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The Chicken and the Egg, Which Came First?*

I think the whole world need to learn new words and define it. The words are accountability and responsibility. These are wonderful and scary words. It lets us take control of our destiny. It implies we have power over our thought and action.

Ac·count·a·bil·i·ty
n.
The state of being accountable; liability to be called on to render an account; the obligation to bear the consequences for failure to perform as expected; accountableness.

Syn. -- answerability, answerableness

The way I look at it, if people are held responsible for their actions, that it's them and nobody else. On the other hand, if people keep pinning all that's wrong with them to their parents, care-givers, etc., then there is no real insentive to behave as a decent human being should.

re·spon·si·bil·i·ty (rĭ-spŏn's-bĭl'ĭ-tē)
n., pl. -ties.
The state, quality, or fact of being responsible.
Something for which one is responsible; a duty, obligation, or burden

The absense of these words is probably why people like Charles Carl Roberts IV mass murders and Foley molests. Momsquared said it best when she said...

I love how Foley puts it out there that he was molested as child. And then his
attorney comes out and says Foley isn't using his molestation as an exuse.
Being a victim doesn't entitle you to make victims of other people.

Take a look at this murder's story.

A gunman killed five girls and wounded seven before shooting himself in an Amish school in the US state of Pennsylvania.
...killing five girls execution-style before killing himself
The girls died from shots fired Wednesday by Charles Carl Roberts IV, a non-Amish neighbour who was angry with God, mourning his own child's death and longing to repeat molestation of younger children he committed as a child, police said.

Those poor little girls! The death tool rose to six now. This is an awful world we live in if we allow bad people like these to blame it on bad childhood or some other trauma. This is like the chicken and the eggs. Which came first? The abusing parent or the abused-murdering offspring? The cycle must end. We need to teach accountability and responsibility again.

*It's hard to be coherent when I can't hear myself think. But these are bad. It's probably why I should not listen to news. There's always grief and potential grief in there. I am thinking this is why some old men, instead of aging gracefully and kindly, turn rabid and vicious and basically render their life worthless. They think old-age excuses them from responsibility and accountability.

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2. They talk about footballers and their balls in a most interesting way.

3. There's interesting admission about needing porn.

4. There's this intelligent discussion about boxers, briefs or none.

5. It's where I go to find naked chefs, as long as they're not cooking my food.

6. And here I thought men's locker rooms is all about the stinky sweat!

7. There's never a shortage of ogle-able men, giving torture a good name!

8. There's theory, and then there's theory about manroots or cocks.

9. There's never a shortage of pick-me-ups at TBB.

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11. We all have a thing about cheating, and they've quantified it down here.

12. There's this issue with safe-sex in books.

13. There's help with seduction note for significant others.

Unfortunately, this is for a Thursday Thirteen posts, and not Thursday Unlimited, or I'd have put more in. It's a great site to hang out coz there's something of everything for almost everyone.

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Wednesday Fives

I cannot wait 'til Friday for my me-me. Besides, that seems like a long, long time when I want to talk about 5 things about Jason Statham now. Got this me-me from PopTart. Except I changed the day.

I first saw him in Transporter. Who couldn't find him sexy there? All that rolling around in oil? Awesome! Did you see the girl with him there? I thought she's beautiful in a cutesy way.
He's a year older than my favorite cousin. Wikipedia said so here. I saw the thinning hair, and I'm thinking, "Wow! I didn't know I find balding head sexy!" He's born in September 12.
I saw him again in Transporter 2...he's still sexy as ever. Have you seen it? He's really great as a protector. Who wouldn't want him for a chauffeur/bodyguard? I love that he could kick that sexy lady there. Whew!
In Crank, he makes a unique tourist attraction in China Town. He's sexy in hospital gown, nothing like this guy here. If you haven't seen CRANK, now is a good time. He is funny, sexy, macho and entertaining. Who cares about entertaining if he's so much fun to look at? I cannot believe the girl they paired him up with, but she grew on me. I went to see this movie with my darling husband. My husband is wonderful, he lets me ogle Jason for close to two hours!
Jason was great with speedboat in Italian Job. I enjoyed it. My husband and I have a wonderful gift of enjoying each other's company through all kinds of movie. This was a good entertainment. Anytime I get to hold hands with my DH in a darkened room is a great day.

Five pictures which proved he's sexy, balding hair and all!

There is no call for cruelty

Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
--Henry Ward Beecher

Making someone suffer is not a sign of someone's greatness. It's probably an indication of a rotting mind. It is a clue to finding help, of letting go, and moving on. It means you've burned the bridges, there is no crossing over the great river of disaster.

Harry Potter in subtitles

It will be awhile before the next movie...

I was surfing the net and found movie subtitles. I am also anguished to find that Dumbledore's really dead and dead he stays. That' alright because I just wanted to share with you Harry Potter in subtitles. I just want to say that I am not making fun of the English.

I just want to share the fun. Hover over picture to read the subtitles.