Story here. Excerpt:

'A Denver woman who pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the starvation death of 7-year-old Chandler Grafner has been sentenced to 48 years in prison.
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Her husband, 27-year-old Jon Phillips, was convicted of first-degree murder in August and sentenced to life without parole.'

Day 3 For 2 Dads On A Crane

"COLUMBUS, Ohio -- It's the third day for two fathers who are protesting for the rights of fathers.

Paul Fischer, who is an Ohio father dressed like Superman, and Donald Tenn, a California father who was wearing a Spiderman suit, were protesting for the rights of dads who are in custody disputes with ex-spouses."

"The men were (are) up on the large crane with a banner that reads, "Stop the War on Fatherhood" and "Fathers 4 Justice.""

Story here. Excerpt:

'While falsely reporting a rape only ranks as a misdemeanor, the effects of such reports can cause irreparable damage.
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In February, a Marist College student said she was raped by a masked man on campus. The reports caused fear and concern among residents and elevated police responses.

Not long after the report was made, the student was arrested by town police on a charge of third-degree falsely reporting an incident.'

From the article:

'If we're not careful, jealousy and insecurity can turn moms into control freaks. So says Park, a recovering control freak herself. "With our first child, I was constantly asking my husband, 'Are you making sure he's getting his vegetables?' It feels good to make the decisions."

Trouble is, "the more we control how dads do things, the less involved they want to be," Park says. A recent Ohio State University study of almost 100 couples with newborns backs her up: Researchers found that even dads who believed they should be highly involved in childcare shied away from doing things for their infant if Mom was very judgmental.'

From this article:

'Around the house, women rule. And men aren't putting up a fight about it...'

'Across all decision-making realms, it tilts to the woman,'' said Rich Morin, the study's lead author. "I was surprised by the percentage of men who made none of the decisions in any of the areas.''

''Despite the fact that in our society, we have had this notion of males as heads of households, we have seen the pattern that women tend to really be the managers."

From this article:

'In an interview with ABC News anchor Diane Sawyer, Baldwin, 50, spoke about his lengthy court struggles with Basinger, 54, and said that when the voice mail was released, it brought him to the brink of suicide.

"I used to pray to God every night. I would get in bed, and I would say, please, don't let me wake up in the morning," Baldwin said. "I began to think about what little town I would repair to in order to commit suicide. And then you, obviously you say, well, what would that do to my child if I killed myself? Me, I really didn't care about me."

Anyone else notice the Fidelity ads on tv slamming the man for wanting to invest into his classic car? The woman in the ad treats his idea like he is some kind of fool. I know late 60's and early 70's cars that were bought for less than 4,000 that sell now for over 65,000. If Fidelity can offer a bigger savings pile up, I would LOVE to see it.

Men should pull there money out of Fidelity soon. They couldn't do that ad if the roles were reversed.

Video here. Caption: 'HPV doesn't just affect women. Its also causing oral cancer in men, often showing up in late stages.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'An expelled schoolgirl who blamed a maths teacher for her exclusion stormed into a classroom and launched a ferocious attack on the woman, which left her in hospital.

The girl stabbed at the teacher's face with a marker pen, before punching her to the ground and kicking her until her legs bled, witnesses said.

Pupils and fellow teachers screamed at her to stop until two male members of staff managed to drag the girl away.

Police were called and the girl was arrested but she was later released with a caution.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'Brazil is in mourning after former Vasco de Gama player Thiago da Silva was brutally tortured and murdered, allegedly by hired assassins on the orders of his ex-girlfriend.
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According to reports from the local police, the instigator of the crime is da Silva's former girlfriend.
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He was handcuffed, beaten and tortured. When he tried to flee he was hit by three bullets.

Both the former girlfriend and her aunt, Marcia Padula Viana, were arrested on Sunday as instigators of the crime, and accused of hiring the assassins to kill da Silva.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'They call it the Queen Bee Syndrome and the sting in it is that it punctures a great feminist myth.

For years the sisterhood has moaned that if only more women could smash through that glass ceiling, if only more women got the top jobs and if only we all had women bosses, our working environment would be a far warmer, caring, sharing place to be.

Now a university study finally proves that the opposite is true.

In fact, women who work for other women suffer more from both psychological and physical ailments - depression, insomnia and headaches among them - and are more likely to end up embroiled in workplace conflict.'

Article here. Excerpt.

Story here. Excerpt:

'It is like a nightmare for David Goldman, except that when he wakes up, it is still there. His son Sean, abducted to Brazil by the boy’s mother four years ago, remains almost in sight but always out of reach, in defiance of the laws of two nations and the world.
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Goldman thought his marriage was solid and his wife happy. But when she got to Brazil, his wife called him and said she was not returning to the United States. And, she said, she was keeping Sean with her. What’s more, Goldman says, Bruna told him that if he ever wanted to see Sean again, he would have to assign sole custody of the boy to her.

Goldman had been traveling to Brazil for every court hearing that ruled against him over the years. He went again, only to discover that his late wife’s Brazilian husband had filed a petition with local family courts to remove Goldman’s name from Sean’s birth records and replace it with his own.
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“[That] would exclude me from ever even being my son’s father,” Goldman told Vieira. “So far, the Brazilian judicial system is letting him do this.”

Story here. Excerpt:

"A California woman who escaped from a Michigan prison 32 years ago and lived on the lam as a suburban mother was sentenced to probation Wednesday, five months after her capture.

"I knew for years this was coming," Susan LeFevre, 53, said.

Wayne County Circuit Judge David Groner said LeFevre had already served 14 months in prison on a drug conviction when she escaped.

"The court finds no reason to give you extra time," said Groner, who ordered two years of probation."

Now, this woman was sentenced originally in 1974 to ten years for heroin distribution. She jumped the prison fence after 14 months and lived as a fugitive until last year.

I suppose the obligatory question is -- do you think a male fugitive would get a minimal probation, or would he be back in the slammer serving out his sentence?

And more importantly, when is she going to be on Oprah and get her book deal?

They are giving scholarships to female students, but not to men students. How would the feminists have reacted, if it was the other way round?

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