This is political - if that is likely to offend you please disregard this message. Flames welcome, but off-list please. Bear in mind it qualifies for list-space by containing satire and at least one reference to Belle and Sebastian. <= That was it. I am also convinced that our fey Scottish popsters of choice would have mentioned Chomsky (see end) in a song by now were it not so damnably difficult to rhyme with. Just like 'Orange'. It looks like there may shortly be a vote in the UK parliament on the war in Iraq. If you are interested, you can make your voice heard. Here's how to find out who your MP* is: http://www.locata.co.uk/commons/ You will find a link to contact them by email. Then if you are *in favour* of the war in Iraq, simply copy and paste this: I am writing to express my support for the government's position on Iraq. I admire your resolve to go the UN route - it's not your fault that you failed to convince anyone but Spain to agree with you. On the contrary, this just proves that the UN doesn't work. What good is an organisation which cannot be bullied or paid-off to rubber-stamp American foreign policy? So in future I don't think you should bother with that 'talking shop'. No, I think our military killing machine will do the talking just fine from now on. OR if you are *against *: You clearly have a brain - write your own. You might want to include the latest Amnesty International estimates that 50,000 civilian Iraqis will be killed and 500,000 injured. http://public.amnesty.org.uk/iraq has an online petition and a suggestion for a form of words. If war breaks out then follow the advice at http://www.stopthewar.org.uk/ If anyone would like to join me on a Sinister March-nic in London this Saturday 22nd, please mail me off-list. Thanks for your time, Geoff (better dressed than you since 1998) * Find out how they voted last time here: http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/Templates/ Still bored? Read Noam Chomsky's major works online for FREE here: http://www.zmag.org/chomsky/books.cfm __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more http://taxes.yahoo.com/ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+