Labor vs Greens, Terrorism, Games and Cheese Quest

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The recent attacks by the Labor Party on the Greens is political suicide. As any strategist should know, when you're in a minority you can't fight a war on two fronts. For years now I have been advocating within the ALP for a real coalition between the two parties. Given a recent decision to preference Family First in the Melbourne by-election, the ALP is, once again, frustrating those who are sympathetic towards them whilst trying to appeal to those who will never support them.

On Sunday gave an address to the Unitarians on Terrorism: A Unitarian-Universalist Response, which emphasised a definition of terrorist that included state and non-state actors, distinguishing between revolutionary action and terrorist action, and offering the proposition that understanding what motivates terrorists provides the possibility of resolving the issue. Particularly impressed by a recent article that points out how unlikely progressive change is without the support of liberal religion.

On Saturday had a visitation from ser_pounce and hathhalla. We continued on our quest to complete the Monty Python cheese-shop sketch with several more ticked off, and played a round of Alpha Animals followed by 221B Baker Street, both fairly average games. Sunday afternoon was another session of Pathfinder Planescape where my character (a were-rat monk) continues on his journey to end up like Master Splinter.

Comments

[tau-iota-mu-c.livejournal.com]

Of all the potential first preferences, they strike a deal with FF again? What are they smoking? Must cause severe short term memory loss.

[tau-iota-mu-c.livejournal.com]

(I should have said, of all the extremist organisations, ...)

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

Win. Right there.

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

Well... unlike the Senate (which was risky) there is no chance of the FF candidate from winning Melbourne. So they think they can pick up a percent or two from FF preferences. The question is whether they'll lose more than than by the decision.

But in any case FF would have preferenced Labor over the Greens regardless. So the ALP really didn't need to do this. Effectively, they're, once again, pissing off their own constituency.

Oh, I'll be interested in seeing how Rainbow Labor reacts to this.