Election 2010

What just happened?

August 22, 2010 · 1 comment

Ask me in a week or so when we know the fate of the country. Til then….

Week 395

  1. Leads :: Leeds United (Clip)
  2. Concierge :: Desk
  3. Thousand :: Hundreds and Thousands
  4. Engines :: ready
  5. Argument :: argumentative
  6. 2006 :: 2007
  7. Knot :: bound
  8. Fuck :: you (Clip)
  9. Handsome :: dashing
  10. Ridge :: line

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Back to work

Back at work today. Fortunately I have 2 days of PD – feeding. Which means I don’t have to see clients. It does mean I have all my workmates who I haven’t seen in awhile for various reasons just checking that I’m well and telling me I look terrible. Thanks :p

I went for a much needed gym session today. More for my sanity, than my body. Needed. Still didn’t stop me staring at the meat at Woolies for 10 mins in a blank world of choice… meh.

Got a couple of cool parcels today:

Muesli4me samples

A couple of Muesli4Me samples, including the yet to be released Gluten Free base with some of my fave fruits and a sample of the go crunchy base. I’ll let you know how they go!

How to votes for Saturday

And my parcel for hitting Queanbeyan school this Saturday to hand out how to votes for the Australian Sex Party. Say hi if you see me there… or later in the day back on my home turf supporting GetUp! at Chapman School!

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Vote Below the Line

August 18, 2010 · 0 comments

Biggest magnet Ever
The only photo in my flickr stream tagged “Election”. Disappointment all around that there haven’t been any megamagnets this election from Labor’s #2 Senate candidate, David Matthews! ;)

I know, I know, it might seem insane to Vote Below the Line with the bajillion candidates on the NSW and other Senate ballot papers, but do you really know where your preferences are going if you just put that ’1′ above the line?

Take some time, put some thought into your vote, and use all your numbers below the line.

BelowtheLine.org.au gives info and links to candidates, parties and how their preferences flow. Don’t let your vote be an accidental one for Family First!

(ps If you’re like me and had no idea who the independent candidate for the ACT senate was, here’s John Glynn’s webpage)

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August 2010 082

While the doctor ran about an hour late, I gathered some pamphlets on milk, anxiety, contraception, ovarian cancer and more, oh and kept up with Twitter. There is a foot for 31 photos with knee high socks under some jeans.

I have three days off work with a medical certificate, two “for if you get worse” scripts, one for if I actually get worse, the other for if the nose dries but the cough keeps going. I’m going to have to watch the time I spend on the computer the next few days so I don’t get too angry with politics. As if that could happen :p

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Australian Sex Party. Equal rights for everyone While my vote in the ACT will probably be going to the Greens on Saturday, I will be crossing the border to Queanbeyan to hand out how to vote cards for the Australian Sex Party.

There shouldn’t be discrimination based on a person’s gender or who they love. Why should it be accepted that I should have the right to marry Rish (whether I want to or not!) but if we were to part for some reason and my next partner was a woman we’d not be allowed to marry, and some organisations that are church-run, but still receive public funding could choose to discriminate by not employing or allowing adoption. Not that I’d want one, but a job with Catholic Education would be pretty much out of the question. I’ve had friends in straight defacto relationships having to lie (or not tell the truth) about their living arrangements so that their position wasn’t threatened… Just because their idea of a family does not extend to anything other than a man and a woman (who are born biologically as such) married in a church and 2.3 kids (born through ‘natural’ means, only within wedlock, of course). *glares*

Separate religion from our laws, and allow love to be love.

Vote for the Secular Party, or the Greens, or the Sex Party, or anyone else who will come out and stand up for what is right, and not hide behind caucus decisions or party lines.

And in case you haven’t seen it yet:

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If you think… think about your vote.

August 13, 2010

The Greens aren’t allowed to buy this ad to show on TV,but it doesn’t mean the rest of us can’t share it! (the beauty of youtube!)

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31 Photos in 31 Days (Day 11) Should have worn Gumboots!

August 11, 2010

meep! What a miserable day! Might wear gum boots tomorrow! A couple of GetUp! posters I have to put up in my local area over the weekend. Look out Weston Creek! (anyone going to the ACT Senate Candidates Forum on Sunday afternoon?)

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God’s Good News is Bad-News for Students

August 9, 2010

(Please excuse the use of the media release. I agree with it, but am too tired to think of the words right now) Atheist Foundation of Australia president David Nicholls today expressed deep concern over Prime Minister Gillard’s announcement over the weekend to increase funding to school chaplains by $222 million. In a submission to [...]

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31 Photos in 31 Days (Day 7) Uggboot Politics

August 7, 2010

Saturday mornings are a slow start, spent doing washing, pottering around the house, music helping me through. Switched to real shoes to wander down to the local shopping centre for supplies for lunch, gathered the fliers from the parties running in my electorate (I only have tow number 1-3 for the lower house, and 1-9 [...]

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Climate Change is Coming

August 5, 2010

The Greens made the above ad in response to this one from the Liberals…

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Tony Abbott's Words

August 4, 2010

And I don’t think Abbott would like this to be screened here…

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