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That’s cool I guess.

This article in Huffington Post was actually posted on March 31st… damn. A dude can have nonconsentual sex with his wife, child marriage is a-okay, and a woman has to have permission to leave her home. Sweet. Apparently the bill explaining the cool law was a rushed dealy by president Karzai in an attempt to appease a voting crowd that is losing interest in him.

Everybody and their mom got pissed about this (except me because i JUST read about it sighface but maybe my mom knows about it) and now it’s on hold.

The British Government expressed alarm at the law, which applies to the 15 per cent of the Afghan population that is Shia Muslim. President Obama called the law “abhorrent” at the Nato summit in Strasbourg last week.

The Afghan Government is a signatory to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which enshrines equality in dignity and rights regardless of religion or sex. Article 22 of the Afghan Constitution also explicitly reiterates the equality of men and women before the law. The Times, 2009 April 7

The Times had a copy of a draft, who knows how legit it is, but if it is…

the law explicitly sanctions marital rape. “As long as the husband is not travelling, he has the right to have sexual intercourse with his wife every fourth night,” Article 132 says. “Unless the wife is ill or has any kind of illness that intercourse could aggravate, the wife is bound to give a positive response to the sexual desires of her husband.”

Article 133 reintroduces the Taleban restrictions on women’s movements outside their homes, stating: “A wife cannot leave the house without the permission of the husband” unless in a medical or other emergency.

Article 27 endorses child marriage with girls legally able to marry once they begin to menstruate.

The law also withholds from the woman the right to inherit her husband’s wealth.

Good thing Karzai was just kidding because that law would allow girls as young as eight to marry and start doing the hippity dippity regardless of what they want to do because their husbands want poon.

Rights reversal: For some Afghan women, a return to the shadows pittsburgh post-gazette
Taylor Marsh: President Karzai ‘Legalizes’ Rape huffington post
Afghan leader accused of bid to ‘legalise rape’: UN and women MPs say Karzai bowed to Islamic fundamentalists before poll the independent
Taylor Marsh: Karzai Rape Law on “Hold” huffington post
Taleban-style law for women in Afghanistan is dropped after outcry the times
Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai vows to change Afghan marital rape law new york daily news

PUPPY

i has a hotdog?

Elizabeth Warren comes to the Daily Show to discuss what’s going on with money in the States. She talks like my mom does about money. Which is awesomely.

Part One

Part Two!

Elizabeth Warren discusses TARP tywkiwdbi

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Some fishermen accidentally caught a megamouth shark in their nets. it died while they were trying to get it out, so they ate it. Yes. Why waste meat? PS this species of shark has been seen 41 times. Ever. This was the 41st sighting.

Megamouths are filterfeeders and basically hang out with their mouths open to grab plankton and other tiny tasty items.

Philippine fishermen net and eat rare megamouth shark guardian.co.uk
Sunday smörgåsbord tywkiwdbi

Stephen Colbert talkin bout The National Organization for Marriage, abbreviated as NOM.

oh god! the homo-storm got me!

NOM publicly thanked Stephen Colbert’s show for bringing attention to their group. What.

Apparently, they believe that Colbert has helped their cause, somehow. This is, as they say, ADORBS:
“I’ve always thought Stephen Colbert was a double-agent, pretending to pretend to be a conservative, to pull one over Hollywood. Now I’m sure,” said Maggie Gallagher, President of the National Organization for Marriage (NOM).

“Thank you Stephen for playing our ad in full on national television–for free. HRC eat your heart out. Plus we all had a great chuckle, too!” said Brian Brown, NOM’s Executive Director. “Where can I make a donation to the National Organization for Colbert?”

clearly these bitches don’t understand sarcasm. ontd
Anti-Gay Group Sends Letter To Colbert Thanking Him For Mocking Them Huffington Post

…it was in a Where Are They Now Jurassic Park entry for ontd.

(2:25:43 AM) dnd: omg.. now i’m gonna have never gonna give you up stuck in my head
(2:26:02 AM) dnd: and then i’ll get bummed that i’m single
(2:26:03 AM) KGB1: YOU ARE WELCOME
(2:26:07 AM) dnd: boo..
(2:26:12 AM) KGB1: i don’t want it in here
(2:26:16 AM) KGB1: it just stays
(2:26:17 AM) KGB1: that and
(2:26:21 AM) KGB1: youre hot and youre cold
(2:26:25 AM) KGB1: youre blah and youre blah
(2:26:29 AM) KGB1: youre doobie da do
(2:26:33 AM) KGB1: youre in and youre out
(2:26:35 AM) dnd: lol.. katie perry?
(2:26:39 AM) dnd: lol
(2:26:40 AM) KGB1: you dont reall ywanna stay with me
(2:26:43 AM) dnd: so sexual
(2:26:43 AM) KGB1: wa-ah-oh!
(2:26:48 AM) KGB1: you dont really wanna stay
(2:26:54 AM) KGB1: YES THAT IS THAT ONE
(2:26:54 AM) dnd: omg.
(2:27:02 AM) KGB1: you
(2:27:07 AM) KGB1: change your mind
(2:27:09 AM) KGB1: like a girl
(2:27:10 AM) dnd: go listen to johnny cash or something
(2:27:12 AM) KGB1: changes clothes
(2:27:16 AM) KGB1: hahaha
(2:27:18 AM) dnd: stop..
(2:27:22 AM) KGB1: okie
(2:27:27 AM) dnd: think about elvis being in your mom

The Thrashers are addressing the bad commercials using hockey players epidemic.

Poor Colby. If you go type in ucantact.com, it takes you to the thrashers’ website.

Pens are in the playoffs. Yessss.

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