Kevin's Watch

Post by **deer of the dawn** » Sun Dec 25, 2011 5:52 pm

We're safe and sound. But a church a couple miles away got bombed today.

Some people just don't believe in "Peace on earth, goodwill toward all".

www.washingtonpost.com/world/africa/aut ... story.html

Post by **Obi-Wan Nihilo** » Sun Dec 25, 2011 7:58 pm

I saw that on the news and thought of you. Please stay safe.

BTW I heard just the other day that someone in my company had been kidnapped in Nigeria again.

Post by **Fist and Faith** » Sun Dec 25, 2011 8:53 pm

Holy cow! So glad you're okay, deer!

Post by **aliantha** » Mon Dec 26, 2011 1:43 am

Glad you're safe, DotD!

Post by **deer of the dawn** » Mon Dec 26, 2011 8:06 am

Ron Burgunihilo wrote:I saw that on the news and thought of you. Please stay safe.

BTW I heard just the other day that someone in my company had been kidnapped in Nigeria again.

Cripes. I know a doctor who was kidnapped, shot in the arm in the process. He was with the kidnappers for several days and chatted them up. He asked how they got into their life of crime. One of them said how he had gone to welding school, but then lacked funds to set up a shop, so he "went into the kidnapping business", just like it was shoe repair or carpentry. He appealed to them from a religious standpoint and their thing was, they would go to confession and be forgiven. When the ransom money arrived, they PRAYED over it. By then the doctor's arm was seriously infected, he had to be flown the the US for surgery. Honestly, the human capacity for self-deception and self-justification is breathtaking-- and it's not limited to M*slims. I am ashamed at what passes for "Christianity".

Post by **Obi-Wan Nihilo** » Mon Dec 26, 2011 8:25 am

Perhaps you can speak to this better than I, but I've heard that the British, being above working with the natives, actually ruined Nigeria by paying the locals NOT to work back when it was a colony. Of course, the expectation that whiteman pays us to not work continues to this day. Perhaps the whole kidnapping thing is a part of that 'pay me to behave and keep out of the way' thing. Sad, really.

Post by **deer of the dawn** » Wed Dec 28, 2011 9:17 pm

What the British didn't screw up, Shell and other oil companies destroyed. Most of the kidnaping of expatriates is in the South, where Shell et al came in, promised schools, roads, and clinics, raped the countryside, poisoned the water table, ruined the farmland, and did not come through on development promises. So there are no jobs; not even fishing and farming, which is what they did before the oil pipelines and gas flares. So you have the "kidnapping business", and then there's the pipeline-tapping business which results in worse pollution and huge explosions in which dozens burn to death, ... you begin to see MEND's point.

Post by **deer of the dawn** » Fri Jan 13, 2012 12:53 pm

Where is Ananda?

Post by **Shaun das Schaf** » Fri Jan 13, 2012 1:06 pm

Deer, check the response after your last one in the 'how do you feel today' thread.

Post by **Obi-Wan Nihilo** » Fri Feb 03, 2012 10:11 pm

P R E B E

Post by **Prebe** » Tue Feb 28, 2012 3:02 pm

Right here, but for a short time only. Thanks for not forgetting. I am touched.

My absence is mainly a blood presure thing: "Must...not...participate...in...heated ...debates.."

Post by **Orlion** » Tue Feb 28, 2012 5:56 pm

Prebe wrote:Right here, but for a short time only. Thanks for not forgetting. I am touched.

My absence is mainly a blood presure thing: "Must...not...participate...in...heated ...debates.."

So stay out of the Tank

The Close seems to be mostly stress free nowadays.

Post by **Avatar** » Wed Feb 29, 2012 5:24 am

Bah, excuses. We won't stand for this.

--A

Post by **MsMary** » Wed Feb 29, 2012 6:57 am

Orlion wrote:
Prebe wrote:Right here, but for a short time only. Thanks for not forgetting. I am touched.

My absence is mainly a blood presure thing: "Must...not...participate...in...heated ...debates.."
So stay out of the Tank

The Close seems to be mostly stress free nowadays.

As is Gen Disc.

Post by **deer of the dawn** » Wed Feb 29, 2012 12:23 pm

MsMary wrote:
Orlion wrote:
Prebe wrote:Right here, but for a short time only. Thanks for not forgetting. I am touched.

My absence is mainly a blood presure thing: "Must...not...participate...in...heated ...debates.."
So stay out of the Tank

The Close seems to be mostly stress free nowadays.
As is Gen Disc.

Helloooo, Mallory's!! Just random fun and silliness there, and the occasional inspiring poem. (Ananda came back, tho the Tank had put her off the Watch for a while. )

Post by **Linna Heartbooger** » Wed Feb 29, 2012 2:34 pm

MsMary wrote:
Orlion wrote:The Close seems to be mostly stress free nowadays.
As is Gen Disc.

...with the emphasis on the "mostly," I think!

I think I even find Mallory's to have the potential for stress... (even if I approve of people's creative solutions somewhat!)

Orlion wrote:The Close seems to be mostly stress free nowadays.

And quiet.
I've got like 10 different plans to do something about the "quiet" problem, but have yet to actually do something.

Post by **Ananda** » Wed Feb 29, 2012 3:12 pm

Prebe wrote:Right here, but for a short time only. Thanks for not forgetting. I am touched.

My absence is mainly a blood presure thing: "Must...not...participate...in...heated ...debates.."

hej!

Post by **sgt.null** » Thu Mar 01, 2012 5:08 am

i am no longer missing.

Post by **Ananda** » Thu Mar 01, 2012 3:52 pm

sgt.null wrote:i am no longer missing.

We missed you so much! I went into Mallorys and the last poster was someone not named Sgt. Null. I thought I was in the wrong place and got really confused.

Post by **sgt.null** » Thu Mar 01, 2012 6:46 pm

Ananda wrote:
sgt.null wrote:i am no longer missing.
We missed you so much! I went into Mallorys and the last poster was someone not named Sgt. Null. I thought I was in the wrong place and got really confused.

i can not believe it - i should have rented out my name.

MIA