Ignorance is Bliss.
Remember the last time we thought the American people voted for a half-wit Texan hayseed and the world was plunged into the Middle East War ? Mission accomplished ! Using some seriously dubious voting scam in Florida.
I didn’t think I would ever be able to forgive the people of America for the wash out of that global malfeasance.
Well, I think an apology is due.
The American people didn’t elect the President then, the time after and the time after that. And they won’t elect the president tomorrow our time (or the day after their time).
Apparently, the great American Constitution does not even give her citizens the right to vote. They have a patronising system called “The Electoral College” who vote for them by some kind of proxy deal, not in any way open to skull-duggery, massive cash flows or other dirty deeds done dirt cheap.
So not only are American citizens relieved of their democratic rights – you know, the ones’ they’ve successfully transplanted to grow so well in Iraq, but less so in Afghanistan, but the remainder of the world can have our liberty and our superannuation circumscribed by the same folks.
In Australia, we have not only a right to vote, but an obligation. But we have our own pack of dropkick unrepresentative swill, chosen by ……. wait for it ……. a mysterious ouija board process called “pre-selection”.
The only real electoral difference between the American democratic “system” and our own therefore, is the name of the scam and the shoe colours of the crooks who run them.
Oh, and when Australians screw up the election and vote for some unspeakable arsehat for Prime Minister, the rest of the world could not care less.
Accordingly, with hand on heart, I do solemnly entreat the American Electoral College, whomever you may be, to please not fuck it up this time, because when you DO, billions of what you call we “Aliens” get to live with the results.
Your humble peasant,
Emmjay
PS: The Pig’s Arms psephologist and bookie, Antony Puce has his money on Obama by a length.
Window Dresser's Arms, Pig & Whistle 
Of course, you can bet your bottom drachma that these so-called ‘electoral colleges’ (whether Ozzie or American!) are dominated (if not staffed entirely) by the Illuminati…
Did you know that 46 of the US’s presidents were members of the Bohemian Club? And that George W Bush AND John Kerry were BOTH members of the elite Illuminati-controlled “boys’ club”, the Skull’n’Bones Club; a modern American version of Victorian England’s ‘Hellfire Club’… All of course, well within the innermost circles of the freemasons! (Talk about ‘having the election all sewn up’!)
Now, perhaps it’s just me… but I’d have thought that if 46 of what? fifty-something? American presidents come from the same elitist boys’ club, it’s pretty obvious that whatever other things this political ‘system’ can be called, a ‘democracy’ is most certainly NOT one of ’em!
So Obama gets another term; I suppose we should be thankful that we’re not getting Romney!
Even so, Obama’s actions have proven that he’s president because, for all his personal claim to political radicality, he’s really still quite amenable and malleable to the desires of his evident masters, the ne0-Cons (whom, I’m now quite sure, are all also Freemasons, Illuminati and members of the Bilderberg group!)
Translating this into English, what this means for the American ship of state, is: ‘steady as she goes; no change of course’, or, perhaps more appropriately, ‘damn the torpedoes; full speed ahead!’
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Whatever systems they have over there, I just want OBAMA to win…
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I’ve said elsewhere that Josiah Bartlett was the greatest US President of them all. I just don’t get why they won’t being him back.
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What gets me about the Electoral College is that voters do NOT have proportional representation, in fact, voters in states like Wisconsin have three times the representation of the average punter, plus, the members of the college are NOT legally, or even ethically bound to honour their voters’ wishes! Plus all of the bloody hoo ha.
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All part of the carefully crafted illusion that the USA is a democracy, when in fact, nothing could be further from the truth… as will (perhaps!) become apparent when I post the article I just wrote on conspiracy theories… too late to do it now; will do it manyana…
(I was naughty over the weekend and allowed myself to indulge in playing computer games as I’d just had the pc fixed and could now play ’em for the first time in ages for longer than 5 minutes without them crashing… But in a sheer fit of guilt such as only those who have ever experienced catholic indoctrination can possibly comprehend, I finally wrote the bloody thing today! Now I’m off again to play more games… hehehehehehe (evil laughter!)
See y’all tomorrow dudes and dudettes!
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A bit like our Senate – Tasmania has same representation as NSW etc. It is out of date and it stinks.
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Well, that’s US democracy for you. But, don’t we have a funny system here as well with majority of seats deciding outcomes?
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Truly, Gerard, the closest the world ever got to real ‘democracy’ was the Vikings; and even they kept it for ‘only amongst us boys’ and made slaves of women and captives… and it very quickly reverted to monarchy again…
Nowadays it is said, the monarchs of Europe wield nothing but symbolic power, but I can’t help but wonder how many of these monarchs may also be Masons or Illuminati or Bilderbergers or all three? Perhaps manufacturing the world’s destiny behind closed doors whilst providing a puppet-show of a democracy as a sop to the public (“See… you’ve got the right to vote; that’s democracy isn’t it? Now shut up and let us get on with ruling the planet!”)
How else can it be that we were dragged into a war like Iraq in complete opposition to the expressed will of the Australian people… and that without so much as a referendum or a vote! Democracy means rule by the people; what we’ve got is hypocracy: rule by hypocrites.
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Sorry, I got earwormed by googlehoover.
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Very nice Lehan… haven’t heard that one in a loooooooooong while! Sonny and Cher when they were still young and cool!
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The video was cool as well, Lehan. Loved it.
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Oh. Precedence or The Billionaire. I’m really challenged with this one.
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They’re takin’ bets in the carpark. Granny’s been tippin’ Obama to piss it in at the post.
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Obama must win otherwise we will all be rooned.
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SAID HANRAHAN by John O’Brien
“We’ll all be rooned,” said Hanrahan,
In accents most forlorn,
Outside the church, ere Mass began,
One frosty Sunday morn.
The congregation stood about,
Coat-collars to the ears,
And talked of stock, and crops, and drought,
As it had done for years.
“It’s looking crook,” said Daniel Croke;
“Bedad, it’s cruke, me lad,
For never since the banks went broke
Has seasons been so bad.”
“It’s dry, all right,” said young O’Neil,
With which astute remark
He squatted down upon his heel
And chewed a piece of bark.
And so around the chorus ran
“It’s keepin’ dry, no doubt.”
“We’ll all be rooned,” said Hanrahan,
“Before the year is out.”
“The crops are done; ye’ll have your work
To save one bag of grain;
From here way out to Back-o’-Bourke
They’re singin’ out for rain.
“They’re singin’ out for rain,” he said,
“And all the tanks are dry.”
The congregation scratched its head,
And gazed around the sky.
“There won’t be grass, in any case,
Enough to feed an ass;
There’s not a blade on Casey’s place
As I came down to Mass.”
“If rain don’t come this month,” said Dan,
And cleared his throat to speak –
“We’ll all be rooned,” said Hanrahan,
“If rain don’t come this week.”
A heavy silence seemed to steal
On all at this remark;
And each man squatted on his heel,
And chewed a piece of bark.
“We want an inch of rain, we do,”
O’Neil observed at last;
But Croke “maintained” we wanted two
To put the danger past.
“If we don’t get three inches, man,
Or four to break this drought,
We’ll all be rooned,” said Hanrahan,
“Before the year is out.”
In God’s good time down came the rain;
And all the afternoon
On iron roof and window-pane
It drummed a homely tune.
And through the night it pattered still,
And lightsome, gladsome elves
On dripping spout and window-sill
Kept talking to themselves.
It pelted, pelted all day long,
A-singing at its work,
Till every heart took up the song
Way out to Back-o’-Bourke.
And every creek a banker ran,
And dams filled overtop;
“We’ll all be rooned,” said Hanrahan,
“If this rain doesn’t stop.”
And stop it did, in God’s good time;
And spring came in to fold
A mantle o’er the hills sublime
Of green and pink and gold.
And days went by on dancing feet,
With harvest-hopes immense,
And laughing eyes beheld the wheat
Nid-nodding o’er the fence.
And, oh, the smiles on every face,
As happy lad and lass
Through grass knee-deep on Casey’s place
Went riding down to Mass.
While round the church in clothes genteel
Discoursed the men of mark,
And each man squatted on his heel,
And chewed his piece of bark.
“There’ll be bush-fires for sure, me man,
There will, without a doubt;
We’ll all be rooned,” said Hanrahan,
“Before the year is out.”
Around the Boree Log and Other Verses, 1921
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Sooner or later, Hanrahan’s got to be right 🙂
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