Religious extremism is a cancer and should not be tolerated.

AndreRose:

Let's not delve into chemistry. Jux tackle it plainly;its not sometin dat warrants to mention its chemical element.

I answered a question. We can just agree to disagree.

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AndreRose:

I dnt tink ur ryt. Smtyms wen u taste d food it needs maggi and not salt. U cnt equate the both as the same tin.

But maggi is msg and msg is mono[b][/b]sodium[b][/b] glutamate. sodium is salt.

Maggi is not an English word so... if you wanted to say something about the taste you would say its salty still because Maggi is MSG (monosodium glutamate) which is basically salt.

No it does not. If a man cannot control himself when he sees a woman wearing a mini skirt, then he needs to be locked up.

Congratulations to them.

If it wasn't true he should have denied it when the first woman came out with her allegations.

Get a better looking girlfriend and move on with your life. Or better yet work hard and become rich ... she'll regret it.

Funjosh:
Wait o, how will she even say it self, "my husband is raping me"

I don't get what you are trying to say. She said her husband raped her in her original post.

Funjosh:
Hey the guy is not raping her, if she felt that is rape let her go and report to the apropriate quata

Rape is defined as the unlawful compelling of a person through physical force or duress to have sexual intercourse. Also any act of sexual intercourse that is forced upon a person.
Since she did not consent to have sex and he forcefully had sex with her she was raped. Rape is rape regardless of whether or not they are married.

Funjosh:
When she was busy shaking her as.ss, doing yanga, shouting on the guy for ova 3yrs the guy na maga then abi

Does not matter. He has no right to rape her. End of story

100Cents:


That lady is rigid and doesn't know her job.

Call it marriage shock.

They one day called wedding day changed very thing and she didn't prepare for it.. Agreed

The man is an animal. You can't force someone to have sex with you in the name of getting revenge. No means No. Rape is Rape.

IVORY2009:


Yeah, getting herself out of the relationship will definatly be a better option for her to yield to or better still calling for a family meeting between both families i.e. hubby's people and her people, I think that might also help out.

Yup. Completely agree. But the deranged animal she married must face consequences for his action. Rape is never justified.

100Cents:


You are stylishly asking her to end the marriage.

God forbid. This is too early.

How is it stylish? I stated it outright. Why shouldn't she end the marriage? Just because she mistakenly married an animal does not mean she should suffer unnecessarily at the hands of said animal.

IVORY2009:


Yeah, there is a law, I think in Lagos state, child right/woman's right, but still on the issue, the woman has no case in a law court, reasons are that she can not prove it that the husband actually raped her, and the last time, I checked cases that has to do with rape is very slim/difficut to prove, and the women's right group has to still follow the law as well tooo, so tell me how are they going to prove their case beyond reasonable doubt @ a law court.

Are there no rape kits in Nigeria? Actually I understand what you are saying. It will be very difficult for her to prove he raped her since people might be inclined to believe him since they are married. I really don't know how she would prove it beyond a reasonable doubt as I am not a lawyer. But I think her number one priority should be getting herself out of that relationship and ensuring her safety.

emiye:
at the boldened. If she is based in Naija and she does that, naija police might end up arresting her and charge her to court for "refusal to comply with her lawful wedded husband: a constituted authority"

Well that just highlights the backwardness of the Nigerian police force.

IVORY2009:


What will the policee' do? Likewise women's right, if I may wanna ask, dis is domestic issue, and the said man, frm wat I can read, is legally married to the lady, and a lawyer for that matter, in other words, they should settle the issue within the family.

The actions of her husband go beyond a simple domestic issue. She said he raped her. I'm assuming that in Nigeria rape is illegal. Since it is a crime the police and women's rights groups should be involved in it.

treasuress:
what did he do dont you see she is a virgin?? someone dat has not had sex for 26years to her sex is bad and against her will its rape, honey moon dressing like deeper life to bed the guy was patient and used brain to say she should bathe him, what did the guy do

What do you mean what did he do? If he is forcing her to have sex against her will it is rape regardless of whether they are married or not.

Get a divorce before he begins to do even worse to you.
Also report him to the police and women's rights groups. You shouldn't have to suffer just because you didn't put out while you were dating.

The International Monetary Fund recently released the latest numbers for the world economy. And when you measure national economic output in “real” terms of goods and services, China will this year produce $17.6 trillion — compared with $17.4 trillion for the U.S.A.

To put the numbers slightly differently, China now accounts for 16.5% of the global economy when measured in real purchasing-power terms, compared with 16.3% for the U.S.

This latest economic earthquake follows the development last year when China surpassed the U.S. for the first time in terms of global trade.

These calculations are based on a well-established and widely used economic measure known as purchasing-power parity (or PPP), which measures the actual output as opposed to fluctuations in exchange rates.



The US was the world’s largest economy since 1872, when it overtook Britain.

The IMF projected in early October that China’s economy will be 20 percent bigger than that of the US by 2019.

China remains the biggest foreign holder of US government debt, holding an estimated $1.27 trillion in US Treasury bonds.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/its-official-america-is-now-no-2-2014-12-04

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/12/04/388798/china-beats-us-as-worlds-largest-econ/

I am too skinny and too sarcastic.

Burkina Faso's embattled President Blaise Compaore has announced he is stepping down to make way for elections after a violent uprising against his 27-year rule.

His resignation on Friday came as tens of thousands of protesters demanded that he quit immediately after a day of unrest that saw mass demonstrations, with protesters storming and setting fire to parliament.

"In order to preserve the democratic gains, as well as social peace ... I declare a power vacuum to allow the establishment of a transition leading to free and fair elections within a maximum of 90 days," Compaore said in a statement read on local television.

Army chief Navere Honore Traore said he would take power "in line with constitutional measures", a move which will prove hugely unpopular with the protesters, who see him as a close ally of Campaore.

"We do not want General Traore in power. We need someone credible. Traore is Blaise Compaore's henchman," said Monou Tapsoaba, an activist with the opposition People's Movement for Progress.

A French diplomatic source who wished to remain anonymous said Campaore had left the capital Ouagadougou and fled south, although he was still in the country.

The president had initially rejected calls to resign, prompting the demonstrators to gather outside the city's military headquarters, chanting: "Blaise, get out!"

France's President Francois Hollande vowed that Paris would "contribute to calming" the situation in its former colony, adding that he was sure Compaore would "take the right decision in the coming hours to achieve the calm necessary".

The EU called for the people of Burkina Faso to have the final say in who rules their country.

"Any solution must be the result of a broad consensus and respect the constitution," a spokesman for the bloc's diplomatic service said.

The protests on Thursday forced Compaore to withdraw plans to try to change the constitution to extend his rule, although he had then vowed to stay in power for another year under a transitional government.

The army imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew and pledged to restore constitutional order within 12 months, in a statement signed by Nabere Honore Traore.

But leading opposition politician Benewende Sankara described the army's move as a "coup".

Opposition leaders gave the death toll from Thursday's violence as "around 30". AFP was only able to confirm four deaths and six seriously injured, based partly on reports from the capital's main hospital.

http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2014/11/01/burkina-faso-coup-army-seizes-power

Mine was tomtom. But everybody that I knew named Tomiwa had the nickname tomtom

Source
http://m.mic.com/articles/100076/the-cdc-just-confirmed-the-first-case-of-ebola-in-the-u-s

The Center for Disease Control (CDC) confirms a Dallas patient has been diagnosed with Ebola, making this the first case of Ebola confirmed in the United States. WFAA-8 reports that the patient has been held in "strict isolation." 

The Associated Press reported Monday evening that patient has been admitted to Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital after showing signs of the Ebola virus.

In a press conference Tuesday evening, the CDC confirmed that the patient travelled from Liberia to visit family in the U.S. on September 19, and developed symptoms on September 26. CDC Director Tom Frieden outlined the next steps for treating the disease and preventing its spread, including caring for the patient, identifying all the people who may have had contact with the patient and monitoring them for fever for 21 days. 

Frieden repeated, "I have no doubt that we will control this case of Ebola so that it does not spread." 

The CDC released a statement on the Texas diagnosis:

The person sought medical care at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas after developing symptoms consistent with Ebola. Based on the person’s travel history and symptoms, CDC recommended testing for Ebola. The medical facility isolated the patient and sent specimens for testing at CDC and at a Texas lab participating in the CDC’s Laboratory Response Network. CDC and the Texas Health Department reported the laboratory test results to the medical center to inform the patient. A CDC team is being dispatched to Dallas.

“Ebola can be scary. But there’s all the difference in the world between the U.S. and parts of Africa where Ebola is spreading. The United States has a strong health care system and public health professionals who will make sure this case does not threaten our communities,” said CDC Director, Dr. Tom Frieden, M.D., M.P.H. “While it is not impossible that there could be additional cases associated with this patient in the coming weeks, I have no doubt that we will contain this.”

This isn't the first time Americans have fretted the arrival of Ebola on U.S. soil. In August, 27-year-old Brooklyn grad student Eric Silverman was quarantined at Mount Sinai Hospital after complaining of symptoms that resembled the deadly Ebola virus. Silverman had traveled to Sierra Leone, where West Africa's Ebola outbreak has been the most pronounced and vivid, in July. The hospital eventually concluded that Silverman had avoided the infection and released him.

But don't freak out. As epidemiologist Dr. Tara Smith has written for Mic, the U.S. is well-prepared to contain and control the disease within our borders. And as Think Progress notes, while 40% of Americans anticipate an Ebola outbreak on U.S. soil within the next 12 months, the chances of contracting the disease are extremely low: can only be spread through a sick person’s bodily fluids or by eating an infected animal.

Additionally, Reuters also notes that while the West Africa epidemic "has overwhelmed regional health sectors still struggling to rebuild after years of civil war and turmoil," the U.S. won't have the same experience. The country's medical facilities, like Emory University Hospital (where two doctors infected with the virus were treated and released in August), are far better equipped to isolate Ebola before it becomes a full-scale outbreak. The National Institutes of Health recently admitted an American doctor exposed to the virus while volunteering in Sierra Leone, and four other patients have been treated at hospitals in Georgia and Nebraska.

Why are Americans left with such an inaccurate view of Ebola as a nation toppling plague? "It’s likely partly because the outbreak, which is truly devastating for the people living in countries like Liberia and Sierra Leone, makes for such a dramatic story," wrote Tara Culp-Ressley at Think Progress. "The idea that there’s an unstoppable virus threatening to ravage countries across the world plays into our pop culture fascination with pandemics. Virus disaster movies like 1995′s Outbreak and 2011′s Contagion may help further Americans’ fears about Ebola as an immediate and personal threat, even though it’s actually a health emergency specific to West Africa."

Despite the fact that the U.S. is prepared to deal with the disease, Ebola is no picnic for even the most advances nations. The CDC recently projected that between 550,000 and 1.4 million people in West Africa could be infected with the deadly Ebola virus by Jan. 20, 2015, and that won't stay in West Africa. That state and federal agencies are exercising an abundance of caution — and Americas, an abundance of vigilence, is absolutely the right response.

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alentyno: The worrying trend nowadays is that people now think that for them to be smarter they must become an atheist as if people like Ben carson aren't christians. The irony of this whole is that to the atheist rejecting Gods existence makes him/her to be limitless whereas it actually makes them settle for limitation because they can't can look beyond what is seen

To dhammyg and tomiwadamola in Zaheer's voice when you base your expectations on only what you see you blind yourself to the possibilities of new realities'

What makes you think I became an atheist in order to look or seem smarter. I am atheist because I do not believe in the existence of a god. End of story.

suxxman:


Just for the name I guess. #SomeThoughtsDeepDown

I don't get what you are trying to say.

Apatheist:
Former religion?

I was a Christian.

[quote author=unyours]hmmmm. Interesting... So how have you been able to cope with being an atheist as a female since it's just very odd to the society being a female atheist.[/quote

Well I live in Canada so there are a lot if atheists and non-religious people around. But I haven't told my parents yet. I'm a but worried about that though.