Today, the 25th of November marks two years of this blog being online. From the early days of Blogger, to Wordpress and finally to what you see today. Much has happened in the last two years, some good, some bad. However as we reflect we can remember how embarrassingly awful the first post of this blog was (and many of the first couple of months of posts). Dare to look it up if you don’t mind a huge cringe.

Here is for another two years of bitter disappointment and minor grammatical errors.

Tomorrow is the day when Australia needs to make a tough decision. Stick with the same Government that got us in Iraq, started AWA’s without consulting the public before the last election along with various other erroneous decisions. Kevin Rudd may not be everyone’s cup of tea, to tell you the truth he is not my ultimate choice but it’s time we had new vision. It’s time for a more progressive and positive government. One that will remove us from Iraq, remove AWA’s, Fix our hospitals, fix our broadband problems, ratify Kyoto and be on the front foot against climate change and start providing new initiatives in Education.

Do I think he will accomplish everything he laid out? No. Will Howard either? No. That’s the way it goes though and so far all Howard and his cronies have been able to do is dwell on the last 11 years and attempting to freak out the public about the awful unions and how Rudd is going to be taking orders from them. The whole “heading the right direction” spiel is utter nonsense. If Rudd gets in will things change? Yes, but will the sky fall in? Absolutely not - look at the policies some are quite similar to the Governments, some of course are not. So if some polices are similar how will so much bad change happen as Howard warns of?

I think that Australia is ready, finally for some fresh new ideas and some new faces. Whether or not Australia will realise this is what we find out tomorrow.

I have been a long time reader of The Herald Sun, mostly by routine as that is what my parents bought. However lately I have been purchasing The Age to see the difference, moving past the biggest change of size from tabloid to broadsheet it really is a step-up. More political news, less sports (thank god), more business and more progressive columnists (a nice change from Andrew Bolt) has made me now a regular reader. As I write this The Age sits on my desk underneath a remote control ready for me to sit down and read it for the day. The Green Guide is also a nice addition every Thursday, which today happens to be a Thursday.

The biggest downside however is what I touched down earlier, sometimes in the car I like to have a peek at the newspaper coming home and with The Herald Sun being tabloid it was always easy to handle, however The Age like I said is a broadsheet making it harder to handle. The front and back pages are easy enough to read by folding the paper up however trying to read the rest of the paper is quite a challenge. So the question comes down to this; is the size downside effecting the circulation of the paper? The Herald Sun is the most read newspaper in Australia and The Age doesen’t do too badly but is heavily outsold by The Herald. If The Age was tabloid (or compact as some like to call it) would it have higher circulation and more readership? I would think it has at least something to do with it.

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Americans disapprove of the job President Bush is doing, and for “the first time in the history of the Gallup Poll, 50% say they ’strongly disapprove’ of the president. Richard Nixon had reached the previous high, 48%, just before an impeachment inquiry was launched in 1974.”

Read back over the part of that quote from Think Progress that I put in italics. Now Kucinich has launched a bid for impeachment of Dick “shoot a old guy in the face” Cheney and while it was killed he has the right to bring it back up as he pleases. It only took 4 years, and yet Clinton (the President) got one for lying about a blow-job. Figures as much…

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