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News Briefs 28-06-2011

By red pill junkieon

Presidential elections this Sunday here in Mexico.
Eenie Meenie Miny Mo,
Choose a wanker from the lot…

Thanks to Kat & Rick.

Quote of the Day:

“The one thing we do not know is the limit of the knowable”

~Jean-Jacques Rousseau

red pill junkie
Agnostic gnostic, walking conundrum & metaphysical oxymoron (with emphasis in the 'moron' part), the mysterious RPJ leaves a double life: By day he serves as Grand Master of the International Sacred Order of Lucha Libre, but at night he pursues his life-long study of everything considered mysterious and/or 'paranormal' --a term he personally detests... When he's not exploring the web looking for his daily fix of Forteana, he can be found blogging, doodling, fooling around and offering his services as news administrator and writer at The Daily Grail. He also regularly participates in other websites and podcasts like Radio Misterioso and Where Did the Road Go? He impatiently awaits for the return of the mothership in Mexico City. absurdbydesign.com
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16 Comments

  1. Elections
    I feel your pain, RPJ. I’m dreading Australia’s next election, neither major party deserves a vote. It’s a bit like being offered two choices for lunch, a sh*t sandwich or a sh*t salad, and then you’re expected to eat it with a smile. The USA, UK, Australia, Mexico… quite telling how many countries are increasingly offering no candidates the people want to vote for.

    1. Choice
      To me it feels more like being a patient in a hospital, and having the chance to choose whether to die of cancer, die of diabetes, or die of HIV.

      At the end what you only care about the outcome is that it’s the less painful 🙁

      1. Revolution
        Eventually, you are left with only one choice. Destroy the tyrants and criminals before they destroy you.

        Witness Libya and Syria. It can happen and it does happen. I cannot help but think much more is coming soon.

        2. from the Fun-and-Games-Until-Someone-Loses-an-Eye-Dept.
          live how you want to live

          don’t base your contentment on what lies outside yourself and don’t expect others to believe as you do

          even when the bombs fall, it is still the perfect moment to laugh, to drink wine, to dance, chop wood, carry water…

    2. Campaign ads
      The next most painful aspect of elections after ‘no candidates the people want to vote for’ is the enormous number of campaign ads on tv.

      I’ve solved that problem personally — I cancelled my cable tv service, at least until after the election.

      But many businesses here, especially the auto dealerships, are complaining that, with so much ad time already bought up for political ads between now and the Nov. election, their sales/profits are going to suffer from them not being able to advertize on tv.

      1. Welcome back
        We’ve missed you, Kat 😉

        Here in Mexico is different. Politicians had the brilliant idea that the best way to make sure the campaigns on TV would be fair is to prohibit the selling of air time for campaign ads.

        So that way the parties still get their ads, but they are paid with taxpayer funds. Real bloody brilliant, innit??

        And a private citizen is not allowed to buy its own air time to run an ad in favor of this or that party. That means average citizens are cut off from the political arena through normal media channels. Of course, citizens are not stupid and they’ve relied on the Internet for that. Trouble is, the candidates have their armies of Twitter followers in charge of promoting them in 140 characters or less.

        And we’ve been mercilessly bombarded with TV and radio ads during the last 3 months. You even get 2-3 recorded messages over the phone. Even on bloody Youtube you see the damn banners!

      2. A Better Idea Is Sell Your Television!
        Kat

        I don’t watch television and I have never missed it. Books and online information sights are much better than television. Another idea is to start a campaign to have political adds removed from prime time television!

  3. Forget Gundam, It Won’t Happen!
    Red Pill

    Wacky ideas like building Gundam come up periodically and, then, they are forgotten. Ideas of Tokyo’s infamous govenor Ishihara-san are sometimes remembered for being a pain in the ass.

    The Freedom Party’s name is almost always translated as the Liberal Democratic Party, LDP. No one knows why. But, it was probably named LDP by a news reporter and the name stuck, like calling the Shinkansen the Bullet Train.

    1. Noooooooo!
      Don’t ruin it for me, man! D-:

      Kidding 😉

      I think they ave enough real problems to worry about, that trying to build a giant mecha.

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