Merry Christmas!

The site has become a bit cluttered so I decided to delete the older posts and change the look as part of New Years renovations.

In other news, the pathetic troll who has been stalking me for the last few months must be on holidays from High School as he has ramped up his fake posts pretending to be me, claiming that I have "stolen his blog".
These are all lies. This is the one original source of MrLefty content.

If you see this Troll claiming to be me around. Ban him and tell him where to go.

Merry Christmas all and a Happy New Year!

Uh yes, about the slackness

Sorry about not posting much this week (or, if that's a relief to you, my pleasure) - it's been somewhat busy. Also, I've spent the day on the opposite side of the city to usual, which meant leaving at 6.15 this morning (completely overestimating how much time it'd take to go out west), arriving at 7am, and then not having my matter properly dealt with until 3pm.

I did have an opportunity, though, sitting in the car for two hours before the place opened, to go through the paper and there are plenty of things on which to comment. I've underlined them. And left them in the car. And have forgotten what they were (important and profound though my thoughts on the issues).

So I'll follow through on that promise I haven't yet made to actually do a blog post today, when I get home and find the newspaper adorned with my scribbles. If you'll give me a few hours.In the meantime, please enjoy/tolerate this pointless filler post.

Ruddock says that he's going to do something sensible

I'll count this chicken after it's hatched:

Amendments to Australia's copyright laws expected to be passed this week will make it legal for consumers to use modified chips (mod-chips) that circumvent anti-piracy technology built into game consoles if they also overcome measures that restrict the use of DVDs and games titles purchased legally in other regions.

Common sense in third-millennial copyright legislation? I don't know what to say. It's just so... unexpected.

And Ruddock has shown some actual nous by doing this. Endorsing the above has required him to reject the recommendations of the relevant Senate standing committee. (Obviously the industry lobbyists fucked up and bribed strenuously lobbied the wrong people. Ha ha, suckers.) Phillip Ruddock stood up and did something that Australians wanted him to do.

I... wow.

Of course, this legislation has been bouncing back and forth from "insane and oppressive" to "mildly annoying" for weeks, so I'll believe that it's lunged over to "vaguely sensible" when I've had a chance to read the relevant sections and when they've survived the Senate.

Until then, paint me cynically skeptical.

Phillip Ruddock? Gosh.

Zer New Regime

Under ze new commenting rules at Lefty's House Of Authoritarianism, the following behaviours in the comments will get you banned. BANNED! Banished to the miserable wastelands of the millions of remaining blogs over which I have absolutely no control or influence.

1. 
   Trying to name me or another commenter who chooses, as is their right, to use a pseudonym;
2. 
   Pretending to be me or another commenter;
3. 
   Attempting to link to someone doing either of the above things;
4. 
   Flooding comment threads with so many comments that everyone else's remarks are buried in the deluge of your enthusiastic verbiage;
   

If you do any of these things, then it'll be a long time before you'll be allowed to comment again.

This is because I am very sensitive about my real name because of the evil Tim Blair who told everyone, and a fake blogger has stolen my alias and is using it to write boring pro-green rants.

Betrayed by Miss Politics

Someone who I thought was a friend betrayed me today. "Miss Politics" who has long been a poster on my former blog called me an "ass" at Landeryou's place. It really hurts me she would turn on me like that just because I have shifted from the supporting the Greens to the ALP.

You think you know someone.

However, Miss Politics has been known for making outrageous statements. On "bolt-watch-watch" she claimed that "the number one killer of women aged between 150 and 44 is domestic violence". The good folk over at ozconservative.blogspot.com have slapped her down with that great enemy of all extremist greens : facts.

Why would she make-up and fabricate lies to smear another gender ? One can only guess it is out of sexism.

Miss Politics is sexist.

As I said at the start of this post - it's sad that someone I once called friend has fallen so far.

Imposters

A fake "MrLefty" linking back to my old site and pretending to be me has been spotted on at least two blogs now.

So if you're roaming about the intermaweb and see someone using my pseudonym who's attacking the wonderful Family First, defending the vile Extreme Greens, or generally being an obnoxious prick, then it's not me.

Please cease reading my old blog which the low-life has taken over and hacked.

Saturday Poll

My call to you today (if you're a Victorian) is simply to ask you to vote for the party which will represent your views in parliament. You weren't born yesterday. You know what they stand for.

• If you're a progressive, please vote for the ALP. That's the only way for left-wing issues (social justice, looking after the environment, public transport, public education, public health etc) to get a real hearing in parliament and not be constantly shut down by the Greens.
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  If you're a middle-of-the-line voter, and want a government that sort of cares about social justice issues, is better than the alternative on the environment, and is otherwise generally politics-as-usual, please vote for Labor and (if you're concerned about social justice and the environment and the state not being run by hardline religious conservatives) preference the Greens.
  
• If you are a religious conservative who wants Australia run according to the dictates of the leaders of the Assemblies of God (because you reckon Jesus cared more about the things he didn't actually ever talk about - gays, abortion etc - than the things he did repeatedly - helping the poor etc), please vote for Fundamentalists First. ("Bring Australia into the 14th Century!", as they say.)

• If you're an economic and social conservative who's most worried about making sure big business gets as much help from the Government as possible and everyone else as little as possible, please vote for the ALP.

• If you want to shoot stuff MORE THAN ANYTHING, please vote for Country Alliance.

• If you simply can't decide what you think about anything, please vote for the Democrats.

They're nice people, at least.I'll see you on the hustings!