young lady, it sounds like you need jesus

13 July 2007 @ 08:11 pm

Oggi parlo con jo. Faccio un sim per ella. Lei e molto brutto! LOL j/k. Jord's Sim è in un rapporto con mi ragazzo. Faccio la guerra!

Ho asciugato mi capelli, ma la elettricità non accenda. Vado downstairs. Mi non piace tuono. Mi capelli e brutto; è frizzy e seccio. Sentie paglia. :(

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13 July 2007 @ 01:51 am

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Everyone should read this.

Note: The following descriptions are graphic and disturbing, and may not be appropriate for sensitive readers.

I want to tell you a story.

90 minutes southeast of Bloomington there is a town called Crothersville, almost literally a four-way stop with its own Stop-In Liquor store.  Everyone in Crothersville will tell you that everyone in Crothersville knows everyone else.

On the afternoon of April 12, 2007, a man named Aaron Hall (nicknamed "Shorty" because of his slight build and miniscule stature - he barely topped 5'4" and weighed around 100 pounds) met some fellow Crothersville natives, coming back from their Stop-In at the liquor store.  19-year-old Garrett Gray,18-year-old Coleman King, and 21-year-old Jamie Hendricks picked Hall up and went back to Gray's house, where they proceeded to drink and hang out.

From every indication from sparse news reports and word of mouth, it began as a verbal insult, maybe to Gray's dead mother, maybe to King's heterosexuality, maybe to nothing at all.

The 'why' will probably never be fully known to us.  Whatever the details, Hall said the wrong thing.  And sparked in Gray and King what the official Initial Hearing report termed a "sudden heat."

A "sudden heat" which would last <a href="http://www.msplinks.com/MDFodHRwOi8vd3d3LmNyb3RoZXJzdmlsbGUubmV0L3RpbWVzLzA1MDIwN19tdXJkZXIuaHRt">throughout the next 24 hours</a>.

-As King held Hall down while Gray punched him and struck him around his eyes repeatedly

-As King and Gray ruthlessly beat Hall, with fists and with the heels of their boots, hitting him over and over and over again, over <a href="http://www.msplinks.com/MDFodHRwOi8vd3d3LmZyZWVyZXB1YmxpYy5jb20vZm9jdXMvZi1uZXdzLzE4NDk2NjYvcG9zdHM=">75 times</a> with a boot alone.

-As the two of them took turns jumping on his battered body

-As they pulled his limp body down a wooden staircase, dragging him by the feet so that his head "bounced down all of the steps," in their own words

-As they propped up Hall between them, held out a camera phone, took a picture of the two of them with their arms around Hall's broken body, and proudly texted a photo of Hall's bloody and swollen face to their friend, James Hodge, where he worked, in order to show off their handiwork

-As Jamie Hendricks called Hodge back around 6:45 pm and declared, "They're beating the hell out of that guy," while Hodge listened to Hall's screams and the sound of King and Gray literally pummeling him to death

-Which they did for "several hours," spattering Hall's blood throughout the kitchen, on the outside deck, the railing, the stairs, and in the living room.

-As they piled his body into the back of Gray's pickup truck (spilling more blood) and continued to beat him while Hendricks drove them to the murder scene, a tiny field row off a deserted backwoods state road

-As Gray, still beating Hall, asked him if he wanted to die tonight.  Hall, barely able to talk at that point, still managed to reply: no.

-As Gray and King, ignoring Hall's request to live, dumped him in the ditch beside the lane and proceeded to beat him still further.

-As they left him there lying in the ditch, by this time completely naked, only to return with a shotgun later at Gray's insistence that "they had to kill him or they would go to jail."

-As Gray shot into the darkness - but by this time, Hall, still alive, had crawled out of the ditch despite his naked body, despite his bruises, his broken nose and his shattered ribs. Hall had crawled into the field, where they left him there a second time.

-As Hendricks and Hodges returned the next day, April 13th, to the spectacle roadside attraction (and because Hodge wanted to steal Hall's coat) to find Hall dead in the field.

-As they all proceeded to wrap Hall's body in blue tarpaulin and hide it in Garrett Gray's garage, where it was found after James Hodge, perhaps realizing that turning stooge was his only way to avoid being listed as an assistant, reported the crime and the suspects to the police, who turned themselves in.

All in all, the "sudden heat" lasted just under ten days.

Shorty Hall's body was discovered on April 22, 2007, six days shy of his birthday.

He would have been 36.

<a href="http://www.msplinks.com/MDFodHRwOi8vd3d3LnRoZWJhbm5lci5jb20vYXJ0aWNsZXMvMjAwNy8wNC8yNy9uZXdzL25ld3MwMS50eHQ=">On April 24th, 2007</a>, twelve days after his death and two days after his naked, mutilated body was found wrapped in tarp in the Gray's garage, Gray, Hendricks, and King were formally charged. Hendricks was charged as an accomplice and allowed to post bail. Hodge was not charged at all.

No word on whether he got to keep Aaron Hall's coat.

The official cause of Aaron C. Hall's death <a href="http://www.msplinks.com/MDFodHRwOi8vd3d3LnRyaWJ0b3duLmNvbS9vbnNldD9pZD0yMTAyJmFtcDt0ZW1wbGF0ZT1hcnRpY2xlLmh0bWw=">remains unknown.</a>

Garrett Gray's father is the Deputy Coroner of Crothersville.  He has not made a statement about how he managed to miss the bloodstains all over his house in the ten days leading up to his son's arrest.

<a href="http://www.msplinks.com/MDFodHRwOi8vd3d3LnRoZWJhbm5lci5jb20vYXJ0aWNsZXMvMjAwNy8wNC8yNy9vYml0dWFyaWVzL29iaXR1YXJpZXMwMy50eHQ=">Shorty's obituary</a> in the Jackson County Banner is heartbreakingly simple: He was a roofer. He loved mushroom hunting. He left behind a family who loved him, who left multiple tributes for him on myspace. His own myspace page states, "I'd like to meet the one I've always been looking 4.."

What he met was a brutal, horrific death.

During the ten-day lapse between the murder and the discovery of the body, the three suspects had plenty of time to come up with their only defense against their blatant and shocking brutality.

Their defense?

Hall was gay.

Nevermind that on the streets of Crothersville, where I went tonight, everyone understands that Hall wasn't gay, a statement echoed by his family. The defendants' motivation for beating a man to death for hours and hours, then driving him out into a pasture and beathing him some more, is "gay panic".

The Indianapolis Star won't print this story.  The Herald-Times won't print this story.  The Associated Press won't print this story.

What did Matthew Shepard, what did Brandon Teena die for, what did Won-Joon Yoon die for, if a hate crime of this magnitude can be so completely suppressed that the general public knows nothing about it for two months?

What did Aaron Hall die for? And what will his murderers learn from their trial?

Will they learn that Indiana is a state where you can get away with murder, as long as you murder the right person in the right extenuating circumstances?

Will they hear the outrage that no one seems to feel?  Will they take away the knowledge that even if they can tear the heart out of Crothersville without so much as a ripple of protest, they cannot and they will not silence the gay community, or make gay men and women into unwitting partners in their hideous murder?

Tell everyone you know about Aaron Hall. Tell everyone. Tell them that he was beaten over 75 times and left to die in a field like Matthew Shephard and the press has done nothing. Email your local paper and ask them why they aren't reporting the Aaron Hall story. Talk to everyone you know.

And remember him.  Remember him, and speak out against hate.

No hate.

Not in our towns.

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02 July 2007 @ 02:01 am

Nursing in the UK

Hey, I have a question for the UK'ers that have gone into nursing.

I was thinking of getting a degree in nursing in the US, getting registered, and moving to the UK. I was wondering, how hard is it to find a job in nursing in the UK? Do you guys do the respiratory stuff too? (Like a respiratory therapist?)

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16 June 2007 @ 12:59 am

CD LIST

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06 February 2007 @ 10:05 pm

public entry because I feeeeeeel like it. xdan

House was so good tonight. I haven't seen an ep that good in a while. Not gonna lie, Foreman looked kinda good tonight.

I sick. My throat is itchy and I'm le tired. Tomorrow I will have coffee so I'm not dragging on the floor like I was on Monday. FCAT wore me out tbh. I couldn't think for like 10 minutes afterwards.

Oh btw, I got this sick playlist on myspace. I have a bunch of rap on it. Will fill up 72 songs np. :u