Never been on one myself, though I know there is a place for them. I prefer to wing it, other than maybe booking a hotel in advance on the odd occasion.
Sounds wonderful. Great to be so free. Enjoy your time, wherever it leads you.
I agree with you about buying local. I will only buy online if it is something I cannot find otherwise. Many things are just not available in stores, except for a mobile 'phone once, and there was no way anyone could possibly match the 2/3 price reduction.
I also buy my overseas airfares online these days. I used to offer the purchase to local travel agents for reasons you gave, but one just couldn't match it, the other could, but once I desperately needed to alter departure dates, and this local place was going to charge me around $800 for the privelege, with no guarantee of when I would get the paltry left over amount reimbursed. Now the online travel agent I use is Australian, and once needed to alter my father's return travel dates from o/s and it only cost $75 each for the agent and airline, to chage it. Bad business practice on the part of the local agent as they miss out on good commission.
I've bought a number off books, cd's and dvd's, a rowing machine, and recently a new radiator for my car.....the only grief was ordering a lacy, black corset, supposedly my size, but I swear a starving African would have had trouble getting into it!
Same here, serene. But that's because babies change looks by the hour. I remember once telling the nurse in such a panic, that he wasn't my baby. Then I looked closely, and whew, it was him...reading the little wrist tag would have settled it quicker!
Thanks robplum... It does becomes a bit nebulous, but the matter was dealt with under the umbrella of our legal system, and not ever saying that eg spearing replaces western law. It refers to the punishment and associated suffering, sustained by the accused. I guess once the spearing had occurred, it could not be undone, and as far as I am aware, I have not known it to be openly condoned by our courts. It would be interesting and more than that, vital, to find out if it is. There is no room for political correctness when it comes to the law.
They used this principal of group responsibility and accountability in a group therapy modality with delinquent boys back in the 70's. If any of the lads behaved in a socially inappropriate manner by way of breaking any of the agreed upon rules and regulations, then the entire group 'wore it'. it did have a significant impact on behaviour change overall.
No, not formally. But who of us sees what goes on out in the bush? It's not you and I, so I can't comment personally, only heresay, which is not admissable as evidence in our courts of law.
Mind you, this doesn't stop pointing the bone at someone. Even non-indigenous police are terrified of that as reported to me in the NT, by those who knew such policemen. But that is for a different thread.
if you can focus on the issue of one legal system vs another for one moment, how would you vote if we had a referendum(quite a possibility) on introducing Sharia Law as a valid alternative to our legal system.
it has nothing to do with sheer thuggery and violence.
The issue here is much braoder than that. It is about embracing a strict set of laws that essentially override Western legal system. The above article illustrates an example of how certain individuals decided to implement it. As these four men saw it, the fellow who was given the lashings, had broke the law, Sharia law. Punishment was metered out as a consequence of breaking this law. It was based on any other act of violence.
There is a strong movement to implememt Sharia Law as separate from our Legal system. This is what is up for discussion, really.
It's starting folks!...I am not here to incite racial or cultural intolerance. I simply wish to alert a wave of violence that is no doubt going to rear its ugly head as the weeks and months go by...against their own kind. Imagine how an infedel or non-Muslim is regarded.
This young man whose home was broken into in the middle of the night, now fears for his life and is witholding further information from authorities....Sorry, but this stuff really gets to me. I am furious, along with members of many Australian Muslims, that anyone dares to commit such practices in a non-Muslim country.
Man bailed over 'sharia law' lashing
Updated July 19, 2011 16:51:38
Police say the ordeal lasted 30 minutes. Map: Silverwater A 20-year-old man accused of whipping a Sydney man 40 times as part of an alleged sharia law punishment for drinking alcohol has been granted bail.
Police say the 31-year-old victim woke to find four bearded men in his bedroom at Silverwater, in the city's west, about 1:00am (AEST) on Sunday.
The men allegedly held him down on his bed and lashed him with a cable 40 times during the 30-minute ordeal.
The victim has told police he was being punished under sharia law for drinking alcohol.
Detectives arrested the 20-year-old man at his Auburn home last night.
He has been charged with aggravated break and enter as well as maliciously inflicting actual bodily harm - a sentence which carries a maximum jail term of 20 years.
The man faced Burwood Local Court today.
The police prosecutor opposed bail, saying the 20-year-old's actions shows he has no respect for the laws of the state.
But the man's solicitor, Tunc Ozen, said his client was "a person of prior good character" and should be granted bail.
"He does not pose a threat to the community," he said.
Magistrate Tim Keddy said although the 20-year-old's charges were "extremely serious and violent" he believed strict conditional bail was warranted.
He ordered the man to remain at home between 8:00pm and 7:00am and not to leave the residence without his mother or father.
He was also told to surrender his passport and instructed not to visit any airports or other points of departure from Australia.
This afternoon, police charged a second man over the alleged lashing.
The 43-year-old will appear in Burwood Local Court tomorrow.
In the search for the other attackers, police say officers were assaulted by a 16-year-old boy during a search of another Auburn home.
The teenager has been ordered to face court next month charged with assault, resisting arrest and hindering police.
Police say they are still looking for the other attackers.
Representatives of Sydney's Muslim community have condemned the alleged lashing attack.
It's starting folks!...I am not here to incite racial or cultural intolerance. I simply wish to alert a wave of violence that is no doubt going to rear its ugly head as the weeks and months go by...against their own kind. Imagine how an infedel or non-Muslim is regarded.
This young man whose home was broken into in the middle of the night, now fears for his life and is witholding further information from authorities....Sorry, but this stuff really gets to me. I am furious, along with members of many Australian Muslims, that anyone dares to commit such practices in a non-Muslim country.
Man bailed over 'sharia law' lashing
Updated July 19, 2011 16:51:38
Police say the ordeal lasted 30 minutes. Map: Silverwater A 20-year-old man accused of whipping a Sydney man 40 times as part of an alleged sharia law punishment for drinking alcohol has been granted bail.
Police say the 31-year-old victim woke to find four bearded men in his bedroom at Silverwater, in the city's west, about 1:00am (AEST) on Sunday.
The men allegedly held him down on his bed and lashed him with a cable 40 times during the 30-minute ordeal.
The victim has told police he was being punished under sharia law for drinking alcohol.
Detectives arrested the 20-year-old man at his Auburn home last night.
He has been charged with aggravated break and enter as well as maliciously inflicting actual bodily harm - a sentence which carries a maximum jail term of 20 years.
The man faced Burwood Local Court today.
The police prosecutor opposed bail, saying the 20-year-old's actions shows he has no respect for the laws of the state.
But the man's solicitor, Tunc Ozen, said his client was "a person of prior good character" and should be granted bail.
"He does not pose a threat to the community," he said.
Magistrate Tim Keddy said although the 20-year-old's charges were "extremely serious and violent" he believed strict conditional bail was warranted.
He ordered the man to remain at home between 8:00pm and 7:00am and not to leave the residence without his mother or father.
He was also told to surrender his passport and instructed not to visit any airports or other points of departure from Australia.
This afternoon, police charged a second man over the alleged lashing.
The 43-year-old will appear in Burwood Local Court tomorrow.
In the search for the other attackers, police say officers were assaulted by a 16-year-old boy during a search of another Auburn home.
The teenager has been ordered to face court next month charged with assault, resisting arrest and hindering police.
Police say they are still looking for the other attackers.
Representatives of Sydney's Muslim community have condemned the alleged lashing attack.
Whatever is going on with the world economy today, will sure as eggs, be changing by mid-end of this and next week, what with the Murdoch empire coming undone at the seams, the US near bankruptsy and the EU holding on by a thread...
Throw in a few more natural disasters, and we should be just about done.
We all feed into it. Therefore, best to send out positive energy rather than negative. The former is what helps to shape the reality we want for ourselves. And guess what? We are not alone...in this universe. Our energy interacts with everyone and everything else's. Quantum physics 101 will tell you that.
If you both spontaneously felt like kissing, no matter how subtle the gesture, I doubt either one of you would try and stop that from happening. Why would you? Do we have to have rules for everything?
I think it's been about being able to get married. Celibacy probably wasn't much of an issue. it never stopped some priests and nuns as well know. But they haven't been able to tie the knot, which has seen many a good clergyman/woman leave despite their good work within the Church. I have known a few and one priest did actually leave and get married. I remember when he came to pick me up one day when I was about 19 or so, to go to some youth event with him, my mother told me to 'watch out for him' and I wondered what on earth she was talking about. He was a priest, after all, how on earth could he be interested in me, I thought, naiively so. I lost touch with him, and later found out he had left and married an Italian lassie. My mother obviously picked him to have that wandering eye. A wonderful man though. High up in mental health last I heard.
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RE: Online Shopping
Depends on how much they cost ya, Shell