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Emaline Mae...who are you? I somehow found this pretty strange, yet interesting blog of a girl counting down the days of losing her "V-card." So I don't have to explain it in my own words, the About page says this:
"My V-Card has held strong for over 7,400 days, but how much longer can I go? The real question, though, how long do I want to keep it? This isn’t a documentation of a girl trying to lose her virginity, but it is a thought pool of a woman trying to figure out how much staying pure is worth and if she really is okay with giving it up."
She has written over 30 posts of this insanity, but this one is early in the blog. Browse through it.
What do you guys think? Weird that someone is being so open with their virginity? Interesting-ish? Is virginity even a big deal anymore?Emaline Mae...who are you? I somehow found this pretty strange, yet interesting blog... more
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Probably gonna beat this one. BUT IT CAN'T HURT TO TRY!!!
Unfortunately, not that happy.
There's a reason you've barely heard about it. It's because the whole thing sounds like a pile of crap. Cheney (and Alberto Gonzales) are named in an indictment alleging them responsible for abuse of prisoners in a private detention center. No, not Abu Graib. The prisons are in Texas. And the only reason Cheney's named is because he had a financial stake in the company that owns the prisons. Or something. The whole thing is really hard to figure out and as of press time, we stopped trying.
To make the whole thing even shadier, yesterday the prosecutor didn't even show up to court.
Okay, you got a Dick Cheney indictment through a grand jury and then you don't show up? It's Dick Cheney! We get that it's probably a trumped up indictment and the chances of a win are slim, but come on! Put him on the stand and try that "A Few Good Men" thing where you get him so angry that he starts confessing to shit. The first thing they should teach you in Law School is if you indict Dick Cheney, you can't puss out.
For future reference, if there are any other psycho lawyers who want to indict Cheney on bullcrap, we put together this little guide to make sure you don't blow it. It's after the jump:
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LMAOProbably gonna beat this one. BUT IT CAN'T HURT TO TRY!!!
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The head of Guinea's national assembly has urged the international community to stop an attempted military coup.
"The international community must... prevent the military from interrupting the democratic process," Aboubacar Sompare told Reuters news agency.
Soldiers said on Tuesday that they had seized power after the death of President Lansana Conte, but the situation remains unclear.
African Union leaders are holding emergency talks on the crisis.
According to Guinea's constitution, Mr Sompare should be in charge of the government until elections are held in 60 days.
In a telephone interview with Reuters, Mr Sompare said the army was split between loyalists and coup-plotters.
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Lansana Conte seized power in 1984 and won three controversial elections
Fear in Guinea at army takeover
'End of misrule'
Obituary: Guinea's Lansana Conte
Guinea army statement in full
"The situation hasn't been resolved yet. Loyalists and coup-mongers have met... but they haven't been able to reach an agreement," Mr Sompare said.
But in a statement on national television, a coup representative accused loyalist troops of seekThe head of Guinea's national assembly has urged the international community to... more
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SAQQARA, Egypt – A pair of 4,300-year-old pharaonic tombs discovered at Saqqara indicate that the sprawling necropolis south of Cairo is even larger than previously thought, Egypt's top archaeologist said Monday. The rock-cut tombs were built for high officials — one responsible for the quarries used to build the nearby pyramids and another for a woman in charge of procuring entertainers for the pharaohs.
"We announce today a major, important discovery at Saqqara, the discovery of two new tombs dating back to 4,300 years ago," said Zahi Hawass, as he showed reporters around the site Monday. "The discovery of the two tombs are the beginning of a big, large cemetery."
The discovery indicates that there is even more to the vast necropolis of Saqqara, located 12 miles south of the capital, Cairo, he added.
In the past, excavations have focused on just one side of the two nearby pyramids — the Step Pyramid of King Djoser and that of Unas, the last king of the 5th Dynasty. The area where the two tombs were found, to the southwest, has been largely untouched.
"This means the royal cemetery is bigger than we thought," said Saleh Suleiman, the archaeologist responsible for the excavation of the two tombs.
Supplying entertainment for Pharaoh Good. Premature mummification Bad.SAQQARA, Egypt – A pair of 4,300-year-old pharaonic tombs discovered at Saqqara... more
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2008 in Review: Bush's final year Play Video AP – 2008 in Review: Bush's final year
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* Israeli airstrike kills Hamas militant Play Video Video: Israeli airstrike kills Hamas militant AP
* Gaza truce over Play Video Video: Gaza truce over Reuters
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WASHINGTON – In a gesture of forgiveness for a decades-old offense, President George W. Bush on Tuesday granted a pardon posthumously to a man who broke the law to supply aircraft to Jews fighting in Israel's 1948 war of independence.
Charles Winters, a Miami businessman considered a hero in Israel, was listed in a batch of 19 pardons and one commutation that Bush issued before leaving for Camp David to spend the holidays. No high-profile lawbreakers were on the list.
Winters' son, Jim, had found out about his father's daring missions and imprisonment only after his death in 1984.
"I'm overwhelmed," Jim Winters, a Miami maker of artistic neon signs, said in a telephone interview. "It happened 16 years before I was born. He went to jail and he didn't want his kids to know. He was old-school and proud."
Members of the Jewish community, who adorned his father's funeral with blue and white flowers symbolic of the Israeli flag, filled in details about his father's past. His obituary in The Miami Herald read,....................
BUSH? pardon himself? has anybody actually been watching? He had Congress approval on everything. If he go's to jail so does Pelosi, Reed , and good Barney Frank, oh and a little known Congressman from Ill. what was his name again?*
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ISTANBUL (AFP) – The maker of the shoes that an Iraqi journalist hurled at US President George W. Bush has had to take on 100 extra staff to cope with a surge in demand for his footwear, he said on Monday.
"Between the day of the incident and 1:00 pm today we have received orders totalling 370,000 pairs", Istanbul-based Serkan Turk, head of sales at Baydan Shoes, told AFP.
Normally the firm sold only 15,000 pairs a year of the model that Muntazer al-Zaidi threw at the US president at a press conference in Baghdad on December 14 to become an instant hero across the Arab world, he said.
Turk said orders had initially flooded in from Iraq, followed by other Middle East countries and finally from the rest of the world, including for 19,000 pairs from the United States.
Formerly prosaically dubbed Model 271, the black polyurethane-soled shoes have been renamed Bush Shoes, he said.
Turk insisted the company was not profiting from the soaring demand to up the factory price from the 27 dollars (19.30 euros) it had been charging, while adding that it was "delighted from all points of view" at its unexpected success.
Throwing shoes is considered a grave insult in the Arab world, but Turk indicated that they would probably not have done Bush much harm had they hit him.
"They look heavier than they are," he said. "They only weigh 300 grammes (10 ounces)."
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Last night after playing on Current for a while I wrote President BUSH a letter, in this letter I ask him to forgive his would be attacker and to call the President of Iraq and see if he would pardon the man which tossed the shoes at him. I'll guess we will see if he listened. I think President Bush should be the bigger man , show some compassion, and truly get some Christmas spirit. I mean a pair of Hush Puppies is hardly a I.E.D. What do my esteemed comrads on Current think?ISTANBUL (AFP) – The maker of the shoes that an Iraqi journalist hurled at US... more
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