It Just might be a One Shot deal (Waka Jawaka) - (Blogging from A - Z Challenge)

 

 Yep, 'I' is 'It Just might be a One Shot deal' from "Waka Jawaka".
At first I thought this was about record deals, then one-night stands, now life. Such a great song!
There is no past, there is no future, there is only the now. Sure, we all have a past, we learn from it, and sure, we're all going somewhere, but it hasn't happened yet. Use the now to get there.
And use the now to hear this song on youtube :-)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3expVNVi6Gw
WARNING: If you live in the UK, copyright issues may not allow you hear this, so go find someone to play it for ya :-) (hehe)

Hots Rats - Zappa (Blogging from A-Z Challenge April 2014)

 

 'H' can only be....


'Hot Rats'! This was the second instrumental album from Zappa but the first I listened to. I wondered where the hell he'd been, and why wasn't he more well-known. Then I realised that it was the record companies who 'owned' the public's ears and minds, and that there was a whole load of fantastic music that you never get to hear. For example, Zappa. Not about drugs, not about silly lyrics, Zappa was seriously having fun!
Here's 'Hot Rats', all of it :-)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKWNVXwlAk4

Politicians cheat you - OFFICIAL

Some people's votes are more equal than others. You have the same number of votes, one, but if you don't vote for the overall winner in your area, your vote means nothing, it is lost, gone.
In Hungary, the election used to be a 2-level deal, the 1st round was to vote for who wins in your area, the 2nd round was to vote for the party. The 2nd was based on 'Proportional Representation' (PR) but was only a minor part of the whole system. Now, the 2nd round was abolished as soon as Fidesz got in last time, the EU frowned on it, but there is still a little bit of Proportional Representation in deciding the final number of seats for a party, don't know how... BUT...let's have a look at the votes and seats of the 2014 Hungarian election...plus a few other figures..

Party	No, of seats (%)	% of seats	% of total votes	No. of seats based	Difference
				on Votes (Prop Rep)
Fidesz-KDNP	133	67%	44.49%	89	-44
MSZP-Egyutt (etc)	38	19%	25.91%	52	+14
Jobbik	23	12%	20.67%	41	+18
LMP	5	3%	5.24%	10	+5

There were also 4.69% of votes for other parties, that's 7 seats!
Munkaspart, A Haza Nem Elado and SMS would each get 1 seat each, with the other 4 seats left over for the other 11 parties to squabble over.

Proportional Representation represents the votes of a country's citizens, no other system does. ..read on....

John Cleese once did a video on Proportional Representation many years back...
Here it is! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSUKMa1cYHk - shorter one here... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtbfG_eKlZg)...
In the UK in 1983, the Liberals got almost the same % of votes as Labour, but got 1/10th of the seats.

Back then, I thought it was logical to use Proportional Representation, seeing as the system used was and now still is based on the old 'Rotten Borough' system from the 19th century, but now I see the REAL point!

Without Proportional Representation, if you don't vote for the winner, your vote doesn't count. Your opinion doesn't count towards the running of your country. By ignoring Proportional Representation, Politicians are not only cheating voters out of their votes, they are also CHEATING their citizens out of their opinions and rights as citizens.
Politicians are meant to be working for the citizens, politicians are meant to be servants to the citizens ...without Proportional Representation, Politicians are working for themselves, citizens are servants to them.

Get rid of the 'Rotten Borough' system and politicians might start to represent the views and opinions of their citizens.

"Grand Wazoo" - Blogging from A-Z Challenge!

'G' and we're getting serious!

 

 "The Grand Wazoo!" (okay, it's only 'G' if you take 'the' off, but hey...)
Zappa's albums, wow, there aren't that many I can't listen to all the way through ('Just another Band from LA' is one I haven't actually been able to get into...) but "Grand Wazoo" is an album I can listen to on a loop for the rest of my life! For me, there's just something about it! I'd love a movie to go with it.
Here it is in all it's entirety...(sorry, there's no loop on youtube)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIO5uIq2TTI

"Filthy Habits" by Zappa - Blogging from A-Z Challenge

We're up to 'F' already!!

I was gonna go with 'Find her Finer', but then I'd have to explain a few things...
No, I went with perhaps my favourite Zappa instrumental "Filthy Habits"....oh, maybe we are doing 'Find her Finer'...
I used to play 'Filthy Habits' up REAL LOUD and get a little drunk, a little angry. It brings to my mind the dirty stuff that gets in the way of truth and honesty. Perhaps I should listen to it next time I write...
Here's "Filthy Habits" from the album 'Sleep Dirt'...fantastic!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVHchhvhND0

April 6th - Hungarian Elections!

Oh yes, it's an Eastern European country playing at Democracy today! As Winston Churchill once said "Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others." Some parties are also worse than others, the Conservatives or Liberals base their policies on money - say no more.
So, here's a censored version of my little rhyme again, to stop those Special POlice from knocking on my door when that man wins another 4 years in office. Yes, not much of it left, is there? The verse or Hungary?

 

Weekend Quickie 30 - Who will take the Challenge?

Wrote up my latest Weekend Quickie in the style of a relay. I wonder who will move the story on?
See it here and the stories before and after on TIW website, or mine here...-)

A yellow scorpion scurried across the bonnet of the pink Mazda2, embarrassed as I was to find itself within 100 miles of its presence. Trust me to borrow my wife's car on a day like this. I'd seen the shiny topped bearded man in glasses smoking in his convertible at the 2 mile mark into Tijuana on Highway 2 a moment ago and I parked in the nearest layby. Was that the dead body of Carlos I'd seen in the back seat? Adjusting the fluffy pink framed rearview mirror, I saw the car some way back at the junction. It sat there like some big beige monster ready to change my life. But for good or bad? I knew what Carlos had been up to and how he felt such a bigshot since getting connected, and I knew what he'd carried out of the trailer this morning. I'd warned him but now it was all too late. Should I do something? If I were in my Ford truck, there'd be a shotgun under the seat. In this car, the most lethal thing I'd find would be haircurlers. What now? A Toyota Tundra drove by with speed back towards the vehicle.