I didn’t post for a few days. Over the weekend we went to Pumpkin Ridge in Nebraska City. The farmer said he had picked up most of the good pumpkins from the field before the freeze and snow but we walked out there and came back with 5 good pumpkins and there were a lot more out there. We ran into some that the deer had gotten into and we saw a lot of watermelons out there, but most of them were soft or broken into by deer or something.
We watched “Land of the Lost” with Will Ferrell last night at work and I will have to say it was one of the dumbest movies I have ever seen. But it did make the night pass by faster.
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IN THE YEAR 2009
Five women were paraded naked, beaten and forced to eat human excrement by villagers after being branded as witches in Jharkhand India.
Local police said the victims were Muslim widows who had been labelled as witches by a local cleric.
Hundreds of people, mostly women, have been killed in India because their neighbours thought they were witches.
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October is Black History Month in Britain and this year it seems to be a celebration of the leading black icons who are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT), most notably the US black liberation hero Malcolm X. Other prominent black LGBTs include jazz singer Billie Holiday, author and civil rights activist James Baldwin, soul singer-songwriter Luther Vandross, blues singer Bessie Smith, poet and short story writer Langston Hughes, singer Johnny Mathis, novelist Alice Walker, civil rights activist and organiser of the 1963 March on Washington Bayard Rustin, blues singer Ma Rainey, dancer and choreographer Alvin Ailey, actress, singer and dancer Josephine Baker, Olympic diving gold medallist Greg Louganis, singer and songwriter Little Richard, political activist and philosopher Angela Davis, singer-songwriter Tracy Chapman and drag performer and singer RuPaul.
Now I didn’t know that Greg Louganis was black.
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Louis Farrakhan says that the H1N1 vaccine was developed to kill people. Farrakhan told listeners not to become complacent as a result of Barack Obama’s election as the United States’ first black president, and “You have to understand that he was voted in to take on the affairs of a nation, not yours and mine. He is the American president, not the black president.”
Greg Louganis was not available for comment.
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Number of Operations Iraq Freedom and Enduring Freedom casualties
as confirmed by U.S. Central Command: 5211
