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I think that was the fastest banning I have ever seen on here. Seriously, record time.
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What made your day?
Homicidalheathen replied to Rev.Reverence's topic in Relationships, Pets & Domestic Homelife
finding out the truth as it set me free -
http://www.bsmarkham.com/mission/Africa/Au...05/caskets.html Pombas response to my shoe thread gave me the idea for this one...wow, I had no idea people got so into these! http://www.dailyundertaker.com/2009/02/art...t-in-ghana.html
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Special to CNN Editor's note: Eve Ensler is the playwright of "The Vagina Monologues" and the founder of V-Day, a global movement to end violence against women and girls. V-Day has funded over 10,000 community-based anti-violence programs and launched safe houses in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Haiti, Kenya, South Dakota, Egypt and Iraq. This commentary was adapted from remarks Ensler made Wednesday to the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on African Affairs and the Subcommittee on International Operations and Organizations, Human Rights, Democracy and Global Women's Issues. Playwright Eve Ensler says conflict in Congo is taking a terrible toll on women and girls. (CNN) -- I write today on behalf of countless V-Day activists worldwide, and in solidarity with my many Congolese sisters and brothers who demand justice and an end to rape and war. It is my hope that these words and those of others will break the silence and break open a sea of action to move Congolese women toward peace, safety and freedom. My play, "The Vagina Monologues," opened my eyes to the world inside this world. Everywhere I traveled with it scores of women lined up to tell me of their rapes, incest, beatings, mutilations. It was because of this that over 11 years ago we launched V-Day, a worldwide movement to end violence against women and girls. The movement has spread like wildfire to 130 countries, raising $70 million. I have visited and revisited the rape mines of the world, from defined war zones like Bosnia, Afghanistan and Haiti to the domestic battlegrounds in colleges and communities throughout North America, Europe and the world. My in-box -- and heart -- have been jammed with stories every hour of every day for over a decade. Nothing I have heard or seen compares with what is going on in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where corporate greed, fueled by capitalist consumption, and the rape of women have merged into a single nightmare. Femicide, the systematic and planned destruction of the female population, is being used as a tactic of war to clear villages, pillage mines and destroy the fabric of Congolese society. In 12 years, there have been 6 million dead men and women in Congo and 1.4 million people displaced. Hundreds and thousands of women and girls have been raped and tortured. Babies as young as 6 months, women as old as 80, their insides torn apart. What I witnessed in Congo has shattered and changed me forever. I will never be the same. None of us should ever be the same. I think of Beatrice, shot in her vagina, who now has tubes instead of organs. Honorata, raped by gangs as she was tied upside down to a wheel. Noella, who is my heart -- an 8-year-old girl who was held for 2 weeks as groups of grown men raped her over and over. Now she has a fistula, causing her to urinate and defecate on herself. Now she lives in humiliation. I was in Bosnia during the war in 1994 when it was discovered there were rape camps where white women were being raped. Within two years there was adequate intervention. Yet, in Congo, femicide has continued for 12 years. Why? Is it that coltan, the mineral that keeps our cell phones and computers in play, is more important than Congolese girls? Don't Miss Commentary: Obama can end reign of terror In Depth: Commentaries Is it flat-out racism, the world's utter indifference and disregard for black people and black women in particular? Is it simply that the UN and most governments are run by men who have never known what it feels like to be raped? What is happening in Congo is the most brutal and rampant violence toward women in the world. If it continues to go unchecked, if there continues to be complete impunity, it sets a precedent, it expands the boundaries of what is permissible to do to women's bodies in the name of exploitation and greed everywhere. It's cheap warfare. The women in Congo are some of the most resilient women in the world. They need our protection and support. Western governments, like the United States, should fund a training program for female Congolese police officers. They should address our role in plundering minerals and demand that companies trace the routes of these minerals. Make sure they are making and selling rape-free-products. Supply funds for women's medical and psychological care and seed their economic empowerment. Put pressure on Rwanda, Congo, Uganda and other countries in the Great Lakes region to sit down with all the militias involved in this conflict to find a political solution. Military solutions are no longer an option and will only bring about more rape. Most of all, we must support the women. Because women are at the center of this horror, they must be at the center of the solutions and peace negotiations. Women are the future of Congo. They are its greatest resource. Sadly, we are not the first to testify about these atrocities in Congo. I stand in a line of many who have described this horror. Still, in Eastern Congo, 1,100 women a month are raped, according to the United Nations' most recent report. What will the United States government, what will all of you reading this, do to stop it? Let Congo be the place where we ended femicide, the trend that is madly eviscerating this planet -- from the floggings in Pakistan, the new rape laws in Afghanistan, the ongoing rapes in Haiti, Darfur, Zimbabwe, the daily battering, incest, harassing, trafficking, enslaving, genital cutting and honor killing. Let Congo be the place where women were finally cherished and life affirmed, where the humiliation and subjugation ended, where women took their rightful agency over their bodies and land. The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Eve Ensler
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WHAT?? those other girls got PAID to do that?? wtf? I just saw that btw I have camcorder...will travel...
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How has you been? Good to see you on more these days, missed ya!
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Homicidalheathen replied to Homicidalheathen's topic in Movies, Books, Art, TV, Gaming and Computers
I too feel he has a certain 'pattern' but thats its still unique enough to pull off a good movie every 5 yrs or so -
Wow, just relieved I have a place to stay...food to eat...p/t work...may not be where I thought I would be at this point in life but, better than homeless. so many people I know getting laid off its scary
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It can be devastating to not be careful and accidently introduce something like swamp grass...which is choking out cat tails...mussels, and this: the sea lamprey which was introduced in the great lakes area in the 20's Gah! I had never seen one before they look like a monster and its prehistoric I guess the one's found in streams that don't feed off of toxic large fish are good to eat but gross don't know If I could do it. King Henry loved eating them way back when... Did you know bunnies...turned allot of Australia into desert? British brought them. http://videos.howstuffworks.com/animal-pla...asion-video.htm http://www.economicexpert.com/a/Rabbits:in:Australia.html Sea lampreys are killing our fish. http://www.glerl.noaa.gov/res/Programs/ncrais/glansis.html Inclusion of the Sea Lamprey The provenance of the sea lamprey in Lake Ontario is unresolved with Smith (1995) and Mandrak and Crossman (1992) arguing that it was non-native and Bailey and Smith (1981), Daniels (2001), and Bryan et al. (2005), among others, arguing that it was native. Regardless of its status in Lake Ontario, virtually all agree that it subsequently spread to the rest of the Great Lakes after the opening of the Welland Canal. We include it in this database because of its historic and present importance as an invader in most of the Basin and its devastating basin-wide impact on Great Lakes fisheries http://www.great-lakes.net/envt/flora-faun...ve/lamprey.html Keep up on what’s happening in one of the world’s largest fresh water supply... http://www.great-lakes.net/news/ (The Great Lakes account for one-fifth of the world's surface freshwater supply)
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...recind a porkie??
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woah... http://www.roswithavanrijn.nl/
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...i have been enjoying this site, quote: Ghaneese coffins are often hand carved in the shapes of various objects representing the life of the person who will be buried in them. A fisherman man be buried inside a fish, or a shoemaker inside a shoe.
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Eh, I have seen him 3x...not as good as he used to be.
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Prefer MySpace or Facebook
Homicidalheathen replied to Troy Spiral's topic in Movies, Books, Art, TV, Gaming and Computers
neither and those comment sites..ya can gat a virus from them i only come on here where i know its safe -
Good one, thanks!
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procrastination...I have done it long enough...gotta go now while the sun still shines
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HONG KONG — Two bottles of acid were thrown into a crowd in a popular shopping district in downtown Hong Kong on Saturday, injuring 30 people, police and news reports said. It was the second such attack in five months in the neighborhood. Television footage showed firefighters washing off victims' arms and legs before sending them to hospitals for treatment. Some had holes in their clothing. Hong Kong Cable TV said people in the Mong Kok district had been splashed with acid, though police Superintendent Leung Ka-ming would not confirm what liquid was thrown. Samples of the liquid will be sent to a laboratory to determine its type, fire services officer So Kam-sang said. He said 30 people suffered burns but none was seriously injured. Police earlier said an infant was among the injured. Mong Kok, which means "busy corner" in Chinese, is a shopping hot spot that attracts thousands of local people and tourists on weekends. On the same street in December, 46 people suffered burns when two plastic bottles filled with acid were thrown at pedestrians. No one has been detained, despite a police reward of 100,000 Hong Kong dollars ($12,900) for information leading to an arrest. Leung said police would combine the two cases for investigation. "We will find out whether the two cases were done by the same person as soon as possible," Leung told reporters. "Right now, we do not rule out any possibilities." The assailant will be charged with intent to cause grievous bodily harm, which carries a maximum penalty of life imprisonment, Leung added
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well since this lady is done going psycho on me...much better. wtf is up with people these days they have a new level of rudeness in this country... I am tired of being referee between peoples battles