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Post by travishayes89 on Dec 8, 2007 0:16:42 GMT -5
From the Rhino Bucket myspace bulletin: 12/07/08 Lori Basheda of The Orange County Register reports that a Newport Beach, California couple borrowed $100,000 to book TWISTED SISTER with the hopes that they will sell enough tickets to make all their money back, and then some. The couple dreamed up the scheme on the heels of their engagement in September (while listening to a TWISTED SISTER song) as a way to start their marriage off on the right foot. Now, you might be thinking, going into debt $100,000 to throw a heavy metal concert sounds suspiciously like starting off on the wrong foot. But then you haven’t heard the whole story. The Dec. 14 show will raise money for the Southern California families of military personnel in Iraq. They hope. If "A Twisted Christmas…Caroling for the Corps" sells all 4,300 seats at the Bren Events Center at UCI, it will pay off the loan the couple took out, and raise more than $100,000 for the Southern California Chapter of Operation Homefront, a national organization that helps pay the bills for the families of deployed troops and those who return home wounded. It's a big if. The couple has 3,700 tickets to sell, and only seven days left to sell them. TWISTED SISTER and two other bands, METAL school and THE IRON MAIDENS (a female tribute band to IRON MAIDEN), didn't commit until about three weeks ago, so the couple hasn't had much time to get the word out. Now if that ain't a kickass way to show your support for someone (not for war, but for the men and women doing their job), what is?
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Post by rhece6 on Dec 12, 2007 2:45:25 GMT -5
Risky idea. They will probably sell all the tickets in my opinion.
In Australia, if the Howard Government got back in, My dad would have gone to Iraq but since the Labor Party (led By Kevin "07" Rudd) got in, he won't be going now and all Australian troops will be out of Iraq by mid 2008. But Troops stay on in Afghanistan.
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Post by travishayes89 on Dec 12, 2007 20:10:17 GMT -5
How is that logical, the troops out of Iraq, but stay in Afghanistan?
But I heard about John Howard's loss / Kevin Rudd's win (whichever way you want to look it).
I honestly think the US needs to stay in it though. We've pulled out of the Middle East too many times too early and had to reap the rewards of saving some American lives, that we need to do the job properly this time. G. Bush (80s) was in Iraq, and LEFT Hussein in power. This G. Bush finally got the son of a bitch out of office, and is trying to help get them a democracy set up.
Now, in comparison to the US Governement, which would the Australian Labor Party be more like? Democrats or Republicans?
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Post by rhece6 on Dec 13, 2007 18:14:58 GMT -5
People just don't understand the situation. It's a typical stereotype that people think that we go over to the middle east just to kill people. Thats no where near what our countries are all about. America just get screwtenised every time they do something simply because they are Americans and an Army about 4 times the size of ours.
At least you've got the idea Hayes.
Howard would have won if he never brought in his "work choices" laws. The laws which looked like a good idea at the time lost him and his party government.
I think more like Democrats. I'm not to familiar with the parties of America but Democrats seems to fit Labor's image better. Since Historically they are tied with labor unions and Workers as such.
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Post by travishayes89 on Dec 13, 2007 20:29:22 GMT -5
Yeah, and also people after 9/11 were in a state of "get the fucking fucker known as Osama Bin Laden" but now people seem to have forgotten about the fact that we still have a mission over there.
According to Wikipedia, you're right about the comparison. Democrats are center-left wings, same with the ALP.
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Post by rhece6 on Dec 17, 2007 17:03:48 GMT -5
Yeah I know. People even forget that they are fighting in two separate countries. It's simply typical uneducated people thinking that the military are all about blowing the shit out of a nation.
I saw a report on the News last night that the Iraq military has finally began it's training led by British troops. The more the Iraq people can handle themselves the better as the US and the allied forces are under alot of pressure to get something 'real' done over there.
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Post by travishayes89 on Dec 17, 2007 19:31:26 GMT -5
Yeah, and I think that most people, even people in New York, forget about 9/11.
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Post by rhece6 on Dec 17, 2007 21:30:02 GMT -5
Bullshit. We still hear about here. You Americans make sure the rest of the world know about it.
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Post by travishayes89 on Dec 18, 2007 0:42:02 GMT -5
Yeah.
But the next election here in the US brings up a quote: "The only thing worse than not voting, is not being an educated voter." or something like that. We basically can have the 90s first-lady as the first female president. A senator as the first black. Or go the usual route and have a white guy.
I think that this election is gonna be like 2004, voting for the lesser of two evils. It always seems like that too.
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