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Open Thread – 150 Questions

26 November, 2006 at 11:19 am | In Incompetence Exposed | 20 Comments

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The Possibility of a God 1 2

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Victoria Decides – The Insignificant One

24 November, 2006 at 11:04 pm | In Incompetence Exposed | 4 Comments

As you are most likely not aware, tomorrow, on the 25th of November 2006, a state election will be held to elect the Premier and parliament of the people of Victoria – the state that I live in.

A state of over 4 million people, and home to undoubtedly the best city in the world – Melbourne.

Now, to give you a basic, subjectively biased introduction to Australian politics, and to answer a question posed by a reader of a previous post, Australia is, realistically, a two party system. Meaning that only one of two parties (or one long-standing, tightly bonded coalition of two parties), really has any chance whatsoever of winning. Right now our state government is led by the Labor Party, the “left” (read: right) to the “Liberal” (read: not liberal) right.

One thing, however, we do have, is the truly democratic concept of preferential voting.

No, it does not simply mean that all minor parties give their votes to whoever they choose. In fact, contrary to popular belief, it is you who can decide where your second, third, etc. preferences go.

This system makes it almost impossible for a left or right split to occur, leading the party across the floor to victory, and also one that allows you to vote for whoever you want, without the feeling that your vote has been wasted, or even detrimental to the popular candidate, who would be you second choice. In simple terms, if this system had been implemented in America, then Gore would have been president in 2000. I’m looking at you Nader.

Together with this, new legislation passed in Victoria before this election now allow proportional representation in the upper house of parliament, basically making it easier for minor parties to get seats in Parliament, and meaning that your vote for a minor party will not be wasted.

Now, while this entry may be a little late with the election coming up in just 9 short hours, it is my duty to tell you exactly who to vote for.

No, I will not tell you to vote for the Liberal/National Coalition, or for the Australian Labor Party. I will tell you to vote for the tree hugging hippies, who want to give away free heroin, legalise weed and make giant men out of straw…

The reason? This is exactly it:

Yes, it did screen on state television.
And yes, it’s almost as bad as some of the American smear campaigns, possibly ever worse.

Family First is the newly formed “family values” (read: Christian) party, and as you can see, they have no policies whatsoever… apart from burning synagogues, mosques and lesbians at the stake. They should be avoided like the plague.

The Liberals have offered “free public transport”, which seems to have been popular among some of the younger, and some of the ignorant voters. They have been sucked in. The “free” transport will be handed to you on a silver platter, with gold lining, after your taxes have been sufficiently raised, and the public transport system destroyed due to lack of funds.

Thus it is necessary to vote Greens, or Democrats, or Socialist Alliance.

A minor party has a very big chance of winning the balance of power in the upper house. These minor parties are not corrupted by big business. They will keep the checks and balances of our democracy, keep the other parties in line.

So tomorrow, do not vote for the big parties that will win regardless, vote Greens.

Make your vote count…

Technorati Tags: Australia, state, election, Victoria, Greens

Terrorists Win!

14 November, 2006 at 4:36 pm | In Incompetence Exposed | 35 Comments

Well it’s over. You’ve had your say, and I feel gratified. I told all you patriotic Grand Ole’ Party folk not to vote… and you didn’t! And the terrorists won.
Look at yourselves very very closely, and look what you’ve done. You’ve turned into a godless, amoral society with no rule, no government control over your masses. All with the help of democracy. Think carefully about what good it has done you and promptly switch to your totalitarian roots… because the future is bleak.

The terrorists that you have waged war against for oh so long are now in power, in your own country. What happened to fighting them abroad huh?

You ask: “What will happen now?”

Well, you will be dragged out of your home with a pair of large civil and economic liberty repressing tweesers.

They will take your whole paycheck, your house, your car and give it to the poor.
Oh, if you’re poor they’ll give you money, a car and a house… But it’ll be a crappy car, and the house will be missing the widescreen plasma tv, so you shouldn’t have voted for them.

Oh and some of your income will go towards such obsoleted things like…. you know… uhh… healthcare and education, maybe helping to pay off the astronomical national debt? But who cares really?

And the immorality continues. Imagine how the whole world will suddenly become homosexual, when gay marriage becomes legalised. Imagine big burly men walking down the street and molesting all of your precious little children. And the world police being taken over by rainbows and men holding hands. I’m sorry, but unfortunately you’re gonna need more than flower power when you take on Iran.

But before we get to Iran there’s another war that the terrorists don’t want to fight, in some other nearby country… They hate the troops so much they want to bring them all home to this rotten land called America.

So you knew all this, and yet you still couldn’t rig democracy even with 300 foot Diebold voting machine hacking poles?
You managed to hang Saddam, but where was Pelosi’s death sentence?
Dissapointing…

Moving on to a more celebratory tone, it seems that contrary to these beliefs, most of which I received in responses by Republicans to my previous post, that the American people thought otherwise. The RepubliCans, RepubliCan’ts, RepubliCunts, or whatever you choose to call them lost.
To all those fascist scumbags who commented on my last post: You were wrong. Sucks to you and your beloved Party.

But what does this Democratic victory mean in the larger scale?

It means that Democracy could actually still work…
That the neo-cons are, quite frankly, back to step one in taking over America.
It also means that we must not get carried away when celebrating this victory, and not let our guard loose. The Democrats are are still one corrupt heap of politicians, and all of America’s problems will not be solved by this victory.

I could go off on a rant about how to better America, and perhaps in the future I will provide a guide to improving America’s democracy.
One that will include preferential voting, less lobbying, and a bigger variety of candidates, without the overriding aspect of party politics and paying for your votes.

In the meantime I’ll just celebrate by having gay sex in my government owned house. Public healthcare will pay for the AIDS treatment…

Technorati Tags: America, election, mid term, Democrats, Republicans, gay marriage, tax, terrorists

Vote – Unless You’re a Republican

4 November, 2006 at 11:14 pm | In Incompetence Exposed | 54 Comments

Now really, what else was I gonna call this?

With the mid term elections just three days away, the Democrats are dead . Right?

John Kerry has gone and retarded his rhetoric, which was further retarded by the GOP rhetoric, and further yet spun, woven and contorted (read: retarded) by the media. No reply from the left has been issued.

Olbermann’s Special Comment from a few days ago.

That just about makes Iraq obsolete because the evil Democratic Party hates troops.

New voting machines have seen discrepancies, leave no paper trail, and will confuse the old folks. Some states have done their best to persuade poor people that voting is an unnecessary evil, going out of their way to make sure complications will arise – like requiring a Cayman Islands bank account number to vote. Or god forbid: a photo ID – I mean requiring a photo ID to vote is like requiring a mainstream publication of your name each time you visit a brothel. And yes, I did just compare voting to prostitution.

All political campaigns have been based on smear, like a large barrel of ghee enshrouding your television screens, newspapers, radios and interwebs.

So will the Republicans sweep through both houses, and are the Democrats dead?

Yes… unless you want them to be.

Don’t you ever feel that it’s stupid to contemplate whether something like Kerry’s botched joke will change the results of the election, when it is YOU who are voting. The American people get to decide what changes the election. And if you know that what Kerry said was a JOKE, and that Bush’s cronies are a bunch of morons, then don’t let that discount your valid Democratic vote.

Is it important? Does your vote matter?

No…

You’re just one of a massive 300 million people… only three of whom bother to vote.

You see, your vote doesn’t count, but it would count even less if you didn’t vote…
Just like you have to buy that lottery ticket each week – you could win! Except this won’t be money, but that warm fuzzy feeling you get deep inside of you when you realise that democracy works – and there’s still only a 14 million to one chance of that happening!

But will the Democrats be better for America? Are they not just two sides of the same coin?

	Total		Democrat	Republican	Independent
Ayes:	253	(58%)	34	219	0
Nays:	168	(39%)	160	7	1
No Vote:	12	(3%)	7	5	0

	Total		Democrat	Republican	Independent
Ayes:	65	(65%)	12	53	0
Nays:	34	(34%)	32	1	1
No Vote:	1	(1%)	0	1	0

According to these statistics: Yes. 34 Democrats in the House and 12 in the Senate voted to take away your freedoms.

But while that is true, what you must understand is that the Republicans are much, much worse. Do not think that not voting will make you look dignified, pal. Don’t take your democracy for granted or they’ll liberate you. The Democrats are all that you have – They are the better side of the coin.

The heads, to the GOP tail…gating downwards spiral into hell.

So as you would Satan, over god: