Animals, RPG Review #3, Political Involvement

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Thanks for all the suggestions for cat names. At the end we took greenglowgrrl's suggestion, Mac Lir. As can be suspected at this age he's a complete nutcase. He's made friends with the rabbits, but the rats still aren't too sure which isn't much of a surprise really. Whilst on rodent topics, I have recently picked up a copy of the Mouse Guard roleplaying game; great presentation, good writing and a simplified system based on Burning Wheel. Quite impressed so far and hope to play soon. It will feature in the next edition of RPG Review which should be out within the week. Apart from Mouse Guard, it will also feature GURPS Bunnies & Burrows (special Easter theme), an interview with Steve Long (Star Trek, LoTR, Champions), designer's notes for Summerland and Fire & Sword, a Champions-Spelljammer-Planescape mash-up, classic D&D modules for a Middle-Earth campaign, a review of Watchmen and much more!

I suspect I am not going to see much daylight this coming week; I have to finish the first draft of a book for Iron Crown Enterprises, finish off RPG Review, run two games (D&D Fantasy Australia and RQ Rhythm of the Heat), plus I'm putting together some material for Isocracy on involvement in politics (inspiried by airiefairie's post on talk_politics. Expect a fair dose of Hannah Arendt and Noam Chomsky in the mix.

Queensland had an election, which saw a fourth-term return for the Labor Party against a united opposition and the election of Australia's first female premier (we've had female premiers in the past; they've just lost when it was taken to the polls). Wikileaks strikes a blow by publishing the ACMA list of prohibited content, which included both distateful material but some utterly inoffensive material as well (a dentist?!). Guy Rundle claims that no other issue is more important, and I am certainly sympthethic to that view. The political question is how do we get rid of Conroy?

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Well... I've heard that he's a member of Opus Dei... Maybe that explains it.. We have to remember however that Conroy is a self-admitted Internet troglodyte (now if I could only find that Liberal MPs link).

I also wonder what role he had in ensuring that Family First received preferences in the last Federal election over the Greens...

Let the record show

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Brock said "Oh, fuck." Opus Dei are, globally fairly harmless thoecracy nutters. However, for some reason, in Australia they are hand in hand with the Little Church of the Holy Dollar, pushing a weird Papist version of Prosperity theology, and tied up with Joel's Army types in the AoG and often work closely with creep Assemblies Daughter Churches. Unlike the US where Fanatical Devotion to The Pope prevents them climbing into bed with the protestant churches, here they seem quite comfortable together.

In the late 80s they were tightly connected with Logos Foundation in Queensland and actively pushing to retain the National party regime even after Sir Joh was pushed (Qld Catholic Labor are mostly small 'c' Catholics and not Opus Dei). Also the Magnificate Meal Movement initially had a strong Opus Dei support. However when they were outed as nutjobs and the Church condemned them, public support from Opus Dei withered.