http://michaelpalinforpresident.com/

"Ken"  a écrit dans le message de news: 
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| http://michaelpalinforpresident.com/

(Hey, as the US thinks it owns the world we must all be American by default, so 
he should be ok).

If Michael Palin were president the world would be a safer place. A more sane 
and worldly-wise individual you would be hard pressed to find. An Oxford 
graduate in Modern History, he's visited at least as many foreign countries as 
the entire Bush administration put together. Probably considerably more. Except 
he's done it the hard way, trekking around the globe for the best part of two 
decades, often living with the locals. He's written some great books about his 
experiences and insights. And he's still kept his sense of humour.

"Palin recently admitted that he had spent the past 17 years "busy polluting 
this environment on almost every conceivable form of carbon-emitting vehicle". 
But he also claimed that his adventures reduced overall greenhouse gas emissions 
by encouraging people to remain on their sofas. He told a recent environmental 
conference: "I shall continue to make travel programmes, secure in the knowledge 
that the food I'm seen eating, the sanitary arrangements I'm seen experiencing 
and the coughing attacks that strike me halfway up high mountains are doing more 
than any government could to persuade people to stay at home." (Timesonline 
piece).

"Just keeping on travelling for the sake of it is not the point for me. I'm not 
so interested in ticking off the big names (North Pole, South Pole, Tierra Del 
Fuego, the Amazon) just for the sake of it. You have to get something out of 
each encounter, a wider knowledge, a sense of history and a feeling for the 
people and their way of life as well as just the T-shirt." (Michael. Palin, May 
08 newsletter).

And anyone in any way responsible for the likes of Meaning of Life and Life of 
Brian would get my vote. Pythonesque religious satire and Life of Brian in 
particular was a big influence on the younger generations in the early 70s, and 
continues to annoy the religious establishment 30+ years on.

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On Sep 25, 9:08 pm, "PG"  wrote:
> "Ken"  a écrit dans le message de news:
> 6e1101a4-2128-4ca5-94ba-0942ce731...@e53g2000hsa.googlegroups.com...
> |http://michaelpalinforpresident.com/
>
> (Hey, as the US thinks it owns the world we must all be American by default, so
> he should be ok).
>
> If Michael Palin were president the world would be a safer place. A more sane
> and worldly-wise individual you would be hard pressed to find. An Oxford
> graduate in Modern History, he's visited at least as many foreign countries as
> the entire Bush administration put together. Probably considerably more. Except
> he's done it the hard way, trekking around the globe for the best part of two
> decades, often living with the locals. He's written some great books about his
> experiences and insights. And he's still kept his sense of humour.
>
> "Palin recently admitted that he had spent the past 17 years "busy polluting
> this environment on almost every conceivable form of carbon-emitting vehicle".
> But he also claimed that his adventures reduced overall greenhouse gas emissions
> by encouraging people to remain on their sofas. He told a recent environmental
> conference: "I shall continue to make travel programmes, secure in the knowledge
> that the food I'm seen eating, the sanitary arrangements I'm seen experiencing
> and the coughing attacks that strike me halfway up high mountains are doing more
> than any government could to persuade people to stay at home." (Timesonline
> piece).
>
> "Just keeping on travelling for the sake of it is not the point for me. I'm not
> so interested in ticking off the big names (North Pole, South Pole, Tierra Del
> Fuego, the Amazon) just for the sake of it. You have to get something out of
> each encounter, a wider knowledge, a sense of history and a feeling for the
> people and their way of life as well as just the T-shirt." (Michael. Palin, May
> 08 newsletter).
>
> And anyone in any way responsible for the likes of Meaning of Life and Life of
> Brian would get my vote. Pythonesque religious satire and Life of Brian in
> particular was a big influence on the younger generations in the early 70s, and
> continues to annoy the religious establishment 30 years on.
>
> pg

REPLY: Atheists wouldnt want a dedicated Christian with strong values,
morals, and ethics...for obvious reasons ;  it would be a personal
affront .

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