The Final Countdown

Countdown... i have 4 hours in which to finish my LAST ASSIGNMENT EVER (well, at least for the forseeable future :) and yet, here i am putting it off for as long as possible....

But onto more pleasant subjects - we won trivia on monday!!! yay - and 1st prize was a $100 food/bar tab so free dinner here i come :) What clinched it for us was the baffler - they give you a clue each round and the earlier you guess the right answer the more points you get. Here are a couple of the clues... 'if you pull me apart i'll never be the same'.... 'i'm small'.... Have a guess - i'll put up more clues if no one gets it :)

Oh, and after a second bunch of flowers and an *interesting* letter the mystery of the flowers is solved ... ask me about it sometime and i might tell you ...

ciao for now

Assignments, Flowers and Human Rights

AHHHH ASSIGNMENTS.... but enough of that .... I was lucky enough to receive an anonymous delivery of flowers on Monday afternoon - absolutely fantastic but not knowing where they came from is sending me crazy!!

But back to those assignments... the big question is: are Human Rights universally applicable or are they culturally specific?

CSI wisdom

Profound truths from the world of CSI: "but doc, dead men don't ride rollercoasters"

Good Old Kevin...

I thought I heard something about this on the radio this morning so I thought I'd check it out...

"Christians are not restricted to voting conservative, opposition foreign affairs spokesman Kevin Rudd says.

In an essay to be published on Tuesday in The Monthly, a magazine of politics and the arts, Mr Rudd advocates an "alternative vision for Australia's future" shaped by Christian values.

Mr Rudd, also the chairman of the Labor Party's committee on faith, politics and values, is seeking to change the impression Christians must vote conservative. "No one in politics and no political party actually owns God," Mr Rudd told ABC Radio. "Therefore, for anyone to assume directly or indirectly that they do is just plain wrong...What I'm seeking to do in this debate is to simply restore the balance and ensure that Christians of varying traditions have a sense that they can have their express political view in politics but they don't necessarily have to vote conservative."

Mr Rudd's essay, which discusses the life of German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, calls for Christian values to play a greater role in social justice issues. "The state can't be indifferent to the question of asylum seekers, we can't be indifferent to the question of climate change, we can't be indifferent to the question of global poverty, and we shouldn't be indifferent to the act of industrial relations on working lives," Mr Rudd said.

Asked if his stance was departure from the secular practices of the Labor party, Mr Rudd replied: "I don't know that that's necessarily the case at all."

http://au.news.yahoo.com/061001/2/10qzk.html?f=mv

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So many issues, but really... owning God?? And why should Christian values only apply to social justice issues, and why are Christian values being relegated to the status of an 'alternative vision' for Australia? - it's not as though our entire nation and legal system were founded on Christian principles or anything... oh wait is that a quote from the preamble of our constitution I see?: "Whereas the people of New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Queensland, and Tasmania, humbly relying on the blessing of Almighty God, have agreed to unite in one indissoluble Federal Commonwealth under the Crown of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and under the Constitution hereby established"