THE DONKEY VOTE

Hey Shell, I just realised. We jumped the shark!

But like every good producer of media worth his weight, we are going to run this baby into the ground and milk it for all it is worth until the next federal election!

Alot has been happening though, it keeps me more than interesting.

Yesterday I watched the orientation for new MPs of Parliament, with the outgoing speaker running through all the rules and ins and outs and it was great cause it answered dozens of questions I always had.

It was pretty exciting stuff and it felt like they were uni students or something. Hey it would be exciting to have a bludgy job like that, get lots of money and perks.

Also we have one Aussie and one Pom from the Seashepard group, invading the Japanese ship and then being tied to a mask and held hostage.

Over in the USA, a third different Republican candidate one a primary, which makes it pretty confusing. But they are all unlikable, with Huckberry Hound being the pick for mine.

I’m still barracking for Osa…Obama. Being a blackman at heart, I think it is time we had a black president. Besides that I really dislike Hillary.

Join us next time on this increasingly more irrelevant  with fast eroding levels of quality and research. But just wait till I get broadband, then Ill put heaps of effort back into our mediocrity.

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I’ve just saw the video Brad was talking about yesterday. I’m pretty impressed by the efforts people will go to on youtube. It’s actually quite professional looking. Of course this all came about after an ad by Bluetongue brewery to promote their beer as “whale safe”. The idea behind it is that they want people to boycott beer brands that are owned or partially owned by Japanese companies, in particular… for instance, Tooheys. Apparently also $1 from every beer sold is going to some radical anti-whaling group.

It’s an incredibly cynical campaign which I hope backfires on Bluetongue. Now I’m no prude, I have no problems with any offensive thing you can chuck on television (or find on certain internet sites) but I think when you have to go to such lengths to sell a beer than obviously you’re doing something wrong. I realise that the campaign is more about producing publicity of any kind but can’t we go back to ads that attempt to sell a product on its own merits? Or if not that, have some ironical twist that makes a joke out of it? Or if you feel that strongly about whaling do something tasteful like start a Facebook group about it.

I’m looking forward to seeing what other causes companies can exploit to sell products. Aboriginal health is very “in” at the moment. Global warming is so last year. The civil war in Iraq isn’t holding the 18-35 market like it used to. The drought is big in key regional areas.

However I do hope that a youtube war starts up over this as that could be fairly entertaining…

Brad I reckon if you load up the video and leave your internet on you might be able to watch it after a few days…

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Well there are certainly alot of things going on in the world.

The Japs have made an anti aussie youtube film.

 I’m too poverty to be able to watch it cause I have dial up.

I can see an international youtube video war happening. I think Australia will win, because let’s face it, we are funnier. Have you ever seen or heard about a sophisicated Japanese live action comedy series? Animated penquins and yellow rats and scantily glad tweens all round for their idiot boxes.

Unfortuntely I wont be able to participate in or incite the online propaganda war as I have dial up….. It’s no fair Shell.

But I have already discussed with Sheldon that they should remake Star Trek: The Voyage Home and instead of having Kirk and Spock and the Enterprise crew stealing a couple humpbacks. They should use their Klingon Bird of Prey to fire disrupters and torpedos at the Japanese whaling fleet.

I mean serious, they are just absolute low lives for slaughtering whales. It’s sickening.

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With the Rudd government reviewing all of Howard’s funding packages. I have to wonder what is the status of the funding for the RL Hall of Fame and funds for the Centenary and World Cup.

Surely Kevin Rudd can’t cross that out. Labor are the workers party and rugby league is the working class game. It would piss of millions of rugby league fans if that didn’t come through.

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Welcome to a brand new Howard free year.

The Brisbane local elections are coming up, something I look forward to. If Lord Mayor Campbell Newman gets unsetted so does the current highest ranking publically elected Liberal official. So that is a big incentive to knock them off.

Over in the Minor Nation of US and A. A surprise victory for Barack Obama over Hillary Clinton in Iowa. Which must add alot of credibility to his aim to be President. It should see him further strengthened in further upcoming votes.

The Democrats, who of course I cheer for over the evil Republican party, are interesting as it seems to be a battle between who wants to be the nation’s first female President and the first black President.

If either win, history will be made. I am hoping Obama does. He also has the O FACTOR. Which is Oprah Winfrey. She would have to stem the flow of support from women to Hillary. And between her and Obama they would have to motivate a hell of a lot of people to vote, maybe for the first time.

At least we will be thoroughly entertained this year by the US and A elections. I am still in shock that Americans were stupid enough to re-elect Bush last time but I guess John Kerry was a horrible candidate.

I’m currently growing a strike beard in support of the Writer’s Strike in the US and A. The writers are the ones that create the stories and ideas, that make the shows and they should be getting a lot more respect and money, but sadly this is so far from the case.

It is funny watching Leno and Conan without writers.

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Merry Christmas everyone! Happy Birthday Jesus!

I don’t expect anything tomorrow because I sold out all my birthdays and Christmas’ for the next 27 years to get Kevin Rudd into Government!

Have a great one everyone and remember what the day is all about.

I’m watching Ernest Saves Christmas….. this guy has such an incredible range.

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Brad’s always whining about something. I thought it was all sunshine and light now that Rudd is the man in charge.

Clem Jones, Brisbane’s longest serving mayor, died Saturday after a long period of ill health. He has mayor for fourteen years and quoting from the article:

Through the 1960s he led the council to develop a town plan, seal roads, improve drainage and connect sewers to most of the city.

Under his stewardship, the city bought properties to build underground car parks, which were then topped with public parks and gardens.

In the suburbs, land was acquired for open space and parkland and work started on the development of the Brisbane Botanic Gardens at Mount Coot-tha.

But Dr Jones also closed the city’s large tram and trolley-bus network, replacing them with buses, a move which attracted widespread controversy.

A great loss for Brisbane and the country.

Wayne Swan has warned of further interest rates rises in the next eighteenth months. Of course they’ll be this period of twelve to eighteen months where any poor economic results will be put down to the previous Coalition government. It will probably be similar to what happened when the Coalition first came to power in 1996 and everything horrible that was occurring in the country was due to the many years of Labor mismanagement. I was certainly glad when the Coalition moved on from that. Can anyone remember how long that took? I think I’ll be sick of it after six months but I’d expect it to go at least a year before the Labor government start taking credit for things.

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Look I’ve been trying to post!

My crap shit internet bullshit dial up connection jsut wont load the page properly.

It’s enough to make me snap, but luckily my only victims have been a keyboard I snapped in half and a huge dent I punched in the wall.

But then I just remember that we won the election and it makes me feel better.

I got it all on DVD. Maybe I should upload it to the internet if someone else already hasn’t when I get broadband.

I’ve re-watched it twice already.

But the election is over and that is no excuse to forget about politics. No Elections are great, like a State of Origin, a Test Match or the Final Series but that is no reason to not watch the regular season.

And the Rudd team has been busy. Kevin has been to the Bali Climate conference which looks like it has been a success with a last minute agreement to make an agreement to agree at some point in the future.

Kevin then visited East Timor or how he calls it Timor Estay, which is probably what they call it there. Poor old Timor Estay, hopefully we stop ripping them off!

Then we sent out Defence Minister to Scotland for a conference of Defence Ministers where they compare the size of each others weapons…. er….

Which he was hard at putting out a blanket spray of calling other nations not pulling their weight in Afghanistan pussies. And he is right, why should we send more troops when other nations will only pull them out?

But all is not well in Ruddy Australia, as the Chinese like to refer to us as. Haha…I love racial based humour.

We have certain situations that the Rudd Government has to intervene into.

- The possibility of an AwFuL team on the Gold Coast.

- MMM cancelling Tony Martin’s “GET THIS”, which I think is a national outrage of bigger proportions than WorkChoices.

- Star Trek being raped Lucas style in an attempt to re-image the original episodes. Which I think takes away one of its most charming elements, it’s dodgy production values.

- Domino’s and Pizza Hut reducing the size of their pizzas!

- My internet connection getting slower! Once again proving the theory that there is infinite smallness.

This isn’t on! I voted Labor, we won. Why is bad shit still happening?! Not in Ruddy Australia!

Some cool things are happening, like Rudd saying he might use Australian assets to gather intelligence on the Japs whaling. Which in my mind means two things, we are gonna go sick our navy and airforce onto them or Jennifer Hawkins is going to be an under cover Gaysha.

Join me tomorrow when I will contine to say a heap of things I will later regret!

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To move away from federal politics for a second, the Queensland Liberals have finally selected a leader after a week in which they’ve looked incredibly amateur, even by Queensland Liberal standards. The new leader is Mark McArdle and I’m sure the reaction of most people will be “who?”. You wouldn’t think it would be that hard to find a leader out of eight people. I guess everyone thought that the small numbers meant that their chances of winning the leadership were fairly reasonable. I still think they should have decided by a pissing contest…

God, we’re going to have a Labor government in Queensland until the end of time the way it’s going. Does anyone think that it’s likely that the Coalition (if there’s going to be one) will win the next state election? Maybe this is karma for the Joh years…

I have to agree with Brad in the feeling that the decision to elect Nelson as federal Liberal leader. Polls have come out suggesting that the general public would prefer Turnbull as Liberal leader. Of course I think much of this decision comes down to a backlash against Turnbull for his rebel ways in the election campaign. Then again, that might be the reason that he’s more popular than Nelson. I think if I was Nelson I’d be sleeping with one eye open because Turnbull looks like a ruthless kind of guy and if the polls start tilting against Nelson… out come the knives.

Brad can talk about the Kyoto Procotol and related boring stuff like that…

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