Day 8- Sans Belief

The community assembly idea still rankles, but again, it seems difficult to make sense of something that contains little to no sense in the first place. Perhaps it just indicates where this election is being fought, and for who- the marginals of WA & QLD. Surely that’s what it is for, to delay the immediate action which might concern some of the dullards in the seats Labor needs to win, instead of the seats it think it has in the bag, or even, like, the nation as a whole, which in the olden days before you and I were born, was what the Government would concern itself with- like, Governing the whole country. I know, weird right?


Maybe Abbott feels the derision toward the assembly in the wind. Or maybe he’s feeling ill, because something has gotten to him. In front of a friendly West Australian crowd last night, he tells us that he will win Election 2010. The polls, the populace, his own campaign office and any sentient being capable of appreciating common sense at 20 paces may disagree, but Tony feels the need to share this information less than one week into a campaign which he has unquestionably been losing so far. Maybe he knows something we don’t. Or maybe there’s a voice in his head feeding him special messages from on high.


If so, then he’d resemble a candidate of his side-David Barker, candidate for Chifley, whose physical appearance I will not comment on for fear of less than divine retribution, but will undoubted remind you of a character from a George Lucas film that didn’t suck, perhaps a character that rhymes with Slabba the Fut. Mr Barker used his Facebook page to state that ‘When I get in I will give my votes, all of them, to God who is on the side of the Liberal Right.’’ (Thus bringing the all powerful status of the Christian God into doubt, something that probably should be looked into by a committee in this next Parliament) But of course there’s more- while Barker is not against Muslims per se (he believed that everyone should be entitled to their beliefs), he does think that there shouldn’t be a Muslim, such as his Labor opponent in Chifley, Ed Husic, in our Parliament, saying ‘I don’t believe that’s exactly in line with what we believe as Australians.’’ Also, to conclude his holy trinity of horseshit, he’s a little annoyed at having an atheist as Prime Minster. His reward for the outing of his views? Disendorsement, with Abbott saying that “he’s gone, he’s finished” Barker’s replacement? Why, it’s only a woman named Venus Priest. Oh I shit thee not.