, then surely there must be one mullah, one imam, from an Australian mosque who is prepared to take a public stand. If not, then all the claims made on behalf of Muslims by politicians pushing multiculturalism look very ­ordinary and the call by NSW Opposition Leader Luke Foley for more mosques for ­“mainstream” Muslims seems totally bizarre. Before holding hands and humming Kumbaya, our politicians and security forces should consider the first ­response Tunisia’s Prime Minister Habib Essid had to last June’s terrorist massacre of tourists to his country. He declared that 80 mosques in which extremists had preached were to be closed down. He didn’t quibble about ­assigning the responsibility for what was an absolute outrage to those Muslim preachers who were calling on their ­followers to join in jihad. British Prime Minister David Cameron has belatedly come to the same conclusion and warned operators of ­Muslim schools that they will be shut down if found to be teaching extremist hatred. “We’ve got children being taught that they shouldn’t mix with people of other religions; being beaten; swallowing conspiracy theories about Jewish people,” he said. “These children should be having their minds opened, their horizons broadened, not having their heads filled with poison and their hearts filled with hate.” Contemptible progressives in Australia have permitted purveyors of hate to operate here, gaming freedom of speech laws in order to silence critics of multiculturalism and those who point out the obvious inconsistencies ­within Islam. They are the true oppressors of those who want to raise their families in an enlightened nation free from suffocating religious domination.

As an atheist with a contempt for all forms of religious fundamentalism - including Jewish and Islamic fundamentalism, not to forget Pellism - it's a difficult turf to discuss. 

But what is certain is that what is going down unimpeded and rampant in Gaza, to satisfy Benji's fundamentalist land-grabbing colleagues and to save his own criminal bacon, is going to exponentially compound for generations a deep sense of injustice and wrong doing, cheered on by a hypocritical alliance of fellow travellers who have done much to fuck up the middle east these many decades ...

Luckily the dog botherer ran out of steam long before the pond ran out of rage ...even as this hate monger on Sky after dark had the arrogance to preach pieties of an insufferable kind ...

It's the business of the Murdochian angertainment hate machine to make sure we never get there ... and so to ease the sense of anger, the pond turned to a few relaxing cartoons to end the weekend's study ...