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| Because more people need to know...On tortured prisoners under U.S. custody:
One was Amir, a salesman in the Middle East who was captured in Iraq in
2003. Besides the sleep deprivation and the other things you also
mention, I want to read this part. It says, “At first, he was not
mistreated but then was subjected to religious and sexual humiliation,
hooding, sleep deprivation, restraint,” so on. He says Amir recalled
experiencing—he was placed in a foul-smelling room and forced to lay
down in urine, and while he was hit and kicked on his back and side,
Amir was then sodomized with a broomstick and forced to howl like a dog
while a soldier urinated on him. After a soldier stepped on his
genitals, he fainted. In July 2004, he was transferred to the prison at
Camp Bucca, where he reported no abuse. And then, this was at Abu
Ghraib that this happened.
Another prisoner, Yussef, who was captured in Afghanistan, talked about
being subjected to electric shock from a generator, feeling, quote, "as
if my veins were being pulled out.” So this was really not only
borderline examples of torture; this was actual physical torture that
was occurring here against some of these men.
(from http://www.democracynow.org/2008/6/19/broken_laws_broken_lives_medical_study)
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| BatmanI was excited to watch The Dark Knight until I was reminded last night of how awesome the old ones were. By "old" I mean the ones before Christian Bale became Batman. I saw Batman & Robin last night on TNT, and at the same time Batman Begins was on FX. And in my opinion, Batman & Robin was much more exciting and had so much more action. Yeah, the action sequences were pretty ghetto and corny, but I remember back then they were so cool. I used to have the biggest crush on Robin and biggest hate for Poison Ivy. My brother and I used to keep rewinding back to the part where the dog peed and then got frozen by Mr. Freeze. I used to love that part of Batman Returns where Catwoman made her suit and then went to the supermarket at night and owned some policeman. And Penguin used to scare the crap outta me--the way he ate the cat whole was so disgusting. In Batman Forever, I loved Jim Carrey as the Riddler and, I didn't notice it at the time, but Tommy Lee Jones as Two-Face. But I didn't like the actor that played Batman as much as Michael Keaton or George Clooney; I don't even know his name. Michael Keaton and George Clooney OWNED. In my opinion, Christian Bale just doesn't do the title "Batman" justice. I can't quite lay my finger on it, but he doesn't fit the role to me.
I watched Batman Returns, Batman Forever, and Batman & Robin countless times in my childhood, but not so much the first Batman. Probably because the first Batman was made too early and the other three were more in my time. But I really wanna watch it again because I don't remember much of it besides Jack Nicholson was a really scary Joker.
I'm actually more excited to watch the first Batman again than The Dark Knight.
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| Rambling at workI'm going home today. Is it wrong for me to be more excited to pick up my 22" monitor and wireless desktop than to see my family? Man, I'm gonna feel so complete after I add those to my desk at school. I'm starting to wish I got 5.1 speakers instead of 2.1, but oh well.
I can't wait to go to Tech. As of now, I'm gonna be living in Armstrong 202, but I'm trying to swap with someone over to Caldwell. If not, that's okay. I'm still excited to meet new people, have new neighbors, recruit new friends. JUST KIDDING. :)
I'm so glad I came to West GA. I think I'll have 43 hours, including my summer courses Calc2, US History, and Personal Wellness. And I'm so glad I decided to take Calc2 instead of Physics. Dr. Nguyen is so cool! He's like this really fobby, nerdy Vietnamese professor who has a thick, heavy accent and makes unintentional jokes. I wish I could have him for Calc3. :(
Anyways, Gunn Hall is so lonely during the summer. There's literally six girls living here (including my RA), and I don't know how many guys, but probably less than ten. It really makes me realize how much I took some of my friends for granted. I can't just walk over to someone's room and sit down at her desk and eat half of her big jar of peanut-buttery pretzels and talk and laugh. Or tell someone I'm bored and play DDR together for hours in the bottom lobby or watch him play Geometry Wars and squeal when the red ones get too close. Or call up someone to do Calc together since we're both really lost and behind and need equal amount of help, and he has a book and I don't. And everytime I walk by the RA box, I don't see someone there playing WoW and throwing lame comments at me. I don't have a roommate anymore to exchange ramblings to when things are on our mind.
Instead, what I do is wake up, go to work, go to class, come back, study a little, eat, shower, DotA, watch Family Guy (!!!!!!!!! WHAT TIME IS IT? !!!!!! WHAT TIME IS IT?! WHERES MY PHONE, WE GOTTA GO!!!!! !!!!!!!!! !! ! ! !), and sleep. Every. Single. Day. What a life, right?
Well, I'm glad to be going home today and getting out of the boring norm. Seeing my family is always good (and picking up goodies).
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| Summer Vacation?I never quite understood how people felt when they said "man, I need a vacation." I could never relate because I'd never felt like I needed a vacation. Vacations were just those things that my family would plan once or twice a year that I had to participate in whether I wanted to or not.
Now I understand. I want to relive just one of those family vacations, please... Orlando, Tampa, Myrtle Beach, NY, Korea... anywhere would be fine.
I need to stop browsing through all these photo albums on facebook taunting me with beautiful vacation photos from Europe and Mexico and Korea and China while I sit here in Carrollton with my studyload from summer classes and sleep-deprived because of work.
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