![]() ![]() A deeply moving collection of songs, helmed by a cherished selection of artists. In the eight years since they formed, what’s followed is an impressive reach of their music with standout single Bloom (from their Woodland EP) certified platinum with over 700,000 tracks sold across America, which sees them join a small list of Aussie artists (including ACDC, INXS, Midnight Oil, SIA, Kylie Minogue, Flume and Silverchair) who have received platinum accreditation in the US.Įver the quiet achievers - The Paper Kites return with their 5th studio album, 'Roses' is a testament to sincere, patient and understated songwriting. The Paper Kites (which includes vocalist Sam Bentley, vocalist Christina Lacy, guitarist Dave Powys, drummer Josh Bentley and bassist Sam Rasmussen) have earned a loyal, organic fan base. With their brand of weather-beaten ballads and rain drenched pop, the 10 track album bleeds with gentle significance, full of power and sentimentality. With official platinum certification in the US, Melbourne indie folk outfit The Paper Kites released their highly anticipated fifth studio album 'Roses' in 2021. ![]() There’s been no stopping for The Paper Kites since their critically acclaimed 2015 album twelvefour and their 2018 On the Train Ride Home and The Corner Where You Live. Nope, we’ll have to fix this mess the old-fashioned way: Vote the jackwagons out.Tickets on sale to the public Friday, May 19th at 10am. We can’t count on them to help, nor can we rely on Jesus. The problem is that too many politicians are owned by the gun lobby. What we really need is for the government to ban assault weapons and create programs to buy back the 20 million already in circulation. As we saw in Uvalde, not even cops can contain the threat. The scary truth: No fence, metal detector or security guard is a sufficient barrier to someone who’s armed with WMDs. I walk my 10-year-old to his classroom every morning. Not unlike how a fourth-grader doesn’t stand a chance against an armed psychopath. Constitution that gives individuals a right to own assault rifles.įurthermore, it’s a fantasy to think they could stand up to a government with the largest weapons cache in the world. Others used the Second Amendment as justification, cherry-picking the part about a state’s “well-regulated militia,” which they’ve bastardized and taken to mean applies to them. When I asked one of the men in my family about it, he told me he was sure that the new administration would come for all guns. Unsurprisingly, the height of their spending occurred after Barack Obama was elected president. ![]() Personal protection was way down on the list of reasons to have a firearm, and nobody wielded semi-automatic rifles.īut in recent years, many of those same Jesus-loving family members have gone on WMD buying sprees. Back then, gun ownership was about camaraderie, marksmanship and food, not about stockpiling military arms. I never winced around their deer rifles, shotguns and the occasional pistol. I grew up in a family with many hunters, mostly men but even a few women. What a disgusting, shameful scene in a country in which a large portion of its residents care more about their purported right to own these killing machines-America’s real weapons of mass destruction-than they do the safety of children. The former president of the United States attended that event, read the names of the Uvalde shooting victims, and shortly thereafter danced on stage as though it wasn’t a big deal that some of the dead kids were so disfigured that authorities had to identify them through DNA. Now think what his righteous anger would look like had he walked into the National Rifle Association’s annual convention, a gathering that took place in Houston, just three days after 21 people, including 19 children, were massacred at the rural Texas elementary school. Remember the biblical parable of the money changers and shopkeepers who’d set up at the Temple? Jesus overturned their tables and chairs and drove them out with a whip, and that was because they were using his Father’s house as a market. If the son of God were around today, one can be certain that those recent heinous events would give new meaning to the phrase “Jesus wept.” I’m also sure he’d be quite pissed off. ![]()
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