Sore, sore throat...maybe from screaming over the music at a wedding... or from being too cold because I said no to fur...and will keep saying hell no! to it...or maybe it's the suppressed yelps at being in this sometimes not so hopeful place...

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كلام الناس. الوسطية والنحاسة الكويتية

He keeps helping us breathe again...

and also laugh again:

بعد اكتشاف خلو الكويت من التطرف"

"(!!)

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It's one of those things I avoid thinking of because it scares the bejeezuz out of me...but really, where do you think all the millions of phones and pc's and electronics we just toss out end up? With all their toxic insides leaking out into the soil and water? The EU is going to try to make it safer but really, maybe we also need to stop falling for having to buy the latest pretty phone everytime...a duck is a duck is a duck...even if it has a few feathers more or less...

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Photo Essay

That's all I have to say...

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"Saddam Hussein has vowed to go the gallows as a "martyr" ready and willing to sacrifice himself"...That was last week...and this morning, on the festival of sacrifice, they gave him what he wanted...Robert Fisk is disgusted at the idea that in the shadow of over 400,000 dead now, a criminal invasion, a country torn to shreds, Abu Ghraib and on and on... that "we are supposed to forget these terrible crimes as we applaud the swinging corpse of the dictator we created."...Human Rights Watch writes of Iraq's Shallow Justice and it's worth a read for its summary of how the trial was a mockery of justice.

Experts on Iraq react to the execution of Saddam Hussein

Saddam trial verdict tarnished by Iraqi court's failings

The Obituary

The finger pointed at Saddam the criminal comes so many years late, so many lives too late, and yet just in time for no more files to be opened up on any of the people who made him who he was...the puppet is dead, the puppeteers are toasting to it. And what good is it all now for anyone in burning Iraq?

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And the Global Warming News of the day:

A giant ice shelf the size of 11,000 football fields has snapped free from Canada's Arctic

snocone tagged me...supposed to grab the closest book, look at page 123 and write down the 5th sentence and the following couple of sentences....

ok..
Page 123 in Bukowski's 'Love is a Dog from Hell' has only these lines...
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"a single dog

walking alone on a hot sidewalk of

summer

appears to have the power

of ten thousand gods

why is this?"

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How's that?

And How's about i don't tag anyone?

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And how's about we really teach anthropology of religion, comparative religions and cultural studies in universities and even schools here?

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And how's about we revoke everyone's driver's licence and make everyone get tested again?Especially me.

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And how's about i figure out where i got the idea that 'how's about' is correct English?

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And how's about someone get me a little fleece blankie for christmas?

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And how's about everyone keeps building up the courage to be who they are and not who they think people who don't give a damn about them think they should be?

Really How about that?

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And how's about y'all read this

and this

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How's about the season make up it's mind, winter or summer...

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And how's about we read and remember things like this?

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"Nor does the human spirit move without great difficulty against all the apathy of conformist thought within one's own bosom and in the surrounding world...

And some of us who have already begun to break the silence of the night have found that the calling to speak is often a vocation of agony, but we must speak. We must speak with all the humility that is appropriate to our limited vision, but we must speak. " M.L. King

A tale of two serial killers:
One has molested and killed over 30 children in 2 weeks the other kills 5 sex workers in 10 days- which story is all over the front pages from the start and is in a country that respects all its victims and its public?
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George Clooney (for president) spoke about Darfur here he is in Egypt on youtube...

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Congratulations to the less than 1% of people in the Emirates who will be voting this week.

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Pinochet is dead...what a whimper of an end for the man that ruined Chile and murdered so many...
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When there are sidewalks, how come people here insist on strolling in the middle of the road? At a reaaallly slow pace, even when you are headed right for them...

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Texas apparently thinks there aren't enough people running around with weapons that blow you to bits...Really?
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Fisk on who's in power in Lebanon and on some people's weird obsession with trying to erase a past when they can't solve issues in the present...

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Yet more documents that reveal the lies that took everyone to war...

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A study shows that the smarter you are the more likely you are to become a vegetarian :)

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Ahhh, drama at La Scala, where it should be...The star tenor gets booed off the stage (and hires lawyers), then an unsuspecting understudy has to finish off the scene and does it sooooo well he gets a 9 minute ovation...and the story goes on...

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Arundhati Roy has an article titled India's Shame in the Guardian...it includes information like this:"

"The Indian government declared that Pakistan - America's closest ally in the "war on terror" - was a terrorist state"...."moved more than half a million troops to the Pakistan border. Foreign embassies evacuated their staff and citizens, and tourists travelling to India were issued cautionary travel advisories. The world watched with bated breath as the subcontinent was taken to the brink of nuclear war. All this cost India an estimated pounds 1.1bn of public money. About 800 soldiers died in the panicky process of mobilisation alone."

That happened in 2001.