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Valiant Dancer
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Posted - 10/04/2004 :  12:44:02  Show Profile  Visit Valiant Dancer's Homepage Send Valiant Dancer a Private Message
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6171561/

Could have been worse. They could have named the passenger.

At least the Aussies didn't detonate it.

Cthulhu/Asmodeus when you're tired of voting for the lesser of two evils

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Ricky
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Posted - 10/11/2004 :  11:01:24   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Send Ricky an AOL message Send Ricky a Private Message
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quote:
Australia has been under heightened security alert since the Sept. 11, 2001, hijacked airliner attacks on the United States and security at major buildings and transport hubs has been tightened even further ahead of an Oct. 9 election.


Is Australia really a target for a terrorist? I mean, I know that they really could attack anywhere at anytime, but just think about a group of terrorists around a camp fire:

"Hmm, where should we attack next? Who haven't we gotten in a really long time? I know! Australia!"

Why continue? Because we must. Because we have the call. Because it is nobler to fight for rationality without winning than to give up in the face of continued defeats. Because whatever true progress humanity makes is through the rationality of the occasional individual and because any one individual we may win for the cause may do more for humanity than a hundred thousand who hug their superstitions to their breast.
- Isaac Asimov
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Valiant Dancer
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Posted - 10/11/2004 :  11:24:05   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Valiant Dancer's Homepage Send Valiant Dancer a Private Message
quote:
Originally posted by Ricky

From the article:

quote:
Australia has been under heightened security alert since the Sept. 11, 2001, hijacked airliner attacks on the United States and security at major buildings and transport hubs has been tightened even further ahead of an Oct. 9 election.


Is Australia really a target for a terrorist? I mean, I know that they really could attack anywhere at anytime, but just think about a group of terrorists around a camp fire:

"Hmm, where should we attack next? Who haven't we gotten in a really long time? I know! Australia!"



Sure, they'll also say, "By Allah, we need to kill the Infidel Hogan who brings mirth and bemusement".

"(mimicing Hogan) That's not a knife, (unsheathing Kopish sword) this, by Allah, is a knife".


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Siberia
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Posted - 10/11/2004 :  13:06:52   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Siberia's Homepage  Send Siberia an AOL message  Send Siberia a Yahoo! Message Send Siberia a Private Message
Maybe they were just drunk and thought they were elsewhere ;)

"Why are you afraid of something you're not even sure exists?"
- The Kovenant, Via Negativa

"People who don't like their beliefs being laughed at shouldn't have such funny beliefs."
-- unknown
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gezzam
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Posted - 10/11/2004 :  16:03:24   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit gezzam's Homepage Send gezzam a Private Message
quote:
Originally posted by Ricky

From the article:

quote:
Australia has been under heightened security alert since the Sept. 11, 2001, hijacked airliner attacks on the United States and security at major buildings and transport hubs has been tightened even further ahead of an Oct. 9 election.


Is Australia really a target for a terrorist? I mean, I know that they really could attack anywhere at anytime, but just think about a group of terrorists around a camp fire:

"Hmm, where should we attack next? Who haven't we gotten in a really long time? I know! Australia!"



We just had our elections down here on the weekend and the conservatives won using the old "Trust us, the other party can't control the terrorist threat" trick. Well that and a great intrest rate scare as well.

What is it with conservatives and negative campaigning???

We did lose 88 people in Bali which is a favorite destination of Aussie tourists and out embassy was bombed in Jakarta a few weeks ago. Since our little adventure with Georgie boy in Iraq we have been mentioned by Al Quieda (told to the public with much fanfare and almost pride(?) by the media).

But as I say to my friends, more people die in road accidents that are killed by terrorists. The chances of something happening down here are bugger all. Yes there is a minute chance, but I am not going to change the way I live my life. Once you do that, the terrorists have already won.

Who would waste their time with us anyway. Half our country would be too drunk to realize, the other half too busy sitting on their arses watching football or cricket.

Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.

Al Franken
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Ricky
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Posted - 10/11/2004 :  16:36:31   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Send Ricky an AOL message Send Ricky a Private Message
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Who would waste their time with us anyway. Half our country would be too drunk to realize, the other half too busy sitting on their arses watching football or cricket.


Sounds like an awsome country. Maybe I should move.

Why continue? Because we must. Because we have the call. Because it is nobler to fight for rationality without winning than to give up in the face of continued defeats. Because whatever true progress humanity makes is through the rationality of the occasional individual and because any one individual we may win for the cause may do more for humanity than a hundred thousand who hug their superstitions to their breast.
- Isaac Asimov
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