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Reply to Arab Hypocrocy Over The Barbaric Killing of Berg! in Current Events JoeUser Forums

"...baning women from an education, blame the ills of their people on say France instead of looking to themselves for the root causes , and ignoring and not prosecuting those who are involved in abuses......go figure!" As far as I know, and prove me wrong if you can, America has been guilty of all these crimes at some time or another. And when you look at a global media environment, Fox News and other American news newtworks are more

The Monkey's Out of the Bag in Politics JoeUser Forums

Extract from a letter addressed to the Liberal Party from the Secretary of the ALP: Dear Fuckaroos, We have spent the last days admiring your budget-cum-under-the-table-bribe. We really have. Admitted, it’s a cold admiration lacking in any of the warmth that has traditionally been associated with that emotion. This admiration chills

Nth Degrees of Separation in Internet JoeUser Forums

What’s in a name? Someone asked that once, someone in pain and on the theatre stage. It could have once been asked when accusations were brandished like guillotines and the man of the woods stalked the virgin forests of Salem, but that will always be historically obscured. It served Arthur Miller’s purpose, and we all know what somebody else said –

Reply to It's not my fault in Misc JoeUser Forums

We do not live in a vacum. An individual is actually responsible for so very little. We have so little room for movement as individuals. In isolation, events or occurences can be blamed soely on the individual. Within a group context it becomes harder to distinguish between individual responsibility and group/social/corporate responsibility. It would be naive to believe that the death of Nick Berg or the actions Lynndie England could

Reply to Bunny Porn in Humor JoeUser Forums

If it was Sydney, probably. Damn there are some big rats here.

Bunny Porn in Humor JoeUser Forums

It has been reported that rabbits have been "congregating" in front of the new Swiss Watch bill board that graces New York's Time Square. Swatch watch's advertising campaign launches the companies new range of watches - Bunnysutra. The bill board depicts bunnies in various "compromising" positions that mimic several of the positions demonstrated in the Kama S

Reply to what really happens to american tourists in australia in Humor JoeUser Forums

That tickled me silly. No wonder we try to overrun their blog sites.

Reply to Stupid Al-Quada in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Oops. Almost forgot. My country was also involved, so whatever I said above also applies to Australia. We have been very, very, very silly.

Reply to Stupid Al-Quada in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Dharmagrl said terrorism can be defined as 'systematic use of violence, terror and intimidation to acheive an end' . Could this definition be applied to the U.S's invasion of Iraq. A military invasion of a sovereign country, the dropping of bombs, the shooting of people, the cutting off of power and water, the destruction of infrastructure, the imprisonment of people defending their own country (if a country invaded the US, would Americans fee

Reply to Beginnings and endings on death row. in Misc JoeUser Forums

I guess my point is that a lot of the time it is often incarceration that is the cause of not only repeat offending but also an escalation in the type of offence commited. Many lesser criminals cannot be re-integrated into wider society once they have served jail time. Sometimes the only choice they have is to turn back to crime. I think that the effects of this de-socialisation can often be a contributing factor in the lessening cap

Sex in the third world...not a comedy in Current Events JoeUser Forums

William Brown, a former diplomat to Indonesia for Australia, was sentenced to 13 years on charges of Sexual harassment and Forcible sexual intercourse with a minor. Thank God. It doesn't sound like much, but the last foreigner to get charged was only sentenced to less than a year. For too long places like Indonesia and Thailand have be

Reply to Beginnings and endings on death row. in Misc JoeUser Forums

If we do not allow the concept of rehabilitation to determine the organisation and direction of imprisonment then you are going to breed a class of criminals that are little more than animals. Treat someone (anyone) like an animal and don't be to surprised when they turn into one. There is a large amount of literature that argues this point. Of course you would have to make up your own mind. All i know is that if i was locked up in a

Reply to To Be or not to Be? in Blogging JoeUser Forums

I would definitely take the vampire option - evil and all. Eternity is long enough to resolve any moral and ethical doubts that you might have at the beginning. You could become a connoisseur of morality. With eternity you could become a connoiseur of a great many things. Being a night stalker has become much less of an inconvenience with the advent of late night shopping. Sure you would have to spill blood, but

Reply to The land of the fat in Health & Medicine JoeUser Forums

one must eat to live, but you should never live just to eat. I see cases of the later everyday. There is a lot more to life than consumption.

How one goes about buying a nation in a day in Politics JoeUser Forums

The Australian government released their budget today and it makes for some fairly interesting reading. A lot of chest thumping on the television screen, a lot of men and women dressed in suits far too late into the evening. There are talks of early elections, perhaps prior to the Olympic games, while everything is going dandy. While the governme

Reply to A hobbled horse and a man with a whip in Politics JoeUser Forums

I fear that the "real world" is even worse. The "real world" doesn't have rooms that enforce quiet and line their walls with volumes still bound in leather. I just wonder how much longer its going to last. I have no stomach for weeping.

Reply to i'm a lesbian virgin in Sex & Romance JoeUser Forums

I can't help but remember the immutable rule of self autonomy and self sovereignty. We sell ourselves and our precious lives to jobs we do not want or need. We barter our integrity on a daily basis for less than the opportunity to educate ourselves. We can do this because our lives are our own to sell. We live with the consequences of our choices day in and day out - so will she, so will the man that bought into a delusion and a mome

A hobbled horse and a man with a whip in Politics JoeUser Forums

Universities are interesting institutions these days. That is not to say that they are as interesting as they used to be. What they used to be is what I still love but can no longer find. A thing to immerse yourself in, a sentence to skip over and delight in; a thing of politics and passion; torn t-shirts and slogans written on skin; chants in the ha

Meridians in History JoeUser Forums

This is my father’s story. He keeps it in his head, behind firmly shut lips, a stare that extends backwards, knowing things that can’t be said or implied. It’s this silence that separates us. The child and his silent father. Whatever distance he has travelled is the distance that is still left for me. A long way in miles, as well as years, b

Reply to Hands up if you like banging your head against a wall? in Personal Relationships JoeUser Forums

Wreckless, You have no idea what that comment means to me. I was scared as soon as i hit the submit button. You just made me feel a whole lot more comfortable about it. Thankyou

Reply to Cheerleaders and Schoolgirls in Uniform in Blogging JoeUser Forums

i'm still back at the librarian. Lying on a stack of books. English accent, saying "you naughty, naughty, naughty boy" over and over again. Or is that just me fantasising about my second grade teacher? There was always one in High School, the school's fanatasy mistress. Stories would circulate wildly about someone who new someone caught her masturbating in the broom closet once. At my school it was a sto

Reply to Naive eye for the straight guy in Politics JoeUser Forums

Hey Wreckless, I can just imagine the stockings with thongs at the end of them. I suspect that the makeup would run with prodigious consumption of VB though. Men in the back yard firing back and forth - "you're a poof" "Nah mate, you are", "look at your wig", "well look at yours". Fisticuffs would inevitably follow. Thanks for the comment

Reply to Naive eye for the straight guy in Politics JoeUser Forums

You're supposed to be asleep. It seems blogging has seeped in so deep that its become somnambulistic for you. Kudos

Reply to Hands up if you like banging your head against a wall? in Personal Relationships JoeUser Forums

In that case we would have to have a vegemite war. I will not be held under the dominion of a Vegemite empire

Naive eye for the straight guy in Politics JoeUser Forums

Males can change. There’s a television show dedicated to it. Men changing men. Men that like men changing men that like to be “men”. There is a difference. It might be in the jacket or the day bed that graces a spacious living room. It could be in the fragrance that is chosen to represent “you” on a certain day. It could be the magazine t