It was shown on ABC TV here in Australia as well. It was a fairly terrible video, and the blood on the camera lens didn't make it any better. A sad indictment on the men and women crewing that helicopter.
I work for a media organisation so if you were in Australia I'd be able to give you some numbers to call, but there's not much I can do across the Pacific. Have you tried writing a couple of opinion pieces and emailing them to every newspaper you can think of? They won't pay you much if they decide to print, but it might be worth a shot. If you've got a suit then doing a walk-in could be a good idea (if you can afford to get to the paper's office).
The title for this article is hilarious, Mig! It's probably inappropriate to laugh but I can't help it. You've made my morning!
FROM NOW ON ALL MY NEW BLOGS WILL BE WRITTEN IN CAPS - IT WORKED FOR MARVIN, WHY NOT ME? GIVE IT A TRY CAREBEAR!
Uh, how so in Australia? Large scale gun shipments have to come in by water, and I think a convoy of trucks across the outback would be damned easy to spot Actually most interior food shipments come in via truck convoys or road trains. It wouldn't be technically difficult to smuggle arms in the convoys
Good point, but the caching is just as easy in Australia. Most places in Oz are within a few minutes walk of a large park with some amount of scrub or bush for concealment. But I do agree that the population density and the militancy of American gunowners would be a major block to any Australian-style gun control, let alone English-style. If it got to the level where door-to-door searches become necessary then it may as well be called off -
The PM announced a $1 million dollar aid package for the survivors and the families of the dead within 24 hours of the blast. I don't like him, but you have to give him credit for that.
. do not feel it a mistake to judge the terrorists, any more than it would be a mistake to judge a serial killer, for that is precisely what they are. What IS a mistake is to judge an entire race, an entire faith, or an entire country, especially when the actions are perpetuated by a minority of its citizens. One reason I cannot
Keep an ear out - I think that baby-eating Kerry story is just days away now.
You miss my point. While I am ideologically anti-war, there's a world of difference between a misguided bomb or missile (still horrendous, don't get me wrong) and a deliberate, calculated attack to take out civilians. I think I have far less trust for the military than you. Whilst I am on one level wil
Apologies for the tone of the article - it was 2 oclock in the morning where I live and I'd had a few drinks, but I still think I'm right about the general thrust of my argument. The simple fact is that they do speak out - Muhammadiyah and Nahdatul Ulama, between them accounting for 59 million members, have both condemned terrorist attacks. High-level Egyptian clerics have done so as well. Individual imams throughout the Islamic world have t
Over the past few weeks this site has seen an upsurge in the number of articles attacking Islam for failing to police its more militant wings. Comparisons have been made with the failure of church leaders to condemn Nazism in the 1930s and the failure of American pastors to condemn racism in the 19th and 20th centuries. In nearly all cases Muslims are labelled wrong
Considering how close the police forces of Australia and Indonesia are, I seriously doubt the US will be necessary in this particular situation. Mick Keelty has done a great job enhancing friendships with the Indonesian police force, and we can pretty much count on them investigating this fully and finding the perpetrators. The Bali Bombings were a watershed in cooperation, and there's no way that those responsible with this bomb will be able to get
It's a shame there's no breakdown for sects. I remember hearing somewhere that Shi'a Islam and Wahhabism are particularly likely to be terrorist, but less so the Sunni and Southeast Asian non-denominational. If this is true, then perhaps we only need to blame the rough equivalent of Presbyterians rather than the rough equivalent of Christianity. That would narrow the focus considerably. It's good to see though that over 2001-2003 the number
Indonesian: Maaf. (pron Mah-ahf)
Our murder rate has been in decline over the last decade, and gun-related deaths have plummeted dramatically, as have all incidence of armed crime. Guns were outlawed in Australia to reduce the incidence of massacres and not so much as a block to crime. Since the Port Arthur incident there have been no massacres of innocents in Australia. That sounds effective to me. Also many criminals have sig
I don't think any liberal feels murder is morally justifiable. It's just common sense that if you deliberately go out of your way to antagonise people, to the extent where your actions are equivalent to ensuring that those you persuade spend an eternity of suffering in hell, you can expect to face significant opposition. In most cases where Christians are targeted by Muslims it's either due to political issues or because those Christians are attempti
I got libertarian?!? Personal Issues: 80% Economic Score: 60% I think it got too spun to the top by the economics questions. If it wasn't for my belief in reduced spending and free and fair trade I'd be on the border of centrist and left liberal, which is probably about right.
I think you'd get on very well with some Buddhists I know. They've made much the same sort of arguments to me, ie that god is something that can only be found through knowing the self. It is possible for others to help, but really the only one capable of ensuring salvation is oneself. I too don't really believe in a heaven or hell; where I am now seems far more interesting and varied than either could ever be, so I'm not in any great rush to
It could also be that so many US athletes are total assholes. At the 2000 Olympics the track and field team posed centrefield for about half an hour with the flags around them because they won a few gold. No one likes a bad winner, and quite often US athletes are bad winners. Not all the time, but definitely some of the time.
Good to see you also believe in public education. But you're going to fit in fine here - there's plenty of right-wingers on this site. Don't forget though that plenty of left-wingers think Mike Moore is an arsehole as well. You're not alone out there.
Saying something about "American pigdogs" or "uncivilised Americans in their Hawaiian shirts" is one of the easiest ways to get a laugh in much of the world. Almost noone loves America amongst the educated outsiders. It's just too hard to reconcile the American people, who always seem like good people, with their governments, which appear to get off on inflicting the darkest despairs in the most godforsaken corners of the globe. The US jus
cheers. I took no. 9.
Do you have a source for your argument, or is it based solely on your fluency in Hebrew? It sounds pretty interesting, although I fail to see how it invalidates Christianity as a faith. Jesus is simply an appropriate name to call the son of heaven. In addition it's slightly in opposition to much of accepted Jewish and Christian theology to argue that humanity is actually capable of balancing divinity with physical. Buddhist theology would certainly
c) I think you owuld be hard pressed to prove that the average PhD is any more intelligent than the average bachelor's degree holder. The most common advanced degree holders in the United States are lawyers and psychologists. And neither has shown any budding intelligence level beyond the ordinary in my experience. </TAB
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