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The plague of the Petroleum Era, the true bane of organized government
In the Cosmic Era, the proliferation of arcanotech, cyborgs, robots, parapsychic threats, black market weapons, new illegal drugs constantly hitting the market, all backed up by large organized criminal syndicates, the average police officer doesn't stand a chance.
The first Renaissance was kickstarted by the Crusades and trade, the second Renaissance was fueled by a looming global crisis and international cooperation
The PCC is the second largest religion in the Atlantic Federation.
Also known as automatics, dummies, skinnies, and mannikins.
Quite simply, the most sophisticated and pound for pound most dangerous vehicle in the skies of the Cosmic Era
Genimals are the stock and trade of BioCreches and one of the foundation technologies of the biosphere repair effort
Do me a favor, stay dead this time.
One of the side effects of the rampant cloning and genetic augmentation in the Cosmic Era is the slow emergence of genetic castes.
The walking siege engines of the Cosmic Era
The Rocky Mountain Republic owes in large it's existence to a single limited run of primitive mechs, the Assault/Bombard Mech model 1.
An Amazon nation in the Cosmic Era
The Trace On System, abbreviated as either TOS or TRON are a series of epidermal implants and nano-fiber filaments implanted to improve the reflexes, balance, and agility of the augment wearing them.
Also known as 'jeks, wo-pos and a variety of other derogatory terms
Guilt is a powerful force
Technology in the Cosmic Era can become corrupted and infested. When this happens to a mecha, the result in codenamed a Hekatonkheire.
An incarnation of Laserbeak, and condor/cyborgs for the Cosmic Era
When arcanotech fails, it fails spectacularly
Just as the Dimensional Engine supplanted the fission reactor, the DTR will eventually replace the D-Engine. Once they iron out the little bugs.
There's money to be made ripping the past out of the ground and turning it back into usable reclaimed materials. It just takes the right equipment and the wrong people.
For a futuristic grim gory setting. Probably powered by some kind of dilithium battery or something similarly awesome. Anyways, basicly a big drill sticking up from a hilt that you primarily use for skewering enemies painfully and drilling through armor.


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Man saves son from drowning
Jemison's Joe Smith saved his 7-year-old son Jared from a hot tub accident June 3.
The Smith family, along with neighbors, Noah and Joy Miller and their children, got together for a pool party.
Joe intended to keep the hot tub covered that day, but relented and agreed to let his daughter, Jadyn, and the Millers' daughter, Jillian, use it.
After running back and forth between the hot tub and the swimming pool, one of the kids kicked off the cover of the intake.
Jared went down to put the cover back on and it sucked his arm in.
After pulling and prodding, the suction of the intake was too much for him to get his arm free.
Above the water, no one realized what was going on until Jillian saw Jared at the bottom of the tub.
Joe yelled to Noah to shut the breaker off and the arm came right out.
Although Jared was out of the water, he had a long way from being safe and sound.
Joe started performing CPR on him due to him not breathing and turning blue with his eyes rolling back in his head.
After being transported to Children's Hospital by ambulance, Jared sustained no brain damage and no major injuries.
"It is just by the grace of God he is OK," Joe said.
More than 600 attend job fair
A job fair held by Boatright at the Clanton Recreation Center drew more than 600 applicants. Those that arrived after the 8 a.m. beginning of the fair found a line that stretched beside Highway 145 all the way across the adjacent parking lot.
Executive assistant to the president of the company, Lisa O'Daniel said with the economy the way it was, the amount of people that showed up "exceeded our expectations."
Pillar of community passes
A beloved member of Clanton's West End community passed away July 17.
Gussie Saxon, 91, was a retired teacher, active member of her church and the founder of the West End Neighborhood Watch group.
She lived off 11th Street- in three different houses-for 60 years, and her home was a haven for those she tutored and a gateway to the West End community for politicians.
Those running for office and those already in office would stop by to talk with her-sometimes for hours, and sometimes for her permission to put their campaign signs in her yard, knowing how much weight her voice carried in the community.
Former Chilton County High School principal Greg DeJarnett said Saxon was a community servant.
"She wanted to see her community and the lives of people improve for the better," DeJarnett said. "She believed in blooming where she was planted and lifting up her community and instilling a sense of pride in young people. I'll always remember her for that."
Meth lab explodes
Four people were arrested July 21 after an explosion related to a meth lab.
Tonya Faye Ellis, Jeremy Cobb Deavers, Gary Lee Shyrie and Steven Franice Minor-all of Clanton-were placed in the Chilton County Jail and charged with manufacturing a controlled substance and unlawful possession of a controlled substance.
Clanton police officers noticed odors consistent with a meth lab and contacted the department's narcotics detectives. Capt. David Clackley, who is certified to collect evidence at meth labs, also responded to the scene.
"These individuals are not rocket scientists, and they are essentially making bombs when they put these 'shake and bake' meth labs together," CPD Chief Brian Stilwell said. "That everyone in the home wasn't killed was a miracle."

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During the course of the program, Kimmel pulled out his Celebrity Mean Tweets segment and invited Nashville's elite to join in the fun.
Stepping out for some weekend promotional duties, George Clooney showed up at AMC Downtown Disney in Anaheim California on Saturday (May 9) for the premiere of "Tomorrowland."
Things were in full swing at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City last night (April 21) as some of the hottest celebrities gathered for the TIME 100 Most Influential People in the World shindig.
Legendary country couple Tim McGraw and Faith Hill were all gussied up in their red carpet finery as they posed for photos ahead of the big event.
Always looking for an excuse to get all gussied up, Faith Hill was in great spirits as she pulled up to the 48th Annual CMA Awards earlier this evening (November 5).
Joined by her handsome hubby Tim McGraw, the "This Kiss" star couldn't wait to get inside the Bridgestone Arena to see who the night's big winners would be.
Based on the beloved Disney World attraction, "Tomorrowland" dropped its first teaser trailer on Thursday afternoon (October 9).
The flick starring Britt Robertson and George Clooney follows a down and out gal who is transported to a "secret place where nothing is impossible."
After an unfortunately nasty incident with a fan last week, Tim McGraw decided it's time to open up about altercation today (July 21).
Video footage hit the web from his Atlanta show on July 13, showing a female fan grabbing the "Meanwhile Back at Mama's" singer's pant leg. After she got too handsy, Tim slapped her back.
Having an unusual encounter with a fan, Tim McGraw reportedly slapped an enthusiast while performing his "Truck Yeah" song in Atlanta July 13.
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All depends on where you go. One is better, one is worst.
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I always love typography... And this one truly inspired me love the effects done in it too...
Thanks, I was also inspired when I read this quote from a friend, thats why I made this
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I'm currently 15 weeks pregnant and I suffer from horrible migraines. I was already prone to horrible headaches and migraines before the pregnancy but now that I'm pregnant I can no longer take my normal medication. Now my headaches are accompanied with excessive vomiting, I'm talking about 6-8 times (until there's nothing but bile coming up). This past weekend I went to the ER where they prescribed me Reglan, it's been working but I don't want to be dependent on this drug (I perfer not to take any drugs during the pregnancy). Oh did I mention that I can't hold down regular tylenol. Yesterday I was also hit with a headache but decided not to take the pill and of course it sent me straight to the bathroom to talk to the procelin god. Has anyone else had this issue. My doctor makes it seem like this is a part of pregnancy and its normal but this just doesn't seem normal to me. But hey, this is my first pregnancy and I'm not sure. Any help will be useful.
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my doc wont give me meds for migraines. keeps trying not to at least. I have some zofran for the m/s which is great. I ate food and wasn't sick, I felt like singing and dancing. but I have a super horrible headache and tylenol barely touches it. this is like day 4 or 5. I wasnt to shoot off my head. for some of us, the desire to not take meds just isn't possible. I'm going to have to convince the doc to give me something. For now it's tylenol, sudafed (this one I think has some sinus issues involved), and I have a neck massager (for me sometimes the vibrations on my head help a lot). if the meds make you feel better, you may just have to take them. But like PP said, some women who have migraines get better with pregnancy others get worse. We happen to fall in the worse group.
~Tara Married to my Loving Soldier Chris (10.08.10)
DD: Jan/2000, DD: Aug/2004 DS: Aug/2012
Thank you ladies for your input! I love this group already! Juju you suggest caffiene but it's not reccommended for pregnant ladies, am I wrong? Lianthano & Tara please ask your doctor for Reglan, it's safe for the baby and it's mostly given to cancer patients on chemo to prevent them from vomiting but it also work wonders with headaches as well. When I was in the hospital they gave me some reglan and benadryl and it worked. Last night I took them both and it work miracles, I just don't want to be constantly taking medicine.
caffeine is fine as long as its not tons of caffeine all the time. If you from time to time splurge and have over I think its 300mg it's not going to cause a super amount of harm. As far as how to get it, sometimes I use soda, very rarely coffee (Not a fan), tea has more caffeine than a cup of coffee anyways so I'll do that too. Also sometimes I nibble on chocolate all day. and I called my doctor today, this headache isn't going away and I'm so at the end of my rope. hopefully they call back soon :/ I understand not wanting to take it constantly. So maybe just take it when you get really bad ones. If tylenol and caffeine work, just use that, until you get to one where they don't.
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"To Turn You On"
From Robyn Hitchcock's The Man Upstairs
Liner notes: Hitchcock gives Bryan Ferry's morose love song a charming, irony-free makeover, setting his surprisingly tender vocal to a delicate chamber-folk arrangement.
Behind the music: The former Soft Boys leader teamed with producer Joe Boyd (Fairport Convention, Anna and Kate McGarrigle) for this vibrant mix of originals and covers (Doors, Psychedelic Furs).
Check it out if you like: Vital vets like Richard Thompson and Marshall Crenshaw.
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It has been called the nation of fire and ice and as these stunning pictures proves, it is certainly the latter.
The magnificent ever-changing landscapes of Iceland where the freezing temperatures make the icebergs and glaciers shift in every shade of blue, from turquoise and azure to indigo.
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Chip Kelly may know who his three quarterbacks are heading into Monday's season opener at Atlanta, but that doesn't mean he's done doing his homework on those available.
Are you sitting down? Maybe you should sit down.
The Eagles on Saturday reduced their roster to 52 after releasing 22 players, including quarterback Tim Tebow
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Synonyms: 2,3-dihydroxytoluene
|an alcohol → a diol → a benzenediol → a catechol
|an aromatic compound → a benzenediol → a catechol
Chemical Formula: C7H8O2
Molecular Weight: 124.14 Daltons
Monoisotopic Molecular Weight: 124.05242950099999 Daltons
InChI: InChI=1S/C7H8O2/c1-5-3-2-4-6(8)7(5)9/h2-4,8-9H,1H3
InChIKey: InChIKey=PGSWEKYNAOWQDF-UHFFFAOYSA-N
Unification Links: CAS:488-17-5, ChEBI:18404, ChemSpider:333, DrugBank:DB03454, KEGG:C02923, MetaboLights:MTBLC18404, PubChem:340
Standard Gibbs Free Energy of Formation (ΔfG'° in kcal/mol): -51.01
Reactions known to produce the compound:
β-D-glucuronide and D-glucuronate degradation
a β-D-glucuronoside + H2O → D-glucopyranuronate + an alcohol
glycerophosphodiester degradation
a glycerophosphodiester + H2O → an alcohol + sn-glycerol 3-phosphate + H+
Not in pathways:
an organic hydroperoxide + NADH + H+ → an alcohol + NAD+ + H2O
an N-acetyl-β-D-hexosaminide + H2O → an N-acetyl-β-D-hexosamine + an alcohol
a carboxylic ester + H2O → an alcohol + a carboxylate + H+
an acetic ester + H2O → an alcohol + acetate + H+
an organic hydroperoxide + a reduced thioredoxin → an alcohol + an oxidized thioredoxin + H2O
a phosphate monoester[periplasm] + H2O[periplasm] → an alcohol[periplasm] + phosphate[periplasm]
a phosphate monoester[periplasm] + H2O[periplasm] → an alcohol[periplasm] + phosphate[periplasm]
In Reactions of unknown directionality:
Not in pathways:
an alcohol + NADP+ = an aldehyde + NADPH + H+
Enzymes activated by 3-methylcatechol, sorted by the type of activation, are:Activator (Mechanism unknown) of: phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase [Izui83]
This compound has been characterized as an alternative substrate of the following enzymes: 3-(2,3-dihydroxyphenyl)propionate 1,2-dioxygenase
Izui83: Izui K, Matsuda Y, Kameshita I, Katsuki H, Woods AE (1983). "Phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase of Escherichia coli. Inhibition by various analogs and homologs of phosphoenolpyruvate." J Biochem (Tokyo) 1983;94(6);1789-95. PMID: 6368527
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As Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the president of Iran, addressed the UN General Assembly in New York amid waves of protests against his country's human rights track record and nuclear programme, the fabric of a longer standing conflict continues to be woven in the Middle East.
Indeed, his speech on Tuesday seemed aimed more at the West and not the Middle East, where Iran also faces its share of challenges in the UAE, Kuwait and Bahrain.
Despite its minority status as the only Shia country in a Sunni and Arab dominated region, Iran is frequently suspected and accused of meddling in the affairs of its neighbours. Iran's influence is not a welcome development, especially as the US works to establish alliances in the Middle East that would help isolate Iran in the region as Washington tightens its sanctions against Tehran.
But this strategy will not be easy to execute in an area of the world where strong business ties can serve as a salve to heal wounds caused by ideological disputes.
Still, the UAE, which has very strong business ties to Iran, just this month agreed to restrict its dealings with Iran. But according to Human Rights Watch, the Gulf state has been deporting Shia Lebanese families for about a year. Palestinians from the Gaza Strip were also deported.
A big issue is the scope of Iran's involvement with Hezbollah as well as its role in Iraq, which the US refers to in destructive terms.
For example, in July, US General Ray Odierno said that Iran had been arming Shia extremists in Iraq.
"It's very difficult to say if the extremist groups are directly connected to the Iranian government," Odierno told the AFP at the time.
"But we do know that many of them live in Iran, many of them get trained in Iran, and many of them get weapons from Iran."
Not all the influence is seen as negative, though. As noted in a 2009 Congressional Research Service paper, Iran has extended gestures of good will in terms of strengthening economic ties with Iraq and supporting the Shia population in an effort to help form a representative democracy.
And while Iran's relationship with Bahrain has had its highs (bilateral trade, lucrative energy deals) and lows (a failed Iranian sponsored coup in 1981), Bahrain's Sunni leadership continues to crack down on the country's Shia population, which are believed to be the majority of the population.
Bahrain revoked the citizenship of Ayatollah Hussein Mirza Najati, who is of Iranian ancestry. Najati, who has close ties to Iraq's Shia cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, had his passport revoked on Monday, because, according to a statement from Bahrain's interior ministry, he and his family had not obtained citizenship via legal means in 2001.
The actions against Najati come at a time when waves of anti-Shia protests and arrests have swept the country. Amnesty International released a statement earlier this month drawing attention to the detention of 23 Shia activists accused of trying to overthrow the government.
Iran connection?
As the ongoing violence in Karachi proves, Shia-Sunni conflicts happen outside the sphere of Iran's presence, but the underlying tensions in Arab countries are clearly another matter.
The Economist reported on September 9 that Sunni hardliners in Bahrain "have indeed been hoping the Americans or Israelis would attack Iran before it began loading fuel last month into its reactor at Bushehr".
The scope of Iran's sway among the Shia groups in Arab countries is often unknown. And while Bahrain has denied that there is any truth to speculation that the arrested activists are linked to Iran, Kuwaiti paper Al-Qabas reported in August that there are Shia cells throughout the region, ready to strike in the event of an attack against Iran.
Another Shia activist, Yasser al-Habib, was stripped of his Kuwaiti citizenship on Monday because, according to the interior ministry, he tried to stir up conflict among Muslims.
Then there is the trial of six men and a woman accused of spying for Iran in Kuwait, which started on Tuesday.
The alleged spy ring was charged last month with providing the Iranian government with confidential military information. Three of the accused are Iranian citizens. The Iranian government denies that the group was monitoring Kuwaiti and US military sites and passing photographs and information along to its Revolutionary Guard.
Both Kuwait and Bahrain enjoy a close relationship with the US, and while it seems unlikely that their actions are triggered by the US, they certainly bode well for the Obama administration to succeed where the Bush administration failed - to render Iran as a major threat in the region, isolating it to gain maximum impact from its latest round of economic sanctions against the country.
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Since France took the bold step this week of making it a criminal act to deny that Ottoman Turks committed genocide in Armenia nearly a century ago, Turkey has countered with similar accusations, and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan even added a personal touch about French President Nicolas Sarkozy's own past.
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Moammar Gadhafi's wife, two sons, a daughter, and a number of grandchildren escaped Libyan rebels and entered Algeria on Monday, according to the Algerian Foreign Ministry. His location, as well as the whereabouts of his other sons, remain unknown. (more)
Are we seeing the next "Battle of Algiers"? Coming only a day after the fall of Hosni Mubarak in Egypt, thousands of people defied a government ban to hold a pro-democracy rally in Algeria.
Protests erupted in the Algerian capital of Algiers and several other cities this week as people took to the streets over a doubling of food prices and a stubborn 25 percent unemployment rate.
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An appeals court in D.C. has sided with an Algerian detainee, Belkacern Bensayah, finding that since there was no direct communication between Bensayah and al-Qaida, he could not be considered part of a terrorist group.
A CIA sex scandal, or, more precisely, allegations that a CIA agent raped two Algerian women, has raised questions in Congress about how the agency polices itself. Oddly, discussions of the controversy have failed to emphasize another significant "oops" moment in CIA operations regarding corruption and the need for oversight: torture.
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Pre-emptive violence and al-Qaida's influence may cause lower polling numbers among the 18.8 million registered voters in Algeria's parliamentary elections Thursday, the day after two explosions in Constantine killed one person and injured several others.
Despite U.S. efforts to quash al-Qaida, the terrorist organization is rebuilding its base in rural Pakistan—and doing some serious networking to connect with other militant groups in Africa and the Middle East, steering them to focus on Western targets on a local and international scale.
Is al-Qaida active in North Africa? That's the worry in Algeria, after two explosions set off by suicide bombers Wednesday killed at least 24 people. The attacks targeted the prime minister's office building in Algiers and a suburban police station.
From the AP: "Al-Qaida has for the first time announced a union with an Algerian insurgent group that has designated France as an enemy, saying they will act together against French and American interests."
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I hope you have time to read my new article for Al-Jazeera English, "The collapse of Guantánamo's military commissions," which, at the time of writing, has over 350 Facebook likes and shares, and has been tweeted over 125 times.
It's my response to the news, on Wednesday February 18, that the US Court of Military Commission Review dismissed the conviction against David Hicks, an Australian, and the first prisoner to be convicted in the much-criticized military commission trial system, in March 2007.
This was an expected result, following previous dismissals of convictions, beginning in October 2012, but it does not make it any less significant. Hicks first announced an appeal in October 2013, and then lodged a second appeal last August, both with the Court of Military Commission Review that was established in August 2007 because, until then, no review process existed for the commissions, and two of the judges involved had raised issues that only the court could resolve. Read the rest of this entry »
I'm delighted to be cross-posting below an interview conducted by my good friend The Talking Dog (functioning below the radar under a pseudonym in New York City) with another good friend, Army Maj. Todd Pierce (retired), who, as a Judge Advocate General (JAG) officer, was part of the defense team for two Guantánamo prisoners charged in the military commissions — Ali Hamza al-Bahlul (still held) and Ibrahim al-Qosi (released in 2012).
Todd became fascinated by the philosophical origins of the Bush-Cheney military commissions in the Nazi era, and efforts to justify the commissions through a warped interpretation of US Civil War precedents. Since retiring, he has continued to pursue these interests, and has also become part of Sam Adams Associates, who describe themselves as "a movement of former CIA colleagues of former intelligence analyst Sam Adams, together with others who hold up his example as a model for those in intelligence who would aspire to the courage to speak truth to power," and who, every year since 2002, have presented the Sam Adams Associates Award for Integrity in Intelligence to whistleblowers — most recently to Chelsea Manning, at an event in Oxford that I attended in February.
I do hope you have time to read the interview — which also includes Todd's latest thoughts on the case of Ali Hamza al-Bahlul, who has been successfully appealing against his 2008 conviction and life sentence — with profound repercussions for the entire military commissions project, which, it should be noted, should never have been revived by George W. Bush and Dick Cheney in the first place.
If you enjoy it, please share it, and please also follow the links I'm posting at the end of this article to the Talking Dog's extensive archive of interviews about Guantánamo and the "war on terror." Read the rest of this entry »
I wrote the following article for the "Close Guantánamo" website, which I established in January 2012 with US attorney Tom Wilner. Please join us — just an email address is required to be counted amongst those opposed to the ongoing existence of Guantánamo, and to receive updates of our activities by email.
Last week, lawyers for former Guantánamo prisoner David Hicks, an Australian who, in March 2007, was the first Guantánamo prisoner to accept a guilty plea in a military commission trial in order to get out of the prison, appealed his conviction — for the second time in the last ten months.
Hicks had accepted a plea of providing material support for terrorism in exchange for being returned to Australia and being freed after just nine months. However, in October 2012 the court of appeals in Washington D.C. (the D.C. Circuit Court) threw out the conviction of another prisoner who had been convicted of providing material support for terrorism in a military commission trial, paving the way for Hicks to challenge his conviction.
That man was Salim Hamdan, a Yemeni who had worked as a paid driver for Osama bin Laden, and who had been convicted in the summer of 2008. As the Circuit Court described it, "When Hamdan committed the conduct in question, the international law of war proscribed a variety of war crimes, including forms of terrorism. At that time, however, the international law of war did not proscribe material support for terrorism as a war crime." Read the rest of this entry »
I wrote the following article for the "Close Guantánamo" website, which I established in January 2012 with US attorney Tom Wilner. Please join us — just an email address is required to be counted amongst those opposed to the ongoing existence of Guantánamo, and to receive updates of our activities by email.
Last week I published "The 9/11 Trial at Guantánamo: The Dark Farce Continues," the first of two articles providing updates about the military commissions at Guantánamo.
The commissions were established under President George W. Bush in November 2001, were ruled illegal by the Supreme Court in June 2006, revived by Congress in the fall of 2006, suspended by President Obama in January 2009, and revived again by Congress in the fall of 2009, but they have always struggled to establish any credibility, and should not have been revived by the Obama administration.
Last week's article, as the title indicates, covered developments — or the lack of them — in pre-trial hearings for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other men accused of involvement in the 9/11 attacks, who were held and tortured in CIA "black sites" for years before their arrival in Guantánamo in September 2006. Read the rest of this entry »
Good news about Guantánamo is rare — whether regarding those still held, or those released — so it was reassuring to hear this week that the Court of Appeal in Alberta, Canada, delivered a major blow to the Canadian government's efforts to hold former prisoner Omar Khadr in federal prison rather than in a provincial jail. Khadr is serving an eight-year sentence handed down in a plea deal at his trial by military commission in Guantánamo in October 2010, and has been held in federal prisons since his return to Canada, where he was born in 1986.
The 27-year old was just 15 years old when he was seized in Afghanistan after a firefight with US forces in a compound. He had been taken there, and deposited with some adults, by his father, but on his capture, when he was severely wounded, he was abused in US custody and eventually put forward for a war crimes trial, even though, as a juvenile at the time of the alleged crime, he should have been rehabilitated rather than punished according to an international treaty on the rights of the child signed by the US (and by Canada), even though there is no evidence that the allegation that he threw a grenade that killed a US soldier is true, and even though there is no precedent for claiming that a combat death in an occupied country is a war crime.
Khadr has since explained that he only agreed to the plea deal because he could see no other way of ever getting out of Guantánamo, and last November, via his US civilian lawyer, Sam Morison, he appealed in the US for his conviction to be overturned. In recent years, US appeals court judges have delivered two devastating rulings, overturning two of the only convictions secured in the military commissions, in the cases of Salim Hamdan and Ali Hamza al-Bahlul, on the basis that the war crimes for which the men were convicted were not war crimes at the time the legislation authorizing the commissions was passed — and had, in fact, been invented by Congress. Read the rest of this entry »
I wrote the following article for the "Close Guantánamo" website, which I established in January 2012 with US attorney Tom Wilner. Please join us — just an email address is required to be counted amongst those opposed to the ongoing existence of Guantánamo, and to receive updates of our activities by email.
In two articles — this one and another to follow soon — I'll be providing updates about the military commissions at Guantánamo, the system of trials that the Bush administration dragged from the US history books in November 2001 with the intention of trying, convicting and executing alleged terrorists without the safeguards provided in federal court trials, and without the normal prohibitions against the use of information derived through torture.
Notoriously, the first version of the commissions revived by the Bush administration collapsed in June 2006, when, in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, the Supreme Court ruled that the commission system lacked "the power to proceed because its structures and procedures violate both the Uniform Code of Military Justice and the four Geneva Conventions signed in 1949."
Nevertheless, Congress subsequently revived the commissions, in the fall of 2006, and, although President Obama briefly suspended them when he took office in 2009, they were revived by Congress for a second time in the fall of 2009. Read the rest of this entry »
I've been meaning for some time to post a video of my friend Todd Pierce, a retired major in the US Army JAG (Judge Advocate General) Corps, being interviewed on the "London Real" show run by US ex-pat — and former banker — Brian Rose.
Todd retired from the US military in November 2012, but he had previously been involved in representing two prisoners charged in the military commissions at Guantánamo, which, for prosecuting alleged war criminals in the "war on terror," were revived by the Bush administration in November 2001 based on their use on would-be Nazi saboteurs in World War II. They were then ruled illegal by the Supreme Court in June 2006, revived again by Congress in the fall of 2006, and revived again under President Obama in 2009.
Todd was part of the legal team for Ibrahim al-Qosi, from Sudan, who accepted a plea deal and was freed in July 2012, and Ali Hamza al-Bahlul, who refused all representation, and was given a life sentence in November 2008 after a disgraceful one-sided trial. Ironically, al-Bahlul is one of two prisoners (along with Salim Hamdan) who shook the tattered credibility of the commissions in October 2012 and January 2013, when the appeals court in Washington D.C. threw out the convictions against both men on the basis that the alleged war crimes for which they had been convicted were not war crimes at all, and had been invented by Congress. In al-Bahlul's case, the government has appealed, but a ruling has not yet been delivered, and he remains held. Read the rest of this entry »
Recently, a friend asked me for information about all the Guantánamo prisoners who have been put forward for military commission trials at Guantánamo, and after undertaking a search online, I realized that I couldn't find a single place listing all the prisoners who have been charged in the three versions of the commissions that have existed since 2001, or the total number of men charged.
As a result, I decided that it would be useful to do some research and to provide a list of all the men charged — a total of 30, it transpires — as well as providing some updates about the commissions, which I have been covering since 2006, but have not reported on since October. The full list of everyone charged in the military commissions is here, which I'll be updating on a regular basis, and please read on for a brief history of the commissions and for my analysis of what has taken place in the last few months.
The commissions were dragged out of the history books by Dick Cheney on November 13, 2001, when a Military Order authorizing the creation of the commissions was stealthily issued with almost no oversight, as I explained in an article in June 2007, while the Washington Post was publishing a major series on Cheney by Barton Gellman (the author of Angler, a subsequent book about Cheney) and Jo Becker. Alarmingly, as I explained in that article, the order "stripped foreign terror suspects of access to any courts, authorized their indefinite imprisonment without charge, and also authorized the creation of 'Military Commissions,' before which they could be tried using secret evidence," including evidence derived through the use of torture. Read the rest of this entry »
Dennis Edney, Omar Khadr's long-term Canadian civilian lawyer, has been in the UK since last week, on a tour organised by the London Guantánamo Campaign, so I'm posting details of his speaking events for anyone who has not yet heard him talk, and also to notify readers, supporters of Omar Khadr and opponents of Guantánamo that I'll be joining Dennis at an event in Amnesty International's Human Rights Action Centre in Shoreditch tomorrow evening. To support Dennis's ongoing and extensive legal costs, please visit this page, and to support the costs of the UK tour, please see here.
Regular readers will know that I have been covering Omar's story since I first began working on Guantánamo eight years ago. I wrote about him in my book The Guantánamo Files, and when I began writing articles on a full-time basis, in June 2007, Omar's was one of the first cases that I addressed, when he was charged in the second version of the Bush administration's troubled military commissions, after the first version was thrown out by the US Supreme Court for violating the Uniform Code of Military Justice and the Geneva Conventions — and, specifically, Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions, which prohibits torture and humiliating and degrading treatment, and requires any trials to be in "a regularly constituted court, affording all the judicial guarantees which are recognized as indispensable by civilized peoples."
Omar, of course, never received such protections, even when the commissions were revived with Congressional approval, or when, under President Obama, they were brought back for a second time. In the end, to be assured of ever leaving Guantánamo, he accepted a plea deal in October 2010, admitting to war crimes that had been invented by Congress, and, moreover, providing a permanent stain on the reputation of President obama, who not only allowed a plea deal based on invented war crimes to take place, but did so to a former child prisoner (just 15 when he was seized after a firefight in Afghanistan in July 2002), even though, according to the the Optional Protocol to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict, to which both the US and Canada are signatories, juvenile prisoners (those under 18 when their alleged crimes take place) must be rehabilitated rather than punished. Read the rest of this entry »
Good news from Canada, finally, as former Guantánamo prisoner Omar Khadr has been "reclassified as a medium-security risk," and will be moved from Edmonton, where he is currently held as a maximum-security prisoner, to Bowden Correctional Institution, north of Calgary. The move will probably take place in the next few weeks, as the Edmonton Journal described it on Friday.
Khadr, who was just 15 years old when he was seized after a firefight in Afghanistan in July 2002, has persistently been treated with disdain by the Canadian government, which, for ten years, failed to stand up for his rights as a Canadian citizen and a juvenile prisoner.
When Khadr finally agreed to a plea deal at Guantánamo, just to be sent home, the Canadian government dragged its heels regarding its own part of the bargain. After the plea deal was agreed, during his trial by military commission at Guantánamo in October 2010, Khadr was supposed to spend just one more year at Guantánamo followed by seven years' imprisonment in Canada after his repatriation, but it took 23 months for him to be returned, and, since his return, he has been held as a maximum-security prisoner, even though he has never been a high-risk prisoner.
Dennis Edney, the Edmonton lawyer who has been representing Khadr for ten years, explained how the decision to reclassify Khadr as "medium-security," which was taken by Kelly Hartle, the warden at Edmonton, "reflects a 'plethora of evidence' from US authorities and Canada's prison ombudsman that Khadr never was a maximum-security threat," as the Edmonton Journal described it. Read the rest of this entry »
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Jesse Ventura got his ass kicked in a California bar, fellow SEAL says
Jesse alleges a fellow SEAL is defaming him by claiming he kicked The Body's ass during a bar fight.
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Jesse Ventura is an ex-Navy SEAL, pro wrasslin' tough guy. So it makes sense he's none too happy about a fellow SEAL's claim that he kicked The Body's ass in a California bar.
Ex-sniper Chris Kyle recently published "American Sniper," a memoir looking back at his military career and some of the relationships he developed along the way. In one particularly interesting passage, he details a September 2006 bar encounter he had with Ventura, who Kyle calls "Scruff Face," during a funeral for a fellow SEAL who died in Iraq.
Kyle never names Ventura but describes "Scruff Face" in ways Ventura contends a reader could easily surmise was him: he was an "older" UDT member who had served during Vietnam, he had become a "celebrity," he was disdainful of the government, he was moving to Mexico and he thought the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks were a conspiracy.
He described "Scruff Face" as boorish and loud and "running his mouth about the war and everything and anything he could connect to it."
Kyle wrote that he and the others tolerated the man as long as they could, until Kyle finally told him to "cool it" because they were mourning a comrade.
"'You deserve to lose a few,' he told me. Then he bowed up as if to belt me," the book goes on.
He claims "Scruff Face" took a swing at him.
"Being level-headed and calm can only last so long. I laid him out," Kyle wrote. "Tables flew. Stuff happened. Scruff Face ended up on the floor."
Ventura is so upset over that passage, he's sued Kyle in federal court for defamation, misappropriation of his likeness, and unjust enrichment. The suit says "The entire story about a confrontation with and physical assault and battery of Governor Ventura was false and defamatory." A judge is scheduled to hear arguments on October 10.
But Kyle isn't backing down. In a motion filed Tuesday, eight eyewitnesses provide sworn statements corroborating different parts of Kyle's account of his throwdown with Minnesota's ex-guv.
In one of them, SEAL Jeremiah Dinnell says Ventura was "being a jackass."
"That's when Chris punched him," Dinnell wrote. "All of us wanted to. Chris was just the first one to pop him."
In the Capitol, at bars, or in the squared-circle -- no matter the context, Jesse is apparently just a tough guy to get along with.
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I had an amnio Tuesday. I rested the rest of the day as suggested by my doc and had the okay to return to work the following day. I had very minor cramping the day of the procedure but nothing since. Every once in a while I feel a trickle of fluid. I am not wearing a liner yet but my underwear is wet. I can't tell if it's amniotic fluid. I don't know how to differentiate because I always feel wet down there, especially during pregnancy. I left a message with the doctor but haven't heard back yet.
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Hi just wanted to say hope everything is well with you. I had an amnio on Thursday and am being extra cautious, still on bedrest, because I am terrified of something going wrong, so I understand what you're going through.
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Relations of State, Business Enter New Era of Cooperation in Planning to Diversify
Nichols, Max, THE JOURNAL RECORD
The Oklahoma Constitution was written with a suspicion of big business. Also, the state's top industries of energy and agriculture long have voiced concerns about "keeping government off our backs" while lobbying for government incentives.
Now, with Oklahoma Futures producing a state five-year economic development plan, we have seen hundreds of recommendations requiring a closer relationship between government and business in planning, education, financing, tourism, research, contracts, job training and leadership.
It took a five-year recession for us to reach this early stage of a new cooperative thinking in our effort to diversify the economy. However, while some of us may feel the results have been slow in coming, evidently our struggle is natural.
The United States in general has grappled with the same transition, with regions going through their own crisis at different times, says Prof. George C. Lodge, a specialist in government-business relations at the Harvard Business School.
"There is a peculiar mind set that one sees in the United States regarding the roles and relations of government and business," said Lodge, who will address a seminar sponsored by the RAM Group Ltd. on Business's Obligation to Relate to Governments on April 20 at the Lincoln Plaza Hotel and Conference Center.
"Every so often, a crisis comes along - forcing an inspection of these old assumptions," said Lodge in a telephone interview. "Oklahoma, which has been hard hit by energy and agriculture problems, evidently has gone through such a crisis.
"When that happens, the changes that follow often require a tremendous amount of waste and cost."
What Lodge does is identify these old assumptions - how we got them, their effects on our society and, how they have changed in spite of our ideas.
"I have grown to believe," said Lodge, "that the cost of transition can be reduced if the mind set is made explicit. If we can reveal it, instead of fudging it, people can deal with it rationally.
"I try to help people understand the mind set. They have the choice of keeping it or rejecting it. If they don't know we have the mind set, there is a feeling of helplessness."
During the last 15 years, said Lodge, the most dramatic crisis of U.S. business have been the ecological problems of waste, water, air and the environment, plus the competition from Japanese industry in manufacturing items such as semiconductors, telecommunications and autos.
"The ecological problems required a basic re-evaluation of the roles and relations of government and business," he said. "The Japanese competition laid waste to much of our manufacturing.
"At the heart were old mind sets of the ways in which business should function in areas such as the capital markets and labor relations along with the role of government."
Eventually, Lodge said we have three choices:
- The crisis gradually kills our institutions or businesses.
- We are forced to leave the playing field.
- We are forced to change to meet the new conditions.
"We have to do something," he said, "or let the old mind sets stand in the way."
While Lodge has not been to Oklahoma and professes no expertise on this state's specific problems, he sees the five-year recession and current diversification efforts as steps in a logical sequence. …


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When Dustin Dinges gathered his team of Southeast Denver Baseball League 12-year-old all-stars for their first practices at the end of June, he had a feeling the group could do something special.
The team did him one better. They accomplished something historic.
Southeast Denver on Saturday will play its first game in the Cal Ripken World Series in Aberdeen, Md., becoming just the second team from Colorado to reach that pinnacle.
"It's a big accomplishment," Dinges said. "They are all friends who support each other. They have worked really hard and share a love of baseball. I think that's what has gotten them to this point."
Cal Ripken Baseball, a division of the Babe Ruth League, is similar to Little League with several key exceptions. In Little League, the pitching mound is 46 feet from the plate and bases are 60 feet apart. The Cal Ripken dimensions are 50 feet and 70 feet. Players can also lead off in Cal Ripken Baseball, unlike their Little League counterparts.
"It really prepares them for the game at the next level," said Southeast Denver Baseball and Softball League president Gregg Palmer.
In order to reach the World Series, which will include nine other American teams and eight international squads, Southeast Denver had to win a district, state and regional tournament.
In the Midwest Plains regional tournament in Baxter, Minn., Southeast Denver went 4-0, beating teams from Minnesota, Missouri and Kansas.
"I was speechless," said infielder Aidan Flores. "I knew there had only been one other team from Colorado to make it, so when we won, I couldn't believe it."
The reality is sinking in now. The team will leave for Maryland on Thursday and will play Saturday against a team from Homewood, Ill., the representative of the Ohio Valley region. The championship game on Aug. 16 will air on CBS Sports Network.
On Wednesday, the players received a warm send-off from Gov. John Hickenlooper at the state capitol.
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So I wrote a poem/song/whatever thing for the game Ib, because it is flawless. It's from Garry's point of view.
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xD I didn't think this was very good and it got so many comments it's embarassing
I thought it was cool! And at this moment, exactly 100 favorites.
I truly enjoyed playing this game, so much that I actually played it more than three times. >3<;
Anyways, I really like how you wrote this, and I feel like it captured the mood of the game fairly well. Keep up the awesome work!
Anyways, I really like how you wrote this, and I feel like it captured the mood of the game fairly well. Keep up the awesome work!
Hnng, one of my favorite computer games! <3
i liked that game awsome
Hehe, me too!
yes i cant get the ending were they remeber eatch other
You have to make sure you talk to Garry as many times as you can in the game, and never kick the doll or the mannequin head. Certain things you do will get you the bad ending!
lol i know right dont mess with the doll thought i was tempted to kick it XD but i kicked the manneauin head XD so talk to garry alot an they will remeber eatch other at the end?
Ib was a great game.
This was very well written. Great job!
This was very well written. Great job!
It's awesome. O A O
It almost reaches the perfection of the game. XD
It almost reaches the perfection of the game. XD
I don't even know what this is based off of and I love it. It's so dynamic!
It's a computer game called Ib, it's fantastic! And thanks!!
aaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhh! Its on the ib fanart collection!
Amazingly written <3
I already came up with a creepy melody for this.
This needs to be told by a voice actor. One that might be Johnny Young Basch. xD
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By Randy Muray, Fort Stewart Public Affairs
<b> FORT STEWART, Ga. </b> -- Barracks life for single Soldiers has changed considerably over the last 50 years.
Gone are the World War II-era, open-bay barracks that housed a platoon of Soldiers who shared latrine, shower and laundry facilities, no kitchen or electrical appliances allowed. Personal privacy was not possible.
These old wooden barracks were replaced with brick or concrete barracks in the '70s - with four Soldiers to a bedroom.
By the '90s, these were two-man bedrooms. Even then, eight or more Soldiers shared latrine and shower facilities, no kitchen, though coffee pots and microwaves were starting to get the Fire Marshall's approval.
For the most part, single Soldiers today live in apartment complexes surrounded by flower gardens and decorative duck ponds filled with cattails and water lilies - and only one Soldier to a bedroom that includes a walk-in closet and cable TV.
Only two Soldiers share latrine, shower, laundry and kitchen facilities - more personal privacy than most college dorms.
Spc. Myles Chapin and Spc. Raphael Karan, both scouts with 3rd Squadron, 7th Cavalry Regiment are more like neighbors than roommates. Though they share the above amenities, they're able to enjoy a degree of privacy single Soldiers never dreamed of 40 years ago. Both Soldiers just returned from a 15-month deployment to some of Fort Stewart's newest barracks, the 3000-block barracks located behind the Central Issue Facility.
"Compared to living in Iraq, living here is awesome," Chapin chuckled as he spread out his arms to showcase his new home. "The only thing missing is my (civilian clothes), which are still in storage."
Chapin, whose hometown is Columbia, Ohio, said his new accommodations are better than the barracks he left before his deployment, but that even those billets were more than suitable to him, except that he had to share his room with another Soldier.
"I'm still trying to get used to having running water and sleeping in a comfortable bed," said Karan, Chapin's former roommate now neighbor. "(Back here), Soldiers really value having alone time again."
Karan, who calls Glendale, Wis. home, seemed to be coping well enough in his new surroundings as he surfed the net on his laptop. His large, flat screen TV next to the bed seemed to be beckoning him to play a game, catch up on the news or watch a movie. Besides personal items, a twin-size bed, nightstand, entertainment stand and bookcase/computer desk furnished both rooms. The small kitchen included a sink, refrigerator and stove, dinette table with chairs, plus a washer/drying, and, of course, bathroom with shower.
Spc. Candis Pack, an all-wheel vehicle mechanic assigned to the Warriors in Transition Battalion's barracks, located near Taylors Creek golf course, enjoys her single room with kitchen and bathroom facilities but says she's almost too busy to spend much time in her room. Her assignment with the WTU allows her injuries time to heal, time she's using this summer to take four college classes.
Pack also takes advantage of various competitive sports and other athletic opportunities offered at Fort Stewart, including golf, bowling and swimming. She especially enjoys riding her Honda 600 and praises the installation's motorcycle safety course as a great idea, especially as a refresher for Soldiers returning from deployment.
"Everybody has to find their own circuit to mellow down," said Pack, who was selected as the WTU Soldier of the Month for July. "I always have a lot going on."
Many of the billeting improvements at Fort Stewart and Hunter Army Airfield are the result of the Better Opportunities for Single Soldiers program, which started nearly 20 years ago with a goal to improve the quality of life for single Soldiers. This program received a booster shot last November with the signing of the Army Family Covenant, which seeks to improve the quality of life for Army Families and Soldiers, including single Soldiers.
Together, the BOSS program and Army Family Covenant have been responsible for a lot of new construction and renovation on installations all over the country, for not only barracks but also physical fitness centers, golf courses, tennis courts, fishing ponds and clubs like Rocky's, which provide single Soldiers with fun, challenging and entertaining things to do on post, much of which within walking distance of home - the barracks.


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Hey, so I'm a nineteen-year-old male who has been sexually active for the past three years. I've been with a few girls (I was only in a "real" relationship with one) since I lost my virginity at sixteen. The thing is that I have a sister who's fifteen and I just found out that she and her seventeen-year-old boyfriend have started having sex. I don't want her to be doing anything like that-at least not until she is living on her own. Am I being a hypocrite, considering I was about her age when I started having sex?
I was dating a guy and the whole time I was dating him, he kept wanting to have sex with me. And I told him I wanted to wait for marriage. He said he'd wait for me and never ask me about it again. Well......that didn't happen. Every time we were together he kept asking if I wanted to move to the next level and I said no. Well, he kept doing this for two years, and we broke up a couple times over it. He'd always just apologize and say he wouldn't ask again. But then one day we went fishing together and he brought a blanket (which I thought was sweet....) and a condom. And he asked again.
When I was younger, (think 8 to begin with) my uncle kissed me on the mouth and told me that was the way I was supposed to kiss boys. It catapulted me out of normal 8 year old states of mind and left me obsessing about sex. I masturbated A LOT and had what I thought years later what might have been an orgasm at 11.
I thought that everyone was as sex obsessed as I was, which was probably due to the enormous amounts of media attention paid to having sex, trying to have sex, making yourself sexy enough to have sex, etc. It might also be useful to add that I was way ahead in school, so my peer group were at least 2 years older than I was, meaning that the boys around me were hitting puberty when I started this crazy sexual revolution...
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I feel like I'm always in my sisters shadow, and it's driving me nuts! I'm really happy the way I am, and I wouldn't change it, but whenever I'm around people I know, and she's there, I'm always second best. When I mean "people I know" it goes down to friends, boys, everyone who we're acquainted with! I know VERY well that I don't need a boy, but it feels nice to have attention sometimes. Maybe it's because me and my sister are very close in everything we do.
My sister also is a very thin individual, and weighs less than me, even if she is older and taller. I sometimes feel some pressure from her and my friends because I am more careful of what I eat. I am very curvy (it's my body type), and the rest of the people I know are very thin. Their constant nagging drives me crazy, and beside them I feel like a big lumbering pig, even if I am the average weight for an adult my height. I am very happy with my weight and body/breast size, but this is really getting annoying. Thanks for listening.
How do I best support a family member who has come out to me? The person is 15 years old and says they are bisexual.
I would appreciate a little light shed on my question, it puzzles me greatly. I asked a good while ago if I could start on Birth Control, and my father actually wouldn't mind, in fact, he supports it. My stepmother, on the other hand, doesn't seem comfortable with it. Despite the obvious discomfort, she said she'd call her doctor and see what she could do. Days later, she told me they won't take anyone under 18. This confused me. I know many teenagers on Birth Control. I hope she's not just saying that, although it wouldn't be the first time she did something rather similar to that. At first I got the feeling that she thought I would change if I was on the pill, like I was invincible and I could never get pregnant, so I can have sex whenever I want. The thing is, I'm not sexually active, I'm a virgin. I often get the feeling she thinks I'm a tramp. I would NEVER think in that fashion. So, my question to you, do you have to be a certain age to consult a doctor about Birth Control? And although I'm only 16, would that be my personal choice to take the pill? Or do they have a say in it until I'm a legal adult?
I used to be on BC, but when I found out I was taking it wrong I had to stop. I'm supposed to start it again the Thursday after I get my period... that is if my period comes. This is why I'm here. My boyfriend and I had unprotected sex, and I asked my mom if my period could be late because I'm no longer on BC. She became suspicious and a few days later we talked. I'm 17, by the way. She told me if I am pregnant that I'd have to abort it because I don't have the money or time to support a newborn, not to mention I'm starting college in August. She told me if I want to keep it then I can't live in her house. If I want to keep it, I have to PROVE to her that I am old enough to deal with it. So my question is directed towards abortion. How is an abortion performed, and does it hurt? I'm starting to get a little worried now because my period is late... and I can not (emotionally) handle a Pregnancy Test. I just can't. I told my boyfriend, who is 20, the situation. He's Mexican, and I am white. He freaked out because they're Catholic, and don't believe in abortion and they're all family oriented. He kinda got mad and was like, "you're going to kill my f------ baby." My mom told me he doesn't have a say in this whole situation, so I guess I have another question... how can I help him cope with this? Or is this something he just has to cope with himself? Thanks for reading, hope you can help! (I'm sure you can!!! :])
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