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November 20, 2009
- Oprah Winfrey announces that she will end her show in September 2011. She will speak about it today and it’s something that astonished me. Oprah is a wonderful woman who has made a difference in millions of people’s lives in United States and internationally. She inspired women who couldn’t find ways to regain their self-esteem, children who have been abused etc… Stories are endless and ...
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November 12, 2009
- This week, I was reading a blog that Jayne Lyn Stahl wrote on November 8th 2009. Jayne was talking about the reasons why she defends Roman Polanski. This is what Jayne said I quote”Okay, so here we go.... I swore I'd never write about this, and haven't in the nearly 40 years since it happened, but since there's been so much attention focused on a similar crime committed more than 30 years ago ...
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October 8, 2009
- When the Roman Polanski story broke, I pretty much ignored it: A paedophile, albeit a very successful and famous one, was finally brought to book and about time. Then the media circus started, led by Polanski's equally or more successful and famous friends who insisted that "genius" was beyond mortal reaches of the law; that he had "suffered" already by losing his wife to a ...
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September 4, 2009
- US-based Indian designer Anand Jon has been sentenced to 59 years for sex crimes. He kept a conquest diary. He recorded in detail what he had done and to whom. The girls were said to be as young as 14; his abusive streak started in 2001. This picture was taken during the New York Fashion Week in 2004. So, what are we on to? His sister, Sanjana, has revealed there was mistrial on 15 counts. She ...
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July 24, 2009
- Even before I struggle to open my eyes this morning a kiss is being planted ever so gently on my cheek. It is a tender intimate moment, loving and without demand. The kiss settles like a rose petal falling from a bloom and I know that it will last all day long. I will carry it through the supermarket aisles as I ponder on the restocking of the pantry and when I join the queue in the bank it ...
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June 5, 2009
- Story Needs To Be Told So We Never Forget And Allow It To Happen Again by Annette DunleaThe child abuse in the orphanages of times past in the subject of a new report. The Full Irish Government Report is now online at http://www.childabusecommission.com/rpt/pdfs/. It is horrifying reading. It is the source of many books, articles and even movies.“The report, nine years in the making and ...
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May 28, 2009
- Here I sit contiplating the meaning of my life. Wow what a mouthful. I have been told so many times that if I have lived all I say I have I would have to be over a hundred years old.My philosophy of life has always been: 1. Treat People as you want to be treated. 2. If you want something in life, work for it. 3. If you love something set it free, if it comes back it was meant to be. 4. Never ...
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May 22, 2009
- ''Thousands of children suffered physical and sexual abuse over several decades in residential institutions run by religious congregations, the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse has found'' Irish Times May 21, 2009Responding to the report, the Catholic primate, Cardinal Sean Brady said he was ''profoundly sorry and deeply ashamed that children suffered in such awful ways'' - ''children ...
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April 12, 2009
- ...(but I don't think I'd have watched it, anyway - ANOTHER over-the-top mall cop movie? I had no interest in the first one.)From the NYT review of "Observe and Report" (snipped):By far the most outrageous instance of Mr. Hill’s disarming his own bombs occurs when Ronnie beds Brandi (Anna Faris, rising above the muck), a cosmetics clerk who’s impervious to his attentions until the ...
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March 7, 2009
- Oh, yes, tomorrow is International Women´s Day. I almost forgot. Hoorray. Let´s celebrate.Now back to real life. Boy, I´m so angry. I should stop reading the news, but then it wouldn´t be a mature way of facing things, it would be escaping, and I want to do something about the tremendous injustices that happen in this country. I guess writing about them at least brings them into discussion, ...
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