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we MUST stop child sex traffisking

the candy shop


The Candy Shop from Whitestone Motion Pictures on Vimeo.

.............Jimmy Balcom’s new job selling newspapers is a God-send to a kid working hard to help his family survive during the depression. But then Jimmy figures out what’s happening in the candy shop across the street. And he is confronted with a choice that no twelve-year-old should ever have to face. Giving his family a better life, or keeping his soul.

Doug Jones (Pan's Labyrinth, Hellboy) stars as the Candy Shop owner in this original film from Whitestone Motion Pictures in conjunction with Street Grace.

The Candy Shop is a film initiative to help fight against child sex trafficking.

This film is being made for the Doorpost Film Project, and with support from 12Stone® Church and Street Grace. The Candy Shop is a Fairytale/Parable about the child sex trafficking epidemic that has overrun our city of Atlanta. We are using the film to not only raise awareness but provoke meaningful action towards this issue taking place in our own backyard.

Up to 500 underaged girls a month are trafficked for sex here in our city of Atlanta.
It’s the number one city in the country for child sex trafficking..
The 10th in the world.

This plague has gone on for too long, and now we at Whitestone, in cooperation with Doorpost, 12Stone® Church and StreetGrace want to put a stop to it.

This film represents the spearhead of a citywide and possibly a nationwide campaign.
It is not a documentary. It is not a PSA. It is the beginning of a movement.

Visit the Street Grace website to find out more information and get involved directly.

stopthecandyshop.com
whitestonemotionpictures.com
streetgrace.org............

via Rob Beschizza  at boing boing

from the white house flickr stream

the obamas in brazil (wicked cool picture)

(Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

soooooooooooooooooooo true

 

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i WISH you could, but you can't make shite like this up

however, it IS the best headline of the month (or year so far)

Arizona ‘birther’ law to accept circumcision papers as proof of citizenship
 By David Edwards

If you intend to run for president in Arizona but don't have the required birth certificate, all is not lost. The state may be willing to accept a description of your penis -- if you've got one -- as proof you were born in the U.S.

Before passing their so-called "birther" bill Wednesday, Arizona Republicans apparently decided it wasn't fair to limit proof of citizenship to the "long form birth certificate." So, they amended the measure to include several other forms of proof.

One such document, a certificate of circumcision, is given to the parents of a male Jewish child after his foreskin is snipped.

"Pulling out your penis in front of election officials, however, will not prove citizenship -- and, in the worst case scenario, could get labeled a sex offender," Phoenix New Times' James King noted..............

ninja kitteh

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bob cesca found a GREAT

quote of the day yesterday

............"I think the thing that pisses me off the most about the birtherism and the coverage is that no one will come out and state that what is obviously motivating this crap is racism. Period. End of story. If Obama was white, we wouldn’t be politely rebutting lunatics questioning his birth certificate for four fucking years." John Cole.............

look what i came across yesterday!

keep your boehner OUT of my uterus

the nutmeg grater: this is one of the most tragic things i have read

the nutmeg grater: this is one of the most tragic things i have read

women DOOMED civilization. there, you have it

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i have no comment, nothing to add

just let it speak for itself

Catholic group claims children raped by priests were ‘homosexual’ participants, not victims
By David Edwards

The anti-gay Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights is going on the attack against "those who are distorting the truth about priestly sexual abuse."

The group bought an expensive full-page ad in The New York Times Monday that places the blames for the church's scandals on "homosexuality, not pedophilia."

And perhaps most shockingly, it also claimed that some children were active participants in the abuse.

"The refrain that child rape is a reality in the Church is twice wrong: let’s get it straight -- they weren’t children and they weren’t raped," self-appointed Catholic League president Bill Donohue wrote in the ad...................

 

yesterday, stephen colbert's twitter feed was

particularly amazing. he had the hashtag of; #NotIntendedToBeAFactualStatement.


his name on twitter is; @stephenathome. really, go check it out;

 

Stephen Colbert: No, Fox and Friends, You Can't Get a Pap Smear at Walgreens

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zippo!

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zippo!

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click the link for the full series

maru enjoying some cherry blossoms of his own

「お花見、お花見♪」
Maru:[Yes! This is my first cherry blossom viewing.]

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he's SO foul

he can't leave soon enough. who the hell is still watching him anyway?

Glenn Beck claims only ‘hookers’ use Planned Parenthood

By Stephen C. Webster

i know how they feel

i gotta have my coffee too. no matter how, no matter where

NSFW (language)

but MOST wonderful
 (and i believe the boyz are canadian. doen't matter. THEY LOVE THEM SOME COFFEE)



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camo cat

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the travis louie creature show

here at arrested motion

wicked cool idea

we just have to get more people to ride bikes. america really isn't a bike riding country (it SHOULD be more so)

A Bike Rack That Rises in the Sky Like a Ferris Wheel

pic from the co design posting linked above

women's health?

health schmealth!!!

i am speechless. really



Fox & Friends Dismisses Planned Parenthood Services Like Pap Smears Because You Can Get Them "At Walgreens"

i certainly feel MUCH MUCH MUCH safter now. do you?

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