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May. 15th, 2013 04:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gwydion* The massive cyclone has hit Bangladesh and Burma/Myanmar. A Million people have sought refuge in special shelters in Bangladesh. You'll likely remember the refugee ship that sank carrying Rohingya away from the open air refugee camps. It seems a whole lot of them didn't evacuate, not trusting authorities given they were already forced from their homes by the same government.
* Today testimony at the UN about Assad's atrocities was pretty much ignored despite the door to door massacre with no victim too small.
* The Sergeant at Fort Hood is alleged to have raped a soldier and forced her into prostitution as well as raping a couple other soldiers. I repeat, he was in charge of preventing sexual assault at Fort Hood. This is how seriously the military takes sexual assault prevention: they put people like this waste of skin in charge of it.
The military continues to insist that 20,000-25,000 raped soldiers every year is completely acceptable and that their current system of punishing rape survivors and promoting rapists, as well as making rape survivors report the rapes to the rapists themselves and their buddies is the right way to handle this. Secretary Hagel insists that having outside experts handle rape cases, thus actually punishing rapists would somehow weaken the military more than allowing widespread rape and abuse of soldiers is currently doing. May I add, fuck you, Secretary Hagel!
* They are now talking about reopening the Buena Vista schools and letting the children finish out the school year. Public pressure actually forced the Republicans to reverse their policy of depriving the children of legally mandated food and education. 91% of the students are on free or reduced lunch due to poverty, so the Republicans felt that giving them the same education that everyone else gets wasn't necessary. Insisting families in poverty find six extra weeks of child care wasn't any more of a consideration than the fact that the children would be going hungry and missing out on education time they were never going to get back. Luckily, the public embarrassment ploy actually worked for once.
* The Naked Mayor Finally Voted out of Office:
Oh, New Jersey!
* "History Making Argentine Trans Woman Murdered:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2013/05/history-making-argentine-trans-woman.html
* "Parents sue South Carolina for surgically making child female:" http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/15/health/child-sex-surgery-suit/index.html
"Pamela Crawford said performing gender assignment surgery on a baby robbed her child of the ability to make the decision for himself." http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/15/health/child-sex-surgery-suit/index.html
* "Dull Flag and Tongue of Gangsta: The Laugh-out-loud Place-names of Shetland and Orkney:" http://bigthink.com/strange-maps/608-dull-flag-and-tongue-of-gangsta-the-laugh-out-loud-place-names-of-shetland-and-orkney
I suspect a lot of these are corruptions of Celtic names or English from before spelling in English got standardized. "Stane" might be "Stone for example. I also suspect a sense of humor in naming some of them, like Poverty.
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* I did not do all the cleaning stuff I really ought to do tomorrow, but I did make cupcakes for tomorrow's game. (I got a little whimsical with the flavorings. I hope they are edible to normal people. Is chocolate/brandy/rose a flavor people with more typical sensory wiring eat?) I did do the cleaning basics. Tomorrow is going to me really packed. I've got the dentist. I need to get a new monitor as the one I've been using died over the weekend. I'm supposed to pay some bills and mail a swap to England. And then there's game, hence me making cupcakes tonight instead of hoping I have energy tomorrow.
* "Biology, Chemistry and Science Pick-up Lines!" http://www.pickuplinesgalore.com/biochem.html
* Today testimony at the UN about Assad's atrocities was pretty much ignored despite the door to door massacre with no victim too small.
* The Sergeant at Fort Hood is alleged to have raped a soldier and forced her into prostitution as well as raping a couple other soldiers. I repeat, he was in charge of preventing sexual assault at Fort Hood. This is how seriously the military takes sexual assault prevention: they put people like this waste of skin in charge of it.
The military continues to insist that 20,000-25,000 raped soldiers every year is completely acceptable and that their current system of punishing rape survivors and promoting rapists, as well as making rape survivors report the rapes to the rapists themselves and their buddies is the right way to handle this. Secretary Hagel insists that having outside experts handle rape cases, thus actually punishing rapists would somehow weaken the military more than allowing widespread rape and abuse of soldiers is currently doing. May I add, fuck you, Secretary Hagel!
* They are now talking about reopening the Buena Vista schools and letting the children finish out the school year. Public pressure actually forced the Republicans to reverse their policy of depriving the children of legally mandated food and education. 91% of the students are on free or reduced lunch due to poverty, so the Republicans felt that giving them the same education that everyone else gets wasn't necessary. Insisting families in poverty find six extra weeks of child care wasn't any more of a consideration than the fact that the children would be going hungry and missing out on education time they were never going to get back. Luckily, the public embarrassment ploy actually worked for once.
* The Naked Mayor Finally Voted out of Office:
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Oh, New Jersey!
* "History Making Argentine Trans Woman Murdered:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2013/05/history-making-argentine-trans-woman.html
* "Parents sue South Carolina for surgically making child female:" http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/15/health/child-sex-surgery-suit/index.html
"Pamela Crawford said performing gender assignment surgery on a baby robbed her child of the ability to make the decision for himself." http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/15/health/child-sex-surgery-suit/index.html
* "Dull Flag and Tongue of Gangsta: The Laugh-out-loud Place-names of Shetland and Orkney:" http://bigthink.com/strange-maps/608-dull-flag-and-tongue-of-gangsta-the-laugh-out-loud-place-names-of-shetland-and-orkney
I suspect a lot of these are corruptions of Celtic names or English from before spelling in English got standardized. "Stane" might be "Stone for example. I also suspect a sense of humor in naming some of them, like Poverty.
* Bug Protein:
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* I did not do all the cleaning stuff I really ought to do tomorrow, but I did make cupcakes for tomorrow's game. (I got a little whimsical with the flavorings. I hope they are edible to normal people. Is chocolate/brandy/rose a flavor people with more typical sensory wiring eat?) I did do the cleaning basics. Tomorrow is going to me really packed. I've got the dentist. I need to get a new monitor as the one I've been using died over the weekend. I'm supposed to pay some bills and mail a swap to England. And then there's game, hence me making cupcakes tonight instead of hoping I have energy tomorrow.
* "Biology, Chemistry and Science Pick-up Lines!" http://www.pickuplinesgalore.com/biochem.html