Today is back to reptiles day, back to basics, back to the essence of the lizard Oz.
Sacrifices will have to be made: this is another morning when the pond woke up to see no sign of the trial of the century (thus far) at the top of the digital edition, unless you happen to count the roving Rove, who had managed to rove his way into the far right highly desired position desired by all reptiles... and even then it wasn't really about the trial, it was just a celebration of the orange beast slouching towards Washington. For any of that you have to go live at the Graudian ...
The pond does tell a bit of a lie, as a mango Mussolini might say to a porn star. Later in the morning the reptiles did finally mention it because there was at last some hope for their orange Jesus, prompting the very first mention of the trial of the century (thus far) in the early morning edition ...
The pond would prefer the Graudian's account, and how disappointing it is to see the ratbag Rove in the spot where the bromancer should have been, ranting away at the meeting of the current Tsar of Russia with Tianzi son of heaven, Emperor Xi ... (Huángdì Xi if you will).
The pair had produced some fine comedy stylings:
“Relations between Russia and China are not opportunistic and not directed against anyone,” Putin said, according to Russian state media. “Our cooperation in international matters is one of the stabilizing factors in the international arena.” In his remarks, Xi said Beijing “will always work with Russia as a good neighbor, friend and partner” to safeguard “fairness and justice” ... (here)
Splendid stabilising stuff, but the pond's reliable disappointment with the bromancer was set aside by the reptile treasures below the fold ...
At last a dinkum groaning, and the hole in the bucket man and Killer himself with his letter from America ...
The pond did note in the comments section that Dame Groan had given a short response to the budget, but it had been cruelly hidden and so the pond missed it, and cries rent the skies demanding a Groan to the heavens.
Luckily, with nuking the country rapidly dropping down the list (Captain Spud seems to think it might be a hot potato), gassing the country has begun to zoom up the reptile charts ...
There is a ritual to these presentations by the pond.
The pond wouldn't dare interrupt the Groaning in mid-flight. The pond's duty is as curator, so that others can further their studies.
It's a simple enough duty. Tone down videos of mighty plants, shrink that snap of Maddy King ...
... and let the essence of the groaning unfold ...
Usually at this point, the pond would cut to bizarre examples of a world on the path to rampant destruction, but the pond can't resist mentioning the ongoing fall out from those portraits.
Indeed ...
And that led back to the gift that keeps on giving ...
But that's like spending five minutes in the rec before getting back to doing the hard yards in the tutorial delivering a paper on insights into this day's herpetology studies ...
The pond realises there are some that might have an anxiety attack at not being able to click on that lengthy highlighted link, what with the pond only using screen caps, but relax, if you could click, you'd be invariably disappointed, stuck somewhere else in the hive mind, way back in 2018 ...
Back with Dame Groan and there was a huge snap designed to terrify the punters ...
... and then there was just one gobbert of groaning to go ...
So Maddy King is beloved of Dame Groan? Well there's one for the books ... but now the country has been gassed to save the planet, the pond must quickly move on to the next treat.
This is back to basics day ... and that means back to our pompous, portentous pedant, the hole in the bucket man himself, dear Henry ...
Indeed, indeed, if you want a tirade, you must turn to our Henry, who will do one replete with terrifying videos and turgid snaps of ancient fossils, which luckily come cheap to the once mighty, now poverty row, lizard Oz graphics department ...
Don't worry, it'll be clear from the text how our pompous pedant Henry manages to work in John Stuart Mill and Bonhoeffer ...
Don't worry, the entire strip will soon be flattened, while our Henry blathers about the silences of moral vacuums and intellectual poverty ...
Freedumb? Here's your freedumb, reptile style ...
Dare to raise head above parapet, and you become an object of reptile scorn ... and our Henry has the cheek to carry on about freedumb and John Stuart Mill, while also doing a bit of the Godwin thing...
Some might think that an ongoing genocide is an outrage, and the response of the reptiles a national disgrace, but the pond can't pause to brood, because there's still Killer's letter from America, and he has his own tuppence to spend on the topic ...
Classic Killer, sneering condescension and faux libertarianism designed to undercut any care or concern for actual events ...
There were also the usual alarming visual interruptions ...
As usual, the pond did regret not being able to do a Tootle and stray off the tracks what with Clarence back in the news again ...
The pond is still stuck at desk, swotting up on Killer's letter from America ... regurgitating the deep thoughts of his orange Jesus ...
Sheesh, trust Killer to introduce a note of confusion, and he keeps on trying to be confusing.
Luckily the enfeebled graphics department provided a snap to remind the pond of the outrage going down. It wasn't the eating of grass in Gaza, it was the desecration of Sydney University's lawn ...
Then it was on to the last Killer gobbet ...
Um, really? Northern Ireland? It took some four hundred years, and the pond was still getting lectures in Tamworth about the evils of Oliver Cromwell a century after the ancestors had left the country ... but at least Killer got one thing right. The only good Palestinian is a dead Palestinian ...
Oh and for those worried about what they're missing out on with that last hot link? Don't. When the pond clicked on it, it led to a story about Sydney mayors and anti-development protestors whining about increased density, buried in the hive mind back in March 2024. Each time the pond clicks on a reptile link these days it worries that there's either something deeply wrong with the pond's browsers or with the reptiles ability to keep track of the hive mind ...
And so to a final bonus to the bonus ... and Mein Gott, it's Mein Gott also doing gas ...
Now it's not just Maddy King, Mein Gott is bowing to Bowen, and there's an heroic snap of the lad to help point the demographic the right way ...
Suddenly the pond felt a deep yearning to be walking with the filthy Commie swine on the banks of the mighty Yarra ...
Trying to keep it all in the head is a tricky business. One moment you might be reading ...
... and the next moment, instead of the diabolical greenies, it's all the fault of those sparrow farts down south ...
Naturally there had to be a snap of the disgraced comrade Dan ...
Then it was on to Mein Gott's last gobbet ...
Punishment! Sadly Mein Gott didn't go into details. Every Victorian in stocks with tomatoes supplied free to toads and cockroaches? A dozen lashes for each and every one of the filthy deviant perverted southern Commie swine?
Never mind an for some reason the reptiles decided to finish off with a repeat of the snap which started off the story. The pond only notes it as further evidence that the reptiles are getting more and more like the Graudian when it comes to mystifying layout matters...
Does the pond have any regrets at this return to basics day?
Well it would have been splendid fun to see the meretricious Merritt in top form ...
What's totally unique about that offering?
Not once does he mention Dame Slap, aka Janet Albrechtsen, and not once does he mention the role the lizard Oz played in the affair. Splendid stuff ...
And that completes the back to basics day and all that's left is to note that gas features in the infallible Pope of the day ...
And remarkably in all this, the reptiles, and so the pond, managed to avoid budget matters...
Been there, done that....
"gassing the country has begun to zoom up the reptile charts ..." Labor edition.
ReplyDeleteDame Sloan the Square peg is correct to say "Labor can't hide it's spectacular hypocrisy in gas"
As is Amos Aikman's headline (as seen in such august(us) places as Quadrant Online) is also correct.
"Labor policy a multi-million dollar handbrake on producers". Correct.
As Quiggin says re the budget in The Conversation today "Labor doesn’t look like Labor anymore". Bugger the future.
Except for banks and AGW & Sea Level Rise."And "the hostile environment in which industry must operate"! is Amos whinging the banks don't fund. But Labor lite does fund and protect CCS. Via our newspeak named bill (our grandkids Bill will be BIG!)
"CLIMATE CHANGE) BILL 2023
"Environment Protection (Sea Dumping) Amendment (Using New Technologies to Fight Climate Change) Bill 2023"
Newspeak for CCS - Motto "don't fart".
SLR Score today: +103 (± 4.0)mm *
Labor's cunning plan. Bury it. Out at sea.
Gas reservation and lack of Manufacturing manufacturing our own crisis. We dig, pump and reserve to fill our coffers. A sea level rise vs fossil fuel chart nowhere to be seen. Nor costs. Nor opportunity cost.
DP notes "now the country has been gassed to save the planet" read short term cash, bugger the grandkids.
"Gas now accounts for 14% of our export earnings.".
"But this supply crisis could be solved easily with a WA-style reservation policy, where a percentage of gas extracted from existing supply is mandated to be reserved for the domestic east coast market. The fact the government is not pursuing this option means the supply crisis is of our own making."
https://theconversation.com/australia-can-have-a-future-for-the-gas-industry-or-meet-its-climate-commitments-but-not-both-229700
As usual the corpse of news doesn't mention the minor details...
"The 15 countries shown account for 89 % of coastal flood risk worldwide in 2010 (USD 19.6 billion per year globally). Although the countries in the top 15 change between current and future assuming no adaptation, the total share of EAD residing in the top 15 countries remains approximately the same: 87 % of global flood risk in 2080 if no adaptation takes place (USD 3 trillion per year globally for RCP4.5–SSP2 and USD 6.8 trillion for RCP8.5–SSP5)." "Global-scale benefit–cost analysis of coastal flood adaptation to different flood risk drivers using structural measures"
Timothy Tiggeloven et al 17 Apr 2020
Sea Level LATEST MEASUREMENT:
January 2024
* 103 (± 4.0)mm
"Key Takeaway:
"Global sea levels are rising as a result of human-caused global warming, with recent rates being unprecedented over the past 2,500-plus years.
[Note - SLR graphs correlated to long term stock market returns?]
https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/sea-level/?intent=121
"... parts of the United States will see as much as 1–2 feet by 2050—with climate tipping points threatening to multiply the challenges."
"Sea Level Rise 101
March 25, 2024
nrdc dot org sea-level-rise-101
Eva Lawler and our mate Bowen ( the liberals lite not labor party) relying on NEWSPEAK named bill aka the don't fart in future CCS boondoggle bill.
"CLIMATE CHANGE) BILL 2023
"Environment Protection (Sea Dumping) Amendment (Using New Technologies to Fight Climate Change) Bill 2023".
The bill for this bill will be a trillion or two by 2050. 5x floating coffins.
And re the wars, Sea Level Rise will exacerbate war, and the resulting climate refugees.
"... General Castellaw, who is now on the advisory board of the Center for Climate and Security, a research and advocacy group in Washington.
“So this is far more than an environmental problem,” he said. “It’s a humanitarian, security and possibly military problem too.”
From "Rising Seas Will Erase More Cities by 2050, New Research Shows" New York Times
By Denise Lu and Christopher Flavelle Oct. 29, 2019
Dearest Groany can be a little difficult to grasp at times; she says "...the opposition to gas is both irrational and deep seated in Victoria...". Really ? I live in Victoria, but I hadn't noticed that. Of course, a toleration to gas for a period of grid stabilisation is one thing, but surely opposition to extending the domestic use of gas indefinitely is sensible ?
ReplyDeleteBut then she continues: "...the fact that a disproportionate number of Victorians use gas for their heating and cooking needs." Disproportionate ? Then what exactly would be a proportionate level of use ? I used gas for heating for quite a long time, and then there was a Statewide program of checking household gas heaters for exhaling carbon monoxide, and my heater failed dismally. It would have cost significant dollars - which are not held in profusion by us aged pensioners - to replace the gas heater which, being in a fixed location, could only heat the lounge room. So we spent much less on buying a mobile electric heater which generally sits in the lounge room (and manages to keep the temperature at about 20°C) and can be wheeled around the house if desired.
And it can be powered by battery-stored solar if I ever want to spend that much money.
So here we go, Holely Henry wants us to note that "...the university's decision to allocate student's scarce attention to zealots..." "...comes directly out of time spent learning". What, a whole 5 minutes is an unaffordable misuse of student's "learning time" ? What students at which universities is Henry talking about ? And what absolutely vital part of their "learning" will all those students miss out on ? For a lifetime ?
ReplyDeleteThen we have those students who might wish to indulge their God-given, and Henry approved right to "...give the protesters a wide berth". Oh, now that's a "right" to go to the barricades to support, isn't it. So they've got to be in the same room (most likely a largish lecture room) as the protesters, but nobody can actually make them listen - they can just whip out their smart phones and engage with the rest of the universe instead. Or am I being idealistic, and maybe all their devices are temporarily impounded so as to make them listen ?
Oh but: "The protesters don't just want to cram their views down recalcitrant throats..." Ok, so putting an earphone from their mobiles into their ears won't help, because it will all be crammed down their throats. Righto.
By the way, did anybody mention 'cancel culture' ?
Oh goodness, KillerC: "By casting protests against Israel as the manfestation of a new era of virulent anti-Semitism, governments risk overreacting...". Some small amount of actual sense and sensibility from KillerC (apart from the "risk" misuse) - who would have expected it ?
ReplyDeleteBut then: "Classic Killer, sneering condescension and faux libertarianism designed to undercut any care or concern for actual events...". Well yeah true, DP, but it is just KillerC we're talking about. And who would have thought the Killer could quote David Ben Gurion: "...I would never sign an agreement with Israel. It is normal, we have taken their country...". And "we" are still taking it, piece by piece.
‘We have taken their country’ — are you referring to Australia and our relationship to its first peoples? The hypocrisy of the Australian left condemning Israel for existing on ‘stolen’ land — delusional doesn’t cover it. Israel has every right to exist, if not in peace, at least without their citizens being tortured, killed and held hostage. As Israel has responded to this atrocity — and understandably wants to dismantle the infrastructure Hamas has developed in Gaza for decades — the world’s moral police tell them they are in fact, the villains of the piece. Please explain to me how Australia is in any position to judge Israel about ‘stolen’ land?
DeleteIf you read what was posted, Anony, you might notice that I wasn't saying anything, it was a well-known Israeli - David Ben Gurion - who was confessing to having stolen the Palestinian's country.
DeleteBut it's good to know that the doctrine of universal approval holds: if we do something, then everybody has moral permission to do what we did.
I didn't think that it was Australia, Anony, I rather thought that it was clear that it was a once well-known Israeli, David Ben Gurion, confessing to having taken the Palestinian's country.
DeleteAt risk of being tedious - but was it an oversight of Dame Groan not to tell her readers (many possibly of short memory) that she has been a director of the corporation that claims to be our major gas producer/major exporter of gas (according to the 'Wiki')? So where are the lessons presumably learned about the gas business from the favoured perspective of director? What was the feeling across management and the board from Alan Bond's bid for 37.5% of SANTOS, and (SA Minister) Hugh Hudson looking for some return to the actual owners of the resource - citizens of Australia - from the fat profits that might be made from a well-managed corporation?
ReplyDeletePerhaps our Dame is working on the definitive account of her life, so prominent in economic issues, for the benefit of coming generations. So much experience to draw from.
Yair, but did anybody actually notice her directorship, Chad ? Or like the Slap's 'directorship' of the ABC, it just passed unnoticed ?
DeleteThis should contribute a few talking points:
ReplyDelete"Labor doesn’t look like Labor anymore"
https://theconversation.com/its-time-to-give-labors-first-term-a-scorecard-have-we-actually-seen-any-transformative-vision-230115