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On 2/04/2012 6:38 PM, Spartan613 wrote:
> "jg" <jg@nospam.com> wrote in message
> news:Wj7er.5267$%E2.4276@viwinnwfe01.internal.bigpond.com...
>> On 2/04/2012 9:03 AM, Oy Rool Out a Carbon Tax wrote:
>>> On 2/04/2012 9:37 AM, jg wrote:
>>>> On 1/04/2012 10:01 PM, Oy Rool Out a Carbon Tax wrote:
>>>>> On 1/04/2012 5:27 PM, Spartan613 wrote:
>>>>>> "Oy Rool Out a Carbon Tax" <gillard_lies@promises.are.invalid>
>>>>>> wrote in
>>>>>> message news:jl8d3a$gja$2@dont-email.me...
>>>>>>> On 1/04/2012 8:14 AM, Gillard Lies. Labor Dies. wrote:
>>>>>>>> On Sun, 1 Apr 2012 00:28 someone claiming to be Oy Rool Out a
>>>>>>>> Carbon
>>>>>>>> Tax
>>>>>>>> posting as gillard_lies@promises.are.invalid posted:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> I think earth hour is silly, not sure what it's supposed to
>>>>>>>>>> prove to
>>>>>>>>>> whom, but if it doesn't make people appreciate where their energy
>>>>>>>>>> comes
>>>>>>>>>> from now I can't see much point at all.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> It's like lots of fuzzy green things. It enables people to feel
>>>>>>>>> good
>>>>>>>>> about themselves, and more pious than those who didn't. Then it's
>>>>>>>>> back
>>>>>>>>> into the SUV next day. Whoops! Forgot about it again.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I felt good about it last night.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I raced around the house, turned on the ac, and made sure all
>>>>>>>> lights
>>>>>>>> were on
>>>>>>>> as well.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Gee, and I even slept well.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I hope Flannery didn't find out about it. He would tell his Earth
>>>>>>> monster Gaia when he talks to it (it has developed consciousness
>>>>>>> now,
>>>>>>> you know) and you will get demerits placed against your name, come
>>>>>>> Gaia's Judgement Day.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>> "If we cut emissions today, global temperatures are not likely to
>>>>>>> drop
>>>>>>> for about a thousand years. "
>>>>>>> -- Tim (it ain't a gonna rain no more) Flannery
>>>>>>> - Australian Climate Commissar
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Seen that fuckwit Brown's latest offerings?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Aliens aren't contacting us because they "extincted" themselves
>>>>>> through
>>>>>> not being Green enough, and,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> His Watermelon one world government where the Chinese and Indians
>>>>>> will
>>>>>> be able to vote us into slavery through their massive population
>>>>>> (not so
>>>>>> Green, but Bob doesn't seem to notice) voting advantage.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> All this delivered while wearing his trademark Cheshire cat grin and
>>>>>> disturbing and disturbed loopy eyes.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The thing is a freak. Does us all a favour, Tasmania, it was a good
>>>>>> joke, but the joke's over. Get rid of him.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Brilliantly thought through, wasn't it... "one person one vote one
>>>>> value" Chinks RuLe oK!
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> So it wouldn't be like the UN general assembly, with one vote per
>>>> member
>>>> country?
>>>>
>>>
>>> So it's not really utopian democratic global government after all? Just
>>> a purely elitist UN dictatorship? What about the poor non-member
>>> countries? What about those who haven't signed up to, say, the UN
>>> Refugee Convention? Do they get to have a vote or don't they "qualify"?
>>> And what happened to the one *person* one vote? How do we know the
>>> member country representative will be voting on behalf of all persons of
>>> their member country? It would seem impossible if the votes in that
>>> country varied in any way from unanimity. Sounds even more poorly
>>> thought through than it first appears. Oh dear. :-(
>>>
>>
>> Would you prefer the UN was one vote one person? 193 countries seem ok
>> with it the way it is.
>
> Seriously?
>

You mean they are members because they are opposed to it?