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Anime Central 2013
Tenth Doctor: Parasite-Core
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safaiagem asked: Whoa whoa, you got a hug from Mark Ruffalo?
I GOT TWO.
I was at the Avengers premiere in London, and a friend of mine won the costume contest so I was his plus one, they put us in a little...
Speaking exclusively to HLN’s Nancy Grace, Kurtz said that when he prepared Martin’s body the only injury that was discernible was a gunshot wound to Martin’s upper-chest area.
NEW YORK—Sir Patrick Stewart stood in the center of the Diplomat Ballroom at the UN Hotel here on Friday, pounding his fist methodically against a podium, each thump punctuated with a number (“One … two … three …”) until he got to nine.
“Every nine seconds a woman is assaulted or beaten in the United States,” Stewart said.
The 72-year-old British-born actor, best known for his roles in “X-Men” and “Star Trek: The Next Generation,” served as host for the launch of “Ring The Bell,” a global campaign calling on one million men to make one million “concrete, actionable promises” to end violence against women.
“Violence against women is the single greatest human rights violation of our generation,” Stewart said.
“This is a call to action—not an act that will make things better in six months or a year’s time,” he continued. “This is action that might save a life today, or tonight, or tomorrow.”
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Young man shot and killed when he pulls into driveway of wrong address
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Rodrigo Diaz, 22, was driving around with his girlfriend and two friends when he pulled into a driveway, thinking they had arrived at another friend’s house, his brother says. But instead he pulled into the driveway of Phillip Sailors, 69, who thought his home was being robbed, his lawyer says.
…… I can’t no more
Really. REALLY white ppl? REALLY?
- My ‘favourite’ line in the whole article:
Sailors’ lawyer says his client is a Vietnam veteran with no prior criminal history and thought he and his wife were about to be victims of a home invasion. “You have to understand this is a 69-year-old man who is a military veteran who has been honorably discharged,” Michael Puglise says. “He dedicated his life to community service, specifically the Christian Lay Ministry in Latin America.”
Well then. I guess he is gonna get off easy.
My head hurts.
“Basically, what happened is they were looking for one of my brother’s girlfriend’s friends,” says his brother David E. Diaz-Valencia, 23. “The guy came outside and my brother’s girlfriend said he was screaming, ‘Get off my property!’ and he shot into the air. My brother was backing out fast because he was scared and he rolled down the window to say he was sorry and he was not doing anything wrong. Then the guy shot him in his head.”
Wow. This is so disturbing. We can’t pull up in people’s driveways on accident anymore? They didn’t even get out the vehicle. Since when do headlights in your window equal robbery? You expect me to believe this man felt threatened? A vehicle backing up is CLEARLY not coming toward you… how did he perceive the car as coming toward him? He didn’t need to shoot him in his got damn head. You fired a warning shot, and they left, APOLOGIZING for something people do all the time, and that isn’t even a crime. He says this area has been plagued with gang activity, and that it’s not a racial crime, but yet if Rodrigo were blonde haired and blue eyed I bet this would not have happened.
But the only time to talk about gun control is when it’s in the hood, not when these nearly every day occurrences like this happen,right?
If he can’t tell the difference between forward and reverse, what the fuck is he doing with a gun?
serving your country does not give one just cause to go around shooting civilians in the head no matter where you come from.
The bolded.
Ten bucks says this guy is one of the people who think they need guns for self-defense, when the only people who need defending are the people they’re pointing a gun at.
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Ruth Seifert, “War and Rape: Analytical Approaches”
Truth. A flawed understanding and application of ‘honor’ can be highly misogynistic against women who have been abused during war(s). (via mehreenkasana)
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Whew, Crisis Averted of the Day: Kindergartener Suspended for Hello Kitty Bubble Gun
In Pennsylvania, a 5-year-old girl was suspended from her kindergarten class at the Mount Carmel Area Elementary School after telling another classmate that she was “going to shoot her” with a bright pink Hello Kitty bubble gun. The girl was initially given a 10-day suspension for “making a terrorist threat,” but it was later reduced to two days and a psychiatric evaluation before she was allowed to return to class. Good hustle, everyone.
a terrorist threat
Last week, two kids got suspended for pointing their fingers like a gun
HOW ABOUT WE TARGET ACTUAL GUNS THAT ACTUALLY HURT/MAIM/KILL PEOPLE
OR IS THAT TOO HARD
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can you imagine the psychiatrist doing that evaluation? like… “oh… it appears that… this five year old may, in fact, be five years old.”
In America, children imitating violence is grounds for punishment and psychiatric help, but adults actually perpetuating violence is codified and upheld in law.
That makes total sense.
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one of the funniest things about the “kids are exposed to too much violence nowadays” arguments
is that people literally used to be executed in the town square and entire families would go out to watch these people be killed and it was a huge event and people thought it was great fun
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and hasn’t stopped.
He’s just pacing the kitchen and yelling
I started taking it down but couldn’t keep up this is what I got:
“And it’s not even the guns! It’s Americans attitudes with our big ass dicks in our hands screaming ‘Don’t tread on me!’ I think you could give the majority of Britain guns and they wouldn’t act the way we act. And we can’t give money to NASA, we’re supposed to be the ‘#1 country in the world’ and we’re cave men with our fucking sticks. Can’t have universal health care, gotta have our guns. And it’s everyone around here. It’s the whole fucking country
And! And the second amendment! I just love it when people bring it up ‘The right to bear arms.’ The second amendment says ‘A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.’ ‘Well regulated Militia’ ‘Necessary to the security of a free state’ It doesn’t mean just free guns for everybody it means we have to have a reason and we have to be organized. That’s what it says right there. That’s it. That’s what it means.
And even if they did just mean free guns for everybody this was the 1700’s we’re talking muzzle loaders. Pea shooters. I think if they had known where guns would go in the future they would have been more “Hell no. No guns for anybody. Fuck all y’all.”
Marry the fuck out of that boy.
When anyone who isn’t a white and relatively well-off man strides into a public place and guns down innocent civilians, we attack his race and/or religious beliefs before we bury his victims in the ground. But when yet another privileged white guy storms into a school or movie theater and kills dozens of people, we assume there’s something wrong with his brain instead of wondering whether his murderous rage has anything to do with good ol’ American macho entitlement. Are we ready to talk about it yet? Let’s.
This is hardly the first time we’ve questioned what makes white middle-class dudes more prone to shooting up public spaces; last summer, after the Aurora movie theater massacre, Hugo Schwyzer wrote that “the fact that these white male mass murderers felt so confident choosing public spaces to commit their crimes reflects a powerful truth about the culture in which they were raised.”
Huh, how about that? We wondered, briefly, and then we moved on with our lives. Gun sales spiked, as they always do after highly publicized mass shootings. The NRA — White Men Central — stayed silent via social media, but doubled its followers even though it shut down one of its Twitter accounts. Some more white dudes shot a bunch of people at temples and shopping malls. Now, twenty little kids are dead because another privileged white guy literally shot his way into an elementary school with a gun made by a company that tries to convince people to buy their killing weapons by telling them they’re crybabies if they’re not packing heat.
I usually have a huge problem Jezebel, but I found this article by chance, and I have to say, it’s really on point and I highly suggest everyone read it in full. By the way, that gun company they’re talking about is Bushmaster and here are some of their ads:
The small letters in the top ad, which can be seen in full size here, reads “Matt O, avoids eye contact with tough looking 5th graders”. Disgusting.
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Phantom Negro Weapons are those weapons which White Americans report black people having but which are never found for some strange reason.
Examples:
- 1999: Amadou Diallo - shot 41 times, hit 19 times, died. His gun shapeshifted into a wallet.
- 2006: Sean Bell - shot 51 times and died after one of his friends reached for his gun. The gun cloaked itself and was never found.
- 2009: Oscar Grant - shot dead when he reached for his gun. Since it was a Phantom Negro Weapon, police failed to find it when they searched him before putting him face down on the ground.
- 2011: Kenneth Chamberlain - shot dead when he threatened armed policemen with a butcher’s knife. The knife, of course, being a Phantom Negro Weapon, did not appear on the video recording.
- 2012: Ramarley Graham - the gun in his waistband cloaked itself after police shot him dead in front of his grandmother.
- 2012: Trayvon Martin – no weapon was reported, but the way his killer acted you would think his Arizona iced tea and bag of Skittles had shapeshifted from something far more deadly.
- 2012: Rekia Boyd - was killed when police shot at Antonio Cross, whose gun shapeshifted into a mobile phone.
- 2012: Jordan Davis - killed after threatening Michael Dunn with a shotgun rather than turning down his music. The police were unable to find the shotgun. Maybe it will still turn up, but more likely it was Phantom Negro Weapon which has cloaked itself.
This is horrible and yet I am laughing because shapeshifting. I am such a bad person, oh God.
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