After a flirtation with the dangerously "woke" deceased songbird - so much talk of loving the world and doing good and gay rights and black lives matter - the reptiles had another chance to take a walk on the wild side with the death of Tim Curry.
What with a hint of the gay, the trans and the exotic, the reptiles could have shown they knew how to do Jim Sharman's walk.
Instead they dropped poor old Tim way down the page, with a piece borrowed from The Times:
Rocky Horror’s Tim Curry dies aged 80
Tim Curry played the transvestite Dr Frank-N-Furter in The Rocky Horror Show with an erotic villainy that inspired cult fandom.
By The Times
It seems a bit of cross dressing is good enough for your average dinkum footballer, but might be too much for the hive mind.
Sheesh, and the pond had wanted to boast it had been to the Grand Old Opry and not just at the wretched new theatre but at the Ryman Auditorium, heart of Nashville. You can take the pond out of Tamworth, but you can't take the Tamworth out of ...
Instead, for a lead, the reptiles went with the Nepal flash flood and a gif of disaster porn...
But no need to cross the paywall for that story, it can be found elsewhere, even if "Briton" takes the place of "Aussies" ....
After that, the reptiles reverted to their usual wretched standard form of a propaganda sheet, boasting of their triumph in inducing an attack on dangerous furriners ...
Labor to unveil migration crackdown targeting students, visitor visas
Amid pressure from One Nation, the Albanese government is finalising sweeping changes focusing on international students, visitor visas and onshore applications.
By Geoff Chambers and Noah Yim
The pond has to be indefatigable in labelling Geoff as indefatigable, but that's because he seems to have a first mortgage on double barrelled appearances at the top of the digital news, ma ...
Can Labor pull off its 'tough on immigration' act?
When Labor’s final migration package is released next month, expect more of a feather duster than the big stick One Nation and the Coalition have advocated.
The Australian Zionist Daily News was also busy ...
‘Job not done’: Bondi families lead royal commission cry
Bondi bereaved, Holocaust survivors call for extended antisemitism inquiry
Holocaust survivors, Bondi victims’ families and former prime ministers have joined calls to demand the inquiry be expanded, concerned by its failure to call vital witnesses.
By James Dowling and Elizabeth Pike
Even as the Royal Commission announced the last public hearings and the date for the delivery of findings, discreetly after the anniversary of the massacre, the reptiles were still bleating for more.
This handily sets them up for an extended bout of rage and pique in December when the findings and recommendations were announced.
Over on the extreme far right there was more ...
As the royal commission ends, Australia too faces a moment of decision.
By Yehoram Ulman
Contributor
Petulant Peta also joined in the wailing.
The pond usually tries to avoid the petulant one, and this guaranteed it ...
Not only is this royal commission one of the shortest in history but the elephant in the room, radical Islam, barely had a look-in.
By Peta Credlin
Columnist
Division, hate and fear and loathing, it's the staple diet for the monoculture hive mind ... and it was enough to make the pond personally entomb the petulance in the intermittent archive.
As usual, as a form of balance, at this point the pond usually turns to Haaretz to wonder what sort of country the residents of Gaza and the West Bank - and Israel generally for that matter - might inherit...
Netanyahu Guards Pointing Assault Rifles at Beachgoers Shows How He Sees Israeli Civilians
And again ...
A Moderate Arab Leader Spoke of A Palestinian State. Israeli Politicians Didn't Listen to a Word
Sheesh, what a depressing read that one was.
If you went beyond that screen cap, you copped this ...
He then uttered the supposedly fireball words: "The Palestinian State exists and is standing; all the world recognizes it except the U.S. and Israel. God willing, they will recognize it. This is the kind of peace," he said, waving his finger at the audience with gravitas, "that will guarantee the end of the conflict, the end of the occupation, and achieve reconciliation and peace between the Palestinian people and the Israeli people."
The horror. Under his leadership, the United Arab List has more than lived up to the model of the perfect Arab citizen that Zionist Israelis say they long for. His party has embraced political integration. He considered crossing lines from the opposition to join Netanyahu's coalition long before Benny Gantz put out embarrassing ads about breaking through the pro- and anti-Netanyahu blocs (to be fair, Gantz did cross those lines for a unity coalition in 2020 and got burned).
Mansour Abbas led the first independent Arab party to join an Israeli coalition in 2021, putting the occupation on a back burner. He withstood endless debate and much criticism in the Arab political community for breaking taboos; he also earned a core voter base worth about five seats and gave voice to the consistent majority among Arabs who want an Arab party to join coalitions.
Most recently, he broke with the Islamic roots of the party and wooed a mainstream Jewish lawmaker from the heartland of centrist Israel – Yoav Segalovitz, a former senior police official – to consider joining his list of candidates. In other words, Abbas is a leader.
The pragmatic, accommodationist yet confident personality of an Arab political leader sends shivers through the ruling fanatical right wing. They really need Arab politicians to be radical Palestinian nationalists whom they can accuse of being ISIS or Nukhba, to prop up their flaccid polls with fear. Instead, Abbas insists on looking like a cross between Santa Claus and a teddy bear. Like nearly all Palestinian citizens of Israel, Abbas also has an impeccable record of having nothing to do with terror.
No matter – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's rhetorical firing squad went to town on him for daring to mention peace, reconciliation and a Palestinian state. This is not unlike Netanyahu's 2011 fit against then-U.S. president Barack Obama for the crime of stating that a two-state solution would be based on the 1967 borders (the Green Line) – a great big duh.
Not even a nation
Netanyahu's current tirade included tired slogans that a Palestinian state would be controlled by Iran, or that it would be a "terror state," in the words of National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir. Minister of Annexation (my designation) Bezalel Smotrich tried to bully the opposition parties into disavowing Abbas and declaring their support for his plan to build up E1 once and for all. That's the strip of land outside Jerusalem cutting off the West Bank from north to south, seen as a death knell for a Palestinian state. Pretty much everyone ignored him.
This anti-Palestinian-state screed followed on the heels of last week's statements by David Yosef, Israel's Chief Sephardi Rabbi, that the Palestinian "rabble" is not even a nation and never will be.
But Netanyahu's primary target was not actually Abbas; it was his greatest opposition challenger at present, Gadi Eisenkot. "The price of a left-wing coalition with the Muslim Brotherhood has once again been exposed," said Netanyahu. "These are the partners of Eisenkot ... who boycott Likud voters but welcome supporters of [Arab party leader Ahmad] Tibi." Netanyahu has been doing this for months, hoping to rally anti-Arab hatred to drive voters toward the far right and prevent such a dastardly coalition.
Here is where things got exciting: Eisenkot seized the moment. He boldly called Netanyahu's bluff and said yes! You're right, you incompetent, criminal, boomer loser. I see all partners for a better Israel as my political partners; I see all citizens as equals and embrace an optimistic future of cooperation instead of corruption. Your leadership brought disaster.
Palestinian statehood alongside Israel will release Palestinians from decades of misery, while liberating our children and grandchildren from the curse of being occupiers and improving Jewish-Arab relations here in Israel. I support that future of peace and reconciliation that Abbas, my future partner, courageously embraces.
I, Dahlia, also have a bridge to sell you. What Eisenkot actually said could not have been more disappointing for anyone still hoping for a leader. He simply parroted the line Netanyahu has been saying at least since 2015: "There will be no Palestinian state."
No wonder the pond prefers to do the walk with Tim ...
As for the rest of the extreme far right in the lizard Oz, it was equally depressing ...
Jack the Insider decided to take a snort in the nostrils ...
Australia’s huge appetite for cocaine exists in a chicken and egg paradox.
By Jack the Insider
Columnist
But how are footballers going to enjoy a little cross dressing and stripper times without a snort?
Throw in another contribution to a standard reptile jihad ...
Some Indigenous leaders are making it harder for child protection workers to do their jobs.
By Patrick Parkinson
Contributor
And that was about it ...
The pond has assembled the links - personally arranged a number of them - and dedicated herpetologists must arrange time for some private study.
No chance to celebrate comedy items, though there were plenty to be found ...
White House Called Out for Embarrassing U.S. Map Mistake (*intermittent archive link)
Elbows up Canada ...the pond has dealt with loons for decades, and now it's your unfortunate turn.
No chance to wonder about AI and the fate of the planet, no chance to celebrate the workings of the NT and Queensland governments, as the infallible Pope and more generally, Wuerker did ...
The pond apologises for its lack of interest in the lizard Oz offerings this day, but did do a deeper dive into the lizard Oz editorialist's offering.
It's no recompense, some might construe it as a bloody insult, but the pond was reminded yet again that Thursdays have always been the bleakest day in the reptile calendar...
The lizard Oz editorialist continued the current reptile jihad, and pretty much summed up all the pond had ignored above...
They really are busy setting up the final report and its recommendations for a slagging, and endless Xmas hysteria.
The lizard Oz editorialist also continued a much loved jihad, attacking the government on matters economic ...
Sure, it's framed as a "challenge" but in the land of the jihadists, this government has been a failure, is a failure, and will continue to be a failure, except in the matter of gambling reforms, where they have done just what the football mob and the Murdoch tabloids wanted them to do.
Finally, there was a rousing call to arms, even as the pond had noted, courtesy of Haaretz, the way the current government treats civilians ...
Once again Wilcox entered this dangerous territory ...
The pond guesses that at this point she doesn't have much to lose, even as she reminds the pond that her departure will produce a loss.
Here's hoping she finds a new home and fresh enthusiasm for the many tasks still at hand, including the need to wander into dangerous territory ...
Depressing times, depressing days, how the pond hates Thursdays ...
It's way past time for a bit of ancient kink.
Poor Jim Sharman, not only did he get dudded on a share of the profits, it also overshadowed all his other achievements ... (one of the pond's favourite moments in life was when it secured a painting Jim had been eyeing off).
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