I'm very shocked to hear about this. Lesbians being raped to turn them straight in South Africa and it is not recognized by South African law as being a hate crime. The men who go to jail for raping a lesbian woman is let out on $10 bail. How is that fair? Rape is rape no matter what circumstances and it should not be tolerated by any government.



Please visit the Change.org website (link below) and sign the petition to help.

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South Africa: Declare 'Corrective Rape' a Hate-Crime

Targeting: Deputy Minister of Justice Andries Carl Nel, Blendynn Williams (Head of Deputy Minister's Office), Phillip Musekwa (Private Secretary, Ministry of Justice), see more...Deputy Minister of Justice Andries Carl Nel, Blendynn Williams (Head of Deputy Minister's Office), Phillip Musekwa (Private Secretary, Ministry of Justice), Collen Msibi (Head of Communications, Ministry of Justice), Thando Ntlemeza (Parliamentary Liaison Officer, Ministry of Justice), Tlali Tlali (Chief of Staff, Ministry of Justice), and Minister of Justice Jeffrey Thamsanqa Radebe Started by: Luleki Sizwe "Corrective Rape" is a term used to describe when a male rapes a lesbian with the aim of 'turning' her heterosexual! This heinous crime is prolific in South Africa, especially in the "townships".  Most of the victims are tortured, grievously assaulted and sometimes murdered! They are also prone to getting HIV/AIDS from the assault, and many of them commit suicide as a result of the "corrective rape"! The South African government and justice system are failing the victims of Corrective Rape by letting the perpetrators out on ridiculously low bail, and taking literally years to bring the court-cases to a conclusion. In the meantime the victims have to live with seeing and being taunted and threatened by their rapists every day, as do those who help the victims! In the last 10 years:  *31 lesbian women have been murdered because of their sexuality  *More than 10 lesbians a week are raped or gang raped in Cape Town alone  *150 women are raped every day in South Africa  *For every 25 men accused of rape in South Africa, 24 walk free Despite all this, hate crimes on the basis of sexual orientation are not recognised by South African law! We call on the South African government to declare "Corrective Rape" a Hate-Crime that is punishable by the harshest sentences! Read more at www.change.org

 

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Something is wrong with this story. In the article (below) it says that this 47-year-old "gay man" sexually assaulted a TSA agent but if you read the story it seems more like this TSA agent sexually assaulted a gay man.



He has penis piercings and that is what set off the alarm and when this TSA agent is patting him down, he starts fondling the guy. If you have piercings in your penis and some straight guy starts messing with it, of course you're gonna get aroused and ejaculate.



I don't have any piercings anywhere but my ears so I don't know for a fact that touching it is gonna make you go off but I do know people who blow their wad at the slightest touch (see the movie American Pie). If he is that sensitive, especially with the piercings then I can totally understand him going off with a pat down, especially if he is feeling the piercing with his hand on the guys dick.



This guy knew he was going to the airport and he knew that his piercings were probably going to set off some alarm so it was his responsibility to remove any/all piercings, especially in his dick. I do feel that this is ridiculous that he was arrested for ejaculating but at the same time, it could've been prevented had he just taken out his piercings.



Lesson to others out there, if your dick is pierced, maybe you shouldn't wear them when going through airport security.

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Man arrested after ejaculating during TSA pat-down November 21, 2010 by Dead Serious News · Leave a Comment  A 47 year old gay man was arrested at San Francisco International Airport after ejaculating while being patted down by a male TSA agent.  Percy Cummings, an interior designer from San Francisco, is being held without bail after the alleged incident, charged with sexually assaulting a Federal agent. According to Cummings’ partner, Sergio Armani, Cummings has “multiple piercings on his manhood” which were detected during a full body scan.  As a result, Cummings was pulled aside for a pat-down.  Armani stated that the unidentified TSA agent spent “an inordinate amount of time groping” Cummings, who had apparently become sexually aroused.  Cummings, who has a history of sexual dysfunction, ejaculated while the TSA agent’s hand was feeling the piercings.  The TSA agent, according to several witnesses, promptly called for back up.  Cummings was thrown to the ground and handcuffed. A TSA spokesperson declined to comment on this specific case, but said that anyone ejaculating during a pat-down would be subject to arrest. Read more at www.deadseriousnews.com

 

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This is such a happy and sad story. I didn't include all of the text so you'll have to click the AOL News link below. This story has touched me only because I don't know my father either. It took her all these years to find her father and he has cancer and their reunion may be cut short but at least they were able to meet each other before his fateful day comes.



I am so happy for the two of them and wish the best for their families.

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Nurse Discovers Patient Is Her Long-Lost Father

(Sept. 3) -- What are the odds? Wanda Rodriguez, a 41-year-old assistant head nurse at New York's Calvary Hospital, had not seen her father since she was a baby. Raised by her mother in the Bronx after her parents broke up when she was less than a year old, Rodriguez didn't know much more of her father than his name, Victor Peraza, and her mother's recollection that Rodriguez looked a lot like him. But as fate would have it, on Aug. 25 a new cancer patient was admitted to Calvary, a hospital that administers care to the terminally ill. When Rodriguez learned his name while discussing his case with a colleague, she froze up. "I thought, if he's my complexion, if he has green eyes, he could be my dad," Rodriguez told ABC News.Read more at www.aolnews.com

 

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Dog Prayer

I got an email today with this video attached to it. It's actually a lot easier to send me a link to YouTube rather than sending me a video attached in my email. First of all it loads a lot quicker in YouTube, if I watched it on YouTube then I wouldn't have to wait for Windows Media Player to load. That takes forever to actually play because the video is usually always choppy. While the audio is still playing, the video freezes for seconds at a time.



I did do a search on YouTube and found it and thought I would share it with my readers.



I think this is amazing how this dog owner has trained his dog to pray before eating. Most dogs would just go to their food whenever they wanted to.



Enjoy

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Dog Prayer

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McBusters

Evan Williams Explains New Twitter Interface

I am definitely not part of the 1% of people who woke up today to a brand new Twitter but even if I was, I wouldn't have known it considering I only ever go to the Twitter website to click my list of followers to follow people back. For the rest of the day I have TweetDeck running on my screen at all times.



Even if I were part of the 1% of Twitter users who woke up with a brand new interface it wouldn't do me any good because TweetDeck gives me way more than Twitter.com ever did and even with a new UI it still won't do me as much good as TweetDeck does.



Watch the video below to see how CEO and co-founder of Twitter Evan Williams explains the new Twitter interface...

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Evan Williams Explains New Twitter Interface

For the 1 percent of users who woke up to a different Twitter experience Wednesday morning, it was probably the biggest change they have ever seen to the real time information service. Twitter has approximately 160 million users and there are nearly 90 million tweets sent every day. Tech Crunch has a good walk-throughof the new look. Mashable thinks it will put developers on the platform out of business. We asked Evan Williams, the CEO and co-founder of Twitter about what motivated the changes. Take a look: Read more at www.youtube.com

 

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