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Omar Al Bashir straddling Africa's graveyard of Human Rights Abuse...
After a long day and efforts to speak about Kenya's recent achievements, I cannot sleep tonight. I will keep vigil and write as I have promised my arrested colleagues who not only boycotted events organised by the state but also took to the streets.I am away and I remember the faces of Somali, Ethiopian, Sudanese and Eritrean people as I spoke today about Kenya's possible success. They smiled at the healing of a neighbor hoping for the same. There are far too many African refugees for us to take human rights abuse lightly even for a second. If these men do not feel the urgency for change the way we do, they should just step down.
By Philo Ikonya
What should have been a day of hope in Kenya- celebrations of the promulgation of Kenya's new constitution were in top gear- has ended up in great disappointment as Kenyans realized that the State invited The Sudanese President Omar Al Bashir who has a warrant of arrest from the International Criminal Court to the Uhuru Park celebrations in Nairobi. Bashir was not arrested. He was escorted to Uhuru Park by the Kenyan Tourism minister Najib Balala. Peter Muli and Francis Kihara, ordinary citizens who like most Kenyans survive on a meal a day but have the courage to defend their country and democracy are in police cells for protesting Omar Bashir's invitation to Kenya.
On 15th March 2005, Kenya ratified the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. Kenya became party to the Statute as number 98 and today the ICC has 108 members. The Statute entered into force for Kenya on 1st June 2005 a day Kenya celebrates having received internal or self governance from the British in 1963, Madaraka Day. Can we really say the people have internal self government today?
I feel that Kenya has sold out our self governance yesterday. Indeed in the first place, the people should have been the main celebrants in the promulgation of the new constitution which we say, we the people of Kenya, give ourselves." Instead military power took centre stage and we did not even know our full guest list.
In an endless night of watching rights abuse with only a few candles left to burn, I see Bashir astride our lands in Africa, from Chad to Kenya, Cairo and Sudan and I see a graveyard of human rights without hope as Africa looks more to China today. Who will stand with us? The U.S. A is not part of the I.C.C and Europe is being bashed as the colonial past machinery in Africa. Yes, we can stand alone and we did, but how does the world justify international diplomacy, the UN and all the money we pay to have a ministry of Foreign Affairs, and all that Diplomatic Corp in Nairobi from where it serves the Horn of Africa? We are, especially we the women who are raped daily in Congo and in Darfur and other places, betrayed all the time. Where do we begin?
Kenya has bound herself by law to facilitate the work of the ICC because Kenya has signed up to do so. Kenya did not do that. A valid question is therefore what does any law, including the constitution of Kenya mean to the Kenyan state?
Another question is about those who facilitated the post-poll violence of 2007 in Kenya. Will they be brought to book by the Hague since the 10th Kenyan Parliament failed to form a local tribunal to try the suspects and this remained the only option for justice to be meted against perpetrators of this violence? By entertaining Bashir, it would seem they were taunting the ICC and saying, look at us, you can do nothing. Honestly, Kibaki, am so ashamed of you. I have not forgotten that some months ago, you burned my mother's granary so that you could see the words as you swore yourself back to power on the strength of a flawed election. I cannot forget this because many people died and because you know, your government has denied consistently, a report on the disappeared people of Kenya, the home desaparecidos.
The ICC is investigating the violence which happened in Kenya in 2007, and time and time again, The Prosecutor of the ICC, Moreno Ocampo has said he has a number of important names from Kenya that he might want to bring to book. Today, many of us Kenyans have doubted that such a move will ever work.
Omar Bashir was in the wrong place at the wrong time. He was in Nairobi and he was not arrested. I shudder to think that he went, he saw and returned home leaving easily cheated Kenyans in great disbelief. The skeletons cry in Darfur, blood is hidden in shallow graves in Kenya, and we celebrate and sing.
Immediately Omar's presence in Nairobi became clear to the people who had already been skeptical about the government of Kenya show of military might in the celebration of the peoples achievement in giving themselves a new constitution, some took to the streets in protest. The shouted, "Omar, go to the Hague!!"
The police broke up the demonstration with tear gas and arrested two individuals from Bunge La Mwananchi (The Peoples' Parliament) and as a free Bashir eats a sumptuous dinner tonight after fasting in the day as it is Ramadhan, the two lie in the inhospitable Kenyan police cells in which I have also spent some nights in the past for peacefully demonstrating against police impunity, police brutality and corruption. The two are injured and will be in the cells for three days before they can be brought to court because today is a weekend. What kept us from using the money you used to entertain important your guests from financing a 24/7 court in Kenya? Have you forgotten the Internally Displaced Persons still in camps? We have 200, 000 people living in tents as a result of war over Kibaki's votes. Google International Displacement Monitoring Centre: http://www.internal-displacement.org/idmc/website/countries.nsf/(httpEnvelopes)/B594F51B576A2A37C12573DB0036DA69?OpenDocument
It is no doubt that the President of Kenya Kibaki and the Prime Minster have sent a very sad signal to Kenyans today. I feel and see that we are all sitting at the graveyard of human rights abuse and thinking of rising some day against such realities as have been Darfur in Sudan and Kenya's disappeared, dead in poll violence, over 1 300 and so many thousands of Internally Displaced Persons, I can only say, help my unbelief in a resurrection, in change! We are tired of situations of mass deaths like in Darfur, Kenya in 2007 and we must see that change happens not only to Kenya but to all neighboring countries. There is not time to waste.
I do not know why the world does not feel the urgency for the deaths in Darfur, I do not know why the world does not feel like me tonight about the arrest of Omar Bashir. I do not know why the people of Sudan think that this would be an affront to their leader. We cannot afford to have governments that do not hold human rights in reverence and who all too easily blame the west as our people die under poor political organization.
I protest so strongly that the United States of America is not a part of the International Criminal Court. I ask America first and with great pain, why this? I heard Condoleeza Rice say in 2009 that "the people of Sudan have suffered too much for too long, and an end to their anguish will not come easily. Those who committed atrocities in Sudan, including genocide, should be brought to justice!"
But the media observed quickly that the US is not a party to the treaty that established the ICC in 2002, the one Kenya has ratified and broken today… George Bush saw the ICC as a violation of US sovereignty and his successor has not revised this position. The U.S. A here joins China, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Zimbabwe and Sudan in not ratifying the Rome Statute. The ICC has 108 member countries.
I protest even more strongly that anyone continues calling the defence of human rights a western notion. We are either all human or we are not. We are either all in solidarity against the Bashirs of this world or we are nothing. I know I cannot choose Kibaki's friends for him, recently he entertained his Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmedinejad of Iran surprised me. He invited him on when the two met in the UN General Assembly in New York in September 2007, a few months before the violence we endured. He also invited Muammar Gaddafi but turned down the Dalai Lama. In searching for oil in Kenya, the Chinese who were not as effective as some western counterparts take the first place in Kenya. I have also heard Kibaki speak lightly of the ICC saying that maybe Kenya could after all renege (whatever that meant) the Rome Statute.
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These fictions usually featured nerdy heroes taking on swarms of bees, plagues of rats, or shoals of man-eating fish, and often had an underlying critique of poverty caused by an indifferent consumerist society, as in James Herbert's The Rats, or the political corruption of a small town as in Peter Benchley's Jaws. Herbert's Rats offered a template for Guy N. Smith's The Night of the Crabs, Richard Lewis's Devil's Coach Horse, and Shaun Hutson's Slugs. While Benchley and Spielberg's great white shark saw John Sayles' Piranha (novelization by Leo Callan), Dino De Laurentiis's Orca, novelization by Arthur Herzog, "author of The Swarm" and the lesser Croc—a giant hungry reptile terrorizing New York's sewer system "in the tradition of Night of the Crabs " as the blurb reads—by David James.
Croc being tagged with Smith's Night of the Crabs is just some lazy PR-man looking for a quick buck. Croc is about a pet reptile, which grows too big and is flushed down the lavatory. Somehow it survives living-off human refuse and the occasional down-and-out, and slowly grows to incredible size. When sewage workers Peter Boggs and Marian Fascetti investigate a blocked sewer, our story really begins. There's a sub-plot about Mafia connections, but the main thrust is the politicians don't want to know there's a crocodile on the loose under New York City. And yes, there's the team-up where Boggs is helped by policeman Glen Stapleton, who goes up against the beast.
Smith's Crabs has monster-sized crabs (up to sixteen feet across, if memory serves, with shels that can withstand armor-piercing missiles—the possible mutations of underwater nuclear testing), attacking the Welsh coastline. Like Herbert's The Rats, Crabs' mutant creatures have a taste for human flesh. This book spawned a series of six, finishing with Crabs Moon-The Human Sacrifice.
Of course, we can trace giant creatures back to fairy tales and writers like H. G. Wells, whose Food of the Gods had an idle couple of hired hands accidentally introducing the growth chemical "Herakleophorbia IV" into the food chain leading to giant chickens, wasps, rats and eventually human mutations. Wells also wrote the short story Empire of the Ants which featured a plague of giant ants attacking villages in the Upper Amazon, which foreshadows Them!.
Wells undoubtedly had an major influence, but the rapacious insects of seventies pulp horror tended to be average size, and were only marked by their lust for human flesh. These insects were usually the by-product of scientific meddling or pesticides. Richard Lewis churned out a half-dozen of such books most notably Spiders and Devil's Coach Horse, in which mutated earwigs devastate southern England. Guy N. Smith produced the insect horror of all horrors with Abomination in 1987, where pesticide causes every insect, worm, slug etc attack man. Smith more than any other author produced several "Nature Gone Bad" books with Snakes, Alligators, Locusts, the rather enjoyable Slime Beast, which may have come from another world, or may have been an evolutionary mutation created by man-made poisons, and The Throwback, where evolution goes wild.
The structure of these books is usually the same. The opening has some poor unfortunate, often a down-and-out or a lonely alcoholic, sometimes a misguided scientist, as first victim. Their body goes undiscovered allowing the rats, slugs, crabs, spiders, etc. to go unnoticed. There usually follows a series of tableaux where couples making out, small children and mothers, sad loners, and ambitious yuppies are killed with ever increasing violence. This leads to our hero, often a teacher (Herbert), a pipe smoking expert (Smith), or a disgruntled government employee (Hutson), who notes the pattern of deaths, the tell-tale markings or slime trails, and commences the creatures' downfall.
Like Benchley's Jaws, which was inspired by the Jersey Shore shark attacks of 1916, where four died and seven were injured, Arthur Herzog's The Swarm was inspired by killer bee attacks in Africa, which he then transposed to South America and then the States. Herzog wrote the novelization of the vengeful killer whale film Orca. Herzog was an interetsing writer, his second book Earthsound tapped into shifting tectonics that meant earthquakes began to devastate the east coast of America. Herbert's The Rats was also inspired by the author's memories of post-war London infested by the vermin.
These books maybe poorly written, with often plodding lumpen prose, but they are incredibly addictive. I swallowed my way trough handfuls of these at a time during childhood, often reading two-a-day, and firmly believe such pulp fiction should be encouraged in school to help reluctant students read and get into the habit of books.
The flip-side to the rise to the disaster eco-horror in the 1970s was the comparable popularity of pulp sex books, whether Emmanuele, Xaviera Hollander's The Happy Hooker or Timothy Lea's (a pseudonym for screenwriter Christopher Wood) Confessions… series, which began with Confessions of a Window Cleaner. As Freud suggested, it seems that sex and death are inextricably linked.
Via Strange Things Are Happening, Not Pulp Covers, Scary MF, Starlogged and The Black Glove.


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Honduras upbeat ahead of Costa Rica clash
TEGUCIGALPA - A Honduran club's 6-0 rout of Costa Rican opponents last week is giving Honduras added belief for their World Cup qualifier at home to their neighbours in San Pedro Sula on Wednesday. The Costa Rica team arrived amid tight security following the coup in June that ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya but coach Rodrigo Kenton said they found the atmosphere calm and felt at home in "a brother country". The match will nevertheless be heavily policed after at least three people died and many more were wounded after clashes between fans and police outside the National Stadium in the capital after a local derby last month. Honduran club side Real Espana last week crushed Liberia Mia, who have five Costa Rica internationals, 6-0 at home in their CONCACAF Champions League qualifying round, second leg for a 6-3 aggregate victory. "Five internationals is a lot for any team and with such a rout anyone can be affected," Honduras's Mexico-based midfielder Ramon Nunez said. "So let's hope it benefits us and they come with their morale low," the Cruz Azul player told Honduran media. Liberia Mia defenders Feddy Fernandez, Michael Umana and Harold Wallace, midfielder Esteban Sirias and striker Alejandro Alpizar are all in Costa Rica's squad. Right wing back Wallace said: "For us it's (a chance) for revenge, that's the lovely thing about football, that things happen and a short time later you have the opportunity to set them right. "For me that's what it will be... it's like a feeling of (seeking) revenge," he told the Honduran newspaper le Prensa's website. IN-FORM STRIKER Honduras's Colombian coach Reinaldo Rueda said he hoped striker Carlos Pavon could repeat on Wednesday the hat-trick he scored for Real Espana in the match that put them in the Champions League group phase. With five matches to go, Costa Rica are looking to secure their place in South Africa with a game or two to spare. Costa Rica, who beat Honduras 2-0 at home in February, are top with 12 points in the six-nation group from which the top three will go through to the finals in South Africa next year. They are followed by the U.S. with 10 points, Honduras seven, Mexico six, El Salvador five and Trinidad & Tobago two. The team finishing fourth will go into a playoff with the fifth-placed team in South America. Costa Rica are looking to reach their third World Cup tournament in a row and fourth altogether. Honduras reached the 1982 finals in Spain. El Salvador, who have played at the 1970 and 1982 World Cups, meet surprise 2006 finalists Trinidad & Tobago in Port of Spain looking for a win to keep in touch with the leading teams. Mexico, in a precarious fourth place, will be out to beat the U.S. for the second time since their Gold Cup victory last month when they meet at the Azteca.


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Hi everybody. I've had a couple of people on Twitter asking for advice on the best way to revamp a bathroom in order to increase their chances of selling a house. Well, the good news is that it is a relatively pain free process to give your bathroom a new lease of life and make it far more attractive to potential buyers.
A recent survey found that 56% of people viewing a property would immediately write it off if the bathroom was dirty, so let's get that one crossed off straight away. Grouting can be spruced up with a toothbrush and a little hydrogen peroxide (make sure you have your Marigolds on!) and the waterproof sealant around your basin or bath can be replaced for just a few pounds and only requires 24 hours to dry. A new coat of paint is another simple and quick way to make a real difference. Keep it simple; white paint or a pastel shade will keep the room feeling light, fresh and airy, and help increase the feeling of space in the room.
In keeping with the space-increasing properties of fresh paint, make sure you have a decent sized mirror to amplify the effect. Many bathroom furniture manufacturers are now creating stylish illuminated mirrors at affordable prices. Not only will this make the room seem larger, but it's a simple way to really modernise your bathroom and give it a designer feel. Remember, you are selling a lifestyle, not just a purely functional space.
So now you have a bright, airy and well-lit space, don't allow yourself to clutter it up with multi-coloured and distracting toiletries and bathroom products. We all need our cosmetics and daily essentials, but having everything out on display will make the room feel busy and uncared for. Fortunately, the solution to that problem is as practical as it is stylish. Bathroom furniture is making a real comeback at the moment, and just a couple of well-placed cabinets can make a huge difference in achieving a serene and streamlined end result.
A vanity unit installed beneath your basin will allow you keep everything you need neatly tidied away but remain within easy reach, and with fewer items around the basin, house viewers will be able to project their own use of the bathroom more easily. One option I highly recommend is to install a vanity unit with a counter top basin. This small change will immediately lend your bathroom a luxurious, designer quality without major plumbing work being required. Bear I mind, too, that fitted cabinets can contain and hide pipes and plumbing work, resulting in a neater overall appearance.
It can be a costly and inconvenient process to replace an entire bathroom suite, so as long as your existing suite isn't a radioactive shade of avocado, then a thorough scrub will usually suffice. A clever way to update your bathroom suite, however, is to install new taps and wastes. Using the same tap holes you already have, this is a subtle change that can alter he atmosphere of a room and instantly provide a more sophisticated and opulent air.
So there we have it: New taps, a high quality mirror, those de-cluttering cabinets, a lick of paint and a thorough clean. Piece of cake. A bathroom that any potential buyer would want, without an enormous outlay. Let me know how it goes!


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we are in Week 6 of #ProjectMilf and it's that time again
your Motivating & Inspiring Leading Female Idols
You go lady. you are doing well, because little by little you will get there :).
Good luck with the half-marathon! Even when I was at my most fit, I wasn't ready to take on something like that, so way to go!
Wow she is an inspiration. I'm looking forward to when my dr gives me the ok to workout again since the c section.
Sounds like you are doing GREAT with your goal!
Can't wait to hear about your half marathon!
I can't believe you ran a half marathon while 17 weeks pregnant! You are superwoman!!!
Keep up the great work! :)
I said before and I'l say it again, you ladies are an absolute inspiration!
I was pretty busy yesterday to make my rounds to comment but wanted to say love the post and hang in there! So proud everyone is doing well. :)
I've heard those Insanity workouts are absolutely nuts! You go girl!
Yes, keep going. Tia...man wow.
Tia looks amazing definitely inspirational.
You go girl keep up with the good work. My hubby was so excited that he inspired someone :)
Good luck with the half marathon you'll be great! I cannot believe you ran 17 weeks pregnant! You're a champ.
Wow Tia looks amazing and is such great fitness inspiration! You are also inspiring and good luck with the half marathon!
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Flyboys — A True Story Of Courage, by James Bradley
(Little, Brown & Co.; 2003, 398 pp., $25.95 — ISBN 0316105848)
Chichi Jima hardly stirs memories today, and even to a lot of those of the Greatest Generation, it is of little significance. But it has played a part in American history since Admiral Matthew Perry purchased a portion of the island in 1853. It had a spring-fed water supply, trees and a natural harbor. It was also a good whaling station and could be used as a stopping point for ships crossing the Pacific, even though it was only about twice the size of New York's Central Park.
Bradley, who also wrote "Flags of Our Fathers," picked Chichi Jima to anchor a story about the air war in the Pacific. The significance to the Pacific War was that the island had two mountains just over 1,000 feet high that made it a good relay station for the Japanese, as well as a place from which to monitor American radio traffic and military movement. The small size and mountainous terrain made it unsuitable for airfields.
The air war had some fundamental clashes in cultures that influenced how it was fought with a number of the advantages going to the Americans in the field of things mechanical.
There are other books on the bigger battles, like Midway, so the author only mentions them in passing. The focus is on Chichi Jima and that focus is exacting. George H.W. Bush was picked up after his plane was shot down while bombing Chichi Jima. A fellow soldier of Nobuaki Iwatake was amazed as he looked from a position on the island and saw the American submarine Finback rescue Bush. The submarine was available to rescue pilots. The author took pains to get these former combatants together for an interview.
Bradley also looked at the guilt of pilot Bob King who was flying an aircraft identical to that of George Bush. Another plane was destroyed by anti-aircraft fire near King's plane and the wreckage of that plane tore off the outer wing and aileron and caused massive structural damage to the fuselage. King struggled to control the whipping wreckage as his crewmembers bailed out. They did not survive, but King was able to right the aircraft and fly it back to the carrier where he successfully ditched the aircraft, which was too badly damaged for a landing attempt.
Bradley also reconstructed the last days of some of the American prisoners on the island through interviews and research of long-suppressed documents. The descriptions are not for the squeamish, but do give a deeper understanding of the emotions involved in WWII.
People who have not been to war may find the transition from a high school kid working at a soda fountain to a downed aviator facing execution to be incomprehensible. The same would be true of a high school student educated in Hawaii who was drafted into the Japanese army because he elected to attend a Japanese university. During the war they were enemies. Under different circumstances they might have been friends.
Those looking for a detailed and complete picture of the air war will be disappointed in "Flyboys." It is more a look about the people involved at Chichi Jima than in the broader spectrum of the air war. The book is good, but it requires that the reader have considerable prior knowledge of WWII in the Pacific to understand where his details fit. The excellent photos are well selected for the material in the text. The notes and index also support the author's extensive research.


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- Download the app source file (.apk) from the Internet, directly onto ODIN or you can download the app source file from the Internet and put the source file into the USB disk, then transfer to ODIN by using the file Explorer app.
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Why America Will Kick the Republicans' Asses (BR)
But all that is boring. America will dispatch the Grand Ol' Party from their leadership posts in the House -- and possibly the Senate -- for reasons that are more related to aesthetics and therefore harder to pin down. You just get a sinking feeling of ickyness whenever you're forced to watch George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Don Rumsfeld, Denny Hastert or any of these creeps attempt flailingly to defend their indefensible actions and statements.
Here are five reasons among hundreds why the Republican Party has worn out its welcome in the heart of the American voter:
1) The only way they can win elections is by turning Americans into snivelling crybaby pussies: And no one wants to be a crybaby pussy. Let's face it, if you have a deep-seated fear, some moderate misgivings, or even mild trepidation about running errands and going about your business because of terrorism, you need to get a grip. New Yorkers and Washingtonians have managed to deal with the real but minor likelihood that something bad might happen on their commute. The great majority of us are not cowed into hermitude. If you live in Cedar Rapids or Wichita or Idaho Falls you have every right to be concerned about national security but no excuse to be afraid.
The Republicans built their post-9/11 majority by completely infantilizing the electorate, convincing them there was a mortal threat around every corner, and that the Democrats, who questioned the wisdom of commencing a pre-emptive strike on Iraq or ceding the Congress' constitutional power to make war to the President, were mollycoddling the terrorists and playing fast and loose with American lives with their fancypants intellectualizing. People who understand the history of America, and what it means to be an American, know that our greatness has been the result of our commitment to justice, not fear.
2) They provide aid and comfort to pimps and predators: At least until they're caught. Rep. Tom Reynolds (R-NY) knew about his colleague Mark Foley's predilection for the teenaged boys working under him (heh) and encouraged him to run anyway, figuring presciently that the GOP would need all the safe incumbent-held seats they had. Which brings us to ...
3) The sex thing: How come Republican officials can have gay friends but voters can't? Some of the most virulently anti-gay Republicans on the Hill, it turns out, have openly gay staffers who put together their churlish and bigoted press packages as red meat for their base. Maybe it's all a big joke to these log-cabinners, but their contributions to the ugly double-standard which is perenially being pushed as legislation damn them just as well as the conservative voters who actually support the stuff.
What's more, with each "pro-family" politician and activist exposed as a closet homosexual, meth-head or pedophile, as it were, the conclusion becomes undeniable that all the social conservatives are an insular cabal who all know full well of the deviance of certain members in their rank, and tolerate it to the extent that it is politically expedient for the party. The tragic part of all this is the impression it leaves on our collective consciousness: That all who claim to be for family values -- whatever those are -- are using it as a front so that they may diddle boys or smoke crack away from prying eyes.
Republicans, just like everyone else, love to get freaky every now and again. Unfortunately, like many people, they also feel bad for having those sort of impulses, and project their freakiness onto the world at-large, then try to ban their own behavior as some weird gesture of atonement. That's why the right-wing attempt to change the subject from Foley to Barney Frank and Gerry Studds held no water: Frank and Studds weren't out there trying to protect people from gayness while having gay sex.
4) Sloganeering: There are dozens ("Cut and run," "Stay the course," etc.) but probably my least favorite is "Fight 'em there so we don't have to fight 'em here." There are two things wrong with that concept: the first part and the second part. If you feel more safe and secure in your home in America knowing that we're occupying a country that never posed a threat to us and is a haven for terrorism now that we're there ... well, by all means vote Republican. If you'd like to give it a second of thought, however, you'll realize that we were attacked "here" by people who lived, worked and planned "here," and so therefore "here," where "they" might be hiding out and plotting another attack is probably the wiser place to fight them, as opposed to "there," where "they" aren't. Arguing with Bush logic, you're necessarily drawn into an Abbott and Costello sort of routine, and as public sentiment against the war mounts, people are getting sick of hearing their questions dismissed or redirected to another topic.
5) They're liars and hypocrites and don't even care that you know it: White House Press Secretary Tony Snow put on his best outraged face in reaction to John Kerry's faux pas about the troops and their intellect relative to overachieving college students. Then over the weekend, four military papers -- not Stars & Stripes, granted, but they still know their audience -- jointly printed an editorial calling for Rumsfeld's ouster. Rumsfeld, who looks increasingly overwhelmed and out of his element with each successive press appearance, has with shocking frequency demeaned and derided and passed his rightful buck onto the American fighting forces, from generals to the grunts on the ground. Snow, incidentally, called the editorial "shabby." There's nothing like consistency.
So this is it. Our best guess is that America is sick enough of being moralized to by the guys and gals who unrepentantly caucus with thieves (Duke Cunningham, Bob Ney), con artists (Tom DeLay), hate merchants (Marilyn Musgrave), unabashed dolts (our Dear Leader) and power-hungry madmen (Dick Cheney).
I'm calling a 30-seat pickup for the Democrats in the House and five seats in the Senate and hoping I'm misunderestimating my party. Happy voting, everyone!


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Sunday, March 16, 2008
Time Flies When You're Having Fun (But Finding Yourself Without Any Time To Write Down What You Really Want To Say)
So in the interests of that horrendously long but accurate title for this post, I'm closing up shop here at metaDRAMA. I'm going to try consolidating my so-called "belletristic bemusements" with my actual reviews of plays over at That Sounds Cool, in the hopes that merging all the thoughts I'm having about theater, both in what I'm seeing and what I'm reading, will help me become more timely in my posts. So far, it's worked: the fourth "Critical Thought" is posted over there right now. Thanks for bearing with me as I try to flesh out what exactly I want to do with all this criticism, and where I hope it will lead me in the future. Your thoughts, as always, are welcome. (Only you might want to do them over there, as I'll stop checking this blog.)
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Selge is one of those hidden treasures just a stone's throw north of Antalya that only few people visit.
The road leads through an inhospitable land with barren hills, rough rocks and recently burnt down trees and bushes, to the banks of the Eurymedon River, today's Köprülü River that flows past Aspendos further downstream. This river lightens up the entire landscape, tracing a pale turquoise ribbon through the young green grasses and the dark pine trees. The repeated rapids in this fast flowing water make it very suitable for rafting, a booming business, it seems. Nature unfolds in all its splendour and once again I wonder if Alexander had an eye for this kind of beauty. The higher the road climbs, the denser the thick pine trees, creating a dramatic setting against the snow-topped Taurus Mountains reaching to 2,000-2,500 meters. The steel blue sky makes every turn of the road a picture-perfect postcard.
I scramble around for about three hours, yet visiting only two of the three hills. I take a good look at the third hill from the top of the second one to define the impressive city wall, once three kilometers long. I'm truly baffled for I had no idea that Selge was so large and so imposing. No wonder that Alexander left Selge for what it was! In the middle of no man's land, at a height of 2,000 meters, what was the point? Yet this is a majestic landscape.
[Click here to see all the pictures of Selge]
The road leads through an inhospitable land with barren hills, rough rocks and recently burnt down trees and bushes, to the banks of the Eurymedon River, today's Köprülü River that flows past Aspendos further downstream. This river lightens up the entire landscape, tracing a pale turquoise ribbon through the young green grasses and the dark pine trees. The repeated rapids in this fast flowing water make it very suitable for rafting, a booming business, it seems. Nature unfolds in all its splendour and once again I wonder if Alexander had an eye for this kind of beauty. The higher the road climbs, the denser the thick pine trees, creating a dramatic setting against the snow-topped Taurus Mountains reaching to 2,000-2,500 meters. The steel blue sky makes every turn of the road a picture-perfect postcard.
Inside the National Park of Köprülü, named after the Roman bridge that still spans both steep canyon walls of the river by the same name, I have to drive my car over this centuries-old bridge – quite an exciting experience! From this point onward the road takes one hairpin after the other, but the view is breathtaking! The Eurymedon River gets ever smaller and the view ever wider. Shapeless grey rocks of conglomerate curiously dot the soft spring grass with its profusion of flowers. The scene has something dramatic, unreal, but at the same time timeless - a primeval force. Then the first terraces appear, neatly trimmed parcels of cultivated land promising a good harvest. Above them the first houses arise, low constructions providing shelter from the cold and wind, built in the same grey rocks I saw earlier and brightened up with red tiles. This is the village of Altinkaya, actually built among the ruins of antique Selge.
Selge itself is spread over three hills, all three being located on top of the same hilltop. Nobody in his right mind would even think about attacking or besieging such a city! An earthen road winds between somber houses, a desolate place softened up by a few scanty blossoming pear trees. In antiquity, grapes were cultivated in these parts and even olive trees managed to survive the harsh conditions of Selge. Old sources also mention the presence of a small tree which produced a resin similar to that of incense; an occasional rare specimen may have survived. The grapes disappeared with the arrival of the Islam and today their living conditions look even more precarious than before.
Strabo tells us that Selge was founded in the aftermath of the Trojan War, during the second millennium BC. After that the Spartans moved in, followed later on by emigrants from Rhodes, but that the true history of the city starts with the arrival of Alexander the Great in 333 BC.
Selge was constantly at odds with its neighbours and that included Termessos which Alexander would besiege afterwards. So the people of Selge thought it wise to welcome the Macedonian King from the start. Later on, the city would do the same with the Romans although they remained independent until the fall of the Roman Empire. In the fourth century, the Byzantine Emperor Theodosius decided to settle the Goths in Phrygia (i.e. the northern region) who, warlike as they were, attacked and destroyed many cities in Anatolia. In 339 AD they also stood before Selge but couldn't take the city.
Nothing has been excavated here and everything is left the way Selge was abandoned eons ago. Most remains are like elsewhere in Turkey from Roman times, roughly 2nd century AD. As always, the theatre is the eye catcher. Built in three-quarters of a circle, its plan is typically Greek; the 30 tiers below the diazoma out of the total 40 are still preserved because they rest on a rocky bottom while the upper 15 rows were supported by masonry that collapsed over the years. Close to nothing is left of the Roman scene that was added later on. Just before entering the theatre, I luckily notice the blank panel that never received its inscription. The theatre seated 9,000 people, meaning that Selge must have counted 20 to 25,000 inhabitants. It is a mighty sight, to say the least and the view from the top towards the snow-capped Taurus Mountains is absolutely breathtaking. I could spend all day just sitting here on the top row…
Through a gate holding the chickens I enter the Stadium. The owner of this parcel, an elderly man, kindly opens and closes his rudimentary gate in the fence made of all sorts of planks and branches wired together. I glance at his house if I may call this a house, four grey stone walls recuperated from antiquity no doubt but properly covered by a modern tile roof. Three months of the year Selge is covered under the snow, so this roof is definitely no luxury. The inside is a black hole with barren stone walls and an earthen floor, one room for everyone and everything. How can they possibly heat such a place? It takes some effort to discern the outlines of the Stadium, half broken down, half overgrown or disappearing inside some shack. According to George Bean (Turkeys' Southern Shore) it never reached the full length of 185 meters, which was also the case with the Stadium of Arykanda and several others but I never seem to have paid much attention to the measurements.
The place is totally littered with loose stones, broken columns and pottery, and plenty of antique rubble through and over which one has to find a way to other paths, passing through more wooden gates and climbing over low walls. Yet I reach the Basilica on the second hill and suddenly I'm standing in the middle of the fully paved Agora, measuring approximately 50 x 50 meters. Remains of the Stoa that framed the Agora on three sides await craftsmen to put the columns back in place. I find a stone with a Greek inscription between Corinthian capitals and column drums, and behind that a row of loose square pillars line up along what might have been a street. Gee, if only archaeologists would come down here and excavate Selge like they did in Arykanda, it looks so promising!
Returning along other tracks, I pass a spring of clear water in the shelter of a rock wall, in fact, this is the antique spring that is still being used by the villagers who fill their plastic jerry cans here every day as there is no running tap water.
I leave Selge that looks still as poor as it was in the second half of last century when George Bean visited it, and I cross the same Roman bridge again. This time, I take the time to stop for a closer look into the deep canyon. You have to admire the engineers from antiquity to dare "hang" this bridge so high above the water and in such a way that it still is being used today. The wild waters of the Köprü River are squeezed through the narrows from which two waterfalls add to the spectacle. In fact, these waterfalls are fed by underground springs whose water is pressed through the cracks in the rock formation. I don't think the rafting companies I passed earlier today will dare venture in this part of the river! A little further down there is a second bridge, the Bügrüm Bridge from Ottoman times that spans the Kocadere River, a tributary to the Köprü (old Eurymedon) River. There is a path leading over that thin arch but that is too daring for me. I also come across the typical red and white marks of the Lycian Way that follows an ancient road that once connected Side to Konya.
Yes, there is enough left for a second visit to Selge, some day soon I hope.


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Who Owns What in Marital Property?
The state law will determine who owns martial property in case of a divorce or in the event one of the spouse dies. Some states have specific laws that determine what happens to marital property in case of a divorce or death of a spouse. These states are known as community property states. When all is well in the marriage, there may not be any need to determine which of the properties are martial property and which are separate properties of the spouse. But in case of a divorce or death of one spouse, it can play a vital role.
Common Law Property States
Majority of the states are common law property states. In these states, any property that is acquired by any one spouse solely and exclusively belongs to that spouse. If the title to the property has the names of both spouses, then both spouses will own that property equally.
For example, if a car purchased by the wife in her name alone will solely and exclusively belong to her. If she lists her husband's name along with her name as the owners, then both of them will own the car.
Death or divorce: In case of death, separate property of the deceased spouse will dealt with according to his or her will. In the absence of a will, the state law will determine what happens to the separate property. Marital property is distributed according to the type of shared ownership. For example if the spouses own the property in tenancy by the entirety, then the surviving spouse will get the property irrespective of what the deceased spouse's will says. But if the ownership is tenancy in common, then the property will be dealt with according to the will of the deceased spouse. When there is no title or deed to a property, the spouse who paid for it or received the property as a gift will generally own it.
In case of a divorce, the court will determine the distribution of marital property. If there is a prenuptial agreement in place, then the marital assets will be divided according to the prenuptial agreement.
Community Property States
California, Arizona, Louisiana, Texas, Wisconsin, Washington, Nevada, Idaho and New Mexico are community property states. In these states, any property acquired after the marriage is community property. Both spouses equally own the marital property. Earnings and all assets purchased with the earnings as well as debts are considered marital property. All property purchased by the spouses after the marriage till they physically separate with intention to end the marriage will be considered as community property. Even the salaries of the spouses during this time will be community property.
Assets acquired prior to the marriage are separate property and will belong exclusively to the spouse who owns it. The owner spouse can transfer ownership or gift the property to the other spouse or make the property community property, for example, by making his spouse a joint account holder. Separate property can be commingled with community property.
One spouse cannot alter, eliminate or transfer any community either wholly or in part without the consent of the other spouse. One spouse may deal with his or her own half in any manner he or she deems fit. But the entire property includes the other spouse's interest as well. A spouse cannot be deprived of his or her share of the community property by the other spouse.
The following are considered as separate property:
– Property acquired solely by one spouse prior to the marriage
– Property received by one spouse as gift prior to or during the marriage
– Property inherited by one spouse
Examples of community property include:
– Income earned by either spouse during the marriage
– Assets or property acquired by the money earned by either spouse during the marriage
– Separate property that has been commingled with community property and is not impossible to identify.
Example: Jack and Sandra have been married for the past 8 years. Sandra who is a teacher buys a car with her hard earned money. Both of them own the car equally.
Example: Jack purchased an expensive sports car. This car will be his separate property and not community property as it was acquired prior to the marriage. If he gives Sandra one half interest in the sport car, it will community property.
Death or divorce: In case of death of one spouse, the surviving spouse get the share of the deceased spouse in the community property. Separate property will be distributed according to the deceased spouse's will or the state law if there is no will. Most community property states have a doctrine called the "community property with the right of survivorship". In such cases, where the couple holds the deed to the property, the title will pass automatically to the surviving spouse without any court proceedings.
In case of divorce or separation, all community property is divided equally. Separate property will belong to the respective spouses. Sometimes it is not possible to divide an asset such as a home equally. In such cases, one spouse will get the home while the other will receive other assets that is equal to 50% of the home's value. The couple can enter into a prenuptial agreement about the division of marital property.
– Sometimes, the marital property will not be divided equally. Here are some circumstances that can result in uneven distribution of marital property
– Misappropriation of community property by one spouse before or during the divorce
– Educational loans of a spouse will continue to remain the liability of that spouse
– Tort liability incurred by one spouse as long as it is not caused by any activity undertaken for mutual benefit of the spouses
– Personal injury award through a community property is given to the injured spouse in case of a divorce
– The community debts and liabilities exceed the assets that can be used to pay off the debts and liabilities. This is referred to as negative community. The court will want to protect the creditors and so will consider the ability of each spouse to pay the debt.


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