tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post3319451576374924996..comments2024-03-29T22:18:45.103+11:00Comments on loon pond: Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-59874902523327653812020-02-09T03:11:24.201+11:002020-02-09T03:11:24.201+11:00It wasn't so much that I didn't like it, D...It wasn't so much that I didn't like it, DW, as that I had just a bit of difficulty identifying with it. You see, the first music I really liked was from the first movie I ever saw: Judy Garland rendering 'Somewhere Over The Rainbow' from The Wizard of Oz. So Common People takes a bit of getting used to.<br /><br />But the Shatner version was "helpful" :-) However, when I was listening Youtube served up another Shatner cover just for fun:<br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmPOWJtsEGc<br /><br />Ummm, yes, that really is a Shatner cover of Bohemian Rhapsody.<br /><br />And what Youtube has now fed up to me is Amy MacDonald's orchestral cover of 'Dancing in the Dark: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQGmyOgnXsQGrueBleennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-80909277089150473372020-02-08T19:48:03.782+11:002020-02-08T19:48:03.782+11:00Hi GB,
If you didn’t like the original of ‘Common...Hi GB,<br /><br />If you didn’t like the original of ‘Common People’ bizarrely there is a cover by William Shatner.<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ainyK6fXku0<br /><br />DW<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-16118110122468809732020-02-08T16:47:13.488+11:002020-02-08T16:47:13.488+11:00Contrariwise, DW, I get the impression that Doggy ...Contrariwise, DW, I get the impression that Doggy Bov has indeed 'read' the Varoufakis article, but in typical fashion, basically has simply not understood it. Likewise I think that Yanis credits Trump and Mnuchin with far more conscious understanding than I think they've ever shown. Unquestioning loyalty to their lifetime conditioning, yes; cognitive understanding, no.<br /><br />And I also disagree with DoggyB in that I think the 'climate debate' is completely normal for the human race: I really can't recall anything much over the years that has not involved heaps of "disturbing and deliberate" misinformation - and, as you note, doubled in spades after the Murdoch takeover of most of the Australian press.<br /><br />But Yaris is a tad hyperdramatic, isn't he: "<i>The only alternative to their policy of accelerated climate change, to the oil and finance curses that drive capitalism, is the wholesale disintegration of today’s technostructure</i>." Though I do kinda agree that this time, unlike the Industrial Revolution, we might just not be able to "muddle our way through".<br /><br />Looking at the Pulp - Common People video, I can't help the thought that "pop" music has left me a few decades behind.GrueBleennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-20775231964920940742020-02-08T16:01:11.806+11:002020-02-08T16:01:11.806+11:00Oh if only I could believe this is a continuing tr...Oh if only I could believe this is a continuing trend, Bef, but then I'd have to ask what exactly a 'Trump bump' is and whether it will continue.<br /><br />It would also be nice to know what the situation is in Boris's Most Very Great England now - is there a 'Johnson bump' too ?<br /><br />But then those who claim to believe in a religion seem to be diminishing every year, so maybe even the Mighty Murdoch could actually be vulnerable over time.GrueBleennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-41917551591885775592020-02-08T13:55:59.718+11:002020-02-08T13:55:59.718+11:00Tragic news -
https://thenewdaily.com.au/finance...Tragic news - <br /><br />https://thenewdaily.com.au/finance/finance-news/2020/02/07/news-corp-rupert-murdoch/<br /><br />"Media watchers said News Corp’s political stance could be affecting readership.<br /><br />“The positions they take are so politically and socially polarising and extreme that perhaps that is influencing readers,” said independent media analyst Peter Cox.<br /><br />“These are dangerous times [for News] – they hurt themselves with that approach,” Mr Cox said" Befuddledhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16201490489888639207noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-63157291577129346102020-02-08T13:30:54.082+11:002020-02-08T13:30:54.082+11:00Hi Dorothy,
“climate change is capitalism’s Water...Hi Dorothy,<br /><br />“climate change is capitalism’s Waterloo. There is simply no feasible path toward the re-stabilisation of the climate that is consistent with the maintenance of capitalism’s main pillars.”<br /><br />One gets the impression that Kenny hasn’t actually read the Yanis Varoufakis piece but has instead been triggered by a tweet from a lefty ABC type. However we can;<br /><br />https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/views/analysis/yanis-varoufakis-climate-change-is-capitalisms-waterloo-978758.html<br /><br />Still we can all cherry pick, as even the Dog Botherer speaks the truth occasionally;<br /><br />“There is nothing about the climate debate in Australia that is normal. The level of misinformation is disturbing and deliberate.”<br /><br />So true, so very true and the Fido Fucker is one of the most persistent and rabid dispensers of that misinformation.<br /><br />As an interesting aside Varoufakis is married to the daughter of a wealthy Greek industrialist and there has been speculation she was the student of sculpture at Saint Martins College in the Pulp song “Common People”.<br /><br />https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/may/12/greek-finance-minister-responds-claim-wife-inspiration-pulp-common-people<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuTMWgOduFM<br /><br />DiddyWrote Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-41191066314624415542020-02-08T13:20:17.142+11:002020-02-08T13:20:17.142+11:00"At least the dog botherer's not quite as..."<i>At least the dog botherer's not quite as bloated … you get the flavour of the moron in fewer words</i> ..."<br /><br />And oh so welcome that is. Trying to read the Nattering Neddy and the eyes close, the mind glazes over and the body collapses into total debilitation. And that's just halfway through the first gobbet ...<br /><br />And then, all of a sudden, there I am halfway through the Saturday 'pond with no recall whatsoever of how I got there.<br /><br />But then I woke up just in time for some words from Alan Finkel: "<i>Those are Andrew Bolt's words, not mine, and they are a complete misrepresentation of my position. They suggest that we should do nothing to reduce our carbon emissions, a stance I reject and <b>I wish to correct the record</b></i>."<br /><br />Now here's the rub: just the other day we were having a healthy chortle at Jim Molan and his claim to not rely on evidence. And here we have the Chief Scientist himself exhibiting a total failure to recognise a complete absence of evidence. Of any evidence, no matter how fleeting, that a Murdochian reptile has even the most simplistic concept of "correcting the record". And especially the Bolter, who only ever acknowledges one infallible record: what he himself says and does.<br /><br />So correct on, Finky old mate, and then you can correct yourself by admitting that your claim that "<i>We've never been a nation to shy away from a challenge</i>" is as much bullshvt as anything Bolt (or Trump) has ever said.<br /><br />However, I rather think that might just be an elegant sufficiency of Nattering Neddy and the Doggy Boverer for one day ... or even perhaps for many days.<br /><br />Oh but, butt; just this last bit from the Boverer: "...<i> but it is my case for doing our bit under Paris and not a tonne of emission more until we see more concerted global action</i> ..."<br /><br />And there we have it yet again: the schoolkid squeal that "<i><b>I'm not going to do it until he does first !</b></i>" Hallelujah, Doggy B, you've shown just how much more adult and sensible Greta Thunberg is than you will ever be.<br /><br />One last small thing DP; when I was listing those matters of science that the USA had reacted negatively to, I should have begun with the response to 'Silent Spring'. Now that's something for a reptile to sink its teeth into ... and they did.GrueBleennoreply@blogger.com