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burfman's JournalManny - say it ain't true!
WTF! Manny I'm gonna miss your posts, and so evidently will a bunch of other people. Maybe you'll be re-incarnated under another name.....I'll be looking for you someday soon.....
Burfman
U.S. Soldiers Told to Ignore Afghan Allies’ Abuse of Boys
Source: NY Times
KABUL, Afghanistan — In his last phone call home, Lance Cpl. Gregory Buckley Jr. told his father what was troubling him: From his bunk in southern Afghanistan, he could hear Afghan police officers sexually abusing boys they had brought to the base.
“At night we can hear them screaming, but we’re not allowed to do anything about it,” the Marine’s father, Gregory Buckley Sr., recalled his son telling him before he was shot to death at the base in 2012. He urged his son to tell his superiors. “My son said that his officers told him to look the other way because it’s their culture.”
Rampant sexual abuse of children has long been a problem in Afghanistan, particularly among armed commanders who dominate much of the rural landscape and can bully the population. The practice is called bacha bazi, literally “boy play,” and American soldiers and Marines have been instructed not to intervene — in some cases, not even when their Afghan allies have abused boys on military bases, according to interviews and court records.
The policy has endured as American forces have recruited and organized Afghan militias to help hold territory against the Taliban. But soldiers and Marines have been increasingly troubled that instead of weeding out pedophiles, the American military was arming them in some cases and placing them as the commanders of villages — and doing little when they began abusing children.
Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/21/world/asia/us-soldiers-told-to-ignore-afghan-allies-abuse-of-boys.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news
WTF is going on? Respecting local culture?
Burfman
Two Kitties that haven't lost faith in humanity - a different web-kitty story.....
Two kitties stranded in the woods were so glad to see two humans in a boat that they jumped in the water and swam far out to them so they could be rescued.
The video:
https://www.thedodo.com/fishermen-save-kittens-video-1323276204.html?utm_source=HuffPo&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=pubexchange_facebook
The article:
https://www.thedodo.com/fishermen-save-kittens-video-1323276204.html?utm_source=HuffPo&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=pubexchange_facebook
Burfman
If you were alive in 1968 - Nixon portrayed by Frye - will have you laughing hysterically....
If you were around in 1968 and remember Nixon....
This record from David Frye will have you hysterically laughing....
On the other hand if you are too young you won't understand why it's so funny.......
Former Governor Lowell P. Weicker, Jr. on Watergate Lessons Not Learned - a 2 min video
If you're old enough to remember Watergate and even if your not, I'm sure you will find Former Senator / Gov Lowell Weicker's two minute commentary on Watergate / The Constitution / Pres G Bush Jr. / Torture and the American people.......
Last Task After Layoff at Disney: Train Foreign Replacements
Interesting article in the NY Times about how Disney fired 250 of their prime hi-tech workers by replacing them with H-1B temp workers from India. Oh and the best part of the high-tech workers getting fired by Disney is they had to train their replacements.......
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/04/us/last-task-after-layoff-at-disney-train-foreign-replacements.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=second-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0
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