RE: [Brains Trust] Where to from here?
Mark Briggs
-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Friedman [mailto:Paul.F...@communities.qld.gov.au]
Sent: Friday, 27 April 2007 8:23 AM
To: brains...@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: [Brains Trust] Where to from here?Two best teams have made the final
Australia have been excellent and Hayden a joy to watch. Gilchrist due to make some runs so hope it is Saturday night
Off to watch the Broncos Storm game tonight via the Caxton
Michaela continues to grow up much to my sweaty palmedness – she is off to Pink concert soon – saw RHC Peppers a couple of weeks ago.
Regards,
Paul Friedman
Director, Community Safety and
Support Policy Unit
Department of Communities.
Tel: 322 48089
Fax: 3012 9100
paul.f...@communities.qld.gov.au
From: brains...@googlegroups.com [mailto:brains...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Fergus Hogarth
Sent: Friday, 27 April 2007 8:06 AM
To: brains...@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [Brains Trust] Where to from here?
Dear comrades
Yeah, lets leave that shooting business behind. there is too much goodness in the world to get dragged down by such madness. And we will depart Iraq for a while too. But, great to see our ozzie boys into the WC final. I havent seen a ball, but have been hearing a bit online etc.Final should be cracker v Lankis, chucker always a tough prospect to face, but i think Punters XI prob too much depth. I remember watching the last final v Sri Lanki, inc Stuie Law dropping a sitter in the outfield at a critical moment. Or maybe that was another game? Whatever... Hope you all have a great weekend. Fi, dont think i will be able to make it there for June, but will think of some virtual particpation.
hugs to youse all
FOn 26/04/07, Fiona Sinnamon <fiona_s...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
Dear Trust Members,
Ferg, my friend, I couldn't really add to what you have written. There are indeed people in this country who think that giving every student a couple of magnums each (not the ice-cream) would have prevented that massacre. Oi-vey!! [i have just deleted a whole lot of useless opining about gun control and the "mental health system". I prefer to re-read Mr Obama's message]
Movin' on!
We will be in Brisbane on the Queen's Birthday weekend and are going to have a little get together on the evening of Saturday 9th June (venue being investigated but probably somewhere central).
We would love to see you all there and hope you can come.
If you are up for it, pencil us in!!
----- Original Message -----
From: Lord
Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2007 5:10 PM
Subject: [Brains Trust] Where to from here?
It is a massive understatement to suggest that the images from the Virginia shootings are disturbing. Where will this type of madness end? Media saturation continues, every day bringing a new dissection of an angry and extremely ill man, a new witnesses, a new (ex)-friend. Unbelievably awful business. The proponents are lining up. Gun controllers on one side, gun toters on the other (if only the teachers had guns they could have popped the shooter!).
Fiona, your views valued on this one especially. What's the word from your 'hood?
And what is to be made Barack Obama? I came across a blog which had a speech where he suggested the US is a violence obsessed culture. "We glorify it, we encourage it, we ignore it." Not sure Dubya would concur, publicly. And then introduced Iraq and suggested US culture of violence is rooted in an incapacity to understand we are all connected fundamentally as people and trapped in a belief that we can impose our wills on each other and differentiate ourselves and make ourselves feel better from one another because of the accidents of birth or race or gender. "We base our decisions in terms of sending our young men and women to war not on the necessity of defending ourselves but the belief that somehow with military force we can achieve aims that should be achieved through diplomacy and alliances." Interesting times ahead, if he gets any traction.
Just some ramblings for the weekend. Hope you all have a good one.
Hugs
F
PS Fiona, thanks for the recent analysis of attraction to the college sporting system. V interesting.
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Posted By Lord to Brains Trust at 4/19/2007 08:06:00 AM
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-----Original Message-----
From: Fiona Sinnamon [mailto:fiona_s...@sbcglobal.net]
Sent: Thursday, 26 April 2007 2:17 AM
To: brains...@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [Brains Trust] Where to from here?
Dear Trust Members,Ferg, my friend, I couldn't really add to what you have written. There are indeed people in this country who think that giving every student a couple of magnums each (not the ice-cream) would have prevented that massacre. Oi-vey!! [i have just deleted a whole lot of useless opining about gun control and the "mental health system". I prefer to re-read Mr Obama's message]Movin' on!We will be in Brisbane on the Queen's Birthday weekend and are going to have a little get together on the evening of Saturday 9th June (venue being investigated but probably somewhere central).We would love to see you all there and hope you can come.If you are up for it, pencil us in!!----- Original Message -----
From: LordSent: Thursday, April 19, 2007 5:10 PMSubject: [Brains Trust] Where to from here?It is a massive understatement to suggest that the images from the Virginia shootings are disturbing. Where will this type of madness end? Media saturation continues, every day bringing a new dissection of an angry and extremely ill man, a new witnesses, a new (ex)-friend. Unbelievably awful business. The proponents are lining up. Gun controllers on one side, gun toters on the other (if only the teachers had guns they could have popped the shooter!).
Fiona, your views valued on this one especially. What's the word from your 'hood?
And what is to be made Barack Obama? I came across a blog which had a speech where he suggested the US is a violence obsessed culture. "We glorify it, we encourage it, we ignore it." Not sure Dubya would concur, publicly. And then introduced Iraq and suggested US culture of violence is rooted in an incapacity to understand we are all connected fundamentally as people and trapped in a belief that we can impose our wills on each other and differentiate ourselves and make ourselves feel better from one another because of the accidents of birth or race or gender. "We base our decisions in terms of sending our young men and women to war not on the necessity of defending ourselves but the belief that somehow with military force we can achieve aims that should be achieved through diplomacy and alliances." Interesting times ahead, if he gets any traction.
Just some ramblings for the weekend. Hope you all have a good one.
Hugs
F
PS Fiona, thanks for the recent analysis of attraction to the college sporting system. V interesting.
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Posted By Lord to Brains Trust at 4/19/2007 08:06:00 AM
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