Talk of a chocolate cake conspiracy reminded the pond of George Bernard Shaw and Arms and the Man and chocolate soldiers, and the unfortunate use of the term chocos in relation to the troops in New Guinea, which swept up one of the pond's uncles, as tough a shearer as you might care to find ...
But there are some chocolate cream soldiers who melt in the sun, or worse are a white-anting, corrosive presence in our midst,...
Naturally that's a throw to the Bolter, who was out and about again today, at his corrosive, white-anting worst ...
And no matter how News Corp might try to cut it, the unguided missile wasn't aimed at Daesh, it was aimed at Malware ...
Look at the illustration in the splashes ...
It never matters to the Bolter how pathetic or weak or silly or argumentative and stupid he sounds, he just keeps rolling out the arguments in support of his 'boots on the ground' mate ...
Why not head off to wiki, here, and discover a lot of other figures ...
There's a lot more, and that's not to reckon with the many displaced, the many unknown, the many wounded, damaged or uprooted by the violence ...
And so to below the fold ... and it becomes clear that the Bolter isn't really that interested in the killing, so much as alarm and panic in the streets and the air ...
Why is the Bolter so interested in talking up Daesh?
What's to be gained in making them appear strong and an existential threat?
Why then you need a strong man, a Churchill, or even, if you will and are carefree about Godwin's Law, an Abbott... or a Hitler.
But what's the result of this worshipping of the 'strength' of Daesh?
If you put on suitable clothing and waved a black flag and read out all of the Bolter's furious scribbling - in a proper fanatical "Hello eekbear" voice - you could well be construed as a Lord Hee Haw doing the propaganda work of fundamentalist ratbags ...
But then the Bolter is a fundamentalist ratbag, and there is a synchronicity of aims and desires between fundamentalists everywhere ...
Still, now you know where to go to get your "Daesh is strong" propaganda from ... the HUNsters, Boris's Daily Terrorists, and the rest of the Murdochian gang ....
Perhaps the Bolter could head off to re-education camp and stop referring to IS as an Islamic State.
That's the ultimate accolade, the ultimate tribute.
Why doesn't he try Daesh, Dahis, Daeick, Dahish or Fahish ... (here).
Oh wait, Fahish is being popularised by Saudi Arabia, and Saudi Arabia (white Daesh) is the father of Isis, says writer ...
Never mind, perhaps the Bolter could just agree to avoid lathering up hysteria in a 'foaming at the mouth', frothing way, and to avoid conflating terrorist activities in other countries with the actual war in Syria and Iraq. Perhaps read a fact checking story on the war here ...
The pond feels vaguely guilty about wasting time with the Bolter. Why not try NYRB's The Syrian Kurds Are Winning!?
How about NYRB's How She Wants to Modify Muslims?
Yes, they're currently outside the paywall, and agree or disagree, any signs of intelligence and life, as opposed to fear-mongering, is a healthy corrective to a diet of simplistic Bolter blather ...
One thing's certain ... it seems as if the Bolter almost devoutly wishes that Daesh keep on with its terrorist activities ... because that will keep the Bolter in business with lots of easy copy and rich indignant anger, luckily in an armchair and a keyboard at some distance from more immediate harm's way ...
Even worse, as a result, Daesh has stepped up and distracted the world's greatest climate science from his urgent duties, just as the pond is in receipt of the news of the world's apparent and alleged heating ... well, it surely feels hot this day in old Sydney town.
No doubt the Bolter will step up to the breach in due course, but that reminds the pond of another epic use of numbers to distort reality and truth ...
Australia is meeting its minimum goal via accounting rules – most forecasts show its emissions will rise by 2020. The latest analysis by research firm RepuTex shows Australia’s actual emissions will rise 4% by 2020 compared with 2000 levels, and 6% compared with today.
But Australia will be able to count “carry over”, under the accounting rules governing international emissions calculations, because it “overshot” or did better than the special deal it received at the Kyoto meeting for its first climate change pledge to 2012. (Unlike most developed countries, Australia was allowed to increase its emissions by 8%.)
Emissions have fallen due to the drought, the slowdown in the economy, the decline in manufacturing and to a small extent the impact of the renewable energy target and other climate policies such as the emissions reduction fund. (more here).
But that's enough of base villains, rogues and wiki-loving walri knaves for this day ...
Time for a Rowe cartoon, and perhaps the Bolter could share a turkey with Vlad. Or is Abbott turkey enough?
And remember, Academy-framed Rowe - how the pond approves of proper visual framing - can be found at Rowe's twitter account here.
I notice you've replaced Cory "voice-of-the-majority-of-Australians" Bernardi with sweaty George "Death Beast" Christensen.
ReplyDeleteTrump says he remembers 'thousands of Arabs in New Jersey cheering when the twin towers came down'.
ReplyDeleteSeems he's got a problem with his memory. Yes there were people cheering - five Israelis from a removal company, who were subsequently deported. Who they were, why they were deported, why their company was immediately wound up, who they were working for... is one of the abiding mysteries about 9/11.
http://politics.blog.ajc.com/2015/11/22/what-donald-trump-might-have-seen-on-911-hint-it-wasnt-cheering-arabs/