Pinochet's Dead!

Dec 10, 2006 17:41


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jenrawr December 12 2006, 02:56:04 UTC
dear dan: i want to be you. is it hard being you?

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mayorbrotherdan December 12 2006, 06:37:40 UTC
Most of the time it's fairly easy. I don't even have to work at it very much anymore. It just sort of comes naturally now.

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dumpsterdiva December 12 2006, 13:07:31 UTC
I hate to change the subject but I do want to ask you a question about your profile page.

You have on it, WWFSMD? {Or something like that}

Who {or what} is FSM?

btw, I get around on foot or by push bike...if I travel to work in Sydney {once a week} I take our lovely train system.

I appreciate anyone who would rather get somewhere on their own power than fill up and go.

Cheers!

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mayorbrotherdan December 13 2006, 00:13:45 UTC
WWFSMD is a play on the slogan What Would Jesus Do, which is often abbreviated with the acronym, WWJD. Many Americans in the United States wear bracelets or have bumper stickers with that acronym. WWFSMD stands for "What Would Flying Spaghetti Monster Do." The flying spaghetti monster was a joke started by a scientist, who was fed up with attempts by American evangelicals to get theologically based hypotheses into the scientific cirricula in schools ( ... )

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dumpsterdiva December 13 2006, 03:09:46 UTC
Thank you for the explanation. I have heard of the evangelical movement for teaching intelligent design {I can do that...design something intelligently!} in the States.

I had never heard of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, though. That is about as valid as anything else. Really. Actually, with meatballs and sauce, that one would at least be 'visable', no?

I am actually a researcher for the Greens political party here in NSW. Once our State election is done, I will begin working at the Federal level. I absolutely love my job! I actually had the oppoutunity to read and critique the entire Stern Review Report a few months ago. Very interesting. Then I worked on our minimal river system here in Australia, the Murray-Darling River Basin and tried to figure out why in such an arid country we are growing cotton and rice!

Thanks again for the explanation.

Cheers!

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mayorbrotherdan December 13 2006, 03:18:32 UTC
Sounds like a great job. I would love to do something like that.

How strong is the Green Party in New South Wales, and Australia as a whole? Do you have a chance in the upcoming elections?

The Stern report is no light reading! That's a monumental task just to read through the whole thing.

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dumpsterdiva December 13 2006, 06:31:35 UTC
Sorry I am so long winded and am clogging up your journal pages.

I have a tendency to go the long way around when explaining myself.

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mayorbrotherdan December 13 2006, 07:20:51 UTC
Not a problem. I don't get too many comments on my journal entries anyway.

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dumpsterdiva December 13 2006, 07:40:07 UTC
Well, this is a good discussion and I am learning alot from you.

Also, all of this shop-talk under the watchful eye of the now deceased Pinochet seems fitting. Dapper outfit, ya think?

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mayorbrotherdan December 13 2006, 07:48:21 UTC
A conversation about politics and democracy right under the nose of a brutal dictator. Quite fitting.

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dumpsterdiva December 13 2006, 07:36:47 UTC
"It's funny. I thought I had a pretty good understanding of the nuances of our electoral system, until I tried to explain the inner workings of the party nomination process. I now realize that I've always had a pretty big gap in my understanding of exactly how our electoral system works, despite the fact that I've always followed as much of the news coverage as possible about national party conventions in the past."I wrote a nearly identical sentence in my response to you but deleted it since 1. I felt like a dumbass and 2. I had already taken up a ream or two of paper on that comment. ha ha ( ... )

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mayorbrotherdan December 13 2006, 08:11:13 UTC
That California election was a mess. I was spending some time with my family in Southern California during that whole thing. It was just unbelievable.

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dumpsterdiva December 13 2006, 08:17:55 UTC
Candidates were coming out of the closet..literally and figuratively. Wasn't there a porn star, some harlot and even Tatu in the running?

Only in California, eh? ha ha

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