Remember that post buried under a mountain of wiki stats?

Okay, so nobody got anything for Christmas and no one has a half dollar they are willing to part with for the edification of a would-be illusionist. Fine. This non-action only strengthens the call of the Dark Arts for him. Soon enough he'll be walking around school with his shirt open, disappearing playing cards into the mouth of his Ma Ying-jeou tattoo on his chest or growing a furry mustache and wearing a clinging neon green spandex shirt constantly cheering us with the chant "It's Magic!"

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百步笑五十步 - Huang Kuang-kuo ( 黃光國 ) is mad as hell and he's not gonna take it without a press conference. Mr. Huang, convener of the Democracy Action League (民主行動聯盟) is upset with the upcoming vote on the referendum of Taiwan's admission into the U.N. The KMT is sponsoring one using The Republic of China as it's name, while the DPP is using Taiwan.

( A digression. Interestingly, the U.S. is only displeased with the DPP's proposal because entry into the U.N. with the name Taiwan would imply that Taiwan is an independent country and thus upsets the One China, status quo policy. However, using The Republic of China would be entirely different. Well, not really. The ROC was offered the choice of dual representation for China, but Peanutheadissimo CKS refused and the PRC entered the UN as China's rep. I don't think that the PRC will suddenly allow a do-over and let Taiwan enter as the R.O.C. This would establish two Chinas (or two countries using the name China) and nobody i.e., the U.S. and China, want that. More boat rocking. The other possibility would be for the PRC to allow themselves be subsumed by the R.O.C. It would be a one-China, but just not the right-a-one.)

Meanwhile, back at the conference... Central Scrutinizer Huang was warning

• "The two major parties are cheating you out of your votes."
• the referendums on Taiwan's admission to the United Nations are a dirty trick to get votes for Kuomintang standard bearer Ma Ying-jeou and his DPP rival Frank Hsieh.
• the DPP and the Kuomintang both want to lure more voters to the polls to boost the chances of their respective candidates to win the presidential race.
• both the DPP and KMT want to win the election ( He didn't actually say that, buy I'm sure it was on his talking points.)

So, what was his concerned response? Organize another party. What is it? I'm gonna lead with The China Post's - 萬 歲 ! - translation, the League for Boycotting Referendums and here be the Chinese, 拒領公投票聯盟. The D.A.L. is joined in this super league by 6 other smaller groups of revellers:the New Party, Non-Partisan Solidarity Alliance, Home Party, Citizens' Party, Taiwan Farmers Party, and Hakka Party.

What will the Ju-Ling League do? They will (1) fight the Blue and Green camps' manipulation of the referendum in using up too much of society's resources, (2) expose the evil nature of the two camps and (3) 呼籲選民將政黨票投給小黨 - call upon the voters to give their votes to small parties. But there won't be any cheating, pulling any dirty tricks or, gasp, luring, or, heavens, boosting. Well, they didn't say that either.

Extra credit - Match the Chinese and the English parties. Which one is the Home Party and why?

民主行動聯盟與新黨、紅黨、無盟、台灣農民黨、聯合公民黨、客家黨 、新黨

All errors and omissions courtesy of the China Post staff