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Hiroine Protagonist
10/23/09

In reply to Dress/Rehearsal
Dress rehearsal rags. #olympicflame
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andromache
10/22/09

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shuthehellup the women in the back look like karyatids and kourai! but I suppose that's the point. #olympicflame
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morninggloria
10/22/09

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I attended this ceremony in early 2004. Olympia is a little slice of heaven. #olympicflame
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phantom lady
10/22/09

In reply to Dress/Rehearsal
So this is where the Spinning Circle went when the Dead Shows ended. #olympicflame
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shorty63136
10/22/09

In reply to Dress/Rehearsal
Won't it be a little chilly for that...in Vancouver...in winter? #olympicflame
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missinaction
10/22/09

@shorty63136: The Games will be in Vancouver in winter. The torch-lighting ceremony was today, in Olympia Greece.
Or maybe you got that and I have no sense of humour today (?) #olympicflame
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shorty63136
10/22/09

@missinaction: @pink_orchid_martini: @SpiritGrabber:

Thanks all. I feel like I knew that about the traveling flame but cannot confirm it...which means I completely forgot. =) #olympicflame
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missinaction
10/22/09

@shorty63136: Well... it's coming over to Victoria by plane, and then will be run on a relay, kilometre by kilometre, through every Province and Territory in Canada, by people who applied to be part of the relay, before it gets to the Opening Ceremonies on Feb. 12.

More than you probably needed to know! #olympicflame
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rodmanstreet
10/22/09

In reply to Dress/Rehearsal
Wow, they're dressed awfully nice for a game of "Red Light/Green Light"!
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seejanerun
10/22/09

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Why don't I ever get the jobs where I twirl around in a dress? I'm questioning all of my life's decisions. #olympicflame
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badmutha
10/22/09

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Use, but where are the hot "300"-ish dudes playing the warriors? That's the sj I want to see. #olympicflame
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justcallmeangel
10/22/09

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So beautiful! They look like a gorgeous, subtly curved flower...irises? not tulips...I can't think what it is. Calla lilies maybe! #olympicflame
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♥ dosido☮
10/05/09

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"My chosen candidate promises jammies with feet and grape lollipops for all. Got a problem with that?"
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heykoukla
10/05/09

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I love it. All of Europe shifts politically to the right - and the Greeks decide to go left. That tells you everything you need to know about Greece.
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Maritsa
10/05/09

@heykoukla: Pretty much. That and the fact that power just shifts back and forth among a few political families.
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morninggloria
10/05/09

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OMG Socialism?!?! The Greeks are about to lose all of their freedomz!
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Maritsa
10/05/09

@morninggloria: Silly, they're European, they don't have any to begin with! They got that socialized medicine too!
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colormeroutine
09/15/09

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Shit, she's 4 and has been gone for 2 years? She probably doesn't even know who her mother is
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ninles
09/15/09

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Can't really judge the dad for doing that without knowing absolutely anything about this... There may have been reasons. When a mother kidnaps a child usually we can think of a couple of excuses why she may have done it, usually there is a certain degree of desperation involved for various reasons...
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colormeroutine
09/15/09

@ninles: This is a point, but I would still say kidnapping and fleeing the country is not the way to handle the situation
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fluxus flucker
09/15/09

@colormeroutine: Its not the best way to handle the situation.
But, without knowing the facts, I have to withhold judgment.

I've personally known quite a few mothers and fathers who have been forced by courts to share custody with criminally abusive ex-partners.
I've read of many, many more.

I can't say that if I were in such a situation I wouldn't leave the country asap.

Domestic law can be super fucked up.
For example, many times a man will incredibly psychologically & physically to abusive to a woman.
But even if the woman leaves him to save herself and her kids, the courts take the stance that "the man has never hurt the kids" and "Until he hurts them" he can not be seen as a threat and will therefore have partial (unsupervised) custody. Even if the woman is in her last trimester of pregnancy and his brutally beaten some courts will be of the opinion that the abuser has never technically hurt the child and is therefore a fit gaurdian.
Many women do not leave their abusive spouses because of the fear of their children being ruthlessly abused with no one (mom) to help them.
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colormeroutine
09/15/09

@fluxus flucker: This is true, which is why I said that was a point. And of course there is the possibility that the woman in this case was abusive in some way. But there is also the fact that, in general, men have a much easier time getting custody removed from women, with any kind of evidence, than the other way around. I'm not making judgment either way
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CurtCole
09/15/09

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I know this is a serious subject matter, but I really like the lighting in this photo.
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