[CS-FSLUG] This is breaking my heart (mild profantiy warning)

[R. Thompson]

Hi Leon,

    I understand that you have a general election coming up there soon
too.  I wonder how politics in Oz compares to the US.  On another note,
how are people reacting to the news out of Indonesia.  I heard today
that the Oz embassy was well fortified enough that none of the diplomats
were injured, but we're very upset at the pain inflicted on those caught
in the blast.

        Ron T.

On Thu, 2004-09-09 at 08:25, Leon Brooks wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Sep 2004 09:37, Christopher Rose wrote:
> > How do I express this best? Even though I am an American, I can only
> > handle so much of secular politics.
> 
> I can relate to that. If I was a Yank, I'd be stuck for a choice. Both 
> primary candidates appear to be dishonest in important ways, and nobody 
> else stands to get elected. I'd vote for an alternate, but I strongly 
> suspect that most of them only remained unbesmirched principally 
> because they're not worth the big boys bothering with.
> 
> It reminds me of an Aussie bumper sticker, playing on an advertising 
> series which always ended with "Which bank? The Commonwealth" and a 
> locally produced book /Bankers and Bastards/* which lifts the covers on 
> the Australian banking industry; the sticker says:
> 
>     [ Which bank? They're all bastards! ]
> 
> Cheers; Leon
> 
> * ISBN 0949905259; http://www.felicity.com.au/books_business.htm the 
> book even got mentioned in Hansard, the official Parliament reports 
> (http://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/prod/parlment/hansart.nsf/V3Key/LA19980506049). 
> Here is an interesting blast from our "minister for everything 
> else" (the Mining and Pastoral electorate covers most of Western 
> Australia and is several (five?) times as large as Texas): 
> http://www.australianpolitics.org/johnfischer/media/jfischer/JohnFischer.media.040818.bankers.htm
-- 
Ron G. Thompson, |^|
Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, Canada
www.petomai.org   ron at petomai.org
"Who are these that fly as a cloud, and as doves to their window?" Is
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