The Rat and the Sewers

[izmeina]

The sewage truck has well and truly arrived - long before we even know the Day of Reckoning. Oz should so so adopt the US system of fixed election dates and especially the famous Two Term Limit. The incumbents already have the cards stacked in their favour without letting them calling the date - usually at at time which they believe greatly enhances their chances of winning

Work has been sucky lately. Too many attempts at catching up in Cyberia have been interrupted by real life. But then again - when you got offered the chance of working 4 hours and being paid for 7, you'd have to have something pretty important planned for your Sunday afternoon to turn it down. So both Sundays of this pay week - worked double shifts. So will be a rich little house elf on payday.
They are ridiculously short staffed at the moment. One money hungry house elf has got herself 110 hour on the next fortnight's roster - 6 double shifts and only two days off for the whole fortnight. Except for weekends - simply not interested in doing doubles. At $14.50 silver sickles per hour, we thinks the time is more valuable than the money. Especially in the afternoons.

Will be working nearly all evenings from Wednesday on so might eventually manage to slink about online and visit chatland at the the midnight hour some time next week. Starting work at 7am is definitely not conducive to late night lurking.

Was a whole bunch of things to post - some about work and some about some very gorgeous and interesting art works and a concert but once again, it all gets put on the very long finger

Got a very juicy Owl from America on Friday. There's a pack of very pretty cards inside - among other things - which we will be saving for our weekly visit to the Garden of Arcane Delights before peeking inside.

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[ozfille]

Yes Parliament House will have to be swabbed out and gallons of deodorant applied to get rid of the stink and filth after Howard's mob are finished. But from the polls this morning, it doesn't seem to be working the more mud they throw, the more they dig the dirt, the higher little Kevvie's popularity rises. He must have some sort of magic. *g* It might put a brake on the digging when they realise that their activities are totally counter-productive.

In NSW we have fixed date elections - a State election has to be held every four years in March.

[izmeina.livejournal.com]

Yesss. There are certain old Aussie traits for a fair go and decency that still remain in spite of their attempts of the last 11 years to eliminate them.
Nothing is sadder than seeing that lot so desperate in their attempts to remain in power. It might make folks wonder what nefarious plans they have for next time that will not be announced in any list of promises or bag of goodies. After all - they were most secretive indeed about Serfchoices and there'll be a whole bunch of liberal voters out there who were most peeved that little act of sneakery. Not that they should have been surprised.

Not to mention the evil genius of meaning one thing in the spirit but quite another in the letter - yesss. The very clever "Interest rates will always be lower than under a Labour government" Iz tweeked on to the significance of the choice of those particular words at the time. So, technically - for once the Rat did not lie but folks will remember quite well what the impression was supposed to be and feel cheated no matter what level of sophistry the Rat cares to engage in