Hey Mary,
Best of luck and drop by during break and let us know what's up. Take care and study hard.
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19GOODBYE EVERYBODY!!
by Mary inno, i'm not pissed off at anyone here..........but my job goes back to being full time next week, plus i'm being an apostate by taking some university courses in (gasp!
) religious studies (i'm sure to pass that!
), plus i'm really going to be busy helping my family with some things over the next while, so i'm not going to have time to post here.
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Ok finally the time is here
by SheilaM inhi you all i'm starting this early.
my son is graduating next week from bootcamp.
if anyone would like to congratulate him on his achievemnent please do
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Congratulations Anthony!!!
MARINES
Born in the woods
Trained by a bear
Double set of dog tags
Triple coat of hairM- Mean as hell
A -All the time
R -Rough and tough
I -In the mud
N -Never quit
E -Every Day
S -SEMPER FI!MARINE CORPS
OOORAH!
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I can't believe Amazon.com is selling this trash.
by JeffT inhave a barf bag and your blood pressure meds handy before you open this.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2003391229,00.html.
i think we should let amazon know that promoting the abuse of young children is as bad as abusing them yourself.
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Attention WalMart Shoppers: We will no longer be offering the North American Man-Boy Love Association title, Varieties of Man/Boy Love, by Mark Pascal on our website. Feel free to to exercise your freedom of speech elsewhere. Have a wonderful day and thank you for shopping WalMart. -
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I can't believe Amazon.com is selling this trash.
by JeffT inhave a barf bag and your blood pressure meds handy before you open this.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2003391229,00.html.
i think we should let amazon know that promoting the abuse of young children is as bad as abusing them yourself.
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-not offensive activity-rem
offensive activity, yes. the crimminal activity enjoyed by these sick phuchz, no.
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I can't believe Amazon.com is selling this trash.
by JeffT inhave a barf bag and your blood pressure meds handy before you open this.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2003391229,00.html.
i think we should let amazon know that promoting the abuse of young children is as bad as abusing them yourself.
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How did the USA perceive the Louise Woodward case?
by Brummie inremember the english girl babysitter who was supposed to have murdered that little baby?
the court case was on live tv everyday (like ojsimpson).
i watched both and was convinced of ojs guilt but was also convinced of lwoodwoods innocence.
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I felt she was innocent-just a gut feeling.
complete trial transcript at: http://www.sbs-resource.org/lwtrial/index.htm
Q Yes. And, Doctor, when you came in the other day to tell us what you knew about this case, and what you believed about was the age of this particular injury, at that time, you had had access to, and had looked at the skull fracture of Matthew Eappen, had you not, Doctor?
A I had looked at certain photographs, but not those photographs.
Q That wasn't my question. Had you looked at X-rays --
A I'm sorry.
Q -- that were taken by Children's Hospital of Matthew Eappen's skull fracture?
A I have looked at the X-ray, two X-rays, that were taken on admission I think, two flat X-rays. And then there were the CAT scans.
Q I'm not asking about the CAT scans, Doctor.
A The CAT scans. It's the two --
Q I'm asking about the --
A -- regular X-rays, yes.
Q And you saw on those X-rays that there was a skull fracture --
A Yes.
Q -- of Matthew Eappen's head.
A Yes.
Q And you didn't come in on Friday and tell us, based upon the X-rays, that you could tell that Matthew Eappen's skull fracture was three weeks old, did you, Doctor?
A No, I could not. I cannot from those X-rays.
Q You can't tell from the X-rays, can you?
A Not from those X-rays.
Q I see. But you believe that, from looking at this picture that you saw on Sunday, you can now say, by eyeballing it, because it appears to be smooth and rounded, that you believe it's not a new fracture, is that correct?
A Absolutely true, yes.
Q You looked at other pictures of Matthew Eappen's fracture prior to the time you came in last Thursday, isn't that true?
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Bjork, Tori Amos or Cher
by Brummie inwhich one has more class?.
if you had to choose one, who would you see in concert?
me, bjork.
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Tori and her music mean so much to me-wish I could thank her in person.
The Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN) is the nation's largest anti-sexual assault organization. RAINN operates the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1.800.656.HOPE and carries out programs to prevent sexual assault, help victims and ensure that rapists are brought to justice.
Founded in 1994 with grants from Atlantic Records and Warner Music Group, RAINN operates a toll-free hotline (1-800-656-HOPE) in affiliation with a network of 628 rape crisis centers across America. Atlantic Records artist Tori Amos chairs RAINN's Advisory Board.
"Tori was so moved by the fans who had come to her with stories of their own personal struggles with abuse that she wanted to do something that would make a real difference. For these fans, Tori's music had a direct impact. It spoke to them and their pains unlike anything else," said Vicky Germaise, Senior Vice President of Atlantic Records. "What Atlantic is doing is raising awareness about RAINN and doing what it takes to keep the 800 line up and running. Our goal is to help Tori continue this vital work."
"The Warner Music Group and Time Warner enthusiastically support causes which reflect the strong volunteerism of our artists and employees," added Linda Moran, Senior Vice President of Warner Music Group. "We are proud to mirror and support Tori's personal commitment to RAINN."
*~* Me And A Gun *~* Tori Amos
5am Friday morning Thursday night far from sleep
I'm still up and driving can't go home obviously
So I'll just change direction cause they'll soon know where I live
And I wanna live
Got a full tank and some chipsIt was me and a gun and a man on my back
And I sang "holy holy" as he buttoned down his pantsYou can laugh
Its kind of funny
Things you think
Times like these
Like I haven't seen Barbados so I must get out of thisYes I wore a slinky red thing
Does that mean I should spread for you,
your friends
Your father
Mr EdIt was me and a gun and a man on my back
But I haven't seen Barbados so I must get out of thisAnd I know what this means
Me and Jesus a few years back used to hang
And he said "it's your choice babe just remember
I don't think you'll be back in 3 days time so you choose well"Tell me whats right
Is it my right to be on my stomach
of Fred's SevilleIt was me and a gun and a man on my back
But I haven't seen Barbados so I must get out of thisAnd do you know Carolina
Where the biscuits are soft and sweet
These things go through your head when there's a man on your back
And you're pushed
flat on your stomach
it's not a classic CaddilacIt was me and a gun and a man on my back
But I haven't seen Barbados so I must get out of this
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Awe ... shame
by Simon inhttp://www.msnbc.com/news/956496.asp?0cv=cb10
ex-priest geoghan killed in prison
boston, aug. 23 john geoghan, the ex-priest at the center of the boston archdioceses sex abuse scandal, was killed saturday in prison, officials told nbc affiliate wdhd tv
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What a shame Cardinal Bernard Law who knowingly moved this serial pedophile from church to church didn't go down with him.
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I have also returned.....
by SanFranciscoJim in.
after being absent from this board for a couple of years, at the gentle prodding of rayzorblade, i have come back.. although i am still going by "san francisco jim", i've since left california and am now living in pennsylvania.. while i am here, please allow me to make a shameless plug for the new message board for gay & lesbian exjws at: http://frost.bbboy.net/acommonbond.
kind regards to all...... jim.
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wb jim
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The US military INTENTIONALLY KILLS innocent people??? Where?? When???
by Stan Conroy inthis question was posed by yeru in another post.
i have no interest in getting involved in that post, but this is an interesting question.
supporters of the us feel that there country alone is on the moral high ground, and incapable of such an act.
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"Overwhelmning power combined with a sense of boundless superiority, will produce atrocities-even among the well intentioned." -Misra
Dr. Misra's article of last yr. from the Guardian. Her credentials:
http://senior.keble.ox.ac.uk/fellows/homepage.php?fellow=misraa
Heart of smugness
Unlike Belgium, Britain is still complacently ignoring the gory cruelties of its empire
Maria Misra
Tuesday July 23, 2002
The Guardian So the Belgians are to return to the Heart of Darkness in an attempt finally to exorcise their imperial demons. Stung by another book cataloguing the violence and misery inflicted by King Leopold's empire on the Congo in the late 19th and early 20th century, the state-funded Royal Museum for Central Africa in Brussels has commissioned a group of historians to pass authoritative judgment on accusations of genocide: forced labour, systematic rape, torture and murder of the Congolese, around 10 million of whom are thought to have died as a consequence.This is not the first time that the Belgian empire has been singled out for censure. Back in the Edwardian era, British humanitarians spilled much ink over its excesses and Conrad's novella was corralled into service to show Leopold's Congo as a sort of horrific "other" to Britain's more uplifting colonialism.
Complacency about Britain's imperial record lingers on. In the post-September 11 orgy of self-congratulation about the west's superiority, Blair's former foreign policy guru, Robert Cooper, and a host of journalistic flag-wavers were urging us not to be ashamed of empire. Cooper insisted empire was "as necessary now as it had been in the 19th century". The British empire was, we were assured, a generally well-intentioned attempt to inculcate notions of good government, civilised behaviour and market rationality into less well-favoured societies.
Is such a rosy view of British imperialism justified? Many argue that it is. After all, surely the British have less blood on their hands than the French and the Belgians? Wasn't the British addiction to the free market a prophylactic against the horrors of forced labour? And didn't those peculiar class obsessions make them less racist than the rest - silly snobs, but not vicious yobs? And isn't India not only a democracy, but, thanks to the British, one with great railways? Perhaps there is a kernel of truth in some of this, but there's also much wilful smugness. While the complex consequences of colonial economic policy require extended analysis, it is possible to dispel more swiftly the myth that the British Empire, unlike King Leopold's, was innocent of atrocities.
It has become a modern orthodoxy that Europe's 20th century was the bloodiest in history and that atrocities must be recorded and remembered by society as a whole. But while a Black Book of Communism has been compiled and everybody is aware of the horrors of nazism, popular historians have been surprisingly uninterested in the dark side of the British Empire. There are exceptions, such as Mike Davis's powerful Late Victorian Holocausts, but much else still lies buried in the academic literature. Davis and others have estimated that there were between 12 and 33 million avoidable deaths by famine in India between 1876 and 1908, produced by a deadly combination of official callousness and free-market ideology. But these were far from being a purely Victorian phenomenon. As late as 1943 around 4 million died in the Bengal famine, largely because of official policy.
No one has even attempted to quantify the casualties caused by state-backed forced labour on British-owned mines and plantations in India, Africa and Malaya. But we do know that tens of thousands of often conscripted Africans, Indians and Malays - men, women and children - were either killed or maimed constructing Britain's imperial railways. Also unquantified are the numbers of civilian deaths caused by British aerial bombing and gassing of villages in Sudan, Iraq and Palestine in the 1920 and 1930s.
Nor was the supposedly peaceful decolonisation of the British Empire without its gory cruelties. The hurried partition of the Indian subcontinent brought about a million deaths in the ensuing uncontrolled panic and violence. The brutal suppression of the Mau Mau and the detention of thousands of Kenyan peasants in concentration camps are still dimly remembered, as are the Aden killings of the 1960s. But the massacre of communist insurgents by the Scots Guard in Malaya in the 1950s, the decapitation of so-called bandits by the Royal Marine Commandos in Perak and the secret bombing of Malayan villages during the Emergency remain uninvestigated.
One might argue that these were simply the unfortunate consequences of the arrival of economic and political modernity. But does change have to come so brutally? There are plenty of examples of wanton British cruelty to chill the blood even of a hardened Belgian. Who, after all, invented the concentration camp but the British? The scandalous conditions in British camps during the Boer war, where thousands of women and children died of disease and malnutrition, are relatively well known. Who now remembers the Indian famine-relief-cum-work camps, where gentlemanly British officials conducted experiments to determine how few calories an Indian coolie could be fed and still perform hard labour? The rations in these camps amounted to less than those at Buchenwald.
There is Churchill's assiduous promotion of schemes to cut the costs of imperial defence in India and the Middle East by using aerial bombing, machine gunning and gassing for the control of rebellion, political protest, labour disputes and non-payment of taxes. There is the denial of free food to starving south Asians on the grounds that it would simply hasten a population explosion among India's "feckless poor". There is the extraordinary British justification for bombing Sudanese villages after the first world war: Nuer women were, officials claimed, of less value to their community than cattle or rifles.
These facts and figures are not easily culled from textbooks on empire. We don't have a dedicated museum of empire, but our nearest equivalent, the new Imperial War Museum North, would leave the impression that Britain's colonial subjects had been enthusiastic participants in its wartime crusades to rid the world of want and evil.
Does it matter that the British are smug about their imperial past, that British atrocities have been airbrushed from history? One can't help thinking that Jack Straw's pious missions to India to broker solutions to the Kashmir crisis might have more credibility if the British had the good grace to apologise for such imperial crimes as the Amritsar massacre. But a more worrying symptom of this rosy glossing of the imperial past is the re-emergence of a sort of sanitised advocacy of imperialism as a viable option in contemporary international relations.
The point of cataloguing Britain's imperial crimes is not to trash our forebears, but to remind our rulers that even the best-run empires are cruel and violent, not just the Belgian Congo. Overwhelming power, combined with a sense of boundless superiority, will produce atrocities - even among the well intentioned.
Let's not forget that Leopold's central African empire was originally called the International Association for Philanthropy in the Congo.ยท Maria Misra is lecturer in modern history at Keble College, Oxford. Her history of modern India will be published by Penguin next year.
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