Grandma with five dead husbands freed

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' RALEIGH, North Carolina (AP) -- A Georgia grandmother who came under suspicion because all five of her husbands had died was released Thursday from a North Carolina jail where she had been held on charges in one of their deaths.

Betty Neumar, 76, posted $300,000 bond late Thursday morning at the Stanly County jail, where she's been held since her arrest in May, Sheriff Rick Burris said.

He did not know the conditions of her release or where she got the money. It was not clear if she would be allowed to leave the state.

Neumar is charged with solicitation to commit first-degree murder in the 1986 death of husband No. 4, Harold Gentry.'

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Stem cells from testicles an option to embryos

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'WASHINGTON — Cells taken from men's testicles seem as versatile as the stem cells derived from embryos, researchers reported Wednesday in what may be yet another new approach in a burgeoning scientific field.

The new type of stem cells could be useful for growing personalized replacement tissues, according to a study in Thursday's issue of the journal Nature. But because of their source, their highest promise would apply to only half the world's population: men.'

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"Windfall moms join deadbeat dads"

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'Recently...I stumbled upon a woman who not only managed to afford cosmetic surgery while feeding her family with food stamps, but who literally could write the book on "How To Beat The System and Screw My Ex-Husband All In One Fell Swoop."
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It all started in 1989, when the Legislature enacted the Child Support Standards Act, which remains the driving force in determining parents' child support obligations.

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The act was necessary for a lot of reasons, not the least of which was the need to protect mothers from baby-daddies who planted their seeds without ever tending to the saplings born there from. It should be regaled for that reason alone.

Unfortunately, the act is not without its bugs, and in certain scenarios - particularly those where Dad is not a deadbeat, but rather a hard-working slob who may have fallen on hard times - the flaws in the law can truly undermine the purpose.'

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George Lopez promotes sexual violence on Nickelodeon

On the October 14th episode of "George Lopez" which is shown on Nickelodeon, a network for children, George and his mother are in a bar sitting at a table. The mother starts insulting a man who is sitting at the bar. The man gets fed up and stands up and turns around. She then charges at the man, gets in his face, and then knees him in the testicles. Then she pours her beer over his head while he lies helplessly on the ground. George then takes her out of the bar and they go home where she laughs about it. The scene is obviously intended to be funny, although there was nothing funny about it to anyone who isn't a misandric bigot. The most offensive thing about it is the fact that this misandric sexual violence is being shown on a children's network during prime time.

When I went to the nickelodeon website I could not find any links allowing me to contact them and express any opinion of any kind about their programming. Nickelodeon, by the way, is controlled by Viacom, which is controlled by the infamous Sumner Redstone, a psychotic sociopath with a long history of anti-white-male bigotry in all of his programming.

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Victory! CA Appellate Court Says Excluding Men from Domestic Violence Programs is Unconstitutional

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'California attorney Marc Angelucci scored a tremendous victory today as the Third District Court of Appeal in Sacramento ruled that California’s exclusion of men from domestic violence violates men’s constitutional equal protection rights.

The taxpayer lawsuit -- Woods. v. Shewry -- was initially filed in 2005 by four male victims of domestic violence.'

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Missing girl's mom indicted on murder charge

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'ORLANDO, Fla. - The mother of a missing 3-year-old girl was arrested Tuesday and charged with killing her daughter, even though the child's body has not been found during an exhaustive four-month search.

A grand jury indicted Casey Anthony on charges of first-degree murder, aggravated child abuse, aggravated manslaughter and four counts of lying to investigators about the disappearance of her daughter, Caylee, State Attorney Lawson Lamar said. The mother is being held without bond.'

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Huffington Post: 'McCain-Palin's Extreme Position On Violence Against Women'

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'Right-wing websites like Men's News Daily and Townhall greeted Joe Biden's selection as Obama's running mates with a chorus of misogynistic jeers. Referring to the democratic ticket as "GynObama" and "VAWA Joe," one Men's News Daily article asks men to "do a quick testicular self-exam. That space you feel between your legs means that Barack Obama and Joe Biden -- both on record as ballbusting misandrists -- will easily convince you to send them to the White House." The Democrat's emasculating flaw? According to one Townhall writer, "Tragically -- but true to the radical feminist agenda -- the Obama/Biden Democratic ticket portends an escalating war on boys, men, fathers, and families." The right-wing objection, in a nutshell, is that specific treatment for women under the law is a violation of equal protection, and therefore unfair to men.'

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Obama delegate at DV awareness dinner recounts how he was falsely accused

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'A boilermaker by profession, Parker said his experience with VAWA came in April 2003 when his now ex-wife accused him of not only domestic violence, but also kidnapping their then-2-year-old son while they were living in St. Louis. Though Parker says he was the actual victim when his wife attacked him, he chose to de-escalate the situation by leaving the house and returning to a job assignment in Illinois.

The reason he took his son, Parker said, was for fear his wife would either abuse or neglect him.

According to Parker, he was arrested when he returned to St. Louis the following week. Along with contesting a protective order his wife filed against him, Parker said he had to fight assault and parental kidnapping charges.'

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Girl behind rape hoax still has anonymity

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'Everybody knows who she is.

Nobody wants to say her name out loud.

That, more or less, is the situation the 17-year-old girl who cried rape in Palos Heights Sept. 16 finds herself in today, five days after she admitted she made the whole thing up.

The media has a longstanding policy of not naming rape victims in all but the most exceptional circumstances.
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But when it turns out there wasn't a rape in the first place, the question gets more complicated, media ethics experts say.'

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Australia: Boys' schools break barriers: single-sex success story

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'BOYS will be boys and single-sex schools can help break down sexism.

This will be the message delivered by visiting US education expert Dr Leonard Sax in his keynote address when the National Boys' Education Conference starts at The King's School in Parramatta today.

Dr Sax, executive director of the National Association for Single Sex Public Education in the US, is in no doubt "we live in a sexist society".

He said some teachers at all-boys' schools were able to use the "all-boys format to break down the gender stereotypes".'

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Sweden: Jealous woman gets life for killing 2 toddlers

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'STOCKHOLM, Sweden - A Swedish court on Tuesday sentenced a German woman to life in prison for bludgeoning two toddlers to death and trying to kill their mother in a fit of jealousy.

The court said it was beyond reasonable doubt that Christine Schurrer, 32, had attacked the family with a "hammer-like object" in March inside their home in Arboga, central Sweden.

The Vastmland district court said the rampage was triggered by jealousy after Schurrer's ex-boyfriend ended their relationship and started a new one with the children's mother. The children were aged 1 and 3.'

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UK: Female methodist minister falsely alleges hate campaign

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Methodist minister Rev Janet Magee, 62, falsely claimed to police that she had been receiving threatening telephone calls and abusive letters, it was alleged.

On the strength of the minister's complaints police arrested church steward Roger Chessell who had wanted to force her out of her job.

But he was released without charge and detectives focused their inquiries on the clergywoman, believing she may have been lying about the hate campaign.'

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Woman gets life in prison for killing 4 in Texas

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'HOUSTON (AP) — A jury has convicted a woman of capital murder for the shooting and beating deaths of four people in suburban Houston in 2003.

Christina Paolilla received an automatic life prison term Monday. She was not eligible for the death penalty because she was 17 at the time of the crime.'

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UK: Judge says the boy 'seduced her' as 39-YO married woman walks free

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"A judge caused outrage yesterday after he refused to jail a woman who had sex with a 14-year-old boy and instead told her: 'He seduced you.'

Sharon Edwards, 40, bombarded the boy with as many as 50 text messages and emails a day, offered to buy him cocaine and regularly lured him into her bed.

Yet she walked free from court yesterday after Judge Peter Fox QC said the married housewife was an unhappy woman who was unable to resist the advances of a child.'

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Obama supports female draft registration

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'Even as the U.S. confronts two long wars, neither Sen. John McCain nor Sen. Barack Obama believes the country should take the politically perilous step of reviving the military draft.

But the two presidential candidates disagree on a key foundation of any future draft: Mr. Obama supports a requirement for both men and women to register with the Selective Service, while Mr. McCain doesn't think women should have to register.

Also, Mr. Obama would consider officially opening combat positions to women. Mr. McCain would not.'

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