The Emperor's New Cloak

[izmeina]

David Rowe has done it again. This time he is reusing and recycling all those old Trump Naked Emperor masterpieces. Since sQomo is also a trump minion and a narcissist in his own right, the transformation is just so suitable. I am waiting with baited breath for the Royal Portrait make over.
Those smoke stack hats and sQomo Sharts socks are a stroke of genius. I have been trying for ages without success to snaffle David Rowe's Vitruvian sQomo as an icon to use for sQomo posts.


Since David Rowe has been on FIRE the last few weeks and I have 6 weeks sick leave, I suspect there will be a lot more of them. I really need to find some way to get my stash of David Rowe cartoons off my phone and on to some safer place. Because the phone is Android and the Big Mac is Apple, I cannot think of any straightforward way of doing this.

About 6 months ago David Rowe just vanished from Twitter. All those quote tweets I had made of his amazing trump cartoons just vanished. Not a single cartoon was to be seen. All GONE. It turned out that the absence was only for a week but if felt like an eternity. Ever since then, I don't want to leave it to chance. But I do wonder, when we can click and save all sorts of amazing artworks for free, how on earth do such artists make a living?

In the meantime, on account of those 6 work free weeks, I got tempted by an email from Coursera and signed up for an introductory course on Cybersecurity. Especially after one pesky charity store that I work for is demanding that all staff and volunteers get their police clearances through Equifux I did find another way of getting the Police Clearance and dropped by the shop to give it to them. Or rather, to get email details so I could send it since I only had it in pdf form rather than a printed hard copy. That was last Tuesday but Equifux are still spamming me with reminder emails every single day. Yes. I know that is not the company's real name but they deserve it after their pathetic response to the giant hack of March 2017.

Now I must be off. I'm currently just past 13,333 words for Nanowrimo and the target quota for today is the nice round 10,000 words. So that means I am now 2 days ahead of schedule. I had hoped to stretch it out to 4 by now.

What I notice with Nanowrimo, when all those sprinters who rely on initial motivation to get going and to clock up the words start falling by the wayside during the infamous Hump of the dreaded Week 2, that is when this plodding old serpent starts warming up. I see no reason why this year should be any different especially for the first time in 5 years, the Muse has finally returned so I now no longer have the problem of the blank page and lack of inspiration but for the old fingers to be unable to keep up with the stream of thoughts rushing through the old serpent skull begging to find their way onto the page.

Comments

[ozfille]

It's good you've got your inspiration back. I guess Rowe gets some of his money from the Australian Financial Review publishing his cartoons and I assume he publishes a collection of his cartoons each year in book format. There's a lot of baggage on the old Scommo's train.

I note the first action upon return from Glasgow was to don the hi-vis gear and go to some tunnel being completed in Sydney just to renew the tradie connection and talk about his conversation with Prince Charles. Otherwise he seems to have confined himself to attempting to claim the glory for passing of the 80% vaccination rate. Slim pickings at the moment for him. I guess even his irrepressible ego was dented by the press coverage of his lamentable performance in Rome and Glasgow and his popularity ratings have taken a bit of a nosedive. He must be itching to get to an election so he can lay the manure on thick and skite what a marvellous job, he and Joshie have done with the economy. Though not sure Joshie would be given much credit as he is being mentioned as a possible replacement in the top job and he is as much a shark as Scommo. Albo better get a wriggle on and get out from under the doona and try and make a splash before the flood of lies engulfs him like it did Shorten in 2019.

Rowing the sQomo Boat

[izmeina]

AFR is pretty dead as a newspaper. It's got far more information in it than any Murdoch rag but it's nearly all goblin porn. I vaguely remember some giant shake up with Fairfax in July 2018. All the newspapers are now run on the smell of an oily rag. I am amazed that they did not toss David Rowe overboard as an efficiency dividend.

I heard the grand tunnel vision on RN this morning. How did I ever think that this nasty little narcissist was ever nothing more than a grey rock - maybe black is more appropriate given his obsession with lumps of the stuff. I will never know. I guess when trump was in the limelight, sQomo could lurk in the shadows cast by the Big Man.

It's funny. Whenever I see pictures of Frydenberg, I always have to look twice because I keep confusing him with Kommandant Kartoffelpuffer.

I swear that sQomo must have lost his canary. Is he doubling down, downright delusional or has he actually convinced himself that the Australian public is too dumb to understand plain old fashioned English even when spoken with a sexy French accent.

Monsieur Macron et al very clearly and deliberately made a distinction between the people of Australia and the radioactive prime mendacious.
So this rally around the flag, defending the honour of Australia is just cringeworthy

And how did sQomo ever think that he could get away with his Dirt Brigade leaks on the world stage. Macron is not murdoch.
It's not enough to tear up contracts that shouldn't have been made in the first place if his predecessor MT had done his due diligence. But then leaking private texts! Well I guess when sQomo has never faced consequences for the rest of his dirty deeds done dirt cheap, he expects more of the same this time.

I still don't understand the logic of signing a contract with a country known for manufacturing nuclear submarines asking for a variation to use COAL or diesel instead of nuclear and then turning around and tearing up the contract because it is NOT nuclear.

I have a personal policy.

1 Always keep your word.
2 Never give it.

What is so hard to understand about that? Measure twice and twice again, cut once and if you then screw up after all that, you just take the rap.
Because sucking it up short term is worth it to prove that your word is worth something.


If they had drawn up the contract properly in the first place, there would have been no need to weasel out of it due to cost overruns on the French side or capriciousness on ours.