February 13, 2010
What a week. One shooting at Fort Hood, then a second shooting in Orlando…a bit closer to home (Portland, OR), the 3rd shooting of the week…because she filed for divorce?? And a fourth shooting and a fifth shooting in the Portland-metro area. In all five cases the perpetrators are men.
UPDATE (11/18): A sixth shooting…
UPDATE (11/30): Seventh shooting and eighth shooting
UPDATE (12/03): Ninth shooting
UPDATE (02/11): Tenth shooting
In the last three four SIX SEVEN EIGHT local murders in a matter of weeks, it is the same old story…
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December 23, 2008
Haven Daley of the Associated Press reports:
A woman was taunted for being a lesbian, repeatedly raped by four men and left naked outside an abandoned apartment building, authorities said.
Detectives say the 28-year-old victim was attacked Dec. 13 after she got out of her car in Richmond, in the San Francisco Bay area.
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Posted by ozob
September 11, 2008
On one of our last days in Kuwait, we went out to a (or the) main market place. It’s basically a web of pedestrian-only streets lined with open shops and booths selling almost any and every type of thing people might ordinarily want to buy (and a few things that people might NOT want to ordinarily buy…). It was definitely a highlight of my time in Kuwait, and the reason has absolutely nothing to do with what’s for sale.
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the violence in all of us
December 23, 2008Haven Daley of the Associated Press reports:
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