Blog's First Birthday

This blog is a year old. So I might put in a big whole chunk of effort and make a speech, visit some of the older posts, remininissece, run a spell cheque, adjust the heading graphic, and post a whole big bunch of crap.

Back in the day... *wavy lines* I was reading blogs for a while, I found them to be quite informative - a nice gristle-chew. First ones I got into were linked from an Age article about blogs. I believe they were The Road To Surfdom, Melbourne Lefty, some other popular one I can't rememer the name of, and Red Rag (and Where is Raed? during the Iraqi war, back in the day). These blogs have gone now (Surfdom had a come-back), Robb Corr from Red Rag is now on Larvatus Prodeo, and we don't discuss Melbourne Lefty. That sickening stalking episode still refuses to die.

In this collection of high quality blogs, most political issues were discussed, which didn't leave much to be justify another blog with the same old crud on it. So I didn't. But, as a member of the Labor party, and increasingly involved in union activities - I noticed a bit of a hole. Most of Labors faults were being waxed over in most leftist blogs - whereas the Liberals faults were highly acknowledged. Many of the right blogs were making valid points against Labor. This was also well reflected in each and every question time.


A giant douche and a turd sandwich - umm.. no thanks.

I got a bit peeved with the lack of any political consideration to important issues - public transport, animal rights, workers rights and conditions - they (apart from IR, but only after Howard hacked into it) were just not discussed. It was all popular topics in the current media, and point scoring. There was a lot to be done, and no one wanted to do any of it.

Discontent over Labor was mentioned at every union regional, state and federal meeting, even during union training. The rank and file had little faith, which in many cases extended to foul language used at the unions continued support of them. The Greens were mentioned quite often. The only time I had read anything similar to this in the media would be in letters to the editor, and I couldn't find any in blogs. The media is always ejected from large union meetings, when the rank and file gets to have a say, and naught would be reported bar the official union line.

So I got involved in The Greens after letting my Labor membership lapse (it was a painful wait) and blogged on about all the crap that I couldn't seem to find anyone else commenting on. I did that for about one post then just crapped on about other stuff. But then, I went back to it. A bit. Some of the time.

Anyway, that's why I did it. Oh, perusing my previous posts reminded me the FTA was the final straw for leaving Labor - Latho slid it through, seeing it "beneficial" - ATWIK, "In the year following the agreement, Australian exports to the US declined, while US exports to Australia increased." Good work, ya yutz.

FIRST POST: Was a big rant about how the Salvation Armys media releases suggest they disagree with all Liberal policies, and how their complaints have solutions in Greens policies.

DUMBEST POST: That'd be the post after the first one. So very dumb.

BEST POST: Left = Sex. I ran through the sexy lefty female pollys (and Liz Jackson.)

MISSING POSTS: I have a vast number of missing posts, that only made it into the Draft folder, never to be published. I should probably do that.

So many memories.. Like the time I drew an image of the flying spaghetti monster urinating on Jesus. And it got posted on Crikey's blogwatch! Ahh, brilliant. Can't remember what the other Crikeyed one was. Oh yeah, the pol-tards one. And that time I cracked the poo's with our thin veneer of democracy over Scott Parkin. The time I went to my first Greens meeting and didn't return deranged from the 'cult'.

I do miss Aleks the Anarcho-SyndicalismisticIforgetHowItGoes postings, he was wisened and brutally harsh - I think he gave up blogging and took up The Chasers forums. Greener pastures I guess.

SOME QUOTES:
"They should put beer into a pill - so we can stop kidding ourselves."

"No One's From Mars, Everyone's From Earth, And Here's Boobs."

"This follows directly in line with the theory that Australian's are political retards, or pol-tards as we call them in the industry."

"'But, for example, you couldn't shoot a man and have these spin-doctors you speak of have you coming out smelling like roses.' Cheney: 'Watch me.'"

“By the same token, evolution does not require any intelligence or even any intervention whatsoever; the name is ambiguous. A change is in order, and we will would like to announce we will campaign so that science classes around the country shall be taught 'intelligent design' and the more aptly titled 'stupid evolution' side by side.”

"This is a book about freakin' databases, go pander your elegant linguistics someplace else, I'm trying to learn."

"In shocking news, the website ratemypoo.com (a site that allows voting on various turds) has been taken down by an Australian government order. Apparently it resembles too closely the Australian Electoral Commission site, with almost no difference between current political candidates and excrement."

Actually I can't find any good quotes, so I just chucked some random ones up there.

WHERE FROM HERE: I want to do more comics - hand-drawn, photoshopped, whatever. Blogosphere is my oyster, waiting to be torn from it's home and split in half.

I just noticed this blog is listed under Political Resources: Blogs, at the parliamentary library's site. That's pretty damn cool, and probably resembles my intentions somehow.

Anyway there's no new content here, so I'll chuck up this pic I snapped the other day. Keep in mind - it was around 7 degrees outside:


Freaky. Australian Postal workers are brave, tough souls, who wear stubbies when exposed to freezing temperatures, and say "bring it on". Much the same as when they get told they cannot attend IR rally's. Go you little posties - you are champs.