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Apr. 30th, 2006 12:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
silveradeptFirst and foremost, everyone congratulate ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
eleme on her graduation from the University of Michigan today. She comes out of the school of Education, and will be a fine teacher in her career. Our congratulations.
Unfortunately, I don't have any other happy news to work with in this department, so if you don't want your happy feelings crushed, then you can probably stop now. I assure you, you can come back later to finish it.
The other bits that came across my desk today were a woman who is being charged a significant amount of money for pay-per-view she claims not to have ordered. A 62-year old retired schoolteacher is being charged $1,400+ for pr0n and gangsta rap programming. Considering the only other regular visitor is her 81-year old mother, I think her cry of "zOMGhax!" is quite possibly justified, unless she has taste for both of those things. Might be that a number got switched around in the billing department somewhere, or that someone used her account number to charge up their own material. Either way, it's a red-flag, NC-17 rated affair.
The other definitely NC-17 affair is a followup from the case about the sodomy, bleaching, and now kicking and slashing case that I linked to earlier. The details of the story paint a potentially ethnically-motivated crime replete with violence, including kicking a sodomizing pipe. The victim has not yet died, but is in extremely critical condition after the beating. Both of the assailants are painted as following a white-supremacy ideals, marked as "skinheads" and such. I can wonder what would happen if the guy really did ty to kiss a 12-year-old girl, but the accounts described say that, even if that was the trigger, it seems like there's an extra layer of racial violence on top of it. More abuse and negative reinforcement of the swastika symbol, as well. It's not a pretty picture, the victim of this. I guess I can't yet fathom what kind of colossal rage it would take to overcome reason enough to commit all of these acts.
Anyway, meetings tomorrow and such. Going to bed now.
eleme on her graduation from the University of Michigan today. She comes out of the school of Education, and will be a fine teacher in her career. Our congratulations.Unfortunately, I don't have any other happy news to work with in this department, so if you don't want your happy feelings crushed, then you can probably stop now. I assure you, you can come back later to finish it.
The other bits that came across my desk today were a woman who is being charged a significant amount of money for pay-per-view she claims not to have ordered. A 62-year old retired schoolteacher is being charged $1,400+ for pr0n and gangsta rap programming. Considering the only other regular visitor is her 81-year old mother, I think her cry of "zOMGhax!" is quite possibly justified, unless she has taste for both of those things. Might be that a number got switched around in the billing department somewhere, or that someone used her account number to charge up their own material. Either way, it's a red-flag, NC-17 rated affair.
The other definitely NC-17 affair is a followup from the case about the sodomy, bleaching, and now kicking and slashing case that I linked to earlier. The details of the story paint a potentially ethnically-motivated crime replete with violence, including kicking a sodomizing pipe. The victim has not yet died, but is in extremely critical condition after the beating. Both of the assailants are painted as following a white-supremacy ideals, marked as "skinheads" and such. I can wonder what would happen if the guy really did ty to kiss a 12-year-old girl, but the accounts described say that, even if that was the trigger, it seems like there's an extra layer of racial violence on top of it. More abuse and negative reinforcement of the swastika symbol, as well. It's not a pretty picture, the victim of this. I guess I can't yet fathom what kind of colossal rage it would take to overcome reason enough to commit all of these acts.
Anyway, meetings tomorrow and such. Going to bed now.
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Date: 2006-05-01 02:38 pm (UTC)I agree that the swastika takes a bad rap because the Nazi party committed atrocities while using it as their symbol. Not that we should forget them, or deny their existence, but could we separate the people that committed the atrocities and note that they perverted the symbol they chose, rather than they created the symbol that they intended on using as if it didn't exist before then?