Story here

Excerpt:

'The video, from ACORN's San Bernardino, CA office, shows a single ACORN employee, who O'keefe identifies as Theresa Kaelke, telling O'Keefe and Giles that she had past experience in running an escort service, and also claiming to have shot and killed her abusive husband 10 years ago.

"And I ran a service, yeah. I have some experience in, in, in how not to get caught," Kaelke said at one point in the video.

Kaelke described the alleged shooting of her in some detail. She said that although he was abusive, he was not abusing her at the time of the shooting. She also said that she first "laid some ground work" by going to a women's shelter and pleading her case "so everyone in town would know that this was happening."

Kaelke said that her husband was coming towards her and, "then I just picked up the gun and said 'f*** you'. And I shot him. And he died. Right there."'

Story here

Excerpts:

'In one arm, she held a 4-month-old infant. The other hand wielded a knife.

As traffic sped by on 7th Street just west of Hope Street early Tuesday, several Los Angeles police officers surrounded Malika Johnson, 33, but the volatile nature of the situation demanded calm.'

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'Johnson was booked on suspicion of child endangerment -- her fourth arrest for the same offense since 2004, said LAPD Lt. Paul Vernon.'

Story here

Excerpts:

'Harbor College geography teacher Melanie Renfrew had inundated the KNBC weatherman with e-mails and letters. She could face jail time and a fine unless she refrains from contacting him.'

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'Harbor Vice President Luis Rosas said Renfrew had received good evaluations from students and faculty in the more than 10 years she had taught there.

"We have had no reason to have been concerned," Spink, the college president, said.'

Get convicted of a crime as a FEMALE in the USA and sentenced under the Sentencing Reform Act, as over 70,000 people were in 2007, and you can expect to receive on average a 40% lighter sentence than a man would get FOR THE SAME CRIME.

Stop controlling for crimes (as might make sense, as women are often charged with lesser crimes) and the discount goes up to 59% - that's right. Across the board, women were sentenced to 59% shorter sentences than men. :(

Article at M is for Malevolent

-M

Story here

Excerpt:

'ROBINSON TOWNSHIP, Pa. -- Kurt Angle, Pittsburgh's Olympic gold medalist and professional wrestling champion, was found not guilty of harassment and other charges were dropped on Tuesday stemming from the alleged stalking of his ex-live-in girlfriend.

Angle, 40, was arrested last month, shortly after Trenesha Biggers, 26, got a protection from abuse order against him in Moon Township and had police officers remove him from his house.

"All I can say is I've been completely innocent of any charges that have been brought to me and God has shown that today and my attorney has been able to prove it in court," Angle said outside District Judge Carla Swearingen's office.'

Story here

Excerpt:

'Today, we commemorate a milestone in our Nation's struggle to end violence against women. Authored by then United States Senator Joe Biden and signed into law in September 1994, the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) was the first law to create a comprehensive response to this problem at the national level. This landmark achievement has helped our Nation make great strides towards addressing this global epidemic.

Off-linked from Drudge: here. If you use a Flash media blocker, you have to unblock it. The site is all-Flash.

I couldn't agree more that the primary way to getting out of poverty for the majority of people is getting a useful education. I simply want to point out that poor countries have a problem with children of both sexes not being educated well enough to do the kinds of things that can help their whole community live in a better fashion. By focusing on girls only, the other half of the population of third world nations' children are left out. And frankly I doubt that if half the population of a country is poor and educated and the other half is poor and uneducated, that there can be much political and economic stability anyway.

Story here. Suppose if a woman were in a "men-only" poker tourney (which as we know would not ever exist in a public forum) and she won it, and then the runner-up complained, do you suppose he'd get a lot of sympathy? Seems women can play on men's teams but not the other way around, even when physical skills have nothing to do with it. Excerpt:

'She was among more than 260 women who each put up $300 to play in the tournament, but when the dust cleared, Abraham Korotki, 65, of Ventnor City, N.J., took home the trophy and $20,982 first prize.
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"When you're a woman and you play poker, 99 percent of the time you're at a table with nine men," Rowe, who won $11,889, said yesterday during a phone interview, adding that playing against a field of women is "something I look forward to.

"Why did he have to ruin it for us? Why would he do this?"

Report here.

'(Ottawa) – On Saturday, September 12, 2009, at approximately 3:21am, Ottawa Police responded to a report of an assault in the 1400 block of Caldwell Avenue. Upon arrival, officers located a 50-year-old man with what appeared to be puncture wounds consistent with those from a syringe.

The police investigation revealed that the victim had a verbal altercation with a 28-year-old woman. The woman stabbed the victim with a syringe while making death threats to the victim and a third party.

The Ottawa Paramedic Service treated the male victim at the scene and he is currently being treated for possible communicable disease contamination.

Angela ARVISAIS, 28-years-old, of Ottawa, has been charged with attempted murder and uttering death threats. She will appear in court today.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'FINDLAY - It may have been "ill-advised" to threaten to castrate an irate caller, but Hancock County Commissioner Emily Walton said Friday she has no plans to resign her elected office.

"Suffice to say, it was an ill-advised comment precipitated by my unsuccessful request that he treat our staff politely and with respect," said Dr. Walton, a long-time veterinarian.
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"People disagree. They blow off steam. They use the Lord's name in vain, but this stunned me," Mr. Davidson said yesterday.
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The comment may have shocked Mr. Davidson, but did not surprise those who know Dr. Walton.

"Emily's Emily. She's demonstrative," Mr. Ingold said. "She has brought a shovel in before at a meeting to demonstrate because she felt that all we get done is shoveling stuff that got left on our plate because the former commissioners didn't handle it. She's used her veterinary tools for emphasis on a number of occasions."'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Finnish boys aged 15 to 16 are more likely to experience violence from their dating partners than girls of the same age. The matter comes out in a study by the National Research Institute on Legal Policy.

An extensive survey on youth crime shows that 22 per cent of boys in a dating relationship had been hit at least once by their girlfriends. Only six per cent of girls had experienced similar events.

The most serious types of violence is striking someone with a fist or a hard object, or kicking. Nine per cent of boys and two per cent of girls had experienced such attacks.

Being grabbed, or prevented from moving was the only type of violence that girls experienced more often than boys. The figures were 19 per cent and 14 per cent respectively.

The results were not very surprising, and followed the lines of a survey conducted in 2004, says Venla Salmi, who conducted the present study.

Article here. Excerpt:

'Us women are more egocentric and narcissistic than we ever used to be, according to extensive research by two leading psychologists.

More of us have huge expectations of ourselves, our lives and everyone in them. We think the universe resolves around us, with a deluded sense of our own fabulousness, and believe we are cleverer, more talented and more attractive than we actually are.

We have trouble accepting criticism and extending empathy because we are so preoccupied with ourselves.
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She pointed out that she owned a gorgeous flat with gorgeous things in it, had a nice car, was a member of a fancy gym and wore designer dresses. 'I do what I like, when I like,' she said.

She'd been told, and appears to believe, that she's too successful and too well-educated for most men.'

Story here. This particular incident wherein one performer interrupts another performer while she is giving an award acceptance speech is indeed an example of incivility and rudeness. No one denies that. The problem here is the way this story is discussed by this particular blogger. The most telling paragraph:

"Not only was Kanye's approach disrespectful, it was especially disrespectful because it was directed towards a woman--a teenage girl, actually. Taylor won't turn 20 until December. I can only imagine how her father feels. I'm sure he would like to have a talk to Kanye. I'm not related to her, and I'd like to have a talk with him."

Story here. Excerpt:

'PERUGIA, Italy — An Italian court on Monday rejected defense lawyers' requests to throw out the murder indictments of an American student and her former boyfriend on trial for the slaying of her British roommate.

Lawyers for Amanda Knox and co-defendant Raffaele Sollecito, accused in the 2007 slaying of Meredith Kercher, had challenged key DNA findings in the case and asked the court to toss out the indictments. The indictments are partly based on DNA evidence.

Knox and Sollecito, who were both in court as the trial resumed after a summer break, deny wrongdoing.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Bardes, who lost 126 friends in the World Trade Center attack on September 11, wanted nothing more than to be a good dad and equal parent to his son and daughter. He didn't ask his wife to have an affair with the nanny's husband. And when his ex-wife moved their children to another state after the divorce, Bardes followed, twice.

Due to the children living in three states over a short period of time (PA, NC, SC) Bardes had all three states charging him child support, resulting in mistaken arrears. Bardes says he never willfully withheld child support, and documents related to his Federal court case (#02:08-487-PMD-RSC) support his claim.

Bardes developed severe depression after being treated like a criminal. He says they "seized assets, destroyed my credit ratings, destroyed my business and income, and my mental health." He lost so much weight he was "skin and bones." This man who once made $180,000 a year now had a hard time finding employment.'