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I don't wanna go on FB this morning.
There was an appeal yesterday for the Tamil refugee family that was dragged out of their FNQ town two and a half years ago. The conservatives have been trying to send them all back to anti-Tamil Sri Lanka for the last couple of years on the basis that it's 'safe' according to the government, never mind the emotional/psychological trauma the parents experienced in Sri Lanka, which caused them to want to immigrate, nor the fact that the two little girls were born here. They've been incarcerated in what's basically a refugee prison camp for the last year, and all the attempts to get them back to their town have fallen on deaf ears.
I haven't looked to see how it went. I just don't want the news to be so bloody unfair everywhere right now.
That's what stings so hard right now: just how unfair it all is.
Refugees in Australia trying for a better life but shot down and imprisoned because our government and the people they represent are selfish.
The US Supreme Court and the Republicans stacking it for the last five years, the US media completely missing that the Republicans have been stacking the judiciary for the last five years.
The targeting of anyone who takes precautions against COVID - namely the centrist Premier (Aus equiv of Governor) of Victoria, whose state got hit hard by COVID and he took extreme measures to bring it down - which it now is - but Murdoch media is savaging him, and I glimpsed that his office got vandalised last night.
Our stupid-ass PM pfaffing on about useless and unimportant things (a chicken fucking coop, for heaven's sake?) while not doing a single thing about the things he's responsible for. (Aged Care is a federal responsibility; guess where the worst outbreaks and deaths have been in Australia - you got it! Has any media outlet actually called Morrison on the carpet for it? Not a one.)
Ugh. THAT BUDGET. Four months 'late' (it was due in May but: COVID). Not a thing for individuals, all for businesses large and small - but giving the businesses the opportunity to screw individuals while they were at it, with minimal oversight. Let's not even talk about mining and media and agribusiness while we're looking at the bottom lines.
People with plenty of rights whining about their rights being infringed (which they're not) because other people have gotten or are now getting those rights, too, and they can't be having with that.
Or worrying about their rights that might be infringed (which they won't be) because someone denounced corruption in their group and they're too busy scrambing for shreds of deniability.
And possibly the worst of it all is that fixing any of these things would not fix our society. Not even close. It might set us on the rails leading out of the mess it's become, but it's taken forty years of neocon fear and loathing to get us here, and the veneer of love and acceptance is tissue-paper thin in some places. I'm not convinced that more than 5% of the people who would protest against any of these things understand that making any of this right is simply getting our toes dug in for the coming fight.
*sigh*
In happier news, I got the things done in Canberra that needed doing, worked out the things that needed to be done next, and drove back home without incident. I even managed to pick up some stuff that I was thinking I'd have to go out of my way to get, and I did it while getting dinner.
On the way there, I listened to Pantsuit Politics, With All Due Respect, Nuance Nation, Pod Save America, Pod Save The World, and Exploring My Strange Bible (on Hebrews). I have to find an Australian political podcast that does the Pantsuit Politics thing - two women, either side of the tracks, talking about Australian policy with more nuance and explanation. I know Annabelle Crabb and Leigh Sales do one, but the ones I listened to didn't quite hit my buttons.
B1 is still fighting her cold/chest infection - I am working on her to take a cough medicine at night so she gets a full night's rest: I swear I heard her coughing in the background of my dreams last night.
Hainan Chicken is a lot closer to her old self, but her antibiotics end today so we'll keep an eye out. I don't think we'll be getting new chickens anytime soon (the breeder we were thinking of getting them from is scaling back to spend more time with her family, and I'm not sure she's breeding the kinds I was asking about right now), which is not necessarily a bad thing.
Okay, more work to do. I was going to take today off but...changed my mind on it.
There was an appeal yesterday for the Tamil refugee family that was dragged out of their FNQ town two and a half years ago. The conservatives have been trying to send them all back to anti-Tamil Sri Lanka for the last couple of years on the basis that it's 'safe' according to the government, never mind the emotional/psychological trauma the parents experienced in Sri Lanka, which caused them to want to immigrate, nor the fact that the two little girls were born here. They've been incarcerated in what's basically a refugee prison camp for the last year, and all the attempts to get them back to their town have fallen on deaf ears.
I haven't looked to see how it went. I just don't want the news to be so bloody unfair everywhere right now.
That's what stings so hard right now: just how unfair it all is.
Refugees in Australia trying for a better life but shot down and imprisoned because our government and the people they represent are selfish.
The US Supreme Court and the Republicans stacking it for the last five years, the US media completely missing that the Republicans have been stacking the judiciary for the last five years.
The targeting of anyone who takes precautions against COVID - namely the centrist Premier (Aus equiv of Governor) of Victoria, whose state got hit hard by COVID and he took extreme measures to bring it down - which it now is - but Murdoch media is savaging him, and I glimpsed that his office got vandalised last night.
Our stupid-ass PM pfaffing on about useless and unimportant things (a chicken fucking coop, for heaven's sake?) while not doing a single thing about the things he's responsible for. (Aged Care is a federal responsibility; guess where the worst outbreaks and deaths have been in Australia - you got it! Has any media outlet actually called Morrison on the carpet for it? Not a one.)
Ugh. THAT BUDGET. Four months 'late' (it was due in May but: COVID). Not a thing for individuals, all for businesses large and small - but giving the businesses the opportunity to screw individuals while they were at it, with minimal oversight. Let's not even talk about mining and media and agribusiness while we're looking at the bottom lines.
People with plenty of rights whining about their rights being infringed (which they're not) because other people have gotten or are now getting those rights, too, and they can't be having with that.
Or worrying about their rights that might be infringed (which they won't be) because someone denounced corruption in their group and they're too busy scrambing for shreds of deniability.
And possibly the worst of it all is that fixing any of these things would not fix our society. Not even close. It might set us on the rails leading out of the mess it's become, but it's taken forty years of neocon fear and loathing to get us here, and the veneer of love and acceptance is tissue-paper thin in some places. I'm not convinced that more than 5% of the people who would protest against any of these things understand that making any of this right is simply getting our toes dug in for the coming fight.
*sigh*
In happier news, I got the things done in Canberra that needed doing, worked out the things that needed to be done next, and drove back home without incident. I even managed to pick up some stuff that I was thinking I'd have to go out of my way to get, and I did it while getting dinner.
On the way there, I listened to Pantsuit Politics, With All Due Respect, Nuance Nation, Pod Save America, Pod Save The World, and Exploring My Strange Bible (on Hebrews). I have to find an Australian political podcast that does the Pantsuit Politics thing - two women, either side of the tracks, talking about Australian policy with more nuance and explanation. I know Annabelle Crabb and Leigh Sales do one, but the ones I listened to didn't quite hit my buttons.
B1 is still fighting her cold/chest infection - I am working on her to take a cough medicine at night so she gets a full night's rest: I swear I heard her coughing in the background of my dreams last night.
Hainan Chicken is a lot closer to her old self, but her antibiotics end today so we'll keep an eye out. I don't think we'll be getting new chickens anytime soon (the breeder we were thinking of getting them from is scaling back to spend more time with her family, and I'm not sure she's breeding the kinds I was asking about right now), which is not necessarily a bad thing.
Okay, more work to do. I was going to take today off but...changed my mind on it.