In which the swishing Switzer does some bog standard fossil fuel worship and Our Henry makes a non-canonical appearance ...

 

All - as a correspondent recently noted - is a sour mash of slop, feculence, and slime, not to mention sociopathy and war crimes - and amazing scenes where even Marge and gravel-voiced Alex are in a dither:

Oh yes ...

How are the reptiles coping with this Emeritus Chairman, Faux Noise production?

Well Dame Slap did the wise and sensible thing.

Ignore it all together, forget the night she donned her MAGA cap and walked out into the streets of New York in a state of ecstatic triumph, and return to the ancient and noble reptile sport of black bashing ...

Why aren’t Indigenous leaders demanding an audit?
We should never forget the bullet we dodged when this country rejected a constitutionally entrenched voice.
Janet Albrechtsen
Columnist

Moi don a MAGA cap? Can't remember, everything's hazy ...

Sadly the intermittent archive was in yet another of its funks, so the best the pond could do was offer a link in the hope that it might come in handy down the track

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/commentary%2Fwhy-arent-indigenous-leaders-demanding-an-audit%2Fnews-story%2F6a2c46c434abbd376aac5b034323c7bf?amp

The pond had to do the same for Jihad Jack, as Jack the Insider cheerfully joined in the current reptile jihad.

There are some who think that Jack is better than your average reptile, but he's just your average jihadist, happy to toil away in the belly of the beast.

Get hold of a keffiyeh. Make a big noise … and let the dollars roll in
Abdel-Fattah’s hypocrisy knows no bounds. From the comfort of academia, she fights against racism by fomenting a lot of it.
By Jack the Insider
Columnist

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/commentary%2Fget-hold-of-a-keffiyeh-make-a-big-noise-and-let-the-dollars-roll-in%2Fnews-story%2Ffd59ab5c355ac380825a8c6e613e77af?amp

Jack, doing a Boris, was just joining Natasha as she indulged in another bit a Bita bitterness ...

EXCLUSIVE
C-grade review yet ARC gave grant ‘OK’
Confidential documents reveal stark divisions among peer reviewers over anti-Israel activist Randa Abdel-Fattah’s $889,000 taxpayer-funded research grant.
By Natasha Bita

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/education%2Franda-abdelfattahs-889000-grant-awarded-by-arc-despite-cgrade-review-and-formal-warnings%2Fnews-story%2Fa391ec5a8f239b34be9a476e8bc78bb8?amp

None of them had any appeal to the pond. 

What a pity then that the intermittent archive spluttered and conked out, so that the pond couldn't personally send these efforts to that dank, dark cornfield.

But that left the pond with very little to do today.

It's already been established on the probabilities that BRS (as the reptiles call him) is a war criminal guilty of appalling war crimes, and the news that Pauline launched a fierce defence of him only made his guilt more plausible.

Marvel at the way that in the midst of King Donald acting as god and promising a genocide, the reptiles still found space to highlight not just BRS, but their current jihad ...

On the BRS matter, over on the extreme far right a soggy Rice attempted to do a little cooking to save the day...

War crimes prosecutors will face challenges convicting BRS
The VC recipient’s defamation case was an own goal, but war crimes prosecutors will have a much more challenging time proving their case beyond reasonable doubt.
By Stephen Rice
Sydney Bureau Chief

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/commentary%2Fwar-crimes-prosecutors-will-face-challenges-convicting-ben-robertssmith%2Fnews-story%2F96fc1de3f4164781ea35c21bd4ffdaf8?amp

In the end, the pond settled for a standard serve of renewables bashing and climate science denialism, served up by the swishing Switzer, still on his never ending rehabilitation tour ...

The header: The era of climate policy consensus is dead. So why are we digging in? The Iran crisis has performed an unintended service: it has exposed, with brutal clarity, the folly of Australia’s energy policy.

The caption for Frank's inimitable effort, Anthony Albanese. Artwork by Frank Ling.

That image of Albo, emerging once again from the lizard Oz's antediluvian swamp, reminded the pond of previous Frank efforts...

Sure enough, it wasn't new and fresh, it was as stale as week-old reptile bread.

It had been recycled, no doubt to help save the planet...

Good old Lloydie of the Amazon, just the right company for the swishing Switzer.

Frank's unifying artwork spread far and wide, with another member of the Kelly gang also entranced ...

Haven't thought about Craig for yonks, but what a relief to see he's landed on his FEE feet ...

Oh wait, it's not that one, it's this mysterious one, see Crikey ...(paywall)

Sheesh, how did the pond end up there, amidst cranks and kooks?

Truth to tell, the pond just wanted to establish that the swishing Switzer and the lizard Oz hive mind were still keeping the right sort of company, and all thanks to Frank's incredible artwork.

As for the swishing Switzer offering, it was short weight, just three minutes, so the reptiles said...

Anthony Albanese is now our longest-serving prime minister since John Howard – long enough to own, in full, the consequences of his government’s policies. And as we now know, those consequences on energy are becoming impossible to ignore: Australia is exposed, vulnerable and paying the price for a government that prefers ideology to pragmatism.
For several years now, Canberra has layered intervention upon intervention: price caps, market controls, regulatory uncertainty and glacial approval processes for new projects. At the same time, Australia has failed to reinvigorate exploration for gas and oil and allowed domestic refining capacity to erode – with only two refineries now operational.
As this newspaper’s Chris Uhlmann has argued, energy is not just another commodity but the foundation of economic life and national security. Australia now sits at the end of long supply chains, reliant on imported liquid fuels to keep the economy functioning. With more than 90 per cent of our energy still derived from coal, oil and gas – and diesel the indispensable fuel of industry, transport agriculture and mining – any serious disruption was bound to bring the country to a standstill.

Here the pond should note that the reptiles, at the mention of his name, provided a link to the Ughmann ... and though it's already been featured in the pond, here's a reminder of the company the swishing Switzer likes to keep...

Enough of that, the Ughmann features regularly in the pond, as the swishing Switzer got down and dirty with the climate science denying dog botherer ... The Australian’s Columnist Tom Switzer says the US President Donald Trump has made a “monumental mistake” with his attack on Iran. Mr Switzer told Sky News host Chris Kenny that Donald Trump most likely assumes striking Iran would “be enough”. “To bring down the regime, he probably in hindsight, should’ve followed the advice of his America first instincts.”

There's nothing new to see here ...

To be sure, this predicament did not begin with the Albanese government. As far back as 2019, The Wall Street Journal captured the absurdity with a stark headline: “Australia, a Top Natural-Gas Exporter, Considers Imports to Stop Blackouts.”
A popular online parody of Albanese captures the same contradiction: an Australia that boasts of climate leadership while exporting vast quantities of coal and gas, importing refined energy at home, and relying on China to process the minerals it claims are strategic. The joke lands because it is so close to the truth.
But this is no longer a laughing matter. Against the backdrop of the Iran crisis and tightening global supply, our vulnerability is being exposed.
And the consequences are increasingly grave: disruptions to petrol supply, renewed inflationary pressure, higher interest rates, weak growth and rising business failures – all pointing to the spectre of stagflation.
A serious government would use this moment to reset policy – acknowledging that fossil fuels will remain central to Australia’s economy for decades and acting accordingly.

Uh huh, and so to a snap of the chief villain, Chris Bowen pictured speaking at a press conference outside his electorate office in Fairfield West. Picture: NewsWire

The pond didn't have the heart to interrupt the swishing Switzer with another tale of the planet going downhill fast...

That would require difficult but necessary decisions: opening new gas fields, encouraging oil exploration, revisiting refining capacity, removing barriers to investment and broadening the energy mix to include options such as nuclear power. It would also mean recognising that energy security is inseparable from national security, requiring greater investment in defence capability and industrial resilience.
The question, as Graham Lloyd recently put it, is whether this government is capable of such a shift. Albanese and Labor remain wedded to the belief that climate change represents such an overriding threat that the world will unite to phase out fossil fuels. And much of the mainstream media encourages the government: now is the moment, we are told, to accelerate moves to renewable energy.
But this is not how the world is behaving. Electricity demand is rising and emissions continue to hit record highs as fossil fuels remain the surest path out of poverty in the developing world.
Even in advanced economies, political resolve is weakening – as British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has conceded, the consensus on climate policy has gone.
Yet Canberra persists with an approach that risks making energy more expensive and less reliable, with little measurable impact on global emissions. In doing so, it is not only placing pressure on living standards but also increasing our dependence on imported technologies and supply chains.

Yes, why do anything, when you can do nothing, or perhaps trot out a snap of Sir Keir, Keir Starmer speaks during a press conference at Downing Street. Picture: Getty Images

And that was pretty much it, with the swishing Switzer nobly battling the activist establishment ...

None of this is to deny that the Trump administration has created turmoil in the Persian Gulf, with consequences that are proving difficult to contain. The longer the Strait of Hormuz remains closed or the more damage is done to Middle Eastern oil infrastructure, the more the war will roil the global economy.
But the crisis has performed an unintended service: it has exposed, with brutal clarity, the folly of Australia’s own energy policy.
We are a country that could be far closer to energy self-sufficiency. Instead we have chosen dependence – on imports, on fragile supply chains and on the goodwill of others in a tightening world. The Coalition is right to reject Labor’s net-zero agenda. It now has an opportunity – and an obligation – to press the case relentlessly and unapologetically: for supply, for sovereignty and for a policy framework grounded in economic and strategic reality.
Such a course would be fiercely contested by Labor, the Greens and much of the activist establishment. But if the Coalition – alongside One Nation – is prepared to prosecute the argument, it may yet force a long-overdue reckoning and give Australia a fighting chance of securing our energy future and, with it, our economic potential and national security.

Oh yes, let Pauline and the beefy boofhead from down Goulburn way get together and help destroy the planet.

Thanks for that astonishing insight and credit where credit is due ...

Tom Switzer is presenter of Switzerland, a podcast about politics, modern history and international relations.

Why does the pond feel like it's running on empty?

As a little coda, the lizard Oz editorialist was also out and about today, no doubt alarmed by news of the recent surge in EV sales figures...

Not a clue - EVs already do things better and at a lower cost for consumers and trust the pond, the Hume highway is a doddle except for those whale-killing windmills in the beefy boofhead's home turf - and luckily the infallible Pope was on hand to help out ...

The pond has been insufferable lately asking the extended family about how their infernal diesel machines are going.

And so to the bonus, and here a fierce dispute broke out in the pond's editorial offices.

Our Henry had made a rare mid-week appearance, but was it non-canonical?

There was much argument, but consider the Cambridge university dictionary definition ...

not part of a set of works or subjects that are generally agreed to be good, important, and worth studying:

• non-canonical texts can still be very influential.
• non-canonical book The Bible translators did not believe the Apocrypha were inspired, but translated these non-canonical books because of their historical significance.
• non-canonical literature The ruling party viewed noncanonical literature with suspicion.

For starters, how could this outing in the lizard Oz be good, important and worth studying? 

How could it be looked at without harbouring a deep suspicion?

The pond contended that the presence of Pincus made it non-canonical, and a fey reference to Pride and Prejudice proved this was not authentic 'hole in the bucket' man musings.

This wasn't the stuff of Our Henry's ponderous, portentous, pompous Friday outings.

Sure it was back in the days of the industrial revolution, but Darcy? Bingley? Why it was no better than chique chick lit. 

Accordingly it could be tossed off in a few screen grabs, because who would want to do a cut and paste, merely so that they could comment on Our Henry referencing Our Jane, as if he was some kind of brooding, introverted Matthew Macfadyen?

Even that distraction seemed non-canonical - Petey boy as the distraction?! - and the final gobbet was equally dismal, as it failed to mention Thucydides once!

The pond might have reconsidered if there'd been a reference to ancient Greece or Rome or the 300 Spartans or Xerxes, or even better, a medieval theologian or philosopher, but it was just a heap of blather about the dismal art. (Well you could hardly do a Carlyle and call it a dismal science)

That might appeal to some cultists, but only in a non-canonical way ...

Boring!

If only Our Henry had mouthed off some theological and philosophical platitudes, but that pesky Pincus got in the way. Vulgar youff will have to search for alternatives to lead them into the future.

And now, with the bromancer resting, it was left to the lizard Oz editorialist to deal with King Donald ...

His objectives in Iran remain estimable?

Apart from annihilating a civilisation, what exactly are those those objectives?

Never mind ... it's all going well ...

Weird times ...