The pond was delighted to see that Lloydie of the Amazon at last broke his near month long silence a few days ago ... until the pond actually read the piece, and realised Lloydie of the Amazon was now serving up remarkably thin gruel.
There's been a lot of talk about the oceans of late, as in The Conversation's offering of The heat is on: what we know about why ocean temperatures keep smashing records, and over at Counterpunch, Antarctic Sea Ice Hit Another New Low This Year; How Ocean Warming Is Driving the Loss.
Back in January the Graudian was offering 'Astounding' ocean temperatures in 2023 intensified extreme weather, data shows. Then there was reef matters, with the Graudian reporting Great Barrier Reef suffering 'most severe' coral bleaching on record as footage shows damage 18 metres down.
That last one probably needed reliable denialist Riddster of the IPA, but still there was a lot of climate news that Lloydie of the Amazon could have demolished.
Instead he delivered just two short gobbets on the need to gas the country to save the planet. This is a variation on the need to nuke the country, but in a minor key... and the offering verged on the pathetic. The pond has no idea what the reptiles use for their KPIs but someone needs to run a rule over Lloydie's work habits...
It's like the old joke that the scribbling is terrible and served up in such small portions, with Lloydie going full slacker mumblecore, too lazy to do more than another three short paragraphs ...
Really? Lloydie of Amazon sticking it to Keynes when he should be sticking it to all those fear-mongers caught up in the alarmist religious cult known as climate science?
The pond marked this "could do much better" and sent it back to reptile HQ the suggestion that Lloydie might do better by composing an essay on the need to nuke the country, preferably with huge government subsidies and some fine examples of crony capitalism ...
And so to the usual meditative Sunday duties, and please don't be mislead by Polonius's headline.
It's just another exercise in the reptile hive mind's current pleas for the genocide to continue... please don't be fold by the snap of that old bigot Mannix that starts off the pond's D.L.P. hour ...
Now there was a marvellous example of religion and politics mixing in the lizard Oz this weekend, and more of that anon for those already deeply jaded by the Polonial history lesson ... naturally skewed in the way only a pontificating Polonial tyke could manage ...
It was all just a feint, so that Polonius could get on to his real theme, which was to repeat the dog botherer and nattering "Ned" carrying on about the need to keep the Gaza genocide going, as featured in the pond yesterday ...
Sure enough, there was a snap of Wong, the newest member of Satan's inner circle ...
The pond isn't going to repeat yesterday's trick of intercutting news of the genocide. Instead it feels right to celebrate the slaughter ...
Well it is Sunday, and the pond needs a little 'toon relief to get through yet another serve of the hive mind ...
Talk about a verbal word salad from a prize maroon and the pond is content to note that the Taliban is now in control of large swathes of the United States ...
And now, as Polonius has insisted there can't be a strict division between religion and politics, on to ancient Troy and a prime example of religion in politics ...
Why add this to the Sunday meditation? For those who can remember, for those who have yet to learn the skill of letting reptile rants go in one ear and quickly out the other, last week saw the reptiles do a huge pile-on of the new GG as some kind of monstrous DIE imposition (DEI if you must, but the pond prefers the dying kind)..
The pond appreciated ancient Troy's balancing of the record ...
And with all that in mind, the pond doesn't mind if it does read the letter ...
Back to ancient Troy for a little more commentary ...
No need to check up on what the doctor wrote to Prince Chuck of talking tampon fame ... another page from the resignation letter will do the trick ...
If ever there was a good reason for separating church and politics, this is surely it, but then Polonius has over the years vigorously defended the right of Catholic priests to molest school children because they were also doing it in state and Anglican schools ...
At this point ancient Troy wrapped up his notes on the resignation letter ...
... but why see it in cold, hard type, when you might see it in the original, though the pond must say that the cursive style is not what the pond was taught at Tamworth Primary ...
Only a loon of the first water could scribble about being greatly troubled that the office of Goveernor-Generalhas now been politicized, thereby showing an abysmal ignorance of the
deeds of his predecessors....
It's always a good day when the pond can get the Northern Daily Bleeder into the story, especially if it shows a drunk taking a tumble at the show ...
And now onwards and upwards to the start of that trial, studiously ignored in this weekend's lizard Oz, but sure to provide fun, perhaps not up there with killer OJ, but killer enough, and far more advanced than some other trials ...
With all that's going down, with the help of the new Taliban and familiar old Vlad the sociopath support, who knows what might happen ...
And as the pond mentioned DIE, DEI if you will, earlier, why not finish with this celebration ...
Hi DP. I'm glad Lloydie briefly mentioned gas today as it gave me a chance to post this brief musing laying around from the Morrison daze when a gas-driven energy transition was a big Oz topic.
ReplyDeleteA Short Compendium of Pond Gases
Nedrogen
An inert, colourless, redundant gas with a distinctive mothball odour. Used mainly as a soporific and party balloon filler.
Bromo hexafluoride
An extremely reactionary gas. Favoured by industry and the military as a highly compliant inflatory medium. Erupts violently into sputtering white froth when catalysed by free radicals.
Caterium
An ignoble gas. Liquid blue Caterium is the cryogenic refrigerant used to conserve the Menzies era.
Polonium sulphide
Saturation bombardment by government-generated electromagnetic waveforms in a conservative-free cloud chamber causes Polonium sulphide to condense into a sulking mass of toxic green ectoplasm.
Lloydylene
The only known quantities of this synthetic gas are held in magnetic cryptovats in a secret Amazon location guarded by armed ayahuasca shamans. Climatologists postulate that even homeopathic amounts of Lloydylene accidentally discharged into the atmosphere would react with CO2 and cause instant global freezing.
Ergassium monoxide
Prolonged exposure to this putrescent vapour erodes the autonomic reasoning system and rapidly eliminates the will to live.
Albrexium
This monomaniacal gas transmutes into a noxious Higgins-Lehrman condensate at the drop of a hat.
An invaluable list of harmful chemicals. I would add that there is clinical evidence of other side effects of Nedrogen - uncontrollable laughing. Worth adding Mitchellium to the list - hallucinogenic gas causing delusions of grandeur. Definitely putting this one on the fridge, plus HazChem stickers. AG.
DeleteDidn't know you are such an accomplished Chemist, Kez ✅
DeleteKez - many thanks for your text. In what otherwise was shaping as a sombre day - you gave me several hearty laughs. I have duly copied - I am sure we will see reference to some of these gases in the future.
DeleteCheers all! Thanks Anony AG for the suggestion of Mitchellium. I'd forgotten about him because, well...he is a bit of a spent force methinks...a clod shouting at clouds. Your description of the Major's gaseous composition is spot on, and may I add, the prime characteristic of all reptile miasma.
DeleteAnd GB...I failed 3rd level Chemistry in my HSC in 1973 so I consider myself as much an expert on that subject as Lloydie. I preferred English and Music and Art.
And Chadders, glad to know you got a laugh. That's the gold right there! Cheers.
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Delete"...methane is a handy by-product ..." Yeah but methane is fairly short-lived and won't hang around for 1000 or more years like CO2.
ReplyDeleteBut anyway, as Lloydie wants us to know: "Economists well know it is not possible for a nation to subsidise its way to prosperity." And that is why the really outstanding economies, like China and the USA, have never "subsidised" anything, and why no nation has ever subsidised fossil fuels:
"The IEA has been tracking fossil fuel subsidies for many years, examining instances where consumer prices are lower than the market value of the fuel itself. Our systematic analysis highlights the magnitude of these subsidies, and the potential benefits of their removal for energy markets, climate goals and government budgets. This report provides our first estimates for 2022, which show that global fossil fuel consumption subsidies doubled from the previous year to an all-time high of USD 1 trillion."
https://www.iea.org/reports/fossil-fuels-consumption-subsidies-2022
By heck, it's good to have Lloydie to keep us all on the straight and narrow.
We don’t have a title for Lloydie, for his contribution to this weekend. Seems he is trying to establish some kind of status now as contributor in economics. Well - the field is opening - Killer now ambles off with campaign memes of the Mango Mussolini, repeating the praise for Trump’s brilliant tactical mind that comes from the Foxes. Gigi does not appear as frequently as before in print, although she seems happy to broadcast to tens of viewers at ADH, so perhaps Lloydie saw an opening.
DeleteSeeing an opening is one thing, displaying some acquaintance with how economies actually work, and being able to differentiate that from the cant of ‘business interests’, are generally considered amongst the qualifications for a contributor on economics. Dame Groan has had such attributes. Sure, she now repeats the cant of business types, but, in putting together the words for her thesis, she had to show that she was aware of some of the intricacy of actual economies. OK, she now knows the price for her intellectual compromise in what she writes, fitting that adage of many economists knowing the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
Seems Lloydie has sat in on a talk by someone spruiking gas, and has tried to meld that with dim memories of those who proclaim the wonders of that great myth - ‘free enterprise.
If he truly spent some time looking to save the Amazon, we must suppose that he realised that the reason the Amazon needs saviours is because a succession of politicians have let slip their frontier version of free enterprise. Quite how he might fit any such understanding into growing theories that much of the Amazon rain forest, and the river itself, is the result of long-term human activity, building up the black soils, shaping the drainage, under kinds of administration for which we see no equivalent in our supposedly smart, modern, world, is a quandary.
Against the millennial Amazon experience, our ‘smarter’ world is one where planning horizons do not cover one generation. Which is the fundamental problem with the Coalition’s attempts to compile a policy for that climate change thingy - just in case some evidence for it emerges before the election next year.
On how the world really works: Bad Samaritans: The Guilty Secrets of Rich Nations and the Threat to Global Prosperity
DeleteOh C'mon Chad, we didn't know Lloydie was such a polymath, did we. Just imagine being able to make up the same bullshat that Groany does. But does he get paid as much ?
DeleteJoe - thank you for that link to Ha-Joon Chang (duly noted).
DeleteWhat I read in the review seems to align with TED talk by Mariana Mazzucato - ‘What is economic value, and who creates it?’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXrCeiQxWyc
A relevant bit is from 9:40, and, in her impressively succinct way, is all said by 14.00. The real message is that, in the UK for example, finance is about financing finance - and a small amount seeps out to generate a bit of new industry. The statistics for Australia, particularly through and after Covid, look to be similar.
This is the Prof. Mazzucato who our Dame Groan recently described as an ‘Unconvincing author’ who ‘only’ finds favour with the far left. High praise indeed, given that it comes from the weekly wombling of our Dame.
Polonius: "I am not aware of any supporter of the Palestinian cause who is calling on Hamas to surrender ... but this is the quickest and easiest way to end the conflict." Well, doubtless Polonius is "aware" of many things, but I guess that's one he isn't. Though if that is the "quickest way", why wouldn't it be just as quick for Israel to surrender ?
ReplyDeleteOh, is it because "Israel is fighting for is existence against Hamas..." ? Really ? We'll just have to put up with an ongoing 'genocide' for a long time to come, then.
Thin gruel today, DP; Lloydie phoning in a few paras - showing all the signs of having copied some other kid’s work - while Polonius is showing definite signs of drifting into senile reminiscences of The Good Old Days. Luckily there’s laughs to be had at the bleatings of a man of the cloth whinging at having his snout prematurely removed from the trough: and that Leader front page never gets old.
ReplyDeleteStill, it should be a bumper feast tomorrow - all the Oz chicken hawks will be out in force, delighted at the prospect of WAR! in the Middle East, doubtless led by several thousand words from a salivating Bromancer. It may not be a war with China, but for the Bro it’s the next best thing.
Very kind of Polonius to give Doc Evatt all of the credit for the 1954-55 ALP split. Yes, it’s hard to keep politics and church seperate; witness the attempts by the Groupers to go well beyond their original stated purpose of combatting Communist influence within unions by attempting to turn the ALP into an organ of the Catholic Church. Efforts which began well before Evatt succeeded Chifley as leader.
ReplyDeleteYes, Evatt was a decisive leader - and should have been punted long before he was - but I don’t know if even a Chifley, Curtin or Whitlam could have prevented a split by the time it finally occurred.
It’s terribly remiss of Polonius ignore the substantial role played by Bob Santamaria and his cohorts. Credit where credit’s due, and all that. But in Hendo’s world, a defender of the Sacred Heart of the Virgin could do no wrong.