Since we don’t live by politics alone (I sincerely hope), what did people get up to this weekend? Join in, share some tales, regulars and lurkers all!
Life, Culture and Politics from BrisVegas
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There is power in a factory, power in the land,
Power in the hands of a worker,
But it all amounts to nothing, if together we don’t stand.
There is power in a Union!
Now the lessons of the past were all learned with workers’ blood.
The mistakes of the bosses we must pay for.
From the cities and the farmlands to trenches full of mud.
War has always been the bosses’ way, sir!
The Union forever, defending our rights.
Down with the blackleg, all workers unite!
With our brothers and our sisters from many far off lands.
There is power in a Union!
Now I long for the morning that they realise;
Brutality and unjust laws can not defeat us.
But who’ll defend the workers who cannot organise,
When the bosses send their lackies out to cheat us?
Money speaks for money, the Devil for his own!
Who comes to speak for the skin and the bone?
What a comfort to the widow, a light to the child?
There is power in a Union!
The Union forever defending our rights!
Down with the blackleg, all workers unite!
With our brothers and out sisters from many far off lands,
There is power in a Union!
sorry, i’ve been getting misty-eyed about a time when the workers were organised.
TR,
I’m organised.
Spent most of the day taking notes about the 1775 American invasion of Canada. Quite dull, really, but boy, do they appear to have messed it up.
PB : and united. Organised and united.
I’m supposed to be doing my notes of Livy book 7, I’m about halfway, but could not be arsed today. I am busy watching Pete Seeger wing old worker’s songs on you tube.
Tomorrow, the march.
Golf this morning with Dad and 2 other good fellows. Rain gone, course getting back to normal, beautiful day, bad score, great company and at one point i laughed hard enough to have tears in both eyes.
Its hard to understand why, an activity so futile, is so good for the soul.
Got home and planted some French beans, strawberries and 3 types of tomatoes.
Good day.
“To find a man’s true character, play golf with him”
- P G Wodehouse
“Golf and sex are about the only things you can enjoy without being good at”
- Jimmy Demaret
PererTB
Sounds like the 2 gentlemen Dad and I played with.
One poor ABC newsreader is going to be ribbed by her friends – she has just at least twice (maybe thrice) referred to the late Pope’s beautification ceremony. Or was it ceremoany???
I started into my newly arrived copy of “Malcolm X – A Life of Reinvention” by Manning Marable, and I think it’s going to be well worth the effort.
Having a quick holiday in Sydney with my wife. Discovered lots of nice restaurants in Bankstown.
chores, swimming lessons, play-dates and parks and an unproductive wrestle with a new HD tv, I think i am going to miss analogue.
TR “I am busy watching Pete Seeger wing old worker’s songs on you tube.” Yesterday i raised a glass to Hazel Dickens, RIP, Pete Seeger was her Bro-in-law. I heard a fair bit of her stuff in the seventies, but i hadn’t heard anything lately. several times recently i have heard some music on the radio that i haven’t heard for a while, it happened with X-Ray specs and Hazel Dickens this week, had a fond thought about the past then heard that the muso or singer in question had died.
Down & Out, if you’re still in town, you gotta try the Bun Bo Hue joint on the corner – best I’ve had.
Damn the Kansas City Star, Lets try the Philly Inquirer instead.
And for something a little different, Tien Ci at Victoria Rd (near Station St) West Ryde.
Taoist — so vegetarian and msg free — yet you can buy mock duck, pork oysters etc. They also do a great Yum Cha
What are pork oysters Fran?
Oops … forgot the comma between pork and oysters …
New topic: HT Pure Poison.
What happens when the Blot’s readers read of an attack on The Blot, done tongue in cheek by a fellow traveller? How does the blotosphere respond? Do they spot the irony or do they assume it’s yet another piece of lunacy by the latte-sipping inner city elites with silly names like Rafe with way too much time on their hands being paid by the socialists to do useless research and help out asylum-seeking polar bears who ought to get back to commo land?
I won’t tell you which way it went, but the score was 81-6 and it wasn’t in favour of those who say The Blot has attracted the cream of Australia’s intellects.
http://tinyurl.com/blot-pp
Gardening with power tools – chain saw to be precise.
The Gardenias started it! If they hadn’t kept mocking me with their yellow leaves it wouldn’t have got so ugly.
Finally got the intertubes to deliver me some vision of football (after the event admittedly) and spent much of the day here in Beijing downloading and then watching the young Tigers defeat the almost as young Lions.
Fran,
If you read and kept score on 87 Bolt comments I think we can tell how busy you were this weekend.
I should add that in between participating in an arts installation I have trying to teach our new, and very young, canine companion that the appropriate place to relieve ones bladder may not be wherever one happens to be when the urge strikes.
Is that imposing my moral agenda on my new companion or is that appropriate behavior on my part?
No, Andrew, that’s totally inappropriate. Let the pee flow free!
@ 17. Razor, give the gardenias some epsom salts – that will fix the yellow leaves.
silkworm,
Cool. I will come over for a visit bring canine companion. I will stay for a few weeks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N43Cm6ra0hY
Andrew R said:
The title is “Lazy Sunday”! Still, it doesn’t take long to read 87 comments. They are fairly formulaic. In the days when I’d read my Spartacist papers, whole passages were effectively part of the structure — recurrent features that you needed merely to skim because you could utter them by heart. I’d skip to the parts that were likely to be unique or perhaps nuanced in some way (typically about 60-65%).
In the Blotosphere cliche composes almost all the text and so a 150 word piece can be read in about 15 seconds — read simply to work out what sort of clown (xenophobe/authentic Australian, self-styled RW intellectual, christian/reactionary moralist, conspiracy nut, LNP sockpuppet repeating lines) the writer is.