Okay...The First Episode, Fasten your seatbelts ... Options

[aispir2IV]

District 9 seems to have in comon with Alien Nation..anyone remember that show?

Hey (((Dione))) Yes I do remember that show. But the aliens were more human looking. I liked it however.

[purplejulian]

morning all! nice day here
I look like a crisp-fried prune this morning after 12 hours on cast away island .. I must have not drunk enough water, and took the 15, not the 30 spf suncream .... doh!

(not actually burnt as such, but dehydrated and face has taken more tan than I really like ... - I had a hat, a big one, too ...)

[purplejulian]

Good Morning Okay & the Wonderful MrsRon!!

WHOOOHOOOO!!!! There is nothing like the beach. It was so much fun. First I went to Paco's beachhouse and then I went to Rehobath beach with the mothership. And all without getting sunburned. At the beach with Paco & Butterfly, we had one day where this huge fog bank rolled in without there being even a storm. It was like the beginning of a bad skiffy movie. But we still had fun building a sandcastle and then playing on this very cool sandbar that appear at low tide. At the beach with mothership, the dolphins showed up in a horde. After feeding their calves they even jumped out of the water, which was fabulous. And then I got to stop at my favorite brewery and load up on distilled vodka for the year. Chocolate vodka!!



: Dead sets out organic coffee & tea, organic cherry blueberry muffins, BACON, poached eggs. :

to all of my favorite brains!!

oooh, wonderful ... we didn't have dolphins, but there is a big seal colony - they were sunbathing on the sandbar with their tails curled up in the air.. ... and there is a wreck ... and sailing boats to watch ...

[cottontailtherab...]

Morning!

Seals are adorable

[aispir2IV]

Morning!

Seals are adorable

HAS thinks so as well!! LOL (((Mopsy)))

[aispir2IV]

morning all! nice day here
I look like a crisp-fried prune this morning after 12 hours on cast away island .. I must have not drunk enough water, and took the 15, not the 30 spf suncream .... doh!

(not actually burnt as such, but dehydrated and face has taken more tan than I really like ... - I had a hat, a big one, too ...)

Hats don't protect much from the reflected sun off the water! (((PJ)))

[aispir2IV]

Nite ladies!~! ZZZZZzzzzzzzzz

[purplejulian]

we are all exhausted after our long long day ... blog is going to be a big one!

[Dione]

morning

[purplejulian]

morning D!

I have finished my cast away blog

[EmperorRyu]

Whoa!! No posts for a day?? Hope all are busy enjoying the weekend!!

Yup. Wondering if there is going to be a sequel to the G.I. Joe movie. Frak! I still can’t get it out of my mind.

YO JOE!!!

Good Morning Okay & the Wonderful MrsRon!!

WHOOOHOOOO!!!! There is nothing like the beach. It was so much fun. First I went to Paco's beachhouse and then I went to Rehobath beach with the mothership. And all without getting sunburned. At the beach with Paco & Butterfly, we had one day where this huge fog bank rolled in without there being even a storm. It was like the beginning of a bad skiffy movie. But we still had fun building a sandcastle and then playing on this very cool sandbar that appear at low tide. At the beach with mothership, the dolphins showed up in a horde. After feeding their calves they even jumped out of the water, which was fabulous. And then I got to stop at my favorite brewery and load up on distilled vodka for the year. Chocolate vodka!!



: Dead sets out organic coffee & tea, organic cherry blueberry muffins, BACON, poached eggs. :

to all of my favorite brains!!

No Vanilla Vodka??? I’m glad you had a wonderful time (((DeadSkin))).

And a little something from the Green Lantern today: Microwaves v. Ovens... which is greener?

And another thing to constantly annoy my roomies by unplugging. Last month it was the coffee machine...

Why not just concentrate on a more efficient, environmentally safe, abundant energy source, and focus on healthy nutrition consumption and exercise?

Unless a new kitchen appliance technology that can be developed that can out-perform both the microwave and oven at the same time.

District 9 seems to have in comon with Alien Nation..anyone remember that show?

Yes. I think I still have that on VHS somewhere. I’m having a hard time trying to picture the mating habits between these aliens from District 9 and humans, if we’re going the Alien Nation comparison route. Yeah, I watched both the movie and the series.

[EmperorRyu]

Hey (((Dione))) Yes I do remember that show. But the aliens were more human looking. I liked it however.

I still liked that series intro ending where he starts beating the stirring wheel and inner hood of his car while driving.

Series Intro.

morning

Good morning (((Dione))).

Good Morning, Good Afternoon, and Good Evening to all my fellow (((OKAYERS)))!!!

[EmperorRyu]

YO JOE!!!

It earned over $100.5 million world wide!

I'm so looking forward to the next installment of this movie!

[Dione]

YO JOE!!!

It earned over $100.5 million world wide!

I'm so looking forward to the next installment of this movie!

So it was actually good? Wasn't G.I. Joe a scarred guy with a brush cut and blonde hair though? I don't remember.

I'm looking forward to District 9, though.

[EmperorRyu]

So it was actually good? Wasn't G.I. Joe a scarred guy with a brush cut and blonde hair though? I don't remember.

I'm looking forward to District 9, though.

The movie was so FRAKKIN' AWESOME!!! I can't think of any other movie to end the summer with. This is a MUST SEE MOVIE!!!

I believe your referring to the cartoon. This is a live action movie, with frakkin' attitude that will make you say, "Yo Joe.", with a cool smile, knowing just what it takes to be a member, while sporting the latest toys designed for one purpose, . . . "to win at all cost while looking good." The story pays multiple homages to the cartoon, even though they made a few story modifications to fit our audience. The CGI is done beautifully, and acting and script are dead on with the characters we grow up knowing, including references to the toys we all collected (I still have my collection.). Plus they added some other stuff we wanted to see when we were kids too. In all, I wish I could see more celebrity stardom to fill in the cast roster. I saw Brendan Fraser, and the Rock, whom I had a difficult time trying to spot a bit because he sported a beard for his character. But the bird made up for it. Frak! I wanna see more G.I. Joe!

I'm still surprised that Sienna Miller didn't really want to see her work on the big screen on opening day. I can honestly say, she is the Baroness and she nailed the part perfectly.

In all, they all did an awesome job and I am supremely overjoyed with final cut of the movie. I'm so looking forward to the Special Edition Director's Cut DVD Gift Set.

As a personally mental note: The live action is more realistic compared to the cartoon, so all you Cobra Khans out there, no "Cooooobraaaalalalalalalala".

[cottontailtherab...]

Morning!!

Haven't seen GI Joe yet, I can however say that G-Force was teh awesomes.

[DeadSkin]

Good Morning Okay & the Wonderful MrsRon!!

So anyways, I did see a pretty good romantic comedy last night "everybody wants to be italian." beyond that, I'm still mad at roomie Princess for bringing a guest to our movie night, eating all my food and contributing nothing, then leaving me alone to entertain her guest while she played around on her computer.



Of course, she's refused to watch the movie she chose for movie night the other two times we have planned one. So I really maybe only have myself to blame. But I might not go shopping with her this weekend as we had planned.

: Dead sets out organic coffee & tea, organic cornflakes w. blueberries, strawberry yogart, BACON, poached eggs. :

to all of my favorite brains!!

[cottontailtherab...]

Good Morning Okay & the Wonderful MrsRon!!

So anyways, I did see a pretty good romantic comedy last night "everybody wants to be italian." beyond that, I'm still mad at roomie Princess for bringing a guest to our movie night, eating all my food and contributing nothing, then leaving me alone to entertain her guest while she played around on her computer.



Of course, she's refused to watch the movie she chose for movie night the other two times we have planned one. So I really maybe only have myself to blame. But I might not go shopping with her this weekend as we had planned.

: Dead sets out organic coffee & tea, organic cornflakes w. blueberries, strawberry yogart, BACON, poached eggs. :

to all of my favorite brains!!

Morning Dead,

Irene is ready to come over and chew the cables on her computer if you so require it.

[DeadSkin]

And from the paper this morning: Congo's Rape Epidemic Worsens During US-backed Initiative

LUGUNGU, Congo -- For the women of eastern Congo, a U.S.-backed Congolese military operation meant to save them from abusive rebels has turned into a nightmare of its own.

An already staggering epidemic of rape has become markedly worse since the January deployment of tens of thousands of poorly trained, poorly paid Congolese soldiers, with people in front-line villages such as this one saying the soldiers are not so much hunting rebels as hunting women.

And so as the sun dropped behind the soaring jungle here one recent day, little girls, mothers and grandmothers began heading home, some closing curtains and padlocking wooden doors. It was time, they explained, to lock themselves indoors.

"To avoid getting raped, after 6 p.m., women are not allowed to go out of the house," said Maria Bitondo, who said she was among three women attacked by a soldier last month. "With the soldiers here, no woman is safe to go out and walk. We do not even go to the bathroom at night."

On Monday, a coalition of 88 aid groups called the operation, which is supported by the United Nations, "a human tragedy" and urged Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, who is to visit eastern Congo on Tuesday, to push for better civilian protection. Clinton has vowed to make the prevention of sexual violence a priority in Congo, where the United States pays about a quarter of the cost of U.N. peacekeeping efforts.

"We have to speak out against the impunity of those in positions of authority who either commit these crimes or condone them," Clinton said at a town hall meeting in the capital of Kinshasa on Monday. She added, "There are even some cases of these terrible crimes committed by members of the Congolese military."

But U.S officials have also applauded the operation, calling it an important diplomatic step in mending a destructive relationship between Congo and Rwanda. The operation, which is being supported with helicopters, trucks and other logistics by U.N. peacekeepers here, is targeting Rwandan rebels including some who fled here after participating in the 1994 Rwandan genocide.

Although all sides in Congo's messy 15-year conflict have used rape as a weapon of war -- particularly the Rwandan rebels -- the spike since January is being widely blamed mostly on the army. The number of soldiers roaming these eastern hills has almost tripled to 60,000, and rapes have doubled or tripled in the areas they are deployed. Aid groups said the number of rapes so far this year is probably in the thousands.

Though Congolese President Joseph Kabila recently declared a policy of "zero tolerance" for sexual violence, fewer than a dozen soldiers have been convicted of rape this year. In May, the U.N. Security Council handed Kabila a list of five senior army officials, including a general, accused of rape, but so far none have been prosecuted.

"After reaching an area, the soldiers are taking everything there as the spoils of war, including the women," said Honore Bisimwa, who works with a nonprofit group, Olame Center, trying to educate soldiers about rape laws. "They take them like property."

In this jungle-matted territory, about 5,000 soldiers are on the move, including a portion of 12,000 ex-rebels and militiamen folded into the army after a recent peace deal. In February, they set up a base in the territorial capital of Shabunda, where U.N. peacekeepers also have a base, then marched by foot into smaller front-line villages along narrow dirt roads traversed daily by women heading to farms and stooped over hauling *** of water and stacks of wood. Soon after, villagers began complaining of looting, and women began making their way to health clinics.

In less than three months, more than 100 rapes were reported in the area, said Adele Sikanabo, a local activist, adding that "there are so many we don't know about."

..... After the spate of attacks, women imposed the curfew, and they now go to their farms only in groups of five or six and accompanied by men.

"If [soldiers] meet you, they will rape you," Ngalya said. "They don't fear anything."

She and other women wonder whether their own fiercely patriarchal society is encouraging soldiers to rape. Girls here are often forced to marry as young as 13. In some traditions, a kind of ritualized rape is part of a boy's coming of age. Prostitution is common. And in general, Bitondo said with a sense of exhausted humor, women are expected not so much to enjoy their husbands as service them.

"According to our custom, even though he's your husband, when he needs sex, he doesn't have to ask your permission," she said. "In this territory, men take women like an instrument that doesn't have any value."

...... Around noon, dozens of soldiers were sitting in front of houses, fixing old broken rifles, napping on patches of grass. Bisimwa went to the hospital to visit a sick soldier, whom he asked about accusations against the brigade.

"We'll pass some women, and someone will say, 'Oh, I have to take her,'" the soldier said. "It's not just one soldier. It's many. I can't stay when they do that."

He and other soldiers interviewed expressed a deep frustration at their pay, which is usually late and only $50 a month; their rations, which were recently a single can of sardines for three soldiers for 15 days; and especially their long deployments, which often keep them away from their families for years.

"The truth is like this," said one officer, sitting under a shed and sipping a powerful local brew. "What is making soldiers to do these bad things is their treatment by the army. Imagine, one can of sardines?! And you send a soldier away for 10 years?! So, I'm hungry, I'm in need of a wife and I have no money" to pay for a prostitute, he said. "If I see a woman walking on the road, and I love her, I will take her. I will help myself."

The lieutenant, who did not give his name, is in charge of teaching his soldiers about human rights. "Now," he said, "buy me a beer so I don't have to rob you."

Sitting outside a house on a hill, the deputy commander of the 52nd brigade, Lt. Col. Padiri Dieu Donne, denied that any of his soldiers had raped women in Lugungu.

"We can't say all of us are saints," Donne said. "But the problem of rape doesn't exist in the place where we are."

Sorry it's a bit long this morning, but I found the whole article very fascinating. Horrible also.

[DeadSkin]

Morning Dead,

Irene is ready to come over and chew the cables on her computer if you so require it.

((((MOPSY)))))

And that would be quite the job because she has the biggest apple computer I've ever seen.