The pond will repeat its warning. Last chance to walk away, click on anything else. What follows is way worse than pornography, it's petulant Peta.
Now don't go reading and getting your angertainment hit and blaming the pond.
You've been warned ... the pond can do more more. Anyone that proceeds further is on their own, they did it willingly and knowingly and any anger must be internalised ...
Sure the pond told a porkie, disingenuously proposing that petulant Peta is beyond the pale and that her desire to nuke the country was just a tedious repetition of already much covered nuke the country talking points.
Of course the pond has provided special nuking the country bulletins. Of course she's whiter shade of pale ...
But the pond loves the morning smell of napalm and climate science denialists discovering the need to nuke the country to save the planet ...
The pond showed discretion by keeping petulant Peta out of sight in the crisp morning air, saving her up for the savouring, only allowing her to appear at the magical late arvo witching hour, so that only specialist herpetology students might bump into her ...
This shouldn't be interpreted as the pond starting up a late arvo slot to bump up the hits. This is a rare treat, rather like a meal of goat's testicles ...
First consider the tremendous scientific credentials of the scribbler ...
If that doesn't show she's perfectly poised to ponder on nuking the country, what would? A degree in science? If that's the level of debate, then dammit, the pond will have nothing more to say ...
If only the pond had known, how handy it would have been featured here as a discussion starter ...
Currently he's consulting for Uncle Elon on the sort of vehicle needed on Mars ... and the pond isn't convinced by that redaction either ...
What's wrong with the longest way round? And speaking of that, better get back to taking the long, high, windy road with petulant Peta ...
Really? Really trooly ...
The reptiles settled on a snap ...
The pond has always been open to poets and has seen some mighty fine examples below the fold, and back in the day, to the pond's astonishment and delight, the Bolter was a ripper poet ...
Hmm, doesn't seem to rhyme, seems a bit tortured, but still a good break, and now back to petulant Peta, still nuking the country ...
Luckily she found the perfect Dick, and so the reptiles interrupted with a snap to remind us of this ancient fossil, apparently with astonishing expertise in nuking the country as well as retailing...
Better still, Quad Rant had a great early example of the maestro (sorry, the pond never bothers to link to the Ranters) ...
Such a sensitive young lad ... and forever more he's been braying at the rest.
Te pond can hear someone in the pit asking how to give the poem its best reading.
Perhaps Hamlet's advice to his players might be of some use ...
Speak the poem I pray you, as I pronounced it to
you, trippingly on the tongue: but if you mouth it,
as many of your players do, I had as lief the
town-crier spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air
too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently;
for in the very torrent, tempest, and, as I may say,
the whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget
a temperance that may give it smoothness. O, it
offends me to the soul to hear a robustious
periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to
very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings, who
for the most part are capable of nothing but
inexplicable dumbshows and noise: I would have such
a fellow whipped for o'erdoing Termagant; it
out-herods Herod: pray you, avoid it.
Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion
be your tutor: suit the action to the word, the
word to the action; with this special o'erstep not
the modesty of nature: for any thing so overdone is
from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the
first and now, was and is, to hold, as 'twere, the
mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature,
scorn her own image, and the very age and body of
the time his form and pressure. Now this overdone,
or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful
laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve; the
censure of the which one must in your allowance
o'erweigh a whole theatre of others. O, there be
players that I have seen play, and heard others
praise, and that highly, not to speak it profanely,
that, neither having the accent of Christians nor
the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so
strutted and bellowed that I have thought some of
nature's journeymen had made men and not made them
well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
O, reform it altogether. And let those that play
your clowns speak no more than is set down for them;
for there be of them that will themselves laugh, to
set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh
too; though, in the mean time, some necessary
question of the play be then to be considered:
that's villanous, and shows a most pitiful ambition
in the fool that uses it. Go, make you ready.
Go to, hold your Bolter poem recital and make ready for petulant Peta's last gobbet ... and as for why the pond went there, that was answered by Daanyal Saeed in Crikey ...'Mr Dutton is right': News Corp papers grant nuclear power glowing coverage ... (paywall)
...The paper’s editorial on March 6 said it was “time for a properly costed plan on the nuclear option”, stating “Peter Dutton’s embrace of a nuclear option for consideration is worthwhile”.
“Dutton is right to develop a net-zero plan that includes nuclear,” the piece continued. “Refusing to lift the ban or even consider the issue … makes the federal government look out of touch with what is happening in the modern energy world.”
Crikey asked The Australian’s managing editor Darren Davidson on March 5 whether the paper had an editorial view on the merits of nuclear energy, and how it balanced any view it may have with the Coalition’s policy position, as well as any ethical obligations that may arise in its reportage. He declined to comment.
This morning’s editorial comes on the heels of one published on February 17 headlined “Nuclear option made easy by the renewables miscue”. It went on to describe nuclear power as “a logical option for emissions-free power”, a “sensible option”, but admitted it was “incendiary politics”.
“It rekindles the climate wars and undermines the certainty that is craved by business.”
Political editor Simon Benson has been responsible for much of this nuclear coverage, penning an op-ed on February 25 that argued the Labor government was “at risk of ending up on the wrong side of history in its fanatical opposition to nuclear power”.
Benson was also responsible for an exclusive, also published on February 25, that showed Newspoll data conducted for The Australian that showed 55% of Australian voters “supported the idea of small modular nuclear reactors as a replacement technology for coal-fired power”.
As early as February 15 Benson had insights into the Coalition’s policy, penning a piece titled “Liberals’ nuclear policy has potential to electrify”.
The Australian has also ran a number of opinion pieces over the past month in favour of the Coalition’s policy, including one by Peta Credlin headlined: “Liberal true believers stand firm against false net-zero gospel”.
This is just more of the same ... an endless stream of lizard Oz cries to nuke the country to save the planet, and so attention must be paid ...
And so to end with a celebratory cartoon ...
After suffering a serve of petulant Peta, it was that last panel that caught the eye ...
Hi Dorothy,
ReplyDelete“Third, as the world's third largest uranium exporter, how could we be squandering our natural advantage if we also use our own uranium here?”
So we’ve gone from signing up for some mythical nuclear subs that Greg Sheridan will never see, to well why don’t we have some highly expensive imaginary SMR’s, to lets go the whole hog and build massive Nuclear reactors all over the country and set up a uranium enrichment program.
Maybe we could get some second hand gas centrifuges from the Iranians.
After all that, Dutton may just have a chance? No aspiration from Credlin. As for Credlin on policy matters:
ReplyDelete“Credlin had begun her political career as a junior staffer in the Howard government. Few remember her as a policy wonk.”
[Shane Evans had worked for Amanda Vanstone and was appointed as an adviser on IT in Coonan’s office when Credlin was Coonan’s chief of staff]
“Evans said that performance of the office suffered because of Credlin’s outbursts…
‘I had inherited a policy of free Internet filters for families, which the government was planning to fund to the tune of $80 million, but she was insisting they had to be “100 percent effective”. There was no such thing, and I told her so.’
Evans says Credlin was unwilling to engage in discussion, or consider the advice on the subject. ‘What Peta wanted to be facts were the facts,’ he says. ...’She did not seem to have the capacity to consider evidence or information that did not fit her worldview. Her behaviour became imperious, particularly when challenged around things she clearly didn’t fully understand.
‘In her mind she was right, even though she was soon proven to be wrong.
‘When the Internet filtering scheme launched, and the filters were circumvented by a 16-year-old kid, I was the one in the firing line. It was as if I was the one who had guaranteed they would be 100 per cent effective.’”
[The Road to Ruin, Chapter One, Sowing the seeds page 11 and pp. 15-16 by Niki Savva.]
Petty Peta: "...Lucas Heights...has been operating for a half-century within a kilometre of housing to no ill-effect." Now as my fallible memory seems to recall, the Lucas Heights reactor was sited where it is because it was some distance away from "housing" which then proceeded to grow out to meet the reactor. IIRC Victoria made the same mistake with the Tullamarine airport.
ReplyDeleteAaah ! "...small modular reactors such as those produced in factories and safely operational for decades n nuclear ships...". Right, so where are these mythical "factories" that produce nuclear reactors for ships ? Rolls Royce, as we all know, builds the nuclear power installations for British naval vessels and has been doing so for decades, but where exactly are the "factories" in which they are "produced" ?
But anyhow: The paper’s editorial on March 6 said it was "time for a properly costed plan on the nuclear option". Yeah, except that they're never "properly costed" are they - they always cost at least twice as much and take at least twice as long to build as the "properly costed plan" would have us think.
PP, "Majoring in Retaliatory Wrath" says "... at least as a serious option".... because "a grievance — activates these same reward and habit regions of the brain, triggering cravings in anticipation of experiencing pleasure and relief through retaliation.".
ReplyDeletePP et al are currently thinking they have "... at least as a serious option", but actually their greivance is retaliation. A sort of unseen reverse wedge. They are perceiving the wedge as leveraging 'the other' whereas it is just supporting the grievance and retaliation self perception of pleasure. Treat as a medical condition! True deception perception via their own image. Ha!
More (nuclear) power to their heads I say, as when the dumbo-ttons & Bolted ons feel a pinch in their hip pockets, Dumtton et al witll just be spent rods awaiting the French nuclear recycling knackery. Oh how they will wail. PP will say chicken little was "right"! And be exposed as a naked cross dresser of the dogmatic kind. Still unaware she's (a wrong pronoun for PP) addicted to retaliation. Go girlyman! Yet pp-shehe ... "offends me to the soul to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings, ".
The psycho term for all this is, as ..."brain imaging studies show that harboring a grievance (a perceived wrong or injustice, real or imagined) activates the same neural reward circuitry as narcotics." ... "This isn’t a metaphor; it’s brain biology. Scientists have found that in substance addiction, environmental cues such as being in a place where drugs are taken or meeting another person who takes drugs [newscorpse] cause sharp surges of dopamine in crucial reward and habit regions of the brain, specifically, the nucleus accumbens and dorsal striatum. This triggers cravings in anticipation of experiencing pleasure and relief through intoxication. Recent studies show that similarly, cues such as experiencing or being reminded of a perceived wrong or injustice — a grievance — activate these same reward and habit regions of the brain, triggering cravings in anticipation of experiencing pleasure and relief through retaliation.".
Which is of course puts the Mango Mussolini Trump as drunks at the Pinnacle of Major Retaliatory Wrath, as also exemplified by his mates, Vlad Putin and Kim I'll Jong ya Ill, The Bro, Bolter etc;
"Trump’s revenge habit hurts not only himself and the targets of his retaliatory wrath, but the rest of us, too." ... "His demand for retribution becomes their demand, causing his supporters to crave retaliation—and, in a vicious cycle, this in turn causes Trump’s targets and their supporters to feel aggrieved and want to retaliate, too."
Yet a warning... "addiction interventions are often risky and can backfire. That appears to be happening with Trump, who now seems even more aggrieved and more determined to use retaliation, raising the stakes.". Garlic anyone?
The quoted text above is from "What the Science of Addiction Tells Us About Trump" by JAMES KIMMEL, JR.
12/12/2020
Fortunately James Kimmel Jr, "I am a violence researcher and study the role of grievances and retaliation in violent crime." at Politico, has a rehabilitation plan.
"We have found that this mental process, which we call the “Nonjustice System,” is actually a safe and satisfying way of controlling revenge cravings that works like a kind of methadone for revenge addicts."
Phew! Trump, maga, PP, Dumtton, the reptiles and spawn of Rupert would gain most yet be the last to attend. The news of the world.
And Dorothy, I won't "...go reading and getting your angertainment hit and blaming the pond." Very sensible to provide a warning on this and I"willingly and knowingly and any anger must be internalised ..." with a balm by James Kimmel Jr above.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/12/12/trump-grievance-addiction-444570