this may come across as offensive.
but ive been wondering why you can't call blacks "nigger," but you can call queers "fag."

etymologically, "nigger" means "black."
however, "faggot" means "kindling."
you tell me which ought to be more offensive?

Latin classes around the world are needlessly awkward because the Latin word "niger" (which means black) is correctly pronounced identically to "nigger," but society forces us to mispronounce it as "neeg-air"

ie, "Debet et a radiis sideris esse niger:" Ars Amatoria I.724

Vickie Shaw (to her baptist mom):
"We have our pride parades in the summer because it's in the bible. yeah look it up, it says: 'Pride cometh before the fall.'"

do not visit list:

illegality...

Egypt (5 Years)
Nigeria (Fine/Death/14 years)
Somalia (3 months - Death/3 years)
Algeria (Fine - 3 years)
Angola (Labour camps)
Benin (3 years)
Botswana (Fine - 7 year)
Cameroon (Fine - 5 years)
Djibouti (10-12 years)
Eritrea (3-10 years)
Ethiopia (10days - 3years)
Gambia (Fine - 14 years)
Ghana
Guinea (6months - 3years)
Guinea Bissau (Labour camps)
Liberia (Fine)
Libya (Fine - 5 years)
Malawi (? - 14 years)
Mauritania (Death)
Mauritius (Fine - 5 years)
Morocco (6 months - 3 years)
Mozambique (Labor camps)
São Tomé and Príncipe (Labor camps)
Senegal (1month - 5years)
Seychelles (Fine - 2 years)
Sierra Leone (Life)
Sudan (5 years - Death)
Tanzania (Fine - 25years)
Togo (Fine - 3 years)
Tunisia (Fine - 25years)
Swaziland (Male only US$90 - Prison)
Kenya (Male only Fine - 14 years)
Lesotho (Male only)
Uganda (Male only Fine - Life)
Zambia Male only Fine - 14 years)
Zimbabwe (Fine - 1 year)

Bhutan? (1 month - 1 year)
India (Fine - Life/10 years)
Myanmar/Burma (10 years - Life)
Pakistan (2 years - Life)
Singapore (2 years)
Bangladesh (10 years - Life)
Brunei (Fine - 10 years)
Iran (Prison - Death)
Kuwait (Fine - 7 years)
Lebanon (Fine - 1 year)
Malaysia (Fine - 20 years)
Nepal (US$115.00 - 1 year)
Oman (Fine - 3 years)
Qatar (Fine - 5 years)
Saudi Arabia (Death)
Sri Lanka (Fine - 10 years)
Syria (Fine - 3 years)
United Arab Emirates (Unknown - Death)
Yemen (Flogging - Death)

Palestinian Authority (Gaza) (Male only ? - 10 years, torture)
Uzbekistan (Male only Fine - 3 years)
Bahrain (Male only Fine - 10 years)
Maldives (Male only Fine - 10 years)
Turkmenistan (Male only Fine - 2 years)

Nicaragua (1-3 years)
Belize (10 years)
Trinidad and Tobago (25 years)
Antigua and Barbuda (15 years)
Barbados (Life)
Dominica (10 years)
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (Fine-10 years)

Grenada (Male only 10 years)
Jamaica** (Male only 10 years hard labor)
Saint Kitts and Nevis (Male only 10 years)
Saint Lucia (Male only Fine-10 years)

Solomon Islands (Fine-14 years)
Western Samoa (Fine-7 years)

Kiribati (Male only Fine-14 years)
Nauru (Male only 14 years hard labor)
Palau (Male only Fine-10 years)
Papua New Guinea (Male only Fine-14 years)
Tonga (Male only)
Tuvalu (Male only Fine-14 years)
Cook Islands (Male only Fine - 14 years)
Niue (Male only Fine-10 years)
Tokelau (Male only Fine-10 years)

Guyana (Male only Life)

(85 nations)

war...

1) Ivory coast has an ongoing civil war
2) Congo is experiencing ongoing violence in some of its provinces in stead of elections going to the second round
3) Western Sahara is still in war between the Polisario Front (for independence) and the Maroccan military
4) Somali is in total war, and recently Ethiopian troops crossed the border to join forces with the provisional Somalian government in Baidoa
5) Nigeria has unrest in the Niger Delta region, which may become a civil war of a localised sort
6) India and Pakistan are still in conflict over Jammu and Kashmir
7) China and India have border conflicts
8) China is in war in Tibet against independence movements
9) India has the naxalite rebellion
10) Georgia has two independence movements in Abhasia
11) Turkey is still in war against the Kurdistan independentist movement
12) Mexico has a non-violent rebellion in the Chiapas region for the rights of Indigeneous peoples
13) Haiti is still effectively in civil war
14) Cuba is still in war with the USA as far as I know
15) Columbia has a civil war and a drug war
16) Chechenia declared independence of Russia in 1991, the war goes on though the independence movement is mostly crushed and the country is ruined




btw,
Uganda is the first country in the world to have a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage since 2004. If the US acts now we can soon catch up to Uganda!

i loved the interpreter (movie),
and i loved the interpreter (character).
the culture and premise and characters and plot were cool.
and of course the setting was the coolest in the world ;)
i didnt feel the connection i mentioned in the first group of movies on this blog, but i havent for a while, so perhaps it was only because i hadntve been watching movies for a while, but now im used to them again.

4 1/2 stars -- wouldve been 5 if only nicole kidman hadntve said that horrible line at the end "but there are the places i remember them"
b/c within the thematic premise of the movie itself, that suggests mourning for the rest of her life in abandoned places with only her memories.

a ending that wouldve 5 stared it for me would be something like "it's still my home, and i finished what i came here to do."

[edit]
My Beautiful Laundrette
was basically the directorial opposite of the interpreter
(very uncrisp conflict)
but good anyway, and the ending was appropriate in my opinion,
plus [Daniel Michael Blake Day-]Lewis, :)
though i appreciate Warneck too.
the characterization was confusing (ie, who was dominant?)

AP ECON A- B- (B)
AP ENGL A- C (B)
AP LAT-V A B+ (A-)
AP PHY C A- A (A)

MICRO 5
MACRO 5
PHYS C E&M 5
PHYS C MECH 5
LAT LIT 4
US HIST 4
LAT VIRGIL 5
CALCULUS BC 5

Columbia Honors Math III-IV A- B

Microeconomics (5), Macroeconomics (5), Latin Literature (4), Physics C Mechanics (5), Physics C E&M (5), US History (4), Latin: Virgil (5), Caluculus BC (5)