[Osx-nutters] The separation of church and state.

[Charles Bennett]

On Dec 10, 2007, at 3:11 AM, David Cake wrote:

> At 3:09 PM -0500 6/12/07, Charles Bennett wrote:
>> I mean..   If a Mormon isn't a Christian  (according to the
>> evangelicals..)  then someone attending a ceremony run by the wiccans
>> and calling Santa a shaman, is a *bad man*  likely believes in Satan
>> and drinks blood.
>
> 	I do so prefer Australian politics. One of our most popular
> Prime Ministers was a professed agnostic who had actually set a beer
> drinking record that was in the Guinness book of Records.


Obviously a man among men.   If our country had been founded as a  
prison colony rather than by a bunch of tight asses
then we'd have more fun too..


>
> 	He was a flagrant womaniser too, but US presidents do seem to
> have that covered historically, despite a recent outbreak of prudery.

  I saw a quote that Bill Clinton has had more black women than Obama..

To me that's no big deal..   I mean, hells bells, so has Hillary...


>
>
> 	Actually, this week Australia has its first female acting
> Prime Minister ever, while the PM is in Bali talking climate change.

At least he didn't have to travel quite so far as the rest of the  
folks..

One would think that if they really cared they'ed meet at a conference  
room in the UN.

Everyone already has a representative there and we all know that  
nothing of value is going to happen in Bali that couldn't have been  
done at the UN...

On a different note, I wonder how oz is going to meet Kyoto without  
tanking the economy[1].


>
> Our current Cabinet also includes, in the one person, our first Asian
> born and our first openly gay Minister, and she is a relatively young
> woman too (for a senior politician). We've had other gay cabinet
> ministers, obviously, but the only out one I know of I think came out
> after leaving Cabinet. Its nice to feel as if we aren't run entirely
> by old conservative white men for a change.

I don't think anyone cares that Barney Franks is gay.

  At least he says he's gay[2]..  Every time I hear him talking he  
seems kind of bitter and pissed off to me, but what do I know?

=c=

[1] Australia's per capita emissions in 2004 were 4.5 times the global  
average, just below the value for the USA
<http://www.csiro.au/news/GlobalCarbonProject-PNAS.html>

[2] I'd love to pull the word back into the dictionary meaning but  
alas, I fear it's lost along with Liberal..