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

[David Cake]

At 8:56 AM -0500 10/12/07, Charles Bennett wrote:
>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..

	The Hon. R.J. Hawke, PM in the 80s. One of his most special 
moments was after the live broadcast of Australia winning the 
Americas cup, which was broadcast in the middle of the night in 
Australia, he was briefly interviews, looking rather the worse for 
wear in a hideous suit, and said that any boss who "sacked an 
employee for taking the day off was a bastard".

>  >	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...

	Its traditional that New York not get all the fun. Also, more 
might actually get done.

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

	Well, that would be easy - we had enormously generous terms 
for a developed country written into the Kyoto targets in the first 
place, which made it rather churlish for us not to then ratify the 
thing.
	I think we only end up 1% over what we committed to, so we 
only need to pony up $1.65billion in carbon credits at the most. 
Bearable. And thats presuming we don't do better in the next 4 years.
	Cheers
		David