As many of you had heard around the water cooler - I'm on my way to Africa in a few weeks. I haven't been blogging because I'm revamping my site [as you can see] so that I can blog while I'm gone, and because I'm not allowed to disclose a lot of information about my trip for reasons of safety and government security [some government people are accompanying us, who shall for this time remain nameless].
However, as Matt & I are going with Restore International, I thought this post from their blog would be helpful. This was posted in August as the planning for this and how it would all go down began...
ENJOY AND GOD BLESS
Remember Their Chains,
Miss Elizabeth Alvarez
SEEK JUSTICE
Isaiah 1:17
"Remember those in prison as though you were in prison with them, and those ill-treated as though you too felt their torment." Hebrews 13:3
August 17
Impacting a nation!
“Restoring the Twin Pillars of Truth and Justice”
Dear Friends:
The last few months have been a flurry of activity. Here’s an update:
Four of us from Gig Harbor traveled to Uganda where we were able to personally assess each of the proposals we have been considering. The travel team included Danny DeWalt, Tom Jonez, Jason Black and Dave Duea.
While in Uganda, we met with the Director of Rhema Ministries who has had a vision of rescuing minor girls from forced prostitution in the streets of Kampala, Uganda’s capitol. This has led to a signed agreement to partner with Rhema to rescue minor girls. We have agreed to call this the “Rahab Project.” We have further agreed to partner in this work with “Cornerstone” Ministries which operates a boarding school that will receive rescued girls (after an initial period of restoration in a group-home setting). We will rescue 30 girls by March 2007. This three-way partnership between Restore International, Rhema and Cornerstone leverages the strength of each partner to facilitate a long-term solution.
We were also able to meet with the Chief Justice of the Ugandan High Court to confirm plans to co-sponsor a conference for all of the Judges and Justices of Uganda. The purpose of this forum is to improve adjudication of cases where people require intervention by the courts to address human rights issues. This is a ground-breaking effort that will impact the entire national court system in Uganda.
Consistent with this, we will partner with the Justices this October and November to bring to trial cases that have been severely delayed in the northern city of Gulu because of the history of rebel activity. These “Gulu Sessions” will serve as a pilot project for other regions of the Country. US-based attorneys will write 150 case briefs as part of the effort to assist with this initiative.
The final project is the establishment of a secondary school (“high school”) in Attiak, a key city that has been ravaged by the effects of rebel activity in Northern Uganda. This school will train future leaders of the north and effect practical, tangible, restoration in this war-torn region.
In short, we have the opportunity to work with the victims of trafficking, the leaders of the nation and the young emerging future leaders in the north of Uganda. It is clear that the doors have swung wide-open for Restore International to have a strategic impact in Uganda at a pivotal moment in that nation’s history.
We are grateful for your continuing support as we press ahead with the goals and objectives we have shared with you. Please do not hesitate to be in touch if we may be of service to you in any way.
The Restore International Strategic Team
Tuesday, January 23, 2007
Sunday, January 07, 2007
Romo - I don't want to talk about it
So Romo's latest "fumble" - I don't want to talk about it.
My homework for immigration law is kindo of taxing [no pun intended]. II'm so tired. But check out this paragraph from Justice Murphy's opinion in Schneiderman v. United States:
"We are directly concerned only with the rights of this petitioner and the circumstances surrounding his naturalization, but we should not overlook the fact that we are a heterogeneous people. In some of our larger cities a majority of the school children are the offspring of parents only one generation, if that far, reoved from the steerage of the immigrant ship, children of those sought refuge in the new world from the cruelty and oppression of the old, where men have been burned at the stake, impriosoned, and driven into exile in countless numbers for their political status as citizens in a free world in which men are privileged to think and act and speak according to their convictions, without fear of punishment or further exile so long as they keep the peace and obey the law."
My homework for immigration law is kindo of taxing [no pun intended]. II'm so tired. But check out this paragraph from Justice Murphy's opinion in Schneiderman v. United States:
"We are directly concerned only with the rights of this petitioner and the circumstances surrounding his naturalization, but we should not overlook the fact that we are a heterogeneous people. In some of our larger cities a majority of the school children are the offspring of parents only one generation, if that far, reoved from the steerage of the immigrant ship, children of those sought refuge in the new world from the cruelty and oppression of the old, where men have been burned at the stake, impriosoned, and driven into exile in countless numbers for their political status as citizens in a free world in which men are privileged to think and act and speak according to their convictions, without fear of punishment or further exile so long as they keep the peace and obey the law."
Tuesday, December 19, 2006
Monday, December 11, 2006
Comments???
Ashton sent me this, wanting my comments. I will let y'all read it, post comments, and then in a few days I will give MY THOUGHTS
New York Post
THE DAMNED OF DARFUR
By RALPH PETERS
December 11, 2006 -- A HALF-million dead in Darfur; 2.5 million refugees - not counting the corpses lost in the sands or terrified survivors in hiding. Surely, the world will act?
No. The world talks. While the militias kill - and years pass. The United Nations looks away - its signature gesture when human rights are violated.
Welcome to the triumph of global hypocrisy.
Europe wrings its hands - as Europe always does - but declines an invitation to the dance. After all, "responsible" governments can't play fast and loose with another state's sovereignty. No dictator or president-for-life would be able to get a decent night's sleep.
So Sudan's Islamo-fascists continue to kill with impunity.
Our own left mourns theatrically for Darfur's dead - but no one has formed a new Lincoln Brigade to take on Sudan's Muslims fanatics. And the uncomfortable fact that Arab Muslims are slaughtering black Muslims goes ignored. It doesn't fit the left's comfortable worldview.
Oh, yes: Those on the left demanding that we "bring the troops home" from Iraq would be delighted to send American troops to rescue Khartoum's victims. But our military is occupied with other cases of fanaticism and genocide in the Muslim world this holiday season.
Isn't it curious that, when it comes to liberation, Iraq didn't count? For the endlessly hypocritical left, there's one magic difference between the half-million dead of Darfur and the 1.5 million people killed by Saddam in his internal massacres and neighborhood wars: Bush.
Now the global intelligentsia is getting yet another lesson in what happens when the United States and its fellow English-speaking democracies are otherwise engaged: When the "Great Satan" doesn't act, the killing continues.
It doesn't matter that those oh-so-much-wiser Europeans have plenty of troops available. Latin America, that beacon of liberation, has plenty of soldiers, too. Asia has a number of excellent militaries - and China certainly has troops to spare.
But the world outside of Africa won't fight to save black lives. And China backs the Khartoum government at the United Nations - for the sake of Sudan's oil. Europe does what it loves to do: Weep piteously over the dead, but do nothing to save the living.
It tells you all you need to know about Europe's "conscience" that Guantanamo matters more to its citoyens than the genocide in Darfur.
The problem is that changing the world for the better costs blood. Only Anglo-American civilization has ever provided the leadership necessary to stop this kind of killing. For which we receive only abuse from the world's hypocrites and cowards.
As the massacres and mass rapes continue in Darfur, rich countries watch the destruction of an entire culture while arguing sanctimoniously that "We must let Africans solve Africa's problems" - knowing full well that Africa's militaries are too weak and poor, too ill-trained and ill-led to cope with so grave a crisis.
The oil-rich states of the Middle East could have funded the now-failed African military mission - after all, the victims in Darfur are fellow Muslims. But to the bloated princes and sheiks of Arabia, there are Muslims and then there are Muslims. Khartoum's Arabs count as "real" Muslims - unlike the black-skinned Africans who foolishly believed the Prophet's teachings that all believers are equal before Allah.
And the sanctimonious mourners realize that a mission to Darfur wouldn't be for peacekeeping. There's no peace to keep. It would be for peacemaking. And none of these folks thinks black lives are worth a fight.
Whether our domestic laments for Darfur come from The New York Times or a Web site, there's no indication that the left is really serious. Even those who want to send in our troops refuse to acknowledge that, in order to rescue Darfur from its "sovereign" government, an intervention force would need no-nonsense rules of engagement, resolute leaders behind it - and the intention of staying for years.
Indeed, the only way to build a lasting peace would be to break up the artificial state seated at the United Nations as "Sudan" - but the U.N. would never countenance such an act of justice. So the Khartoum junta will just go on killing its "own" people - as it has done not only in Darfur in the country's west, but in its impoverished south and east, as well.
One begins to suspect that all too many on the left enjoy pitying Darfur as they wait in line for their lattes. Others, of course, just refuse to accept the troubling fact that this broken world's problems demand more profound solutions than a chant of "Stop the killing."
The killing will never stop until we stop pretending that every dictator or junta seizing power is entitled to claim sovereignty over the millions who never had a voice in choosing their government. After the oppression of women, the sovereignty con is the world's greatest human-rights abuse. And for all of its damnable incompetence, the Bush administration understood that one great truth.
Darfur deserves more than self-satisfied words. As does Iraq. And Afghanistan. And Zimbabwe. And Burma/Myanmar, Cuba, Iran, North Korea and so many other "sovereign states."
But if we're ever going to stop the killing, we first have to stop the lying. Especially the lie we tell ourselves about the universal desire for peace: Try telling that one to the Janjaweed militaman raping your wife, burning your house, taking your children into slavery - and cutting your throat.
Meanwhile, the Sudanese government laughs at all of us. Khartoum is so confident that the world doesn't give a damn about black Africans that it's recently moved to destabilize neighboring Chad.
The hypocrisy of the intelligentsia, here and in Europe, stinks to the throne of God. No campus seminar ever provoked a cease-fire, and no demonstration ever halted a massacre. Those who are unwilling to fight injustice will ultimately face injustice and a fight.
Ralph Peters' latest book is "Never Quit the Fight.
New York Post
THE DAMNED OF DARFUR
By RALPH PETERS
December 11, 2006 -- A HALF-million dead in Darfur; 2.5 million refugees - not counting the corpses lost in the sands or terrified survivors in hiding. Surely, the world will act?
No. The world talks. While the militias kill - and years pass. The United Nations looks away - its signature gesture when human rights are violated.
Welcome to the triumph of global hypocrisy.
Europe wrings its hands - as Europe always does - but declines an invitation to the dance. After all, "responsible" governments can't play fast and loose with another state's sovereignty. No dictator or president-for-life would be able to get a decent night's sleep.
So Sudan's Islamo-fascists continue to kill with impunity.
Our own left mourns theatrically for Darfur's dead - but no one has formed a new Lincoln Brigade to take on Sudan's Muslims fanatics. And the uncomfortable fact that Arab Muslims are slaughtering black Muslims goes ignored. It doesn't fit the left's comfortable worldview.
Oh, yes: Those on the left demanding that we "bring the troops home" from Iraq would be delighted to send American troops to rescue Khartoum's victims. But our military is occupied with other cases of fanaticism and genocide in the Muslim world this holiday season.
Isn't it curious that, when it comes to liberation, Iraq didn't count? For the endlessly hypocritical left, there's one magic difference between the half-million dead of Darfur and the 1.5 million people killed by Saddam in his internal massacres and neighborhood wars: Bush.
Now the global intelligentsia is getting yet another lesson in what happens when the United States and its fellow English-speaking democracies are otherwise engaged: When the "Great Satan" doesn't act, the killing continues.
It doesn't matter that those oh-so-much-wiser Europeans have plenty of troops available. Latin America, that beacon of liberation, has plenty of soldiers, too. Asia has a number of excellent militaries - and China certainly has troops to spare.
But the world outside of Africa won't fight to save black lives. And China backs the Khartoum government at the United Nations - for the sake of Sudan's oil. Europe does what it loves to do: Weep piteously over the dead, but do nothing to save the living.
It tells you all you need to know about Europe's "conscience" that Guantanamo matters more to its citoyens than the genocide in Darfur.
The problem is that changing the world for the better costs blood. Only Anglo-American civilization has ever provided the leadership necessary to stop this kind of killing. For which we receive only abuse from the world's hypocrites and cowards.
As the massacres and mass rapes continue in Darfur, rich countries watch the destruction of an entire culture while arguing sanctimoniously that "We must let Africans solve Africa's problems" - knowing full well that Africa's militaries are too weak and poor, too ill-trained and ill-led to cope with so grave a crisis.
The oil-rich states of the Middle East could have funded the now-failed African military mission - after all, the victims in Darfur are fellow Muslims. But to the bloated princes and sheiks of Arabia, there are Muslims and then there are Muslims. Khartoum's Arabs count as "real" Muslims - unlike the black-skinned Africans who foolishly believed the Prophet's teachings that all believers are equal before Allah.
And the sanctimonious mourners realize that a mission to Darfur wouldn't be for peacekeeping. There's no peace to keep. It would be for peacemaking. And none of these folks thinks black lives are worth a fight.
Whether our domestic laments for Darfur come from The New York Times or a Web site, there's no indication that the left is really serious. Even those who want to send in our troops refuse to acknowledge that, in order to rescue Darfur from its "sovereign" government, an intervention force would need no-nonsense rules of engagement, resolute leaders behind it - and the intention of staying for years.
Indeed, the only way to build a lasting peace would be to break up the artificial state seated at the United Nations as "Sudan" - but the U.N. would never countenance such an act of justice. So the Khartoum junta will just go on killing its "own" people - as it has done not only in Darfur in the country's west, but in its impoverished south and east, as well.
One begins to suspect that all too many on the left enjoy pitying Darfur as they wait in line for their lattes. Others, of course, just refuse to accept the troubling fact that this broken world's problems demand more profound solutions than a chant of "Stop the killing."
The killing will never stop until we stop pretending that every dictator or junta seizing power is entitled to claim sovereignty over the millions who never had a voice in choosing their government. After the oppression of women, the sovereignty con is the world's greatest human-rights abuse. And for all of its damnable incompetence, the Bush administration understood that one great truth.
Darfur deserves more than self-satisfied words. As does Iraq. And Afghanistan. And Zimbabwe. And Burma/Myanmar, Cuba, Iran, North Korea and so many other "sovereign states."
But if we're ever going to stop the killing, we first have to stop the lying. Especially the lie we tell ourselves about the universal desire for peace: Try telling that one to the Janjaweed militaman raping your wife, burning your house, taking your children into slavery - and cutting your throat.
Meanwhile, the Sudanese government laughs at all of us. Khartoum is so confident that the world doesn't give a damn about black Africans that it's recently moved to destabilize neighboring Chad.
The hypocrisy of the intelligentsia, here and in Europe, stinks to the throne of God. No campus seminar ever provoked a cease-fire, and no demonstration ever halted a massacre. Those who are unwilling to fight injustice will ultimately face injustice and a fight.
Ralph Peters' latest book is "Never Quit the Fight.
AMAZING
Well ladies and gentlemen, Blood Diamonds was the AWESOMEST MOVIE!!! Going to this private screening was the coolest experience ever. Let the story-telling begin...
It all started when I decided that if I waited until sometime AFTER 3 the traffic to Burbank would be ridiculous. So, I left right from my spine specialist's office in Augora, and drove straight there early Thursday afternoon. I arrived in Burbank around 3:20, and located the appropriate gate I was supposed to use to enter into the studios at game time. So, I decided I would find a Starbucks and chill until then. I wasn't supposed to get there until around 6:30 so I figured I had plenty of time [which was cool since I had my work with me...]
Guess what - no friggin' Starbucks.
It's a STUDIO
WHERE IS THE COFFEE???
Sigh; so I ended up chilling out at a little coffee shop with the "good ol' boys" chillin' out inside. When I walked in with my Macbook in tow in a brown pinstripe pantsuit - they most def stopped and looked at me. Oh well... :-)
So around 6:00 or so I packed up, paid my $3.00 coffee tab and drove to the studio. There was like quadruple security at the studio, but once I got through it the magic began. I arrived to the theater the private screening would be at. There were Blood Diamond prints and posters to warm you up to the idea. Inside there was a bar and a bunch of maitre dees dressed to the T. They were running around with silver serving trays giving you the opportunity for ALL KINDS of fab food :-) and drinks. They would then come back with little silver trays for your trash. Random? I think so...way more important than I'm used to...they don't hand stuff out for free on Skid Row...especially not little mini chocolate rasberry cakes with PAINTED ON star designs...ridic
Anyway; the movie was shown in this HUGE gorgeous theater which reminded me of the one they show in Anne. :-) The CEO of Warner Brothers talked for a while - he is also on the International Board of Human Rights Watch. There were some more speeches by other important people.
Then the movie.
What else is there to say???
I cried so much - it was amazing.
GO.
It all started when I decided that if I waited until sometime AFTER 3 the traffic to Burbank would be ridiculous. So, I left right from my spine specialist's office in Augora, and drove straight there early Thursday afternoon. I arrived in Burbank around 3:20, and located the appropriate gate I was supposed to use to enter into the studios at game time. So, I decided I would find a Starbucks and chill until then. I wasn't supposed to get there until around 6:30 so I figured I had plenty of time [which was cool since I had my work with me...]
Guess what - no friggin' Starbucks.
It's a STUDIO
WHERE IS THE COFFEE???
Sigh; so I ended up chilling out at a little coffee shop with the "good ol' boys" chillin' out inside. When I walked in with my Macbook in tow in a brown pinstripe pantsuit - they most def stopped and looked at me. Oh well... :-)
So around 6:00 or so I packed up, paid my $3.00 coffee tab and drove to the studio. There was like quadruple security at the studio, but once I got through it the magic began. I arrived to the theater the private screening would be at. There were Blood Diamond prints and posters to warm you up to the idea. Inside there was a bar and a bunch of maitre dees dressed to the T. They were running around with silver serving trays giving you the opportunity for ALL KINDS of fab food :-) and drinks. They would then come back with little silver trays for your trash. Random? I think so...way more important than I'm used to...they don't hand stuff out for free on Skid Row...especially not little mini chocolate rasberry cakes with PAINTED ON star designs...ridic
Anyway; the movie was shown in this HUGE gorgeous theater which reminded me of the one they show in Anne. :-) The CEO of Warner Brothers talked for a while - he is also on the International Board of Human Rights Watch. There were some more speeches by other important people.
Then the movie.
What else is there to say???
I cried so much - it was amazing.
GO.
Monday, December 04, 2006
I Promise, I'll Get Back To Studying Soon
Well, one more post [so I say]. I just got an email from one of my good friends and all it said was "Go to this Link Lizz and Read the Story you will be hapy."
So I did.
And I was.
And I'll include the story here so you can be happy too.
DiCaprio film may hurt diamond demand: analysts
Mon Dec 4, 2006 1:54 PM ET
By Martinne Geller
NEW YORK (Reuters) - "Blood Diamond," the Warner Bros. thriller that hits movie theaters on Friday, could spark public concern about illicit "conflict diamonds" and hurt demand during the key holiday shopping season, analysts said on Monday.
But any financial impact to retailers should be modest and brief, they added.
The film, staring Leonardo DiCaprio, highlights the precious gem's role in Sierra Leone's civil war during the 1990s. So-called conflict diamonds, or blood diamonds, refer to stones mined in war zones and sold illicitly to fund war, insurgencies and human rights abuses.
James Hurley, an analyst with research firm Telsey Group, said the movie will likely affect sentiment with its star power and advertising push.
But he doubts people will stop buying diamonds, which would hurt retailers such as Zale Corp., Tiffany & Co. Inc., Blue Nile Inc., and Signet Group Plc, which operates the Kay Jewelers chain, as well as diamond processor De Beers Group, which is 45-percent owned by mining company Anglo American Plc..
"What a diamond means and what it stands for has been ingrained in people's psyches for decades, if not centuries. That's a pretty powerful attachment to ... destroy with just one film," Hurley said.
CL King analyst William Armstrong said the movie would likely alter buying patterns for a small group of shoppers.
"But how much that would be ... I'd be very surprised if it was a material amount," Armstrong said, adding that the issue is not new and that large retailers already have strict programs in place to prevent or minimize the possibility that their diamonds have left a bloody trail.
To help prepare for a possible public backlash, the World Diamond Council, a trade group, earlier this year hired a crisis public relations firm to design a campaign stressing the industry's efforts at reducing the number of blood diamonds. The campaign included full-page advertisements in national and international newspapers and an educational Web site, www.diamondfacts.org.
High-end retailer Tiffany, which said it tries to assure the responsible mining of all materials used to make its jewelry, said it encourages consumers to ask jewelers how they support efforts to promote responsible mining.
"The film 'Blood Diamond' serves as a horrific reminder of the terrible costs of uncontrolled diamond trading ... and we are hopeful it will contribute to ongoing international efforts to assure history does not repeat itself," Tiffany told Reuters in an e-mailed statement.
Blue Nile, Zale and Signet did not immediately return calls seeking comment.
In 2002 diamond production companies and most countries involved in the mining and trade of diamonds agreed on the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme, which is a process designed to prevent blood diamonds from entering the mainstream diamond market.
"The industry has worked hard and effectively to keep conflict diamonds from the mainstream markets, including certifying stones as conflict-free," wrote ThinkEquity Partners analyst Edward Weller in a note to clients. "Though the industry has, we think, done a very good job, the release of this movie could temper overall demand modestly, we believe, and briefly."
The fourth quarter, which includes the all-important holiday shopping season, accounts for the lion's share of the year's sales for jewelry retailers. Telsey Group's Hurley said that signs such as recent strength in the stock market bode well for strong holiday jewelry sales.
(Additional reporting by Aarthi Sivaraman)
© Reuters 2006. All rights reserved. Republication or redistribution of Reuters content, including by caching, framing or similar means, is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Reuters. Reuters and the Reuters sphere logo are registered trademarks and trademarks of the Reuters group of companies around the world.
Additionally; I'd just like to point out that I've been invited to a PRIVATE screening of this movie BEFORE it opens. I'll see it Thursday night in Beverly Hills. :-)
I'm a human rights activist - officially - that's how I got an invitation. :) Life's lookin' up guys!!
And yet, I'm still unhappy because the movie poster [seen above] is so glamorous. If I were going to publisize this; I'd use something like this if I were serious.
So I did.
And I was.
And I'll include the story here so you can be happy too.
DiCaprio film may hurt diamond demand: analysts
Mon Dec 4, 2006 1:54 PM ET
By Martinne Geller
NEW YORK (Reuters) - "Blood Diamond," the Warner Bros. thriller that hits movie theaters on Friday, could spark public concern about illicit "conflict diamonds" and hurt demand during the key holiday shopping season, analysts said on Monday.
But any financial impact to retailers should be modest and brief, they added.
The film, staring Leonardo DiCaprio, highlights the precious gem's role in Sierra Leone's civil war during the 1990s. So-called conflict diamonds, or blood diamonds, refer to stones mined in war zones and sold illicitly to fund war, insurgencies and human rights abuses.
James Hurley, an analyst with research firm Telsey Group, said the movie will likely affect sentiment with its star power and advertising push.
But he doubts people will stop buying diamonds, which would hurt retailers such as Zale Corp., Tiffany & Co. Inc., Blue Nile Inc., and Signet Group Plc, which operates the Kay Jewelers chain, as well as diamond processor De Beers Group, which is 45-percent owned by mining company Anglo American Plc..
"What a diamond means and what it stands for has been ingrained in people's psyches for decades, if not centuries. That's a pretty powerful attachment to ... destroy with just one film," Hurley said.
CL King analyst William Armstrong said the movie would likely alter buying patterns for a small group of shoppers.
"But how much that would be ... I'd be very surprised if it was a material amount," Armstrong said, adding that the issue is not new and that large retailers already have strict programs in place to prevent or minimize the possibility that their diamonds have left a bloody trail.
To help prepare for a possible public backlash, the World Diamond Council, a trade group, earlier this year hired a crisis public relations firm to design a campaign stressing the industry's efforts at reducing the number of blood diamonds. The campaign included full-page advertisements in national and international newspapers and an educational Web site, www.diamondfacts.org.
High-end retailer Tiffany, which said it tries to assure the responsible mining of all materials used to make its jewelry, said it encourages consumers to ask jewelers how they support efforts to promote responsible mining.
"The film 'Blood Diamond' serves as a horrific reminder of the terrible costs of uncontrolled diamond trading ... and we are hopeful it will contribute to ongoing international efforts to assure history does not repeat itself," Tiffany told Reuters in an e-mailed statement.
Blue Nile, Zale and Signet did not immediately return calls seeking comment.
In 2002 diamond production companies and most countries involved in the mining and trade of diamonds agreed on the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme, which is a process designed to prevent blood diamonds from entering the mainstream diamond market.
"The industry has worked hard and effectively to keep conflict diamonds from the mainstream markets, including certifying stones as conflict-free," wrote ThinkEquity Partners analyst Edward Weller in a note to clients. "Though the industry has, we think, done a very good job, the release of this movie could temper overall demand modestly, we believe, and briefly."
The fourth quarter, which includes the all-important holiday shopping season, accounts for the lion's share of the year's sales for jewelry retailers. Telsey Group's Hurley said that signs such as recent strength in the stock market bode well for strong holiday jewelry sales.
(Additional reporting by Aarthi Sivaraman)
© Reuters 2006. All rights reserved. Republication or redistribution of Reuters content, including by caching, framing or similar means, is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Reuters. Reuters and the Reuters sphere logo are registered trademarks and trademarks of the Reuters group of companies around the world.
Additionally; I'd just like to point out that I've been invited to a PRIVATE screening of this movie BEFORE it opens. I'll see it Thursday night in Beverly Hills. :-)
I'm a human rights activist - officially - that's how I got an invitation. :) Life's lookin' up guys!!
And yet, I'm still unhappy because the movie poster [seen above] is so glamorous. If I were going to publisize this; I'd use something like this if I were serious.
Finals Blows Goats
Ok guys; so there is this song I thought of today. It's a REALLY OLD Wierd Al song called "One More Minute" which may be THE BEST break-up song EVER...but I thought of it for a different reason. Wouldn't it be the perfect law school song if you changed just a few of the words? Here we go [the words i changed are BOLDED]
Aahh....
Well I heard that I passed (passed')
Gonna have another semester (semester)
'Cause my Torts Professor passed me
I decided that this is a disaster (aahh..)
So I pulled (I pulled) all the names out (name out) of my Rolodex (oohh..)
And I tore all my pictures in two
And I burned down the malt shop where my friends used to go
it reminds me of what real people do (dippity dippity doo)
That's right (that's right) you ain't gonna see me cryin'
I'm glad (I'm glad) that i'm not number 1 or 2
'Cause I'd rather spend eternity eating shards of broken glass
Than spend one more minute in law school.
I guess I might seem kinda bitter
Remedies got me feeling down in the dumps
'Cause I'm stranded all alone in the gas station of love
And I have to use the self-service pumps
Oh, so honey, let me help you with that Authentication
Wills & Trusts (Con Law) gonna break my heart in two
'Cause I'd rather get a hundred thousand paper cuts on my face
Than spend one more minute in law school.
I'd rather rip out my intestines with a fork
Than watch one more Westlaw search go
I'd rather slam my fingers in a door (yah)
Again and again and again and again and again
Oh, can't you see what I'm tryin' to say, Mom...
I'd rather have my blood sucked out by leeches (leeches)
Shove an icepick under a toenail or two
I'd rather clean all the bathrooms in Grand Central Station with my tongue
Than spend one more minute in law school.
Yes, I'd rather jump naked on a huge pile of thumbtacks
Or stick my nostrils together with crazy glue
I'd rather dive into a swimming pool filled with double-edged razor blades
Than spend one more minute in law school.
I'd rather rip my heart right out of my ribcage with my bare hands
and then throw it on the floor and stomp on it 'till I die
Than spend one more minute in law school.
Shepardize THAT!
Aahh....
Well I heard that I passed (passed')
Gonna have another semester (semester)
'Cause my Torts Professor passed me
I decided that this is a disaster (aahh..)
So I pulled (I pulled) all the names out (name out) of my Rolodex (oohh..)
And I tore all my pictures in two
And I burned down the malt shop where my friends used to go
it reminds me of what real people do (dippity dippity doo)
That's right (that's right) you ain't gonna see me cryin'
I'm glad (I'm glad) that i'm not number 1 or 2
'Cause I'd rather spend eternity eating shards of broken glass
Than spend one more minute in law school.
I guess I might seem kinda bitter
Remedies got me feeling down in the dumps
'Cause I'm stranded all alone in the gas station of love
And I have to use the self-service pumps
Oh, so honey, let me help you with that Authentication
Wills & Trusts (Con Law) gonna break my heart in two
'Cause I'd rather get a hundred thousand paper cuts on my face
Than spend one more minute in law school.
I'd rather rip out my intestines with a fork
Than watch one more Westlaw search go
I'd rather slam my fingers in a door (yah)
Again and again and again and again and again
Oh, can't you see what I'm tryin' to say, Mom...
I'd rather have my blood sucked out by leeches (leeches)
Shove an icepick under a toenail or two
I'd rather clean all the bathrooms in Grand Central Station with my tongue
Than spend one more minute in law school.
Yes, I'd rather jump naked on a huge pile of thumbtacks
Or stick my nostrils together with crazy glue
I'd rather dive into a swimming pool filled with double-edged razor blades
Than spend one more minute in law school.
I'd rather rip my heart right out of my ribcage with my bare hands
and then throw it on the floor and stomp on it 'till I die
Than spend one more minute in law school.
Shepardize THAT!
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