Thursday, October 8, 2009

Week 8 Task

Let's get political!

1. Sign an E-Petition


Check it out at this link, it was for the children's hospital.
http://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/view/EPetitions_QLD/CurrentEPetition.aspx?PetNum=1319&lIndex=-1


2. Respond to a professional blogger:

An NME.com blog by Luke Lewis discussed buying shares in a band, or contributing towards their album production. So I replied
"Marillion have been doing this for years and regardless of what you might think of their artistic credibility, it's kept their career going strong and they still sell tens of thousands of albums."

You can look at my reply on this page, user name Spunky:
http://www.nme.com/blog/index.php?blog=10&blog=10&title=buy_shares_in_a_band_think_of_the_possib&page=1&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1&disp=single

3. What's Barack Obama up to today?
Well I would suggest something to do with the 30,000 pound bomb, which is supposedly the pride and joy of the pentagon!

At least that's what this blog had to say: http://ochairball.blogspot.com/

4. Who are my local federal/state representatives?
I don't care, however, I will find out:
Michael John Crandon, Senator the Hon Joe Ludwig, Anna Bligh.

5. When did they last speak in parliament?

As for Joe Ludwig - 17/9/09.

6. I had this to say to Mr Ludwig:



The lecture discussed democracy, cyber democracy, online democracy or something like that, point is, it covered a large amount of material working off a few different tangents.

It's hard to 'pursue a couple of topics that you found most interesting' when you honestly found none of them even remotely interesting. Last time I checked, this subject was New Communication Technology, not the dreaded News and Politics which I sit through for 3 hours a week. Politics is like religion - everyone argues about it, everyone talks about how important it is, everyone thinks if we don't pay attention to it, we will suffer in the end, but like religion, YOUNG PEOPLE DON'T CARE ABOUT IT!

Thankyou :)

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