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So, field day.

Obi did great for the obstacle course. Jonner is Leapfrog champ of the Kindergarten. And Bunny. Oh dear Bunny. She was winning the obstacle course, doing beautifully. Then she fell. Hard. And her classmates did not groan and blame her. They dashed over to be sure she was OK. Things like that give me hope. Some of them helped her up, others hugged her.

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OTOH: I read the news and am puzzled by the expressed surprise. It's war. What do we actually expect people to do? Feed the prisoners turkey and dressing and tuck them in with stories? Hardly. It's not right, it's brutal and wicked. But torture is the way of war, Geneva Convention or no. History alone teaches that. And psychology teaches that people given absolute power over another invariably abuse that. We should condemn it, but I don't think we should be surprised.

I think it's actually a good sign the torture shocks and horrifies us. I'm not sure if it means we're more civilized than we once were or we're just more squeamish.

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So, Bunny is spending the night at Mooney's.
That helps a bit.






1) She throws men's lives like dice
2) Moses: he took the tablets.
3) They have hurricane parties every time it blows
4) I die for a livin'
5) The story it told of a river that flowed made me sad to think it was dead
6) When the witch of November comes stealin'
7) Who can say where the road goes?
8) Behind lay a man who would make himself king, awaiting the spy's word to go.
9) You can hear the sounds of lovers in love
10) High school kids abuse it.
11) breathes a life of gathering gloom
12) Here's the one of me in my old 60 chevy, the one that let us down in Baltimore
13) That stained glass curtain you're hiding behind never lets in the sun
14) You're drunk you're drunk you silly old fool.
15) A remarkable family in anyone's book.
16) A restless spirit on an endless flight
17) The weather outside was whitening, until the dog did something frightening.
18) For surely here is an honest man
20)It's only forever, not long at all

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[jkb.livejournal.com]

I'm not at all surprised about the torture, but I think it's a good thing that there are expressions of outrage. The ideals of the Geneva Convention are worth supporting. I just have a feeling, though, that the incidents of torture they've found out about are only the tip of the iceberg.