Somewhat Left of Zen

Thanks to a yank hillbilly/hippy moment on NPR via NewsRadio, the recounted story of a poor country farmer's son who planted up a crop of sunflowers. His neighbours, all, reckoned he was crazy to plant a field of oilseed when there weren't no money in it, to which he replied, "I can't afford the van Gogh!"

There it is - the thaught I have most mornings, suddenly has a window I can shove it through; to the straights, all jacketed and suited in sensible heels; to the clever people you can't argue with; to those so blindly rational that Occam actually complicates common sense, and to the layabouts on the Left of the Oz specrum: your limitations are your own invention. So is pretending to be a buddhist everytime you have a zen moment.

[theOther: you've done it in your pants again, haven't you!]

erhoo.

Oops, a One-Party State is a very Chinese Democracy

Once again the Flute gets it down to the nitty gristle.

To paraphrase theBomber's luminary doorstop the other day -

"We will win the next election if we are ready for government and if our policies are appropriate"

Really makes him sound like a tough, street-smart battler for the underdog, no? Fair indication that he's swanning in a different lake these days. The ALP's betrayal (or is it defection?) is far harder to take than Howard's insane carnie geeks, but, it may just create enough space for a viable third party.

[Eh?]

Maybe it's time to start using this virtual 'single-party democracy' before we actually trade places with the Chinese. Maybe it's time to join the bloody Democratic Greens Party®. Merge the two little guys and swamp the new party with bums on seats. Aim for a million sign-ups, real paying, voting members who aren't necessarily loony hippies or desperate Nats, and who understand preselection. Rebadge 'Left' with something out of this millennia - 'family' No?

If union members paid just half the fees to the Party that they pay to Union arseWipes then the Union arseWipes would pay to join the Party. Before any ALP members are allowed to join, there must be a period of "truth and reconciliation". And a flogging.

[Whoa hip, you're a pacifist and they're cow's cocks]
OK, tell 'em to bring money, then.

Silly as this sounds, politics is fast becoming our last legal resort. I wish somebody would talk me into getting off my pointy bum and joining an after-blog 'Grog & Local Branch Meeting'. Maybe we could learn to blog it in.

[That's it, we're stuffed.]
I gotta stop telling people hippies aren't naive.

You don't have to fight for your rights, you do have to work at it, though. Volunteer before you're conscripted! Join a party in droves, chuck [vote] out the deadwood and don't rely on the MSM. Revolutionary ideas travel best from door to door. A people's party is just that, not a machine, just a choice for disaffected lefties who've strayed to the Greens, Democrats, One Nation. Most especially that large, very silent group of rural voters who know something's wrong, but the [toadly] barons like Dick Honan own the bloody shire and all who reign on her.

Now, blokes like Barnaby Joyce, sheesh - sorta shows how ready we are for a leader with a catchy phrase -

"Fuck off a minute, I'm thinking about my electorate".