Today is full-on reptile nuking the country rapture day ... which is both very exciting and a great relief ...
It means that the pond doesn't have to pay attention to Dame Slap, still carrying on like a pork chop in her usual planet Janet ay, and the pond can hold over the tedium of "Ned", early this morning perched in the preferred top far right position ...
The pond can also ignore the bad oil in the bearings featured in the centre panel ... and the selection on offer down below confirmed the pond's choice...
One way or another the brightest reptile minds were talking about nuking the country to save the planet ...
Now the pond isn't going to intrude much. There's not going to be any fancy interruptions of the kind offered by the Graudian The Coalition wants nuclear power. Could it work – or would it be an economic and logistical disaster?
The pond simply doesn't have the time to keep on interrupting the reptile fever dream with saucy doubts and fears of the Quiggin kind.
To begin at the beguine, the pond will allow expert climate science denialist, the Bjorn-again one to explain it's all a quest for a solution to a non-existent problem ...
Where does he get his data from? Who knows, only the Bjorn-again one knows. The point is surely to establish that climate science is wildly misleading and not worth much of a fuss ...
Cue the oscillating fan, selected this day because he's on topic, and known for his supreme ability to swing in the slightest breeze like a tinkling wind chime ... and sure enough, he's keen to nuke the country to save the planet ...
Now admittedly it being the oscillating fan, all he's urging is consideration ... you know, maybe they're right, maybe they're wrong, who knows, but the oscillating fan is no neigh sayer. You won't catch him neighing even as he's braying ...
Is there an irony? Of course, too many to count, but the one that scored with the pond was that talk of "debilitating ideological dogma" in a rag which only has debilitating ideological dogma to offer ...
Quickly then on to the dog botherer, in a truly epic outing.
Some might remember that the dog botherer has long been a topnotch reptile climate science denialist. Suddenly he's found a solution to that non-existent problem ...
Naturally there's a splendid snap of nuking going down ... and only the direst of pedants would point to a churlish story relating to it, such as EDF's UK Hinkley Point nuclear plant start date delayed again, costs mount (as recent as 26th January 2024). ...
It's a difficult balancing act, but if a performing seal can do it, so can the dog botherer ... and right about now it seems right to have a snap of a UAE beast ...
Is the dog botherer interested in the Qugginonomic question that pictorial reference might raise?
John Quiggin, a professor of economics at the University of Queensland, says without a carbon price, nuclear plants would need very large taxpayer subsidies in Australia.
He says one of the only countries to have recently started a nuclear industry is the United Arab Emirates that drew up its first nuclear policy in 2008, commissioning South Korean company Kepco to build four 1,400MW units.
Quiggin says these four reactors will likely have cost the UAE as much as $100bn – enough money to put a large solar system on the roof of every Australian house, he says.
As for that snap of Twiggy, sorry, the pond doesn't have time to dwell on Andrew ‘Twiggy’ Forrest labels Coalition push for nuclear energy ‘bulldust’ and a ‘new lie’.
Instead the pond is fixated on the contortions required for a top notch reptile global warming denialist to embrace nuking the country as a way of fixing a non-existent problem...
Strange, the pond thought that if we nuked the country, we'd be at net zero in a trice ...
But if the pond was to reprint all that dog botherer bot blather about climate alarmists, the pond would be here all day. Sufficient to note that alarmists are in de Nile ...
It is time to take the ideology and fantasy out of energy policy and address the reality.
The climate and renewables zealots are in denial.
And that's how you shift from hard-headed climate science denialism to hard-headed abuse of climate science zealots to sorting out the whole thing by nuking the country to solve a non-existent, imaginary, unicorn kind of crisis ...
And at the end of it all, the reality ... what a splendid wedge. Never mind the cost, never mind the non-existent crisis, think of the wedge value ...
And speaking of the wedge value, all that's left this day is for the pond to run with simplistic Simon "here no conflict of interest" Benson, acting as opposition spokesperson ...
Again it's long, and the pond couldn't be bothered interrupting much ...
Magic, and at this point the reptiles offered a snap ...
Yep, the reptiles have gone all in, and Captain Spud has followed, and so Peter Dutton's climate denial is morphing into a madcap nuclear fantasy ...
It's bizarre, but compelling viewing, and the pond credits the fertile imagination of the reptiles, always in search of a wedge.
How they love a wedge and a fuss, how little they care for actual meaning ... how odd that it's not until the death knell in his propaganda piece does simplistic Simon add a little note about the costs ...
Simon Bent-son: "[HIFAR] having been in operation in the southern suburbs of Sydney for more that 60 years." Now HIFAR (HIgh Flux Australian Reactor) has actually only been operating from 1958 to 2008 when it was shut down and replaced by OPAL (Open Pool Australian Lightweight reactor) has been in operation since then. They never bother to do even simple web lookup, the reptiles, do they.
ReplyDeletehttps://cosmosmagazine.com/technology/energy/lucas-heights-nuclear-campus/
indeed GB. You didn't think the Canavan caravan would be left out of the fact-checking errors did you? Here he blurts incorrectly, then corrects himself - only to make a bigger error. You wonder how this mob gets dressed of a morning.
Deletehttps://twitter.com/mattjcan/status/1766008605705470249
Deary dear, he must have thought that a synchrotron was some kind of power generator and not a massive power consumer.
DeleteIt's really sad for us citizens that we are paying considerable taxes (though less, proportionally than much of the world) to provide a much unjustified salary to one such as Canavan. And even worse that he just doesn't understand that he isn't actually any sort of approximation to a know-it-all and that he really needs professional help to push out his 'messages'.
Anonymous - thank you for that little 'revelation' from the prominent senator. Perhaps he could be persuaded that there is a future with Small Modular Synchrotrons. I do share GBs concern about the capacity that our parliamentary representatives do not have to determine what they know, and what they don't know, or will not acknowledge. Particularly when I have to admit that the Canavan supposedly represents - me. But then, so does Littleproud, and he spouts so much about what he claims to be the circumstances in his electorate, but are actually his own imaginings.
DeleteI reckon they're all infected by Burke-ism, Chad: "Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion."
DeleteSo sorry, mate, but our opinions count for nought against the superior knowledge, understanding and judgement of our "representatives".
GB - one or other reptile clearly does call up from the 'net something like 'Ten easy quotes from Edmund Burke' to add a patina of 'learning' to what they churn out, but I doubt neither reptiles, nor LNPs, have simply read Burke, for the pleasure of his writing, or to gain any guidance to what might underpin the 'conservatism' that they claim to represent.
DeleteCertainly they have not recognised themselves in the categories of members of parliament who Burke excoriated as failed attorneys, who should not have been entrusted with setting new laws in place, because they manifestly had not shown sufficient understanding of existing ones when they were sinking in their previous profession. Nor should we overlook that Edmund was prompted to write ‘Reflections on the Revolution in France’ in part because he had seen a massive boondoggle (except that that useful word had not been coined at the time) within the Naval Office - seeking more and bigger and much more expensive ships - because of the ‘threat’ from . . . .
"It is time to take the ideology and fantasy out of energy policy and address the reality. The climate and renewables zealots are in denial."
ReplyDeleteSmall variation on a well established reptile theme: "What I say now is what I've always said and no puerile negations will ever be entered into."
Yep, that's the Doggy Bov in particular.
Observation on Tim Wilson 'adapting' book title to 'The New Social Contract', thereby sweeping aside what that that chap Rousseau wrote - oh, years and years ago (and which I have just been reading again, because too many 'opinion writers' try to tell me what 'the social contract' is now.)
ReplyDeleteNot having known of Wilson's effort until this day, I looked to see who published it. Not just Connor Court, but, as the promo says 'Published by Connor Court Publishing under the imprint of The Kapunda Press. The Kapunda Press is an imprint Connor Court Publishing in association with the PM Glynn Institute, Australian Catholic University.' Phew. No doubt all of that is important to - someone.
Our Timmy never did come across as one of the more knowledgeable or intelligent of the Coalition freeloaders, especially not during his tenure on the Australian Human Rights Commission. But then, what can one expect from a former policy director at the Institute of Public Affairs.
DeleteIt seems the Slappy must have gone AWOL - I haven't seen anywhere where she has said a single word about how Sam Kerr can't be guilty of anything as she hasn't been tried in a court of law and found guilty by a jury of her peers. None of which would be 'white bastards' of course, because then they'd be her superiors and not mere 'peers'.
ReplyDeleteGive her time, GB; she’s probably trying to work out who to attack.
DeleteRichard Auckland pens a loving tribute to Dame Slap and her activities in regard to the Lehrmann case and the Drumgold enquiry - https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/law-crime/2024/03/09/the-walter-sofronoff-janet-albrechtsen-imbroglio#mtr
ReplyDeleteSadly the Saturday Paper content is fully gated these days, and I'm not a subscriber nor do I have DP's facilities to gatecrash.
DeleteBut I was entertained by this bit of intro that was readable:
"A judicial review of a board of inquiry into the rape case against Bruce Lehrmann has exposed a newspaper columnist’s efforts to cultivate a relationship with the inquiry’s head. By Richard Ackland."
So it was all Slappy's doing ? Sofronoff just went along for the ride ?
On John Birmingham's Substack recently (https://aliensideboob.substack.com/p/mmm-chocolate-mousse-royale/) Semaj wrote:
ReplyDelete"I'd have no problem with removing the ban on nuclear, and letting private industry have a crack at it, except that I have no faith in the ability of our governments (either left or right) to regulate it properly and to ensure that us taxpayers don't get left with the bill when something goes wrong...
For a good example of this, look at the Northern Endeavour, a floating oil processing plant in the Timor sea that Woodside conveniently sold to another company just as the field was reaching its end of life. Surprisingly, the company that bought it had no experience, and shortly after went broke, leaving all the mess behind.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2023-06-10/northern-endeavour-decommissioning-underway-oil-gas-off-shore/102391416 "
Note: "556 MW Kewaunee Nuclear Power Plant in eastern Wisconsin was shut down in 2013. Kewaunee’s operator, Dominion Power, anticipates nearly $1 billion in total costs using the SAFSTOR method and estimates that work will not be complete until 2073." https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=33792 "
Where will we get the tradies to build our reactors? We don't even have enough to build houses (though if TV ads are to believed, this is because our tradies are busy hooning around the country killing platypus as they ford streams in their monster trucks).
I assume the Dog Botherer has polled the local communities in the Hunter, Latrobe Valley and Port Augusta and found found that everyone is cool with hosting nuclear facilities?
ReplyDeleteToday's "full-on reptile nuking the country rapture day" has eerie similarities to one of Star Trek's worst episodes. Ned is almost an anti Ned. Except he "got himself killed trying to sabotage the colony power."
ReplyDeleteKez could rewrite this as a musical in a day as NewsCorpses' Star Trek Enterprise Ghost Plant Nuclear.
Richard Auckland: "Justice Kaye’s findings were that Sofronoff’s protracted interactions with Janet "appears to have no appreciation that she and Sofronoff were in a..."
Sub Rosa [secret relationship)
14th ep 7th season
"Beverly's grandmother's best friend, Ned Quint (Shay Duffin), [Ed. Inevitably unicorns will pop up, in the form of imagined graphics of imagined SMRs and memories of long forgotten leaders ..."] ... warns Beverly against an heirloom, a candle (which has been in their family for several generations) which has brought nothing but bad luck to her grandmother."
An "anaphasic alien [guess who] who can only survive because the plasma-based candle is his energy receptacle."
"Meanwhile, the colony is suffering from a major storm system, which the weather modification satellite is unable to correct. Data and Geordi attempt to fix the problem but are shocked to find Ned, the [John] Howard groundskeeper, trying to stop them, before he is killed in an explosion."
"Ned's warning starts to make sense, but only after he got himself killed trying to sabotage the colony power."
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