Yet another title
Yesterday kiddies, something disturbing happened. The English public re-elected rabid war-dog and dodgy used car salesman type Tony Blair for a 'historic' third term. I don't know why it's historic, must be the first time Labour's got three in a row. Be that as it may, this shows a continuance of a very unsettling trend.
On Saturday October 9, 2004, Australians re-elected rabid war-dog and eyebrow cultivator John Howard. On the first Tuesday in November 2004 the U.S. voters completely ignored the Melbourne Cup (philistines) and re-elected rabid war-dog and cover model for Inbreeder's Monthly George W. Bush.
I think you can see where I'm going with this, but I'll spell it out anyway - the good burghers of Eng-ger-lund and the You Ess get to take time off work to vote whereas we have to cut into ourdrinking time quality time with the fambly on the week-end to go and make our mark. This is an outrage. When are we going to be able to get pissed bond with our kids without all these constant trivial interruptions?
Will no-one think of the children?
On Saturday October 9, 2004, Australians re-elected rabid war-dog and eyebrow cultivator John Howard. On the first Tuesday in November 2004 the U.S. voters completely ignored the Melbourne Cup (philistines) and re-elected rabid war-dog and cover model for Inbreeder's Monthly George W. Bush.
I think you can see where I'm going with this, but I'll spell it out anyway - the good burghers of Eng-ger-lund and the You Ess get to take time off work to vote whereas we have to cut into our
Will no-one think of the children?
posted by Dirk at 6:35 am
7 Comments:
frustrating isn't it? i think the worst though was when a uni student friend of mine told me that she'd voted liberal because she didn't like beazley. and then she bitched and moaned about the latest liberal impacts on uni students.
well hello!
we must really suck when people choose their leaders on their image (physical and media depicted) over more important stuff. but once you've voted the arseholes in, well welcome to your choice...
I think the desire to be leader is sufficient reason to bar someone from becoming leader.
that sounds like something that Douglas Adams wrote.
too true.
how do you go about picking a competent leader? actually being able to get shit done is unrelated to the political shit you have to accomplish in order to get to the top.
i have a personal preference for mr Keating. no people skills, a large vocabulary of curse words, pissed everyone off. how can you improve on that...
how-hard just annoys the crap outta me. ok, yes i'm a labour guy, but i'd pick Fraser over howard any day of the week. principles, spirit and balls.
and sorry for dribbling shit. it's bad enough when i do it on my own blog...
Costello's the man. At the very least, it woulg get him out of Treasury before his bubble bursts.
it also helps to explain why voter turnout in the "home of democracy" is so damn low. When I was living over there and it was election day, I don't think anyone in my office of 30 or 40 ppl took time off to go and vote. Serves em right that they ended up with Bush and the Governator. And Ratty - spot on. If you voted for em, you can't winge about em. Thems the rules
Stilt,
you worked with idiots. Not only didn't they vote and therefore got the choice of the motivated electors, they didn't even lie to the boss, say they were going to vote and then hit the bars.
Dickheads.
P.S. Ignore this comment if they were actually worth feeding.
nope, they weren't the brightest crayons in the box. I even offered to go and vote for them. They had a thing about overworking which would have seen them in big trouble in Oz. I did manage to convince the bozz that April 25 was a religious holiday for me, and that no possible way could I work on that day. The only one who wanted to vote had only just moved to California and through the whacked up US system, somehow wasn't eligible. She was worth feeding - she was cute and played rugby!
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