The pond remains astonished that not once did the pond see D-day celebrations at the top of the lizard Oz in the early morning coverage.
Arguably one of the biggest, most momentous events in the war - the nukes were another - with the world a better place with Adolf gone, even as his legacy lives on in the orange Jesus and News Corp - and yet nothing. It was like the reptiles were doing a Rish! and ducking off for an important TV interview to be aired in a week's time ...
Instead the reptiles kept blathering on about their 60th anniversary as if that meant something, but we know what that's worth because randy nonagenarians were boycotting it ...
The story was in the AFR too, with ominous forebodings ...
Mr Murdoch’s trip had already been cancelled once, and this latest decision is likely to fuel suspicions his health is deteriorating. He was due to return to Australia in February, but that was postponed to July...
...The last time Mr Murdoch visited Australia was in 2018. It was once an annual trip, when he was known to question his editors on intimate details of their operations. The Australian’s 50th anniversary in 2014 was a huge undertaking, featuring interviews with Mr Murdoch by the masthead’s most senior journalists.
While Sky News Australia chief Paul Whittaker interviewed Mr Murdoch on camera last year, it is not clear whether that footage will ever see the light of day.
Never mind, he's an American, so it's right he should stay in America ...
Speaking of the Chairman Emeritus, the venerable Meade was in sparkling form. on the Friday ...Even ‘magic’ and ‘miracles’ not beyond Rupert Murdoch as The Australian marks its 60th birthday
The pond certainly clocked it and was inclined, as invited by a correspondent, to savour it ...
There was the opening and the illustration, as specious a display of onanism as when Onan first did his thing and scattered his seed ...
Follow the link or click if you want to see it larger, and ditto the other illustration ...
There was one worth seeing large, a follow up to the tragic Miller affair that unfolded during the week ...
The Beast noted that one of the least trusted brands reported it was honoured to have the support of iconic Australian companies” Qantas, Harvey Norman, Hancock Prospecting, Commonwealth Bank, Ampol and Woodside Energy for the “six decades in six weeks” extravaganza.
Sadly the pond couldn't contribute to a boycott.
It no longer flies Qantas (indeed the pond rarely flies), it never shops at Hardly Normal, it left the CBA long ago, and it never goes to the revived Ampol brand, still as jingoistic as it was way back when, and always with an unhealthy mark up.
As for Hancock Prospecting and Woodside Energy, well of of course they'd support the home of climate science denialism ... but the best the pond could do on that front was celebrate Gina's Streisand effect.
And with that it was time to see what one of the least trusted brands of all was up to this day ...
Yep, no mention of D-day, and Dame Slap, in the far right position, rabbiting on about the ACT for the umpteenth time, and Petey boy mentioned in despatches, and sharks, and the rag really looked tired, or perhaps that's just projection and the pond is tired and in need of a break and the grand city of the south beckons.
No mention of obvious stories such as could be found in the Graudian, including UN adds Israel to list of states committing violations against children ... and Survivors of Israeli strike on Gaza school describe finding children's bodies ...
Such stories are routinely consigned to the gravel pit or the cornfield, while the lack of interest in the Rish! follies is complete ...
The weird sense of other worldliness and an existential alienation from reality continued beneath the fold ...
Dame Slap still harping on about Petey boy?
It was too much, it was exhausting, and even worse, they'd banished the dog botherer to the gravel pit.
The pond might exhume his effort tomorrow, this will do for the moment ... spoiler alert, it's the last gobbet ...
The pond got a really hearty laugh out of that one - it was the talk of groupthink and torpidity emanating from the hive mind - but it had been preceded by a really tedious bout of ABC bashing, an endless rehash with little to inspire a Tingling, which is perhaps why the reptiles disappeared it.
The reptiles also disappeared the Oz editorialist's splendid outing, maintaining the rage about nuking the country to save the planet ...
Really? But at least it was a short emission, clearly with a half life that might drive a radium-glowing wrist watch ...
The pond can't be bothered arguing, but then the pond has grown slack over the years and leaves it to others to do sensible analysis.
Valued correspondents lead the way, and if you're confronted by an Ughmann doing climate science, inevitably, somewhere, somehow, some day, someone will come along, as did Graham Readfearn in The Graudian with The things that you’re liable to read in the IPCC bible ain’t necessarily so, Chris Uhlmann says. It’s a bold claim.
The pond regards its serving up of reptile homilies as enough.
If you want to read the Ughmann's thoughts on climate science, you can revert to the pond of 1st June 2024, presented under the bold headline Logic leaves 'The Science' of climate in the dust.
It was wise for the reptiles to put scare quotes around 'The Science', because there was none, though strangely they didn't put them around 'logic' because there was also none of that ...
Never mind, for those who want to do a compare and contrast, the pond considers its work done.
It's admirable that a Readfearn can take his reptile studies seriously. These days the pond is inclined to exclaim "what a stinking, steaming pile of heaped tosh" and walk on by ... to the next deeply weird Ughmann offering ...
The pond can't begin to sum up how wonderfully weird it is, and so must show in order to tell ...
That's an entirely misleading opening image because the Ughmann is instead intent on exploiting his security guard days as the angle du jour ...
The pond said it was going to be weird, and weird it was, and some might wonder why they didn't rush off to read the Readfern piece tearing apart the Ughmann's work ... but the pond was one of the wedding guests who stayed to hear the poem ...
Uh huh, now at this point you might expect a shot of a knife, but it seems that iStock was out of knives, so we scored gloves, and not your UFC-style gloves, but heavily padded ones ...
The pond couldn't resist that one, because it was deeply weird, and the deep weirdness continued ...
Uh huh, and then right at the very end came the deeply weird moral that the Ughmann extracted from his story, and it was remarkably short ...
Deeply, deeply weird, not just for the flourish of that "gay" joke at the end - a sure sign of a bigot sniggering about pillow biters - but the way that the Ughmann manages to reduce defence policy to Chopper ...
Read the Readfern, it might take some of the taste of weirdness out of the mouth ... some of it, because you can never get rid of it all ...
In for a penny, in for a pound, the pond says, so this is the day for fundamentalist tykes in the Catholic Boys' Daily, and they don't come any more fundamentalist than the bromancer, screeching in his usual way about the suffering of Xians ...
Pardon the pond's sense of ennui and tedium, but it's always o'clock time for the bromancer to speak out on the threat to Xianity.
It's a go to item whenever the bromancer is feeling lazy or disinclined to defend the slaughter of children...
Naturally there were snaps to go with the piece, best got out of the way, as the pond wondered if we were back in Ēostre or doing a mid-winter preview of the war on Xmas...
Then it was on with the rant ...
Dear sweet long absent lord. Apparently the fuss about Citipointe entirely passed the bromancer by ... perhaps because reading the ABC leads to instant excommunication and an eternity in hell...
It's a long piece, but a fine example of bigotry at work ...
...It was 4:58pm on January 28, 2022, the Friday before Citipointe students were to begin the new term, when parents received an updated "contract of enrolment" from Mr Mulheran.
The attached Declaration of Faith stated:
“We believe that any form of sexual immorality (including but not limited to; adultery, fornication, homosexual acts, bisexual acts, bestiality, incest, paedophilia, and pornography) is sinful and offensive to God and is destructive to human relationships and society.”
Within the contract was a new clause stipulating that students could only be enrolled on the basis of their "biological sex".
The school community was divided over the document. Many parents supported the principal and his policies.
David d'Lima, South Australian director of Family Voice, says faith-based schools should be able to "specify what it is that they believe".
"So, it's a pity that parents might be surprised to find out that Christian schools have a biblical Christian ethos," he says.
Janina made the decision to pull her two other children out of the school immediately. "There was no way I was going to sign this," she says.
Felicity, who by this stage had graduated and was living her "own better life" as a university student, was "shocked" when her younger sister sent her a screenshot of the contract.
"I felt physically sick," she says. "My stomach churned, my hands were shaking."
Here, in black and white, were the views that she says had made her student life so difficult.
"Something just sort of sparked inside," Felicity says.
She knew there were kids at the school who were "still being drastically affected".
Felicity hit social media, "just saying how wrong it is", not realising it would help set the ball rolling for other LGBTIQ+ students and ex-students to come out against the school's new enrolment policy.
"To publicly shame an individual for their identity is disgusting. These are basic human rights," she wrote in an Instagram post.
"Overnight it blew up and got all this attention," she says.
"That really made me think, 'Wow, there is a lot of people who want to see this change happen.'"
Not so fast, Felicity, there's the bromancer to deal with ...
Actually it's right to think of this as Xian institutions wanting to discriminate. Sure they dress it up with fine words about the right of free association or expressing a biblical Xian ethos, but it's remarkable how it's always Old Testament, and yet shellfish and the mixing of fibres always seems to get overlooked so that minorities can be given another bashing ...
Never mind, this sent the bromancer into high gear ... (try explaining the concept of a clutch to vulgar youff) ...
However you cut it, this is about hating a part of society ...
“We believe that any form of sexual immorality (including but not limited to; adultery, fornication, homosexual acts, bisexual acts, bestiality, incest, paedophilia, and pornography) is sinful and offensive to God and is destructive to human relationships and society.”
As the Talibanisation of America continues, it's getting even weirder ...
Meanwhile, this being a bromancer epic, the hysteria rolled on ...
Um, performing a genocide, celebrating the smiting and smoting of enemies isn't hate speech? The Bible is full of hate ...
So much hate, so much hate speech, and it's pretty tricky working out why god hated Esau so much, except perhaps that
She knew how to carry a grudge ...
Strange, it's a long time since the pond has been down these by-ways, but that's what happens when the bromancer does his thing ...
It's a nonsense of course, all that gibberish. Xians have never been keen on gays, or bis, or TGs or womyn ... what with 99.9% of them being witches ...
Sorry that flag should have been upside down and the text went missing ...
And so at last to the final bro gobbet ...
Indeed, indeed, it's better to scream "bomb the children". No, second thoughts, not just scream, but do it, do it on a daily basis, the only good Palestinian child is a cead Palestinian child ...
And so the day's reading ends, and fortunately there was no mention in the text of kindness to strangers ...
Yeah, the Doggy Bov's 'last gobbet': "One model can survive only with diversity of thought and innovation...". Apart from the fact that there's virtually no "thought and innovation" in the reptile, or even in the wider wingnut, press; there's the bit about always trying to ensure that neither thought nor innovation ever get anywhere near the ABC lest the requirement that the ABC journos always exhibit 'impartiality' is shown to be nonsensical.
ReplyDeleteAs Greg Sheridan claims the Churches do not discriminate it's difficult to understand why they would then be opposed to laws preventing discrimination, but logic has never been a strong point amongst religious preachers; just claim god says x.
ReplyDeleteThe part about free association sounded more like religious apartheid.
Given that governments (and that's the taxes of adulterers, homosexuals and women who have had abortions) have contributed to the capital works and upgrades of all schools why should the church institutions receive tax deductibility on the buildings which the state has helped build? The money does not reduce the fees.
Sheridan's claim that "everything Western society likes about itself - welfare, human rights, equality of the sexes, concern for the poor - comes directly from the Jewish and Christian traditions". Actually a lot of what we have disliked about Western society comes from religious traditions, which was often justified by religious institutions and it took a lot of courage by those who stepped outside the temples to change things around. After all, to take but one period in history, the Reformation was a revolt against the practices and teachings of the Roman Catholic Church.
"Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!"
Deleteand:
"The sack of Constantinople occurred in April 1204 and marked the culmination of the Fourth Crusade. Crusader armies captured, looted, and destroyed parts of Constantinople, then the capital of the Byzantine Empire. After the capture of the city, the Latin Empire (known to the Byzantines as the Frankokratia or the Latin occupation) was established and Baldwin of Flanders was crowned Emperor Baldwin I of Constantinople in the Hagia Sophia."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sack_of_Constantinople
Oh yeah all, and only, the good stuff comes from those Christians.
Don’t forget they also sacked Zara (modern day Zadar) at the behest of the doge of Venice. So, very evenhanded, one orthodox, one Roman Catholic.
DeleteAnonymous and GB - by all means go the way of Holey Henry, back a millennium or so, but a quick glance (and it need only be quick) across the Quad Rant these days shows plenty of quite caustic comment on the current, and some other recent, Popes, from writers declaring themselves to be true to the Catholic faith; which each particular Pope, in their opinion, is not. Some of the 'Fathers' did persist in preaching about looking out for the poor, the otherwise needy, the oppressed - and other manifestations of communism.
DeleteOh, nolo contendere, Chad; they are still as evil as the modern world, and their diminished power, will let them get away with. But it was just the bit, as Anony mentions, about everything western society likes about itself coming from long established "Jewish and Christian traditions" that induces a historic review of those "traditions".
DeleteBut I suppose in a sense it is true - most of what Western Society likes about itself does indeed come from a growing opposition to the evils of the Christian tradition - in particular the Reformation leading firstly to the Protestant Church and then increasingly to more decent secular societies via movements such as 'the Enlightenment'. Which, of course, reptiles will claim for themselves.
Does this tell us anything about human beings and their brains ?
ReplyDelete"Argentinian prodigy already has two international master norms and looks set to break more records while England’s pre-teen talents are also making eye-catching progress."
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/jun/07/faustino-oro-aged-10-and-known-as-the-messi-of-chess-advances-again
I used to enjoy playing chess about 65 years ago, but obviously I took it up far too late in life to be any good.
PS: Capablanca and Bobby Fischer were both child prodigies too. For some reason, it's not all that unusual in chess.
It isn't just our habit of building homes on flood plains:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.9news.com.au/national/half-of-all-aussie-homes-at-risk-to-natural-disasters-new-data-finds/519d1d51-f93c-4c28-bdf2-e29ea5cfbd8f#:~
But at least some won't get hit by snowstorms:
Deletehttps://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/jun/08/we-may-not-have-snow-australian-ski-season-opens-with-a-whimper