Dancing with Dragons
02/05/2019 07:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
izmeina
It must be election time since my old fashioned snail mail box has never been so full of junk.
Today I got yet another tiresome love letter from the local Liberal member who of course has the advantage of incumbency with all the attendant perks.
Mr Irons very kindly enclosed a Liberal Party "How to vote" card amidst the usual dribble. The fact that there are ten candidates rather than the usual boring six is most interesting indeed. That means that a bunch of crack pot parties are in the game.
It was hardly surprising to see that his second preference goes to the candidate from the Clive Palmer party. Clive Palmer is a sad and pathetic Trump wannabee who even steals his slogans and most definitely the Don's pathological lying. But he is a poor imitation with a string of bankruptcies and failed ventures including a mining company, assorted resorts, a dinosaur park and even a replica of the Titanic to be built in China in spite of his endless rants and conspiracies about China. I guess China is Clive Palmer's Mexico
But most entertaining of all is one Tshung-Hui Chang the candidate standing for the One Nation Party. This is a party where the founder became famous for a maiden speech declaring that Australia was being taken over by horde of ASIANS! Somewhere on the road to Beijing, she must have seen the light because now it is not the Chinese but the Muslims who are taking over the country. Wnich reminds me that Ramadan starts on Sunday. And how do I know this? Aside from the new moon being on that day, the local Woolworths supermarket is full of big boxes of dates, dried fruit, nuts and bottles of pomegranate juice. Poor old Pauline would have a fit if she seen it.
Having no television and listening only to the ABC or reading the papers as my main source of information, only today have I realized just how much I have been missing out on.
At work this morning, the radio was tuned to some commercial channel and every second advert was throwing dirt at the Labor party. Most of it is likely made up because whining and shifty as their leader is, he cannot hold a candle to the present mob in Canberra for sheer corruption, incompetence and cruelty.
I must admit I do think that the adverts portraying the opposition leader as some sort of Frankenstein's monster are quite clever because he sure does look that way and sounds it too with the endless droning and whining. Problem is, it is likely he acts like that because he decided that imitation is the best form of flattery. A certain mad monk and liberal leader did very well out of decades of relentless negativity and a whole bunch of people jumped on that band wagon.
It is such a pity that politics nearly always resorts to encouraging fear and greed in the electorate because it has worked so well in the past. They get rewarded for bad behaviour so they keep doing it.
In the meantime, I did download the very juicy Mueller report in its 400 something page redacted entirety but still have not managed to get a good gawk at it. I guess it is more fun getting the official version from the very honest, impartial and authoritative Attorney General William Barr
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Date: 2019-05-03 04:11 am (UTC)With the Greens trying to get Bill's attention and Clive still rampaging and Tones being his usual self - fighting for himself, bugger the electorate. Poorleen has dropped off the radar a bit due to further revelations about what her chief Qld representative got up to in his trip to Washington. He should change his name to Dickhead from Dickson, it would be more appropriate.
Are dates, pomegranate juice and dried fruit and nuts such a rarity in supermarkets in WA? I would have thought they were regular fare in the fruit & veg section.
I have to disagree with you about Bill. He's not as bad as the Smirker in chief and at least the ALP has some policies! He may be a bit bland, but I'm not into charismatic leaders that promise a lot. Things tend to end badly. Just look at what happened to the last pollie the media thought had some charisma, the top-hat from Wentworth! Useless as tits on a bull as is the rest of his former party. Bill really hasn't been that negative, it has mainly been the COALition running their usual Kill Bill rhetoric because that's all they've got. It's only in the last few days he's bitten back.
I've already voted on Tuesday. I saw no point in waiting in line on May 18. Get it over and done with. I made my mind up about the current lot almost six years ago and this is the first time I've had a chance to vote against them. I was overseas last federal election. It would taken a very special miracle for me to vote for the Pentecostal Pirate and his rum crew, probably something in the magnitude of the second coming and JC proclaiming him his spokesman! As if!
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Date: 2019-05-03 02:26 pm (UTC)The supermarkets here do have dates, dried fruit and all that stuff but it is only at Ramadan that they are all right near the entrance near the baskets, where they bring in the supersized boxes of dates and where everything is designed like the way they have the sandwiches and snack fridge to tempt the office workers. No need to go hunting and pecking. It is all Grab and go.
Likewise I always know when it is Chinese New Year because that is when the lychees, logans, durians and dragonfruit appear but the biggest giveaway is that it is the ONLY time of year when the pineapples have tops on them. They usually get 'engineered' out in the interests of efficiency
I have also noticed that Woolworths always makes much more of an effort for such festivals than Coles.
I just so wish that Labor had someone like Anthony Albanese or Tanya Pliberseck as leader who are well spoken and while not charismatic (it always rings alarm bells) they have friendly and warm but serious voices.
I did notice that Bill Shorten was playing nice for a change. No more nasty negativity but now that the happy clappers have turned up the volume, he is dumping the Nice very quickly.
It has been obvious this election more than any other that the libs are interested only in keeping power and feathering their nests while Labor have used their time in the wilderness to actually work out what they STAND FOR! shock. horror. It was er very 'brave' to announce those changes to franking credits, negative gearing, capital gains etc etc but it was all done as part of a package with some sort of logic. only now that the election is almost upon us are they throwing around babies with leukemia in child care centres.
Pentecostal Pirate! I seen those happy clappy pictures and the union official who got hauled over the coals for taking the piss but scummo sure did look like he was giving some sort of nazi salute. I find the whole Pentecostal and prosperity Christianity really scary. We are chosen and the rest of you can go rot in hell and God said so.
I had assumed he was merely a grey goblin worshipping at the altar of Mammon. But the fact that the man may believe he is on a mission from God is seriously SCARY. Wanting to move the Australian embassy to Jerusalem and the nasty Christmas Island medivac monstrosity has proved that these creatures have not only no shame but no souls either.
Our local list has only 3 left of centre parties, 2 maybe in the middle and the rest are the rabid right wing. My decision now mainly boils down to - who will I put last - Clive Palmer or the Liberals? Usually that spot gets reserved for One Nation or the crazy Christian party but I now seriously suspect that the Liberals are a bunch of goose stepping wolves masquerading as sheep. Any party that would tolerate thugs like Dutton may as well be in bed with the Alt Reich.
Pity you missed out last time. Apparently the early voters are coming out in record numbers. Some of the horses that got scratched in the last few minutes have already got votes with their names on them. God knows who else will be gone by the end of the week. Strange how the ethical standards for candidates is so much higher than that for sitting ministers.
PS If we cannot oust the parasitical pirate and his scurvy crew, then I hope at least that the mad monk FINALLY gets to walk the plank. and toss in the blobfish too.