Should have put this over at my MadeYouLook blog but I wanted a lot of people to see this.
I was just browsing around one of my favorite online comics wulffmorgenthaler when one of their new strips made me laugh.
Hitler’s mustache has always been an interesting conversation topic between me and my brother, who knew it was planning to take over the world!
On October 26 1965 a 16-year-old girl was brutally murdered, due to the prolong torture by her guardian Gertrude Baniszewski and other children. It astonishes me every time I hear about poor Sylvia Likens story because the neighborhood knew what was happening to her but didn’t do anything about it, even the neighborhood children participated in the torture and brutal murder of Sylvia. I guess child abuse laws were a little different back then.
Here’s a report of what happened to Sylvia (Warning: Graphic)
Neighborhood children began to crowd the home to participate in the torture. The children took turns practicing their judo on Sylvia, hurling her against a wall. Some began kicking and beating her. Others extinguished their cigarettes on her skin. As Gertrude and a gang of teen-agers watched, Sylvia was forced to undress in the living room and insert an empty Coke bottle into her vagina.
After the beatings, Sylvia was forced into a scalding hot bath so she would be “cleansed of her sins.” She was severely beaten and burned for wetting her mattress while asleep and Gertrude decided that Sylvia was no longer fit to live with her children.
Near the end, Sylvia was no longer permitted to leave the house. She was thrown down the cellar stairs and locked in, given crackers for food and refused the right to use a bathroom. Gertrude Baniszewski announced to her children that Sylvia was a “prostitute, and she’s proud of it; so we’ll just put it on her stomach.” She took a large needle and began to carve the words “I’m a prostitute and proud of it!” into Sylvia’s stomach. Richard Hobbs, a neighbor boy, finished the etching.
When Baniszewski realized Sylvia might be dying, she forced her to write a note saying a gang of boys beat her. The plan was to blindfold her and dump her in nearby woods with the note. Sylvia tried to escape but Gertrude and one of the boys stopped her, beating her again and throwing her back into the basement.
Sylvia Likens died Oct. 26, 1965. Cause of death was determined to be brain swelling, internal hemorrhaging of the brain and shock induced by Sylvia’s extensive skin damage. Sylvia also suffered from extreme malnutrition. She was buried at Oak Hill Cemetery in Lebanon.
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The trial was very unjust, only Gertrude Baniszewski really served any time for Sylvia’s death when there was a hell of a lot of participants.
They are making a movie about the story of Sylvia’s murder and the script is base on the actual crime/trial reports. Stars Ellen Page as Sylvia. I doubt they are going to put the really brutal stuff in the movie though, at least I hope not because I don’t think I would be able to watch it.
My aunt just recently came from the Philippines and gave us handmade accessories. As I was putting on my brothers bracelet gift he had a strange look on his face.
“Too girly for you?” I asked.
“WHAT! What do you mean too girly? You think guys know what just enough girly or not enough girly is!”
He was asking why I ask if it was too girly for him as if there is ‘the right amount of girly’ for a guy. It’s not my fault! How am I suppose to know guys don’t have any level of girlish-ness?
I started hysterically laughing as he was muttering to himself shaking his head “Too girly? Pffft”
He finally ended the conversation by saying “It’s just girly enough. Not too girly though”
It also reminded me of the time that I was asked a guy what shoes he likes from a teenage girl magazine.
Hug A Friend From Far Away
Cute Air Purifier For Babies
Tanning Art
Braille Tattoo
Enough people had trouble with the text so I changed the font color. Can you see the text clearly now? I couldn’t think of a color that would look good so I just made it black. Sorry I’m not really in a color coding mood.
Depending on the quality of monitor and it’s capacity to identify individual colors is how good you see this page. So the better screens usually LCD can see my old red text against a light beige background and see my site clearly. But a site should be visitor friendly. Visitors should be put first before pretty colors.
If your wondering where my colors came from, it was from color lovers (great site)
This one is called Spicy
Just to add a little random note. My brother made me watch Spiderman 3 on the computer. I thought everyone looked good in black…boy was I wrong. Peter Parker looked like a midget Hitler.
I know it’s a little late to ask this but is my color scheme easy on the eyes? Meaning that your eyes aren’t burning off their sockets while your reading this. Also if you have to highlight the text then there is a problem.
Well on to the topic and that is Gaspard Clones. Yes Gaspard Clones. There this one guy who sit who reminds me of my French celebrity crush. Worst of all he always has to turn around to look at the clock in the wall.
Of course I can’t help staring. Especially when he looks like this.
People like him make the environment hard to breath. I have to close my eyes every time he turns around because I feel like I’m going to melt or something.
He’s a little younger than Gaspard though. I’d say he’s about 20 at least (I’m in college and No I’m not smart). I guess it’s only fate that I’m forced to look at a Gaspard clone. Gaspard clones for everybody! *Throws them around felling like Santa Claus*
Anywhoooo keep visiting MadeYouLook please. Still trying to pimp it out.
