The terrible truth about what will happen if gay marriage is legalized in America. Hopefully this pie chart will clear up any confusion about the outcomes of legalizing gay marriage in America!
Sweden rocks. This band also does a great cover of Björk’s Army of Me:
NATO, with America at the helm, is becoming increasingly involved in Libya under the guise of a humanitarian mission to protect the intentional killing of civilians opposed to the Libyan government. President Gaddafi has proven he is willing to murder his own people in order to stay in power and his removal from power may bring about a more democratic government and open society. However, what are the real reasons America and its allies have become so invested in Libya, given the unrest, uprising, and repression going on across the Middle East?
Consider the following: recent statistics place the civilian death toll in Libya at approximately 6,000. However, there are far worse scenarios in which the US did nothing and current humanitarian situations where the US continues to do nothing. In the early 1990’s, the Rwandian genocide claimed the lives of 800,000 people (20% of the countries population at the time), and yet we did nothing. It took 5 years of civil war and several years of on-the-ground reporting of massacres in Yugoslavia for NATO to act decisively. Meanwhile, regimes across the Middle East (Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Kuwait, and Yemen) have had massive protests that have ended with respective armies mowing down unarmed civilians. What has suddenly motivated the US and its allies to consider the Libyan situation worthy of active intervention?
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Sgt. Edwin Claudio salutes his fallen friends during a memorial service for Sgt. Jason Weaver and Spc. David Fahey Jr. at the chapel at Joint Base Lewis-McChord near Tacoma, Washington, on March 23. Claudio was injured and Fahey died when their vehicle was rocked by an explosion in Afghanistan. Weaver was later killed in a separate roadside bomb attack.
New Slang by the Shins off of Oh, Inverted World.
