Runners, Toads && TV Stars-- This Is What Politics Is About.

This tute was once again kinda like a treasure hunt, so here I am to tick off all the crap I was 'sposed to do today. :)

- sign an e-petition

So I signed a petition for Ya Mum jokes on petitionspot.com. I hate haters. Ya Mum jokes are great...when used appropriately of course. ;)

- what is barak obama up to today?

Naturally, I twittered it. Only the cool politicians have a twitter--and Obama doesn't look like the Milky Bar Kid like our beloved prime minister.

So, like Simon Says, Barak says today that everybody can help the Yanks out by helping to pass a health reform during our lunch break. Too bad it's past lunch now and too bad I'm Australian or I might've bothered to help him out....oh, such a shame. Really.

- find out who the local, state and federal representatives are:

Now, I hate politicians. I hate voting. It's a huge waste of my day (or it will be, when I eventually have to vote for something), I already know the government's going down the toilet and I honestly don't give a rat's ass--though, I'm somewhat smart enough to know that who is running our country is somewhat important. And do you have any idea how frickin' vague that question is? So I'm just gonna go for our most obvious answers:

Local: Ron Clarkie is the dude who (literally) runs our coast. Did you know he was an Olympic Runner once? Naturally I laughed my ass off. Here he is, looking funky fresh~~

State: With the evil looking eyebrows and the face that reminds me of a toad, Anna Bligh. Here she is wearing a cowboy hat.

Federal: The Milky Bar Kid himself: Kevin'07Rudd. Seriously, doesn't he look just like him??

Gosh, he was a spaceman, a cowboy, sheriff--I'm a proud Australian today. :)

- respond to a professional blogger at a major news site.

Now, define "major news". Because I can't be bothered to find some real, hard hitting news (that crap's depressing, yo!), I thought I'd see what the goss was instead on perezhilton.com~~because really, what news is greater than celebrity news?

So after creating an account (oh, what I do for this class--I'm show.me.the.stars btw, how about you? XD) the first newsline I saw was about Madonna's new song. Yes, this is important news. Did you see Madonna on the VMAs this week? Michael Jackson is DEAD--I don't care about your life growing up in a family of eight living out in the ghettos like some white trailer trash!! Gosh! Even still, the song isn't that bad...I guess. If you're into Britney Spears, old hags and all that general crap.

So here's what I said: "eh, she sounds like britney, but knowing her this'll probably be a hit in the clubs." An amazing comment, right? But hey, I wasn't hating on her! I'm a good person. Somewhat. ... But apparently you can find my comment in about an hour or so...so find me there? I hope.

- look up the queensland or australian hansard to find the last time your local member spoke in parliament:

So I did and like four files came up on the Queensland Legislative Assembly website which is found here and I came up with...diddly squat. The files that did come up only have him mentioned briefly and the bloke didn't talk at all!! ...And this guy's our representative?? I think we need a new mayor~~

- let your local member know what you think about their last speech:

And because I couldn't find a speech with Ronnie talking I couldn't do this task. Oh no!

And finally, the last task of this tutorial is as follows:

- read the lecture and the readings, pursue a couple of the topics you find most interesting and then post your blog with your well-considered thoughts about the theory and practice of politics.

Now, as I said already, I hate politics. I don't find it interesting and this country's almost down the toilet anyway--we're run by the frickin' Milky Bar Kid for chrissakes!! Sure, he encourages morbid obesity and all the unfortunate perks of being fat and all that jazz, but yeah, I really don't care. (I'm not fat, thanks.) ...But I do thank him immensely for that government bonus early this year, it bought me my beloved laptop.

Thank you, MBK, thank you.

As for "Clean Feed"--honestly, I'm not so sure. Like, it's great that you can get rid of all that monkey porn, vids of animals being stomped with high heels and stuff away from innocent little children's eyes but for the sake of our internet speed...? I'm selfish. I dunno what to say.

But when one really thinks about it--who really has the right to say what's appropriate and what isn't? I'm pretty sure Australia is a democracy, and Hell, if people start telling us what we can and can't do we'll be like China or something. Screw that!

So no, I don't really agree with it--if you really wanna monitor what your kids are looking at online, well watch them while they're on the computer, stupid!