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Samba Anyone?

 "Wanna get festive? Shake your tico tico at the Pride Samba Show on Saturday, March 5th.

We're bringing you the rhythms of tropical Brazil with 16 performers, our hot samba dancers, and the Copa Cuícas led by bandmasters Hotboy and Wes!

Prizes galore with original floats and props, and free Mardi Gras necklaces for all.

Our 2 PM event is held on Sidhe in the Gay Archipelago with the hottest Samba set north of Rio:

Taxi to Sidhe

At 6 PM the party moves to Pride where joy and celebration punctuate the evening sky:

Taxi to Pride 

This event is a fundraiser for Second Pride and for the Pride sim!"

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I love samba and hope to see you all at the parties!

Yesterday

I have been feeling increasingly stressed and sad lately, mostly because of a few upcoming  year-days and how to organize them. So yesterday it all poured out when I was talking with my little sister Millimina. I am so fortunate to have loving and trustworthy family and friends in SecondLife.

The result of the conversation is that I have been relieved of all organizational obligations for the two events, and I have dropped it all in the lap of Millimina, my son Guyke, Andrey and Dejerrity. (Guyke and Dej don´t know what happened yet, but I´ll try and get in touch with them today.)

My relief immediately expressed itself. When I finally let down my guard my head totally exploded into the most excruciating headache I have had for a very long time, which led to a sleepless night until I finally dropped off after calling in sick at work this morning. After a whole day of sleep I am feeling much better and still very relieved.

I will now instead be ordering my sister and son about like a medieval monarch to get the things organized. I really trust them to work it out just fine on their own, both of them know me well.

Guyke, get in touch with aunt Milli a.s.a.p!

Comforting Statistics for Julian

Julian Assange, co-founder of WikiLeaks, is suspected of rape and sexual assault in Sweden. He is at the moment fighting extradition from Great Britain to Sweden.

Here are some comforting statistics for Mr. Assange and his defense team, but rather worrying for the rest of us. 

Most likely the numbers are a reflection on the fact that the crimes by their nature are mostly committed in private with only the perpetrator and the victim present.

According to the Swedish legal definition rape occurs when someone is forced to have intercourse or other sexual acts through the use of violence or threats, or if the perpetrator exploits the victim in a helpless state. (Note: In Sweden both women and men can be raped.)

These are the Swedish yearly statistics for the crimes of rape (including aggravated rape):
60 000 (estimated) crimes committed
6 000 crimes reported to the police
600 charges brought to court
250 convictions

Living Without Religion

I found this on Joe. My. God.

Spring Cleaning

Good service is so hard to find, even in SecondLife.

In the hopes of forcing an early spring I have started spring cleaning my huge home on Southern Charm, so here you see me working up a sweat on my hands and knees scrubbing the floors.

Isn't there anyone in SecondLife looking for a position as a house slave? Please send me your application a.s.a.p.

All applications are welcome! No prior experience needed as long as you are willing to work hard and all hours! We are talking 24/7/365 here.

No sex is involved, your service to me, is reward enough for you, lowlife! If you need it I may call you dirty names once in a while, but only at my own leisure.

I Remember When I Heard It

I am told every person alive in the world remembers when and where they got the news when John F. Kennedy, the President of the United States, was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, on November 22^nd 1963. 

I wasn’t alive then, but I do remember when and where I heard the news that the Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme had been killed. It was the first murder of it´s kind in Swedish modern history, of course I remember it still.

Olof Palme (January 30^th 1927 – February 28^th 1986) was a Swedish politician. Palme was the leader of the Swedish Social Democratic Party from 1969 until his assassination in 1986. He was also the Prime Minister of Sweden twice during this period, heading a Privy Council Government from 1969 to 1976 and a cabinet government from 1982 until his death. 

A police truth says that a criminal assault by unknown perpetrators must be resolved almost immediately after the crime otherwise it will become very difficult.  

Hans Holmer, then head of the Stockholm police, immediately usurped the leadership of the investigation from the prosecutors. This crippled the investigation for more than two years and also to a great extent politicized the investigation. Once the investigation started to seem like a total waste of time it also led to paralyzing fights between Mr. Holmer and the responsible prosecutors.

Mr Holmér had a predetermined idea of where the murder should be found. It had to be a political conspiracy, it just had to be that and most likely – in his mind - there was a Kurdish angle; Palme could never ever have been killed by someone so mundane as a Swedish alcoholic and drug abuser.

While Holmér directed the searchlights towards the Kurdish PKK it delayed the examination of those who moved around the murder scene at the time of the killing. 

The investigators last real chance to get someone convicted for the Palme murder came in the trials of Christer Pettersson. The evidence was totally spoiled by a witness confrontation where the only good eyewitness the widow Mrs. Lisbet Palme in advance was told – quite possibly by Hans Holmér himself he always was good at chatting - that the suspect was an alcoholic. That led to her pointing out Pettersson as the man that killed her husband saying "Well, it is easy to see who is the alcoholic." This of course brought her testimony into doubt, no matter how she tried to repair the damage afterwards.

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The statute of limitations for murder used to be 25 years in Sweden, it was changed due to this botched up investigation so that the search could continue. Christer Pettersson is dead also.

Now I don´t believe that anyone will ever be tried and convicted for Palme´s murder.

Oh where and when I heard the news? It was when my mother woke me up on Saturday morning March 1, saying "Its time to get up, (Bock). Palme was killed last night." She sounded afraid and I saw tears in her eyes, even my father seemed very worried.

We lost a bit of our innocence that night, all Swedes living at that time did.