1. The environment is more important then unemployment.
   
   Howard refuses to have the Kyoto Protocol ratified, and he refuses to eliminate logging of old growth forrest on the grounds that jobs will be lost. Of course...... the logical extension of this argument, is that we should start employing people to attack the great barrier reef with pickaxes. Why? No reason really. Just cause it will keep people employed
   
   
2. Income equality is more important then economic "growth".
   
   The economic standing of a society is only as good as the economic standing of the poorest people within that society. There are many things i could mention here. All i really need to mention is the introduction of an inherrantly regressive taxation regime. Im sure you know what im talking about.
   
   Yes im talking about the fucking GST.
   
   
3. Practical reconciliation is only half the puzzle. Symbolic reconciliation is every bit as important.
   
   That involves the word sorry and a perhaps a treaty. Questions of possible litigation don't come into the equation. When your asking yourself whether or not you owe someone an apology, you dont pat your pockets and wonder what its going to cost.
   
   
4. We are fighting a war against, the families that are running away from the people were fighting a war against.
   
   When will we start acting like good international citizens? When will we realise that we have it within ourselves to give so much to these people that have nothing, at such small cost to our own wealth.
   
   
5. Education is a public good. It is something we are supposed to provide to EVERYONE at the same high quality, regardless of their station in life.
   
   Slashes to university funding. Massive funding increases to well funded, catagory 1, public schools. Nuff sed.
   
   
6. We will all be old some day.
   
   I pray that i either die young or that i grow old on the the sort of wealth a retired minister is granted. You can bet Bronwyn Bishop and John Howard are banking on it. God help the forsaken old.

Still on the subject of food, if mangoes were made of meat, would vegetarians be tempted to take a nibble? I say yes, but I know nothing. Those who don't eat meat for humane reasons (let's call them, say, idiots) protest that animals need not be slaughtered simply for food. Of course the obvious argument to that is, if we aren't supposed to eat animals, then why are they made out of meat? Would a meat-enhanced mango be reclassified as an animal? Is there a point to this ranting? Is there a need for so many questions? Do mangoes dream of electric sheep? The answer to those questions is no, yes, no and no.

In an increasingly swank society it is only a matter of time before animal/plant hybrids take off in a big way as fashionable items of food chic. Rose scented turkey, lamb sandwiches that grow themselves, and even the much speculated steakapple (one a day will keep the doctor, and inevitable coronary bypass, away) will become commonplace in a first world where there can never be too much to eat. The idiots won't know which way to look. Our good research dollars are being wasted on making pig noses glow in the dark and photocopied sheep. Meat has grown in our hearts as more than simply animal stuffing, and the sooner it is liberated from it's four-legged prison the better.

But will it last? We all remember such fads as clear coke and space food sticks, or rather, we all don't remember them. Maybe the hype will wear off along with consumer interest, and we're left pondering why we started this in the first place as our tomato plant chases it's own roots for fun. If B-grade science fiction has taught us anything, it is that meatoes will someday start growing humans to see what all the fuss was about.

Well it's only my second post and I'm out of ideas already, so if there's a pressing issue you feel the Angstythink readers (both of them) should be informed of then please email me at:

[email protected]

Tell ya what, the first email I get at this address will be published in my next post.

Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 09:27:28 -0800 (PST)
From: "hammar ugo" [email protected]
Subject: THANKS
To: [email protected]

FROM: BARRISTER HAMMAR UGO
OKEAYA INNEH LAW FIRM
LEGAL PRACTITIONER.
NIGERIA

DEAR SIR,

COMPLIMENTS OF THE SEASON. GRACE AND PEACE AND LOVE
FROM THIS PART OF THE ATLANTIC TO YOU. I HOPE MY
LETTER DOES NOT CAUSE YOU TOO MUCH EMBARRASSMENT AS I
WRITE TO YOU IN GOOD FAITH. BASED ON THE CONTACT
ADDRESS GIVEN TO ME BY A FRIEND WHO WORKS AT THE
NIGERIAN EMBASSY IN YOUR COUNTRY. PLEASE EXCUSE MY
INTRUSION INTO YOUR PRIVATE LIFE.

I AM BARRISTER HAMMAR UGO , I REPRESENT MOHAMMED
ABACHA, SON OF THE LATE GEN. SANI ABACHA, WHO WAS THE
FORMER MILITARY HEAD OF STATE IN NIGERIA. HE DIED IN
1998. SINCE HIS DEATH, THE FAMILY HAS BEEN LOOSING A
LOT OF MONEY DUE TO VINDICTIVE GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS
WHO ARE BENT ON DEALING WITH THE FAMILY. BASED ON THIS

THEREFORE, THE FAMILY HAS ASKED ME TO SEEK FOR A
FOREIGN PARTNER WHO CAN WORK WITH US AS TO MOVE OUT
THE TOTAL SUM OF US$75,000,000.00 ( SEVENTYFIVE
MILLION UNITED STATES DOLLARS ), PRESENTLY IN THEIR
POSSESSION. THIS MONEY WAS OF COURSE, ACQUIRED BY THE
LATE PRESIDENT AND IS NOW KEPT SECRETLY BY THE FAMILY.

THE SWISS GOVERNMENT HAS ALREADY FROZEN ALL THE
ACCOUNTS OF THE FAMILY IN SWITZERLAND, AND SOME OTHER
COUNTRIES WOULD SOON FOLLOW TO DO THE SAME. THIS BID
BY SOME GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS TO DEAL WITH THIS FAMILY
HAS MADE IT NECESSARY THAT WE SEEK YOUR ASSISITANCE IN

RECEIVING THIS MONEY AND IN INVESTING IT ON BEHALF OF
THE FAMILY.

THIS MUST BE A JOINT VENTURE TRANSACTION AND WE MUST ALL WORK TOGETHER. SINCE THIS MONEY IS STILL CASH,
EXTRA SECURITY MEASURES HAVE BEEN TAKEN TO PROTECT IT
FROM THEFT OR SEIZURE. I HAVE PERSONALLY WORKED OUT
ALL MODALITIES FOR THE PEACEFUL CONCLUSION OF THIS
TRANSACTION. THE TRANSACTION DEFINITELY WOULD BE
HANDLED IN PHASES AND THE FIRST PHASE WILL INVOLVE THE

MOVING OF US$25,000,000.00( TWENTY FIVE MILLION UNITED

STATES DOLLARS ).

MY CLIENTS ARE WILLING TO GIVE YOU A REASONABLE
PERCENTAGE OF THIS MONEY AS SOON AS THE TRANSACTIONIS
CONCLUDED. I WILL, HOWEVER, BASED ON THE GROUNDS THAT
YOU ARE WILLING TO WORK WITH US AND ALSO ALL
CONTENTIOUS ISSUES DISCUSSED BEFORE THE COMMENCEMENT
OF THIS TRANSACTION. YOU MAY ALSO DISCUSS YOUR
PERCENTAGE BEFORE WE START TO WORK. AS SOON AS I HEAR
FROM YOU, I WILL GIVE YOU ALL NECESSARY DETAILS AS TO
HOW WE INTEND TO CARRY OUT THE WHOLE TRANSACTION.
PLEASE, DO NOT ENTERTAIN ANY FEARS,AS ALL NECESSARY
MODALITIES ARE IN PLACE, AND I ASSURE YOU OF ALL
SUCCESS AND SAFETY IN THIS TRANSACTION.

PLEASE, THIS TRANSACTION REQUIRES ABSOLUTE
CONFIDENTIALITY AND YOU WOULD BE EXPECTED TO TREAT IT
AS SUCH UNTIL THE FUNDS ARE MOVED OUT OF THIS COUNTRY.

PLEASE, YOU WILL ALSO IGNORE THIS LETTER AND RESPECT
OURTRUST IN YOU BY NOT EXPOSING THIS TRANSACTION, EVEN

IF YOU ARE NOT INTERESTED.

I LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING WITH YOU.

THANK YOU.

TRULY YOURS

BARRISTER HAMMAR UGO

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