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1st!!!!
Is Frist’s campaign for President so dead now?
We Sydneysiders are way ahead of you Brisbanites. It’s been Saturday for 66 minutes already!
I’m very tired and I’m going to bed.
Well us snooty Euro trash are still enjoying an overcast Friday afternoon.
Well, it is always whatever time you want it to be here at the south pole. Depending on which way you face. So I win. Although I never manage to post
fristfirst, so I lose.For no particular reason, ‘cept that the morning’s work seems to have pulled it up to the surface…
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I notice that Rob Foote has closed down his blog.
I never commented there, but enjoyed reading what he had to say.
Of all the wingnuts, he was one of the few who was polite and coherent in their analysis.
In case Jason Soon is watching – You’re registration system sux! I’ve tried (unsuccessfully) to register on at least 4 occasions, and been denied each time.
Do you have some sort of lefty filter?
Alex, just email catallaxy AT yahoo DOT com and ask to be added. Jason did that for me yesterday. They have a page somewhere on their blog explaining the problems they have been having.
I second Alex’s motion.
Alex
I assume you’re the drummer? I’ve just manually assigned you a password. email should be on its way
Yeah Giday and I’ll introduce myself. I’m Tim, an unemployed ex-shop steward for the A.S.U. Being unemployed leaves you somewhat out of the lefty scene that I rolled in like a pig in the proverbial once upon a time. Anyway I’m from Melbourne and am working as a volunteer with a community group in Springvale. I’m trying to ease the transition for a refugee Nuer family of 9 from the Sudan. They taught me ‘how are you?’ in Nuer, Mal’e. Anyway I’m having a beer and am so lucky to have fallen back on a supportive family, just like Johnny would want it. No worries though I’m partly staying on the ‘rocker’, or for you northern types, ‘the dole’, just to get some money back off that particular individual. I’m crushed really because my union stance lost me my job and times are hard but hell I will pay for the principles I hold, just why must my old mum on the pension pay too? Times will get tougher under Johnny and maybe Rudd unless we all unite and get more popular. The third world is looming guys, I’ve seen it and it’s coming here,
Tim.
When on the rocker you are not “taking money back” from that one individual, you are being carried by those who work & pay tax (like donkeys)
Hi Tim, sounds like you are ‘employed’ in very valuable work and I hope that your Centrelink payment goes some way to reimbursing you. The lack of official help for refugees is scandalous and it should not be just up to volunteer groups to fill the gap. More money should surely be directly spent in this critical area and new jobs created.
Sorry to hear about the personal cost you have paid as Howard and his ilk do all they can to destroy the union movement and many workers rights. Some individuals seem oblivious to the plight of folks doing it tough and pontificate at length on how wonderful they are for paying tax. It’s great to hear another voice.
I’ve just heard the English language version of Os Mutantes’s “Panis et Circenses” for the first time, and it was very disappointing. On the other hand, who gives a fuck?
j_p_z, to my great shame, I do actually know what you’re talking about.
Thanks, Alex. I’m back on the ether now.
Well don’t hold out, pass it around.
Oh, I see what you mean.
Are you back to stay, Rob? I unblogrolled you when you said you were closing down – would you like to be reblogrolled?
Rob, have you deleted your blog again? I was just about to re-blogroll it.
I, for one, would be sorry to see you go permanently. Who’ll stand up for opera against the libertarians and the Euston manifesto against us?
Mark, it should be at:
http://thebetterpartofvalour.wordpress.com/
Not sure how long it will be there. My new employer may disapprove….
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Hey Steve at the pub I envy you in that you can obviously afford to drink at the said establishment. Don’t worry mate I’ve slaved and paid my taxes for long enough and so I feel very guilt free for being on the rocker.
Tim
Thanks, Rob.
Hey joe2,
Thanks for your supportive comments. The likes of Steve probably don’t apppeciate the value of volunteer work but the Sudanese family I work with do appreciate it and that’s what matters to me. I get Steve’s attitude a fair bit. The cry to me is ‘get a bloody job’. I just reckon that what I’m doing at the moment is more important than simply generating funds for ‘Johnny’ through taxes. I already pay him enough (G.S.T., taxes on petrol and beer).
It is such a shame that so many of us ‘working class’, for want of a better term, are so supportive of the federal government that campaigns directly against us. Those that can should protest, srike, go on the rocker and generally highlight through these actions what Johnny’s world is and will really be like. Instead the dozey characters do crazy stuff like vote liberal and leave their Unions.
I’m not really on the rocker through choise and I will find work. But meantime where the government doesn’t provide the community must.
You are right Joe, so many refugees miss out on govt funding through these ‘sponsored arrangements’ that the govt uses to avoid providing service (I think it is visa 202). Australia is daunting when you have no cash, little language no idea of all the beaurocratic/commercial traps and pitfalls. Many refugees do need a local guide and yep, it falls to volunteer groups, and work for the dole people like myself.
You’re now duly re-blogrolled, Rob.