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**darieBarexish** · 01-26-2006, 08:00 AM

Re Pat Robertson: A writer to the letters to the editor page of today's edition of the national newspaper "The Australian", wrote:
"I agree that the Australian Government should not allow people who advocate terrorism to enter the country. I assume that Pat Robertson (Anger over call to assassinate Chavez, 25/8) is now on a black list and would be denied a visa."

Extremists is extremists, no matter what political or religious flavour. The silence of the Religious Right is monstrous, yet they would have been apoplectic had a similar comment been made by a mullah.

On a lighter note: Priceless, Fr Raphael! Your missive would find plenty of fans in Australia, except for the bit about beer. Aussies drink their beer COLD ("warm" beer tastes horrible in a hot climate like ours). Despite every effort in setting the defaults for Word on my computer to English (Australia), it still has the nerve to switch back to American English! The perversity of inanimate objects.... By the way, Byron, Americans are not alone in naming their children after themselves. I know of a number of Russians and Cypriots who have done this, as well as people from other English-speaking countries. I would imagine the tendency is most prevalent in the US, though.

01-26-2006, 08:00 AM	#5
darieBarexish Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 428 Senior Member	Re Pat Robertson: A writer to the letters to the editor page of today's edition of the national newspaper "The Australian", wrote: "I agree that the Australian Government should not allow people who advocate terrorism to enter the country. I assume that Pat Robertson (Anger over call to assassinate Chavez, 25/8) is now on a black list and would be denied a visa." Extremists is extremists, no matter what political or religious flavour. The silence of the Religious Right is monstrous, yet they would have been apoplectic had a similar comment been made by a mullah. On a lighter note: Priceless, Fr Raphael! Your missive would find plenty of fans in Australia, except for the bit about beer. Aussies drink their beer COLD ("warm" beer tastes horrible in a hot climate like ours). Despite every effort in setting the defaults for Word on my computer to English (Australia), it still has the nerve to switch back to American English! The perversity of inanimate objects.... By the way, Byron, Americans are not alone in naming their children after themselves. I know of a number of Russians and Cypriots who have done this, as well as people from other English-speaking countries. I would imagine the tendency is most prevalent in the US, though.
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